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Vinyl and VHS: What I scored at the flea market

Shayne Parrish — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:03:26 +0000

Good day for flea market rummaging today. Here’s the rundown:

Vinyl

	The Brothers Johnson – Right On Time
	Commodores – Midnight Magic
	Dazz Band – Keep It Live
	Earth Wind And Fire – Spirit
	The Isley Brothers – Shout! (1990 reissue)
	Jimmy Castor Bunch – Butt Of Course…
	Newcleus – Jam On Revenge
	Sly & The Family Stone – Stand!
	The Best of The Stylistics

VHS
Now, I’m not really into VHS. As far as home video formats go, it is rather awful, and the tapes don’t age well (although a played out VHS tape has a built-in “back in the day” vibe, it is generally undesirable). With that said, rifling through a ton of decomissioned VHS tapes can often turn up some rare gems if you’re into oddball cult b-movies (I am) that are either unavailable on DVD or need to be special ordered through people that are more obsessed with this stuff than even I. I’ll take a chance on anything that looks truly awful, as I clearly have some sort of weird masochistic relationship with film. Anyway, here’s what I brought home today:

Let it be noted that what I was really after was a copy of Superfly T.N.T. I picked up Friday Foster and Willie Dynamite, which are both readily available on DVD but I don’t have them, but no luck with Superfly. The search continues…

	Friday Foster
	Willie Dynamite
	Lady Terminator 1980s Indonesian action film. Ridiculous premise and horrible acting. A winner.
	The Weird Ones Apparently a retitle of 1971’s The Irv Carlson Show starring Arch Hall, Sr. The one review I’ve found makes it sound painful to watch, so it should be great!
	Secret Agent 00 Soul Looks like a lousy Billy Dee B-film. Looking forward to checking this one out.

All in all, some decent loot for 18 bucks.

New Kanye and Cudi Videos

Shayne Parrish — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:53:23 +0000

Two new videos from this week that are required viewing. The first is the Day ‘N’ Nite video from Kid Cudi that just debuted last night (found via okayplayer).

The second is the new Kanye West video for “Welcome To Heartbreak” feat. Kid Cudi (found via Kanye’s blog). Enjoy!

88-Keys Mixtape

Shayne Parrish — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:57:36 +0000

Okay, so I was WAY late to the party on this one. I’m sure a lot of people have already heard this record, but consider this a PSA to anyone like me who missed it. Adam’s Case Files (free download at link), the prequel mixtape to 88-Keys’ full length The Death Of Adam is one of the most ridiculously amazing things I’ve heard in a long time.

Here’s the video that got me on track. Caught it on Subterranean on MTV2, of all places to get the scoop on a hip-hop video.

Anyway, this tape could have easily been put out as a record and have been legendary. Where else will you here Andrew Gold, Bonnie Raitt and Dr. Hook in the same mix with Kleeer and Carl Carlton? Check it out, and buy the record The Death Of Adam too. And visit 88-Keys’ blog while you’re at it. His love for PRL outshines even my fixation on Original Penguin.

So, yeah, late to the party. But at least I showed up, right?