Can 50 Cent Dis ALL These Rappers?

The Game - One Blood (Remix) featuring...Jim Jones, Snoop Dogg, Nas, T.I., The Game, Fat Joe, Lil Wayne, N.O.R.E., Jadakiss, Styles P, Fabolous, Juelz Santana, Rick Ross, Twista, Kurupt, Daz, WC, E-40, Bun B, Chamilionaire, Slim Thug, Young Dro, The Clipse & Ja Rule.

Wouldn't you be kinda mad if The Game didn't call you up?

The Lost Pages of Melanism.com

These are some of the pages I had made when I was doing this site strictly via HTML without the help of Blogger back in 2001. Who knew I'd still be procrastinating to this day?

• The original main page
  
• My self-description
• My favorite quotes from Ben Stiller and Janeane Garofalo's faux self-help book, Feel This Book : An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfaction
• Why I Thought Jennifer Lopez Was...Not All That Impressive
• My essay on "The Hypocrisy of Nice Guys"
• The page my friend at NYU (who I won't identify because he has a girlfriend now) wrote as "The Sith Pimp"
• Silly Things Women Do That Annoy Men
  

I would like to think I've matured since then.

Random Thoughts Part II

Just some random nonsense...

• There has been a lot of Lost backlash over the first part of season three. The main complaint being that it dished out more questions than answers these days. After two seasons, if you haven't figured out that this show does not operate under the principles of "immediate gratification", then you should stop watching. Seriously. Don't watch anymore. Luckily this show rakes in enough money on DVD that it is never in danger of being cancelled, even if the ratings slip.
• Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News needs help of the psychiatric variety.
• I think I've "outgrown" hip-hop for the most part. I listened to new albums by The Game and Jim Jones of the Dipset and I thought they were garbage for the most part (between both albums only 9 songs weren't deleted after one lesson). However, most hip-hop magazines and message boards actually think these are hot albums. Sometimes I watch BET and I want to throw up. I think BET actually is making me a racist but that's another post. Hip-Hop like basketball is a young person's game I guess. As I look at my iPod and see that this year, there is more indie rock and pop than hip-hop. Actually, every year, there is less and less hip-hop that interests me. That said, I'm still looking forward to Jay-Z, Nas, MF Doom, The Clipse and Ghostface's upcoming album. I don't know. Is it just that I have an old ear? I feel like William in Mallrats staring at the Magic Eye poster looking for the ship.
  
• Speaking of my iPod, I'm down to 300 MB left on my 60 GB iPod. I've managed to hold out for a month now, deleting a song or two a day, then adding an album but I'm either going to have to part with a lot of music or I'm going to have to buckle down and buy an 80 GB. It's sad because jazz is always the first to go.
  
• In a perfect world, everyone would be watching Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Grey's Anatomy and The Wire.
• Even though between my television watching, my Netflix movies, going out to the movies and my general chores (laundry, ironing, laziness, etc.) I barely have time to play video games any more, I REALLY want to buy Guitar Hero II. Maybe it will convince me to have people over every once and awhile. It just looks like too much fun.
  
• The Shins' Wincing The Night Away is already my favorite album of 2007
• My favorite albums from this year right now are Badly Drawn Boy's Born in the U.K., the soundtrack for Shortbus, Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton' Knives Don't Have Your Back, Amy Winehouse's Back to Black and The Dears' Gang of Losers.
• Since when did People Magazine become Out magazine? They've "outed" Lance Bass from *NSync, T.R. Knight from Grey's Anatomy and now Neil Patrick Harris from How I Met Your Mother. And yet, Tom Cruise eludes them.
• I still want to learn French but c'mon, let's not kid ourselves.
• My boss for the last two Christmas gave gift certificates to iTunes Music Store. The first was for $200 (!) and the second for $50. Do you know how much I have left? $161. If I know I can get it um...elsewhere, I won't buy it. Too bad I can't use it towards an iPod.

Movie of the Week: Borat

Somewhere in hell, Andy Kaufman is smiling...or is really pissed he didn't get to pull this off

I'm going to get this off my chest.

If anyone other than Sacha Baron Cohen wins the Academy Award for Best Actor, it will be a crime.

I can't imagine seeing a better performance this year of this decade.

I don't want to ruin anything for anyone but my favorite scenes were the fight in the hotel and the kids running up to the ice cream truck.

Sometimes you feel bad for the people he gets over on, but then you see a scene like the conversation before the rodeo or the frat guys from University of South Carolina (who should collectively never get laid again) and you just shake your head.

Who I am most concerned for are the Jackass guys. They are going to see this movie and see that the bar has been raised. This will result in jail time, paralysis or death. So Steve-O and Johnny, let it go.

Lost Season 3: "The Cost of Living"

Don't drink and drive, kids

What I Liked:

• Aw, damn, Mr. Eko
  
• Locke's new "Anyone who wants to come into the forest and die, can come" regime
  
• Again, I love Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliet)
  
• Ben's mea culpa to Jack about their plan to break Jack to make him want to operate on Ben's tumor
• Juliet's re-enactment of INXS' "Mediate" music video ("Ignore everything I'm saying. Ben is a liar and he is very dangerous. Some of us want a change, but it has to look like an accident. It has to look like we tried to save him, and that's up to you, Jack. It's a complicated surgery. No one would ever know and I would protect you. Now tell me to turn off the movie.")
• Smokey's back!
  

What I didn't like:

• What was the point of having the tail end survivors?
• I hate that if we know in advance that a character is going to die and a character has their flashback, it's pretty much a given that character is proper fucked.
• I still don't like how the new castaways are being introduced.
• I'll never get tired of thinking this but how much better and shocking would the deaths be with ABC didn't advertise them?
  
• This was my least favorite episode this season (not that it was a bad episode). Even though a lot happened, I felt like nothing happened.
  

What We Learned:

• The tumor Jack saw last episode was Ben's
• Mr. Eko is...er...was building a church to replace the one he desecrated
• The reason Ben brought Jack to the Others was to operate on his tumor
• Mr. Eko was mighty handy with a machete
• How the the pilot died in the first episode of Lost
• There's another hatch on the island we haven't seen
• There are Others who aren't down with however Ben operates
• Juliet wants Jack to help her kill Ben
• If you are a cast member and you get arrested, call your agent.
  

Questions:

• Did Desmond know that Eko was going to die?
  
• Where was Sun and Jin?
  
• Who's telling the truth - Ben or Juliet?
  
• Did the smoke monster take the form of Yemi? Is it the source of all unexplained hallucinations (Jack's dad, Hurley's imaginary friend)?
  
• What is the smoke monster's criteria for killing?
• Was the smoke monster going to kill Locke when it grabbed him at the season finale of season one?
  
• Who is the one-eyed man?
• Where is the hatch they saw on the video screen?
• Where does the water from that toliet go?
  
• Why do they need Kate and Sawyer?
• Why did Locke see a bright light and Mr. Eko a black column of smoke? Is the island racist? OR are there two monsters?
• When Mr. Eko told Locke "You're next", did he mean the group or Locke?