'Hell on Wheels' Your next TV Show you should be watching

Hell on wheels is a TV show I first heard about prior to it first premiere back in 2011. I had read the synopsis of the show and saw the trailer and was like ‘I will keep an eye out for the pilot’ Two years later I've finally watched it, and all I can say is what was I doing waiting so long to watch this wonderful TV show. The only good thing for me being so late to the party, was that I got to binge on 3 seasons back to back.

This is a hellish show, set in a hellish place, populated with hellish people some naturally hellish some turned hellish, from the actions and situations placed upon them. Hell on Wheels centers on the settlement that accompanied the construction of First Transcontinental Railroad, referred to as "Hell on Wheels" by the Union Pacific company men, surveyors, support workers, laborers, prostitutes, mercenaries, and others who made the mobile encampment their home. It stars Anson Mount as Cullen Bohannon, a former Confederate soldier who works as a foreman on the railroad while attempting to track down the Union soldiers who murdered his wife and young son. He later becomes the chief engineer. He strikes up an unlikely love hate friendship with a recently freed slave Elam Ferguson played by the rapper Common. Their complicated friendship is up there with Breaking Bad’s unlikely duo Walter White and Jesse Pinkman and is a joy to watch unfold.

The character development in this show is of the highest order. I remember  watching the pilot with the scene when Cullen first meets the Irish Immigrant brother’s Mickey and Sean. Who both came across cliched, and that didn't bold well for the other characters naturally. I was proven wrong, no character is clichéd but the other ‘C’ word 'Complex'. The characters are all driven with a selfishly pursuit stoked with a furious commitment to their wants and needs. This brings about heart wrenching and jaw dropping plot developments, twists and turns. When you think the show is treading thin water with being safe and clichéd something happens that blows that out of the water. I have at times sat back and been left truly speechless with a  ‘WTF just happened’ moment.

This is a show with a lot of action it doesn't rest at all it truly moves as Hell on Wheels. With more hellish stuff happening as it rides on. It's a show that has transformed itself into something more than the original idea of a mans vengeance. Season 2 was some of the best TV I have watched in the last couple of years the finale was truly breath taking and I urge you to watch the Show if anything but for that.

It has been renewed for a 4^th season that will premiere in the summer (2014) so sit back and binge on the current 3 seasons on offer. You will not be disappointed.

Here is a trailer for Season 1:

Kano - Puppets and Strings Produced by The Zombie Kids Review

I have been waiting for a new track from Kano for a while, and with his latest release he hasn’t disappointed. This tune is pure genius, lyrically and production wise, (produced by Zombie Kids) the hook of this track is off the wall, if you want to learn how to do a hook properly then pay attention to this one. When it drops it makes me want to rip my shirt of and start doing mad Labyrinth skanks (it really does expect the ripping the shirt of part)

If you're a Kano fan then the lyrics of the song will resonant with you strongly. In true Slick Rick style he tells of his career to date the highs, the lows and his future wants and wishes he doesn’t hold back it’s an honest account, a artist pouring his heart out I feel the tears and heart he put into this track.  A lot of people have compared this to his highly revived track ‘Layer Cake’ in terms of the lyrical content and message.  They are diversely different in terms of the beat, Layer Cake was very sombre, Puppets and Strings is a lot more up tempo with the hook which will make you want to get up and skank.

You can listen and download the track for free off Kano’s official Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/therealkano/kano-puppets-strings

The internet makes people say stupid stuff: Vol 1

The internet is a place that brings out the Mr Hyde in us. In public we're nice as pie benevolent people of the highest nature at home on the internet, we're creepy perverts sending cock pics to girls who never asked for one. In this blog entry I will be dissecting the stupid stuff people say on the internet

I will hazard a guess that maybe her choice of men is the reason why she is 37, single, not married and putting her pin on a website for any stranger to add.

The Youth of today such gentlemen

The saying she isn't asking for much in a man has never rang truer 

This guy has killa girl game

Yep you can just pop to Westfields and buy one darling

Girls that wear Beanie Hats

If you see a chick and she is wearing a Beanie she probably

Likes House Music

She probably jumped on the House music bandwagon, when Funky House died out.  Now all you can hear her talking about is cutting shapes….this time next year she probably won’t even be listening to house.

She can be seen regularly in Shoreditch, Hackney, Dalston

If she left any of these areas she would probably get a nosebleed, and the only time she does leave is to go to Stratford Westfield to buy more beanies

She knocks back Ket and MDMA likes its Lambrini

Yeah pretty much self-explanatory

She dances weird

That will be the all the Ket and MDMA she has taken, making her cut shapes like she's having an epileptic fit

She’s a Sweaty mess

Skanking out wearing a beany equals a sweat-fest

Probably has Nike Blazers to give with the beanie

And a pair of Jordans......yep she is a Fad Whore

Because you wear a pair of Nike Air Maxs now doesn't make you trendy

Because you wear a pair of Nike Air Maxs doesn't automatically make you trendy. I'm seeing people rocking them like they have just come out like they are a new brand of trainer. You have come late to the party all the hot girls have vacated. Guys in the manor (endz, the bits, the hood whatever you want to call it) have been rocking a Air Maxs’ from day dot certain guys come out off the womb in a pair of Air Max's

Now you have EVERY sweaty smelly hipster from Shoreditch to Dalston and EVERY doughnut Essex boy with their extra small sized t-shirts strangling themselves with their top button of their shirts done up to moronic orange skinned Essex birds rocking them literally battering them to death like CHAVs’ did with Lyle and Scott

We have peeps jumping on this bandwagon because some moron of the tele who goes out in ski goggles wears them. In all honesty I have never been an Air max fan too black for me like playing basketball, breakdancing and any other black stereotype.

I'm joking just used that to set up my next paragraph that air Max's are hood trainers they are associated as an integral part of the rude boy uniform. From way way back when. I don't know where I'm going with this paragraph but you get the jest. (Lazy writing)

Who knows maybe TN's will come back in fashion

Modern Love

I don’t believe in the notion of a soul mate or the one. I think there are many potential ‘soul mates’ (hate that term) out there for us. It’s all about timing and the right moment. So basically when you have your shit together, grown tired of sleeping with random women or men or just matured like a fine red wine.

How do you know you have met your Lois Lane?

If you know me, you will know I love comic books, if you don’t know – Lois Lane is Superman’s woman and is one of pop cultures endearing romances, but I digress. So how do you know you have met your Lois Lane? Here is a checklist

• He/she puts up with the stupid annoying shit you do and you can put up with theirs too. 
• He/she makes you want to be a better person 
• You enjoy spending time with them even when sex isn’t on the menu 
• You’re able to learn of each other 

That’s it really (in my opinion)

Girls that wear Snapbacks and Jordans

You look mint darling

Stop it really please stop it. Ok I can’t say  that as one mans rubbish is another mans treasure. Some guys like girls to dress up like they belong in ‘Boy Better Know’ but me no. I like girls to dress like girls not like hood-rat guys.

You're so artistic a modern day Da Vinci

When I see a girl in a snapback or Jordans. I literally do shake my head. I haven’t got anything against girls who dress like that it’s a free country, you can dress how you like, but it is also a free country to express my opinion, and girls that wear snapbacks and jordans I think look utterly stupid.

Also it’s like all these girls share the same personality:

They all only go for black or mixed race boys

They have all been to Napa

They all think Napa is the best place in the world

They tell you all the time how much they love Napa

They have worked in Napa

I bet you think I am going to do another Napa one…………………Nah

Swagger, Swag, Yolo, started from the bottom now we are here, are phrases they can be find regurgitateting over various social networking sites.

They have Drake as their cover picture on Facebook/twitter with some dumb saying about boys or life.

Why do I dislike girls wearing snapbacks and Jordan’s? bloody heck! where do I start. It’s a combination of the above (the personality of the girls) and the actual visual of them in their Jordan's and Snapbacks. I would be embrassed introducing my girl to my friends who had a snapback and Jordan’s on. I would expect to get a torrent of abuse:

‘What the fuck is your bird wearing? she looks like a little boy’

‘She looks like Tinchy Stryder’ (if she is black)

‘She looks like Professor Green’ (if she is white)

‘She looks like Dappy’ (if she is Asian)

‘She looks like Dappy’ (if she is mixed race)

Call me old school but I like women to dress like a woman.

If you find offence in what I say, you shouldn’t it’s just my opinion and if you found offence then maybe you shouldn’t be dressing like that. If someone said they didn’t like the fashion I follow, I wouldn’t even bat an eye-lid, as I feel comfortable in what I wear and I like it.  If you’ re getting offended then maybe your just one of those un-original persons who just follows trends.