January 2009
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1. The Streets - Everything Is Borrowed
This...
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A new personal plank holding record!
What the hell does that mean?
Well, I am SO high right now (and my shoulders are shaking and my core is pumped!). In a natural way of course. Why is that? Well, read on if you’re still interested (and if you’re not, just read the headline).
So on this very busy day for all of us, I wanted to fit in one final workout before the close of 2008, which in retrospect, proved to be a...
December 2008
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WatchThe Charlie Rose Show - Stanley Kubrick: A Life In Pictures
Featured Guests: Christiane Kubrick, Jan Harlan and Martin Scorsese
From 2001 (year of the famed space odyssey).
Charlie Rose is an excellent interviewer, the kind that Larry King can only dream about being (I like you as a person Larry, but not at all for your interviewing skills). I even watch Charlie’s show when he has boring...
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2. Black Milk - Long Story Short
The manner by...
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3. Elzhi - Motown 25 (feat. Royce Da...
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And for my 1001st post…
4. The Roots - Lost...
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Post # 1000 →
According to my mathematical calculations, this post which you, dear reader, are currently perusing is indeed number one thousand in the Magic Juan Tumblr canon. Apparently, it took me almost 21 months to get to this point (not that I was shooting for it…although when the time was approaching, I was definitely conscious of the milestone). But if you think about it, if I didn’t make...
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5. Q-Tip - Gettin Up
4 years. That’s how...
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6. N*E*R*D - Happy
So now we’re entering...
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7. Nas - Black President (DJ Green Lantern Mixtape...
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WatchThe MST3K crew brilliantly tackles a rather bizarre, Mexican holiday film: Santa Claus (1959)
“So is this neo-realism?”
Happy Merry Christmas Everyone!
“MERRY CHRIS…oh, shhhhh!”
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8. Common - Announcement (feat. Pharrell)
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9. Murs & 9th Wonder - Marry Me
Let’s...
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10. The Foreign Exchange - I Wanna Know
This is...
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BlogThings #61 - Merry Christmas
Your Christmas is Modern Your wish for the New Year is more happiness. For you, Christmas is a spiritual holiday. You can’t separate it from your beliefs. You are patient when it comes to Christmas. You don’t celebrate too early, and you don’t like seeing holiday decorations in October. You like Christmas traditions, but you’re not uptight about them. You do things your...
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11. Pharrell - HeartBeat (Demo) (feat. Nicole...
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12. Kanye West - Say You Will
Although I feel...
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Magic Juan's Top 12 Fave Tracks of 2008
Just a little primer here: if you take a gander at your calendar, it is now the 20th of December, yes? Oh yes. And that’s just the date I’ve been waiting for to systematically and chronologically count down my Top 12 favourite songs of 2008 at a one-song-a-day clip, one for each of the last 12 days of 2008 (ah, now you see the method to my madness).
With all of the delicious lists a...
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The Periodic Table of Awesoments
Made possible through the genius work of The Dapperstache
Star Trek: The First Lady Of Star Trek Passes Away... →
I’ll never forget that iconic computer voice or her roles as the original series’ Nurse Chapel as well as Deanna’s Mom in TNG. And now there is a major reason to see the new Star Trek film (which Mrs. Roddenberry just finished doing voice work for). May the queen of the galaxy rest in eternal peace alongside her king.
Stop…Obama Time! Stop… intolerance! - Obey Giant →
Well said as always, Mr. Fairey. Congrats on the TIME mag cover (a monumental achievement, no matter how you slice it). OBEY. 4. LIFE. *flashing NWO gang signs*
Film Addict - I Am 49.2% Addicted! →
Yeah, I’m putting my score out there for all to see (which, to be honest, I was hoping for a near 60% addiction…tsk-tsk). Basically, this checklist-style test (which you can take at the above link) determines just how many of the IMDB’s Top 250 rated films (which are constantly changing, now that I compare the checklist with the actual list) you have viewed. It’s a...
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WatchBehold the source of the aforesaid Arnett quote. Without a doubt one of the funniest sketches of 2K8. *funny*
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WatchParkour in the time of cholera. Man, is this agile wonder ever excited when pulling off these freerunning stunts (judging by his enthusiastic body language). Jumping THROUGH a 4-story window into water FTmfW!
The Anti-Green Movement →
Great tips on how to go brown.
“It’s a great car…you ought to get one if you want your car to SUCK BALLS!” - Will Arnett’s feelings regarding the Prius.
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Nice toss
Throwing Stuff at Bush: Animated gif parodies (via Buzzfeed).
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Kanye West to Quit Rap for Job at Louis Vuitton -... →
Judging by his recent experimental 808 album (final verdict: meh-ish, but it has its moments), the questionable quality of his live performances (his out-of-auto-tune crooning made me cringe slightly) and of course the ever-present emotional blog outbursts, Mr. West seems real unhappy with where he is in life(?). But hey, if this LV internship doesn’t work out, Ye’s got those millions...
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Watch1992. Beastie Boys. DJ Hurricane. Cypress Hill. The Arsenio Hall Show. So What’cha Want (including the remix beat drop and guest verses). Live-n-direct.
In my senior year of high school, my buddies and I entered the annual air band competition and did a meticulously rehearsed (in order for it to look natural and unrehearsed…unnatural naturalness as Master Bruce would say), spot-on...
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“Ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself. Now it is very...”
– Bruce Lee
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WatchThe famous Bruce Lee interview on The Pierre Berton Show, in its entirety (from 1971).
Included: Master Bruce’s legendary quote about becoming formless like water. And many more golden nuggets of knowledge to last us an enlightened lifetime.
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WatchTrailers From Hell presents: Eli Roth commenting on Three On A Meathook
This film reminds me of Deranged, which I caught on Scream one time. Afterwards, I got that proud horror geek feeling of needing to take a shower to clean myself off. I love how Eli (who’s wearing what appears to be a heavy metal styled Ingmar Bergman tee…haha, cool) talks about the rule that he had as a kid...
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Wax Poetics - Issue 32 →
Sly Stone, Jimmy Cliff AND Ahmad Jamal(!!!). On newsstands later this month (edit: OUT NOW! I got mine, go and get yours).
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THE 10 SHORTEST FEMALE CELEBRITY HOTTIES →
Petite women are the most beautifullest things in this world (they’re just like that! I get in ‘em).
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Okayplayer.com Boards - still giving credit to... →
What millions consider as the biggest album of all time, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, will forever remain the very first true music album that I (and many others my age) ever listened to (Sesame Street, Chipmunks, and Smurfs albums obviously do not count, but I still love those too).
I was 4 when, after a trip to Toronto to visit my relatives, I took home a bootleg cassette tape compliments...
so weirdo...: The Most Unethical Experiments →
University: a valuable cornerstone of any educated society. And the provider of the essential testing grounds for highly irrational and thoroughly horrific studies, as detailed in the above article.