THEOPHILUSOPHY.

This fella isn't getting enough attention. Why is it that the hip hop crown is given to auto-tuning idiots like flo rida and kanye west (to be fair touch the sky was pretty sick), when fresh new talent like Theophilus that really stands out just goes by unnoticed?

Theophilus is a fresh-faced rapper from Brookyln who teams up with machine drum (amazing producer, check him out) to make sick electro/ hip hop music thats just so, so much better than any of the hip hop that plagues the charts these days. With influences a bit uncouth for his genre, i.e the smiths, Ramones, Kraftwerk and Micheal jackson, he's managed to not fall into the horrible "bluntz and broadz" stereotype and go about making hip hop with a sort of "fuck-you-guns-and-nasty-stuff-i'm-just-gonna-make-nice-hip-hop-that-makes-people-happy-because-thats-the-way-it-should-be" vibe. A bit like De la soul. except with way more synths.

Heres one of his mixtapes, geddonit.

Theophilus London - This Charming Mixtape

(Also check out JAM!, another one he did which is equally fucking amazing.

S. DARKO, YOU SUCK.

Donnie Darko was good. Donnie Darko was one of those films that stay with you for ages, really make you think about stuff, and have a lot more to them under the surface. And as with all good films, they are totally non continuable and to even attempt such a travesty will result in a complete and utter incomprehensible mess.

As is the case with s. darko.

Donnie darko fucked with your head a lot, but in the end it all made sense to some extent and you could follow it all nicely and it was all nicely wrapped up and basically good. S. Darko is literally just a 2 hour completely ridiculous headfuck where nothing makes sense, there's 3 entirely different plots depending on which stupid destiny you choose to follow (thanks to time travel) and ultimately, they all end in ridiculous scenarios and death. Not only that, they literally took the end of Donnie and crudely rewrote it to handily wrap everything up, except it doesn't because it in now way fits in with S. darko, where nothing happens for a reason, theres like a million characters, and they're all equally shit. Its not like Donnie where when he lets himself die all the bad stuff that would've happened if he hadn't had died never happens, it still all happens except nothings done about it. Nothing is even resolved. Its pathetic. Its taken every aspect of donnie and made it shit. Even a Paedophiles house is burned down except the Paedo is just fine. stay well away from it, unless you want to spend the next 24 hours trying to sort your brain out and lamenting over the poor kid who ends up just as locked in the cave as he is at the start (don't care that i just spoiled it).

FOLKIN' HELL.

I recently discovered that Music Prodigy/ Messiah Conor Oberst (AKA Bright Eyes) Has formed a supergroup with some other fellas, Entitled 'Monsters of folk'. They sound Very Bright-eyes-esque, obviously under the influence of Conor and Producer Mike Mogis. A self-titled Album is soon to be released accompanied by a tour, and by clicking this link you can find 'Say Please', their recent release. Haters can folk right off.

JEEZY KREEZY!

Been a bit busy gallivanting across europe and completely forgot about this.

HOWEVER Many nice new things have come into my life in my little 3-week hiatus, so every cloud eh, every cloud.

GOOD THING ONE.

the city of ghent. What with belgium somehow slipping my culturally-aware radar, i was a bit apprehensive of going. The whole countries just lovely, unbelievably friendly and everything built all nice and charming, as opposed to england which was basically horribly brought up on violence, drinking as much as possible in a given space of time, and a complete lack of respect to everyone else. Enough of that, Ghent on the other hand is just the culmination of Belgium's charm and friendliness. People really aren't afraid to just walk up to you and start a conversation and there's just no social tension anywhere, its amazing. Its packed full of little markets and cramped windy streets full of all sorts, and those huge friendly squares bordered by bars that you only seem to ever find in mainland europe. Also bearing home to musical extraordinaires Soulwax/2ManyDjs, its basically the culmination of all good things ever. If you get a chance to go, DO IT.

GOOD THING 2

Wavves is a 'noise rock' outfit led by Nathan williams, a san-diegan skateboarder. Despite recording all their songs on what sounds like a shit mobile phone in someones shed, the overall effect is surprisingly good. Click this link for a self-titled track which really encaptures what they're about.

GOOD THING 3.

Although not as exciting as the other 2, A 30 hour coach ride led to the rediscovery of the pokemon games for game boy color. Nothing quite takes you back as much as running into a fucking pidgey for the 50th time in a row trying to get through a patch of grass. Any 90s kid who didn't spend their youth grinding their thumbs down to pulp trying to catch mewtwo basically didn't have a childhood, squares.