My man Tahir is in Sundance this year for his short film, Close. This is a big, big deal, folks, and it’s awesome that I know somebody that has achieved this kind of accolade. He’s the cousin of DC to BC’s Marcel, but strangely enough, I met him during my high school years, before I even met Marcel. He was sucking faces with a cute girl (who I know, but won’t put her name out there cuz there’s no need for that and this anecdote is for pure entertainment as opposed to putting people on front street) in the backseat of some car with really fogged up windows. Summer in DC, man. It’s awesome. My, how far we’ve come!

The film isn’t even eight minutes long, so don’t tell me you can’t take the time to watch this joint. Here it is!

Some nice text about the joint (that I didn’t write, but instead stole from the YouTube video description section. Got’em.)

Synopsis: One night after a casual ‘visit’, Angela is all but ready to leave Derek’s apartment. Derek, however, is determined no to let her go without a fight.

Programmer’s Note: Tahir Jetter makes his first visit to the Sundance Film Festival with his dramatic short film Close. With its truthful and intimate look at a turning point in a relationship, Jetter describes Close as “heavily autobiographical.” In fact, at the New York premiere of the short, one particular audience member found the film’s narrative more than coincidental, to which Jetter can only comment, “Nothing like making a movie about a person you’ve been romantically involved with and then having that person go and see it.” A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Jetter is working on expanding Close into a feature film.

Oh, and if you made it all the way here, I’ll also tell you that Tahir has been featured on this blog before, and is an avid reader. I would go as far as to say a die-hard DC to BC supporter, but he’ll probably take that the wrong way, so let’s just leave it as I’ve stated. While you can find him in the older posts, talking crazy (yet rationally) in the comment section, he actually has an entire post dedicated to fitness called Tahir’s Daniel Craig in Casino Royale / Brad Pitt in Troy ÜberWorkout. Seriously. You can find that here.

Follow him: @tahirtweets.

One day in early August I got an e-mail from Trent and Walker, two ambitious filmmakers hailing from Sin City (that’s Vegas for anybody who just completely missed that), explaining that they’d be making a documentary on Eli Porter, the rapper famous for his unintentionally hilarious YouTube video which I blogged about and did play-by-play commentary a couple years ago.

They told me they wanted to interview me, and were flying to DC to do exactly that. I didn’t really believe it, but I figured I had nothing to lose, so I sent out my contact info and gave them the address to where I’d be around Friday, the day when they said they’d get in. I thought nothing of it until my phone rang a week later on that Friday evening and they said they were five minutes away.

Wowzers. I was over at my man Greenwood‘s house for another epic gathering that I put together with some friends (you don’t believe me!? The video footage from that event was documented here. All from that party. That’s just how I do it in DC. Don’t sleep on us, please!), and before they called, I had completely forgot that I had told them to fall through. Five minutes later, these guys were up in Greenwood’s house, enjoying the wild party atmosphere outside for a quick second before getting down to business.

Yep. It looked like that. Anyway, they mic’d me up (like all those wires and stuff you see in that behind the scenes footage! It was cool.) and we sought refuge upstairs, somewhere much quieter to talk to me about the viral video that moved them enough to dedicate the last year of their lives following Eli Porter, the Iron Mic Freestyle champion.

I won’t go into much detail, because I don’t know what I can spill and what I can’t. I do know that we talked for about an hour or so about other viral video superstars, about the video’s impact on the world, and whether or not to take him seriously. At the end of the day, he’s an actual person with a real dream, and I can respect that. I was blown away by the in-depth research that Trent and Walker did, both on me (and trust me, there’s not much to know about me) and on viral videos in general. I respect their hard work and dedication; the guys were so damn cool. I’m still surprised that they came all the way to DC because of a damn blog post I did. They told me that it was the play-by-play commentary that had them dying, and although the breakdown was kinda hilarious (shout out to my roommate from college and best friend, Ricardo aka @InternetGoon for watching that video like 100 times with me while we shoulda been doing homework), it was pretty thorough. I found pretty much everything ridiculous in it and wrote about it in detail. Click the link if you don’t believe me.

I say all that to say this: these guys are working hard, man. The documentary is shaping up, and they really have been following Eli around like celebrity stalkers/paparazzi. In a good way, though. They just dropped this extended trailer today, and I figured I’d share it with you guys. I’m in it, as are some e-contemporaries:

- Jay Smooth of illdoctrine.com/​ (twitter.com/​jsmooth995)

- Andy Milonakis (twitter.com/​andymilonakis)

- Jeff and Eric Rosenthal of itsthereal.com/​ (twitter.com/​itsthereal)

- Rafi Kam & Dallas Penn of internetscelebrities.com/​
(twitter.com/​rafikam & twitter.com/​DPZ4Reezy)

So yeah, here it is! Enjoy.

INFLUENCERS is a short documentary that explores what it means to be an influencer and how trends & creativity become contagious today in music and fashion.

Directed by Paul Rojanathara and Davis Johnson, the film is a Polaroid snapshot of New York influential creatives (advertising, design, fashion and entertainment) who are shaping today’s pop culture.

Looks pretty cool, but I wish we could see influencers in other industries, like in agriculture, or in medicine. Or even if that concept of an influencer even exists in those spaces.

RIP to the King of Pop. In honor of his birthday today, I’ve decided to post one of my all-time favorite movies, Moonwalker.

I kid you not. The entire joint is in DCtoBC’s patented HD (hella dope) quality. You know you’ve been looking for this for a few years.

If you haven’t seen this joint, then clear your schedule and watch it immediately. The film includes everything from the live concert scenes to the part where he runs away from the crazy fans and battles the rabbit to the actual movie. A classic. I invite you to relive your childhood here for the next 88 minutes. Spread the word, please.

DOWNLOAD: Michael Jackson – Moonwalker [HD Quality]

I know this is borderline abusing my privileges as the owner of this site. but i just re-subscribed to NetFlix after grabbing this PlayStation3, and I’m itching to put 10 solid movies that I can abuse on the MacBook and the new Vizio during my downtime.

If you’d be so kind, just leave suggestions and brief synopses of movies (if they aren’t typical joints that everybody and their grandma’s heard of). Everybody can add something to this list, so just throw the suggestions out there. Maybe we’ll have a nice little dialogue pertaining to movies and such. Ha. Thanks! and i like it all, so don’t think i won’t consider musicals, documentaries, foreign films. actually, fuck a foreign film. i have no time for subtitles.

Let the games begin. Oh, and those who don’t believe that The Great Progression is upon us, more sneak peaks:

Yeah. Like I said before, stay in the loop via Twitter, @TheGeePee and @DCtoBC.

Anyway, movies. Let’s get it.

Do you like Daft Punk? Do you have an hour of free time on your hands? Do you want to see the type of musical movie that every great musical group should try and make at some point in their career, using only their work to narrate an entire film?

If you’ve answered yes to all three of these questions, then the next power move is to press play on the bad boy below. Essentially, it’s an animated film using only Daft Punk songs to narrate the entire thing. It’s incredible how many emotions are conveyed with songs, and this is some pretty trill evidence that proves the statement in the first clause of this sentence to be correct.

Fast forward to 1 minute and 15 seconds deep, and enjoy.

If you want an HD quality version for your computer, holler at me, I’ve got it on deck.

Although I wasn’t in the business school at Boston College, I was a Communications major, and took enough marketing and advertising classes to consider myself well versed in a lot of that stuff. This movie is a comprehensive history of modern-age advertising, and speaks to the advertising gurus out there. Check the trailer below.

Talk about cutthroat! I’m still trying to get into that industry in some capacity, though. For the time being, Washingtonians such as myself are out of luck, because the independent film isn’t running anywhere around here for a minute. But if you are elsewhere, you may be able to catch it. Check the locations for screenings HERE.

i haven’t seen funny people yet, but i might need to go check it out. this man, comedian aziz ansari plays the vulgar and hilarious up and coming stand-up genius raaaaaaaandy (yup, with 8 a’s. no less, no more.) in the flick and from the looks of this 3 part docu-comedy, ansari is nice with it. not only does he have dances to go along with his jokes, he has a DJ on stage with him, dropping air horns and bombs after the big punch-line. check the series out, you wont be disappointed.

john hughes was incredibly inspirational in my life, and i didn’t even realize it until yesterday. i never knew the man made some of my favorite comedies ever, and it’s only right that i pay tribute in two ways.

the first thing i’ll do is throw you a HD (hella dope) quality version of my favorite hughes film, the breakfast club. not familiar with it? do some wikipedia research if you’re hesitant. if you trust me, then just know that it’s about a bunch of strangers that cross paths on one weekend afternoon in high school detention, and it’s ingenious in every way possible. enjoy.

the second thing i want to do is direct you to the most solid imeem playlist ever. it’s a compilation of songs from soundtracks of his movies. the 80′s and 90′s had some awesome soundtracks. in fact, back then, the soundtracks had the capability of going gold or platinum, and people took them seriously as opposed to you would a transformers soundtrack found in the checkout aisle in walmart. for the jams (a streaming playlist, not a download), click here.

R.I.P.

it’s back. the trillest afrobeat mixtape series ever, dropping just in time for the coinciding afrobeat party hosted by the sexy ass ladies of LunchBox Theory on U street tomorrow, friday july 31st. DJ underdog still hittin’ ‘em with that live mix – no serato either, straight vinyl baby! wowzers.

not sure about what afrobeat is? well, here’s a definition:

Afrobeat is a combination of Yoruba music, jazz, highlife, and funk rhythms, fused with percussion and vocal styles, popularized in Africa in the 1970s. Its main creator was the Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti who used it to revolutionise musical structure as well as the political context in his native Nigeria. It was Kuti who coined the term “afrobeat” upon his return from a U.S. tour with his group Nigeria 70 (formerly Koola Lobitos).

exactly. this is truly some special music, and i implore everybody to get on it, because it’s a pretty trill genre. we posted the first mixtape a few weeks ago; grab it HERE.

DOWNLOAD: Africa Plays On, Pt. 2 [Mixtape]

and the party is INCREDIBLE! AND ONLY $1! PLEASE COME OUT AND SUPPORT TONITE! I’LL EVEN GO WITH YOU IF YOU’RE NERVOUS TO SHOW UP SOLO! I’M NOT EVEN LYING!

mixtape tracklisting after the jump.

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