May 2007
“If you look at all the sites out there, a large portion of them have comedy, but...”
– Sequoia partner, Mark D. Kvamme on the market necessity for FunnyorDie.com. (link) OUCH.
“The idea is that someone playing the game won’t have to turn it off or...”
– Raphael Poplock, ESPN’s interactive gaming manager. (link) Improvements include: a game set in a certain city would reflect the realtime weather of that city, injured players would be unavailable in the game, real time stat updates at the bottom of the screen, etc.
Click here for Kanye West's 'Can't Tell Me... →
Use this link since the one below expired. EDIT: Also, Graduation was pushed up to a late-August release.
A sneak peek at the new Star Wars TV show: Clone... →
Looks pretty amazing; seeing stuff like this really makes me realize how much I would’ve enjoyed having DVR as a child.
In non-Kobe news, Just Blaze showcases beats he... →
“When Phil and I spoke, he was optimistic and determined that we’ll both be...”
– Kobe Bryant (at 2:30 pm EST)— two and a half hours later in the day. (link)
“I would like to be traded.”
– Kobe Bryant (at 12 noon EST). Not sure which of these two things happened first (chicken or the egg?), but I think that it’s pretty safe to say that it has not been a good couple of days for Dr. Jerry Buss.
New e-Toy: Google Maps' "Street View". →
You can see street level views of most of New York City; the link above points to our apartment, but please don’t use the information to stalk and/or murder us.
Kanye West- Can't Tell Me Nothing, The Official...
Last Friday Kanye West put out an incredible mixtape that’s a combination of new stuff (to be released on his new record Graduation), songs he likes and is featured on, and just some random thoughts of his. I really like it a lot and pretty much want everyone to listen to it as soon as possible. Click here to download. Tracklist with my random opinions in italics: 01. Kanye West -...
The new viral campaign for 'Knocked Up' that... →
This video could also be known as: Jeff Rubin’s favorite video on the internet ever.
Strategy Analysis: People like the iPhone more... →
Thus proving that hype has the same value as quality.
Coca-Cola decides to buy Glaceau for $4.2 billion... →
What the Times doesn’t mention is that 50 Cent, the inspiration behind the flavor ‘Formula 50’, is a 10% shareholder in Glaceau and has subsequently earned $400 million, again, IN CASH. This should make him feel a little better about having his album pushed back to the Fall.
“…AIR STAGNATION ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM TO 10 PM EDT
FRIDAY…”
– weather.com/Amir. (link)
New Pinkberry opening at Bleecker and MacDougal. →
“…when we come across an artist with Nas, Jay, or Biggie-like potential,...”
– Joe Budden as a new blogger for XXL. (link)
COLOURlovers maps the progression of Nintendo and... →
“I can barely figure out how to work the red-eye tool on my digital...”
– Andy Roddick on his blog about his photoshopped cover of Men’s Fitness (link to Deadspin)
Twista - Give It Up (feat. Pharrell) →
The Neptunes first song using their new “B-more House” style. Not really my steez, but the Neptunes haven’t really been on their game for awhile.
Avril Lavigne and Lil Mama - Girlfriend (the... →
This is what I imagine getting beat up by a gang of (perhaps interracial) 13 year old girls would be like— a cloud of pink angst leaving everything bedazzled in its wake.
WatchJoy Denalane (feat. Lupe Fiasco) - Change The song samples a Young Jeezy number and it looks like it was filmed in Tokyo, most noticably Shinjuku?
“You can’t fire me, I quit.”
– Donald Trump to NBC as they cancel The Apprentice. (link)
RE: http://obeastiality.com/post/2089687
jakob: you need to start taking yourself more seriously. this conversation is an embarassment
david: do you feel yourself more selfconscious about your IMing because you're nervous that you might get tumbld?
jakob: too late
jakob: I already got you
david: ha
“…hip-hop is a reflection of the environment that we grew up in; it’s...”
– Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson responding, surprisingly pragmatically, about hip-hop’s reactions to Imus and the subsequent backlash towards the use of certain terms in rap music. Also worth seeing: T.I. answering the same question. (50 cent link-video)
“Nintendo and Apple products are being effectively pushed by evangelists. Sure,...”
– Roger Ehrenberg talking about the benefit of evangelist consumers. (link)
The second and final theatrical trailer for... →
I’m fairly-to-very excited about this.
Amy Winehouse - Rehab (remix feat. Jay-Z) →
“4real.”
– The tagline from the new movie Bratz— inspired by the slutty dolls. (link)
Team Seracen: FriNiLi was renewed for a second... →
“Grown and sexy is dead… Ok, fam, we realize that you went up to the 5th...”
– Kanye West as Complex magazine’s style expert. (link)
WatchSki Beatz explains how the beat for Jay-Z’s “Dead Presidents” came together.
“You Enjoy the FREE Popcorn. We’ll Put On The Show!”
– A message from the WNBA’s New York Liberty to me! (via TicketMaster)
The Times covers Takashi Murakami's new show at... →
It runs until June 9th and everything looks really amazing.
“I’m that star up in the sky./I’m that mountain peak up high./Hey, I...”
– The chorus of the R. Kelly anthem “World’s Greatest”.
“Among fans there was an unease that they were making an investment in a show...”
– Lost Co-creator Damon Lindelof announces that LOST will end in 2010 after three more 16-episode (rerun and break-less) seasons. (link)
I read a blog called "Young Black and Fabulous". →
Done laughing? Well, I was going to post one of their pictures, but realized that I liked too many of them to just post one, so I’m just going to put the URL to all of them, and give away the fact that I subscribe to the bloglines of “YBF”. I really like this one, A LOT.
Peanut Butter Moo'd
Today, I had a Peanut Butter Moo’d smoothie from Jamba Juice, and I just want to say, if you like things that taste like a liquefied Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup I recommend you get one ASAP. Also, in case we’ve never talked about it, my other go-to Jamba smoothie is the Gummy Bear flavor, which was discontinued but if you order it at most any of the places they’ll make it for...
Common feat. Dwele - "The People" (produced by... →
A new song off of Finding Forever…sounds a lot like Kanyeeze’s remix of FOB’s “This Ain’t a Scene…”.
“The communications company scrapped its partnership with the 25-year-old rapper...”
– Verizon disassociates itself with singer/songwriter Akon after YouTube blows up his spot. (link)
Producers push Sam Raimi to introduce Gwen Stacy... →
That being said, it still made $59 million dollars its first day.
Websites are better without vwls.