Senior Hip Hop Choir

This is funny... watch it all the way through.

News Clip: President replaces the "N" Word

My President! You have to watch this...lol

Forget Netflix… It’s Redbox on mines!

Have you been passing this big red machine in your local grocery stores lately thinking “hmmm... naw”? Let me put you on to game. $1 a movie! Need I say more?

I get the Netflix convenience of ordering from home, but I say, unless you’re too blind, cripple or crazy to leave the house… $1 compared to $8.99 is a better deal (depending on how many movies you watch a month). They have new & old releases just like Netflix or your local video store. And, with the $$ you save, now you can slide through Mc Dowell’s drive thru, pick up a few items off the $1 menu, call over some friends and have a great (low budget) movie party! Another good thing about Redbox is you can return the movies to any Redbox location. So say you got the movie over here… but you’re waaaaayyyy over there; no worries, just slide in to your nearest Redbox location, hit the “Return DVD” button … Poof! Magic! You’re done!

Yes, this was random… But hey, it’s a recession, every little bit helps! Lol.

Flyy New Music: PPP "Abundance"

Wajeed is in town this week for two appearances in SF & SJ to promote the new album “Abundance” the 1st PPP LP in 3 years. PPP defines their music as Electro / Experimental / Ghettotech … However you want to categorize it, their music is off the hook! Their Live Performance… Crazy! Abundance is what you need to have in heavy rotation so pick it up and check out one the local shows if you can. You wont be disappointed.



Pick up the latest FREE DOWNLOAD: PPP - The Official Abundance Mixtape (contains snippets from the album)


Tracklisting:
1. Abundance Intro
2. Angel (feat. Coultrain) (Waajeed Remix)
3. Shotgun (feat. J Dilla) (Waajeed’s Plinky Remix)
4. Your Day Is Done (feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow) (DJ Topspin vs. Waajeed Remix) **
5. Deep Inside (feat. SA-RA & Rozzi Daime) (Waajeed Remix) %
6. Stay With Me (feat. Tiombe Lockhart) (DJ Topspin vs. Waajeed Remix)
7. Fever (feat. Zeno) (DJ Topspin vs. Waajeed Remix) **
8. Goodbye (feat. Jamila Raegan) (PPP EXCLUSIVE) ++
9. Stand For Something (feat. Coultrain & Jamila Raegan) (PPP EXCLUSIVE)
10. Detroit Winter (feat. Invincible) (Waajeed Remix)
11. Act Like You Know (feat. J Dilla) (Waajeed vs. DJ Topspin Remix)
12. 1 Luv 2 U (feat. Neco Redd) (Waajeed vs. DJ Topspin Remix)
13. Can’t You Feel It (feat. Coultrain & Jamila Raegan) (PPP EXCLUSIVE)
14. Now Or Never (feat. Tiombe Lockhart) (Waajeed Remix)
15. No Worries (feat. Steve Spacek) (Waajeed Remix)
16. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover (feat. Raheem DeVaughn) (EXCLUSIVE ORIGINAL VERSION)
17. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover (feat. Rogiers) (Waajeed vs. DJ Topspin Remix)
18. Synchronicity (feat. Coultrain & Jamila Raegan) (PPP EXCLUSIVE)

Click here for a list of other FREE PPP Mixtapes




Tuesday February 24th
10pm
330 Ritch Nightclub
San Francisco, CA





Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
doors are at 8pm | $5 dollar after 10:30pm
@ Fahrenheit Ultra Lounge | 99 East San Fernando Street
San Jose, CA 95113 | 408.998.9998
or for updates go to: theloungesj.com

Flyy *Bay Area* Indie Film: The Black Rock

Playing Feb 27 - Mar 5, 2009
Theatrical Premiere!
The Black Rock: The Untold Story of the Black Experience on Alcatraz
Run time: 60 mins

Red Vic Movie House
1727 Haight Street San Francisco, CA 94117
Show times: Nightly: 7:15, 9:15 | Additional shows: Sat & Sun: 2:00, 4:00, Wed: 2:00


The Black Rock Trailer from Intern Mastermind on Vimeo.

Dir. Kevin Epps US 2008
The Black Rock chronicles the role of African-Americans at Alcatraz, the first super-maximum security prison, and examines the lives of a few African-American prisoners who were important figures in the history of "The Rock" from the 1930s to the 1960s. The film highlights the truth about the perseverance, sufferings, and resilience of the African-Americans who experienced Alcatraz during this time of racial prejudice and discrimination. Interviews with historians, archival footage, photographs and re-enactments are used to present an entirely new perspective on the most feared prison of its time. Speakers present opening night include director Kevin Epps, historian and author John Templeton, and executive director of the Ella Baker Center Jakada Imani. (60m)

Synopsis
“The Black Rock” aka Black Alcatraz: The Darkside of Alcatraz, is a sixty-minute documentary that presents a new vision of feared federal penitentiary Alcatraz and the untold story of the black experience, as seen through the eyes of infamous black godfather and gangster Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson, William “Ty” Martin, post office robber who was part of a planned escaped from the confines of Alcatraz and Robert Lipscomb, convicted counterfeiter turned prison activist of mixed ethnicity who fought against racism and segregation at Alcatraz.

Socially Flyy says: “SUPPORT BAY AREA F.A.M.E.!”

Flyy Indie Films: Wendy And Lucy

Now Playing
Camera 3 Theatre
288 S. 2nd Street, San Jose CA 95113

MPAA Rating: R
Running Time: 94 Minutes
Advance Showtimes
Camera 3 Downtown Buy Tickets

Daily at 7:25, 9:30; plus Sat-Sun at 1:00, 3:05, 5:15




Reviews:

Wendy and Lucy' is eerily timely

Mick LaSalle, Chronicle Movie Critic

Movies have a funny way sometimes of knowing the future. The latest example is "Wendy and Lucy," which tells the story of a struggling young woman trying to make it to Alaska, so she can reach her idea of employment nirvana: a job in a fish-canning factory. This tale of poverty American-style was conceived and filmed when the Dow Jones was up around 11,000 and when the idea of going broke was, for most people, an abstract concept.

Going broke. Being poor. Getting down to your last buck. "Wendy and Lucy" may focus on one person, but its ambition is to make a larger point about what it's like to lose everything. Lack of means might be the easiest part. There's also the isolating loneliness of poverty, as well as the danger of it. There's that way poverty has of perverting relationships, inspiring disdain and eating into self-esteem. "Wendy and Lucy" shows all this and, with an uncanny prescience, presents it at precisely the moment when audiences are capable of receiving it, not with distance, but with empathy. And some real fear.Click here to read more

Director: Kelly Reichardt (Old Joy)

Cast: Michelle Williams, Will Patton, Larry Fessenden and Will Oldham

Synopsis: "Deftly and delicately directed, with a deeply moving performance from Williams and an extraordinarily powerful and most unexpected conclusion."--Toronto Eye Weekly

Official Web Site:
http://www.shortsinternational.com

Flyy Indie Films: The Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts 2009

Opens 2/20/2009
Camera 3 Theatre
288 S. 2nd Street, San Jose CA 95113

MPAA Rating: NR
Running Time: 94 Minutes
Advance Showtimes
Camera 3 Downtown Buy Tickets
Daily at 9:20; plus Sat-Sun at 12:45pm, 5:00




Reviews:
Oscar Shorts, Low-Hype and Sweet
By A. O. SCOTT

With the Academy Awards a little more than two weeks away, it’s just possible that your breathless anticipation may be edged with fatigue. Since the beginning of the year, a small number of Very Important, Very Worthy films have vacuumed up all the oxygen in the movie universe. You may find yourself in need of a break from the manufactured hysteria surrounding The Curious Reader of Slumdog Milk/Nixon.

A perfect antidote to this white-elephant parade can be found, paradoxically enough, in the program of Oscar-nominated short films that opens on Friday in a few dozen theaters nationwide. It may seem odd to propose one batch of Oscar bait as the answer to another, but the 10 contending short films — five animated, five live-action — exhibit some virtues that their feature-length counterparts lack. Click here to read more


Synopsis: Catch all of the Oscar-nominated Animated short films in one feature-length program click here



Official Web Site:
http://www.shortsinternational.com