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I Made You All A Gift From The Heart
In honor of this meaningless day (and the fact that I just love love songs), I made you a mixtape full of feelings and junk. At any rate, it features rappers like mos def, old school jams from Lisa Lisa and Earth, Wind & Fire, melodies from The Cure and Iron & Wine and much…
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Top Moments Of Last Night’s Grammy Awards (That Didn’t Actually Happen)
I sat through enough of the Grammy’s last night to know it was just as ho-hum as it is every year. So rather than actually talking about what happened, indulge me while I say things that should’ve happened (or porribly might have happened, while I changed over to The Walking Dead). 10. LL Cool J performs…
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A Celebration in Gif-Form of Last Night’s Big Show
Last night the 49ers and the Ravens played each other in a dramatic game that came down to the wire. In the end the Ravens prevailed, Ray Lewis retired on a high note, Joe Flacco will be the elite convo, Colin Kapernick will have his chance again and the game will be remembered was one…
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Like Dylan In The Movies
There’s a scene pretty early in the film Looper where a futuristic mobster, played by Jeff Daniels, has a chat with Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character. In this conversation, Daniels spends the beginning of it making fun of Levitt’s fashion—his outdated tie especially; I’m paraphrasing but he essentially makes the comment, “Even in this advanced world, you’re…
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Chappelle’s Show: 10 Years Later
On January 22, 2003, Comedy Central premiered a new sketch comedy series by a funny, yet relatively unknown comic named Dave Chappelle. Named simply Chappelle’s Show, it was a modest little production that aired on a Tuesday and, suffice it to say, one of the most important moments in television began. I remember watching…
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Revisiting Open Mike Eagle And Thinking About Misogyny In Hip-Hop
These past couple of months–in the midst of debates about women’s issues, women’s representations in congress and women’s bodies–I (and I’m sure many others) have been thinking a lot about… well, women. More specifically, I’ve been focused on how we look at women due to popular culture and our own ideas based on years of…
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That One Show Not About Boys
I find Girls to be a pretty enjoyable show. The idea that it’s such a polarizing program is mostly laughable. There’s nothing really “offensive” about it–the lives of over-privileged white girls slumming it because their parents won’t give them more money, that’s a pretty damn safe premise. Most of the vitriol (and praise) it is just a tad…
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Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Here’s the thing. I’m obsessed with death almost to a fault. This is mostly due to my serious fear of it and my lack of real understanding about how you can exist and then not exist for a way longer time. With that being said, I lost a relative this week. What happened doesn’t matter…
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Fuck It, Let’s Talk About The Muppet Movie
The Muppet Movie provides the central theme of 2013–well for myself anway. I revisited it recently this past Christmas eve and the more I think about accomplishing goals and following some sort of path to a better life, the more I think back to this movie (it totally holds up by the way). Released in 1979–between…
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2012: Some Stuff Happened… In And Out Of Pop Culture
Time keeps moving. It just keeps going–like a freight train headed for a deadly, explosive collision. 2012 was not my best year–most of it sucked actually–but that’s alright, most years aren’t my best years. In fact, out of all the years that ever were, most haven’t been favorable to me. At any rate, I have…
Israel Daramola
Critic and Writer. Israel has written reviews, features, interviews, scripts, and ads for a number of outlets and companies.
Israel Daramola 