Friday, June 4, 2010

Is Hector Lavoe THE Greatest Salsero????


I ask this because I was just reintroduced to his music and was blown away. His voice, lyrics, delivery, and story are unmatched. He has such clarity, pain in his voice and unique melody that no one has been able to sound as good as him since his passing. Only person that comes to mind is Marc Anthony and they have plenty of similarities (peace to all the puntos that bless him with that good stuff). I grew up on his music and although I dig Ismael Rivera's music (an amazing artist and great personal story. I even dated his daughter...love you Orquidea), I don't see anyone having all the talents and make music as good as he does. Do you think there is anyone that you think comes close or is better?






Great Flicks...

I highly recommend you watch these films. Yes, there is a connection to all of these films.

Dirty Pretty Things



It's in The UK, has the immigrant class doing interesting things for citizenship, and a few cons.

London



This could have been easily been a play. It is a breakdown of relationships and the breakdown of them. All while The Transporter (great actor, Jason Statham) and the other guy get their freeze on doing more coke than you really should (say no kids). Great turns in this film.

Revolver



I just saw this film a few minutes ago and it changed the way I think. No exaggeration, this movie makes you question your own existence. Each character represents a part of a personality and it's all tied in with Chess and Cons. It is truly a beautiful movie for it's layers and turns. I highly recommend it.

FRESH



1994 Exoticness... Young guy abandoned by his parents is a runner for the Heroin and Crack Dealers. He is beyond his years in maturity and at one point decides that the negativity is too much for him to allow it to continue. What he puts together is amazing given his age and position. Lots of great chess and views of the position people play in this game.

Memento



Goodness... SEE THIS MOVIE! Great script, movement, actors, original concept, cons, etc. etc.

Monday, May 31, 2010

What a Woman Wants...




She wants to feel appreciated and needed, a warm smile and for you to do things that make her smile, to conveniently not listen when she says she wants to be left alone and be there for her, a massage when she did not ask for it but needs it. She wants respect, honesty, to be able to talk openly, great sex, attention, exclusiveness, breakfast in bed, to disagree with her when she is being hard on herself, support, to be encouraged even though she may be end up better than you at something. She wants a best friend. She wants a Man. She wants to be treated as a Lady...

Don Carnage. The Best Bad Guy In Life...


This dude is just awesome! Definitely one of the best bad guys ever. He had a crazy pirate crew, all the airships, big cannons, a pistol, an accent, and fashion sense. It is a shame that he never truly won but hey, he was going against Baloo and Kitt Cloudkicker and they were some cool animals. Don't even let me get started on Sheer Kahn. Come to think of it, TaleSpin was the best cartoon series next to Duck Tales. So I would like to salute my fellow latino Don Carnage for being a great bad guy.

Boondocks New Episode...



This messed my original plan all up. I fully intended on getting up and going straight to the gym. Once I came across this in Nahright.com, made me stuck to my laptop. This satisfies my need for Kung-Fu and Cartoons in the morning. Really had me laughing out loud so enjoy!

I Am So Mad I Missed This

Mr. Brainwash from Creative Control on Vimeo.


I have always had an eye for art but for the last few years I have really been digging this form of street art. It has a message along with great visuals that add to and sometimes ends up being the message. I highly encourage everyone support this film. It will open your eyes to many things along with being highly entertaining.

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Is There Something Wrong...?


...Why did you delete your Facebook Account? No, nothing is wrong. Everything is right. This is a common question asked once one deletes any social networking site page. Most people treat it as what's wrong instead of there must be a good reason.
I cannot speak for most but I can only write about my reason. Mine are very simple. I saw a magazine cover on Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg a year or two ago and saw that they recognized him as sitting on a potential gold mine. He has everyone's info including likes and dislikes. Why this is so important is because he has what advertisers and companies want. The truth about demographics. This is how they cater products and advertisement to people. He has all this info, for FREE! He spent 0 dollars in getting what certain age groups do and like. He was holding on to it because as many people wanting it, he was not selling. He took a gamble and won.

How does this relate to you and I? Well, I personally don't like the fact that all this info is being kept for profit when all I want to do is keep in contact with family and friends that I know and getting to know new ones. I also did not appreciate the fact that my kid's pictures can be viewed and ever worse saved with just a click of the mouse. I like my privacy and I enjoy being social but where does one draw the line. Even when one "deletes" their account, you can log back in and everything is as if you never deleted it. The obvious issue to this is they keep everything! Nothing is truly deleted and what I consider to be somewhat private is part of their info that they will sell.

Another good reason for me is hard to write because I do not want to offen anyone but, do we really have to know SOO much about your life? I have seen more senseless updates that I truly don't believe the authors believe how dumb it makes them look. It also gives people a false impression. It makes it seem that you are a loose alcoholic that does not take care of their kids if you always speak on bar this, drinking that, hungover whatever. You have a family and probably are a great parent and outstanding individual but if all you promote is acting a fool with pictures to serve as proof, how are people going to look at you? I also do not nor did I ever really promote where I was, what I was doing or who I was doing it with. Some things are to be shared and others to be private. I don't do this because don't be surprised that you run into people that you were not expecting.

Well, that's my view on it. Peace...