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I don’t want to end on a bummer so let’s close this Friday with something awesome.

I hope this weekend we all can stop and rock out with our whatevers out. Just like this guy:

See ya’ll on the flip side.

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"Yeah, I know I'm on fire. I meant to light myself on fire. I like being on fire. I did it on purpose" - This guy

So… did you watch it? I watched it. And by “it” I am of course referring to Kanye West’s short film that went online over the weekend.

In case you haven’t heard, Kanye made a 35 minute short film instead for his song “Runaway” instead of doing a standard, run of the mill music video.

If you haven’t seen it, you can check it out here:

Rather than running through and breaking down the whole thing, here are just some of my thoughts regarding Kanye West’s “Runaway” video:

Kanye might make awesome music but he can’t act for shit
Kanye also can’t write dialog for shit
Kanye makes good decisions about cinematographers
The Phoenix has feathers that cover her nipples and her coochie and almost nowhere else – convenient
Kanye has ballerinas, fireworks and a marching band at his disposal
Giant heads of Michael Jackson are creepy as hell
The Phoenix sure likes dancing to drum machines
Kanye’s cool with bestiality
Kanye’s new album is gonna be awesome

So, again, that’s just a couple thoughts I had here. Please feel free to share your own.

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You guys! Oh. My God! Where the shit have I been? SRSLY! I’ll tell you where I haven’t been, I haven’t been writing up this blog!!! I have been reading this blog but I have not been writing on this blog. I don’t know why. Maybe I had mono or something. Gross. Mono is the worst.

There is something serious that I want to talk to you guys about, you guys. Can we hurry up and stop hating Kanye West? I think we, as a barely functioning society, need to move on beyond this overblown and ridiculous obsession over hating Kanye West. Why? Why must this happen in order for us to move forward as a people? Because. Because we don’t have a reason to hate him. We can say that we hate his ego but we don’t. We can say that we hate him because he had the audacity to rudely interrupt our current (but fading, am I right you guys?) sweetheart Taylor Swift. The only reason we hate him is because we have to hate him. We need him to be the bad guy. I understand that and I know that but I’d like us to hurry up and replace him with someone else (someone more deserving, like Jim DeMint).

The fact of the matter is that Kanye is really, really, and I mean really good at his job. Have you seen the last several performances that he’s done? Have you? You guys. I’m serious here. Kanye is keeping shit real right now. The man is singlehandedly moving music forward right now by combining fashion, art, drama – the whole artistic gamut. It’s really some amazing shit that is happening right in front of our eyes right now. And if we focus on the hate that we think we are supposed to have for the dude than how are we gonna see it all.

Granted, some of Kanye’s recent artistic explosion is probably (directly) related to the fact that the whole world thinks they hate him. I’m sure that has set him on a different path but let’s cool it with the shit tossing you guys. We don’t hate Kanye for his ego. Does he have a big ego? Oh Christ almighty he does but who give a rat’s ass? Remember when the Beatles said they were bigger than Jesus? That’s some serious ego those boners were throwing out and we regard them as the greatest of the greats. Seriously, you guys. And did Kanye act like a dick interrupting Taylor Swift at the whatever awards? Totally. Kanye West was a dick that night. But he was right. But he also just demonstrated poor judgement. Remember when Pete Townsend was busted for child-pornography yet we barely even noticed that. Everybody slips now and again – even and especially the greats.

Seriously, you guys. I’m being serious here. Let’s stop pretending to hate Kanye and get back to recognizing him as a genius because shit is getting really real right now and you are all gonna miss it if you don’t.

Here is proof.

That my friends, is really fucking great. For really real.

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"I'm serious you guys!" - This guy

You wanna hear clips from every song on Brandon Flowers’ new solo album Flamingo?

If that is a yes, click here. If that’s a no, click here.

Either way everything is gonna be ok.

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"What? Huh? Speak, up! I can't hear you. Because I'm old" - These guys

R.E.M. is making some news today. About time. Where the hell have those guys been? They’ve probably been sitting in their castles counting all their money. Unless they hired shady managers like everyone in the 80s. Then they might be making appearances at casinos and county fairs. Well, according to reports hitting the interwebs today, one place they’ve been is recording a new album and according to these same reports that new album will be “old school.”

I’m not sure what that even means. The last three U2 albums were supposed to be “old school U2” and they weren’t and they sucked. So… whatever. I’ll believe it when I see it. Or hear it I guess.

But in real “old school” R.E.M. news, the band released a previously unreleased song from the band’s Fables of the Reconstruction album sessions. The song, “Throw Those Trolls Away” can be listened to on the band’s website or by just clicking here.

I’ll admit, it’s been awhile since I really gave a shit about R.E.M. but I’m going to try to keep my mind open on this new album. But I swear… if they burn me I’ll totally U2 their ass. And by “U2 their ass” I mean I’ll kick them out of my heart and tell everyone I know that listening to them will give you brain cancer.

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