A friend of mine just got back from LA, where he toured all the major studios. On the WB tour, while they were taking a look at famous film vehicles from Scooby Doo to The Matrix to Austin Powers, they got to see one of the real Tumblers from the Batman films, and the guide mentioned that Christopher Nolan was having it shipped to the UK in a couple of weeks “for Batman 3”.
My first reaction was “omg they’re already ready to start filming Batman!”, which, of course, is ridiculous. There’s so much involved in the prep of a film that huge that we would’ve heard if they were almost ready to roll film, especially so soon after Inception’s release.
But it is likely a part of the prep process, and means that while they may not exactly be shooting a Bruce Wayne car chase two weeks from now, Syncopy is marching steadily forward on their next project, and that Nolan isn’t taking much of a break before returning to Gotham City one last time. Glad to hear it.
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Kanye’s back! Thank you, sir, for songs with LYRICS. Like, actual words that mean things.
“Power” feat. Dwele.
Like a lot of Kanye tracks, I think this is going to take a while to grow on me, but the sampled vocals are kinda getting to me on the first listen. Will get stuck in my head waaaay too much.
Gotta love the Game Boy-style prog sounds sounds though, I wouldn’t mind hearing them more in hip hop in the months/year to come, especially the kind of stuff that the engadget podcast always starts with.
Mos Def on Islam
In thinking about that Mos Def track post from yesterday, I realized that he often crosses Islam with Hip Hop both fiiguratively and literally. He says some pretty profound stuff in that track outright, but it gets even better when you think about his links between Hip Hop and Islam, and then re-listen to the track like this:
A lot of things have changed
A lot of things have not, mainly us
We gon’ get it together right? I believe that
Listen.. people be askin me all the time,
“Yo Mos, what’s gettin ready to happen with Islam?”
(Where do you think Islam is goin?)
I tell em, “You know what’s gonna happen with Islam?
Whatever’s happening with us”
If we smoked out, Islam is gonna be smoked out
If we doin alright, Islam is gonna be doin alright
People talk about Islam like it’s some giant livin in the hillside
comin down to visit the townspeople
We +are+ Islam
Me, you, everybody, we are Islam
So Islam is goin where we goin
So the next time you ask yourself where Islam is goin
ask yourself.. where am I goin? How am I doin?
Til you get a clear idea
So.. if Islam is about the people
and the.. Islam won’t get better until the people get better
then how do people get better? (Hmmmm…)
Well, from my understanding people get better
when they start to understand that, they are valuable
And they not valuable because they got a whole lot of money
or cause somebody, think they sexy
but they valuable caause they been created by God
And God, makes you valuable
And whether or not you, recognize that value is one thing
You got a lot of socities and governments
tryin to be God, wishin that they were God
They wanna create satellites and cameras everywhere
and make you think they got the all-seein eye
Eh.. I guess The Last Poets wasn’t, too far off
when they said that certain people got a God Complex
I believe it’s true
I don’t get phased out by none of that, none of that
helicopters, the TV screens, the newscasters, the..
satellite dishes.. they just, wishin
They can’t really never do that
When they tell me to fear they law
When they tell me to try to
have some fear in my heart behind the things that they do
This is what I think in my mind
And this is what I say to them
And this is what I’m sayin, to you check it
