KNOWLEDGE REIGNS SUPREME.
The nice folks up in All Good Things Come in Pairs posted up some cool pictures of me and some of my recently bought gear.
Thank you 
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And for the rest of my readers, in case you don’t know it by now, Carhartt Lisboa and The Hood are both on sales. Check them out if you got some bucks to spend (which I sadly don’t lol).
Attention hipsters, this one is for you! Ahah.
3Oh!3 were one of my favorite projects debuted last year, their album Want played on my winamp and my car several times…you know how it is, the spirit needs party music too, and lyrically they kick the ass of lots of rappers out there.
With that in mind, this remix just came out yesterday or something…I gotta admit I’m a lot into remixes but I only dig the ones that actually bring something new to the tracks..Kid Cudi is a lame hype if you ask me, but he did good in this track.
3Oh!3 – Don’t Trust Me (Remix ft. Kid Cudi & Mike Posner) | DOWNLOAD
Here’s the original song and video, hilarious stuff:
Check out the reference to straight edge on the lyric…and the Hellen Keller tip on the bridge is just genius..these boys don’t play the usual dumb-party-music game, trust me.
“It seems to be that people within this genre of music struggle with their social identity now more than ever. It seems to be making people in the scene just latch on to the latest thing and trying to ride the wave and remain faceless so they can eventually feel some quick and easy form of acceptance.” George Hirsch @ The Truth Hurts. Part One Continued…
Recently I’ve been reading the blog of Joe Hardcore (some of you may know him from Shattered Realm, he’s the vocals), and I’ve been finding some real inspiring words over there. Joe is truly commited to hardcore and is one of those guys that really step it up and do their share for the community.
Since I talked ’bout Blacklisted in my previous post, and I already quoted one of their lyrics here, I decided to link this interview with George, the frontman of the band.
It’s without a doubt one of the most honest, inspiring and relevant readings about hardcore that I ever had the luck to find, and I beg all my visitors, at least the ones into hardcore, to read it and educate themselves with George’s words.
There’s also much more stuff in Joe’s blog that deservers attention, particularly all the other interviews with relevant people from american hardcore (Freddy from Madball spits some words on an interview too, check it).
Bellow I leave you with the footage from a Blacklisted show earlier this year:
This was the last lyric I ever wrote until this day.
It never got rehearsed with the band, and to tell you the truth it was a bit remodeled to be posted here. I guess this lyric probably doesn’t have much to do with the concept of this posts…I’m just letting go some of my old demons, you know.
Anyway, the majority of the following words were written when I first started paying a lot of attention to Blacklisted, specially the lyrics. Nowadays I’m much more into introspective lyrics, stuff that goes into the overall human condition and makes me relate to the honest words of another human being with the same doubts and dilemmas, but on those days it was something new to me…I was still learning to put my own life experiences and hardships in words.
I guess I can say this is one of the lyrics with my later style, showing a negative outlook on things but at the same time delivering a light in the dark at the end. That’s kinda like my process of transferring stuff into words…I start with the bad, along the way I get done with it, and then I reflect on the good and try to stick with it.
Reckless Dance
Lost soul trapped in a tale of despair
Played all my cards in this game of solitaire
No sleep will wake me from this nightmare
Can’t lie, I was always aware
Of consequences, rights and wrongs
But this world keeps taking what keeps me strong
This restless sensation of desperation
Stopped only by deprivation
Of satisfaction for its own sake
The last thing you taught me: “a cold heart is never at stake”
But I’d rather loose it all than die a fake
I know beneath sheets lie secrets and feelings get put on hold
So many empty promises made under sparkles of gold
Fuck the mistakes, I’ve done my share
Some things in life you just can’t repair
But I can’t lie, I still care
Relieve me from my sorrows, deliver them to the ones I’ve hurt
So tired of digging in this fucking dirt…
This place is lost, these faces are dead
Lie after lie is all I’ll ever get
Two decades to realize the truth was never out there
The question remains but no one truly cares
What is the ultimate last chance,
For someone who stopped believing in this reckless dance?
I’M CALLING OUT
All the ones who got lost and never found
Between shattered dreams and open wounds
The ones who held it on ‘till the very last round
All of those who still believe
That happiness is worth to achieve
Remember this one thing:
You only get something if you’re willing to give
P.S.: Since I’m done with the lyrics, next time I’m gonna try to upload some old footage of the band. But I ain’t making any promises!
Stop motion is a technique that I’ve been finding a lot in recent video projects allover the internet, and one that I consider to bring amazing results when used in full effect with the right dosage of out-of-the-box thinking.
Some days ago Wooster Collective posted a video that blew me away:
“This is my senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design. Where my idea comes from is that every time when I am busy, I feel that I am not fighting with my works, I am fighting with those post-it notes and deadline. I manipulating the post-it notes to do pixel-like stop motion and there are some interactions between real actor and post-its.”… Bang-yao Liu @ Wooster Collective: Deadline
And if you don’t quite get how they shoot something like this with such precision, here’s the Making-Of:
It’s a tough job to do such a project, but final results like Deadline show that true creative effort is always rewarded.
I came across this film following a recommendation from my homeboy Mauro, who told me this was a shocking movie with a different style of directing and the acting of the beautiful Monica Bellucci. It was enough to get me interested.
Considering I’ve already seen some pretty twisted shit on movies, and explicit violence is really no big deal to me, I took his recommendation lightly and watched the film with low expectations. What a surprise I got…
First of all, I didn’t like Irréversible, but I can’t find a particular reason why I got such a bad feeling from it. It sure wasn’t for the technical details.
The movie sickened me, played with my overall conceptions of portrayed violence on film, and most of all, it just felt wrong.
The story is told backwards, in a reverse-chronological order, that’s the whole premise of the film, and probably what makes it interesting in terms of style. You literally see the events in a reverse order, attached to each others like pieces, like in a collage. It seems very confusing in the beginning, but then starts to make sense after some scenes …and right from the start you get a murder scene, and later a raping scene, which is the catalyst for the whole plot…both scenes are shot in a very explicit and real way, with the clear intention to shock the audience and make people sick to their stomach, and, in part, they fulfilled that objective with me.
And then everything slowly starts to chill…and you see the main characters in their natural environments, before all the horror and the pain…as if the director wanted you to feel good in the end, thinking everything you saw before was just a bad dream…but the bad sensations haunt you, cause you’ve seen what’s gonna happen, you know the past is not real anymore.
It’s a very interesting exercise, as a viewer this was one of the most fascinating movies I’ve seen lately, specially in therms of aesthetics…but it leaves you with a bitter taste, a bad feeling, and that’s why I only recommend it to people who are really into different stuff and are not afraid of seeing violence.
Life is fragile and time really destroys everything. Those are my final thoughts about this experience…and now I feel compelled to see all the other movies by Gaspar Noé.
TRAILER (unfortunately in spanish)
After the trailer, the video.
You can hate him or love him, but I bet everyone that listens to real hip-hop is backing the message on this song.
Did anyone notice that ever since the Black Album (maybe even earlier), all Jay’s videos have been very well produced and don’t quite fit the regular mainstream basic trend of cars+bling+girls?
C’mon people, he has Lebron James playing ball with him on this one, and Harvey Keitel playing cards in the back of a restaurant…classic.
Blueprint 3 is gonna be something nice.
Download the song here (album version).
Everything taken from 2dopeboyz, shame on me.
What happens when you feel trapped inside your own life, and all your dreams and ambitions seem to be too far away to reach them?
This movie explores the frustration and fragility of the human condition when encapsulated in the suburban lifestyle of the american dream in the mid-50’s, and slowly reveals us how marriage can be a hard place, in a very softly critic perspective (it couldn’t be any other way, since the director/producer was Sam Mendes, already famous for his other movie American Beauty).
I could really relate to the characters, specially Kate Winslet and Michael Shannon, who do a terrific job, but one of the things that mostly caught my attention were the indoor scenes inside the Wheelers house.
Those scenes felt claustrophobic, as if the house itself was a character and kept pushing things to the limit…really a great directing on this movie, very subtle but precise and intelligent on passing the right emotions to the viewer.
“If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don’t care if we’re completely insane. Do you?”
And I hope it stays dead after the video is released tonight.
I’m really glad someone with a big spotlight in the music industry finally came out to destroy the fucking auto-tune trend.
JAY-Z MYSPACE (hear the full track over there)
“(…) I had some good friends and some good times. I did a lot of dumb things I regret, dumb drugs, not taking my future seriously, mistreating people, and I had a lot of shit thrown my way too. I guess I’d also say what doesn’t kill you makes you strong.”
Scott Vogel @ LIFERS interview
Read this interview yesterday on LIFERS, and I think it’s worth some minutes of your time, at least if you’re into hardcore. The questions are a bit messy, but it really goes through all the stuff that Vogel has been into since his early years in hardcore, and he even talks about hip-hop and his relation with Vinnie Paz from Jedi Mind Tricks.
A lot has been said about this guy, some call him a sellout and a prick or whatever, but I still consider him one of the best frontmans ever and I’ve felt his words on the 2 shows Terror played here. The interview seems pretty honest and clarifies some issues with his previous bands.
