Daily dose of dope
Exhausted waiting for the mayor and CPS leadership to get on the same page about how we’re doing and tracking “remote learning”
So just the music
An amazing version of San Francisco
Performed by Michael Marshall
For the equally stunning movie
That Kid put me on
Gentle people…
I can sub in for IRL here
Mike Marshall is perhaps best known outside the yay area for his star turn on the Luniz seminal hit I Got Five On It
AKA Mike Meezy he was the frontman for a special group Timex Social Club
I met the cowriter and director of Last Black Man in San Francisco at the beautiful film’s DC premiere
He called Mike Marshall the voice of the bay area
The sequences in this film where this song plays (I remember there being multiple) are breathtaking
The kid who made the film is a 6th generation SFer, white boy
I should say kids
He made it with his best friend who stars in it
A non actor
Who should have been nominated for something
Met him too, Jimmy
Anyway they cold called Mike Meezy
Giving birth to this piece of music
Boom!
There we do 6
*there we go
Funny enough his inclusion on ‘Five’ was already sort of a throwback, locally
Though it would go on to be his biggest thing by far
Before he had gone solo, the TSC’s biggest hit was a song called Rumors which, aside from the incredible jersey and laudable message… does not hold up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRte0S2a_dA
Animation is ?
Is this comedy?
Everything from Berkeley can be played for comedy
Pretty sure that’s a BHigh jersey
Berkeley HS is where Rick Ayers, our friends Malik and Chesa’s uncle, teaches journalism
With his students he published a dictionary of Berkeley slang which I gather was well received by the yutes
I always suspected he was maybe a little cooler than his more famous brother
BHigh so produced Bobby Sealed, Paul Mooney, and Phillip K Dick(!)
More recently though, my friend from college and yours Rene Solomon
Who shared his years there w Daveed Diggs and Raphael Casal, two childhood friends who made an interesting but far less dope movie about gentrification in the bay, Blindspotting
Not to be outdone, Rene and his friend from HS Sam Fuller (no relation to the great filmmaker) had already made their mark in Bay area video
The YouTube series Bay Life was so popular at one point that I literally saw someone stop Rene on the street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4OC1-UnxKQ
Now that
Is comedy