Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Love this Quote...

Bono: "I'd love for everyone to have that hope at the moment of death, the hope that you aren't leaving this world the same as you found it, but you're leaving the world a little better. We ought to celebrate the tiniest changes everywhere we find them -- in ourselves, in our family, our neighborhood, our country, the world. I'll say it again: I hate the idea of the inviolability of things. You can and you should shake things up. Besides, history proves it. Look, not long ago women didn't have the right to vote, and that was something just taken as a given. That appalling fact didn't stand the test of time."

Amen.

Monday, March 29, 2010

Check out this unreleased track from the "All That You Can't Leave Behind" sessions. Fits in perfectly with that album--emphasis on melody and more radio-friendly songs. Pretty solid! It's an upbeat song so if you're feelin' down, I think it should help a bit :)

Monday, March 22, 2010

Bring on the Haters!

Quick thoughts on tonight's debacle of a game. Or really just the second half.

--Worst half of a game we've played since I can remember.

--13 assists. Total (at least until I shut the TV off with about 1:30 left).

--Almost opposite defensive energy between the first and second halves. I was pleasantly surprised that in the first 24 minutes, every single player on the Celtics showed a helluva lot of energy, helping out teammates, overplaying everything (in the best sense of the word), getting in passing lanes, HUSTLING. The second half was a completely different story. Sluggish, showing the men they were playing a clear way to the basket, overplaying (in the WORST sense of the word) when showing on screens (PS: Why does that tend to happen? For example, Rondo guards Williams. Okur comes to set a screen. Sheed leaves Okur to help the semi-open Williams. Rondo, meanwhile, slips over the screen and is clearly still capable of guarding Williams. Sheed keep guarding Williams for some ungodly reason. Okur is wide open and knocks down a three. Happened far too often.)

--Several missed layups and, more important, missed and-ones in the second half. Perfect way to shoot yourself in the foot when you're missing FREE throws (i.e. FREE points, but the league couldn't just give them to you...they had to come up with something more official=free throws--surely professional basketball players can hit a wide open shot from 6 feet!, says Mr. Naismith. And they should. But we didn't.)

--Nate Robinson and Davis doing jack in the second half. Nate, buddy, I know you want to run the offense and pass the ball and really buy into our system, but we got you to score, score score. Ya know, like you did in the first half when you got 8 points in 25 seconds. And Big Baby. You get a thump on the nose and can't do ANYTHING in the second half? 13 points in something like 7 minutes sounds amazing, except when you consider that was all in quarters 1 and 2. Come on.

That's all I can think of for now. I could talk about the refs and how they most likely went into halftime, saw the free throw discrepancy (attributed to the Celtics actually attacking the rim the entire half), and deciding to try and even it out by letting the game get out of control in favor of the Jazz....BUT I won't get into that :)

Oh well, back to home for a season-long 6 game homestand. Hopefully that will help right the ship a bit, eh?

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Monday, March 8, 2010

Free Music (-ish)

Whatup y'all?! So I found this website that allows you to listen to a full album by basically anyone for free. The only fallback is that you can only listen to it once, but I think it's pretty cool, especially if you hear of a new album and want to check it out. I just listened to the new 30 Seconds to Mars album, which, granted, is a little more hardcore/emo than I normally like. But it does have some good songs from one listen. The album as a whole has a great atmosphere to it and the theme of war and its consequences runs throughout. I think one of the reasons that I like some of the songs is the fact that they're kind of epic in scope and sound (see: Kings and Queens, 100 Suns, and Hurricane). It's pretty cool.

Anyways, iTunes only allows a 30-second preview of any given song, but at this website, it's the full song in great quality.

You're welcome.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Podcasts on iTunes!!!

So I guess I officially have a podcast IN iTunes! Just search "Andy's Podcast Extravaganza" from the Music Store and it should pop up (it's the one with the old school Celtics logo, in case you were confused). Just click on subscribe and iTunes will automatically download the newest podcasts as they become available!!! :) HAVE FUN AND PLEASE SUBSCRIBE!!!!