08.09

OG Original Gangster (Ice-T, 1991)

I take back everything I've said about Ice-T being overrated.  One of the most ambitious and fully realized albums I've heard from any genre.  Everything on here is fantastic.

Choice cuts: Mind Over Matter, Straight up Nigga, Midnight

4, 5, 6 (Kool G Rap, 1995)

Dang, pretty bad.  I can't believe he just recycled material for two songs in an 11-track album.  He also somehow just has no presence, especially in the first half.  Still some great rhyming of course.

Choice cuts: Blown' Up in the World, It's a Shame (Da Butcher's Mix), Money on My Brain

The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)

How does so much beauty exist in the world, let alone a film?

Free Radicals (Len Lye, 1958)

Bubbly and vivacious in the best possible way.  I love how the doodles seemed so three dimensional at times.  Would be way up there for me at about an hour long.

Arabesque for Kenneth Anger (Marie Menken, 1961)

Such a distinct field of avant garde and so distasteful to me.  Redeems itself somewhat with an ecstatic finale.

Motion Painting I (Oskar Fischinger, 1947)

At first I was like pretty I guess?  But it actually has a sense of progress that really appeals to me, especially since it never even purportedly leaves its one frame.  Great flow and again a nice orgasmic ending.