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● note: A really really good movie is one I go Moby - 18 : Pretty good, Pretty much all the and see 2 or 3 more times while it's in the songs with sampled vocals are nice. All the songs theater. A pretty good movie is one I see with guest vocalists and his own vocals are once, enjoy the shit out of it, and look lacking. I just threw the gospel songs on my forward to the DVD. To find out more walking tape and I'm happy. about any of these movies go here and do ● Emenim - The Emenim Show : Easily one of the a search on the title. best hip hop albums and MC's out there. It's refreshing to hear someone talking about things that actually mean something instead of bragging about crap they really don't own. This was fun to Lord of the Rings (dvd) - Nice movie. Consider listen to all the way thru. Emenim is better than this dvd release to be a teaser to the real DVD his beats. He raps on beats most rappers would release coming in November. I call it milking the pass up on. I hope it's not really how he describes public but isn't that what Hollywood does? it in his songs as far as not being recognized for Anyfarts it's a great flick and a great way to blow his skills cuz he's the best out there right now, 3 hours. I still have to say I've seen better fight period. sequences on Zena - Warrior Princess! ● DJ Shadow - The Private Press : This one didn't really hit me until the second listening. Showtime - Well, it passed the time. Not much to Quality work from a guy who doesn't release to really crack up on here. Seems like they thought much shit. Instrumental Hip Hop on an intelligent this would be a good idea untile they actually shot & exploratative tip. It's like Moby without the all it. If it doesn't take much for you to laught then

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the "easy money" black music samples and droll you'll enjoy this one. vocals. Inspired. ● Mandalay - Solace : This has been out for Clockstoppers - A lot better than many critics awhile. A really nice CD. I really love their choice gave it. Kid finds a watch that can slow down time of synth sounds, stuff nobody else uses (Like around him. PLays tricks on a few people, then Everything But the Girl later productions). Nicola spends the rest of the film running from the Hitchcock vocal style is very original, and the people who want it back. WHat more did the music has a very intimate feel. I wish they would critics want from a nickelodeon film I wonder? have included "Please" (which was played on an Some swell FX in this one directed by Star Trek - episode of La Femme Nikita, which got me into The Next Generation's Number # 1. the band), but I can't really complain. It's a 2 CD set for the price of one. Very nice! Contract Killer - ANother Jet Li movie. This one ● Chemical Brothers - Come With Us : I highly is about a amatuer hit man (who posseses great respect these guys work, even if I can't skill without a gun) who it trying to score a huge immediately get into it. It's just so well produced! contract based on finding the killer of a yakuza They have really gone the pop route since "dig boss. Takes a minute to get to the action but your own hole", which is understandable. It's a when it does all hell breaks loose. One of the better CD than "Surrender". Star Guitar is banging better Jet Li action n guns movies out of Hong in a dreamy way. Quality music by an act that Kong I've seen. always put's alot of time into it's music. ● Daft Punk - Discover : Just like the Chemicals, We were Soilders - ANother combat driven film Daft Punk has gone the Pop route, but they do it about the insanity of war. This one is about oe of in such a cool way. This CD sounds like a bedroom the early Vietnam conflicts. Mel Gibson does a studio project, only thing is the tracks are catchy good job as a leader trying to remain objective in as hell. The Todd Edwards cut up track is my the mist of chaos and overwhelming odds against. favorite. Good buy. Great picture and excellent sound. CHeck it out. ● Michael Jackson - I nvincible : Not bad. You The effects of Napalm it shows are pretty CSI know if he would spend normal amounts of insteresting. money, left the "King of Pop" crap in the closet, and concentrating on making good songs instead The Sweetest Thing - "Chick flick" with a of music events, he would be so much better off. Farrelly brothers vibe. Gross-out humor which When I read how much it cost to make this record seems to be thrown in for the hell of it. Christina I had to giggle and snort. I know he's Michael Applegate shines the most in this one, I've always Jackson and everything but What a Idiot. It considered her to be talented way beyond her doesn't cost that much to make a record unless looks (and she looks good!). I won't even explain your still trying to reach the days of Thriller. Why the plot since there hardly is one. Still, all said an he's still chasing it is beyond me. Madonna is cool, enojyable rental. If you buy it you were warned. she does what she wants, she's not trying to spread herself to thin, and her music is more Blade 2 - Ahhh...the daywalker. Much respect for interesting now than when she was a phenom. I the first blade which was directed by Steve hope Michael hooks up with a producer who will Norrington. The talented Guillermo Del Toro bring him down to earth (Rapheal Sadiq or D' directs this sequel and does a great job keeping it Angelo maybe?). Invincible sounds great because "for the fans". None of that PG-13 sequel crap a ton of money was spent on it. You won't that you usually get with a successful R-Rated remember any of the tunes 15 minutes after movie. This is violent, gruesome, and cool as hell. you've heard them (After I heard 's "You IT even has Donnie Yen (Iron Monkey), who remind Me" I had trouble deleting from the choreographs some of the fight scenes, and who memory banks!). For my fellow musicians though is a legend on his own. No bullshit here. ALL Michael Jackson CD's are must buys simply because the quality of the recordings are refernce. High Crimes - THis is Morgan Freeman & Ashely ● Lucy Pearl : You know what cracks me up. This Judd collecting paychecks for the summer home in category they made up recently for black venice. Predictable and should have been a bands that actually play instruments all the way straight to USA network release. Pay no more thru the song. Isn't that the way music was than $2 to rent it. It's worth that. The story get's suppose to be? Lord knows when producers run stupid as soon as she finds out her husband is not out of ideas they go running to the pre 90's music who he seems when he get's arrested for war catalog for sampling. This is a great CD. Light, crimes and has been living under a false identity. tight and breezy. Pick it up. Nice to hear a bass Any normal woman, especially a power lawyer as player moving the strings. Looking forward to she plays, would have been da hell out! Instead "Vintage CLassic" she fights to clear his name, whoever he is...... ● Bilal : Very nice. Nicely produced to. Has the hot Dre sound where the drums smack you in the face Panic Room - To be honest the 2nd time around like 2 peices of wood. wasn't as good as the first. The neat "thru the ● Nas - Stillmatic : I've never been that big a fan wall" camera work was though. All in all a good of Nas (don't ask why, maybe I was on some bad flick. No surprises, but it keeps up at a steady cheeba) but this is a great CD. True lyricist who pace. Fincher's best with material with some doesn't have to resort to short lived gimmicks shock value. One thing that puzzled me was the (growly voice, bling bling). Ether is a trip! choice for Jodie Fosters son/daughter. You'll see ● DJ Doc Martin - Open Your Mind Mix CD: THis what I mean. one's from 1996, but it's still one of my all time

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mix cd's ever (next to Laurent Garnier's Xmix 2 Kissing Jessica Stein - This was nice. Two first CD). If youcan find it scoop it up. Great mix of time lesbian's (well technically bi-sexual) go at it house and techno on the moody tip. And man in an effort to find something new. One thing this what an intro - Dj Sneak into Terry Lee Brown's movie points out about same sex relationships, it "Terry's House". Classic. ain't like the porno's. Those chicks are getting ● Pink - Missundaztood : Impressive album from paid to giggle and squirm. In real life there are someone who could have easily been another issues man. Feelings, compatability, addition to the teen pop junk heap. "Just like a communication, passion, all the things in same Pill" is my favorite (sticks to the brain). The styles sex relationships. Plus in reality the rest of the varies a great deal on this CD and she sounds world has caught up so see, it's really an issue natural singing on them instead of it sounding with the couple, not society. Well done. If I were a forced. CHeck it out. woman, I'd be gay!! I'm not ashamed to say it. I'd also pay top $dollar$ to experience a woman's orgasm. Heyell yeah! read more Bamboozled - I haven't rent a Spike "message" movie in a long time. This was a good flick, minus the ending. Television isn't to far away from some of the things he's suggesting. Basically a lone black TV exec comes up with a show he hope will get him fired. He brings blackface back and instead of getting axed he's in charge of the # 1 show in the country. Then all hell breaks loose. ALl in all Spike's best since DO the Right Thing & top 2002 movies Summer of Sam. What's even cooler is that it was minority report filmed with hand held digital cameras. Check it out. storytelling Blade 2 Brotherhood of the Wolf - If you wait and hour Bourne Identity and a half you'll get some of the best action Spiderman sequences of the year. THe fight sceses are brutal and punishing . Very cool. The Story is nice as Brotherhood of the wolf well. THe Brotherhood of the wolf is not what you Kissing Jessica Stein might think it is. The fights were choregraphed by Star Trek Nemisis / We were soilders Philip Kwok , who is responsible for some of John Woo's best Hong Kong work, as well as some Have not seen yet but hopeful great 70's kung fu flicks. Check it out, but be equilibrium warned it takes it's time to get to the punishing. about schmit punch drunk love Scorpion King - Basically it's a video game on screen. An ok video game. You'll forget what you could have been better saw as soon as its over. It should have went hard die another day core with all the stabbing and cutting that went on LOTRings two towers (looked great, but it was lacking without a drop of blood shown. something) red dragon (the director of Rush Hour 1 & 2 doing this Death to Smoochy - This was ok. They one?) advertised it as a dark comedy and all it turned out to be was Robin Williams using dirty words minority report (i know, it's one of the favorites to, but with a loud voice. Not enough to carry a movie. I with Speilberg you can be extra critical) was cracking up a couple times though so it's panic room (but what else could they have done huh?) worth a rental. The story is to silly to recap. Windtalkers (what happen Woo?) Momento - One of the best films of the 2000's. All I can say is having no short term memory sucks ass. THis story is told from the end to the beginning in a way. Check it out. top 2002 music Red Dragon - Pretty much point and shoot. nas - lost tapes / god's son Follows the book , except "as in all hollywood missy elliot - under construction (work it was da shit) movies based on books", the ending is test audiance approved. Hopkins is great as Lecter as pink - m!ssundaztood usual, but he doesn't really have anything to do the hives - veni vidi vicious (cool title) but look creepy. Ralph Finnes is the standout in felix the housecat - kittenz & thee glitz (impressive cd) the movie since this time you actually get more beth orton - daybreaker into his "becoming"as Francis Dolerhyde. Ed Norton is just slumming as Wil Graham, in dj shadow - private press restraint mode. You can't really compare this to ashanti the movie Manhunter (which is based off the same the vines - highly evolved book "Red Dragon") as far as quality since anyone could have directed this movie the way it stands. clipse - lord willin' file:///C|/Documents and Settings/Sreaming Lord Byro...SITE WORK/Dreamsites/WyndellLong_com/Wcom_checka.htm (3 of 7)11/5/2005 6:03:05 AM WyndellLong.com - Checka : Movie n Music talk

norah jones - come away with me Woth a viewing, but don't expect a whole lot and you'll enjoy it. beck - sea change eminem - eminem show The Transporter - Need something delivered ludacris - word of mouf (funny shit) somewhere, no ?'s asked? Call the Transporter, nas - stillmatic who does it with extreme discipline, never breaking his rules of transport, until now of big tymers - hood rich (funny dum shit) course. Leave the old brain at home and enjoy. sonic youth - murray street Shit blows up good, 55,000 rounds of ammo go the streets - original pirate material off, and the action hero is indestructable. Not Woo the white stripes - white blood cells like in gun fights, or Jet Li in Kung Fu action, but cool in it's own way. It is getting harder and moby - 18 (a photocopy of play, but a little sadder) harder for Hollywood to come up with real life j-live - all the above situations where multiple 9 minute Kung-Fu chemical brothers - come with us scenes are plausable in a movie, but for those who dig it, you gotta support little gems like this. elvis # 1's The legendary Cory Yuen directs this one with rolling stones - 40 licks exec production by Luc Besson. david bowie - ziggy stardust & spiders from mars velvet underground - & nico Die another Day - Best Bond since Goldeneye. Things blow up big, but don't expect the style and ladytron - light & magic pacing of the Connery bonds. musiq - Royksopp - melody AM (nice & laid back) Spiderman - Great movie. The only faults are scarface - the fix some of the "dumming down" aspects of the comic book details, and of course the "with great justin timbalake - justified (not bad) budget comes great romance" thingy. Still, when rob swift - sound event it has to get violent and destructive it does big Saint Etienne - Finisterre (nice and breezy) time. Buy it! the advent - sketches for life Lord of the Rings: two towers - All in all a good the beatles still kick mad flava!! movie. Not the spectacle I thought it was going to be. The CGI gollum character was the best thing about the movie. THe battle sequences sucked, only because the actual combat could not match the scope they had set up (close ups with the in my cd player... camera shaking). No matter what you think of it you still respect the directors vision. archived bjork - vespertine Star Trek Nemesis - Took me awhile to see this chemical brothers - come with us one. Actually went with a free pass that was in my LOTRings DVD to Two Towers. I was pleasantly mandalay - solace surprised. Critics ripped this flick a new one. If - dirty mind you dig Star Trek and can forgive them for that velvet underground - & nico shitty Insurrection, then check this on out before it's out of the theater. It did terrible business, but beastie boys - licensed to Ill to be honest I enjoyed this one more than I did sly & the family stone - there's a riot going on the Two Towers. True the story was lacking in beach boys - pet sounds some places and was based on concepts they eminem - eminem show covered on TV before, but all in all it was fun to see ships going at it again with a purpose. And nas - basement tapes man were they going at it. The first next clipse - lord willin' generation film where Picard was calling shots on Rapheal Saadiq - the bridge during battle. This will make a nice DVD when it's released, and all in all if you leave Missy Eliot - under construction out insurrection, the NG movies are a nice little eminem Benzino disses (good shit!) collection to have. Great way to end the series. I Musiq - SoulChild / juslisen don't think many people really give a shit about Star Trek anymore. To bad. 3lW - A Girl Can Mack

Justin Timberlakejackson - Justified Austin Powers : Goldmember - Never should White Stripes - Elephant have been made Period. And I really dug the first David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust & spiders from mars 2 BAYBEE! Lucinda Williams Minority Report - Based on the number of times Elvis - 30 # 1's I've watched it I have to say a nice piece of DJ Shadow & Dan the Automator - Bombay the Hardway filmaking, although I had big problems with it Ashanti when I saw it in the Theater. Started out with a bang, nice middle section, and then that tacked Amerie All I Have on ending. Still it has enough candy to keep you

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Elton John - Greatest Hits (2 cd set) interested, and I love the dream technology. The look was nice too. Distinctive. 8mile soundtrack more Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever - I can swallow the dumbest of action movies, but this is to dumb. Actually more un-inspired than dumb. The Actors seem to be asleep, so therefore that's what you end up doing. To bad, Lucy Liu and Antonio Banderas were wasted

Back to the Future 1,2,& 3 - These movies will always have a special place for me. I still feel part 1 is one of the tightest & smartest storys ever filmed for mass consumption. Watching them in widescreen with clear ass DVD picture and 5.1 dolby digital sound is like seeing them for the first time. Must rent, must buy.

Sum of all fears - NIce flick, although very watered down (probably becuz of the 9/11). Ben Affeleck is decent, but Morgan Freeman has to stop taking these support roles that end quickly. How is he ever going to be in the sequels. You'll see what I mean. He's the best part of this movie. Based of a Tom Clancy Novel and of course get's the Hollywood "dumb it down" treatment". Still, it's a nice flick. Rental for sure.

Men in Black 2 - You can almost feel them writing this as they went along while you watched this "movie sequel". Just like Goldmember it should not have been made. Think of the thingssome of these schools out there could have done with the budget of this poop.

Mr Deeds - No better or no worse than any other Adam Sandler movie, which means you know what your getting into when you rent it. Dum, funny, and charming. Winona is perky while John Turturro seems to be having a lot of fun playing the vanishing butler.

Reign of Fire - Movie would have been a lot better if they would have actually had some dragon in the muafukka ha ha!! REally, more dragons would have made this a pretty good movie. Instead it's good in parts but never delivers the real goods. Like a M. Night Shamalyan movie. Seeing the director is famous for directing a ton of X-File episodes you see why!

Bad Company - Watchable, but barely. This is another one that should not have been made and instead donated the budget to a few needy schools. The story is to dum in impossible to recap. It would have been better if Hannnibal popped up or something.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Classic. I still find this film to be truly amazing. Check out the feature cartoons included on the DVD as well.

Mullhulland Drive - Weird shit. Every time I rent a David Lynch movie I always say it's the last time. It will be till his next flick comes out. If only he could tell a story that actually meant something cuz lord knows he has the eye!Enjoy this movie (like all Lynch films) for the journey thru the subconscious that it is. The story can be

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interpreted 5 different ways but one thing's for sure. Someone was having a bad day.

Rules of Attraction - If you watch this movie expecting a full story forget it. It's really a slice of life featuring fucked up muafukkas. Spend 3 days with horny degenrates and try to have fun. I dug it, but it one of those 'no reason at all' movies. Gotta love some of the backwards effects used to tell the story, and the guy describing his vacation was real kool.

Standing in the shadows of Motown - Very nice. I read a Keyboard magazine article on the Brothers like 9 years ago and this movie was like reading it again. Very nice. These guys shouldn't have gone out the way they did, but it's nice to see them get the credit they fully deserve. It's so nice to see people playing instruments together again. I love technology but nothing will ever be better than a band. All music headz must see this film. The DVD is filled with a ton of nice extras too. Message to Joan Osbourne: You have a wonderful voice, don't waste it on turd songs anymore baby!

Beatles Anthology DVD - About as close to musical heaven as one can come to. A truly remarkable band telling their story from day 1 (well it seemed like it). The Beatles are one of the scat few bands to where I can say ANY hype or press they get they fully deserve it. Must see / must buy. One can only hope they do one of these on Prince and Parliament/Funkadelic!

Two Weeks Notice - Uhmm....well.....It played, therefore it exists. Honestly these kind of movies direct themselves. Hugh Grant as his normal charming self, and Sandra Bolluck as usual underplays her looks for 90 minutes of pre- programmed, easy on the brain romance. Secretary, and other romance movies which take chances and give you real, flawed, characters, makes this kind of fluff look like Nickelodeon. If you like light dum romance movies you'll love 2 weeks notice. I guess that's the best way to sum it up.

Harry Potter & chamber of Secrets - I dug it. No dull moments in this one, and it basically follows the book. THe whole premise of Potter is ok, I trip on how he mostly watches everyone else do neat things, while his solutions for things are more practical and don't really involve magic. Still this is a enjoyable movie. for kids and adults.

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● Women have this way of checking each other out. La Femme Nakita (on the oxygen network) It's amazing to watch. It happens in a span of 2 seconds or less. It's a quick systematic scan from xena (on the oxygen network) head to toe, complete with a self analysis in comparison to the data they have just retreived. Is is lesbian thing? Maybe in some small way, but The Simpsons it's more of a competition thing . Hair, clothes, weight, ect. Married with children (long live the bundys, only

● comedy show to actually make me crack the hell up!) Therapy is the new masturbation of this century.

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