Didn't realize how much dancing is featured on this show.
Showing posts with label childish gambino. Show all posts
Showing posts with label childish gambino. Show all posts
Best Coast
Drew Barrymore directed a supervideo for Best Coast with an all-star (for me) cast. It's got Hit Girl, iCarly, Maeby and Childish Gambino.
She directed the feature, WHIP IT. I enjoyed it, but I'm a sucker for roller derby as well. Drew's a competent director, but nothing overly flashy or stylish. I felt some performances were left on the table in WHIP IT, but still pretty good, especially for a first time director. In this video, the post-modern West Side Story is kinda timeless and cool, but you can see the twist from a mile away, which makes it super irritating. It's a bit silly (only Donald Glover could make being a Day Trotter look cool), and I think the length hurts it. If the titles are removed and condensed it a bit, it could flow much better without losing any of the story or emotion.
Just for kicks, he's another Best Coast video. This one starring cats. With stellar casting like this, I feel like they're speaking to me personally. Time to go find more of their stuff.
She directed the feature, WHIP IT. I enjoyed it, but I'm a sucker for roller derby as well. Drew's a competent director, but nothing overly flashy or stylish. I felt some performances were left on the table in WHIP IT, but still pretty good, especially for a first time director. In this video, the post-modern West Side Story is kinda timeless and cool, but you can see the twist from a mile away, which makes it super irritating. It's a bit silly (only Donald Glover could make being a Day Trotter look cool), and I think the length hurts it. If the titles are removed and condensed it a bit, it could flow much better without losing any of the story or emotion.
Just for kicks, he's another Best Coast video. This one starring cats. With stellar casting like this, I feel like they're speaking to me personally. Time to go find more of their stuff.
Childish Memes, Reprised
School has been kicking my ass lately but I'm resolving to increase my post output in this little private corner of the interwebs.
Hat tip to PD, one of your faithful editors, for both the template upgrade & the Childish tumblrage.
-dk
Childish Memes
We dig out Childish Gambino here, but we're not clever enough to come up with these meme sites.
For your consideration:
Hipster Childish Gambino
Childish Childish Gambino
And the new kid on the block, Edited Childish Gambino
For your consideration:
Hipster Childish Gambino
Childish Childish Gambino
And the new kid on the block, Edited Childish Gambino
Childish Gambino @ The Bootleg
I think this was the first concert since this blog started that deepcomputerblue, Stroker Ace and myself attended together (The last was an Atmosphere show in Long Beach that was pretty killer).
Mr. Donald Glover performed his third ever show in this tiny plywood theater last Thursday. I think it was the highest per-capita congregation of beards at a hip-hop show ever. Liking something so cool has never made me feel so uncool and old as when I'm surrounded by so many jeggings, fat Blossom and PBR (though I drank one in an effort be thrifty, only realizing I looked like a douche for a measly $1).
Despite all his professional success, Donald Glover isn't a household name, let alone a recognizable "that guy." After watching him perform, and listening to his lyrics over and over, there is definitely something there. He's attacking pop-culture from all these angles, before people are tired of him in one venue and are cynical of his new ventures.
Anyhow, the show was pretty great. D did a good job of reviewing the album, and he delivered in spades live. It wasn't like the show had crazy energy and he was mind blowing live. Instead, you can see an artist on the verge of breaking through.
Favorite line from the album: I eat more pussy than ALF.
He'll start popping up as a role player in a bunch of feature films. You'll hear his music someplace and when someone says, this is Childish Gambino, you'll be like "yeah, I've heard this before." He'll start popping up in a bunch of Funny or Die videos, there will a Troy and Abed web series to support Community and eventually he'll be starring in movies and selling out the Gibson Amphitheater.
I could totally be wrong, and usually am but definitely check him out either live, download his album or simply watch Community. Anyhow, here's a taste of his show.
Mr. Donald Glover performed his third ever show in this tiny plywood theater last Thursday. I think it was the highest per-capita congregation of beards at a hip-hop show ever. Liking something so cool has never made me feel so uncool and old as when I'm surrounded by so many jeggings, fat Blossom and PBR (though I drank one in an effort be thrifty, only realizing I looked like a douche for a measly $1).
Despite all his professional success, Donald Glover isn't a household name, let alone a recognizable "that guy." After watching him perform, and listening to his lyrics over and over, there is definitely something there. He's attacking pop-culture from all these angles, before people are tired of him in one venue and are cynical of his new ventures.
Anyhow, the show was pretty great. D did a good job of reviewing the album, and he delivered in spades live. It wasn't like the show had crazy energy and he was mind blowing live. Instead, you can see an artist on the verge of breaking through.
Favorite line from the album: I eat more pussy than ALF.
He'll start popping up as a role player in a bunch of feature films. You'll hear his music someplace and when someone says, this is Childish Gambino, you'll be like "yeah, I've heard this before." He'll start popping up in a bunch of Funny or Die videos, there will a Troy and Abed web series to support Community and eventually he'll be starring in movies and selling out the Gibson Amphitheater.
I could totally be wrong, and usually am but definitely check him out either live, download his album or simply watch Community. Anyhow, here's a taste of his show.
Culdesac, Reviewed
I've noticed that Donald Glover has been involved in a lot of projects recently that I am a fan of. After starting out as a staff writer on 30 Rock he moved on to the cast of Community in one of the funniest roles on the show. Because of this track record I even watched his feature-film debut (with his cohorts in the sketch group Derrick comedy) Mystery Team, which was pretty good (as evidenced by its acceptance into Sundance).
Even with all this goodwill stored up, I was still skeptical at the prospects of his most recent album Culdesac, recorded under the guise of Childish Gambino. Expecting something along the lines of a Lonely Island comedy-esque hip-hop album, I was pleasantly surprised to find instead, as Gambino puts it, "more Nas's Illmatic than Eddie Murphy's Delirious."
Alternating between uptempo, breezy rhymes & soft, high-register croons, Glover uses the persona of Childish Gambino to make sense of the life of someone young, gifted, famous & rich. So, while not a comedy album by any means these are still the writings of a talented comedian, and as such there is an abundance of quality punchline rhymes ("I'm in love with you / but this is not tennis // and baby stays stacked / like she bad at Tetris..").
While some of the R&B tracks fall a little flat for me, the album is solid from start to finish and definitely worth a listen -- especially since it was released online as a free download (@ http://www.culdesac-album.com/).
Overall I give Culdesac 3 out of 5 stars, although I wish that Glover had included a downloadable version of the Mystery Team-centric track, "The Stand" (posted below).
-dk
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