It's Lonely Island Day here at UBH! Time for all of you to log on to iTunes or get out to your nearest record store and BUY (I know...so 2001) Andy, Jorma, and Akiva's new album, Incredibad. The album has new songs with interesting guests(T-Pain, Julian Casblancas, Jack Black) along with old favorites(Natalie's Rap, Dick in a Box, Lazy Sunday).
Streaming isn't the same as owning. Go cop that album!
A DVD is included with the 19-track CD, featuring SNL hits like Lazy Sunday, Dick in a Box, and Jizz in My Pants. Too bad it doesn't include the video for "I'm On a Boat."
We received a cease and desist order from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), saying "that certain content in your blog infringes upon the copyrights of others" according to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). If you'll notice, last week's Songs of the Week post was deleted by blogger. If you'll notice, however, our previous posts with the music of The Rapture, MSTRKRFT, Dead Man's Bones, Aqualung, etc., are still up.
This is all Jay-Z's fault.
So in order to not get completely fucked from some greedy record label, from now on our songs of the week will replace mp3s with streaming music from imeem.
Yes, we know. This is some bullshit. Don't you miss the old days when you can just go on Napster and download, say, Eminem's entire catalog. Don't lie. You know you used to.
To lift your spirits, here is something we all can appreciate: David After Dentist
I have reached that age where I can learn to appreciate my roots. Monica and myself come from different backgrounds and I think that makes us really special. My mother coming from a black and Italian background and my father being Grenadian, while Monica has some German in the midst of her Haitianess. Whatever you're made of, be proud. I will be spending this month watching Baldwin hills and shaking my head at the ideas of BET are just old shows MTV have canceled.
I want to take this time out to mention the other black presidents of America. Yes Barack is president now but he isn't the first.
Dennis Haysbert on 24. He can handle my country and my car insurance? Count me in.
Chris Rock in Head of State. Chris handled shit in this movie including his crazy ex-fiancee.
Barack you have a lot to live up to.
I digress to my real reason of posting so in honor of this month I leave you with Maya Angelou's Still I Rise:
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you? Don't you take it awful hard 'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines Diggin' in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.
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Found a great little time waster. Head on over to sorry-mom.com and read i bang the worst dudes. With jems like I recently dated this guy who for 5 months would leave skid marks on my bed sheets every time he slept over. I never told him so I’d imagine that I’m not the only victim of his ASSault, how could you ever be bored.
How does it work? First, find some douche and take him home. After your disappointing night, find a picture of him on his Facebook and email it to Mom, telling her a little tidbit about the sad man you fell for. I keep reading pages and pages, hoping to find a guy I know and/or the entire cast of Tool Academy.
Monica's Pick It seems like I get all my fave new music from movies. I heard this one while watching the absolutely gorgeous Ian Somerhalder dance to it in The Rules of Attraction. I'm always a sucker for a good baseline. This is the type of song you play when trying to revive a dying party. Or when you're dancing alone in your room like I'm doing now.
Alex's Pick I've recently taken a vow to go out to more concerts (three this semester isn't enough for me) and to my surprise I found out that White Rabbits are performing in 3 weeks at the Mercury Lounge. They played at SXSW last year and have received great reviews. So if anyone wants to meet this fellow black hottie, I will be near the stage dancing crazy and potentially grinding any nearby witnesses to this song. The energy in this song is undeniable which makes it one of my favorite songs.
It might be the ~Sasha Fierce~ in her but I've noticed lately that Beyonce has a thing for not wearing pants. Channeling her inner jazzerciser she'd decided that she really likes leotards and wants everyone to know that yes, she has shaved down there. I wonder when her and Jay have sex if Sasha's a better lay. Probably.
Unfriendly Black Hotties are two girls who met and became best friends in the 4th grade after bonding over *NSYNC and J-14 magazine. Now while Alex is away at school in New York and Monica stays home in Miami studies film in Orlando, the hotties keep close with YouTube, celeb gossip, and shit talking. And *NSYNC.
