Mr. Sippy Sippy

First of all, I am not going to defend Kanye for his outburst at the VMA the other night, because he was wrong for ruining the moment for the talented Taylor Swift during her acceptance speech. But really, was this really that bad?! As shocked as I am to see what happened, I am just as shocked to see that people are surprised by his antics. Come on people, this is Kanye West, certify egomaniac and is no stranger for these type of outburst. Remember...the Bush bashing, MTV Europe, AMAs. What I am surprised is that MTV has not apologized to Taylor Swift for allowing this to happen. Why should they apologized? Well it's not the first time MTV has allowed these type of things to happen, not to mention other crazy shenanigans. In my opinion, they should have be alerted when Kanye was seen taking swigs out of a bottle of Hennessy on the red carpet. For a person with a history of stage crashing and random outburst (did I mention he was drunk) I wondered my nobody stopped him on his way to the stage. What was everybody thinking? "Oh there goes Kanye, he's heading to the stage during a middle of Taylor Swift's acceptance speech because he's sure to have something good to say". Let's not forget it happened again during Jay-Z's show closing performance when they let Lil' Mama walk on stage and crash the performance.

With that said, there's no way to spin this to say Kanye was not wrong, he was wrong. It's just funny to see everybody blast him for the incident. The only bad part to this was who he did it to, an innocent up and coming pop star. Remember when he crashed the acceptance speech for Justice and Simian at the MTV Europe Awards when that happened, people did the same judging of Kanye's character but no one felt bad for Justice and Simian? When it happens to a 19 year old pop star, they crucify him as if he just pummeled Rihanna face inside a Lamborghini. Just let it go, get over it. When he goes on his next tour, everybody will still be there. When he drops his next album, everybody will go out and cop. Just let it go.

Fresh

Haven't been blogging for a bit, don't know if I lost the love for it or just I haven't had to deal with much or any bullshit this summer. Whatever it is, I am still here, I am back.

September is here which means summer is finally over and I am actually glad that its past us because for real this was one of the best summer I've had in a while. No bullshit, just fun, out and about having fun with friends.

On another note, darkmatters is hitting crunch time as we're trying to hit all of our deadlines for our debut project. I've been M.I.A. for a minute, but now I am back working on the website, and our brand designs. I need to create some samples to show the crew so we can get moving on promoting our brand and our project. The next two months is going to be huge and very important for us so look out for that.

Anyways got to get back to work, here are some of my favourite shots from my trip our east a few weeks ago. Play safe, deuces!

Kitchen Appliance Hypebeast

If you don't think such "person" exists well then you haven't met my mother. It just seems that ever since we moved in to this house 5 or 6 years ago she's been buying and buying a lot of random kitchen appliances. I swear the god we have at least 3 "multi-functional" rice cookers. That's not even it, we have a soup maker, a waffle maker, a "rediculously" non-stick pan, a magic bullet, a big ass (most industrial size) juicer, 2 george foreman grills, 2 blenders, 2 coffee makers and just recently a bread maker. This is just the starting line up, I haven't even looked downstairs in the basement for the retirement players yet. But damn ever since a few weeks ago when I lent my friend our waffle maker I noticed how many random kitchen appliance we have out in the kitchen. Am I crazy of is everybody's house like this. But forreal though they're all like her toys, she brings some new stuff every other week and makes a load of shit with it (depending on what it is of course).

"Mock"busters

Transmorphers

Transmorphers: The Fall of Man

Now you're probably going "WTF", that's the same reaction I had when I stumbled upon those trailers last night. I wanted to laugh, but at the same time I was so puzzled at how these could be movies, legit movies. I honestly didn't believe these were real at all. They are not the funniest things I've seen on before but damn, seriously "Transmorphers". So I did some digging via. Wikipedia and found this.

"The Asylum (the company that made "Transmorphers") is an American film studio and distributor which focuses on producing low-budget, usually direct-to-video productions. The studio is best known for producing titles which appear to capitalize on productions by major studios. These titles have been dubbed "mockbusters" by the press."

So after reading that it wasn't as funny anymore and then I found this I was like "holy crap! look at all the movies they've made"

I am going to start downloading some of these and watch, just for the hell of it. Also for the fact that they're so low budget that they look funny as hell.

Check this out vol. Soul 2 Sole by David Park

Fooling around on a hot summer afternoon

Hey Bryan Colangelo!

In case you haven't noticed, there's this cool little tool over at ESPN.com titled "NBA Trade Machine" where wannabe GM's like me get to mess around with trade scenarios to see if they work within the NBA trade guidelines.

Now I know a lot of Raptor fans are bracing themselve's to the possibility of yet another franchise player skipping town. As of right now, the chances of Chris Bosh returning in Raptor red next season is very slim. Once again this franchise is littered with the "potential" tag, and that is simply not good enough to keep anybody around no matter, because in order for a player to make big time money (max contract) they have to earn it first by winning. Playing on a subpar or average team will not get you anywhere. So this creates a huge headache for everybody in Raptor land, what should they do with Chris Bosh?

My solution is simple, as simple as getting rid of Chris Bosh right now. Why? I had a conversation with a friend of mine the other day discussing this issue and how Chris will be demanding a max contract next summer (6 years 136 million dollars?) People familiar with the NBA know that you don't neccessarily have to be a "max" player in order to get paid like one. This leads to another question, is Chris a max player? In the NBA there are only a handfull (being real generous here) of deserving max contract players. LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Kobe Bryant, Chris Paul, Tim Duncan, etc all carry lengthy resumes that includes MVPs, multiple playoff victories and of course for a few of them NBA championships. I know it's still too early to judge Chris Bosh's body of work in the NBA because he is only 25 years young which is far from the age when NBA stars reach their peak. No doubt he is talented, he's a winner, I respect what he has accomplished so far in his career. But this is literally a toss up, Chris is young, talented but injury prone and his production level has been the same the last three years and coincendentally his team failed to get far into the playoffs (missing it last year). The Raptors right now are a talented squad (even without Bosh) but they are littered with young players and if you count Shawn Marion the next player in terms of senority is Jake Voskuhl. This team lack the toughness and veterin leadership that a perenial playoff team has.

So with that said I found a team that should be a perfect fit on and off the court for our soon to be ex franchise player. Chris Bosh welcome to Houston Texas.

With the recent developments regarding Yao Ming's foot injury and it's implications. Knowing that this injury can be detrimental to the team's future, also the fact that it's hard to imagine the Rockets as the type of team that would fold under this type of situation and give up on the season. If Yao is out for the entire 09-10 season, there will be a huge hole in the middle for the Rockets to fill. Enter Chris Bosh, having the ability to play both the center and power forward spot I see Bosh as a perfect compliment for Luis Scola. Bosh's got the length and quickness that Scola lacks in low post defense. As a big men in the NBA Bosh is one of the best at running the floor. The Rockets equipped with one of the quickest guard in the league in Aaron Brooks and with Bosh they can finally play a faster pace that they couldn't with Yao in the lineup thus making their offense multi-dimensional. And do I have to really mention that Bosh is from Texas (although born in Dallas) being in the home state would be a huge confident booster.

In return the Raptors should take Shane Battier, Carl Landry and the contract of Brian Cook (waive him later to save money). This move could pay huge dividend for the Raptors, they get a proven and solid veterin player in Shane Battier, did I mention he's one of the best defenders in the league. Shane has the senority to mentor the flock of wing player/young players that we have on our roster. With Carl Landry we get another energy player, who can grab rebound in bunches. On paper, this may look like an unfair trade, but with the development of Andrea Bargnani, the rebounding machines in Reggie Evans and Carl Landry and the addition of Shane Battier. The Raptors are sure to improve in all of their weak areas in one fell swoop (scoring, defense, rebounding).

Win Win

Does it not bother you...

That for the last few years that we've all turned against the men in the picture above and now that he's gone everybody is acting like he's our best friend. It's like all the MJ haters out there all of a sudden disappeared and now that he passed away they act like they've been on his shit all along. Now I get it you want to pay respects to the man but my god, it's just crazy how many people are acting like they've been on this man's side all of these years.

Another thing that bothers me is his family, I am sure we've all read stories about Joe Jackson and how he allegedly abused Michael when he was growing up. Well I don't need to go any further, just watch this.

This is borderline comical, you had to be reminded by a reporter to call Michael your "son". You have to get a publicist to read a statement. You even have the nerve to promote a record distribution label. Just listen to the grief in his voice. SMH.

OMFG I am gonn cry

I see this happen to people all the time, and I'd like to think (no I am) extremely careful with things that I care for. So when I picked this baby up and hit play and saw this blank screen of death featuring a huge motherfucking crack. I felt my heart drop, like I said in my previous post about my iPod, I love this baby to death. It's been with me everywhere, everyday, all the time, it's a part of me. I hear stories about how people's iPod break and stuff I never thought for a moment it would happen to me. What the fuck am I going to do now?! It's a good thing I have an iPhone, but still it will never be or come close to what this baby meant to me. This is really great, and the thing is I don't know how it got like that. I don't remember dropping it or anything. This is just an awesome way to end off the day. My team drafts the wrong guy (smfh) and now my iPod screen GGed on me GFG.

Freaks and Geeks

I was at Best Buy the other day wasting time, when I saw a boxset for "Freaks and Geeks" remember these guys?! Apparently a lot of people have never heard of "Freaks and Geeks", because this show is 10 years old and it was only around for one season. I remember when I was maybe 11 or 12 when this show was around, it was probably the first non family/kids show I've watched. I remember how I used to have a huge crush on Linda Cardellini's character Lindsey. It's just so strange how most of these guys have moved from doing a critically acclaimed show to big blockbusters. The real funny thing is that I hated Seth Rogen's character Ken because...well if you watch it you'll understand why. But now I am a huge fan of his work. Anyways I regretted not buying the boxset because I never watched all of the episode, so doing what I do best I downloaded the whole thing. Shhhhhhhhh. Alright, episode 3 let's go.

I forgot to mention how many cameos they had on the show, but then again nobody really has any idea who they were because they only choose lesser known actors. I am not sure who else was on it, I only remember Rashida Jones, Shia LeBeouf and Ben Stiller.

David Knows

I've been a fan of Levi Maestro's work for a minute. I remember a while back, I used to be like who the fuck is this dude. Then he started his show Maestro Knows and I've been a fan since. Above is his most recent Maestro Knows episode. He's in New York right now following Anthony Hamilton on tour and dudes just been skating from spot to spot. It reminds me of my trip to NYC last year and how much I want to go back. Anyways back on topic it's just really cool to see his interaction with people and it just seems like this guy is mad connected. If you're familiar with his show, it just seems like this guy knows everybody. I think it's gotten to a point where I want to pick up a camera and start shooting stuff. Just playing I know nothing about making videos and junk. But check him out either on his blog or his hypebeast blog.

I wanna get new shades

I've been feening for a pair of FLATOPS for a minute, but I don't want to get them because I will feel like I am cheating on my Way Farers.

America's Most Wanted

Uhhh....Weezy, Jeezy, Drizzy oh my. Fuck Soulja Boy, August 4th at Molson Amphitheater. Who's with me?!?! =)

Photoshop magic

I love to mess around with photoshop, I don't do it as much as I use to, before I would always have it open so I can play around with pictures. Nowadays I only use it when I have a purpose for using photoshop. So with that said, the other day I was asked by a friend to help restore an old picture. Her mom had removed it from the original frame and during the process a "good" portion of it was ripped off the surface of the photo. Therefore leaving rips and white patch(s) on the bottom of the photo. My job was basically to "fill in the blank". I was "iffy" on posting this since I don't have the permission to but it's nothing a little smiley face can't fix. I am only posting this because I am proud of the work I did fixing this. Here's what I did.

Now I am not a pro, so to speak, there are flaws on the final product so don't kill me for it.

The Original

Step One

Step Two

Step Three (originally this was suppose to be the finished version, but i messed up the shadow on the right leg)

Final Product

Check me out on...

...on Tumblr. I've been on there for a minute now, actually longer than I have been on Blogger. I just haven't gotten the hang of Tumblr until now. For the longest time I didn't know what I wanted to do with my tumblr blog. I certainly don't want to make it like this blog, but since I want to keep Overdose On Life more personal and up to date. I hope to make my Tumblr page more about what inspires me because I am always looking to be inspired. Whether it's art, music or culture, whatever the case it's going to be on there. Let's see how long I can keep up this dual blog thing going.

This is borderline comical

EDC opens up to CNN about his sex scandal. This is must watch, got me laughing when dude said he "wants to direct and produce movies". Talk about irony impaired. Click HERE for the link to the interview.

Ain't no party like a S__________ party?

Alright so I am not the party type, not too into clubbing unless it's a club that's got good music. But a friend of mine has been bugging me for a minute about this thing called "Shuffle" that goes down once a month down at Revival. The concept of "Shuffle" is real simple, basically they just shuffle through songs from genre to genre, so you can be bumping to some R. Kelly and next thing you know ACDC is on. After watching some of their videos off their youtube channel, I was convinced, because you can see how into it the crowd it, the music is REAL LIVE and you know when 1LoveT.O./Remix fam is in the building it's going to be a real PARTY. So with that said since their last one was yesterday, I am thinking of hitting up the one in June.

Shout to 1LoveT.O. & Remix (Get Give Money, Make Change)

Brothers

I've been meaning to share this interesting story told to me by my brother's school's basketball coach (whew). One day, after catching one of their games, I went up to introduce myself to my brother's coach. She looked at me like she was happy to meet me, then she proceed to tell me a neat story about my brother and his certain jersey number of choice.

I remember this one day where my brother came home and cried, but I never realized why. Until that afternoon. His coach told me when they were choosing their jersey numbers, my brother wanted to wear "21", but another kid in front of him had another picked that number. While it never clicked in my head initially what's the significant behind "21", I soon realized why he was so upset, because my brother wanted to wear my jersey number. I have to admit, I got a little choked up. I didn't know how to feel, I was happy, proud and a little worried.

For my brother and I because of our age difference (10 years) we don't really do much together and we didn't really connect until this past summer when we spent every moment of everyday with one another since my mom was away. My mom has always told me how much my brother looks up to me, how when he gets something (usually food) he always share with me, how when I am out he'll stay up to wait for me. I never grasp how to be a brother until this summer, I never knew how much he meant to me until this summer and I never knew how much I love him until now.

What worries me is this kid looks up to me, and I haven't exactly been the role model type. It worries me that he'll grow up and do the things that I do. After hearing about the jersey story, I realized how much I am not doing for myself, how much I need to do to better myself, how much I need to do to be a better brother and a better role model. I love this kid to death, I am sure everybody out there who has siblings will know exactly what I am talking about.

I have a problem

For those who know me, know that I love my music and my iPod. Ever since copping it back in '05 I've been carrying it everywhere I go. Since I got the OG 5th Gen iPod (60gb) and knowing how I download music by the gigabyte, it's a surprise I have lasted this long without ever reaching full capacity. I always like to keep things fresh deleting stuff I don't listen to no more (or wondered why I even downloaded in the first place). But recently it's been kind of tough since I am very sentimental, and I hate to part with some of the files. This has also created another problem, I know that one day I will go over that 60gbs (55.68) and I know I will need a new iPod. But I love this one so much I can't come to the fact that I will have to part with it one day. I hate having to throw away things, because I feel like everything has a sentimental value and it's very difficult for me to ditch things. Well I am still alright at the moment floating around 10 gbs, I really don't want to delete anything or get a new iPod (because I'll miss it). I just wanted to rant about this that's all.

Hey Ma I'm on Perez Hilton.com (sort of)

Alright so I mentioned in my previous post about one of my videos from the So Far Gone Tour where Drake give a shout out to (his rumoured) girlfriend Rihanna and how it's been getting mad views well, turns out it was posted on 2Dopeboyz. Well I got a call today from a friend (who is a Perez Hilton addict) that my video is on perezhilton.com. I was like "oh snap, that is pretty cool" although I don't know how I could be excited because it's just a video I took, it's not like I am in the video or even if I am in the video it's not exactly a good thing to be on that site. But it's still cool to find something you're associated with to be on one of the more well known sites out there.