The Rum Diaries- Starring Johnny Deep - Yeah he's still Rock

The Rum Diaries

This movie is hands down my favorite movie

off the year and one of my all time 

favorites. Starring the newly divorced 

Johnny Deep as a Hunter S. Thompson alias 

and Giovanni Rebisi "that guy" off friends 

who famously dumped singer "Cat Power" for 

a hot super-model. With such a high 

calibre of actors on board this film hauls 

serious crankability. Theres also a fat 

guy who's a follower reporter off the two 

mentioned who rounds out the posse all of 

which work at a falling newspaper in 

Puerto-Rico. With all the trashy columns 

that this trio writes it's worth noting 

that Giovanni doesn't write one article 

throughout the film. As the papers 

religious reporter he takes it upon 

himself to experiment in black magic 

subsequently becoming infatuated with Nazi 

extremism that seems him constantly scream 

his head off and never bath, ever.

The movies name sums up this film in it's 

entirety as there is almost no one who 

stays sober for any amount of time. But 

can you really blame there lack of 

sobriety because hard working reporters 

get seriously hot on a tropical island 

it's a well known phenomena that results 

in excessive rum drinking constantly. I 

know i'd personally prefer to die drunk as 

well because if I'm going to be killed by 

the poverty ridden inhabitants by their 

much loved machetes i'm gonna need a few 

drinks before hopping into the void. Most 

of the drama of this film unfolds in a 

"slum village" apartment in a horrendously 

poor area. The classic "cock fights" in 

their neighborhood also portray the simple 

things in life. For instance like making a 

slick grand or two off a stupid rooster 

that has been breed to be twice the size 

of any dog.  

To all the mainstream movie lovers this 

film isn't a trashy film so if your the 

person who doesn't know who Charles 

Bukowski is I'd insist that you avoid this 

film. It would just be wasted on you. 

Hell, It might even keep you up at night 

because you know what you might actually 

have to think for yourself after watching 

this film. Remember this isn't some 

sanitized Spiderman 8 3d epic that cost 

500 million dollars to make. Instead this 

is a real film shock horror and its about 

real life and how one man triumph over all 

the sober highly strung academics that 

infest journalism. It's important to 

remember Hunter S. Thompson is a man that 

aimed to destroy corruption with a pen. 

One mans fight against societies shadowy 

ideals was always doomed to drunken 

failure, nevertheless he did remarkable 

well. The subtext of this film could be 

summarized in Camus sense of the absurd. 

But for the more adventurous folk out 

there aka Auckland Uni -- Arts Students, 

this ones for you. Sorry, Engineering 

school you have about as much chance 

making sense of this film as describing 

the intricacies of Hydraulic dump truck 

levers in an interesting fashion. But then 

again you might rise to the occasion and 

comprehend the clearly insane nonsense 

that is this stunning film.

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David Dallas' "Buffalo Man" Mixtape -- Is He Crazy

David "D-Dot" Dallas recently dropped his mixtape Buffalo Man. 

His latest release since "The Rose Tint" is inspired by the undisputed funky white brother from another mother Jamiroquai, and seriously to even mess with J's songs puts anyone on thin ice even Dallas. The reason being that Jamiroquai never really fell of the "bandwagon of quality" as hits have consistently been dropped by the English born native. From the earlier days off Jamiroquai's career to recent times seeing him pile up a healthy amount of tickets in his Lambo the mans a legend. Although the singer may also drive to fast in his Ferrari's for the long arm of the law one may also feel a little bit racy listening to the mixtape from NZ's leading hip-hop head. Undoubtedly David's snap back is well and truly off and motioned in the direction of Jamiroquai in a gesture of respect.

First of all i'm a fan of David Dallas. He's pretty cool as he represents Samoa with class. Just don't count on him tweeting you back lol. I tried many times to get a retweeted to no avail haha. The stand out tracks off the album are easily discernible being; "Put it on the line", "Trouble" and "Never Let you Down". If you consider for a second that the release only has six songs thats it's a really good average of quality dope tracks. Having said that its not all rosy I wouldn't go giving "Buffalo Man" an A+ just yet. Instead I'd give it a solid B+ the reason being he is sometimes off key, falls over his own rap flow and is generally full of too much bravado all we need is substance. 

I don't mean to be overly critical because I really like D-Dot to me he arrived on Something Awesome and laid his claim, forever in the NZ history books.
The reason being his open hearted in his lyrics to the ups and downs of life.
The Buffalo Man i "fuck you" laughs .But, with tracks like the lead single "Ever Get The Feeling" his raps also lack a strong groove as the beat either goes to slow or fast for his rapping. But I can forgive this because David is hyped and I can hear it in his voice, their is some serious cash to be made if he blows up over the Atlantic. Drake the Canadian raptor banked a slick   $14 milli of one smash album, so yeah, theres a reason he's gigging crazy over there with his crew. Lets face it Davids odds are far better than blowing up than a bum off the street hitting the Big Wednesday bankroll. 

I'm gonna stress if Dallas can get his flow under control, bolster up his lyrics with some honest lyrics and smash a hit production with P money he could end up with a platinum plaque stateside. All he has to do is really channel all his potential into his next record. David Dallas is a star definitely on the rise and I ain't surprised.

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