R.B.L. Posse - Part Of A Survival

Lil Wayne - Earthquake

DJ Drama - 5000 Ones (featuring Nelly, TI, Diddy, Yung Joc, Willie The Kid, Young Jeezy, & Twista)

D.O.G. - Ryda Gyrl (featuring Yung Joc)

The sky was full of dark clouds when I woke up this morning. But, I quickly watched the clouds drift, walking to my assigned polling location. By the time I was finished voting; the Sun was already out. I thought the whole thing was pretty symbolic.

I love hearing the happiness and celebration outside my window. Hope. Yes We Can.

Tonight I saw The Fly: The Opera. I have been eagerly awaiting to see it ever since my friend Bianca got a job at the LA Opera in January. That is 9 months of anticipation! After tonight, I say it was well worth the wait.

The Fly: The Opera was directed by David Cronenberg, composed by Howard Shore, and conducted by Plácido Domingo (Plausible Flamingo). All three masters certainly blew my mind with an amazing show on all accounts. However, throughout the production I often questioned why it was an opera in the first place. This could have been a stellar play.

Anyway, I had read a ton of negative reviews before tonight, which made me a little weary. But, after actually seeing this first hand, I just have to say, fuck the haters. All hail the new flesh!

Pour it up for Duck
There has certainly been a lot of really great humans passing away lately (which is the case everyday I suppose). Typically, when someone great passes away, the blogosphere tends to provide ample coverage of their death and more importantly their life. I have passed up multiple posts like these in the recent past. Maybe it was because I didn't feel that I needed to add what was already being said a million times in a million different places. Maybe it was because I didn't grow up with these idols but merely found them later in life.

However, yesterday, a real hero of mine growing up passed away, Kevin "The Duck" Duckworth. When I was a kid I used to shoot around in my driveway, I would pretend to be Clyde Drexler, with an imaginary Duckworth grabbing all my missed shots, telling me to keep practicing. It is times like that I wish I could relive, but unfortunately, I just keep getting further away from them. But, not in my head...

R.I.P. Duck. See you on the courts.

Few things get me more angry then when people do fucked up shit to animals. So when I saw this video I was surprised to feel a similar flare of resentment. Isn't it just as bad to torture A.I. as it is animals? I am sure many will retort with "but it doesn't feel anything!" But, isn't that the same excuse that those who hurt animals use? or plants for that matter? Why does it matter if it felt anything? Why do people feel like they have to fuck with things?

I hope one day humans finally figure it out. Finally understand everything like they know their timetables. I really think it'll happen one day. But, we definitely got a long way to go. Why is no one talking about that?

Tuesday Tangent 'Round The Internets: 19

-The people who populate Web 2.0. (teh interwebz)
-A telling portrait in a pile of words. (blogs)
-Probably the best pictures/captions ever. (photography)
-Probably the worst thing (as in sad) I have read in a while. (Russia)
-Bob Dylan couldn't even write doggerel. (music)
-Real lyrics. (C.R.E.A.M.)

The Future Leaders of America
Happy Birthday to Barack and myself (8/4/61 and 8/4/84 respectively). Now, who is the young, handsome, heartthrob in the nice* suit?

Just foolin' Mr. Obama, it is still you!

*my nice suit is really a lion costume.

R.I.P.
Juanita The Bike DeHut
5-20-2008 to 7-30-2008
I know it is just a bike, but I am pretty heartbroken. I built it from absolute scratch with my bare hands. It took a really long time to do, but when it was finally finished, it was the best looking/feeling bike I thought I'd ever ride.

I never got to tell you bike, but: "I really loved you, even if you weren't human. You really made me happy."

Farewell!

I picture the man holding the T Rex bag with a really wide torso and two horribly disproportionate feet. He was so frazzled by that mean dog's demands for a "W-A-L-K" (it is slowly learning how to spell in English) he accidentally mixed his shoes up. Whoopsie doodles!

I absolutely love this video. It is directed by That Go, two video artists from Seattle. They made the video for a contest held by the band Thunderheist. This has to be one of the coolest end results from any UGC contest ever. Great work guys!

Coincidentally, I filmed a bit of their concert and put it in the beginning of this.

It's Shark Week!

It took me awhile to get used to Los Angeles, it took me even longer to get used to my room. For months it had been a drab box, but I finally put some life into it. As you can see, it was designed by an 8-year-old.


Before

After

This is Devon.
Formerly known as Beat Sherpa, homie has been blowing my mind with the most amazing beats for the last six years. But now, he is on another level. Right now this guy is absolutely killing it with the craziest shit I have heard in maybe ever. Pure gold!

Devon - plasticmarbles

Devon - zeldawhyyoumadgirl?

Wednesday night I got to go see the kings of Miami Bass, 2 Live Crew for free! It was an absolutely amazing show.




2 Live Crew - Banned In The USA

2 Live Crew - Get It Girl

2 Live Crew - Throw The D

Hey, check out the new video from my main homies Gray Matters. The song is called Pardon Me featuring 2 time World Rap Champion Illmaculate.

Gray Matters will be dropping their first album this Saturday. If you live in the Portland area I suggest you check out the release party/concert at the Hawthorne Theater. It is going to be a great show.

(I figured I'd throw this battle in for good measure: here)

I have no idea how long it has been since I last picked up an issue of Vice Magazine, but it has definitely been a long time. I stopped reading it around the time I felt the quality of the DOs & DON'Ts section started slipping (I'm sure there is a correlation here). When I checked out their site a day ago I was pleasantly surprised with some good LOLs over these:

DON'T #1
DON'T #2
DON'T #3

Check out the video for the song Sail, by Portland muscian Ryan Doliver & The DBL DRGNZ (directed by Brian Lancaster).

For the full HD version: click here

(You can catch a glimpse of two of my best friends in the video! Andrew Gorny on bass @ 3:00 & Josh Usselman @ 3:03.) Miss you guys!

I'm bored with where this blog has wound up. You read this (Milwaukee, I see you), what do you think? What do you like? Anything?

I wrote some jokes (more like seriouses) a while ago:

Q: What is worse than a worm in your apple?
A: Rape.

Q: Where do bees go on vacation?
A: Bees are an inferior species and have no concept of vacation.

Q: What is full of holes but still holds water?
A: Women.

Q: Why did the doctor avoid talking to his patient's parents?
A: Because their infant child had terminal cancer.

a dog (aged 2) is raped by a murder of crows. without any hopes for matrimony or compensation from the murder, the dog is forced into a lengthy adventure on the road, seeking love and abortion money in the pants of small town men.

It's my 100th post! I am literally surfing on my keyboard.
Deltron 3030 - Virus

Currency - Intergalactic Society

Tuesday Tangent 'Round The Internets: 18

-Legless man denied chance to run in 2008. (Olympics)
-Og de Souza. (skateboarding)
-One Stare. (photography)
-American Talent. (illusion)
-Patriotic Popsicles. (tacky)
-The man was absolutely brilliant. (R.I.P.)
-On human potential. (movie clip)
-The power of imagination. (movie clip)
-Pure imagination. (movie clip)

Eddie Murphy - Party All The Time

Tuesday Tangent 'Round The Internets: 17

-Clown graffiti. (hijinks)
-Clown music? (music)
-Moby-Dick vs. Benny Goodman. (whale jazz)
-How English Is Evolving. (linguistics)
-“Geez. It doesn’t look like he put a lot of time into this.”
(frog response)
-Soulja Boy responds to Ice T. (video blog)
-Shout out to the book drive. (Weezy blog)
-Gillie tries to get in the limelight again. (beef)
-Haters. (comedy)

JoJo - Anything

Tuesday Tangent 'Round The Internets: 16

-Rats, my blog isn't on here. (top 50 sites of 2008)
-How we read online. (the Internet)
-This man probably doesn't want us to read at all. (media mogul)
-Empire or humanity? (The American Empire)
-Are we ready for the fall? (The American Empire)
-Samurai mime. (impressionist)
-"The game of chess, is like a swordfight." (Wu Chess)
-The realest. (Wu Tang)
-Real talk. (tossed salad man)
-Speaking about sucking ass, remember this movie?
(Batman & Robin in 5 seconds)

Almost blocks out the sun.
J Dilla - Trucks

Tuesday Tangent 'Round The Internets: 15

-Stupid Design. (religion)
-The bee is a fucking murderer! (Japanese Bug Fights)
-One of two things could happen. (advertisement)
-I hope for a bit more than two options for this one. (Iran)
-More wrong directions. (Egypt)
-BBC uncovers lost Iraq billions. (Iraq)
-Enough Middle East. "Let's go bird dog some chicks." (dating tips)
-How to seduce women through hypnosis. (found footage)

The Los Angeles weather has truly been angelic. It gives me wings when I ride my bike, which extends my reach to the city I am loving more everyday.

Vote Keith Hall for Raptor Christ of The Year
Electric Wizard - Satanic Rites Of Drugula

The Fucking Champs - What's A Little Reign?

Tuesday Tangent 'Round The Internets: 14

-Hey Hillary, fall back. (Democratic Race 2008)
-Maybe if Talib asks you nicely? (music)
-Hope you had a good Memorial Day. (politics)
-Huh? Wait, no! (Iran)
-The news just keeps getting worse. (Israel)
-I'm going to need one of these for my house. (force field)
-A taunt in slow motion. (raspberry)
-I can has clone? (LOLclone)
-Cats have terrible taste in human noises. (man screech)
-Stoner video of the year. (music)
-One happy passenger. (news)
-My guess, these kids got it. (amazing)

Paper Route Recordz
X.O. - Grind Baby (featuring Cee-Cee)

Paper Route Gangstaz - Bama Gettin' Money (Diplo Remix)

"All I have in this world is my balls and my word."
Nas - The World Is Yours

Rick Ross - All I Have In This World (Japanese Denim) (featuring Mannie Fresh)

The last few weeks I have been going down to the Bicycle Kitchen, building my own bike from scratch. The process has been pretty tedious (not including the 7 mile round trip walk), but tonight I finally finished! I am a little too worn out from the building/cruising around to do my usual Tuesday post. Sorry. Hope this can tide you over till next week.

This is Bill Hicks
I have been trying to watch all of his stand-up, but unfortunately I can't find much of it on YouTube. However, there are a ton of awesome interviews on there. This one below is my favorite.

Tuesday Tangent 'Round The Internets: 13

-Einstein: "The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses." (religion)
-True Monsters. (religion)
-The Monster stars in this HOT music video. (LOL)
-America's War On Journalism. (politics)
-Too bad they don't ban this guy. (male cunt)
-Killa Cam clowns O'Reilly at the 6:04 mark. (dipset)
-Someone's in love with themselves. (dipset)
-It's this guy. "Worshipin' this big motherfucker." (douche)
-A beautiful love story. (true love)

On May 20th of last year, I started BJ's Video Of The Day. I created the blog for two reasons. One, I wanted a place where I could house all the funny/cool videos I was coming across everyday (later I found that YouTube had removed a few of them, somewhat defeating the purpose). Two, I wanted to test my ability to do something relatively simple everyday, requiring me to reserve time for finding a good video and posting it.

Throughout this year of blogging, I have posted everything from the inspiring to the downright bizarre. Sometimes I attempted to have the videos/themes act as an abstract journal post about what was going on in my life. Sometimes I attempted to predict the videos that were destined to go "viral". Overall, this little experiment has been a very fun learning experience about myself and about blogging.

As I approach my 365th post, I am reposting my favorite 10 videos of the last year, starting on May 5th and ending on May 14th. Tune in this week to check out the Top 3!

Don't run from the sun.
Ghostface Killah - The Sun (featuring Raekwon, Slick Rick, & RZA)

M.I.A. - Sunshowers

Great Job!
I am super stoked about tonight. I am going to see Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Live.

Tuesday Tangent 'Round The Internets: 12

-Tim and Eric's latest Absolut vodka commercial. (part 2)
-Directors' Cameos In Films. (film)
-Ben Stein is a cunt. (review)
-Depressing numbers turned into awesome images. (photography)
-That's a circle that turns 'round upon itself. (schoolhouse rock)
-This isn't Wizard School. (stupid)
-Stupider. (please don't)
-Jupiter. (LOL at the last ten seconds)

Daniel Merriweather - Chainsaw (DJ 1996 Olympixxx Remix)

Freddie Mercury - Love Kills

Tuesday Tangent 'Round The Internets: 11

-Benny Hinn, professional brainwasher. (shithead)
-This is a great article. "Jesus Made Me Puke." (non-fiction)
-A 10-year-old's letters to Charles Manson. (letters)
-Amazing artist! (performance/photography)
-Unusual movements of the human body. (video)
-Unusual humans. (horse fuckers)
-Robot horses? (stupid invention)
-Brilliant kid turns iPod into an iPhone. (mod/hack)
-iBoy. (images)

Happy Birthday Jason!
I couldn't stop laughing at the 3:20 mark and beyond. Classic Falquist.

Tuesday Tangent 'Round The Internets: 10

-Baby pandas look like lizards. (proof)
-They also make great sounds! (zoo)
-These bears make great sounds as well. (music)
-LOL, read the description on this video. (interview)
-Old news, but still important enough to post. (Iraq War)
-This is awful. And so is this man's presentation. (politics)
-Michael Moore, likes Obama. He doesn't like Clinton. (politics)
-Check out the "Vote Obama" track. (music)
-Up in the club. (dance)

Every now and again I see this super beater van driving around. The van is covered in graffiti and the guy who drives it looks like a hybrid between a R.L. Stine book cover and Santa. Any time I see this van I am guaranteed witness to a ridiculous event.

Today I took my lunch early and walked home at a leisurely pace. I was traveling with my head in the clouds so I probably would have missed the van if it weren't for the bottomless old woman that got out right when I walked by. Attempting to mind my own business, I quickened my pace and made it a few feet in front of the van before I heard the old hag speak. She asked me for money. I turned, making eye contact with her before noticing that this old woman (maybe 70+) was straight up taking a violently gushing piss (it was like her water was breaking).

Needless to say, my lunch plans of eating a tuna sandwich were ruined.

Tuesday Tangent 'Round The Internets: 9

-Congratulations, Douchetown. You're the world's largest waste of effort. (hamburger)
-"Always trying to eat somebodies burgers." (fight)
-"An abridged history of time from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict." (food fight)
-Michael Cera as Alexander Hamilton. (drunk history)
-What do you drink? (PBR)
-Girl Drink Drunk. (kids in the hall)
-50 Greatest Comedy Sketches. (comedy)

This is Josh Usselman.
Josh Usselman and I have: taken one of the world's most dangerous train rides, eaten out of the garbage, been pulled over, been arrested, awoke in different countries, slept in a crackhouse, avoided countless misdemeanors, and pondered life's many unanswerable questions.

Josh is my partner in crime.

Get well soon!

Mistah F.A.B. - Super Sick Wit It (featuring Turf Talk & E-40)

Sticky Fingaz - My Dogz Is My Gunz

Lil Wayne - Millie (featuring Corey Gunz)

Gillian Welch, Alison Krauss & Emmylou Harris - Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby

Flying Burrito Brothers - Sin City

So, I really don't feel like doing my usual Tuesday post today. Sorry. I doubt this is any consolation but here:

Carbon Dog/Diamond Dog
(i made this today)
Everything in Los Angeles is covered in dirt. Cars, people, leaves, even the dog shit. The dirt has dirt on it. My eyes are most likely covered in dust. I'll cry mud. A desert of dirt. Full of lizards. I have been seeing So Many lizards! I sure hope they aren't plotting against me. I don't think I have the courage!

My friend Justin Ouellette created a really amazing site you should check out - Muxtape. Create and share mixtapes with your friends. If you make one you should send it my way.


Here are two muxtapes I made today:

Leonardo The Teenage Mutant Ninja Muxtape
Raphael The Teenage Mutant Ninja Muxtape

Tuesday Tangent 'Round The Internets: 8

-Great idea, poor execution. (where to go for lunch)
-They should take some of The SEO Rappers advice. (web design)
-The best music YouTube I have seen. Ever. (music)
-The lamest music YouTube I have seen. In a while. (comedy)
-The Bench Rapist. (news)
-The real sex crimes. (Iraq war)
-Visual representation of Iraq War Coalition Fatalities. (Iraq war)
-Al Jaffee's fold-ins, in interactive form. (political humor)
-This thing sort of looks like a fold-in, right? (awooga)

LL Cool J - Kandy

Cameo - Candy

You's a bad bitty.

La' Chat - U Don't Want None

Dopplebanger - Pussylicker

Tuesday Tangent 'Round The Internets: 7

-A mosaic: 4,000 Americans dead. (image)
-The depressing numbers continue. (Iraq War)
-720 Degrees Dunk. (shoe)
-Mr. 720° dunks. (reel)
-The man who made his shoes. (design)
-Awesome designer from Portland - "hey man, it's like a fork in the road. dig it." (artist)
-This is amazing! (pixels)
-So is this. (music)
-Save a horse. Ride a cybernetic elephant. (image)
-Ele-vision. (wildlife)

Master P - Bloody Murder

OutKast - Royal Flush (featuring Raekwon The Chef)

Tuesday Tangent 'Round The Internets: 6

-Know your rights. (photography)
-You suck at Photoshop. (hilarious)
-Brilliant. Garfield minus Garfield. (comic)
-Funny and cruel at the same time. (pets)
-Firefox, you are turning into the worst browser/Bowser ever. (catdog)
-Digital cameras, the Internet, and war crimes. (Iraq War)
-Country of Laws. (essay)
-Save us Barack Obama! (speech)
-the itch. (animation)
-Learn English. (ad)
-I don't know how the fuck I found this. (rad)
-Arthur C. Clarke. (R.I.P.)

Willie Hutch - I Choose You

This is the God Zig-Zag-Zig Allah.
On Saturday, March 29th, The GZA (aka The Genius) will be preforming his legendary album - Liquid Swords in its entirety at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles. Who is coming with me?

GZA - 4th Chamber (featuring Ghostface Killah, Killah Priest, and RZA)

Willie Mitchell - Groovin'

Tuesday Tangent 'Round The Internets: 5

-I'm so excited for this. (tour)
-A vodka commercial done right. (hilarious)
-Eric Wareheim directs for The Bird & The Bee. (music)
-Now Susan, be polite! (penis hands)
-I am assuming that this is just as fake. (caught on tape)
-Ancient Hobbits? (discovery)
-Anyway, movin' right along. (muppets)
-"I heard it's not where you're from but where you pay rent, Then I heard it's not what you make but how much you spent." (truth)

Stack that d'oh.
The Color Changin' Click - First Round Draft Picks

Bart Simpson - Do The Bart Man (Diplo's So So Krispy Remix)

Tuesday Tangent 'Round The Internets: 4

-Chalk up another point for Philip Zimbardo. (Iraq War)
-Reporter vs. Air Force pain gun? (weapon)
-Or they could just look up... (news)
-A great Honda 'Cog' parody. (ad)
-This could save your life. (humor)
-Satan's fossil factory. (stand-up)
-LEGO Bible. (religion)
-"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." (go atheism!)
-Our atom bomb. (BOOM!)

Notice anything wrong here? I do, those team names don't make sense anymore. Can anyone think of anywhere else less 'Jazz' than Utah?

Here is my solution to this.


As you can see on this map of various Santas in the United States, if the Charlotte Bobcats traded the name to Utah, Utah could trade their name back to New Orleans, and New Orleans could trade their name back to Charlotte. (Note: this triangle also potentially includes the most Santas available in the South and Mid-West portions of the country.)

Utah Bobcats, New Orleans Jazz, and Charlotte Hornets.


If they do end up taking this idea - Utah, you have to put this on a jersey.

I can still remember everything about the day we filmed Mt. Dew, it was the first video Andrew and I ever made together. I think I would have been really happy to know that eight years later - we'd still be at it.

Those are fabulous punchlines.
Fabolous - Suicide (from the There Is No Competition mixtape)

Fabolous - You Ain't Got Nothin' On Me (featuring Lil Wayne & Juelz Santana)

This is the last video my camera got to film before it broke.
A clown with a knife. What a fucking terrible way to go out, right? I bet he thought he would die at an old age, filming a sunset over a beach. Nope. Clown with a knife.

Not having a camera for like 4 days was agonizing. Having a ton of cool/crazy stuff going on just rubbed salt (and lemon juices from one of those little plastic lemons that is supposed to look just like a real lemon) in the wound. But, the saddest thing is I missed the opportunity to film something really really amazing when I had the camera (this was Saturday - it broke on Sunday). Are there any moments that you really regret not capturing? If so, check out this incredible site that collects essays from photographers, writing about the photographs not taken. My favorite is from Mark Steinmetz.

Tuesday Tangent 'Round The Internets: 3

-Greg Oden is voting for Obama. (politics)
-Barack Obama is your new bicycle. (politics)
-Furries. (music)
-Dora the Explorer does the chicken noodle soup. (dance)
-At your fingertips. (art)
-Good band name? (community?)
-"The Game Has Changed" - The first anti-energy drank. (drink)
-Thizzle. (R.I.P.)
-R.I.P. to you guys too. (freestyle)

All this music is making me hungry.
I realized not too long ago that I hadn't really bothered to get any new music since moving to LA. Well, these last two weeks have definitely changed that. Now I'm siting on a fat stack of new stuff that'll last me weeks.

Here are three tracks that I've had for quite a while now but are still in the daily rotation. Maybe you'll like them too?

The Katt Williams Interlude (from Gangsta Grillz: The Album)

The Click - Hurricane

Clyde McPhatter - Mixed Up Cup

Happy Birthday Guys!

Anibal Rivera (not this one) came into his third period Global Studies class. He told his students that in Spring Quarter they would be welcoming two new foreign exchange students. They were twins from Australia. Their names were Adrian and Ashley. The boys in the class didn't respond with any jokes or snide comments like they always seemed to do. In fact, none of them said anything. It was because their minds were too busy, thinking of all the carnal things they could whisper in bed to both of the beautiful, blonde, Australians.

Spring came and just like Anibal had announced earlier in the year - so did the twins. Though the boys' fantasies about erotic pillow talk changed just as the seasons do. There were two reasons for this. One was because the Barbies they had spent an entire winter daydreaming about ended up being two small Chinese boys. The other reason was that the brothers who spent long enough in Australia to develop a thick accent - were simply too hard to understand.

Interview Man: Mr. Breeder, is this a full display of your acting chops?
Dog Q. Breeder: No, there is no karate in this film.
Interview Woman: D.Q. what is your new film like?
Dog Q. Breeder: It is a lot like "Window Water Baby Moving" sans the baby and more placenta.