"Another Movie About Precious" -The Hobbit Trailer FINALLY Hits The Net!

I just recently reread this book just to familiarize myself with the story after years of last seeing it in cartoon form on TV YEARS ago! Remember cartoons? Or even watching something ON T.V. for that matter. Ol' geek sh*t right? Anyways, Peter Jackson is right back to where he needs to be...FAT! And back to directing J.R.R Tolkiens fabled books about Middle-Earth adventures.

"You're Geekin' Me Out!" -Dope Updates On Movie Greats

Hey Harry (Potter) I know you gonna break all types of box-office records an all this weekend but truth be told I'm already on to the next one with these HIGHLY anticipated movies lined up coming out. Now don't get it twisted I respect your long fruitful 11 movie run and all but THESE joints below are more my speed. Besides I NEVER read one single book, but again I respect your "Star Wars like" hustle bro. Funny thing about all this is Warner Bros. ownes ALL these joints anyways, so it's a WIN WIN for them no matter HOW you look at it. And for those living under a rock for all of 2000's I'm speaking of the last(?) Nolan version of Batman, the sequel to Sherlock Holmes, and OF COURSE the next J.R. Tolkien Hobbit joints (the original J.R. Rowling). Just look at these posters makes me wanna "geek the f**k out!"

"Put A Ring On It!" - Scenes From "Hobbit" Set

Man I'm SO geeked out for this that I actually went out and bought the book to refresh myself on the whole story plot! Now THIS hits the 'Net and I damn near creamed myself! What!?! Was that too graphic? Well I'm just stating that I'm beyond excited to see in my life time, that this is FINALLY happening & coming to the big screen...in 3D even! Now enough talking, take a peek at the 10 mins web clip "Hobbit/Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson posted recently. Ummm can I pre-purchase tix NOW? Please! I'll do chores all YEAR! Lol.

"Punch Suckered Me!" -Sucker Punch Review

Let me first start off with a formal apology. If I've influenced you in ANY way based on my many post on the blog about this movie I am TRULY sorry! I myself was planning to go see this on the day of it's release so I could have a fresh review for you come Monday morning. But something told me "Pause...don't get suckered into the hype!" But when good friend (Carlito) put me onto the Optimum On-line FREE Tuesday movie jump-off, I said "Hey, I have NOTHING to lose here! It's FREE right?!?" I was wrong. I lost time, respect and a lil' hope for this director Zack guy. Sure the movie is two hours of visual eye porn, sure Zack has mastered the green screen technology to near perfection. Sure he KNOWS how to market the s**t out of a movie. But when it comes to character development and original storytelling...SMMFH! Damn, I was hoping I was wrong but this movie was basically the Matrix, meets La Cage Aux Folles, meets Lord of the Rings, meets Japanimation, meets Kill Bill (sorry if I've offended anyone connected w/ any of those films). It was like watching a game of Russian roulette knowing a bullet was in EVERY chamber! POW! I would have loved him to just pick ONE genre and kill it! But the story, the acting, and the time consistency was like the popcorn I threw up...all over the place! LOL. Thank God, Allah, Jehovah, Odin, Zeus, and whomever you happen to pray to that Christopher Nolan is writing the Superman story FOR Zack to direct. At the end, I even wanted my money back for money I had spent on the popcorn combo! YES, it was THAT bad folks. If someone suggests to you "Hey why didn't we catch that Sucker Punch movie?" Just turn the other cheek! This gets 2 out of 5 M's

"From BK To Belfast, And Back Again!" -Buckwick to Bushmills AKA My Uber Trip To Ireland

Okay, so back to our regularly scheduled program...So you DO know that I've been away in Ireland right? I just sayin' just in case you were wondering WHY I haven't posted anything new since "Rock & Bowl" (which btw was "a HUGE success!" Brooklyn Bowl's words, not mine) here's proof of my reason below. Yeah sure, I COULD have blogged while I was over there, but what fun would THAT have been? Gotta just "live the dream" sometimes dude! Anyways the purpose for the trip was that some months ago I (along with BK Circus owner Ouigi) was picked to take part in the biggest print ad campaign Irish whiskey makers Bushmills has ever pushed! Besides being paid to shoot that day, and getting a NICE hunk of change once our pic got picked, the trip to Ireland was the biggest bonus perk. Sweet deal right? So now you wanna hear about the trip correct? Well being that you're probably reading this at work, I'll be as detailed and brief as possible. I'll break it down in days. Ready? Okay so here I go...

Tues. May 11th 9:32
Packed at the VERY last minute, figuring it's ONLY a few days I'm not lugging a trunk fulla stuff over there to make a million "Beyonce' concert-like" wardrobe changes! LOL! That's NOT what's up. One bag (a carry all) and I'm done! Arrive at the gate and can't help to notice I'm the ONLY non-Caucasian there(!) So to make folks as uneasy as I was, I wrap my neck scarf around my head, threw on my shades, and started rocking back & forth like I was anxious or nervous. Mind you I was the LAST one to board on the plane, wonder if that was why. 6 1/2 hrs flight restlessly I watched "the Book of Eli" & that third "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie back to back and tired to get SOME shut eye. However someone felt that the airplane aisle was a good way for their baby to get leg stretching in, and let'em roam free UP and DOWN, BACK & FORTH down the aisle. And guess WHO had an aisle seat...Yep! The baby had a BIG ASS head btw! Thought it was the tray cart at first glance! What!?1 I'm just sayin'

Wed. May 12th 11:00 am
Finally arrive, only to be greeted by a million and one questions to "the nature of my visit" and "How long will your black ass be staying?" Once that was said and done, our handlers from the Bushmills camp loading the group of us up (17 guys in total minus Ouigi. He had visa troubles and didn't make the flight leaving NYC...bummer!) into the chartered bus to head to the hotel. Folks clicked almost right away once the jokes started flying! Most was on this dude "Ron" (professional NHL player) who wore shorts and a tee! Mind you it was like 50-55 degrees (if even that) over there. The rest of the jokes were on "Rico" who brought a suitcase about his height(!) for a four day trip! Rico was the only OTHER black cat on the trip btw. Got checked in to this swanky (newly opened) hotel called the Fitzwilliam (DOPE!) and then off to lunch to eat! Lunch was followed by a music tour of Belfast, then back to the hotel to get spiffy for dinner. Dinner was were thanked us for participating in the ad and gave us our own personal print for keep sake...Awwwww. Once that was over, and we got back to the telly, the one common thought on everyone's mind was..."Where the club at?!?" But only four of us made that happen successfully, me being apart of the four! LOL! Hit up two spots, the 1st being "Pod" or "Bot" or something like that (uber wack) and the 2nd was PAY DIRT! Some joint called "Rain"...NICE! Rock & roll on the 1st flr., Hip-Hop up top, and a huge outdoor lounge. Got straight MOBBED in there like we were a freakin' boy band and s**t! Wonder if it was cause I was black...or just American...or both! Could've been my colonge perhaps, who knows man. I was a GOOD night for some, but for others, ummm NOT so good. So NO MORE clubbing for the rest of the trip huh? All agreed say I.

Thursday May 13th 10:30 am
Grabbed a quick bite for breakfast and checked out the Fitzwilliam to start our day early so we can enjoy the sights over at this scenic rope bridge famously known over there as Carrick-A-Rede. It was straight out of a scene from that first Lord of the Rings movie! Or any of them for that matter! Still cold, still windy, but when in Rome, you best be Roman brother! Once that was a wrap, we continued on to the actual town of Bushmills to peep the facility that makes the whiskey; IE the reason why we were even there in the first place. When you 1st walkin to the distillery Ouigi and I ad is the first thing posted up you'll see (and about all I saw of our picture plastered up the WHOLE trip!) So it felt looked to pull a "Mooky" ("Do the Right Thing"-Spike Lee) and see "Some brothers up on the wall!" LOL! the Bushmills tour itself was DOPE! But on the other hand their hotel...inn...whatever was EH! But hey, all we're doing is sleeping there right? AND it's FREE? Complaint box closed. Instead of the club our final night (for reasons understood), Bushmills sprung for some singing cat named Foy Vance to lick some tunes off for us which was a highlight of the trip! Pure AWEsomeness! Oh almost forgot, I walked around in my bathrobe the whole time at the hotel, just to "brain-f**k" with people! And they LOVED it! Go figure that the Irish are Ghostface Killa fans!

Thinking of going? Here's a few pointers to keep in mind on your travels...

"Bangers & Mash" -Is NOT a sex act, nor is it a gang crew! It's actually the name of a meal over there. Bangers being sausage and "mash" being mash potatoes

"A Solid" -Don't even go thinking it means a favor! It's what we call a #2! I made the mistake of asking some Irish cat to "Do me a solid." and he looked puzzled and asked "Why the hell ye need me to s**t for ye?"

"A Pound" -a pound is their version of the dollar in that part of the country. So asking someone to "Give me a pound." will make you sound like a homeless begger. LOL.

"Wee" -means "a little" so if you wanted to play a little Wii over there you would say "I'm about to wee Wii!"

And lastly fellas be warned, there's NO Magnum condoms over there it's O'Magnus! And the pizza delivery guys ALL drive Benz, so don't think you're "ballin' " by driving one!

"F**k Bueller, I Need A Day Off Too!" -Leaning To Rediscover NYC For A Day

Feeling overworked and stressed out (at least that's what I told my job) I felt the NEED to do some exploring 'round this Gotham city of ours to re-familiarize myself with what this town has to offer. Adding to the fact that Summer was packing it's bags to bounce AND I had just treated myself to a NEW camera (Canon sx200) for my B'day, I thought to myself "What better time than now, right self?" After a quick morning stretch (to grab the remote lol) I headed out to feed my face with a NICE hearty cheeseburger deluxe at a local eatery and was revitalized and "ready to go right now!" like John Legend & Andre' 3000 to hit the streets. First stop...the Central Park Zoo. What? You got a problem with that? I hadn't been in YEARS (!), so what the hay! Why not hmmm? Now the Cntrl Pk Zoo was alright, but NOT what I was hoping for. Yeah you can get pretty close to the animals, but WHAT animals! No tiger, lions, gorillas, oh my! You'd find more animals in a box of animal crackers then in this joint! Whizzy wack! Then they had the nerve to have a Hobbit tree and that damn creepy spider (Shelob from "Lord of the Rings") in the KIDS zoo! Huh? And wait...a RABBIT? You serious!?! May as well throw some gerbils up in that piece too man! Best thing in there was those two old musicians jamming, and that was FREE! WARNING: Ladies don't go get your hair did, and walk up in the rain forest room, thinking you coming back out looking fly. HELL NAH! As the Jamaican say "Perm dun off!" Smelling type funky! I'm done. Took the Water Taxi ($5 down by South St. Ferry) back to BK, and hopped the turnstile (joking) to take the F train to Coney Island. Which is where the NY Aquarium is located at. Now that's ANOTHER spot I haven't been out to since a damn grade school class trip! Tix were $13 & $17 per person. If I'm paying $17 It better come with some damn swimming trunks, cause ya boy is getting in that bitch! SPLASH! Man, it was type muggy in that joint! And packed surprisingly too! It took me a minute to get my camera settings just right, then it was ON. Let me tell you my friend, THAT was better than the zoo if you ask me (wait...are you asking me?). WAY much more stuff to "ohhh & ahhh" at. However at one point, my camera died on me. So luckily I find an outlet to charge the battery back up, thinking "I paid for this, I'm bringing SOMETHING back home with me!" Walked away thinking it was well hidden, only to be "Jack Spade'd" by someone with octopus hands! I was pissed off and puffed up like one of those fish, till I remembered I had a double back at the crib. Yet I was pissed! Regardless of that, I would love to come back again really soon, to set up a sting to catch that MF'er...in a fish net at that (just joking). It was a cool day off spent, but a felt kinda guilty craving catfish & grits when I left. Nah, maybe some grilled salmon & calamarie at SEA! Next trip is the REAL zoo in the Bronx! No offense to the Bronx. LOL.