Yes. It's the stuff that rules.
The Amazing Adventures of DJ Yoda
It has TWO Biz Markie tracks (one about Breakfast Cereal, called Breakfast Cereal. And another about a Haunted House, called Haunted House). It has Sway. It has shout outs from David Dickinson and Mark Hamill. It also has MC Paul Barman, but you can't have everything. Yoda's good, but he can't pull Prince Paul's trick of making Barman palatable.
Anyway, the Breakfast Cereal track is probably worth the entry fee alone.
Demetri Martin – These Are Jokes
Demetri Martin's first comedy CD has a lot of jokes. In many ways if feels like a compilation of all his jokes up to this point in his career. Some of it is familiar from various stand up appearances I've seen from him elsewhere.
Some of it is a little too reminiscent of the obvious influence of Stephen Wright, but his unrelated jokes while playing guitar schtick is close to Zach Galifianakis' unrelateted jokes while playing piano. As was his “Gay Beatle” joke the same as Galifianakis' “Fat Jesus” joke just with the descriptor changed. And those bonus tracks were too cute and self indulgent.
The shorter Comedy Central Presents set that you get on the bonus DVD is a better collection of material, but the sheer number of jokes on the CD performance, means regardless of it's faults it is still an excellent CD.
Detective Conan Movie 10 – The Private Eye's Requiem.
The tenth anniversary Detective Conan film. It has just about every recurring character in it, with only Kudo's parents and the Black Organisation missing. It brings chaos to the main characters rather than them simply restoring order, so it has that noir tinge that tends to set the films apart from the TV series.
The plot has some overused standard detective show traits – the “certain type of” clue does appear, but it also has plenty of the wordplay clues that are arguably the series' trademark as a detective show. Even though it's clearly aimed at mainly at kids – once again the action takes place at an amusement park – the complexity of it's plots never talks down to them, which accounts for a lot of it's lengthy success.
Get Smart
Been watching the first season of this spy spoof sitcom from the minds of Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. It's out via Time Life on DVD in States in November, but won't be in shops for another year. So being a UK dweller I'm stuck with watching rips of episodes taped off TV Land for the time being.
And the thing has aged incredibly well. I know Channel 4 used to repeat a while back, it's a shame they've not stuck with it like they stuck with Bewitched (another great 60s sitcom). It certainly contains some of Brooks' best writing. The B&W pilot episode was a little weak, but the colour episodes take very little time before they hit their stride.