Category Archives: Entertainment

August 12, 2014 · 1:44 am

Conspiracy (All the Way to the Top)

Here’s the latest song from the 80s Action Movie Cliche concept album, The Action Pact. Conspiracy (All the Way to the Top) is about how the hero is looking into a crimewave and the deeper he looks the higher status of the people involved. Epitomized by films like Lethal Weapon 3, and Black Dynamite. Well, give it a listen. I really like this one, kind of, sort of punk.

Lyrics
Can’t trust Politicians
Can’t trust the Cops
This Conspiracy goes all the way to the top
Police Chief or the General
Where does it stop
This Conspiracy goes all the way to the top
Only thing I Trust
Is locked loaded and cocked
This Conspiracy goes all the way to the top
This Conspiracy goes all the way to the top
This Conspiracy goes all the way to the top

Beating down dirtbags getting Information
What I found out was beyond my expectations
Got Dirty Cops and Dirty City Officials
Gonna Clean up the streets Dirt bags I’m coming to get you
My broom’s a shot gun and my mop is a pistol
Your rank and your title isn’t even an issue
Businessman Druglord a pimp a judge or a general
I take that trash out like they were any other criminal

Can’t trust Politicians
Can’t trust the Cops
This Conspiracy goes all the way to the top
Police Chief or the General
Where does it stop
This Conspiracy goes all the way to the top
Only thing I Trust
Is locked loaded and cocked
This Conspiracy goes all the way to the top
This Conspiracy goes all the way to the top
This Conspiracy goes all the way to the top

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August 11, 2014 · 7:45 am

One At A Time

Continuing with the 80s Action Movie nostalgia parade that is the The Action Pact project, I have this track called One At A Time. The track is about how the protagonist in action movies, when confronted with a mob of criminals, has the good fortune of all the members of the mob coming for him/her one by one, without shooting or stabbing hime/her.

Lyrics
When I’m fighting my enemies
They come One At A Time
I got enough whup ass for all of you
Come on, get in line

The got me – Surrounded
But I’ve got the will to win
Everybody gets pounded
It’s just bare Nuckles on Skin
I am never ever gonna lose
‘Cause I know they know the rules
It could be One Hundred Fools
But one by one they pay their dues

When I’m fighting my enemies
They come One At A Time
I got enough whup ass for all of you
Come on, get in line
When I’m fighting my enemies
They come One At A Time
I got enough whup ass for all of you
Come on, get in line

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Tagged as 80s Rock, Action Movie Cliches, One At A Time, Rock Music

August 10, 2014 · 9:54 pm

Loose Cannon

I’m continuing the trend of Rock and Metal music with an 80s Action Movie Cliche/Trope theme. This one is Loose Cannon, not attached to a podcast, just some the possible beginnings of a parody/theme Rock EP tentatively titled The Action Pact. The trope here, for the uninitiated is that the protagonist cop in a lot of action movies gets suspended from the police department for unnecessary or brutal force. Generally yelled at by the angry police chief. The following song is the hero cop’s lament.

Lyrics

Turn in my badge
Turn in my gun
Kicked off the force because I get the job done
I’m a loose
Loose Cannon

All I did was
Blow up a neoghborhood but listen
I only did it with some Really Good Intentions
There were Drug Dealers and Thugs
Everyone doing harm
But I am the law
And I know I got these really long arms

I’m a loose
Loose Cannon
Turn in my badge
Turn in my gun
Kicked off the force because I get the job done
I’m a loose
Loose Cannon

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August 9, 2014 · 8:22 am

No Time To Bleed

Just like I made a track for The Black Guy Who Tips Podcast for their segment on ridiculous action movies called “Impossible White Man,” I decided to lay a track down for the Nerdpocalypse Podcast as well for their action movie segment, “No Time to Bleed.” Shoot, I might just make an EP.

Lyrics

Come on Tough Guys I got all the bullets you need
I got time to kill but got NO TIME TO BLEED
When it comes to hot lead, better to give than receive
I got you a present but got NO TIME TO BLEED

I GOT – NO TIME – TO BLEED
(No not at all)
I GOT – NO TIME – TO BLEED
(No not at all)
I GOT – NO TIME – TO BLEED

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Tagged as Action Man, Action Movies, No Time To Bleed, The Nerdpocalypse

August 8, 2014 · 10:07 am

Impossible White Man

I listen to a lot of podcasts. One of my favorites is The Black Guy Who Tips, a podcast where the slogan is, “Nothing is wrong if it’s funny.” The Podcast is hosted by Rodimus Prime and his wife Karen. In the show he brings up his favorite genre of movie, a sub-genre of Action Films called “Impossible White Man.” The qualifiers for what makes a movie fit this genre are listed on this page. A while ago Rodimus touted Olympus Has Fallen, starring Gerard Butler, as a good example of this kind of film. I finally got around to watching it and it inspired the most amazing thing! A song by me. The one below.

Lyrics

How does he do it
Is he specially trained
If it moves he can shoot it
It cannot be explained
He’s not unlikely, not just improbable
Mows down his enemies, he’s so unstoppable
Survives by any means, it seems illogical
He is the White Man, we call impossible
He is impossible
(Impossible White Man!)
He is the white man, we call impossible
(Impossible White Man!)
He is impossible
(Impossible White Man!)x4
He is impossible

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Tagged as Action Movies, Gerard Butler, Impossible White Man, Olympus has Fallen, The Black Guy Who Tips

June 26, 2014 · 2:00 pm

Updated: Regarding the NFL Redskins

So, since the owner of the Washington DC based NFL team isn’t backing down on changing the team name, even though the won’t renew the Trademark or copyright on the name. He feels he’s so right about this wrongheaded nonsense. I therefore expanded the song a little to further express my displeasure with his stubborn bullheadedness.

https://soundcloud.com/abdowell/regarding-the-nfl-redskins-1

I ain’t even full blooded, certified with sovereignty

But empathize with the mass genocide an poverty

Now America chooses justice in their foreign policy

behaved horribly when we expanded colonies

In the nations capital football franchise

they keep nasty racial slur aggrandized

might as well be the Washington DC savages

Or the victims of ethnic cleansing practices

Wouldn’t call a team Wops, Spics, Kikes or Jigaboos

How about call them the Souix, cherokee, or seminoles

Pick any tribal nations or a positive trait

Look at the names of teams in other states

the chiefs, not so bad, Atlanta Braves pretty solid

But the name Redskins needs to be abolished

Don’t want to be called a cracker honkie, or devil,

Then Dan Silver should think about being respectful

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Tagged as #changethename, change the name, Hip-hop, Justice?, Native American, NFL, Washington Redskins

June 24, 2014 · 7:07 pm

Mangoes and Coconuts

I was working on some song or other, and came up with the bell/chime sound and then a bassline..and then a weird song that brings me to a happy place.

https://soundcloud.com/abdowell/mangoes-and-coconuts

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Tagged as Calypso, Coconuts, Mangoes, Reggae

June 13, 2014 · 2:19 pm

Recognition

I was thinking about the creative process and who I do art for after watching Jon Favreau‘s film Chef. The movie touched me a lot, I saw how easily adaptable the story was for any artistic endeavor, not just the culinary arts. I had a mix of emotions about the film, from a slight twinge of nostalgia and jealousy at the chance to work with my friends and make great art at the same time, to having to claw myself back up to the bottom and then rise to the middle and dream about the top.

Anyway I wrote a song about what the creative process means to me and maybe a few other artists out there. It’s a work in progress with my heart firmly on my sleeve.

https://soundcloud.com/abdowell/recognition

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June 8, 2014 · 7:46 pm

A Spear Chucker Now – Chuck Spears

So I was feeling a little nostalgic and looked through my old rhymes on my old blog, Stop Trying To Play Me and came across this post. I decided those lyrics needed to be punched up and laid down on a track. . I’ve been meaning to sample a scene from Bowfinger, one of my favorite movies. So I did exactly that

https://soundcloud.com/abdowell/a-spear-chucker-now-1

Verse 1

The thing about Chuck Spears, it ain’t my given name.

It’s my taken name and right now I’m takin aim.
Not a muh f**ker outchere – trying to make it rain.
Money over bichez – (all day)- flying paper planes
(Eat -mangoes) so a chick can get – flavored brains

(swallow every drop) – don’t gotta think about – labor pains
(Bastards ain’t mine) – other dudes gotta take the blame
(Players gone play) – give a f*ck – if you hate the game

Verse 2

Used to, hold the door for chicks like Johnny Be Good
Now I bang ‘em in the bathroom like Mami we, good?
Throw up the peace sign, throw up in the next stall
Then jump on the stage and holla, Yes Yes Y’all
We Don’t stop, throw your hands in the air
And say Ho, grab my nuts. See? I just don’t care
‘Cause it ain’t even a show there ain’t even a mic
On a table in a diner rapping with a butter knife
Missed the gig, my bad it was the other night
Am I wrong for that, these days I don’t do nothing right
I’m dead wrong, good thing I’m true and livin’
Try to check me on it, come on, who ya kiddin’
I’m Chuck, Part Samson, Part Charles Manson
MMM Bop I’m Part Hanson, just start dancin’
No reason to stand still I like moving targets
My Spit got you open – kinda like chewing carpet

Verse 3

Bald head and goatee, like a black ming the merciless
sickness contagious on some dot dot circle shit
in a dark cabin I’m creepin up all murderous

brains on the walls confuse obituary journalists
put on headphones see how mind blowin my vesres is
for example watch a star from afar like Copirnicus
Straight heat to ya grill, like you’re pressed up on furnaces
No more Mr. Niceguy, Chuck Spears gone Bezerkowitz
Cross me on a bad day and all ya dreams turn to shit
having Nightmare see ya old Granny turning tricks
got ya drooling down ya chin, kids gotta learn to spit
Don’t even practice with my lines – guarnteed to burn ya lips