Writer’s Block (The Movie)
Capitol D & The Molemen
2002
Writer’s Block (The Movie) crafts an imagery-filled tale as vivid as anything your average Hollywood writer could concoct. There’s Eliza, a “Young Girl Lost” who left home at the age of 15 because her “two block radius was much too small/To contain her ambitions/With no inhibitions at all.”
There’s “Mrs. Manley,” the protagonist’s elderly neighbor who “was like a surrogate mother for my family/It don’t stop there, it’s like the whole block/Used to treat her doorstep like a bus stop.”And then there’s Jay, a local thug who’s “a magnet for trouble” and winds up the target of a drive-by in “Crossfire.”
These characters, and many more, are wound together in a well-crafted storyline that isn’t so much about writer’s block, the affliction, as it is about a writer with an impeccable eye for detail, immersing the listener in the things he witnesses every day on his block. – AllMusic
Stand-Out Tracks
I Wanna Go Home
Turn It Up – Refried
MeatShake
