From MTV.com:

The Cast of The Nation’s Number One Film Talk ‘Hangover 2?
Published by Larry Carroll on Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 2:00 pm.

Now that “The Hangover” is the number-one movie in the country, Warner Bros are looking like geniuses for greenlighting a sequel months before it was even released. So when we spoke with the cast of the uproariously funny film recently, we got the scoop on where the four hungover friends might go from here.

“I’d love to do [a sequel], because I love working with these guys more than anything; this is the most fun I’ve had on the set of a movie,” director Todd Phillips explained. “I have some good ideas floating around of where to take it.”

One of these ideas would almost certainly revolve around Ed Helms’ geeky dentist Stu, last seen ditching his overbearing fiancée for a sexy Las Vegas stripper. “I think it just should be all about me and Ed, basically,” Heather Graham — who plays the aforementioned stripper — explained. “It would be fun if we dated, and there was more stuff going on with us — that would be really fun.”

“The Hangover”’s missing groom Justin Bartha has a different idea. “I hope ‘The Hangover 2’ is just Doug, and he loses the three friends and has to go find them,” Bartha said, grinning. “I have a feeling that’s not what’s going to happen, and it might just be the same thing. Either way, I’m very excited about it; I think it’ll be a great time, just like the original.”

“[We’re going to call it] ‘Still Hungover,’ yeah that’s what it would be,” joked Phillips, teasing some of the lame sequel titles from the Eighties. “No, but we do have a lot of ideas that we’ve been bouncing back and forth — we being me and my writing partner… all the usual suspects would be back.”

With all four hungover pals confirmed for the sequel, funnyman Helms gave us an inkling of where he’d like Stu’s story to go. “I think we would go take a submarine to Atlantis, and live with people that are half-person, half-sea horse,” he explained. “I’d probably hook up with Ariel the little mermaid – because she’s really hot, let’s face it. And there would probably be a little Caribbean crab that sang calypso songs.”

In all seriousness, what storylines would you like to see the “Hangover” sequel go into?

From MTV.com:

When Mos Def visited Angie Martinez’s New York radio show Tuesday to promote his new album, The Ecstatic, neither had any idea that would be promoting the most spectacular MC battle ever.

In March, a video hit YouTube that featured Mos challenging Jay-Z, Lil Wayne and others to a battle. Martinez asked him about the video. Mos admitted it was a candid moment in front of friends.

“I don’t have to address it, but what I said, I will stand by,” Mos said, adding that his comments were in regards to an article he saw (ours?) naming Jay-Z the greatest MC alive. “Friend or foe, I love you all, but I’m saying if you saying that you’re better than Slick Rick, who is still very alive and well, you saying that you’re better than Rakim, you saying you’re better than Black Thought — and the people making that claim have never been in a position to have to defend that in an open forum.”

“But isn’t it all up to what you like?” Martinez asked.

“It is subjective, but people start coming out and making claims that you can’t defend,” Mos said.

He made an analogy to an automaker saying it has the best V8 engine. The automaker has to prove that against other automakers’ engines, and a race would prove who is better.

“I just don’t believe that claim, where any of these rappers are saying that they are the best alive,” Mos Def said. “Really?!? Well, you can easily put that to the test.”

“Didn’t you say that too, about yourself?” Angie asked

“I ain’t saying that I’m better than them, but they certainly ain’t better than me,” Mos replied. “I have no doubts about that at all. I work at this. This ain’t just coming off of some pumped-up ego swagger. I do this.”

Mos went on to propose a “Battle of New Orleans.” The battle would take place at the Superdome in New Orleans and would settle all discussion. There would be a variety of battles, including the marching bands from Grambling and Morgan State duking it out, breakers from Korea going against those from France, a battle of the beats between Swizz Beatz and Kanye West, and finally an MC battle between teams of five.

“My dream team would be myself, Black Thought, MF Doom, Jay Electronica and Nas,” Mos Def said. “I was saying for Jay, or somebody like Jay, or Kanye, or whoever, put you and your four together, and we’ll go at it.”

Mos said that this was a friendly proposal and that his comments were more about defending Slick Rick and Rakim than anything. He didn’t think it was right for anyone to say they were the greatest while both are alive.

Martinez asked if he realizes that people may take this the wrong way, and Mos reiterated his stance: “I ain’t gettin’ at no rappers. This is, where is your skill set at? I’m always in a position to learn or grow, so if somebody’s got a stronger skill set, and I could draw strength from that, then I’m cool with that. My ego is not involved with this.

“There are no losers in this scenario,” he added. “It’s really just a sound clash and a skill trade exhibition, and it grows the culture.”

“This took a turn I didn’t see coming today,” Martinez said, laughing.

“Y’all brought up the whole battle thing,” Mos Def said. “I don’t try to get at no rappers. Come on, man. I love all of y’all. I do this because I care.”

Jumbo Tsuruta/Genichiro Tenryu vs. Giant Baba/Tiger Mask II, 11/28/1986
TM2 is Misawa under the mask. Tenryu is now the only one in this match alive. Anyways, the story is that Baba, the onetime ace of the promotion is up against the current ace Tsuruta and the #2 guy, Tenryu, both who he trained and mentored at a point. TM2’s all about showing that he can hang with them, and then Baba being older and wiser than everyone else. It’s kind of weird to see Baba’s weak offense doing so much damage, but he’s kind of a national hero and it’s like with Hogan or Flair where they’ll be cheered for just being in the ring, so it’s mostly a non-issue. Jumbo and Tenryu keep attacking Baba on the apron and he and the people are APPALLED. This rules. Baba then sees fit to interfere whenever he wants as a receipt. Most of this is TM2 looking very good against the two stars, but then getting outsmarted at the end for the win.
***1/4-1/2

Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Tiger Mask II, 3/8/1988
TM2 stays on the side headlock like a motherfucker early on, until Jumbo starts to get more aggressive to take control. The 2nd half of the match is super fucking batshit crazy with TM2 taking bigger chances that pay off to get closer to the win and the super hawt crowd. TM2 then shows how great he will become when he FUCKING KICKS OUT OF THE JUMBO BACKDROP HOLD! From there, there’s a great sense that he could maybe ACTUALLY beat Jumbo, but Tsuruta gets all pissed that this fucking punk is trying to make him look like shit and a 2nd Backdrop Hold does it. Great stuff.
***3/4

Tiger Mask II/Toshiaki Kawada vs. Samson Fuyuki/Yoshiaki Katsu, 5/14/1990
This is more of an Important Match than a great match. Yatsu and Fuyuki, mostly Yatsu, are tremendous dicks to TM2 all match with gratuitous unsportsmanlike attacks, slapping, spitting, and trying to pull off his mask. When he comes back, he makes Kawada take off his mask and he hurls it into the crowd. Mitsuharu Misawa is born, and I guess the crowd knows as a massive “MISAWA!” chant erupts, and he goes apeshit on Yatsu. From there, the newly made New/Over Generation Army gradually overwhelms the two dicks with their aggression and better teamwork. Not a great match, barely good really, but the de-masking is super important.
**3/4

So, there was a trios match on 5/26/90 that wasn’t so hot, but during the match, Jumbo tried to distract Misawa to help his teammate Masanobu Fuchi, and Misawa just fucking elbowed him off the apron. From there, the two brawled heatedly whenever possible. A singles match was made between The Ace and this fiery little punk.

Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Mitsuharu Misawa, 6/8/1990
They immediately start going at a frantic pace, and like Tsuruta/TM2 from 88, Misawa needs to take big risks to get something going on Jumbo. When they get in the ring and it slows back down after the HAAAAAAWT start, there’s awesome facials from both men. Jumbo’s all like “Yeah, you little shit. You ain’t – WHAT THE FUCK?!” and then Misawa gets up from countering and he’s like “Didn’t see that one coming, did you? Old bastard.” They go with holds and MISAWA FUCKING SLAPS JUMBO IN THE FACE! Jumbo, infuriated, beats the fuck out of Mitsy. There’s then a theme of Jumbo treating Misawa like a punk, and paying dearly every time, since Misawa takes advantage of every minor mistake Jumbo makes, like trying the same move twice or posing to the crowd. At the same time, Jumbo’s The Fucking Man, and Misawa can’t screw up either or Jumbo will beat the shit out of him. Jumbo is forced to take higher risks as well here, like busting out jumping knee attacks from the top rope and big dropkicks to catch Misawa off-guard, before throwing in his usual Lariat/Powerbomb/Backdrop big man offense. The facials down the stretch are awesome with Jumbo gradually getting more pissed, especially when the crowd gives their support to Misawa, whose facials are determined, but with an underlying sense of desperation. Two fluke accidents happen when Jumbo hurts his arm by trying to block a flying headbutt with his elbow, and then Misawa ducking a big boot that crotches Jumbo on the ropes. Misawa gets a flash pin to capitalize on these and YEAH! UPSET FUCKING CITY! MISAWA BEATS JUMBO! Misawa nearly smiles in celebration, but stoic as fuck as a future ace should be, he quickly turns it into a confident face all like “YEAH! I FUCKING DID IT! UNBE- …I knew all along I could do it. Yeah, that’s the ticket.” Awesome match.
****1/2

Jumbo Tsuruta/Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Mitsuharu Misawa/Toshiaki Kawada, 7/7/1990
Jumbo is much less confident pre-match with Misawa having a clean singles win over him. Early on, Yatsu disses Kawada with a slap, and Kawada goes fucking apeshit on him and won’t take that. Jumbo and Yatsu’s strategeries from here focus on either slowing down the fiery Misawa, or isolating and beating down the lower ranked Kawada. When I say “lower ranked,” I mean in the sense that Misawa’s clearly being presented as better than Yatsu and just as good at points when on a roll as Jumbo, where as Kawada is not on Jumbo’s level, and maybe not on Yatsu’s, but maybe equal. If that makes sense. The rest of the match is like that, as well as Misawa and Kawada managing to isolate Jumbo with quick double teams and quick offense. The ending of the match is Kawada vs. Jumbo, with the future toothless bastard surviving a while before a Super Backdrop kills him dead.
***3/4

Jumbo Tsuruta/Akira Taue/Masanobu Fuchi vs. Mitsuharu Misawa/Toshiaki Kawada/Tsuyuchi Kikuchi, 8/18/1990
Yatsu’s gone from AJPW, and Jumbo poached the #3 guy in Misawa’s group, Akira Taue, who is now Jumbo’s #2. As a result, Misawa & Co. are pissed at him. The Misawa/Jumbo dynamic remains that of Misawa wanting to be the top guy, and that infuriating Jumbo, as well as further infuriating him on occasions where Misawa DOES get the better of him. Kawada also wants to step up big like his big buddy, but isn’t quite there yet. Kikuchi is a spunky fiery ball of fucking dynamite, and the segment with Jumbo & Co. beating the shit out of him is awesome in a very X-Pac/Sean Waltman kind of way, where you totally get behind him and want him to succeed. Kawada also decides here that destroying the betrayer Taue is going to be his #1 professional goal. The finishing run with Kikuchi hanging on for dear life is epic as well. Misawa takes a Backdrop here, and it hits me again. Goddamnit. Taue hits a backdrop on Kikuchi to win. Damn him.
****1/4

PWG 99
April 11th, 2009
Reseda, CA

Match #1: Scorpio Sky/Los Luchas vs. Scott Lost/The Cutler Brothers
Scorp is back! Yeah mufucka! The guest mic on commentary is broken tonight, but Excalibur’s is working great. Hero’s on guest commentary here. Excalibur steals the show again, by saying, “And nobody can tell what Los Luchas are telling each other as they speak their crazy moontalk.” Hero decides that if Konnan and Rick Steiner had a kid, they would enjoy the Cutlers’ double rolling shoulderblock. Hero also says that Tank Toland’s personal training company is now financed by Layfield Energy. Scott Lost pulls out a counter that literally blew my mind in it’s innovation, and I will not spoil it. Lots of fun. Phoenix Star was off tonight, but he was the only one really, as Zokre was great here. Really fun finishing run. Maybe went a bit too long, but then there’d be something awesome to change my mind. Scott Lost not being booked elsewhere is a goddamn shame.
***1/4-1/2

Match #2: Bryan Danielson vs. Chuck Taylor
Kinda dream match. Danielson habitually fakes being in pain from Taylor’s holds early on, before then habitually making him into his bitch and actively mocking Chuckie T’s lack of any real technical or mat wrestling skill. It’s all very entertaining, before Chuckie T jumps Danielson to turn it into a real match. It’s fun from there, and Taylor gets props for desperately going to the Half Crab that he made Danielson tap out to at King of Trios back in March a few weeks prior. But now, Danielson’s leg hasn’t been torn to shreds for three days straight, and he powers through and wins.
***1/2

Match #3: B-Boy vs. Joey Ryan
They have a generally okay match, but this could have been done smarter. The finishing run is like 10 minutes in a 15 minute match, so the earlier parts could have been stretched out or whatever. B-Boy’s new offense is cool, but he’s done it the same way in his first two matches back, and it’s getting a little old now that the “AAHHHHH HOLY SHIT!” factor is over. They also kicked out of each other’s big finishes and made this all super fucking epic in the 3rd match, which I am not fond of, but then they pulled a completely batshit insane holy shit Piledriver on the apron spot. Joey fakes his neck being broken from this and is helped to the back. B-Boy turns his back aS Joey is being helped to the back, but he sprints back in and gets a big schoolboy with the tights for 3. Okay, that makes this awesome.
***1/4-1/2

Match #4: Kenny Omega vs. Davey Richards
Omega is paranoid every time Davey sends him into the ropes and tries to avoid it because of the BOLA rope breaking incident. He makes Davey run the ropes on all sides or he refuses to get back in the ring, and when he bounces off the ropes near him, Omega just trips him up and takes over. That is awesome. He cheats his ass off in true Men of Low Moral Fiber fashion, placing Davey in the position of situational babyface, which displeases him greatly. They have a very very fun back and forth match after that, and Davey is a horrifyingly intense motherfucker. I am sad that Omega won.
***3/4

Match #5: Sonjay Dutt vs. Roderick Strong
I am displeased that Sonjay is here. He goes on to prove me right, as Strong kills him with backbreakers, and he’s right up and bouncing around and not even trying to sell. I’m glad he’s a balding roid monkey who will die before he reaches 45. He goes over too, which is a damn shame. Fuck Sonjay Dutt. Match was ABOVE AVERAGE, but not much more because of Dutt being a large sack of shit.
**3/4

Match #6: Tyler Black vs. El Generico
They work a solid power vs. speed story early on, although Black’s probably just as fast or a minor step in fastness below Generico. It was largely nothing much that I remember, until a really frantic and fun finishing run. Black further enrages me with his COMPLETE NO-SELLING “FIGHTING SPIRIT~!” Generico wins. The last 3 minutes are awesome here, and a solid build to them.
***1/2

Match #7: Chris Hero [c] w/ Candice LaRae vs. Austin Aries [PWG World Heavyweight Championship]
The ultimate battle of good and evil in the indy pro wrestling. They have an awesome fast paced mat struggle early on, and Hero’s good enough to make it feel like Aries isn’t blatantly just killing time like he usually does. Hero accidentally forearms the post, and his arm selling for the rest of the match is typically awesome. At a point, he uses his good arm to grip the wrist of his bad arm for a Back Suplex on Aries in a real neat minor touch. Aries forces a kiss on Candice, and she slaps him. He forearms her on the floor, resulting in Hero getting real pissed and powering through with a massive Rolling Elbow for the win.
***3/4-****

Hero gets on the mic and tells Aries he’s a small dickhead and failure of a man, and that Candice could probably kick his ass.

Match #8: The Young Bucks [c] vs. MCMG [PWG World Tag Team Championship]
First off, I’m happy that this is only like 15 minutes. Truly. That’s usually my issue with spotfest tags, is that they go too long for the style and by the end, you just want it to be over. This never got to that point, although there were some iffy kickouts near the end. I find it difficult to care about the Bucks at all, which is probably because they have little to no actual character traits. Like…The Briscoes are rednecks, Jacobs/Tyler had a unique dynamic, same with Steenerico and Strong/Evans. I can care about spotfest junior tag matches when done with guys I care about, and neither team here brought that. The MCMG, for all the really fucking cool double teams and crispness…often do not have any kind of hook outside of the first MCMG/Briscoes match and MCMG/DIFH, as far as on the indies. The structure was alright with this as far as the MCMG being more aggressive after the Bucks initially showed them up with superior speed, but I don’t give a shit who wins or loses, and whichever Buck kicking out of a massive Doomsday Missile Dropkick and then Sabin’s finish feels forced. If there was some kind of douchebaggery from the MCMG, like threatening to take the belts to TNA, the kickout would have been all like “Fuck you, you’re not taking our titles away to TNA!”, instead of feeling excessive. Maybe I’m just getting old. The final 5 or so minutes was outfuckingstanding though as far as crisp high flying workrate spotfest shit though. Fans of that stuff will LOOOOOOOOOVE this.
***1/2-3/4

Very solid show. PWG brings the goods again.

So this is my track by track review of The Lonely Island album: “Incredibad” which was released in February 2009. This is the debut CD of the comedy troupe that is most recognizable from Saturday Night Live. These guys are straight awesome, and I love Adam Sandberg, I think he is hilarious. I do all of my album reviews track by track and rate each individual one out of 5 stars.

01. Who Said We’re Whack? – They tried too hard to be hard in a funny way in this song, and it didn’t work out that well. It was a straight interlude, with the typical elementary level rhymes, epic beat, and epic type chorus. If you are a producer, you’ll know that epic doesn’t mean hot, but the chorus that sounds like a choir.
**

02. Santana DVX (Ft. E-40) – E-40 made a special appearance in a song that was kind of annoying, spitting the same shit he does in each and every song he is on. E-40 is so unoriginal, but the song flowed nicely together, it just made little sense and wasn’t that good.
**

03. Jizz in my Pants – If you have been listening to the album by now, you know this is already not a kids CD, which is funny because I see a lot of kids listening to it. This song is no exception as they talk about a girl touching, calling them, and numerous other activities along side other absurd events causing them to jizz in their pants. That’s it. Yea, I know, but at least it’s more depth than a Lil Wayne song.
**½

04. I’m on a Boat (Ft. T-Pain) – This is probably their most well know single alongside Lazy Sunday, and it’s been played all over VH1 and MTV. The song has an awesome beat, a catchy hook, and despite simple rhymes, it flows well and sounds awesome. You can have the worst lyrics, but if you can make it sound good then your destined to have a hit. This is how this song works and it plays well.
****

05. Sax Man (Ft. Jack Black) – Jack Black goes solo in this catchy song. If you like Tenecious D or any of Jack Black’s other musical projects, you’ll like this song. Nothing to really say about this besides it being a typical Jack Black track.
**½

06. Lazy Sunday (Ft. Chris Parnell) – This is probably their most famous SNL skit and is their second most famous song off the album. Adam and Parnell trade back and forth as they rap about Chronicles of Narnia and the rest of their lazy Sunday. Funny song which usually always leads to laughs and is a good listen.
***

07. Normal Guy (Skit) – Sad attempt at humor, dealing with a guy with a high pitched voice that ends up shooting himself in the head. That is if you don’t shoot yourself before the skit is over.
*

08. Boombox (Ft. Julian Casablancas) – This actually sounds a lot darker than most of their songs, but it still has the same type of content as every song of theirs. The hook is straight awesome, and the song is catchy and will have you bumping the bass up high for this song.
***

09. Shrooms (Skit) – I think they were on shrooms when they made this. A bunch of guys scream I’m on shrooms over an 80’s techno beat straight out of an NES game.
**

10. Like a Boss – Mix the attitude of I’m on a Boat and similar lyrics of Lazy Sunday and you have Like a Boss. It could have played off a lot better, but a good flow couldn’t mask the bad lyrics which fucked this entire song up for me.
**¾

11. We Like Sportz – Horrible song about them watching sports because “they don’t care who knows”, which apparently no body told them that no one cares period.
*

12. Dreamgirl (Ft. Norah Jones) – A slower, deeper, more emotional song with a bit of comedy laced in. It worked really good here and the hook was hypnotizing and catchy, definitely something I could bump in my car.
***

13. Ras Trent – I really tried to understand this track, but I couldn’t. Maybe it’s the fact it’s 5 am, but the song was way too annoying and couldn’t be saved, especially with that horrible singing.
*

14. Dick in a Box (Ft. Justin Timberlake) – Justin hits the hook on this song and parts of the verses, and it is a somewhat funny song. An obvious song that was written for SNL for a skit, but being a big fan of Timberlake, this was a good listen. Nothing too special, but it wasn’t exactly bad.
**

15. The Old Saloon (Skit) – A comedy skit with them rapping a bit about being in the wild west and going on a Virginia Tech-esq shooting spree. One thing I found funny, was they added those loud DJ announcements that assholes online do to songs everyone tries to download.
**

16. Punch you in the Jeans – I couldn’t even finish this song, it got so annoying within a quarter of the way through until halfway when i turned it to the next track. The lyrics we’re just so bad, and the rapping did not help at all.
*

17. Space Olympics – The singing was alright, nothing too spectacular, but nothing too horrible. The song is what I believe to be the theme song for a Space Olympic event set in the future. It was alright, but not something I’d like to put on my stereo.
**

18. Natalie’s Rap (Ft. Natalie Portman and Chris Parnell) – Chris Parnell interviews Natalie Portman in this hilarious song. Now if Adam or any of his boys we’re to rap this, it wouldn’t be as funny, but with someone like Natalie Portman who has stared in movies that don’t really have much of profanity (Forget The Professional), it makes it hilarious. She says crude and ludicrous statements and it makes it even better. By far one of my favorite songs on the CD.
***¾

19. Incredibad – A song about them reminiscing about the past, similar to Superbad if you will, which is probably where they the name from. Suddenly an alien comes to Earth and offers for the three guys to fuck…it. The song ends with 3 way climaxes, alien wishes, and the origin of the name “Incredibad”. Song was alright and somewhat funny.
**¾

Overall: The tracks we’re ones either you’ll hate or love, not really much of middle ground. Another nitpick I have, is how damn short this album, no song is longer than 3 ½ minutes, and it would have been nice if it was actually longer, maybe that could have made it better … or worse. I wouldn’t recommend buying it, download it if you are a fan of the trio, and if you want a link, hit me up on AIM (phenetic101) and I’ll throw you a link or upload it if there is none. I’m going to move this to Media Reviews in a couple days after it’s discussed fully.