Sometimes writing a blog I feel a bit like Doogie Howser , who the *&^% is reading Doogie's diary or is it for Doogie to reflect on later in life? I mean his TV Show is documenting most of it surely? But anyway i digress, as i was recently reminded a bunch of folk read this part of the site so i'll write on about the side notes to EM. Just a few days ago I finished Jay Z's 99 Problem's in film, 99 Problems but the lyrics rebuilt from film clips. A few weeks ago i saw Matthijs Vlot's excellent Hello , Lionel Richie's Hello but rebuilt with film clips and i thought "Oh MAN i wanna do that with a hip hop tune". I choose 99 Problems cos frankly if you ain't heard that one, where you been? and everyone knows the lyrics, a bit. I would like to point out that i used subzin which helps you find any dialouge in almost any film (i know it spoils the magic but i don't like not sharing knowledge and that site needs RESPECT). So I finished 99 Problems Sunday night and in my excitement i told Romain over at Dailymotion who kindly gave it a little push and pretty quickly 100 people a minute were watching it, even though the grammys were on, i know i timed that badly. So completely forgetting it was the grammys i emailed ?uestlove who has like 4 billion twitter followers, he put it away because he was at the time about to present part of the Grammys (i know i'm total twat) and then yesterday he tweeted out the video. Now, not that we didn't have a bunch of traffic already but I wanted to explain the insane impact that Questo has on the interwebs. Within minutes of him tweeting it the RT's and viewing spiked like a colbert bump on speed.
Questo is a crazy force of nature, i wanted to write about my brief experience of him cos he's interesting. I wanna state that in total i've spoken to him a few times on the phone and spent about 40 minutes with him when we were on the late night show with him, so he's not my mate but everytime he's just briefly done anything with me it's been to help me out. I've supported him at Webster Hall, been on the Summit Series Cruise with him and played jimmy fallon with him, Clyde Stubblefield and Chuck D (i know i'm a lucky MFer). I first heard about The Roots from my mate Anthony Tidd who is a producer/composer/musician who moved to Philly when i was young but would come back and tell us stories of the Philly scene and house /recording studio of musicians constantly creating stuff. Peeps like Rahzel , Jill Scott, Badu who then exploded onto the world and i got to see them at festivals and clubs after hearing stories from America from Anthony from his being witht hem, at this point i had never even been to the states so it was a magical far away land to me. Also i became aware of the mighty OkayPlayer and just the extentuating web of coolness omitting from the Roots clan. The Roots are the inhouse band for Jimmy Fallon, which bearing in mind the trumpet blerrr of pretty much every other crass band on late night, is ridiculously cool. Beyond that they use that as a base to launch, support and do more cool shit. Questlove seems to move quickly through the global media landscape from his base at 30 rock. Which leads me to ?uestlove doesn't sleep. My one working experience with him was doing Jimmy Fallon last year when we rebuilt PE's "Fight The Power" to play on JF's show . Due to a misunderstanding i had attempted to build the tune without any drums to leave space for ?uestlove and Clyde Stubblefield, leaving it hollow from the orignal. ?uestlove realized this late in the evening the night before the show and called me up and tells me he still has stuff to do but will get in studio tonight and rebuild it with the drums. I figured that meant like 11pm. At 4am he calls me bright as a daisy explains what he's doing and that he'd see me at 8am, you can follow his tweets all throughout the night and he hasn't stopped. So just putting it out there i have a theory that ?uestlove don't sleep and is a robot. A super cool robot.
