The new NF music video – hope, goosebumps, and identical twins?

There’s hardly a way to compare NF to anyone else in the music industry but if you put pressure on me to come up with something really accurate, it would be something like this: Imagine the skills of Busta Rhymes, Eminem, and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, all in one person and that’s NF. Granted, all of those rappers are so amazing so it would be hard to even come up with anyone else like them, too.

If you do some digging into NF’s reviews and his music, most of the comparisons you’re going to find are with Eminem, the other white rapper (no offense Tom MacDonald!). I’ll admit that when I first heard NF years ago, it was remarkable how much he sounded like Eminem. What a compliment, though, to sound like one of the best rappers ever, right? But as much as they resembled each other and much like a pair of identical twins I knew in college, the more I got to know the twins the easier it was to tell them apart. In fact, as the friendships grew, I could hardly believe they were identical twins at all. That’s how it is with NF, too. As I’ve listened to his music over and over, he has his own unique sound and this might offend people but I wouldn’t say NF sounds like Eminem, if anything Eminem sounds like NF! Boom.

So NF just unveiled a video for his song “Hope” and I haven’t found one negative comment on YouTube yet. Reddit reviewers are a little more cynical but there are quite a few people calling it a masterpiece and with that, I’d have to agree. I can’t think of another rap song that’s given me goosebumps, except for maybe “The Search,” also by NF. It’s also crazy that every single NF song I hear is better than the last one I listened to. I guess that means now I have a new favorite NF song.

Goosebumps, right? As the old cliché goes, the sky’s the limit for NF. For now, this is my favorite song until tomorrow when I listen to another of his songs.

See you then…

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-Out of the Wilderness

The Three-Colored Caper Strikes Again!

If you have a mischievous beagle you know exactly what the title of this post means. My little Piper? She’s gone to the bark side. My little Bark Vader is 13 years old and getting more fragile but when she wants you to know something, you’re gonna know it! The other day she was not happy with being in the camper when she wanted to be outside… and she made it crystal clear.

Not be outdone, and since books are sooooo 1990s (except for MY children’s books you can have shipped directly to your door through Amazon or Books-A-Million online, which will help me offset the cost of what I’m about to tell you 😉), she’s apparently moved on to DVDs. Ryan Reynolds, if you’re reading this, I apologize on behalf of this little tornado of a beagle!

Obviously you can’t see the title of this movie on the case because Piper shredded it all to kingdom come! The movie is The Voices and stars Ryan Reynolds, Gemma Arterton, and Anna Kendrick. Hey you movie stars, what she did wasn’t personal, I promise.

A mangled case, just like my brain when I came back to find this mayhem scattered on the camper floor… courtesy of this beagle and her vampire teeth.

See you tomorrow…

-Out of the Wilderness

The Amazon Anxious Dog Commercial – The Music, the Super Bowl, and More!

Woof woof! Amazon teased a commercial in the week leading up to the Super Bowl. It was clear the commercial would be about dogs but the teaser video didn’t give too much away. Here it is then scroll down for the big reveal, and more about the commercial…

If your tail isn’t already wagging, the full commercial might help. It’s called “Saving Sawyer” and shows a family slowly becoming too busy to spend time with their dog, Sawyer, who becomes destructive as a result. Side note, I have a post coming tomorrow you won’t want to miss about my opinionated and destructive beagle! But for now, take a look at Amazon’s version of a good boy gone to the bark side…

The Music. This is a great song used as the soundtrack to the commercial. It’s called “Love” by Nancy Adams, released in 1973 as part of the animated Robin Hood movie.

Behind the Scenes. Amazon posted a behind-the-scenes video with Sawyer, star of their Super Bowl commercial. Warning, it’s adorable. Sawyer is a good dog!

Come back tomorrow for a story of my beagle who’s also gone to the bark side! I wonder if I should start calling her Bark Vader? See you tomorrow…

-Out of the Wilderness

Rolling down the street…

I wrote a few weeks ago about becoming obsessed with skates I found online. Here’s that post. Well, even though I doubted it would happen because the skates were backordered and I can be pessimistic sometimes, they finally arrived just as the company said they would… thank you Derby Warehouse!

I can say two things with total honesty… I’m still obsessively riding these skates. And two, I’ve never felt more like a 98-yr old than when I’m trying to skate up a slight incline. I’m pretty pathetic, but get me on a slight downhill and you’d think I’m Apolo Ohno out there! But then again, it may have happened that with my skates on I was not moving at all, just chatting with my niece and as soon as I tried to skate forward I fell right on my butt. Who else do you know that can literally not be moving at all, and still fall? Now you know a guy.

But I LOVE my skates, take a look…

See you tomorrow!

-Out of the Wilderness

The Birthing Person Halftime Show

It used to be that you shouldn’t ask a woman if she’s pregnant but now I don’t even think it’s politically correct to ask a woman if she’s a woman. So this birthing person named Rihanna, who might nor might not be pregnant (I haven’t asked her), was the halftime show of the Super Bowl. I’d definitely agree that performing live to a lip-sync track at the Super Bowl while you might be carrying a clump of cells (some people call a fetus) has GOT to be difficult. With that said, I would have rather watched any of the other 720 American billionaires (yes, Rihanna is a billionaire) play a show between halves… Rihanna was THAT boring. If it weren’t for the floating platforms, I might have done something productive during halftime. The game itself was great until the last two minutes and if you watched then you know how the referees once again screwed over another team NOT named the Chiefs. People who saw the disastrous ending to the game were quick to comment on Twitter. Even Burger King (who needs to stop these ads) got in on the action.

Rihanna will rank among the worst halftime shows, although it should be said that she stayed fully clothed, didn’t have any wardrobe malfunctions, and generally didn’t do anything political. I guess not doing anything stupid means it was a great halftime show? I don’t know anymore. I found a list of all the previous halftime shows, with obviously the best being Prince (2007), U2 (2002), and Michael Jackson (1993). But let’s be honest, the Super Bowl is about the commercials, like this tear-jerker from The Farmer’s Dog. So boring halftime and bad refs aside, there were some great commercials. I’ll write about them soon!

Did you watch the game? What were your thoughts on the birthing person halftime show?

See you again tomorrow…

-Out of the Wilderness