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Al Shipley
@alshipley
journalist, critic, drummer, producer, songwriter, teleprompter operator shipley.al@gmail.com westernblot.bandcamp.com

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in the early '90s, only a couple hip hop albums would get to #1 every year. it's really fascinating to see what they were and how much the landscape changed in that time. one year, it's hammer and vanilla ice. then nwa. then kris kross and ice cube. then cypress hill and snoop.
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I mean he's the reason he can rap about being biracial, it's a fair request imo
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Logic’s estranged father asked him for $1M when they reunited. complex.com/music/a/backwo
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i think i saw Pulp Fiction four times in 94/95???? at least three times.
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What's a movie you saw more than once in the theaters during its original run? I saw The Ring 5 times during its theatrical run… I still love this movie too… twitter.com/theheadknight/…
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"dreams & nightmares" came on the radio this morning when i was dropping off my son and i had to restrain myself from lecturing him about how important that song is
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two country singers named Parker McCollum and Parker Millsap both released albums today. gonna check 'em out and decide a winner in the Parker M. brawl of May 12th.
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there are at least 3 drummers in the a/v crew of the event i'm working this week, i was already able to insinuate myself into one conversation about cymbal angles
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"wow check out this actor who played 2 very different roles" that's what an actor's SUPPOSED to do, can we stop giving participation trophies to everybody who has more range than david spade
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the hive has been really glass half empty lately. the album's great? 😣 where are the videos 😣 amazing stage show with stellar vocals? 😣 why isn't she dancing more 😣
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this morning i got up at 4am to drop off my 13-year-old for his first out-of-state school band trip, and will pick him back up at 11pm. now i'm finally starting the workday, phew, gonna be a long one.
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lol the simpsons sent one of their gen x writers to lollapalooza to research the "homerpalooza" episode and he was viscerally disgusted by it
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it's so wrong that jadakiss never had a mixtape titled "jason's lyric" with a bad movie poster photoshop on the cover
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i really liked seeing Chris Eigeman in the latest seasons of Billions and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, disappointing to realize those are his only 2 screen credits in the last 5 years. now that's a guy who deserves a career resurgence.
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hey what if someone did a maslow's heirarchy of needs meme where the whole pyramid was one thing and it's silly. has anyone done that. an opportunity for several jokes but you just put in one. so great.
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don't get me wrong, The Good Doctor sucks, but Netflix just released a Turkish series called The Tailor that has one of the most offensively bad performances by an actor playing an autistic character that i've ever seen
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people are so nervous to admit "happy" is annoying because they're afraid of insulting pharrell, but pharrell probably knows it's annoying, that's why he tried to give it to cee-lo, it's right into that annoying cee-lo song sweet spot
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it's almost like becoming a repetitive self-caricature for 20 years makes it easier for everybody else to replicate your aesthetic
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Wes Anderson waking up to see which dogshit parody of his style has gone viral that day.
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the 'playfully misspelled adjective rapper' era of Ludacris and Fabolous was fun, can some guys named Splendiid and Altruistick bring that back
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"woman" for record of the year at the grammys was insane, i'd rather listen to something that bland from someone who actually believes in it like alicia keys or something
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imagine being the guy who's declared war on yoga pants, just broadcasting how much he's tormented by them
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