who's drinking what at the obama-gates-crowley teaching moment?
gates: red stripe. of course. the hipsteriest of the "too cool" beers. even the bottle is uber hip, almost to the point of unlikeability. on the other hand, you can't argue with the quality.
obama: bud light. the ultimate bullet-proof choice. american, authentic, masculine yet low on calories, and totally boring.
crowley: blue moon. WHAT?? BLUE MOON? what kind of racist drinks blue moon? blue moon is for yuppies. its served with an ORANGE slice, for pete's sake! nobody in "The Departed" drank Blue Moon!
From the madcap caper, Amos and Andrew, to Chappelle's crack-sprinkling detectives, the absurdity of black men being arrested in their own homes never ceases to amuse. Obama addressed the recent arrest of Professor Gates with sharp words mixed in with his usual charm.
My brother-in-law begs to differ on MJ's best performance, and brings up this, his performance at the 88 Grammy Awards' "Man in the Mirror." It's lip-synching until 4:00, but then when he actually starts singing, its so full of passion and urgency that you wonder why the heck he ever lip synchs at all.
michael jackson was pretty much the only american music i listened to until i was 12 or so. i had a tape of his hits that my uncle made me, and i listened to it so much that the tape started to warp, so it almost seemed like he was going out of tune sometimes - the warping of the cassette film would make the playback a little slower or faster for a few seconds. as much as i loved his music on that tape that was slowly deteriorating, i remember what a mindblowing experience it was to listen to him when i bought some of his CDs in high school and was like "oh my god, he's actually better than on my tape!"
so, with due respect to his motown 25 performance, here's the coolest MJ performance I ever saw. keep in mind this was in 1995. so many things to love about this performance - his obsession with 20s/30s gangster attire (how hipster would 95 MJ be right now), the fact that this is probably one of the weakest tracks ('Dangerous') off maybe his 4th best album (Dangerous) and its still better than anything Justin Timberlake has ever done. Finally, the choreography is vintage Michael Jackson - the moves aren't so complicated, they're just executed with such perfect timing that they give you the impression that what he's doing...is magic.
"If you take any true sentence in which the name 'George Washington" occurs, it will, as a rule, remain true if you substitute the phrase 'the first President of the United States.' There are exceptions to this rule. Before Washington's election, a man might say 'I hope George Washington will be the first President of the United States,' but he would not say 'I hope the first President of the United States will be the first President of the United States' unless he had an unusual passion for the law of identity."
