Up in the Air

Jason Reitman's third film (1st Thank You For Smoking, 2nd Juno) Up in the Air recently premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.

Starring George Clooney, Zach Galifianakis, Danny McBride (Eastbound & Down), Jason Bateman and Vera Farmiga (The Departed) Up in the Air will be released December 2, 2009.

Humble 50 Cent

"But you also live below your means? Is that important aspect?"

"I have a great opportunity. I have great examples in front of me. Presented to me without anyone speaking to me. Every morning I wake up in a home where Mike Tyson previously laid in the bed and he earned over $500 million in his career. You know so it makes me conscious."

I know his first album was named, "Get Rich or Die Tryin,'" but I have to give 50 Cent credit. He's avoided the rap cliche of rhyming about money and wealth more so than many of my favorite rappers. And yet somehow his reputation fell hard ever since Kanye and him released albums on the same day (3 years ago to the day on Friday). 50 has been putting out some good music this summer. He might be due for a comeback. Maybe?

UPDATE:

Of course the night that I acknowledge 50 Cent for avoiding the rap cliche he releases his next major single with a chorus line, "have a baby by me baby and be a millionaire."

I'm still sort of disappointed that "Ayo Technology" never became the massive hit song I expected. I really thought it was going to go big. Check out the songs below. Doesn't the melody sound the same in all 3?

50 Cent (feat. Justin Timberlake) - "Ayo Technology"

Crystal Castles - "Courtship Dating"

Kid Cudi - "Cudi Zone"

Gordon Gekko's Return

Starting next week Michael Douglas will reprise his Oscar-winning role as Gordon Gekko, as well Charlie Sheen as Oliver Stone begins shooting the sequel to 1987's Wall Street.

Says the New York Times of the upcoming sequel,

"This is familiar terrain for Mr. Stone: his father was a broker, and his 1987 film, “Wall Street,” became emblematic of an era of excess the filmmaker thought was fading, but in fact was only beginning. Now he is here to make a sequel, to capture greed on celluloid all over again, set against the backdrop of the financial collapse that began with the fall of Bear Stearns."

The Times article goes on about how the sequel only came to fruition with the recent financial collapse and America's continued obsession with excess. Wall Street 2 will star Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, Frank Langella and Susan Sarandon in addition to Douglas and Sheen.

The more succesful, the more stressful

The more and more I transform to Gordon Gekko

In the race to a billion got my face to the ceiling

Got my knees on the floor please Lord forgive him

Has he lost his religion, is the greed goin' get him?

He's had heaven on Earth, will his wings still fit him?

Jay-Z freestyle (2006)

"We Talking About the Garden"

Forget going out early Friday night. You'll find me watching Jay-Z at the Garden.

Best Dunks of All Time

Complex Magazine listed them out. I used to have the #37's.

New Music

Drake - "Fear"

Kid Cudi (feat. MGMT & Ratatat) - "Pursuit of Happiness"

Kid Cudi - "Enter Galatic"

The Oregon Ducks

Always have the coolest jerseys. It's good living in Eugene.

"This marks the fifth significant evolution of football uniforms that Nike has developed for Oregon since the company first designed the game-day apparel for the Ducks' appearance in the 1996 Cotton Bowl."

Oregon Unveils New Football Uniforms