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The Evolution of Joe Rogan
Joe Rogan has evolved.
From Taekwondo black belt to his best known roles as a supporting actor in the 90’s NBC sitcom News Radio and as the host/ringmaster of the same networks’ ridiculous reality show sensation top rated show Fear Factor, Rogan’s career has already been a resounding success. But after the end of Fear Factor and starring in the failed reboot of the man show with fellow comedian Doug Stanhope, the actor/comedian/game show host was faced with a decision stagnant on his successful known path while waiting on the next project or evolve.
OBAMA THE BADASS
Why are Americans so pleased that Osama Bin Laden’s been killed by Obama?
No that wasn’t a typo and I assure you I haven’t been living under a rock for the last few weeks.
President Obama himself said in his latest 60 minutes interview that We shouldn’t spike the ball in the end zone. Yet few are listening.
Since Bin Laden’s death, there’s been a strange brew rising, so many Americans in so many varied places are overjoyed not just with the fact Bin Laden’s dead. But the fact that Obama personally ordered the hit. Many seem to believe that Obama has finished a master course in Badassery.
The Gloves are off
On The King of Limbs
In reaction to the release of the King of Limbs and What I can only assume was a puzzled reaction the tornado of hype that came with it, a recent article in the New York Magazine’s Vulture blog screeched that Radiohead makes you work hard as a fan. Point taken. But Radiohead is simpler and easier to enjoy than most. Like Cameron Crowe once crowed about his film Vanilla Sky “whereever you wanna meet it, it’ll meet you there.“
For hardcore fans and critical cats there are two decks of Radiohead albums The masterpieces: The Bends, OK Computer,Kid A, and In Rainbows and the lesser siblings. Limbs is a lesser sibling.
Like all Radiohead spare albums Limbs is beautiful, engaging, smart and unique, tracks like the opener Bloom, viral video sensation Lotus Flower, and piano ballad Cotex are all destined for fantastic live tracks for tours to come but
A Radiohead album is like a magic carpet ride that swoops you away spinning you away to parts unknown where every distortion is a twisted sketch of humanity narrated by Thom Yorke’s haunted voice.
Each album even Kid A’s half sibling Amnesiac is a sketch onto itself which is where The King of Limbs falls victim. At first Limbs, feels eerily familiar a cousin to Yorke’s solo album The Eraser but as it washes over you and the record runs down your spine you see a band doing what it always does evolving. Limbs is leaping toward something new but I’m still unsure whether it stuck the landing.
After much steeping Limbs lingers in between gears and may serve as both pallet cleanser and preview of things to come.
