San Francisco and Gurp City’s own Z-Man has a gift for you: his new, free, downloadable EP,Show Up, Shut Up and Rap. I realize that’s not as exciting as stealing it off the internet or shoplifting it from the defunct Virgin Megastore, but if you are familiar with Z’s work, you are definitely stoked, and if you’re not familiar with him, now’s your chance to jump on the bandwagon of a man who’s worked with Hieroglyphics and is part of One Block Radius, not to mention the writer and performer of the hit song “White Girls Wit Ass” off his excellent  Dope or Dog Food. My research team also just turned up Z’s Twitter, which I’m sure is hilarious, and dude is a prolific visual artist, you’ve probably seen his work at different smoke shops and different businesses around the city. 

Download it here.

In case you missed it: 

If you’re in LA on Feb 27, your ass better be there for the world premiere. How long before they start playing it at The Red Vic? Oh also, word ots is that you can download this on sites that rhyme(ish) with tehbiratepay.borg. Party at your house, yall! You’re buying!

I just gotta cut and paste all this shit from the site because it’s too good:

BIRDEMIC, described by Nguyen as a romantic thriller, is a horror/action/special-effects-driven love story about a young couple trapped in a small Northern California town under siege by homicidal birds. BIRDEMIC also tackles topical issues of global warming, avian flu, world peace, organic living, sexual promiscuity and lavatory access. 

Nguyen, a 42-year-old Vietnamese refugee, wrote, cast and shot the film over the course of four years using salary from his day job as a mid-level software salesman in Silicon Valley. The film pays homage to Hitchcocks THE BIRDS via location shooting in Mission Bay, California, as well as an appearance by star of THE BIRDS Tippi Hedren (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tippi_Hedren). When rejected for an official screening slot at Sundance, Nguyen spent eight days driving up and down the festivals nearby streets in a van covered with fake birds, frozen blood and BIRDEMIC posters, while loudspeakers blared the sounds of eagle attacks and human screams. The tactic caught the attention of festival organizers, filmgoers and local police, as well as executives from Severin Films. Severins executives walked into a screening, took one look at Nguyens masterwork, and immediately locked up BIRDEMICs worldwide rights for the next twenty years. Discussions are currently underway for Severin to add an additional thirty years to the initial agreement.  

There’s a new blog in town that’s a parody of 7x7’s bold hyper-local experiment. It’s pretty funny because let’s face it NO COMMENT (KEVIN!?) but I have some suggestions for OMG the Mish! I mean, if I were gonna make a bloghomage to that particular site, I’d post many photos of myself dancing at some obscure show because i’m not fat anymore and LOOK THESE ARE MY FRIENDS*. That would be the only thing I didn’t hate on or mock because OMG THEY LIKE ME. I’d also have some choice photos of blades of grass growing through the concrete and shit like that. Then maybe I’d move somewhere else that’s not the mission and have some other people posts news 5 days too late. AND DON’T GET ME STARTED ON THE COMMENTERS. If you want to rock a true blogomage, you’re gonna have to get hateful brat commenters who hale from cities like Concord and don’t have the balls to move farther away from home. That’s the problem with the internet, it allows people who had no friends in high school to reign supreme(ish). It’s totally embarrassing. I want to beat up the internet.

Man, my parody blog would be the SHIT. If there were 35 hours in a day, I’d be all over that. I can’t wait until someone makes an Uptown Almanac blogomage. Please contact me for ideas on how to make fun of me. 

And with that, I think I alienated half of the city of San Francisco. Good, I can’t stand your ugly faces anyway, come back when you’ve plucked your eyebrows and combed that rat’s nest. GOOD NIGHT!

*I personally am fat and LOVE IT. that is why i don’t suffer from former fatkiditis and the need to be cool…that shit is the worst thing that can ever happen to a fatty. anyway, i’m just calling it like I see it. It coulda been bad acne too.