After his debut album Get Lifted had the hit “Used to Love U” (that was by far one of the best songs in 2004) John Legend cemented himself in R&B mainstream as someone who can make great music. He found himself singing chorus’s for Jay-Z, Kanye West, and other rappers who needed a welcome change from Akon. 2 years later he released Once Again which had some great songs, but for me wasn’t the home run I had been expecting after his debut, though that was fine because it was still great music.

Now another 2 years after Once Again here comes Evolver on the back of the great single with André 3000 “Green Light” and based off that single alone its bound to be good, right?

For me, Evolver is everything I hoped Once Again would be.

It feels like a continuation of the good music that was put out on his debut. With good guest appearances from André 3000, Kanye West, Estelle, and Brandy this album has a good flow with few missteps. From the harmonizing intro track to end track it’s just a great album. Obviously “Green Light” is a highly rated song simply because André 3000 is on it, surprisingly or maybe not so surprisingly, the track “Quickly” featuring Brandy is another one that deserves more than one listen, at least according to my iTunes, along with the track with Kanye West featuring.

The album as a whole for me is something that I’ll go and tell a friend who’s into R&B and good music, that they should definitely go and check out. The only thing I can find wrong with this album is for some reason I can’t get myself to like “Everybody Knows“, might just be one of those songs that’ll come up on random that’ll take me by surprise. Overall I think if you have a chance to hop on iTunes or see this CD in a store, definitely grab it, don’t wait for your friend who knows a friend who has a friend to burn you a copy. It’s worth a buy.

Rating: ★★★★½ 

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What can I say about this movie that hasn’t already been said by others on Netflix and other user review sites? Probably not a whole lot to be honest.

Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz & Shaun of the Dead) stars in this along with Thandie Newton (Crash, Beloved, etc.) as a boneheaded but lovable cretin, Dennis, who literally runs from his pregnant fiancé the day of their marriage. There are tons of laughs in this romantic comedy that pits Pegg vs. Hank Azaria, who plays the well to do American who is the adversary to Dennis in his 5 year attempt at salvaging his relationship with his ex-fiancé Libby. The story goes by pretty fast and can kind of get confusing at times since it feels like it’s missing scenes, but overall it David Schwimmer (yes, the dork of Friends fame) did a pretty good job of directing this.

All of the actors and actresses play their parts very well, Pegg is a very believable down and out guy who’s best friend happens to be Newton’s dead beat, gambling cousin along with Azaria’s as a brash go getter American. And who could forget the hilarious and lovable character of Goshdashtidar played by Harish Patel (who has one gorgeous daughter Mya in the movie played by India de Beaufort) Dennis’s spatchula wielding assistant coach.

In the end this is a lovable story with enough slapstick and raunchy comedy to make the guys laugh out loud and enough “Aww” moments for the ladies. It’s a good date night film if these hard economic times are keeping you from venturing to your local (or not so local) theaters.

Rating: ✭✭✭✭½

In recognition of this being my first movie review, I’ll be giving away 3 1 month Netflix codes to 3 randomly chosen commenters. If you don’t already have Netflix, this is a great way to give it a try. Only giving these away until October 28th. Hurry up and get to commenting!

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So I’m sure all of those of you who actually care to follow the whole election race know that John McCain wants to cancel the Presidential debate scheduled for Friday, citing concerns over the current state of the economy and wanting to wait to see what Congress does or whatever. If you don’t see this move as clear way to completely avoid a better equipped opponent perhaps you don’t need to be following anything until you can make an actual informed decision with your vote.

Most people have already seen McCain stumble and succumb to complete senility constantly. Palin can’t speak to reporters anymore without consent because the only thing she’s qualified for doing is clubbing baby seals and walking across the “street” to hang out with her Russian neighbors. Other than constantly attacking or trying to mock Obama for inexperience, McCain is no Ronald Reagan and isn’t quick witted enough to handle Obama in a debate. He knows this and all of his staff knows this.

Here’s hoping the debate happens, I don’t see Obama actually letting McCain pull this obvious and horribly played dodge attempt.

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This is T.I.’s much anticipated and waited for album after T.I. v T.I.P. He’s put on several tracks such as Whatever You Like, What Up, What Haapnin’, and Swagga Like Us (best track on the album, might as well get that out of the way). Here’s my review as best as I could put it together. I’ll tell you now since I like being, or at least trying to be honest. I haven’t really liked a T.I. album straight through since Trap Muzik, and even that I didn’t listen all the way through. So let’s get into this shall we?

The album starts out with a sub-par intro track called 56 Barz and let’s just say it leaves a lot to be desired. He got back with DJ Toomp on this track and he apparently did something weird with the production where T.I. sounds like he could be someone’s 11 year old brother trying to kick his illest rhymes. Not good by any means, but is immediately saved by I’m Illy and the next two songs Ready for Whatever & On Top of the World, the latter featuring Ludacris and it turns out pretty well. That is until you hit the weird techno sampled Live Your Life with Rihanna — I don’t know what he was thinking on this, either it was “Let’s get Rihanna on a track” or “Let’s do something completely retarded real quick and get me in some of those clubs where people dress like peacocks!” but the end result is really horrible.

After the whole weird, bad song debacle it moves on through some songs about his obvious going to prison and legal troubles, which we as hip-hop fans have a fully vested interest in for god knows what reason. The album has 2 tracks seemingly dedicated to the ladies which are Porn Star and obviously Whatever You Like and in my humble blogging opinion the former is much better than the latter.

Most of the album is pretty much the same tried and true formula for T.I., he’s got legal issues and other issues and he’s gonna rap about ‘em and we’re going to listen. I don’t personally care about any of his issues, but I definitely like where he went on I’m Illy, Swagga Like Us, and any other song where he decided to put extreme effort into his verses. Overall it’s like the last 2 T.I. albums (King and T.I. v T.I.P.) pretty mediocre with 3 or 4 good tracks. Obviously Swagga Like Us is the best track on this album but there are a few more that are at least a 2nd or 3rd play through.

Like anything though, those tracks will be different for different people, but in my opinion unless you like supporting artists I’d just wait ’til your friend burns you a copy.

Rating: ✭✭✭

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Maybe I should’ve put this as an actual post. Probably not. I just found it amusing/crazy. I’ve got a kid and it’s no walk in the park by any means. But if she wants to go the Clay Aiken (really though, who didn’t know he wasn’t playin’ for the home team), Micheal Jackson, whatever other celebs went about having children the surrogate way. This could be a hoax, I found it on digg, so I dunno. But if not… she’s pretty attractive, so get at her guys.

Check it out here.

Up for making this woman’s dreams of motherhood come true? I’ve already got a daughter, so I’ll pass, and I’m never letting her see this blog post. Ever.

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I do believe PETA is off their proverbial rocker. They want Ben & Jerry’s to use actual human breast milk in their ice cream products instead of cow’s milk. What kind of crack are these folks smoking and where can I get some to sell? Anything that makes you that crazy must be a good product in need of mass distribution.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc., urging them to replace cow’s milk they use in their ice cream products with human breast milk, according to a statement recently released by a PETA spokeswoman.

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Yup. Crazy. Like Dave Chappelle said, “I only drink the finest breast milks”.

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So every morning I read the news or listen to the radio, there’s always something about McCain (usually Palin though, can’t escape her) v. Obama. Though sometimes there’s a little article stating who voters are leaning towards. These polls are usually pretty insignificant and actually tell anything — except the one’s that show which way ex-Clinton backers are leaning.

Basically they, like Clinton herself, are an extremely bitter bunch.

On the other hand, Clinton supporters think more highly of Republican candidate John McCain than other Democrats do. Forty-two percent of Clinton backers view McCain favorably, including 71 percent of them who still don’t support Obama. That compares with 33 percent of all Democrats who see McCain positively.

Seriously folks, get over it. She lost, she had every chance in the world to win and she blew it. Why must you continually dwell on a loss? It’s almost as bad as her not dropping out until damn near last week (quite the exaggeration I know, but still). Obama won and Clinton didn’t, but because she didn’t that means you have to vote for a Senile old man and some deranged mother of a little league baseball team?

Not cool. Not cool at all. If you honestly feel McCain is a better candidate then more power to ya, but if you’re just being a bitter vindictive person for no other reason than you actually thought Hilary Clinton had some vested interest in your life — you seriously need to calm down or grow up, more than likely both.

On a last note, what’s with all this “He’s too inexperienced for me to vote for him. Blah blah blah no real point to be made” crap? There’s not one person on this planet who’s alive today other than former Presidents who are actually qualified to be President. You all have no problem with throwing a 2 year governor in the Presidential spot who can apparently see the Kremlin from her back porch, but not a guy who’s been in public politics in some shape or form since the mid-90’s?

Ah people… you’re a funny bunch.

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So there could’ve been a Halo MMO. I hate Halo and personally thinks this would be a craptacular idea. But it would generate tons of cash, because for some odd reason lots of people who aren’t me love Halo and the Halo universe. Sorry to you weirdo’s.

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Most of the time newsreaders (RSS readers to be exact) are clunky and boxed into a window, and let’s be honest, most people are looking at the content rather than the UI of whatever application/web application they’re using. I normally use NetNewswire. It’s the staple of putting all your feeds in a nice and friendly way. You can easily view hundreds of RSS feeds and their articles all

I always wanted something lightweight but at the same time visually pleasing. I’ve tried Newsfire which has a gorgeous UI, but I still find myself going back to NetNewswire. I’ve used Vienna and I just didn’t really get used to it for long enough to keep it as my newsreader.

So today I found out about an app called Headline and it’s pretty much everything I’ve wanted in a newsreader. Small, compact and visually pleasing. Since it’s a very new app it’s obviously got some bugs and usage quirks that will hopefully be ironed out in the very near future. It also lacks quite a few features that I use NetNewswire for, namely flagging and clipping of articles for future viewing, ability to easily insert selected text into a blogging software (ecto to be exact), and syncing with a web based service (Newsgator, Bloglines, etc). If these things get resolved soon, this may be my new newsreader.

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