"You want it one way, but it's the other way." - Marlo

11:27pm: Lil Wayne ft Jay-Z (Mr. Carter) NEW MUSIC VIDEO

Yeah, that stuff I promised last week didn't happen. Maybe next weekend.

In the meantime, here goes a video spoof of Shawn and Wayne Carter's - Mr. Carter.

4:03pm: Stolen Beats for Sale
There is this guy that used to live with Nice Rec and Dan Dabber. He is Dabber's friend from high school. Dude seemed pretty cool (or so we thought). Shit happens and this guy moves back to Texas, he takes a beat cd of Nice Rec beats with him. This is entirely normal because Nice Rec gives his beats out to everyone.

Except this guy, decides to make himself a Myspace page and sell these Nice Rec beats without his permission. He makes a blog post about a beat that Peter has made called "Let the Sun Shine," about how it's some of his best work yet, yet he didn't make the beat. After a lot of complaining, this guy takes the beats off of his Myspace site, but does not take them off the market for sale. He has the audacity to call us "liars" and "haters." His friend calls Dabber a little bitch. The whole situation is pretty ridiculous.

One of his friends in Texas has already rhymed over one of the said beats. In addition, some of the beats the guy has for sale have already been rhymed over and ready to be released on an album.

These are the two thoughts I have on this situation:

1.) This guy is devoid of any kind of moral values. This ranks in the top three dick moves I have ever seen personally in my life.

2.) It's not like Peter won't make any more heat, there are newer beats that this guy won't get to go anywhere near, but we're literally talking about years of work that this guy is capitalizing on. The guy couldn't have done it to a nicer person. Furthermore, Dabs and Pete considered this guy a good friend up until this happened and that is fucking sad.

http://www.myspace.com/edwardbates
(if you click the givemebeats website, there are the beats for sale.)

11:22pm: Twin Peaks
In preparation for the inevitable withdrawal I will have from The Wire ending in two weeks, here is my best attempt at making the transition go smoothly:



Yes, I have seen every episode of Homicide: Life on the Street and Oz.

10:53pm: Brief notes on an existence
Things that have been occupying my mind as late:

The sound of a 40oz beer clanking against a motherfuckers head - My friend Saer (sorry, I should find better work of his) had a going away party this weekend, and is often the case when you put any number of graff writers in a room a fight broke out. I wasn't present for said brawl, in fact I was downstairs trying to get a beer. It sounded like stampede of bulls. Anyways, apparently some kid got beat down, some other kid got clanked in the head with a 40 bottle, and all of the fighters got kicked out of the party. The whole story was told to me enthusiastically by an overzealous 18 year old. The cops came shortly thereafter and broke things up. It was 11:15pm. A little early for a bit of the ultraviolence, eh?

Eckhart Tolle - Lately I have been listening to nothing but this guy's audio books and Kool Keith at work. His droll voice is a sharp contrast to the panderings of Kool Keith or Black Elvis or whatever he wants to call himself. I have been reading a lot of self-development/philosophical/religious material for the past year-plus now and I feel like I have just begun some long journey. I have read a lot of crap, I have read a lot of good stuff, but most of it is just regurgitated material. This guy is one of the best, though. "The Power of Now" is power-ful stuff. Heh.

Kool Keith - In preparation for an upcoming Man of the Hour. I downloaded 11 of this mans albums and I feel like I have only just gotten started. Before I started, I wasn't much of a Kool Keith fan, and to be honest, I still don't like him all that much, but the dude definitely has some jams. Plus, an obsessive like me will try to figure out where all of his porn samples come from. Which led me to download...

Deep Throat (film) -



I really feel sorry for you W. Mark Felt, not only for getting such a dumb codename bestowed upon you, but to be named after a ludicrously silly movie. Well, I guess it IS porn, and this porn has a much better plot than the garbage that comes out nowadays. Although, all of the porn that comes out nowadays is gonzo films, so unless you are downloading reality porn (MilfHunter, Bangbus, etc. etc.), your porn probably doesn't have any plot to it. I digress...

Final Fantasy 12 - I should have beat this game over a year ago... well, I was like 10 hours in out of the 50 needed to complete this game a year ago and I just decided to pick it back up on Friday. Of course, I forgot the whole plot of the game so I decided to restart. Vaan is pretty much the most annoying character ever to headline a video game. For that matter, why do the protagonists of RPG's have to be shorter white (looking) males with funky hairdos? I mean, I haven't played that many, but ff7 (cloud), ff8 (squall), chrono trigger (crono), chrono cross (serge), and suikoden III (Hugo) all fit this description!

The Wire - This season is ongoing, so I won't give any spoilers here. This season is just outright ridiculous. I am going to have to wait until long after the season is over and everything has settled in to give my true opinion on it. I will say I do enjoy the cameos, but a lot of them look thrown in and forced.

LOST - Two episodes in and this show is looking great. The four new characters they have look intriguing, although the "ghostbuster" feels a little over the top. Here's hoping that he gets killed very soon. Holla!

7:17am: "These motherfuckers don't play, do they?"
My obsession with The Wire has reach new heights.

I have decided that I am now going to through life and quote The Wire as much as possible. I have seen every episode 3 or 4 times now (I lost count) and already do this anyways. Many times, it's just a matter of racking my brain until the appropriate quote comes to mind. I am talking about facebook, myspace, aim, and g-talk. Most of which I am friends with you folks on.

9:33pm: J. Pitts' songs of 2007
So, my last.fm encompasses all of the songs I listen to on my computer, which accounts to maybe 90% of all of my music listening. If I remember, I scrobble the songs on my ipod, but more often than not I forget.

As you can see, Will.I.Am takes two of the three top spots this year. A lot of those plays come from a very interesting shrooming experience I had two months ago. Shout out to Chris Flyer and Laura for influencing some of the songs towards the bottom of this list (the Squeeze and the David Bowie).

No pretty image charts here, as last.fm doesn't have that feature for year charts.

Stay tuned to the podcast for more Best of 2007 stuff.

# Artist - Album - # of times played
1 Will.I.Am – Heartbreaker 36
2 The Jacksons – Can You Feel It 34
3 Will.I.Am – She's A Star 30
4 J.J. Brown & Ludacris – End Of the Night/Love Don't Want To Leave 27
4 Bloc Party – Blue Light Add this track to your playlist 27
6 Kanye West – Everything I Am 26
7 Dabrye – My Life 24
8 Little Brother – Atari 2600 20
9 Slum Village – 1,2 19
9 Art of Noise – Moments In Love (Single Version) 19
11 Squeeze – Slap and Tickle 18
12 David Bowie – Space Oddity 17
12 Squeeze – Take Me I'm Yours 17
12 The Beach Boys – God Only Knows 17
15 50 Cent – Window Shopper 16

10:20am: The Change
I am not feeling the setup here. It's cool to read peoples posts and all, but I think I like blogger better. Also, because I am such a literal person, I have problems with this being called a LiveJournal when you really can't say everything you want to in a LiveJournal without some people being like, "what the fuck?"

Heh, maybe I will cross-post because I am weird.

7:53pm: Turducken
You stuff a turkey with a duck which has already been stuffed with a small chicken and you get a turducken. This sounds pretty fucking amazing.

A photo:


If you go to the wikipedia page, apparently some people bard a turducken with bacon. This is why America has problems with obesity. WHO WOULD THINK OF SUCH A THING?

I haven't made a post since Halloween but things have been going decently well. I'm still working crap temp jobs, but this is better than working for the lunatic I worked for this summer. The downside is stability and less money. The upside is my mental health.

7:50am: "Ayo Technology" Day
I am pretty dependent on computers. I sit at one on average about twelve hours a day. This Saturday, I have decided that I will not use a computer or watch television all day. It's going to take some pre-planning (I have a podcast recording later that day, etc.) but I am curious to see what I do with my time. More than likely, I will spend the time catching up on books I have been meaning to read.

8:42pm: "Sweep the leg, Johnny!"

An (absurd?) music video which acts as a continuation of The Karate Kid from Johnny's (the bully in Cobra Kai's) perspective. All of the male stars sans Mr. Miyagi make an appearance in the video.

The Karate Kid is quite possibly my favorite movie of all time. it doesn't look like Martin Kove has aged at all in 20 years!

5:55pm: Nas' Greatest Hits tracklist
[quote]
Nas - Greatest Hits Tracklist

1. Less Than An Hour - (ft. Cee-Lo)
2. Surviving The Times
3. It Ain't Hard To Tell
4. NY State Of Mind
5. One Love
6. If I Ruled The World - (ft. Lauryn Hill)
7. Street Dreams (Remix) - (ft. R. Kelly)
8. Hate Me Now - (ft. Puff Daddy)
9. Ether
10. One Mic
11. Got UR Self A....
12. Made You Look
13. Oochie Wally
14. Bridging The Gap - (ft. Olu Dara)[/quote]

I hope this isn't for real. Where is 'The Message?' Why the hell is Oochie Wally on there? Furthermore, I don't think these songs mesh well together to form a complete album. Fuck this...

11:03pm: Halloween Costume decisions
So I broke down and bought a clown costume off of ebay. This means I am going to be Homey the Clown for Halloween. My dilemma from here is how far do I want to take it? I got a pretty cheap deal on the clown costume (approx. 10 bucks), but do I want to spend another $20 on the bald curly clown wig? Or do I just get a generic wig? Also, do I take it a step further and get clown shoes? It will be very difficult to dance wearing those. Lastly, I need to find a HUGE sock so I can sock people in the head. Homey don't play that!

9:33pm: Scratched discs
Nothing pisses me off more than when I put in a DVD to watch, get half way through only to get a black screen with the message "Unable to read disc." This is a frequent thing for movies taken out of the library. Technology needs to pick up the pace and create something better than dvd's... but I guess sooner or later, you'll probably just be able to download what you want straight to your television in a couple of seconds.

12:56am: Pittsburgh vs. NYC
One thing I miss about NYC (and Philly) is the PRIDE people have in their city. I AM FROM BROOKLYN, I say it all the time, I am proud of it. However, I have been in Pittsburgh for six years so I'll rep it real hard. In fact, when I am in Brooklyn, I am usually talking about Pittsburgh, but it's hard to tell Brooklyn people anything ("Oh you're from Paris, France?"

It is fucking annoying to hear people say, "oh, that was pretty good, for Pittsburgh," or for people who throw events, "I am just trying to make something happen in Pittsburgh," like there wasn't already some shit going on? I am really not feeling the negative attitude around here. The problem is that most of these people are actually from Pittsburgh and have nothing to compare it to. How are you going to be ashamed of where you come from?

And for the record, Pittsburgh has its pluses and minuses over NYC, I like the low costs, yinzer girls, and the small town in a big city atmosphere. Plus the public transit really isn't that bad. I will never get the obsession with the Pittsburgh Steelers (there is a little TOO much pride), but overall I like it.

8:02pm: Podcast: 9/11 Episode
I usually don't plug the podcast on my LiveJournal, but what the hell.

I just put up our annual 9/11 In Memoriam All Instrumental episode. It's a tradition that started when I was working at WPTS and carried over into the podcast. It's also an excuse to play dope instrumental tracks that have come out over the past year. Yeah, it's late... but we're getting back on track.

Click here to get the episode:

Oh yeah, I lost the old domain so go to jpittsshow.com in the future.

Coming up: The 50 vs. Kanye Episode, a special west coast underground set hosted by my boy Zemba, and episode 30 is all J. Dilla (RIP).

4:23pm: Halloween Costume Ideas?
Every year I try to have a sensibly priced but good costume. Two years ago, I was Tyrone Biggums from the Chappelle Show (pictured below), and one year ago I was a Baseball Fury from the Warriors. This year I am thinking about being Homey the Clown from In Living Color. I have been trying to get a friend to team up and be Fire Marshall Bill but no one is biting. I don't know how feasible Homey the Clown will be though, it's not the price of the costume, but doing the face paint and stuffing my stomach repeatedly over the course of two weeks sounds tedious.

With that said, anyone have any great ideas?

3:24am: Girl, stop lying!
I am done with internet dating. It is simply a waste of time to go out with someone you haven't met in real life, because the internet can hide so many things not from just someones appearance, but their personality as well (but it's mostly their appearance). If someone only has close-up pictures, or pictures at really odd angles, THEY ARE PROBABLY FAT! Not to say that there's anything wrong with being fat, I am just personally not trying to date any fat women right now. Maybe if you show me a proper exercise and diet plan then we can talk. I am a bone, do you see any pictures of me trying to hide my skinniness?

Also, how the fuck are you going to lie and align your interests with the same as mine and then have the nerve to not even know what I'm talking about? If I said I like The Crying of Lot 49 and you say it's one of your favorite books, don't you think I'm going to ask you about it? If I said I like LOST and you can't tell Mr. Eko from Michael, don't you think I'm going to find out? At least read some synopsis's on Wikipedia!

10:08am: Hannibal the Conqueror
I was just reading about how Vin Diesel is starring and directing in a movie based on the life of Hannibal, the Carthaginian warrior who killed a lot of Romans during the Second Punic War. I am a History major especially interested in wartime tactics so Hannibal was one of my favorite subjects when I was in college. The man used elephants to whup peoples asses for crying out loud!

The movie has been in talks for a long time, and the man who I always thought was going to star in the movie was Denzel Washington. HE would have been a better choice than The Babysitter, even though I always envision a foreigner with a thick accent whenever I see historical war movies like this. Oh well, what can you do?

9:20pm: The Las Vegas Post
I wanted to wait until I had pictures to complement my post but since dudes don't know about flickr etc. and are taking forever to get me a CD, I'll work with what I have. Basically, Las Vegas was a good fucking time.

Highlights:

Quarks Bar and Restaurant
I grew up a HUGE Star Trek so I JUMPED at the opportunity to eat cuisine inspired by the television show. I am being totally serious here. Well, first I should mention that they also have two rides: The Borg and the Klingon Experience. Both are cheesy-if you've been on the Back to the Future ride at Disney then you will have some idea of what I'm talking about.

The restaurant was where it was at, though. Not because the food was particularly good (apparently Klingons eat Buffalo Wings), but because the Klingon waitress was sexy as hell! Rawr!!! I asked for her number, and she told me that I would have to best her mate in a B'atleth first. "He has over 5,000 victories to his name!"

The Gun Range
In Las Vegas, they allow you to shoot semi-automatic weapons at the gun range. While my friend Matthew jumped at the opportunity to shoot some form of an uzi, I decided to shoot a Mini Ruger Sniper Rifle. The kickback from the thing almost gave me a dent in my head! Plus, they placed my target (Three white people because you know, if I had a choice I'd shoot white people ;)) so far away that I couldn't see if I was actually hitting my mark or not. However at the end, when I got my target back, I DIDN'T miss one shot! Man, I was amped. I actually have a picture of my target that I'll put up when I get the chance. The white girl in the pic got one right through her forehead, haha!

DJ A-Trak at Club I Can't Remember
Bonics was in town for the first night I was there. "Come to the Triple 5 Soul party, A-Trak is spinning!" Fuck yeah! It's Wednesday night, my first night there, I ditch my friends, and head on over to the club. The club is FUCKING PACKED, but people there from Las Vegas are whining because they claimed club was dead. "But it's Wednesday," I say. I spent a LOT more money on bottle service than I should have and left around 6AM to the sunrise and A-Trak still spinning. Geez, do these people even sleep? A-Trak wasn't that impressive, by the way. Give me a Nice Rec, Selecta, Bonics, or even a Nugget and Zimmie, and the same results would have been attained.

Law School Interview
On my way to my Law School interview, I happened to pass by another objective on my list the hiphopsite.com store. It was all boarded up! Their digital store is up and running now so I guess we can say they have officially moved into the 21st century!

Anyways, UNLV is a nice enough campus. The Law School was cool. They are saying that Las Vegas is a haven for lawyers right now since, they didn't even have a law school in all of Nevada until 6 years ago, and because there are currently no appellate courts, which is something they will be debating about in the next couple of years as the cities population rises.

Gambling
I didn't do much of this. Just $20 on slots. I am not that much of a gambler, I guess.

The Peyote Search
I was on a mission to find peyote from the second I stepped off of the plane. The only reason I figured I'd find it there was stupid and stereotypical. I had heard "go to the desert where Native Americans are." Okay. I asked quite a few people if they. Some stripper (see below) said she had done it while she was in Florida, but she was also the kind of person that carried around a little Hooters blouse that she would dress up her beer bottles with:

"My bottle is flat chested," The stripper says. .

"Well here," I respond. "Stuff these napkins down her blouse here and voila, we have boobs!"

"YAY!" She kisses me on the cheek. "You just made me very happy!"

One cab driver laughed at me when I asked about peyote. "I have been working out here for 15 years and I have been asked about a LOT of weird shit. Not one person has ever asked about peyote." Coincidentally, this man gave us a free ride home from the aforementioned strip club. "The Black kid? Who asked about peyote? Man, jump on in!"

Jaime Pressly
We saw her at the Palms while we were waiting to get into a club we didn't get into. She was in some clothing store. One dude I was with, "was like there's Jaime Pressly!" I'm like, "the whore cheerleader from 'Not Another Teen Movie? She's short as hell!' She is like 5 foot nothing.

Treasures Gentleman's Club
Um. I am not going to talk about this, but we went to the strip club on two different nights. It was a fun time.

Getting Married Mission
So, I had this whole plan to get married and divorced in the same night while in Vegas. I didn't take it seriously until the last night we were there. When we went out to the bar (Coyote Ugly, that place sucks by the way), I would ask random groups of girls: "hey, you girls look cool, do you want to get married?" And of course, I'd get laughed at, or I'd get a polite "no," or a "get the fuck away from me." One hour into it however, we met these girls from the Bay area. "Sure," she says. "But I have a boyfriend." I shrugged.

To make a long story short, these girls (and even my friends to some extent) refused to take this as seriously as I wanted to take this, and we ended up having a mock wedding ceremony in the middle of the New York New York casino. To the point of where we had a crowd of about 20 people watching us. Then we went up to their hotel room and drank all of their alcohol while they showed us all of the Bay area dances (Thizz faces blah blah blah... and even the Superman dance). I was impressed.

The Job

I was riding on a Greyhound bus from Philly to Pittsburgh one year ago. I met a man who was riding Greyhound all the WAY TO VEGAS! "How long will that take you?" "Three and a half days or so." Fuck that! Anyways, the man is a private investigator and told me to look him up if I was ever in town. Sure enough, I did when I was in town. He says, "hey kid, are you good with computers? My secretary is leaving soon, she's moving in with her boyfriend in Portland (damn hippie), and I could sure use the help." Well, one thing leads to another, and I have decided I will make one of the more drastic decisions in my life and move out to Vegas in January. Shit, I don't have a job and don't currently have a lease, seems as perfect a time as any! I love Pittsburgh, but I am at least going to get a 365 day break from here.

And that, was my trip to Las Vegas.

10:38am: J. Pitts' 50 Movie Marathon
Being unemployed leaves time to do things that are fun and come to some realizations about my life. I have realized that I am not as film savvy as most people I talk to about film, and feel that I should at least have a working knowledge of "great" films. Therefore, I have decided I am going to watch 50 movies that are considered to be "great." I plan to take my time with this, I'll probably watch one a week, and since I am getting the movies from the library it might take longer if the movies have a long waiting list.

I also want to do with the same thing but with books, so I joined a book club. We are currently reading "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (kill me now). I think I might ahve

Anyways, here is the movie list. I took the list from a couple of places, taking off any movies that I had already seen and adding others in their place. This basically just a rough draft so any suggestions are welcome. The list is in no particular order, meaning that while I will countdown from 50, by no means do I think that Silence of the Lambs is the second greatest movie of all time.

50. Schindlers List (I want to see this again. I need to mentally prepare myself, Jesus this is first on the list!).
49. Casablanca
48. The Seven Samurai (my reward for getting through the first two tear jerkers?)
47. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
46. The Shawshank Redemption
45. Raging Bull
44. Donnie Darko (This wasn't on anyone's list, I just want to see it).
43. The Searchers
42. The Breakfast Club
41. The Color Purple (My Mother says it's a travesty I haven't seen this)
40. Citizen Kane (I have also already seen this, but I want to see it again.)
39. Psycho (May get moved up for the Halloween season). ]
38. The Shining (See #39).
37. Chariots of Fire
36. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Nope, never seen any Indiana Jones movies).
35. Unforgiven
34. Easy Rider (Someone told me I should take psychedelics and see this, maybe I will.)
33. The Bridge on River Kwai
32. Blade Runner
31. Lawrence of Arabia
30. Gone with the Wind
29. The Big Sleep
28. E.T. (nope, never seen this).
27. The Never Ending Story (All of my friends quote this movie, so I am seeing this).
26. Annie Hall
25. Vertigo
24. Network
23. Bonnie and Clyde
22. Dirty Harry
21. Saturday Night Fever
20. American Graffiti
19. A James Bond movie I have never seen any of these.
18. To Kill a Mockingbird
17. From Russia With Love (Never seen a James Bond movie)
16. West Side Story
15. Amadeus
14. Double Indemnity
13. Brasil
12. A Streetcar Named Desire
11. Braveheart
10. North by Northwest
9. Jaws
8. The Graduate (This is the third repeat, but I always thought Dustin Hoffman was the man in this movie).
7.My Dinner with Andre
6. 12 Angry Men
5. The Wizard of Oz (I think this will be another movie where I will be tripping on psychedelics).
4. The Sound of Music (This movie sounds terrible, but my ex-girlfriend swore by it. Well, this and Mary Poppins. And Mary Poppins just ain't happening!)
3. The Godfather part II (A reward for watching #4. I have already seen this, numerous times.)
2. The Silence of the Lambs
1. *I don't know what this one will be, but I want to go out with a bang.

So there you have it, 50 evenings where I will probably smoke a few bowls, pop some popcorn and watch a DVD.

9:07pm: The Compass
The results kind of surprised me.

4:54pm: Too $hort says...
People stay quoting lyrics in their LiveJournal. I will follow suit.

Ronald Regan, came up to me, and asked me 'do you have the answer?'
To the U.S. economy, and a cure for cancer?
I said, 'what're you doing in the white house, if you're not selling cocaine?'
Ax yo wife Nancy Reagan, I know she'll spit that game
Like, one night she came to my house, and gave me a blow job.
She licked my dick, up and down like it was corn on the cob.

--Too Short "Cusswords"

7:44pm: Do I look like Chris Rock?
Okay, so I walked into Town Tavern last night only to get shout out from the DJ: "Chris Rock is in the Building!" I get this comparison on average about once a week. Do I really look like him? I guess I can see it through the smile and the fact that my hair is longer now.

1:25am: Once I stepped off the plane.
So basically, Las Vegas was amazing and I will get to how amazing it was soon... but the second I stepped off the plane back here in Pittsburgh, the following things happened to me:

1.) My allergies returned.
2.) I found out I am out of a job.
3.) I am owed over $2000 with little prospect of getting it back without legal action.

I think this is an omen. It is time to leave Pittsburgh.

10:04pm: So who goes on Dating OnDemand?
I mean seriously...

Post comments as to how you think I looked.