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Didn't Nikki Giovanni herself recite "Ego Trip" for a Blackalicious recording? That's some good stuff; I listen to it often.

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Deltron 3030 is my main knowledge base for him... I haven't really delved too deeply.

I thought Snarks was about message board wiseacres who define themselves in terms of what they don't like. I'd pay to see a movie about Sam Jackson kicking that kind of ass.

Probably between 5% and 10%. My first vinyl ever purchased with my own money was Run DMC's Raising Hell, and my most recent purchase was Common's Be. El F - Everything I've heard by Del the Funkee Homosapien, I've really liked.

Wow, that is a fun fact. Cool.

Cool... I fell asleep literally seconds before Young came on.

Much better than the original The Eye. The story concerns a lonely pregnant woman who sees dead people, and I liked the way the movie exists entirely from her point-of-view--since we

I only like the white episodes.

Click for more info I did this for the MMJ disc. I first had to remove the driver from my PC, re-boot, and THEN hold CTRL-SHIFT to prevent the CD from automatically re-installing the driver. Everything worked great from there. After I ripped the CD, I then burned the files as a new audio CD. Works perfectly. And this process is much easier than it probably looks!

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This morning I read an interview with Cristi Puiu, director of the award-winning The Death of Mr. Lazarescu. He made a few comments that seem related to the above discussions:

That's what I was told about this:

Speaking of Jackie Chan, I watched New Police Story last night. It doesn't have anything to do with his previous Police Story cycle (Supercop, First Strike, etc.), but it's definitely in the same vein. I liked it... plenty of plot, plenty of clever stunts. And while no one's ever accused Jackie Chan of being a great actor, here you can see him really trying, and it's not bad at all.

Seconded.

I finally got around to picking up De Nova by the Redwalls. I really like their sound.

Sheesh, if I don't love this movie I'm going to feel like a pariah.

One-upmanship has never sounded more appealing.

Pretty sure that was from a Woody Allen flick... maybe Crimes and Misdemeanors? Or maybe it was The Aristocrats. I dunno.

I haven't seen the trailer yet, but when they announced the project I was pleased to see the pedigree... I'd go see a Scorsese movie even if all I knew about it was that it was a Scorsese movie. EDIT: Just checked out the trailer. Looks like he maintained the main premise of the original, but amped it up considerably. Hopefully he also kept the psychological aspects (which, I'm guessing, was probably the appeal for him in the first place). Can't wait. If I remember right, your scene was on a subway, wasn't it?

I've got the DVD!!! (I actually really love Jackie Chan. I heard Chan and Jet Li are planning a movie together, so that's pretty rad.)