totes.l.croosh

Most awesome product shout-outs in hip-hop?

From the Lupe Fiasco song “Gold Watch”: 

“I like Diptyque candles and Maharishi sandals 
And Dita sunglasses and purple 
murder service samples 
I like False t-shirts 
Devil Street is off the handle 
Such a good designer Junya Watanabe god damn you 
I like Yohji Yamamoto and a Max Roach solo 
Leather Gucci belts and Guilty Brotherhood polos 
I like Mont Blanc pens and Moleskine paper 
I like Goyard bags and green Now-n-Laters 
Monocle magazines and Japanese manga 
Futura Nosferatu and HTM trainers 
I love Street Fighter 2 I just really hate Zangief 
only Ken and Ryu I find it hard to beat Blanca 
I keep a wii ninja hanging and a 
Unkle album banging 
If you negative in energy then stay out the vicinity of…”

valerie and her week of wonders

tlvx:

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. Jaromil Jireš, Czechoslovakia, 1970.

A screen adaptation of Vítězslav Nezval’s short novel of the same name, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a buried treasure of Czech surrealist/erotic/horror cinema. A baroque, surrealist folk tale of a teenage girl’s dreams and hallucinations as she experiences her first menstruation, the film includes repeat encounters with witchcraft, vampires, the living dead, perverted monks, and doppelganger distant cousins. Each encounter punctuates her journey into womanhood as the truth about her family’s dubious past unfolds before her weeping eyes. Performing along with the film is The Valerie Project—a ten-plus-member collective so inspired by the film they created an entirely new soundtrack.

Viewable in its entirety (for now), with the original soundtrack, on youtube. Parts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9

I hate you.

kylewritescode:

Some dudes at Angelsoft messing with our switch (or something—I don’t know what hardware is upstairs) to point everything at google.com to Lycos was not cool. Perhaps you have time to kill, but I need to get actual work done.

 We hate Angelsoft right now too- they took our colorwar2008.com (the project I’ve been working on with Ze Frank and friends), which we’re doing just for fun within the twitter community, and copied the concept to a new site, put ad banners pointing back to themselves and (at least initially) refused to credit us.  I shouldn’t hear this many negative things about some random software company in one week.