4.26.2004

"Jeter sucks! A-Rod! Jeter sucks! A-Rod!" 

Terry Francona, I don't know about you. But you're sure great at explaining things.
On Lenny DiNardo: "He's a lefty with some funk."
On Pedro's stuff the other night against the Blue Jays: "I thought his off-speed stuff was borderline devastating."

Bonus Beat
Manny Ramirez, on his towering double in the 12th inning Saturday afternoon: "I guess I don't got no pop, eh?" (That Manny site is quite bizarre.)

# posted by hua : 7:18 PM

4.24.2004

"Mad plays the bass like a race card" 

Two songs that remind me of Madlib, for some reason:

Milt Robinson - "Don't Mess With Me Mambo"

Moscovitz - "Short-Legged Soul Man"

# posted by hua : 11:44 PM

4.19.2004

Also overheard last Thursday... 

This time, the scene is the Quannum show. (Thanks to everyone who showed up for my set, which began at 6 (!!!) P.M. I finished, walked out for some fresh air and it was still sunny.) I don't mean to sound snootysnobby, but it strikes me as strange when you don't know anything about the group you've come to see. Especially when, on their one and only album, they offer a handy pronunciation key.

Hey man!
Hi.
Hey, do you know if Leh-tricks is here?
Huh?
Leh-tricks. Is he here?
Oh. Yeah, Latyrx is here.
All right! (High-fives friend) Score! So he's here!
Yeah, they are.
Awesome. Is Cut Chemist here, too?
No.

Labels:


# posted by hua : 9:58 PM

From the "Disturbing Request" File 

Last Thursday, at the weekly gig:

Can you play something really groovy man? Something groooooovy.
I don't know what you mean. Can you be a little more precise?
Something groovy! (Smiles. Sort of makes the universal gesture for grooviness, which apparently is a bathtub shimmy.) What do you recommend?
I don't know. What do you want to hear?
Look, let me explain it to you this way. I have a friend. I am here with a friend. And she is drunk.
(Blank)
And she wants to dance!
(Relief) Okay. You're still not giving me enough here.
Hmmm. Okay, here. Imagine this: A Korean girl. She is drunk. (Smiles)

Labels:


# posted by hua : 9:51 PM

4.15.2004

The Passion, Now with Realistic, Swivel-action appendages 

Oh my. Jesus as an action figure, as depicted in an afterschool commercial.

# posted by hua : 1:18 AM

in a club 

I'm going to be opening for the boston date of the quannum world tour tomorrow night, 4/15, at avalon. email me (above) if you are going to the show, I have a proposition for you. yes, you!

I also have an extra bleacher seat for thursday (4/15 again) night's red sox-orioles game. email me if you're interested in seeing pedro in all his soul-glow splendor.


# posted by hua : 12:32 AM

4.13.2004

"Hey Chad, you do a wicked Hetfield, dude!" 

You may have seen this already. Some of it is quite good, especially "Everybody's Got a Ticket to Ride Except for me and My Lightning." Some of it isn't as good. But it's all quite amusing. Much more amusing than that White Stripes-as-imagined-by-the-oompa-oompa band 7-inch.

# posted by hua : 1:58 AM

4.08.2004

where you'll find me: 

THURSDAY 4/8
ENORMOUS ROOM (www.enormous.tv) 567 Mass. Ave., Cambridge (w/ DJ Bobby Drake)

FRIDAY 4/9
JULIP (www.julipsf.com) 839 Geary Street, San Francisco (w/ DJ O-Dub and hopefully more)

# posted by hua : 1:36 AM

4.03.2004

in emeka we trust 

Highlight #1 from Thurrsday night:

(obviously drunk) "Can you play some salsa? Everybody wants to hear some salsa!"

"Sorry, I don't have any salsa."

"We've heard it before. Right here." (Hiccup) "Some salsa."

"Can't do nothin' for ya, man."

"How about something with percussion? Per-cussion Do you know what percussion is?"

"I don't know what you're talking about."


Highlight #2:

("4 Better or 4 Worse" by Pharcyde plays. Same drunk man reappears.)

"YEEEEEEEAAAAARRRGGGGHHHH. PHAAAAR-SSSSSYYDE!"


Though I was once mistaken for Chad Hugo at a mall in downtown Philadelphia (it's a long story that involves Roscoe P. Coldchain and an oversized white t-shirt), I am not a huge fan of the new N.E.R.D. album.

Labels:


# posted by hua : 11:47 PM

4.01.2004

"Yo I don't see no 3-D" 

Go herre, as Jon Caramanica has joined the blogosphere (Is that a word? I hope not).

I agree with what Jon says about the new Illmatic, which is far from deluxe. The remixes are worse than you can imagine--it's a small price to pay for cleaner snares and vibier xylophone. Nice to have "Star Wars" and "On the Real" (the grimier bootleg version is still better) but they would have seemed less out-of-place on Lost Tapes 2.

The DVD, however, has its moments. Among them:
+Nas apparently -really- likes Wild Style
+He got scolded for eating the crew's food on the set of "Halftime"
+They were supposed to flood the nation with 3-D glasses for the "Nastradamus" video. It didn't work.

# posted by hua : 3:57 PM

This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?