Apparently He's Not An *ANGY BLACK MAN* in this Movie....

Ooh! Reverse Racism! Me Likes Black men who fight against the swirl (and probably fight against prop 8).

"Directed (but not written) by Neil LaBute, this drama builds up a fair amount of discomfiting tension, with Jackson wisely underplaying a role that could have turned into a villainous caricature."

Am I wrong to think, even if it isn't a campy caricature....and, well Samuel L. Jackson's roles of late have been kinda...come on...Black Snake Moan anyone, you can't tell me you watched that movie and didn't cringe and laugh out loud at the same time at the Southern Fried repressed craziness and not so latent racism in that movie....

Is Samuel L. Jackson the Blaxplotation king reincarnated? Lakeview Terrace begs me to wonder if that's the sho-nuff truff....If his performance in the movie isn't over the top...the premise of using the "angry black man" against "just about everything that isn't him" is quite...umm...much...like so much it could be instant MST3000 fodder....

Just sayin....

But, on another note...one wishes that there'd be more varieties of roles...for all peoples. Maybe independent cinema will make a comeback...

HA!

umm...please?

Everybody loves a re-hashed Girl Group Record

Me: What is that Supremes sounding B-S in the background in that Beyonce "Light Bright" L'oreal ad?


Cousin: It's Solange's new stuff....








I have to hand it to things...whenever things get tough for a struggling female artist (more often than not those pegged in an R&B category), The smart female artist busts out Phil Spector's Baion beat (Amy Winehouse in 2006) or one of 3 Motown categories...





Duffy went for Martha & The Vandellas with "Mercy"





Also-ran Solange went here.....

Aww...Where Did Our Love Go? Aww...where did 45 years go...apparently nowhere because it's back...on the airwaves...just to make the world seem a bit crazier. It seems to add to the frenzy of dis-belief of all points of life anymore.

And to me it points that the evolution of American Culture probably ended with the Nixon Administration...and if it survived beyond that point, it died when Reagan told the populace that it was "Morning In America" again. So when things get tough, when we need innovation, we do a time warp to the 1960s...or some point before...

And as much as I love (and spetacularly failed) this resurgence (ok my plans aren't dead...I just have to reform them), I worry that whenever we find ourselves in a tight spot, or to prove ourselves (as artists and a collective populace) we fall back on our old school skills...mix them different ways...and sell ourselves on dreams we've already accomplished....dreams that have already faded

What is "I Decided" but a blend of "Heatwave" and "Baby Love" with a little "I Decided On a Whole New Plan"

What is a SUV hybrid from GM but an Oldsmobile Diesel V8 across the board

What is Identity politics, when we should really unite as one?

So next go around...let's not sample the beat...let's see if we can improve on the romantic vision of the past, but not use it exclusively....

(and word to everyone: Martha & The Vandellas "No More Tear-Stained Make-up" is my garage band cover...hands off)