i'll admit, i'm shocked to have seen this yesterday. a bathing ape, the most 'exclusive' streetwear brand yet, is now going online. a brand that does not sell outside of its own stores, is launching its online store soon. word is not out yet whether or not it will have worldwide distribution or just be in japan, but i can assure you... i'm excited.

ehh... well i guess i could

you know, this is the 3rd brand that i personally see do a batman collaboration (first being a bathing ape, 2nd being g-shock) and i've only seen a few pieces I actually really want. i think all of these hoodies are dope in concept, but i dont think i could see myself wearing any of them. i think it's just too much branding, too big.

i have the dark knight x casio collab on the g-shock so no need to worry about that, but i really wanted the batman x bape fullzip KNIT hoodie, but i could never find it. i've only seen it twice, once on hypebeast, and once in details with nigo on the cover. the only ones i ever saw released were the fleece joints, which i could really pass on. if ANYONE has ever seen the KNIT joint, holler at me.

hot garbage...

you know, i kept telling myself i wouldn't post this bullshit, but in the interest of letting you form your own opinion, i'll post it up.

so here it is

'hot revolver'... the 2nd song released off of lil wayne's soon to be released "rock" album, the rebirth

download hot revolver here

alright, i thought dude had lost his mind a while back, but this garbage just takes the cake.

and I'm not posting the first single, 'prom queen' because that shit literally makes me want to rip my ears off.

fuck you doing with that camera...?

i remember the days before blogs, myspace, facebook, twitter and all this other shit. i remember hotmail. i remember angelfire and geocities. but in the last 5 years or so, with all the networking sites popping up everywhere, the amount of pictures being taken, of both average joes and celebs, has exploded.

this picture is funny to me because it looks like these guys were walking somewhere, and someone hit them with that, 'hey guys can we get a group picture' after they'd taken like 40 pictures in 15 seconds. and what's even funnier is i think this because a few weeks back, while i was working for the lil wayne afterparty, someone caught me and the homies after a couple hours of dealing with all this ignorance outside the door with that same line, and we basically turned and looked at him like this... like 'the fuck you doing with that camera?'

it's so crazy too, because people get on kanye about dressing real crazy, but anytime he's in a picture with don c or taz, he looks super conservative.

so from now on, no more throwing up peace signs, gang signs, or anything else with my hands. 2009 is the year of the 'fuck you doing?' look.

p.s. the goyard and vuitton briefcases are ree-fucking-dic-u-lous... in more ways than one.

hahahahahahahaha

A message from kwest on Vimeo.

this dude 'ye is wildin' out. i love it. peep the 'joker-ish' mannerisms in his speech. hilarious.

also, more new pics of his new shoe(s) from vuitton.



the 2nd pair is the women's shoe, which i personally like as i'm a huge fan of vans authentics. as each new shoe leaks, i'm becoming more and more a fan of this line.

kanye's OTHER shoe

i can't lie... this picture makes me NOT want this shoe. Like, I was completely uninterested in this shoe after seeing this picture.

however, after seeing this picture...

the shoe looks a bit more appealing... not to say HE'S making the shoe look better, but that it's a shoe that looks more appealing ON the foot instead of ON the shelf.

apparently there are some other colors as well...



I could definitely mess with those white ones...

what i'm listening to (obama edition)

sorry for the bad title, i had nothing better to call this.

Akon feat. Weezy and Jeezy - I'm So Paid 

The-Dream - Rockin' that Shit

get on that shit. it's nice.

my mother's son.

this is not my article.... it's from Rick Reilly of ESPN and formerly Sports Illustrated.

P.S. this shit just gets me all teary eyed like a motherfucker.

It's been six years since Larry Fitzgerald's wife died and yet when you call his house, it's her voice on the message machine.

"My sons asked me to keep it," says Fitzgerald, father of All-Galaxy wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald Jr., of the suddenly Super Bowl-bound Cardinals. "If they were having a tough day, they wanted to be able to call and hear her voice. It's comforting to them."

That's what makes his son's trip to Tampa bittersweet for him. Every year since 1981, the longtime Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder sportswriter has been covering the Super Bowl. Beginning in 1983 his wife, Carol, joined him. "She loved the Commissioner's Party," he says.

Now he's going to be covering a Super Bowl where their elder son is the most electrifying player in it. He's already broken Jerry Rice's record for receiving yards in a single postseason, and he's still got one game to go. So it's going to be murder for Larry, Sr., not to violate that no-cheering-in-the-press-box rule.

"I won't cheer," says Fitzgerald. "I'm going to stay objective. I've come too far to suddenly show up in the press box with pom-poms. But if you could put a monitor on my insides, you'd find a whole fan club in there."

If it were my son, I'd go into the bathroom every three minutes and scream into the blow dryer, but not Fitzgerald. He's so old-school he's going to be two people during the big week: parent and sportswriter, and never the twain shall meet. "I'm not crossing any lines," he says. He'll take Larry to dinner at night off the record and interview him during the days on, the first sportswriter anyone can think of to ever cover his own son in the Super Bowl. "I'll be at his interview table, trying to get my questions in, just like everybody else."

OK, the older guy. Kinda looks like me. Go ahead.

What's ironic is that the young Fitzgerald is a rather beige interview—and we have a sportswriter to blame for it. The old man always preached: Answer the question that's asked. But only the question that's asked. Don't add anything. When you win, say little. When you lose, say less. Pass the praise around.

Hey, Larry, you trying to get kicked out of the guild?

The 25-year-old Fitzgerald calls the 53-year-old one "Mr. Emotional" and this past week the meter was pinned on High. Larry Sr. was supposed to go to the Obama inauguration, but then his 6-3 son helped torch the heavily-favored Panthers, forcing Dad to blow off political history for football history—the first NFC Championship in Arizona. For a man who grew up in Obama's Chicago, who was once fired by Minneapolis radio station KFAN, sued for discrimination and then settled out of court, that wasn't easy.

"I always had this dream that Larry would play in a Super Bowl," he says, "but never, ever did I think we'd have a black president."

Obama is a football freak, so he'll be watching next Sunday when the world finally gets a load of Fitzgerald's son—the anti-T.O.—a receiver who catches everything and brags about nothing, who climbs his own invisible staircase to get to footballs, who dresses and speaks impeccably and travels the world alone in the off-season, taking in museums.

"He looks so much like his mother," says Larry Sr. "He has her humility, her smile and her stubbornness."

Carol died of a brain hemorrhage while battling breast cancer on April 10, 2003. "She hated for her boys (Marcus is 23 now) to miss even a day of school. By the time I got Larry back (from the University of Pittsburgh), she'd slipped into a coma. You make your decisions and you live with them, but it's still difficult."

No wonder Junior still carries his mom's driver's license in his wallet. No wonder he wears his hair in long dreads—as she did—to honor her. And now this Samson comes into the Big Bowl as one of the main pillars the Steelers have to topple.

"I tell you, I've been sticking needles in my skin just to see if this is all real," says Senior. "I've been in this business so long, covered so many great athletes—from Jordan to Magic to Kirby Puckett. And to see your own son understand what greatness is all about, to have him be the one who says, 'Listen guys, we're going to win this. Follow my lead.' Man, it's just … gratifying."

And if the seven-point-dog Cardinals happen to win it and you happen to see some reporter come up to No. 11 and hug him until he cries, forgive the guy will you?

Some lines you can't help cross.

I have a dream...

one of my first heroes growing up was MLK Jr. the things he stood for, the way he lived, all of it reached out to me, even as a 9 year old. today is a pretty significant day in the the history of mankind, not just for black people or white people or purple people. so i'm not going to sit here and quote MLK or post his 'i have a dream' speech, because i think we've all heard it a few times. instead, how about you go outside, sit down, enjoy this beautiful weather, and realize just how good we have it today in 2009... because that's what the dream is truly about.

movie review: forrest gump 2... sort of.

so last week, after procrastinating for more than a week's time, i finally was able to find time to see the curious case of benjamin button. i know in the title i said forrest gump 2 because if you're one of those really critical movie people who hates every little thing, you'd definitely feel as if that's what you paid for.

however, after trying to be a movie snob for a few minutes, i really appreciated the movie for what it was, which was a pretty tragic story about life and loss. 

i won't spoil the movie for anyone who hasn't seen it, but brad pitt really is a good actor. forget all the mid 90s noise about him because he was just a "hot" actor as so many of my female middle school counterparts referred to him. dude's movies are always on point lately. not to mention, cate blanchett is gor-fucking-geous (excuse my language). 

note: add cate blanchett to the list of women in hollywood that I dream about during economics.

if you haven't seen this movie, go see it. however, I wouldn't recommend seeing this if you're having any kind of life-changing shit going on or if you're in a really rough part of you're life, as it may lead you to become really spontaneous and enjoy life.

change that, maybe you should go see it.

over and out.

through my eyes

crazy shit i saw today on the interstate. so if you're even remotely familiar with marshlands, you'd know, like i know, that they're not supposed to be on fire. well these were. and from what i can tell, for no apparent reason.

but then like 20 minutes later i looked over and saw this. the view of the horizon was amazing. you know when people say that sometimes it looks like heaven is meeting earth? well that's what I thought of when i saw this. 

just thought i'd share. tomorrow and the days following i'll talk about benjamin button, lil wayne, suge knight, and my trip to denver.

louis vuitton x stephen sprouse

more from the louis vuitton stephen sprouse collection soon to release, this limited edition trunk and skateboard is a must have for any true lv enthusiast. with less than 10 estimated to be sold, at $8,250, i wish i had the cash. the skateboard is nasty and that trunk even nastier. along with these skateboards, which will be sold at the soho location only, will be 70 t-shirts sold at $250 each.

if anybody got the hookup at louis vuitton soho, holler at your boy.

you said what?

hippies man... fuckin' hippies. i for sure will not be kissing the mother of my children as she's buttnaked and bloated about to catapult my kids out of her womb.

peep the ride at the end.

for those of you who sadly will not be able to get the air yeezy, here's another kanye west shoe that will be stupidly limited, but sad to say, this one will definitely be more expensive. confirmed by mr. west himself, his louis vuitton collaboration shoe featured in this video, are expected to drop in june 2009.



as you can tell from the pictures, the shoes look very chukka/common projects. expect a $600-800 price tag on these bad boys.

pictures courtesy of hypebeast; video courtesy of tmz

Another ready why USC > LSU

that's rey maualuga celebrating his Rose Bowl victory with a nice little dance behind ESPN's FINEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE sideline correspondent erin andrews. DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!

100th post

i've been stalling out on posting since new year's day because i felt like i needed to start the year with something post-worthy as well as the fact that it this is our 100th post.

i feel like the blog is coming along nicely, its not where i would like it to be, but it's getting there.

2009 is a huge year for us. most people would say, 2009 is going to be a huge year, but i'm going to fore go saying "going to be" and just let you know it already is. be on the lookout for some pretty interesting projects as well as a high quality product that you would be proud to wear to show and tell day in the 4th grade.

expect some of that new product the first week of feb. 2009.

i'll be heading out of town in a few days, i'll be sure to keep you all updated from my "vacation destination".

until then...