Nah Right (Free subscription) | yesterday
Enuff explains how, back in ‘98, Isaac Hayes asked his opinion about whether he should allow Jay to sample “The Theme From Shaft” for what would eventually become “Reservoir Dogs”. He reasons that just maybe if he had told Isaac something like, “nah, don’t do it, Jay-Z’s a chump”, the song may have never happened. [...]
watch movies online for free full movie downloads (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
#1 STAGEVU : Full Movie Directed by Jonathan Kaplan Produced by Paul M. Heller Fred Weintraub Written by Michael Allin Jerry Wilkes Oscar Williams Starring Isaac Hayes Yaphet Kotto Music by Isaac Hayes Distributed by American International Pictures Release date(s) April 19, 1974 Running time 91 minutes Language English
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Two discs feature the artists' greatest love songs, just in time for Christmas,New Year's Eve, and Valentine's Day! LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Concord Music Group's For Lovers series will continue on December 22, 2009 with CDs from both Ray Charles and Isaac Hayes, featuring each artist's greatest love songs. Previously, Concord has issued For Lovers albums by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Tony Bennett,...
Pandora (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Baile funk, aka funk carioca or bailes funk, is a good example of how dance music conventions can be and often are shaped by the people and for the people. The DJ doesn't necessarily define the sound but does nurture and develop it. And, mash it up with the sound of other cultures thousands of miles away that share similar experiences. In this case, that experience was using the spirit of music and...
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Filed under: Movies , Television , News , Celeb Updates , Magazines and Newspapers Pam Grier will return to television early next year...and will be playing a bad guy. Well, a bad girl. Again! The CW announced that the 60 year-old 1970s Blaxploitation film icon is joining the cast of the hit drama series 'Smallville,' which is based on the DC Comics Superman series. The savvy casting choice is the...
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Black moderates and conservatives weigh in on today's memorial service for the 13 soldiers who were killed when Nadal Malik Hasan, a U.S. army major who was actively reaching out to Al Qaeda, went on a shooting rampage last week at Fort Hood military base: Sophia Nelson, a moderate pundit in Virginia, writes on Facebook : "Very appropriate remarks from President Obama, and very powerful imagery...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Due to some top luck, I found myself at the Stax Museum in Memphis on Friday night. It's essentially a re-construction of the original building with a Brit School type music academy attached, and they have periodic evenings when the school band play a concert in the studio (a meticulous replica of the original in the original place). Friday was one of those nights, and its no exaggeration to say that...
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Cake Man Raven The Brooklyn Paper reports that thieves took a TV from Cake Man Raven , who has baked for the likes of 50 Cent, Isaac Hayes, and Spike Lee. Strange to steal a TV from a bakery, but nowhere near as weird as the guy who, according to WLTX , went into a Taco Bell in Haverstraw, New York, and demanded some money at gunpoint, only to then walk into the manager’s office and ask for...
Cool-Mo-Dee (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Now that the Halloween Countdown is over it's time to move back into a more normal posting routine but instead of posting music this week I am going to post links to some of my favorite music blogs from the past month or so. A Closet of Curiosities - lots of "world" music and other eclectics (last three posts: Karaikudi Subramaniam and Trichy Sankaran - Sunada, Eduard Brunner - Dal niente,...
Know The Ledge (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Until Franchise buys DJ hero so I can go over and review it for myself, this New York Times article by SETH SCHIESEL will have to do. “Over all the game includes more than 90 new mixes using more than 100 songs, fromEminem to Jay-Z (who consulted on the game) to Herbie Hancock, Beck, Isaac Hayes, Young MC, David Bowie, Tupac [...]
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Isaac Hayes argues that if government-run health care in the United States is going to be like the Department of Motor Vehicles office in Chicago metro, we've got trouble ahead : "If the Public Option is anything like what I experienced yesterday at the DMV (which I suspect), please call the insane asylum. Yesterday, I had to update my driver’s license. A pragmatic, streamliner like me figured...
BackyardConservative (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Rev. Isaac Hayes The option-option is another futile attempt of Washington Bureaucrats to take over the health care system. We don't need Nancy Pelosi or Pat Quinn opting us in or out. It's like health care hokey pokey.
Jumping in Pools (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
According to the Conservative blog, Gateway Pundit, Jumping in Pools is a dangerous blog because we have a sense of humor. I guess Rush Limbaugh is Hitler because he played "Obama the magic negro" on his radio show. Jumping in Pools Blog is a website that specializes in writing realistic but fake stories, publishing them and then watching who will link to their bogus news story. The blog...
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
The conservative Republican blogger in Chicago metro, Ill., opines : "The latest push to force the public option on the American healthcare system is a last ditch effort by the Radical Left (i.e., Pompous Pelosi and the Congressional Crack Caucus) for a single-payer system. What’s so bad about the government running our health care system? Everything. Dare I mention dash-for-clunkers (car...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Just listening to a Stax collection today and I was reminded of Isaac Hayes' version of Bacharach and David's 'Walk On By'. It's bloody awful. Are there any other terrible covers of great songs by legendary artists. Stones and Dylan are excluded.
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