As soon as this blog blows up - and it will - I'm going to cash in, make tons of cash, lose creative control, have a breakdown and relocate to South Africa to reconnect with myself. When I've collected my thoughts I will come back and start blogging in the trenches again. Just me and my keyboard. Keepin' it real.
But before I run off to another continent I'm going use some of my mad loot to throw a gigantic block party. I'll get all the greatest indie rock bands (both living and dead - time to reanimate!) and throw the biggest block party New York has ever seen! And I'll film it and make people pay $8.50 to watch it in the movie theaters.
Oh wait, somebody already did that? It was Dave Chappelle? Damn it! He's always two steps ahead of me.
I wasn't all that interested in seeing Dave Chappelle's Block Party. While I'm a big fan of Dave Chappelle, I'm also a big fan of seeing him for free on my TV. But then it came to my attention that Michel Gondry had directed and Gondry plus Chappelle has to equal gold, right? Solid gold.
Oh yeah, music. Let's just say Chappelle has great taste in music. Time to name drop. Dead Prez, Black Star, Jill Scott, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Common, The Roots and Erykah Badu. The Roots, Scott, Badu track "You Got Me" is a fantastic 9-minute-plus psychedelic freak-out beyond anything that I could have ever imagined being on a "hip hop" record. Gold. Solid Gold.
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