TECB’s Second Annual Hot Stove Predictions

Posted in Baseball, Sports with tags , , , , , , on November 27, 2009 by Verbal Spacey

The Winter Meetings?

The Winter Meetings?

I’m a little late this year, as a couple of guys have already signed as of this posting (Omar Vizquel and Alex Gonzalez). However, if for nothing more than self gratification, I had to get our second annual prediction post out to the public. Here’s a slight re-introduction to what lies ahead:

Here is the list of, I’d wager to say 90%, of the MLB free agents for the 2009-2010 off-season. I say 90% because I left out some guys that I didn’t care too much for as well as all of the relievers who aren’t considered “Closers.” I did the latter for time constraints. In anyevent, the list here includes the players name, their upcoming baseball season age, a quick synopsis about them or about why I think they’re heading to a certain destination, and then finally, said destination. Scope out last year’s list here; I can tell you honestly, I didn’t fare too well. It seems free agents, on average, tend to sign with their previous team. But where’s the fun in that? Please feel free to comment if you agree, disagree, or if you wonder where I came up with some of the guesses. Without further ado, here is this year’s list…

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The Ginnifer Goodwin and TECB guide to Thanksgiving

Posted in We're Fat Boys Who Like Food with tags , , , on November 26, 2009 by Tenacious Lee

Step 1: Adopt turkey
Step 2: Kill, brine, and roast that shit
Step 3: Eat adopted turkey

Happy Thanksgiving!

By the way, anyone else scope that ridiculously dope looking GBC recipe in the Journal last Wednesday?  Titty Murphy, where you at!?!

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Non-Stop Chach

Posted in 401 Gettin' It Done, For All The Broke Willies, Hip-Hop, Music with tags , , on November 24, 2009 by Tenacious Lee

Dolla Dolla Bill, Y'all

Only a few hours after I posted the new Chachi joint produced by Falside, another single hit our email — it’s called “Last Dolla” and is available for free download via Soundcloud.  But first, before you snatch that shit and run, some words from Chach:

“I just wanted to share some new music with you as we are on the dawn of colder days and tougher times.  The holidays are approaching so here is a gift.  I hope you enjoy.”

Chachi x Falside x DJ Therion

Posted in 401 Gettin' It Done, For All The Broke Willies, Hip-Hop, Music with tags , , , on November 23, 2009 by Tenacious Lee

This new Chachi track hit our gmail last week sometime and it’s unquestionably worthy of putting an end to this TECB dry-spell.  Give it a listen…

Go here for the free download of “One For Chach,” but also keep an eye open for The Gold, Chachi’s upcoming mixtape in his ongoing “Color Mixtape Series,” in which this song will be featured.

Also.  Falside released Five Finger Discount — a remix project featuring Sean Price, B-Real, The Beatnuts, and Kev Brown, among many others — a few weeks back that can be, and very well should be, downloaded here for free.

Nice dog. This just ain’t gonna work out.

Posted in Album Talk/Review, Music, This Is Not Hip-Hop with tags , , on October 29, 2009 by Tenacious Lee

Since Verbal and I decided that Mayer Hawthorne’s A Strange Arrangement would be our first album dissected in our three-thousand-mile-away music club, I figured it would be in good fashion to post the video to his lead single, “Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out,” to let other TECB-heads decide whether or not they’d like to get down wit’ da get down.

By the way, the single is actually printed on red heart-shaped vinyl like you see in the video.  Check it.

I hope Brad Pitt stars in this… MUSIC CLUB

Posted in Album Talk/Review, Hip-Hop, Music, This Is Not Hip-Hop with tags , , , , , , , , , , , on October 27, 2009 by Verbal Spacey

FightClub

Chuck Palahniuk should make me his Tyler Durden...minus the crazies.

No innocuous bars of soap here. It is what the title says. Think “Book Club,” but instead of romantic novels (porn sans pictures, as I used to refer to them) you use CD’s (remember them?). Tenacious Lee and I are starting our inaugural Music Club 3,000 miles apart, which is a more-than-feasible thing to do. It’s just as easy as any book club: choose an album or an artist, purchase, listen, then wax poetic. When Lee first came to me with this idea, I was excited. Ever since my move out West, I haven’t been motivated or even had the time to think about new music. This changes that and it also gets me back into TECB mode — I’m sure our droves of fans have missed my sarcasm and cynic based comments. I digress. Clearly this isn’t limited to just two people, but that’s the basic premise.

Our first choice is Mayer Hawthorne’s A Strange Arrangement. I’ve never heard of dude, but this is a perfect way to broaden my musical horizon and what better way than to share it with someone else. For the most part we’ll be doing the hippity-hop, but as you can see with Mayer Hawthorne, we won’t be handcuffing ourselves either.

Since Dr. Lee Esq. is in EL, and I, the Verbal Bone Doctor, am in the great 619, we’ll be doing most of our discussions over the phone, via text, via e-mail, and of course the next best thing in social networking, right here on TECB. I recommend this for everyone. And don’t get me wrong, I’m not sharting on book clubs. A lot of TECB contributors were involved in an All Male Book Club this summer. Towards the end it turned more into Dudes Dinner Club, but, regardless, it was an excuse to get together with people you like and you were forced, for lack of better words, to talk about stuff you like (in our case the books we picked were mostly overshadowed by our glutenous ways).

Stay tuned, folks, because you’ll see our status with Music Club right here. We’re nerds when it comes to music and we’re not ashamed of it.

p.s.

Not having a Newbury Comics on the West Coast ranks up there with no Dunkin’ Donuts…

7 Crowns of God

Posted in Concert Announcement, Hip-Hop, Music, Yo! TECB Raps with tags , , on October 16, 2009 by Tenacious Lee

Killah Priest could roll out of bed and rap about his morning routine and still manage to be nicer on the mic than 99% of emcees in existence.  This video, “7 Crowns of God,” is the lead single off of his newest LP (his second this year) Elizabeth.

Also.  Priest will be coming to Providence next Sunday, the 25th, to perform at Jerkys (check the flyer) and hold the ground down like gravity.  Hopefully he’ll do a full set this time around in RI — when I saw him last at Century Lounge (in like ‘01), Jinsu’s dad beat the shit out of some guy in the crowd and Priest bounced after like two songs.

Saukrates. Look him up. He’s under So-Crates

Posted in For All The Broke Willies, Hip-Hop, If You Don't Know, Now You Know, Music with tags , , , on October 15, 2009 by Tenacious Lee

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In my opinion, “Father Time,” the 1995 single produced by Day, is one of the most overlooked singles from the last fifteen years — it reminds me of Jeru and Preem’s work circa ‘94-’96.

Download that S right here for free (right click, save as).

National Tattooed Box Day: The Star Wars Box

Posted in What The Shit? with tags , , on October 14, 2009 by Tenacious Lee

So, Verbal texted me a little earlier alerting me how, apparently, today is “National Send Your Buddy a Camel Toe for Good Luck Day.”  And, while moose-knuck via text message is never a bad thing, I had already been celebrating National Tattooed Box Day

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Enjoy your day, and spread the word so Hallmark catches on by next year.

Who’s cooler than Josh?

Posted in Celebrity News with tags , , , on October 9, 2009 by Tenacious Lee

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That’s right, bitches, Kate Moss is.  And it’s by a cot damn long shot.  She’s such a boss.

Check out some more of her newest photo shoot with Craig McDean and all the snaps from the October issue of Vogue Paris via Cocu Magazine.