Tuesday, May 18, 2010

College Humor Spoofs Kesha with "Sing Talk"

Ke$ha hasn't been around very long but people are already starting to ask why she's famous. She claims not to use autotune, but her combination of talking and singing in the song "Tik Tok" seem to say otherwise. Well, the jig is up. College Humor is on to her half-singing, half-rapping ways, bringing us this "Tik Tok" parody. "Sing Talk" details her plans to become a singer without any musical talent. Just by speaking whiny pop lyrics into her MacBook Pro, she made it to the top of the charts sounding "like a bitchy, gay robot."

Monday, May 10, 2010

Jack of all Trades: Casino Jack in Reveiw


I know when you mention politics most of the time, people's eyes kinda glaze over, but Casino Jack is less a lesson in government corruption and more of a timely and wondrously educational/entertaining look at how true capitalism works. Meet Jack Abramoff, regarded as one of the top lobbyist in washington and a character too smart for his own good. The movie is less of a portrait about the man and more of a case study on how one man was able to find a niche and create a sort of new market out of it, all while being handsomely compensated. This is the new democracy, where policy is for sale and senators can be bought and sold based on the special interests of Abramoff's client list.

Harrowing and stark, "Casino Jack" comes with us by way of the fine folks who brought us "Enron, The Smartest Guys in the Room" and that too was a documentary of firecracker appeal. "Jack" however, finds us in both, familiar waters and international policy as Abramoff rose to the levels that he did because he was able to acknowledge one simple truth about Washington; the symbiotic relationship between those who desire to stay in office and those who need changes in policy in order to stay in business. Both equate to money matters and this rich doc gives us glimpses into some of Abramoff's craftier schemes and swindles that paint a dense but blurred moral picture, decidedly painted in by greed.

Never fret, the man at the center of this doc, is going to be getting the big screen treatment as Kevin Spacey has been pegged to play Abramoff in an upcoming project. But I would advise you to see this doc first and let the shock of it all wash over you as I did at a late evening screening that had my jaw on the floor. The most shocking part of the doc is that Abramoff only managed to serve 4 years for such heinous crimes.....but do you blame the man or the system put in place that allows for such capitalistic treasures.

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