Common, John Legend, De La Soul @ HOB

Went to check out De La Soul, John Legend, and Comm at the HOB Monday night. Great show is all I can say. De La did alot of old school stuff Buddy, Me Myself and I, Potholes in My Lawn, Ooooh- but they still can work a crowd, I loved it when they brought out Dres from the Black Sheep and he performed Flava of the Month and he got the crowd amped up when he did The Choice is Yours (engine engine number 9 on the new your transit line, if that train jumps of the track pick it up pick it up!!), then Rahzel, the beat box man performed for awhile, next Common came and did his thing, I had heard about Common's live show being like that - and he lived up to the billing. He did alot of cuts from the new album including my three favorites - Go, Testify, and Faithful and then he went back and did some older stuff of course including one of the greatest hip-hop joints ever I used to love H.E.R. and then mixed it up with his verse from his and Erykah's joint "love of my life", before flippin into a freestyle over Electric Relaxation. Comm might have just propelled himself into a tie with Game for being my favorite MC of the moment. But Comm is an MC in every sense of the word. Ummmm I left during John Legend's part of the show - No disrespect but I'd seen him perform before with Alicia Keys and after he performed "she don't have to know" my fav it was time for me to go.

Tony Rock @ the Improv

Me and the Curvy one went down to the Improv the other day and saw Tony Rock. I watched him on All of Us, but I had no idea he was so funny in person. I don't think I stopped laughing the whole time. Considering the pressure he has to deal with being the younger brother of Chris, I think the man did his thing, and he was funny, and intelligently funny. So check him out if you get the chance!!!

Angie Stone Concert Review

Went to see Angie Stone in concert last night. Man she is an incredible performer!!! I love having concerts here at the House of Blues, although I kind of feel bad that its presence has affected other venues like the Agora and the Odeon. But it is a great place to see a show and Angie did her thing. She was casual - did half of her show in her bare feet but it didn't matter to me, because she has a beautifully strong voice and she blows you away with it.

Fantasic Four Review

Went to see Fantasic Four today. I thought it was pretty good. It wasn't Spiderman which is probably the best of the Marvel comic-to-movies but it wasn't the worst (that would be Daredevil followed closely by Elektra - Daredevil is only worst because of Ben Affleck). Buton a scale of 1-4 I would give it a 3. I guess I could come up with some kind of slick rating system....hmmm I will have to think of that. But the movie was pretty good. The only problem was as it always is with the first in a superhero movie, you have to get into the background of the characters and how they became that way, so its almost like you are trying to force too much into a 2 hour time span. Also there isn't a whole lot of time for character development, so you don't get into Reed and Sue's relationship or why Johnny is a jerk, or Ben and his girlfriend. They are just kind of let out there with no real story behind them. Besides the fact I was never the biggest Fantastic 4 fan anyway. But I would say 3 stars, its worth seeing.

Batman Begins Review

Yeah I know this one is a little late, but I finally made time to go see Batman Begins, and although I wasn't orginally sold as Christian Bale being Batman, I thought he was great in the role. Not as cartoony as the last Batman, and not as dark as Burton's but I thought it was great. Michael Caine stole the show as Alfred though, what a great casting call. Although I really hope they don't try to make another one with the Joker, because Jack Nicholson was great ("wait till they get a load o' me")