#BeatDownThursdays: Cookie Monster Vs Power Rangers vs Harry Potter Vs Jedi #DeathFights

Lets get it every Thursday Im bring whacky mash up of super human sci fi beat downs since this is the first week of me doing this I wanted to start with something good.

I Present two epic deadly battles...Cookie Monster Vs The Power Rangers (this was surprisingly entertaining) and Harry Potter vs a Jedi...Let the DeathFights begin:

Note: content does contain blood and gore and may not be suitable for children under the age of 14

Bonus Round

Why NBA Live Vs.NBA 2K is Now a competition again

The Fall is almost upon us and football is making its season debut tonight, but soon Basket Ball season will be here as well. This leads us to the age old question ever since fall 1999...Live or 2K? After Live 2005 2k begin to consistently dominate EA's franchise to the point where it seemed like Live would be no more.

Every time Live gained any type of momentum 2k would come down like Tekken (Iron Fist) . A Perfect example is NBA Elite 11(Live). Elite was going to be Live's new comeback under a different name and they where making a little bit of noise and you know how 2k responded? Bringing out Micheal Jordan the  greatest damn basketball player of all  time on the cover. (Jordan usually doesn't appear in games unless he's the main guy example NBA streets vol 2 there is an all jordan team from different eras of his career and he appears on the cover of the game...he doesnt want people making money off his likeness ). 2k then pretty much dedicated a game mode to Jordan so the players could re-live his greatest moments. Also he introduction of a revamped my career mode, a mode that is prominent in the 2k series spelled doom for Elite 11...it was canceled at the last minute right before release. Currently 2k after having players like Jordan, Bird  ,Magic Johnson, Kobe, Jordan, Derrick Rose, and Blake Griffin they seem to be putting a familiar face Kevin Durant as the poster boy for 2k15. Peep the cover below...

2k has continued this competitive thrashing by releasing the NBA 2k15 Yakeem trailer on the same day as Live posted that their cover athlete would in fact be rising star Damian Lilard of the Trail Blazers. (NBALive15 cover)


Sources say 2K did that as a sparingly way of telling "Live to not come out this year". Not taking it lying down though Live has now dropped its own trailer and in a lot of ways it actually looks good. It's a tall leap from last years sub par title and visually if not better it does look like it can compete with 2Ks installment this year...Check out both trailers and tell us at thisisblaine.blogspot what ya'll think. Has the competition between these two juggernauts been restored?

Sept. 5th 2014 Jordan Year officially drops (Tracklist)

On September 5th 2014 Jordan Year/ Candid Aggression the first of three albums slated for 2014 will be released by K. Zeus aka David Blaine. Zeus has been gaining a lot of attention performing all over New York City at Open Mic. showcases and industry events alike and has been well received capitalizing off strong tracks like Daquan, Moonwalker, & Body Rock. The production for this project is top notch featuring a mix of underground and industry producers including WoodysProduce, Omito Beats, Sha-leik, MJ Nichols, Dopant Beats, and Charles Hamilton. 

 On Sept. 5th at 12:00 am the mixtape will be released on DatPiff for listen and download. Also to celebrate the release K. Zeus will be performing at Times Square  42 street at BB Kings in New York on Monday September 8th. Peep the tracklist and check some of K. Zeus tracks and vids below... 

Uptowns Finest Vol. 1 On DatPiff

Blackrollingstones is back with another banging mix tape . On Datpiff.com check out the latest tape Uptown's Finest Vol. 1 presented and hosted by DJ RockinRon. This mix tape is fire featuring some of the greats like Bigl L , DMX, JAY Z, & Harlem's on A-Thugga. Check out the full tracklist below and give it a listen.

A Womans Perspective 5 Reasons you should have Sex with your man Everynight

I was getting a manicure the first time I learned that not all wives want to, ahem, go for a roll in the hay with their husbands. I was 16 and had picked out orange nail polish (oh, sixteen). I had a book with me but it wasn't long before I found another source of entertainment. In-between buffings and polishings, the two women next to me talked about how much their husbands wanted IT and how little they wanted to give IT.

For a girl that had not even been asked out on a date this was a whole new world. I had a suspicion that their experience was more realistic than the articles I sneaky read in Cosmo while getting my hair done at the salon. (I am supposed to put my hand WHERE? while simultaneously doing WHAT?) So I kept my eyes on my book, let the words blur into lines and listened closely.

"Doesn't he know how tired I am by the end of the day? As if after the kids are finally asleep I have the energy to do anything but sit down and watch some TV."

"For me, it isn't even the energy it takes. I am still losing weight from the baby. I don't feel sexy. I can hardly undress in front of a mirror, let alone in front of him. I honestly think it is selfish that he expects me to pretend to feel something that I don't."

"Selfish? That's a good word. Maybe if he took care of the kids when he got home or made dinner once in a while I would be more interested. Hell, just pick up the milk on the way home from work. I am not asking for much. Now that I think about it, I don't think we have done it in the last three weeks."

"Yeah. It's been at least two for us."

Wait. These women were married...they lived with a guy....who slept in their bed. They could have sex all the time! And they didn't want to? It made no sense. It was like turning down a zero calorie but as delicious-as-creme-brulee dessert. (Or at least I assumed. At that point everything I knew about romance was gleaned from Anne of Green Gables and Moulin Rouge.)



How sad. How wasteful. How stupid. When I got married, I would always want to have sex with my husband! And I would never be too tired. My goodness, it was just ridiculous to want him to bring home a gallon of milk just to prove he cared. Wasn't it just like a woman to make a grocery run a test of love. As the final coat of polish was applied to my nails, I swore to never be like them. My life would be different. I would be better. I would never feel too fat or too tired. Ever.

And then I grew up.

Intercourse, carnal knowledge, lovemaking, knocking boots, coitus, SEX! is everything 16 year old me imagined plus a little whipped cream on top. (Whipped cream, see what I did there?) And once Riley and I got married there was lots and lots and lots of it. Then we had a baby and I really was just so tired my bones hurt. And for a while I did feel fat. Even after I lost the pregnancy weight everything just looked different. Like a cut flower that has been left out in the sun, still lovely just a little...wilted. I became a little distant. We started to fall asleep without talking or kissing.

Then one day while washing dishes, I realized that we had gone eight days without touching each other. Eight days was a quite some time for us. But the thing that bothered me the most was that I hadn't missed it. And I knew that was a problem. So that night after we put the baby to bed, I gave Riley my best come hither glance. Yes, I was tired and felt about as desirable as the "feed the birds" lady in Mary Poppins. But while drying the dishes, it occurred to me that 16 year old Meg must have understood something about sex that 20-something Meg had forgotten. And maybe, just maybe it was worth remembering.

Without further ado here are five reasons you should have sex with your husband every night:

1. Being a mother, one of the ultimate expressions of womanhood, can often leave a girl feeling stripped of her femininity. There is something about being covered in spit up and attending to the every need of another human being that makes one feel distinctly gender neutral. Most of my days are spent playing with dolls, wiping baby food off of my clothes, changing diapers, wiping snot off of my clothes, going to the park, and wiping what-the-heavens-is-that off of my clothes. There is something restorative about kissing the boy you love. There are times in Riley's arms when I remember who I am before I even realize I have forgotten. Yes, I am a cook, cleaner, teacher, and wiper of all things disgusting. But I am also something more, something delightful and completely apart from my roles. I am a woman! And there is potential and depth and heck, I am pretty darn good kisser, too. It is a lovely thing, finding yourself through the touch of someone else.

2. If you want your husband to act like a man, you need to treat him like a man. Hold the eye rolls. I am not pushing for a return to the 1950′s. (Although, heaven knows an era in which low rise jeans did not exist is basically alright by me.) Women need any number of criteria met to feel loved. Men are far simpler. They need to be fed, they need to be appreciated, and they need to have sex. That is it. Really. So make or order dinner once in a while. Say thank you for the long hours spent at work with a hug and smile when he walks through the door each night. (Better yet? Smile as you hand him the kids and walk out the door for a long, much needed break.) And my goodness, let the poor man see you naked. It is astounding what a good man will do for a good woman that has made him feel loved. After a few weeks of meals and make outs, you will sit back and wonder why you didn't insist on having sex every night sooner. Talk about a small investment and big returns.

3. You need to have a moment in each day that is just about the two of you. Remember that boy? The one that made your heart thump and hands sweat? The one that called when you hoped he would, that made you run hot and high up to the stars until you thought you would never come down? He is still there. Under the years and bills and worries, that smiling boy is still in love with and needs his smiling girl. Every night after the kids go to bed is a chance to find him again. A moment to remind yourself that you are living a picket fenced adventure and my goodness, there is nothing the two of you can't do.

4. Sex relieves stress. I don't know that this one needs much explanation. As a mother I eat stress for breakfast. So it seems to me I have a choice. I can let off steam by A) driving around at night and bashing in strangers mailboxes or B) I can get down and dirty with that one guy I married that one time. I choose option B. (So far the mailboxes in my neighborhood have escaped unscathed, so Option B must be working.)

5. It is so much blasted fun. Seriously. Why are we so quick to refuse the good things in life? We will slog through our children's Algebra homework, do Zumba in public and pluck the hair from our body ONE PIECE AT A TIME. But tell a girl to have sex every night and she looks at you like you are crazy, An orgasm? Every night? What do I look like? A Nymphomaniacal Super Woman?

Where is the logic in that?

Are we really too busy doing dishes to participate in an activity that is so good it has inspired genius (that saucy Shakespeare) and changed history (Okay, Helen of Troy, we get it. You were super hot)? My goodness, what a crazy way to live. Ladies, did it ever occur to you (to us!) that we should have sex because WE DESERVE IT?

Yeah, you deserve it.

So, tonight put the kids to bed. Leave the dishes in the sink and the floors unswept. They will wait. Take a moment to remember that you are the girl you hoped you would be and then go find that boy and remind him that he is the man you knew he could be.

Rinse. Repeat.

The Black Spiderman is Here and he's Perfect

This is Nikolas A. Draper-Ivey. He’s a 22-year-old comic-book artist from Lansing, Michigan, and his version of Spider-Man just went viral.

In case you don’t recognize the costume, Draper-Ivey is dressed up as a newer version of Spider-Man. In 2011, Marvel gave the mantel of Spider-Man to half-black, half-Hispanic teenager Miles Morales.

The character’s been a huge hit, and just this week it was announced that Donald Glover would be voicing an animated version on Disney XD’s Ultimate Spider-Man: Web Warriors.

Glover playing Miles Morales is a big deal. In 2010, the internet started the “Donald for Spider-Man” campaign to try to get Glover the main part in Sony’s then upcoming Spider-Man movie.

Draper-Ivey said he started following the Miles Morales Spider-Man after friends told him he looked a lot like the character. This is his first full cosplay.

“Miles Morales seemed like the most appropriate one to do,” Draper-Ivey told BuzzFeed. “As I followed this character, being able to relate to him in a very real way brought this to life for me.”

Draper-Ivey thinks Peter Parker and Miles Morales are really similar, great characters. He said that both Peter Parker and Miles Morales try to be heroes even though they aren’t perfect.

When he started putting photos online, Draper-Ivey got a lot of attention, including from Sara Pichelli, the designer and co-creator of Miles Morales’ Spider-Man. “You’re perfect,” Pichelli wrote.

Hard to argue with him, to be honest…

“I want to see Miles on the big screen,” Draper-Ivey said. “Even if I have to put on this suit and get up there with Andrew Garfield myself.”

NBA 2K15 New trailer Featuring Shaq & Ernie

The trailer above not only shows off some awesome footage for the upcoming NBA 2K15 video game, it also shows Inside the NBA on TNT co-hosts Shaquille O'Neal and Ernie Johnson briefly delivering their take on the virtual action.

The trailer above is officially known as Yakkem. You'll find out why as you watch and listen to Shaq deliver his "isms" in the video.
If you weren't aware, the song playing in the background is "Suck My Kiss" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It's part of the soundtrack for the game, which was curated by Pharrell Williams.

It looks like a game that has always prided itself on presentation is getting a major shot in the arm.

It's unclear what capacity Shaq and Ernie will be used in the game, but it seems fair to speculate that the two may be part of a new and improved halftime show.

We've got our fingers crossed for a pregame and postgame show. While we're wishing, a weekly wrap-up show would be awesome as well.

The actual gameplay in the video shows off several of the over 5,000 new animations and some of the NBA's relocated superstars with their new teams. That includes the first virtual glimpse of LeBron James rocking the No. 23 Cleveland Cavaliers jersey and Pau Gasol with the Chicago Bulls.

Derrick Rose is on display and a much-improved render of Los Angeles Clippers star Chris Paul is another highlight.

There's mounds to pick out in a trailer like this. These videos are designed to give fans a sneak peek at the game, and to whet your appetite for the full retail release.

Mission accomplished.

NBA 2K15 releases for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and PC on Oct. 7. 

Stay tuned for more information as it becomes available.

Blue Ivy Dances at the Beyonce Concert Opps The VMAS

Like mother, like daughter!

Blue Ivy couldn't contain her excitement while watching her famous mama perform her heart out at tonight's 2014 MTV Video Music Awards.

Beyoncé sang her entire album live shortly before accepting the coveted Video Vanguard Award, and even her own daughter knew she absolutely, positively killed it on stage.
Baby blue was seated in Jay Z's lap in the front row while she watched Queen Bey shake her bootyliciousness for the audience.


During "Drunk In Love" little Blue was seen dancing and singing along—and dare we say it…even giving a bit of a "Single Ladies" hand wave!

Bey and Jay's baby girl already has moves like mama!
Beyoncé got emotional during her acceptance speech, saying that she "felt full" from all of the support from her fans and family.
At one point, Jay called Bey the "greatest entertainer" in the world, while Blue got on the mic and said, "Yay, mommy!"

And while Bey most definitely stole the show tonight, it's safe to say that she may have been overshadowed by the adorable toddler.

The Weeknd drops visuals for his single "Often"

"In My City I'm A Young God/ That P*ssy Kill Be So Vicious" the Weeknd croons in his latest single Often...Filled with melodic dark overtones and sexual provocativeness The Weeknd brags about how his growing fame has driven him into a cycle of sexual conquest hence the title "Often"...Check out the visuals and tell me what you think...

Nick Cannon & Mariah Carey getting a Divorce (Another One Bites The Dust)

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon separated back in May -- and are living apart ... and we're told divorce lawyers have been negotiating a property settlement and custody agreement for months and the divorce is "a done deal."

Sources connected with the couple tell TMZ ... Mariah and Nick have been living in separate houses in NYC since May. He sees the kids but that's the extent of their contact.

Our sources say  ... Nick's appearance on Big Boy's radio show in March was the beginning of the end. Nick played Big Boy's game -- name the 5 celebs you've slept with. Nick named 5, but our sources say the one that made Mariah insane was Kim Kardashian.  

We're told Mariah tore into Nick for weeks ... feeling humiliated and the relationship never recovered.

We're told it went from bad to worse when Nick went on Howard Stern and talked about Mariah not giving it up before they got hitched. She went nuclear.

Our sources say Mariah feels Nick has abandoned her by taking every gig that's on the table ... when they don't need the money. She's especially angry because it keeps him away from their kids.

For Nick's part ... we're told he feels Mariah has become impossible because she surrounds herself with "yes men."  He says she can't handle it when he dares to disagree with her.

We're also told Nick is incredulous Mariah is bitching about his work ethic ... he says he's generated $75 million since 2011 for the family.