Here’s a condensed version of a video we made for Chrome Children, our Stones Throw/AS comp. We filmed a live show at SXSW where Madvillain played. I was on stage filming the performance along with my friends.
DOOM was late for the show. I was super stressed because we hadn’t heard from him and Madvillain were about to go on. He arrived, no joke, five minutes before they needed to play. I handed him his check, he rolled onstage, and killed the show. Legend.
The full vireo was 40 mins long and only available as a DVD extra disc that came with the deluxe edition of the Chrome Children CD.
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This post is from DOOM’s wife’s Jasmine. If Jas wrote it it’s legit.
I’ll tell some DOOM stories a bit later, for now I need to process... Dude made me laugh and made me furious, almost got me fired and I STILL loved him. Rest in Power to one of the greatest to ever do it.
Okay here’s a DOOM story or two. Daniel Dumile aka MF DOOM was someone I first worked with on the DangerDOOM project. During the making of the album, I would sometimes pick him up to take him to the studio to lay vocals.
Before picking him up I was told “bring him beer when you come.” I was picking him up at 9am. I brought beer and the second I entered his apartment, he started drinking and in fact by 10am *I too* was drinking, sitting around with him as he read some rhymes from his notebook.
lol guess we won’t be getting Caribou to play the Adult Swim Fest any time soon. I respect his stance though. It’s a slippery slope, for sure. My feeling has always been to take the money from the rich and give it to the artists who need it, personally. But that’s just me.
As someone who is in the position to pay artists for their work, I will occasionally run into someone who just flies get feel comfortable taking corporate money for any reason. And I respect that courage and commitment.
For my part, I feel like part of my life’s work has been supporting art by exposing and promoting the work of artists whose work means so much to me, and of course by paying them what they deserve, so that they can keep creating.
THE BEST TV DRAMAS OF THE LAST 20 YEARS THREAD, BECAUSE I’M BORED:
Tier One (God Tier): Perfect shows.
The Sopranos
Deadwood
Twin Peaks S3
Rectify
The Terror
Mad Men
Better Call Saul
OJ: Made in America
The Young Pope/The New Pope
Channel Zero
Mr Robot
Chernobyl
Patriot
Tier Two: Excellent shows. Shaky moments, but greatness is evident.
Breaking Bad
Fargo
True Detective
Hannibal
Fri Night Lights
GoT
The Ppl Vs OJ Simpson
The Shield
The Americans
The Wire
The Assassination of Gianni Versace
BSG
Leftovers
Halt & Catch Fire
Watchmen
Billions
Tier Three: Good shows. Almost always worth watching, but some definite flaws.
Too Old To Die Young
Justified
Homecoming
Peaky Blinders
Downton Abbey
Fringe
Girls
The Affair
The Sinner
Rome
The Boys
The Expanse
Mindhunter
Lodge 49
Lost
Black Mirror
The Act
Escape at Dannemora
In honor of PARASITE taking the ultimate filmmaking prize (hooray!), here's a thread of some of my favorite Korean films for those of you who asked, and are looking to delve a little deeper into Korean cinema:
Gotta start with one of my favorite movies of all time, Kim Jee-woon's I SAW THE DEVIL. A brutally tense/weird cat & mouse between a cop and a killer. One of the few revenge tales that truly attempts to show just how hollow "an eye for eye" leaves us.
2018's BURNING. A sensual, disquieting, and ultimately shattering portrayal of class warfare and societal ennui that explodes into violence. (sound familiar?)
Something I love about my job that I don’t talk about much is the letters we get from inmates. You’d be surprised how many letters we get from folks that are locked up, telling us that Toonami is one of the only things that gets them through their week.
One of the reasons I wanted a job in media was to be able to provide people a respite/escape, however fleeting, from the problems we all face in this dark, cold world.
It’s nice to know that even those who are truly behind the 8-Ball can get something out of what we do, and it reminds me how lucky and privileged I am to be able to do what I do for a living. Knowing it helps some people gives even the “meaningless” work, meaning.