Battlestar Galactica

Another pop culture recommendation from Uncle Skippy to you. Battlestar Galactica on Sci-Fi is just a brilliant program and it is in its last season as the colonists try to make it to Earth ahead of the cylons. Why the cylons won't just kill them all on Earth, I'm not sure, but there it is. I'll post a comment on each episode over in the IMVU group for feedback and discussion, so if you'd like to join us there, just click the linky. Frack!

Yo! MTV Raps!

Just had to mention that I was up way to late the other night and Yo! MTV Raps came on MTV2 (or was it MTVJams?). I had forgotten how great old school rap was. There are moments in rap in this decade, but they just can't compare to brilliant stuff that was being recorded in the late eighties early nineties before gangster gained such a stranglehold on the rap scene. The Fugees, Tribe Called Quest, classic Queen Latifah, just excellent music and amazing words paired beautifully. There were videos from all three on the episode of Yo! that I was watching. Can't forget DeLaSoul either. Three Feet High and Rising is one of the great rap albums of all time.

You kiddies out there, take a tip from one who knows and download some of this stuff. You'll never listen to today's rap the same again....

Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Metalocalypse

Just wanted to riff for a little on ATHF. If you haven't checked this show out; you simply have to watch. The show is stupid and brilliant all at the same time. Totally appeals to my absurdist sense of humor (honed at a young age on the Muppets and Monty Python).

Check out Metalocalpyse too. It comes from the group associated with Brendan Small, who worked on other great adult animation series like Home Movies and Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist. Maybe its because my brother is in a heavy metal band, but I just love the send up of death metal taken to the extreme. The counter conspiracy cracks me up as well.

Anyway, my recommendations to you.