Jerry Seinfeld pays tribute to George Carlin:
He worked over an idea like a diamond cutter with facets and angles and refractions of light. He made you sorry you ever thought you wanted to be a comedian. He was like a train hobo with a chicken bone. When he was done there was nothing left for anybody.
“Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, and Tits.” From Carlin’s infamous routine.
This guy has some weird artwork. Check out leda and the swan.
Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs, dirty words and the demise of humanity, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Sunday. He was 71.
Oh damn! He was my favorite comedian.
T.I.’s “A Better Day” and Lil Wayne’s “Never Get It.” Both are pretty hot.
In Thuy Nga’s last year talent show, Trinh Lam came in first and Quynh Vi came in second, but I concluded it the other way around. Need some proof? Listen no further than their new duo release Tinh Con Vuong Van, in which Quynh Vi is the one who picks him up where he doesn’t deliver.
Trinh Lam has a strong voice, but he doesn’t have the flow. He sings with the same tone on every track. His low register is so boring. His solos, “Don Coi” and “Mua Buon,” are snore-worthies. Even on the bossa-nova “Coi Mong” he could hardly ride the beat. He also tries too hard in his enunciation, which gets a bit irritating.
In contrast, Quynh Vi has less strength in her voice, but the clear and sweet qualities make up for it. Her intonation, of course, is impeccable. She knows how not to over dramatize a pop tune like “Em Da Tung Yeu.” But then on “Han Tinh Trong Mua,” she couldn’t reach the depth of the tune’s sorrow.
Nevertheless, Quynh Vi saves Trinh Lam’s ass not once, but twice on their duets. She starts off “Nua Vang Trang” so damn lovely. Her voice floats like clouds over the moonlight until Trinh Lam comes in and makes everything disappear. On “Nuoi Tiec,” Trinh Lam’s low notes sound so flat that making me wish the male part could have performed by Trinh Nam Son, the writer himself.
The comments from my post regarding to the little incident with Samantha has taken off into another direction. So let’s talk about respect.
First thing first, I haven’t bothered to response to an Anonymous because I don’t feel that I get the respect from someone who doesn’t leave a name. Just put down something. Dickhead is fine.
So now we have a female teacher who witnessed her sixth grade students yelled at their parents and the parents just sat back. How old are sixth graders? And isn’t that the age kids most often misbehaved?
Samantha now is in her 3rd grade and I am proud to say that she is very well behaved. Thank you. I do teach my niece the proper respect. Even if I don’t, my sister does, and she is very strict about it.
Let me also clear up the confusion. Samantha was frightening and didn’t want me to come near her, which was understandable. I was careless and caused her to fall. She was sure mad at me, but I didn’t feel the disrespect. At three or four, the poor little kid knew a few words to express herself and “go” was one of them. If I were to tell her to go do her homework and she yelled back at me. That is disrespect.
Respect goes both ways. I’ll respect someone older than me because he earned it, not because of his age. If he’s older than me and shows me no respect, why should I give him my respect?
One time an old man was cursing my mom out because of some friction between his wife and my mom at work. He used the words “du me” toward my mother, and he was younger than my mother. I asked him nicely not to use those two words when addressing my mom and he told me that he could say whatever he wanted. Of course, I cursed the motherfucker back. If he didn’t give a fuck, why should I?
You want respect? You better earn it.
HillmanCurtis.com sports a new, clean, crisp, white design. Such a great approach to showcase his work. Speaking of work, check out his new short film, Bridge as well.
The Game takes on the beef to diss 50 with “The Taped Convo.” Calling 50 a “homo snitch nigger” who tries to “burn his own baby mama.” Yet the crazy part is when he talks shit: “still got that gap in your mouth, nigger? Let me put my dick in your mouth, nigger. You might like that, faggot-ass nigger.” Not sure why rappers are so homophobic. Gay people are mad cool.
On an unrelated topic, here is a funny shot of Jay-Z.
I just took a big dump and I am feeling much better now. Last night my wife’s sister made sausages with spaghetti. That’s right, the sausages filled the spaghetti, not the other way around. After dinner I could barely walk. My stomach is no longer accustomed to that kind of heavy meal, but it was delicious though. I had to run two miles this morning to make up for what I ate.
