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Frank Ocean’s Blonde has been out for nine months and I’m still in its unrelenting grip. The visual album, Endless sucked me in immediately. I watched it three times in a row. Cinematic, monochrome hues fill a warehouse full of industrial equipment. Radiant, soft sounds pace back and forth, permeating through the mundane, the …

“…Rappers got stylist cuz they can’t think for themselves …” -“Rusty” (Tyler the Creator ft. Domo Genesis & Earl Sweatshirt ) Ever checked out old school “Howard the Duck”? No, not that horrible 1986 travesty of a movie (sorry, Lea Thompson). The awesome existential Marvel comic, created by the late …

I started out reading DC comics. They were action packed and no matter who the hero or heroine was, there was a moral to the story. In place of any sort of guidance from my elders on moral turpitude, the stories served as a paradigm by which to live my …

A legitimately bad film is never memorable. It might last as a random remembrance, but not much more. I saw the trailer for “Spring Breakers” and chuckled to myself. Sexualized violence has been over-cooked for some time now. In fact, it’s become a staple of American culture as anyone with …

In my opinion, modern, American Pop music owes it’s essence to the Blues and Frank Sinatra. The Blues informed us of our very souls, the true root of American artistry, including the anger, the sex, the fight for the right to be free, but Frank gave us the template for …

People always tell me they are looking for something new, but when something  new legitimately pops up, they are never ready. Frank Ocean’s stint on the Grammys was a cap off to a pretty remarkable evening winning Best Urban Contemporary album and best Rap/Sung Collaboration for The Throne’s ‘No Church in the Wild’. …