Frodo Form 10-28 and videos.

Maybe size matters, because I have the new GTA game for the PSP and I can’t play it on end like I can other games, likely because of the size of the handheld. I know I will be sucked in, but the going is kind of slow. Plus it’s a return to the great city of GTA3.

The rule with tits and dicks are as this: Size doesn’t matter; but bigger is better.

But it’s on such a tiny, tiny screen. You can go see the system. He’s the polar bear… with little tiny feets.

On Gwen Stefani’s Luxurious video.

Steve: Is she trying to appeal to black audiences?
Me: She’s just trying to appeal to every culture.

I still don’t like ringtones of other people. Only because they reveal way too much of a person’s style. I don’t care for you if you have Pussycat dolls or 50 cent as your ring. WOW. You are listening to the radio. (Clap. Clap. *pause*, clap). But I can say that nothing weird out people like my Black Velvet ringtone. And I love it.

To all the ND or anti SC fans, Leinart still would have made it in even if Bush hadn’t pushed him. That was destiny. Still the highlight of my year.

2 years later, I will rank SSX 3 of one of the best games of all time. Not only does it capture the feeling of being on a ski mountain, it envelops you in it. SSX on tour is pretty gd good, and I say this after 16 hours in 3 days of play. But there was something about 3 that was like GTA 3 and Mario Brothers 3. You could play with the sheer joy because you had no idea what you were going to do next, and every option was rewarding.

Now a video review:

All time videos #8:

Nirvana – Smells like teen spirit.

In Spin’s recent 100 best albums since whenever, they ranked Nevermind behind Ok Computer #1 (the right choice) and Public Enemy’s It takes a nation #2, with Nevermind being #3. Except for #2 being wildly out of place not because of content, but because of Spin’s endless attempt to be urban, two of those were dead on. My #2 for the decade would either be The Bends or Automatic for the people or Loveless (My Bloody Valentine). And if you are going to nod to the rap community, Doggystyle and the Chronic are good go-to selections, but Ready to Die is the only real choice.

But I digress.

The review of the album hinted to something I never knew or realized. The album is not a grunge album outside of it’s means. It’s produced and recorded like a rock album; and more specifically, a rock album from the 80’s. This is an album mixed like a hair metal album. The content is vastly different, but the delivery is almost the same. The album was a hit because it was different in intent. Yet, it delivered in a way few rock albums since Zeppelin’s 4 have.

It’s not that Nirvana were that much different than Poison or Motley Crue in terms of music style. It’s that they were that much better and they cared about the music; not the fame or results. They simply did what everyone was waiting for after years of the 80’s suck.

They were the rock and roll that we were waiting for.

Grunge is not a genre; it is a period.

Nirvana were the band that finally were able to silence people with quality.

The video stands as a masterpiece not for just what it did in execution, but for when it came along. It tapped into the teenage mindset about music like “Born to Run” by Bruce did. It’s the whole, this is who we are, and this is how we want to live mindset. Bruce was all about finding who you were in an era with a lack of national identity.

Nirvana came out with a song and a video that proclaimed: This is who we are. This is the new way. And we are sick of what you think we are.

It’s not just the performance theater of the video in the gymnasium. It is that everyone in the band seems to know what they are doing to take this idea to it’s finish. I know that Cobain hated this video. I also know, that if not for this video, Nirvana would be The Replacements of the 90’s. While the rest of the video catalog of the band tried to reshape and counteract how they were acting in the video, it stands as one of the landmark events of time where a group of people made the hard choice.

They are able to sell the song as performers. That’s where their involvement ends in the video. It is the director who got it right. The video is about teenage riot, and if the director did the Sonic Youth video of “Teenage Riot” first, Nirvana would still be unknowns.

The video captures the unleash. That moment of pure rebellion against the Status Quo. The moment when they really aren’t going to take it anymore.

As it stands, Smells like Teen Spirit looks less like a group of people reacting to a live act which hit them at the right time and when they needed it most.

It feels like a baptism.