BlackDave.org – Divide and Conquer

Yo. I only have a couple things I wanna talk about today.

First thing is Grand Theft Auto 4. If you’ve played all of the other GTA games, this one lacks in a couple of areas, but is so far beyond the other ones in others that the bad shit looks like a cups on a fat bitch.
Graphics are immaculate. Let’s start there. I heard that this is one of the only games that the disc spins constantly, which means that it is constantly loading things around it. Which means for higher graphic capabilities. It also means your system is more likely to get real hot…but gamers usually don’t give a fuck about that.
…..unless they’re white and own an xbox360.
I know it’s 2008 so graphics are gonna be good anyway, but…I’m an OG to video games, so I can keep talking about graphics.
When I first popped the bitch in, the gameplay wasn’t that good to me. Best GTA gameplay award goes to San Andreas, but after a bit…it grew on me. So…gameplay went from bad to good.
The thing that made this GTA so much better than the others was the use of a cell phone and being able to actually hang out with the people in the game. You can download ringtones and themes for your phone. You receive picture messages of your cousin with a gun to his head and your niggas will call you just to say that they’re stuck in the trunk of a car.
I could talk about it all day, but I won’t. Some of y’all aren’t video game nerds and are waiting on me to say something to make someone mad. So…moving on…

If you want to take a moment out of your day to judge me…here’s what I’m doing right now:
I’m listening to Explosions in the Sky while eating Cheez-its and drinking a “focus”(kiwi-strawberry) Vitamin Water. I’m also talking to a 16 year old girl on aim.
This should be fun especially if you don’t know me. If you do know me…you’d probably expect me to be doing these things.

The other thing I wanted to talk about was a concert I went to last night. I live in Charleston, SC…for those who don’t keep up, and I went to Myrtle Beach to go see the band Modest Mouse exhibit their music to a large group of fans. This was my first time seeing Modest Mouse. I took the journey to see them with one of my friends, who may be one of the biggest MM fans in Charleston. After hearing about how he’s going to masturbate Isaac Brock when certain events occurred during their set, I had to see this for myself. I missed watching the first song, which was “Dance Hall” from their album “Good News For People Who Love Bad News” and then proceeded with their set. This tour is in promotion of their latest album “We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank”. Set was about an hour and a half long. Here’s some of my thoughts:
I think that the set was decent. I feel like I heard the same song about 7 times during their set and there were also a couple of classics like “Paper Thin Walls” and “Tiny Cities Made of Ashes”. I think the feeling was there, but the amount of creativity difference between all of the previous Modest Mouse albums and their 2 most recent just made the set lack a lot of things that I expected.
I’ll let you guys listen for yourselves. I’ll play one of Modest Mouse’s older popular songs to one of their newer ones:
This song is called “Missed the Boat”. It’s their most recent single:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTzM2aHEC7k]

Here’s a song called “Dramamine”. Its from the first Studio Album over 10 years ago:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK1bi4emEkk]

And if that’s too old, here’s one off of their last independent(in my mind) album “The Moon and Antarctica”:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK1bi4emEkk]

Long story short. Someone needs to tell the dudes in Modest Mouse to go back to their roots. Just because years have passed doesn’t mean you can get worse. And The Smiths were/are still awesome.

And there were 12 black people at the show. Over 2000 attended.

Oh….and Sierra Emerge is still the best.