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The video looks pretty cool and I actually JUST got a bike but it’s not a single speed fixed-gear. I mean, I did some research and basically you take any racing bike and take out all the Derailleur gears - that’s all that junk that lets you change gears. Once you take out all the gears, you’re just stuck with a handle bar, the frame, the chain and the wheels. That apparently lets you get great control and you can, as you can see, do some random tricks.

I mean, I’m not 18 anymore and I really don’t want to break any teeth but I think I might go and get myself a cheap, used, racing bike, rip out the gears and the breaks and all that and see how it is.

Above: “So, you watch the Cosby show?” 

Half Nelson with Ryan Gosling was a pretty good movie because it’s knitty-gritty and that’s what’s hot right now. Similar to how Syriana is kind of a knitty-gritty movie or how Traffic was kind of knitty-gritty, the natural look of the camera work - you know what I’m talking about - how it’s never still because it’s always being held by a guy and never on a stand seems to be all the hype. Other than the camera work, the story is worth a watch and the acting is good enough to make us believe. It’s a drama so there’s nothing sexy or action packed about it. If you’re planning on watching it then slow your pace down and want to be emotionally involved to reap its benefits.

What you’ve got here is this white guy who’s somewhat relate-able, the way he’s innocently idealistic about the world. He teaches at a public school with a bunch of black and hispanic kids, studied dialectic - or atleast that’s what he teaches his students about, concepts and ideas about change rather than just have them memorize facts and dates about the Civil Rights movement (he teaches history) - and, most importantly, because this is what get’s you, he’s fallen like an angel in darkness - ADDICTED TO CRACK, baby.

THIS CRACKA is a CRACKHEAD. He doesn’t see his problem as a problem and he teaches during the day. There are scenes in the movie film (Yashamesh!) where he’s rambling and I couldn’t distinguish whether he was actually teaching or on a cracka-head crack high.

Scenes of his life are contrasted/interwined with intermittent scenes of Drey’s life, played by Shareeka Epps - wonderful actress because she’s pretty gangsta, pretty street, or so she appears. She’s a student in his class and a player on the basketball team our crackhead teacher coaches and during these important years of her life she deals with a missing father, a brother in jail and a mother who’s trying to support them but never has any time because she’s always working (it’s heartbreaking). There are some real monumental scenes in the movie the different premises build up to. It’s not a movie you want to watch if you’re feeling down but it’s really good if you are. Ghostrider was a piece of shit.

Above: Somebody call the Ghostbusters.