i know chris really likes dwyane wade and so a while back i remember visiting his xanga to find it crowded with the dwyane wade commercials where he's interviewed and quite candid about various aspects of basketball and how he feels. i like wade out of the three from the same draft(melo, lbj, wade), but out of the 3 superstars' commercials as of late(the lebrons[i got it wise, lol], the wade interviews, and the new melo one), i really like the carmelo one. it's based on the fact that he developed a reputation as being a buzzer beater.

here

i love how the piano music in the background complemented with the rising musical strings(cello or bass?) volume makes it all dramatic; the best part is the end with 2.4 seconds left on the game clock when you see george karl(well, actually you don't see his face so it could've been any actor posing as george karl) draw out a play for carmelo: a screen off of a curl to the outside, and he remembers back to when he practiced that play in practice, executing it with perfection(the repeated cut between the coach drawing the play and him executing it in practice is a very nice cinematic touch with the background music). he gets up from the timeout, stretches a little, and you hear him saying "why wouldn't i want the last shot, when i know i've already made it." really nice commercial.

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IMO there is no joy or sadness in celebrating a birthday. it just means you spent 1 more cold and dark year outside of your mother's womb, and are 1 year closer to "coming home." society only makes it feel like it's a happy thing because of age restrictions upon what you can do, like driving, or buying alcohol, or getting social security.

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if you've ever looked up michelle branch's info on wikipedia(i like her as an artist) and used it as a stepping stone to learn about her(such as the link to the maxim interview), i think you would be impressed with her attitude about various things, compared to most other contemporary artists. i think for instance, when she was interviewed, she said something like "can we stop talking about my clothing and talking about my guitars? i'm a musician, not a fashion designer." another would be that whenever she comes home, she can't listen to any station that plays her music; the stuff on the radio now sucks. so she says she listens to oldies stations. also grew up on metallica, guns n roses, etc(that always gets a thumbs up from me). states she has the humor of a 17-yr old boy; she wouldn't hesitate to watch spinal tap or dumb and dumber if someone asked her for it. actually gets turned on by the guy WHO'S IGNORING HER(if only...). and finally, the best one; "i can't hang around with girls; i'd rather hang around with guys; girls are so insecure. guys you can just tell fart jokes all day long."

too bad she's married, so the total population of available girls like this in the world is 1 shorter.

ykno how a while back i linked to a youtube video showing kg on some show in taipei?

elaboration: here's his blog when he was in taipei, apparently promoting his adidas shoe.

it's interesting how more and more people are entertaining the idea of kg being traded seeing how postseason success has eluded him and father time is catching up to him. nobody questions how good he is, how versatile he is, but because he has never been able to go deep into the playoffs due to lack of complimentary players, people would love to entertain that "what if" question a lot. that is, if he had the proper support, is his individual greatness enough to win a championship? i'm hoping he at least gets a chance to reach the conference finals at least once more during his prime. he deserves THAT much.

just not as a laker. oh please no. *imagines the number of bandwagon fans in california coming out of the woodwork saying "i'm a diehard lakers fan i love kobe & kg and well um, um, well i don't know anybody else on the team, and i rarely watch any games, but i love the lakers!"*

hate to say it, but the guys at espn have it dead on; the nba eastern conference sucks LIKE CRAP at the current moment. it's even worse than in the previous years because now there is no more than 1 eastern conference team at the moment who can give the upper tiers of the western conference a challenge; in the past 2nd year, you had indiana, detroit and miami. in the past year, detroit and miami. now, its, ???

the only team that looks good is the orlando magic as of late. howard is just crazy. and getting better.

cavs have some better records, but they just lost to the knicks at HOME.

and pistons still aren't quite the good team they used to be, although they have been winning more games, it's due to their offense.

but things in may and june are a lot more different than they are here. maybe things'll look up. i greatly like and have high hopes in orlando, chicago and detroit.

w0rd...

thinking of getting a new cell phone?

these guys are pretty good

the midget acts were pretty funny

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go wish grace lin and jeremy lee a happy birthday...

when i first saw this on family guy i couldn't stop laughing... rush - tom sawyer FTW

scott skiles quotes(this guy's smart):

"Basketball is like religion: many attend, few understand."

"My problem would not be 'can I play in the game?' It would be, 'can I get up the next morning?' That's one of the reasons I stopped playing. I got tired of crawling to the breakfast table the next morning."

kinda funny how some nba teams try to address uniformality, but it's kinda lopsided; i repeat; what's wrong with wearing headbands and rubber bands and tights, but ok about wearing wristbands pulled up to your upper arms or elbows? it's not like you're letting players wear jewelry out there. and these things are supposed to help; i used to wear headbands just because i thought it was cool, until i tried playing on a hot summer day without it, and found it slightly aggrevating how sweat kept coming down my face and almost into my eyes.

(of course a lot of this curiousity of mine stems from why utah has something against that, and the recent ben wallace incident with skiles)

i WANT to say more on the subject about how by taking away these things, you are not allowing ben wallace to play with the swagger that defines him, that attitude that allows his defensive game to be so awesome, but i really don't know how i'd go about it, and would probably just sound like a fool(i mean, yea i guess to some degree, but it's still a piece of cloth). but i'll try.

i guess to make things "short", the reason why i loved ben wallace so much (at least, when he was a piston), is that yes, he does block shots, rebound, occasionally come up with steals and such, but that's not why he's one of my favorite players in the game; marcus camby comes up with similar stats, there's players which average more blocks per night, etc. it's the combination of that and his swagger that just seemed to exude from him. you know that weird aura that seems to come off ray lewis whenever the ravens' defense takes the field? ben wallace is like that. it was the afro, the swagger, the bell, the way he carried himself in the locker room, his giant hops, everything. it's sorta like his whole body is saying "i'm going to shut you down, and there's nothing you can do about it." ben wallace played off of this type of feeling, and if you didn't like him, you would've just thought he's another Bad Boy in the wrong timeframe. but i believe those that really like him don't just like his shotblocking and rebounding ability; they like that swagger that comes off of him. take away that feeling that he has(i recently learned that while he does have a bad right wrist, it's not that reason why he misses so many free throws; he's honestly THAT amped up during the game; that's how intense he feels on defense), he's probably not going to play with that same fire. and the same intensity.

edit: forgot to write that why ben wallace feels negative against pregame music is that he used to keep an ipod chock full of hardcore hip-hop songs to play hooked up to a loudspeaker in the pistons' locker room before a game to amp everybody up. INTENSE.

edit2: oh crap; biedrins had SIX BLOCKS!!!!?!?!? i remembered watching the kings at warriors game and biedrins went for a LOT of swat attempts. maybe he'll become a good shot blocker real soon.

damn, warriors and magic are t3h hotness tonight...

warriors in particular; making me actually BELIEVE they could end up in the post-season, and win at least 2 games!

this is why i don't like seinfeld and friends:

cause when they have an all-white cast,
it actually isn't that surprising
that something like this eventually happens

aries spears imitating shaq

hehe...

anybody wanna watch this movie with me during winter break?

i wonder if it's gonna suck, or live up to the previous ones.

fyi, my personal favorite rocky movie might've been the 4th one.

aries spears impersonates several hip-hop artists during freestyle

interesting website

upload a photo, view who you look most like, post your results on your website or whatnot.

i WOULD do it, except i don't have a camera. eh, whatever.

thanksgiving is still my favorite holiday, hands down.

despite the fact that i had no turkey this thanksgiving.

despite the fact that i did nothing exciting this break.

still my favorite holiday.

*sigh* 12:30 pm back to apartment
1:30 pm(hopefully)
3:00 pm(hopefully)

this season's kinda weird for yao; on the other hand, he's really never played this good before as everything he takes in the paint's going in and he's getting like 30+ pts every night(though i still think as a big man he should be killing the boards and inhaling shots), but on the other hand, there's already more highlight reels of him getting owned than i remember already; i already have 3 and it isn't even december yet:
dantay jones posterizing him,
duncan stopping his 2-handed dunk with the right hand so hard yao fell over and then coming down with the ball,
and of course,
nate robinson denying him with the left hand so hard it temporarily hurt his eyes.

will sasso on madtv

kenny rogers' halftime show

will sasso and frank caliendo were the definition of madtv

don't believe me? this is frank caliendo

espn podcast: chad ford chats with chris mullin

interesting how some of my wma's were downloaded from napster because of a particular fanmade video i saw online and really liked:

just to name 7:

mc hammer - you can't touch this(rasheed wallace pistons video)
jon bon jovi - it's my life(dwyane wade video)
dragonforce - my spirit will go on(marvel vs capcom 2 - magneto exhibition video)
jay z - a dream(hakeem olajuwon rockets video)
royce de 5'9 - boom(paul pierce video)
dmx featuring swizz beats - we in here(ben wallace pistons video)
kurupt - on, onsite(dwight howard video)


there actually would be a lot more i'd download, but some aren't on napster, like: nelly - here comes the boom

seen this commercial?

for the enlightening of my acquaintances who have not lived around davis/sacramento, the maloof brothers(george & gavin) are also the owners of the sacramento kings.

joe montana and ronnie lott commercial

this commercial is too good... just remembered it today...

i'm loving football today...

patriots too sick for packers to handle...

steelers doing the incredible come-from-behind and then getting lucky FTW.

alex smith and frank gore tearing apart the seahawks in the 1st half(and hopefully in the 2nd half)

picks of the week:

1. bible verse:
still need to think about this one... come back to me next week :D
2. food:
dreyer's apple pie ice cream(limited edition). it's pretty good; seems to contain so many apples in pie sauce and pie crusts, that the ice cream feels a lot more softer due to the lack of ice cream. fyi, the expression "as american as apple pie" is not foreal. apple pies existed before the usa was founded. am i the only one that was shocked at that?
3. music equip:
...
4. place:
i long to be at the arboretum, but the rain and wet and windy conditions have denied me.
5. song:
i plan on downloading this .wmv: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5lBGxdDb8c
6. sports game:
kings at warriors, and niners at lions; the 1st reminded me how much running don nelson emphasized with tmc(here's to hoping they can do this on the road and against defensive-minded teams), and the 2nd was just awesome for chauntee spencer laying out john kitna.
7. thought:
we live in a world where sticking to your beliefs if they're false is foolishness, and being apt to change is also wrong, showing your fear in the face of popularity. the hard part about this life is be able to be able to divide right from wrong, and then to focus your body to follow what your mind believes to be the truth... no matter what anybody else believes and says.
8. video game:
what i'm putting down today is a combo video that i uploaded but didn't create. imo, it's the best ssf2t combo video ever; and i've seen a lot of impressive ones, like the 2 studio l ones from tosaka.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcgEhm1uYUg
9. other(product):
"this is spinal tap" is a really awesome comedy movie; i remember watching it with phil once when i was a kid, and i'm hoping to watch it again sometime soon; it's really funny, makes fun of the whole british rock star stuff.
example of a funny clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhVWJgIzftE heh heh; this one goes to 11
also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY8cTBpkzyE
10.other(various):
i can't wait til turkey bowl; i just might call 2 of the msmers around and see if they're willing to go as well.

i'm really not sure whether this is fake or for real

cat giving birth to puppies?

michigan vs ohio... it's going down

SNL - blue oyster cult

i love this skit... for some reason i started thinking about it during lunch.

the cowbell cracks me up.

someone got owned by the denjin hadoken this week.

kinda hard to not know about this, although it's fresh news:

Iranian-American UCLA student gets tazered for not producing ID and resisting authority.

video

NBC

daily bruin


as for my opinion, i'm kinda 50/50 on this. i know some people are saying the police stepped over the line, and used excessive force and that they probably wouldn't do that if the person was white. however, some people are saying that the person got what he deserved for yelling and saying "get off me!" as opposed to being polite and stuff.

i think that the student should've been polite and stuff; since at the time he had no ID and was resisting authority. but he shouldn't have been tazed more than 3 times. tazing someone 5 times is excessive.

i really don't understand how my mp3 player's voice recorder option can go dead silent for 30 full minutes... the battery didn't die, the mic worked when i tried a test record later, but for 30 full minutes, basically the entire lecture, all i got is dead silence. I DON'T GET IT! it's like God's juking me and making it harder to keep up and stuff. so now i can't understand what i wrote down, since the professor talks way too much without writing anything on the blackboard for me to get anything down.

well, at least it's only 30 minutes, and not a full lecture, and i haven't been going at all to office hours. maybe this'll give me an excuse to walk in on tuesday. so i'm just gonna take today off.

tonight's nba games look really good.

wednesday's nba top 10 is really good

10.ariza wins the jump ball to dooling fast break
09.chris wilcox reverse alley-oop
08.nate robinson and1 on the break
07.steal to bibby at the buzzer
06.melo steal to a sweet dish to camby for the dunk(i like the ballhandling melo did)
05.tayshaun with the low post pump fake to the spin move and poster(i li-ke)
04.emeka okafur with the SICK denial on duncan(watch carefully; the ball goes INTO the basket, then comes out... beastly strength)(kudos for ginobili for the sick handling to dish to duncan though)
03.lbj sick behind the back pass on the break
02.duncan poster on wallace after outside j pump fake
01.boykins to jr smitch alleyoop

oh yeah, ykno how i was estatic over how shawntae spencer of the niners just laid out john kitna of the niners?

this has got to be THE dumbest thief you'll ever find...

hilarious commercial...

recognize my new title? :D

fyi, i need to photocopy some of the designs on my t-shirts; some of them are cool, but the constant washing is making the designs fade away... i'll soon have no way to keep those designs. i'll lament the day that my uc davis cow tipping team t-shirt is no longer legible.

once when i was in LA, i saw x-men vs street fighter action figure 2-pak sets. ryu & magneto, or akuma & wolverine were on sale. i turned them down and instead got a small super soaker keychain. oh, how i regret doing that.

i also did not choose to get the exploding t-1000 action figure when i was small. big mistake. big, big, mistake.

throwback milk commercial

why are the jazz sooooo goooood

edit:

wikipedia is my anti-study(i tend to look up all sorts of junk, mainly food, superheroes, bball players):

you can indirectly test whether or not you are lactose intolerant by drinking two cups of milk on an empty stomach. then seeing what happens in the next following hours. i passed :D

i didn't need to look up lactose intolerance to understand the basics of it; i've taken enough basic food science classses to know it; it is actually not "normal" to be able to drink milk beyond childhood; lactase, the enzyme which is responsible for digesting lactose is at its highest when as a baby, b/c you need to be able to drink breast milk as your main source of food. once you are past that though, the need diminishes. in addition, when you don't continuously consume food products with lactose, your body gets the sense that it does not need to produce lactase anymore, and thus production weans(this is partially why i still drink milk and a lot of it each day; not only because i know it's healthy and good for your height and bones and stuff, but because i don't think i have a genetic change owing up to lactose tolerance, so i detest that day where i might become lactose intolerant because i don't ever drink milk anymore). in some people, there is a genetic change which allows them to consume lactose regardless of how old they are; people who are able to consistently consume lactose regardless of time tend to be those which have economically had cows around them, thus needing to use milk as a dietary staple; mainly the europeans. asians on the other hand, have never had cows around, and thus, never drank milk as a staple.
i'll consider myself lucky in that sense where i can still consume 1% milk without needing to rush to the bathroom.
fyi, i could never drink lactaid; i tried it and it was just too sweet(b/c the lactose sugar is broken down into the basic two sugars, hence it tastes sweeter); how in the world do people like this?

marmalade is added to yogurt, not fresh fruit; it preserves its life longer.
my mom used to tell me to eat more yogurt because "there's some europeans that live very long lives, and the reason they do is supposedly because they eat yogurt." those europeans are the bulgarians. yogurt also MUST contain live and active cultures, basically bacteria. however, frozen yogurt may or may not contain live and active cultures. that doesn't mean it's not yogurt, just that the live and active cultures may have been killed. though american-style yogurt has gelatin added to it, yogurt is supposed to naturally have a gellish appearance and structure.

cheddar is an english cheese(used to think it was a mexican cheese; cheddar is by far my favorite cheese; goes on anything cheese is good on mostly)
i used to think "american cheese" was just something kraft made up to be able to sell their Singles; it does exist, but only a few companies make it; kraft singles for instance; it is really just a combo of kolby(another american cheese) with cheddar. i dunno if that's legit; that's like saying laughing cow cheese is another type of cheese because it mixes swiss with cheddar. fyi, though i like cheese, i never really liked kraft singles; if you tried to eat them straight up, they had a weird odor and taste.
mozerella is formed by spinning the curds(hence the round ball). it's actually supposed to be a lot wetter than the mozarella you buy in stores.
cottage cheese is rediculously healthy compared to other forms of cheese; little fat, little cholesterol, high protein, etc. cottage cheese is in essence curds without processing. i guess the processing somehow adds other stuff to it. also not stated in wikipedia but in the encyclopedia i had at home: cottage cheese(along with cream cheese) is one of the few types of cheeses that came out of america; while america doesn't seem to have invented as many unique cheeses compared to the european nations, it is the nation that produces the largest amounts of cheese. i never really ate cottage cheese with anything; just ate it straight up, not fruit topping, not on yogurt.

mars replaced by snickers almond; they used to sell a mars candy bar when i was a kid; it didn't go anywhere, just changed its name. but i distinctly remember it not having chocolate coating, but i could be wrong.

3 musketeers used to be a neopolitan flavor as opposed to a chocolate nougat inside; it was also a lot larger. explains why it was called 3 musketeers. guess some things really are better in the old days. kinda like how cup o' noodles used to have a LOT more stuff in their noodles, according to my mom; they put eggs in there.

also not found on wikipedia, but i remember: 7up cherry bubble gum used to exist, now it doesn't; they were rectangular boxes of cherry gum with a gellish fruit syrup in the middle

(in retrospect, i realize i really like learning weird facts and science about food; i should've double-majored in genetics and food science when i just entered college, and taken bioinformatics; but then again, hindsight is 20/20, and that's why we live in a temporal world; not everything we want to accomplish and possess will be done)

this is derrickcomedy.com's best sketch

ok so you wanna get wrist control, lol

whoa... and i thought mp3 turntables were crazy, but this one takes the cake...

crazy thought: canaan should try to get someone to learn how to dj and then give them this as their musical instrument on sundays; they can alternate between either this or an electric violin on different songs to suit tastes.

new layout; i don't know jack about html, so i just copied the template into ms frontpage and fiddled around with different colors

huh... i "lost" my archives by switching over; they're still there, but you'll probably have to use google to search for it... meh... not like i'm gonna remember what i'd want to go back to read.

know how i was salivating over the fake tay gave on kobe to tilt him over?

clicky

looks like not a lotta ppl actually uploaded the block by ben wallace on drew gooden(it was sick); maybe i'll put it on youtube as well; it's just that by past experience, youtube doesn't put up videos until 1 day has past; i'm kinda afraid that by then, there'll be a plethora of the same video(seeing how i don't like the lakers, nothing enrages me more than seeing about 300 of the same video of kobe posterizing ben wallace when he was on the wizards). and the thing is that i haven't gotten used to uploading a clean video; VirtualDub allows me to resize videos by adding a black background, that way the videos don't get distorted and lose quality, but it won't work with .asf, which is the ONLY format that the program i use to save the .asx files from nba.com are in. you can see an example of how bad it is by looking at the ben wallace putback i have uploaded(i've kept it up there, cause i've meant to change it, but don't want to just take it down until i've fixed it):

my youtube profile

still trying to figure out how the "new and improved" blogger works... bear with me... i intended to convert my journal's webpage colors into dark blue text on black sooner or later just to make it easier on the eyes... yes, i know the greenish color hurts yo eyes.

you guys should listen to stephen a smith's podcast on 11/8; he rants about the knicks and is right dead-on.

picks of the week:

1. bible verse:
i've been trying to memorize about 4 this week, mainly b/c 3 i kinda already know, but i like these off the top of my head:

Psalm 138:2
I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

John 16:33
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In this world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Jeremiah 29:13
And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

(still trying to memorize Philippins 3:13-14; haven't quite gotten it down yet)
2. food:
Even though i never cook it, i'm thinking about "tsa mi." Can't be THAT hard to cook. I'm just not good at chopping stuff up really small, so i wouldn't be able to stir fry too well.
3. music equip:
... (again)...
4. place:
Arboretum
5. song:
(from now on, i'm gonna link the song portion to napster(or a youtube video if i can't find it); they allow you to listen to a free track from their vast library once, which will enable you to sample the song i list)
Just remembered this one from watching CMC when i was a late teen
6. sports game:
pistons at lakers... (for bouncing back from the awful showing i saw when they were at arco arena and my main man tayshaun showing he's one of the most versatile 3's in the game)
honorable mention goes to hornets at warriors for warriors actually winning, and vikings at niners, for niners doing the wtf and winning with defense
7. thought:
we live in a world where the pressure is on you to always conform to society, or you are viewed as nothing. for the early years of my life until i was a late teen, i bought into that lie, thinking it would buy me friends, and that that would make me happy. now i see through it. if soloman, the wisest king and possibly one of the richest kings of the world saw through that lie(by trying ever sort of pleasure in the world), why would it change simply because of father time?
8. video game:
eh... the video games i list tend to not change. it's roughly vf- > cvs2 > ssf2t > tk5dr. i think what i'll do from now on is link to a match video if it's a fighting game.

ssf2t - john choi(o.sagat) vs daigo(o.sagat/ryu/balrog)
classic... watch daigo's balrog make a huge comeback and rip up john choi to advance... crowd reaction is awesome too... fyi, daigo is not as technical compared to other top ssf2t players, but his reaction time is rediculously good.
9. other(product):
batman beyond season 2 is awesome... i'm not even halfway done with disk 1. and there's 3 more to go!
10.other(various):
fasting was good. i'm glad i did it. came at a good time, plus, for some reason ucd was honoring veterans day on a friday, so i got to go to campus early and just pray and read the bible at the arboretum until the library opened at noon, then do some work.

Hilariously Bad Videogame Box Art - Shoryuken Forums

phalanx cracked me up...

i love tayshaun...

that jumper was just going his way... and it wasn't really an ankle breaker, but just to see kobe fall down guarding tayshaun was kinda cool.

i have a feeling that on friday night chris, george and bryon did not enjoy tayshaun... JUST A HUNCH

fyi, 2 most interesting things i heard about tayshaun that the commentators said during that game:

-he had 47 relatives of his attend that game; tayshaun's hometown is in compton.

-he has such a great wealth of sports knowledge, concerning college and professional basketball; they might have even said some other stuff that he knew(prof football?), that one of his nicknames that his piston teammates call him is T.P.dot com. as in, if they don't know something, they'll say, "i gotta go check T.P.dot com."

(though their games are not that similar, tayshaun reminds me a LOT of joe dumars; like joe, tayshaun is the team's best perimeter defender, and really really quiet, but just does his thing so well; perhaps he'll like joe, get a finals mvp, eventually become the pistons manager one day and bring the pistons another trophy on the managment side of bball)

wrote this a while back and saved it on my usb drive; i figure i might as well post this so i can get rid of the doc file. and clear up some minute space on my usb drive.

in pure boredom, i looked up evanescence on wikipedia, and used it as a stepping stone to find out more about them. what got me was how they said that they were not a christian band. i know it's been discussed before, but my focus of concern was mainly the article that was on christianitytoday.com that talked about them.

the thing they(evanescence) said was basically this; if you listened to their lyrics, you would tell immediately that they were not a christian band. and what got me was the fact that the article said that several christian music reviewers DID listen to their cd, and thought FAVORABLY of their cd, thinking it should have been on their shelves.

did that hit you the way it hit me?

you see, if the band members of a music group are christian(amy and moody did profess to be christians), their lyrics don't contain profanity, and are actually positive, upbeat messages, but DON'T actually make their songs about God, ie you don't hear the exact words(praise God in it) is that still christian music? if you did not know that the band members of any christian rock group or hip-hop, r&b, pop, whatnot were christian, if they weren't played on air1, would you know right off the bat that they were christian? my intuition tells me no.

some people say that being in a musical group and being christian does not oblidge you to have to praise God in your lyrics. it might not be your calling. how can you call yourself a christian then? can you truly call yourself a christian if you do not live and breathe christ? and if you don't, can you truly say he's influenced your life to the point where you make it your no 1 priority in life to live out the greatest commandment as listed in mark 12:29-30? you can tell me peter was a fisherman and paul was a tentmaker, but nobody who was a christian and their main occupation was to sing songs ever sang secular songs as their occupation in the bible. i have not come across such a person as of yet in my bible studies. when david appointed psalmists and musicians, it was to praise God as their occupation. and yet today, we have a breed of christians who sing songs not about God as their job.

sometimes i don't even consider what i hear on air1 or klove as the same calibur as christian music; i just consider it "good music." ie, if i like the melody, cool. seriously, how many times do they state God or Jesus in their songs? how many times is it written in a sense that is in AWE of God? do i need to listen to a postive song in order to right my paths(i am stating this b/c it's easy for people to say that we need to listen to positive music in order to do what's right; hello, we're christians; we have a bible for that)?

why would i bring this up? take a look at the book of psalms. those were books written in praise of God; genuine christian songs. now see how many times God or Lord is stated in each psalm, how many times the psalmist praises him for his works, his words, his creations, his justice, his mercy.

you don't even need to look that far back; take a look at the hymnals most people in contemporary worship services never sing(even as songs in their contemporary worship rotations); those were genuine praises to God; those lyrics had thought and awe written all over them. "this is my story, this is my song, praising my savior, all the day long." how many "christian songs" these days actually say something like that?

(compare that with air1 playing hawk nelson's lyrics of "you got me at jesus," which sounds more like a song about christiansingles dot com)

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now i'm not saying if you are not a songwriter that you get off scot free. we all have our responsibilities to reach out to others as christians; that's a constant weak spot in my maturity. i'm trying to show that the songwriters' medium for communicating jesus is that much more easier, just because they're a songwriter. if they can't even muster the courage to say "praise God" in their lyrics when they claim to be a christian band(in America, where the worst that can possibly happen is they get booed), maybe they aren't very christian to begin with. it's so interesting how society has a double standard where if you talk about hos and bling in your lyrics and cuss your head off, that's fine, but if you talk about God, whoa there...

YouTube - Family Guy

hahaha... mayor west is awesome

Wanna learn English? - Best of Google Video

hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha

hahahahahahahhahaha

hahahahahahahahahah

bob please show torrence and john tang this video

tell me again why bush is our president?

the truth about japanese cuisine

bank commercial

japanese fanta commercial

hahahaha

even though pistons lost, i had to save the recap of that game; incredible highlights on both teams, and the end was just crazy; clutch play by daron, and then clutch defense by tayshaun to steal the ball, followed by okur winning it with a block. i love the jazz AND the pistons.

and i saved the warriors-mavs recap because i couldn't find a single highlight of baron driving and dunking; just the recap.

i really think they're not calling the zero tolerance rule properly. this is just like the leninent interior foul stuff; it favors nice-guy superstars way too much. sheed got a tech for saying "and1."

Anyone want a Kitty? - Google Video

some guy doing coreography for natalie imbruglia's song

He's Blind Not Gay - Google Video

silly news reporter... gay people don't climb mountains...

FRRRT

i love the fact how the reporter loses concentration and just stops reporting the news after THAT happens...

i dare you not to laugh

ditto

this is so cool...

kool-aid guy acting gangsta

spoiled rich ass kids don't think

you've GOT to be kidding me... this'll just enforce the stereotype that asians can't drive

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now i just need to get justice league unlimited seasons 1 and 2, and the last season of batman beyond.

i think i just saw a "furry" yesterday on campus near the silo...

and it wasn't a girl who was doing this...

it was a guy... with tail and fox? ears

i was about to yell out "yo man halloween's over"

bringing back an oldie but goodie; had to labourously search my online journal to recopy and repaste this; for some reason i couldn't find it by searching "picks"

picks of the week:

1. bible verse:
2nd timothy 2:3-5:
(off the top of my memory:)
Thou therefore, endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
2. food:
Breyer's Vanilla Ice Cream with store-bought oreos
3. music equip:
...
4. place:
Computer Lab
5. song:
Guns N Roses: Knocking On Heaven's Door
6. sports game:
Chicago Bulls At Miami Heat; also thinking about Chicago Bulls Vs sacramento Kings tonight
7. thought:
It seriously amazes me how much bs women put about putting the toilet seat down. (you get this flak most of the time when a man and woman get together at dinner for some reason) Most of it has to do with how gross the toilet is when men piss over, THEREFORE, it should be their responsibility to put it down even when the woman is a guest in a house full of guys. Now, I could go on and on and stuff, but the main thing I wanted to put down is this:

Are women so stupid? I KNOW it's gross letting the toilet seat down with your bare hards, but nothing's preventing you from taking a piece of toilet paper(as it's right there), using it as a guard between your bare hand and the toilet seat to let the toilet seat down! I know most guys never bring this thing up in conversation, but are people so stupid as to not think about this one? Am I the only one who actually KNOWS this one? And does it?

Then again, maybe my mom is just way too ahead of this time(and most girls). My mom never had this stupid bs in our house about letting the toilet seat down, it was always "richard, you LEFT the toilet seat down; how many times do i have to tell you?" and (when i was a kid)"richard that's gross; next time you want to let the toilet seat down, use toilet paper." ALWAYS.
8. video game:
Capcom Vs SNK 2 - for some reason, i've grown very fond of this game, even though i don't have it, and even if i did, would be unable to play it. match videos for this game are NOT turtly. they're deep.
9. other(product):
Terminator 2 was a movie that was way better than just the average action shooter; I intend to someday own the special dvd.
10.other(various):
Hakeem Olajuwon is one of the top 5 centers in basketball of all time; people just don't realize it b/c they hug on MJ's nuts during the 90's. He had no real weakness in his game, was an excellant defensive player, and could create his own shot even if he picked up his dribble(as his specialty was the Dream Shake, a combo of head fakes and bball pumps). He also went through Shaq, Ewing, and Robinson in order to get his two rings, with no complimentary all-stars on his team, which only shows how much of a great player he was. I truly respect this guy, and he is my favorite dominant all-star out of the 90s next to Michael Jordan. Maybe my favorite now-not-playing center, next to Bill Russell. Ppl say Jordan was better, but they never played against each other in the post-season, so any conclusions we can make about who is better are inconclusive. I would've loved to watch Rockets take on the Bulls in the 90s for the chip.

edit: almost forgot clyde drexler was around when the rockets made a run at defending their title.

huh?

where you going? i gon' be on you like white on rice! foul! foul!

"Ric Bucher: Keep in mind with all prognostications: we're watching the game change before our very eyes. The precepts for winning championships are not the same. You can have a mediocre defense and win a title, but you have to have a great offense. It used to be the other way around. Now where the scales fall between O and D, that's what we're going to learn this season."

sadness... to add:

college ball has undeveloped players playing with basketball rules that make sense
nba ball has developed players playing with basketball rules that don't make sense

now THIS is trickshot pool

MC Pee Pants disses Kingdom Hearts

tha-roooooooooow back!

YouTube - MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This

today, nba-wise was kinda bittersweet for me. more bitter than sweet though.

magic won at the expense of the bulls. that's mainly why it was bittersweet. one of my favorite up-and-coming eastern teams was going to fall today regardless, but i was at least hoping it would be closer. dwight's amazing though regardless.

and pistons lost.

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sometimes i can't use statcounter.com to determine who actually visits my journal, because i do actually come back to it quite often seeing if anybody's commented. thus bloating up the number of unique visitors. who the hell would want to comment on my site anyhow?

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wanna know how to piss people off without saying a word? stare at them until you get their attention. don't look angry or happy. just have this intense look in your eyes. keep your gaze right on them for a long period even after they lock eyes with you. then roll your eyes, shake your head and turn away. sigh if you want for added effect.

(note: i have not tried this yet, because while there's a couple of things that people do that annoy me, i am not that willing to anger others like that)

fyi, i really dislike it when people talk to themselves out loud.

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i now have evanescence and guns and roses' cds. fallen and greatest hits, to be more specific. ac/dc was also on sale, but since i could not find "there's a long way to the top," i declined.

target store-exclusive nerfs:

big bad titan

big bad bow

me and jerm saw the big bad bow, didn't see the titan when we went to target on friday.

the bow's kinda kewl; reminded me of our ol nerfwar days, but it's more like the crossbow and less like the actual bow me and jerm used to have. it still looks cool, and maybe i MIGHT buy it sometime in the future. it comes with 6 arrows.

i like the titan more though; that thing maybe only has 2 arrows and they look really different, but check out the distance you can get with that thing; it's like a missile launcher!

bulls looked sick... loved it... especially when tyrus thomas came over to help and blocked shaq, and the two putbacks; one by thomas, one by ben wallace.

now get your broken nose healed thomas before you play against the kings.

if the bulls keep this up, i would LOVE to see the bulls meet the pistons for the eastern conference finals this season.

thought out of sheer boredom i'd post some scans from the school newpaper; they let you use the scanners for free:


weird advertisement for jack in the box; it's a coupon on the back. but this was like o_0 for me...


study in taiwan ad... yes, i was surprised too, but these have been popping up a lot more frequently in the davis paper; it showed up like ziltch in past years.


this one's special... i usually don't eat out unless i'm pressed for time, and only at a fast food restaurant. redrum used to print out these in the newspaper ALL the time. redrum is like a more expensive, more higher quality, slower-moving in n' out. so i'd usually go and use the buy 1 get 1 free coupon and get 2 1/3rd lb burgers(i think that was the largest you could order burger meat lb-wise without a combo), and since the original price was 7.00 something, i'd basically pay 3.50 or so for a really good burger. twice. now, they don't print these coupons out as often in the paper, and the last time i checked, when they do, it's not buy 1 get 1 free; it's buy 1, 2nd item's half off. this was the last coupon i found that had this exact offer. good times.

life seems so *eh* right now... should i be happy that batman beyond season 2 and jlu season 1 are out, as well as the nba starting this week? maybe... but it really all seems so superficial. "cheap thrills." don't deny it; this is the truth.

i stopped hatin on amare once i came to grips that just because he's on a defensively poor team does not mean he sucks. i will definitely watch him a LOT more closely this nba season(and hope his knees don't kill him, like mcdyess). i'm actually surprised how mixed the bag is in terms of predictions for nba champs this year at espn.com. no pistons picks(can't blame em though; flip's gotta first show that he can be more than just a season-long coach, and also a deep postseason coach), only 1 heat pick(again, can't blame em, although the fact that they overwhelmingly pick the heat to win the eastern conference again baffles me), tons of mavs, spurs and suns picks. mavs and spurs are a given, but surprised how a lot pick the suns. i call rockets as a darkhorse in the western race as well; they have bonzi and shane now.

*sigh* i just wish dwight howard would get monstrous already as well as bwall's bulls so i can stop hearing about how the western conference is so much better than the eastern conference.

this is so cool; i get to watch the bulls TWICE next week!

opening night against the heat,
then thursday against the kings.

hopefully i get to see wallace and thomas take the floor at the same time.

fyi, i saw brandon roy preseason against the kings. aside from the kings winning most of the game, roy looks pretty good.

R.I.P. Red Auerbach...

the best NBA coach ever...

cool little freeware game i found

shift is to use your current weapon; unarmed you punch; takes 2 hits to knock out an enemy; if you punch them from behind you instead strangle them and kill instantly. armed it fires your assault rifle. you also punch when you want to activate or deactivate switches, or get people to follow you/stop following you.

hold down ctrl to sidestep.

z either primes a grenade and released, throws it if you're unarmed, or reloads your rifle; careful; unlike in counterstrike; once you reload, you lose whatever bullets are in the current clip.

x switches between rifle and bare hands.

instructions are in japanese, but it's not too hard to follow.

YouTube - jump on it

while looking around on orlandomagic.com for new dwight howard wallpaper, i was surprised to find out they were offering 25% off online purchases, and that one of the dwight howard jerseys was on sale for 19. too bad all of them were sold out :D

anyways, on the wallpaper page, i was surprised to see how they had a special section for former orlando magic "alumn" as they liked to call it; ben wallace, tracy mcgrady, shaq, horace grant, etc, ewing(when did HE play for them?) all here. granted, a couple of them blossomed AFTER they left or won championships elsewhere(ben*cough*shaq), but i liked that special touch; no other team has respected their former great players like that.

hopefully, dwight won't have to end up in that section, because he'll win one in orlando.

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espn asks a blogger:

"What would it take for you to get a tattoo of the Warriors' logo on your chest?

Guess who was the head coach of the Warriors the last time they made the playoffs? (Hint: It wasn't Mike Montgomery, Eric Musselman, Brian Winters, Dave Cowens, Garry St. Jean, PJ Carlesimo, Rick Adelman, or even Bob "NBA Cares" Lanier.)

That's right: Don Nelson. Nellieball is back in the Bay Area and Warriors Nation is thinking playoffs. A first-round playoff sweep? We're Warriors fans -- we'll take it!

And that tattoo of the Warriors logo? We're the most loyal fans in the entire NBA -- we each already sport more of those than all of Allen Iverson's tats combined. "Unstoppable baby!"

• Atma Brother No. 1 and Fantasy Junkie of Golden State of Mind"

lol...

i agree; most bay area people would be MORE than happy to see the warriors get swept in the 1st round of the playoffs.

and 2nd on the "most loyal fans in the entire NBA." takes a lotta nerve to be a warriors fan.

(i would like to add seeing ike make this his breakthrough year as an all-around post player would really be nice)

these should make your day...

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hehehehe

"There has been no sign of the ninjas."

this is awesome on so many roflcopter levels. watch the video and see how fast they move.

but why would they crash a truck in order to do this? ninjas don't loot. seems more like pirates posing as ninjas. UNLESS... they were ninjas posing AS pirates posing as ninjas.

are you a bad enough dude to rescue the ATM?

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some commando and spaceballs clips; i should rewatch both of these movies; i fondly remember spaceballs, not so much commando aside from the very cheesy line arnold says at the end of the movie(let off some steam, bennett)

commando trailer

let off some steam, bennett

lol no reloading?

spaceballs - ludicrous speed

we're at now now

i lost the bleeps the sweeps and the creeps

old news, but you stumble unto what you stumble:

gene for manliness

of course, i wouldn't take it for word; i'll probably look to see if there's a legit article on ncbi on friday...

quiz on friday.

i realize i usually don't link to really good football videos on youtube.

that's cause i usually don't watch them.

well, first time for everything huh?

i like these two:

nice video of ol skool nfl tackles
just watching this made me realize how much more tougher the niners d was back then... *sigh*...


the best stiff arm you're ever going to see

man's videos, heh...

michael straham's awesome.

so was eli manning.

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i don't even know why i dislike drew bledsoe so much. but eh; he's sackbait.

i wonder how long til t.o. explodes. anybody wanna make a call as to his next outragous outburst? i say 2 weeks if things keep going the way they go.

3 blocks in one game i think...

can't remember all of them, but 1 of them was on terrance coming over to help. another might've been on jon, can't remember the 3rd. and i need to improve my endurance. i know i can rebound a lot better.

i rewatched the youtube clip on how bill russell guards two players, and then some ben wallace video. there's a lotta good things they do right there that a lotta players don't do in trying to block a shot. it's all about their spacing between their opponents, how they tense their legs, what they make their opponents think they're going to do or can do. but they're able to do these things b/c their hops enable them to cover more space, so they can back off their opponents, for instance making them think they've got a wide open shot, then jump and take that shot away.

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i used to watch a weird cartoon when i was a kid; i think it was called "danger mouse;" didn't even know how i could watch that crap; there were a lotta things i used to watch as a kid that were nothing.

fyi, a lotta cartoons you watched as a kid werent necessarily that high quality.

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oh yea; both batman beyond season 2 and justice league unlimited seasons 1 and 2(i believe they're bundled together) come out tomorrow on sale. big fan of both; watched batman beyond a lot when i was a late teen, and i watched a lot of justice league unlimited shows on cartoon network during college. i intend to get both seasons this weekend. J.L.U. is particularly interesting, b/c it's the 6 core members of the justice league(superman, batman, wonder woman, green lantern, flash, hawkgirl, martian), but now everybody else in dc comics, or at least most of them are involved; green arrow for instance, supergirl, etc.

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sweet tomatoes had baked sweet potatoes with maple syrup cream this weekend(yes, i went with my mom). soooo good. makes me want to buy some sweet potatoes and maple syrup.

i seem to be in a "baked potato" phase anyhow.

i hate my professor.

he talks too fast, doesn't write down what he's talking on the blackboard.

when i'm trying to review what he's saying from the .wav file i record in class, i have to rewind 10x seemingly at the same spot to get what he's saying. and even then, a lotta times, i can't.

kg?!?

what the heck was he doing in taipei on a show like that?

another borat trailer

borat on conan

you lik-a make sex crime-hi five!

Trailer for Borat's new movie

hahah... borat's funny

this is how you stiff-arm in football

don't know HOW i found this, but check out this product, it might crack you up.

it's DDR for christians!

dance dance praise-alution!

damn, i wished i didn't have any notes to study tonight, so i could've watched the entire bears-cardinals game. matt lineart was GOOD, but bears pulled a come from behind.

bears are really, really good this season. they're getting comparisons to the ditka bears of old the way the pistons used to get comparisons to the 96 bulls last season.

lazy sunday

roflmao

YouTube - Mad TV - Parody of "Deal or No Deal"

on the internet: back up your mouth with your name...
in real life: back up your mouth with your actions...

2nd one's pretty well-heard. the 1st i think needs some explaination; i just really hate it when someone says some really outlandish claim, and they have a really fake name to back it. so that if you couldn't tell who they were, as if it would give them some sort of shield. for instance, last year i read something like this on the web when the kings were sucking(and didn't have artest yet):

kings will make more than 50 wins, and they'll make the playoffs.
-sactown

or last sunday on fox football:

to is the worst wide receiver ever
-phillyphool

i understand that we all have weird quirky internet names and such, but i believe what i'm trying to say is this: if you're going to make an outlandish claim, then put your name behind it, for crying out loud. otherwise you're just telling me that you won't say those words when your buddies aren't there to back you.

-richard tsai

se-ga-ta san-shi-ro!

soccer
baseball
bomberman

japanese sega commercials F.T.W.

found this while searching for youtube videos on amare stoudamire:

amare wrecks havoc in less than 1 minute

no wonder sam likes him so much... damn...

and this is probably my favorite putback of all time:

ben wallace vs the suns

i actually have the realtime clip on a cd at home; i'll try to update that once i go home near the end of this month.

John 16:33

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In this world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

-such comforting words

check this

click on "understanding the king james bible;" this chapter was taken straight out of the author's book "new bible versions" which i have; i consider this guide in the appendix in the back to be a very good guide for understanding the bible better.

the best thing i like about the introduction is that the author reminds us that the bible is a spiritual book; hence the distance between us understanding the bible is not words, but sin. hence why we don't necessarily self-help books in order to understand the bible better. he points out that jesus used the common language of the day with peter, but peter was not able to understand him.

this guide is partially why i wanted to start memorizing bible verses again. it will help you to think about God more often during the day.

(fyi, while you're at the site, check out the author's credentials.)

Gheorghe Muresan! want to smell like me?

More Gheorghe Muresan!

i still can't find the snickers commercial where he's desperately trying to nail a half-court shot backward while saying "for the kids." that was the absolute best commercial ever. EVER.

i'm gonna try my own weak-sauced version of podcasting...

stay tuned...

(the benefits of having a voice recorder on your mp3 player)

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Another free batch of music downloads, this time from Tooth and Nail Records

I think you need to sign up first, but for 30 songs, that sounds fairly good.

FYI, Anberlin might be my favorite non-popular rock band. i seem to always go back to playing "a day late" on my player.

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i skimmed chris liu's latest entry.

and in response, one of my "mini-goals" for a future house(assuming i make a decent amount of money) would be to get a dog AND a cat. the dog's gotta be like Ace in Batman Beyond, and black(basically a silent badass). the cat, well, gotta be a tabby. i always loved both types of pets, as opposed to people who just like 1, and always wanted to know how'd they get along in the same house. not all cat-dog relationships are hostile.

and i have to get them at the same time when both are kids, so the dog doesn't straight up rip the cat up upon sight.

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gonna end this entry by posting up a short list of artists on my mp3 player; probably will miss a couple:

12 stones(cd)
alter bridge(cd)
anberlin
bush(cd)
chris tomlin
creed(cd)
downhere(cd)
dragonforce
guilty gear xx#r soundtrack
guns n roses
jeremy camp(cd)
jewel
joe satriani(cd)
lifehouse
lincoln brewster
linkin park(cd)
megaman 2 - dr. wily stage 1(haha... it's catchy)
metallica(cd)
michelle branch
pearl jam(cd)
pillar(cd)
relient k(one song)
sanctus real(cd)
santana
the presidents of the usa(cd)
timothy james meaney(cd)
tree63(cd)
u2(one song)

basically, lotsa rock, rock-pop, classic rock, instrumental rock. and christian.

the pearl jam are 6 songs from their "ten" cd, one of their earlier, more successful cds. which is why i sincerely believe lifehouse, pearl jam, and creed do not sound the same; vocals are the same, but the guitar work is just too far apart.

pearl jam guitarwork > creed guitarwork > lifehouse guitarwork.
that being said, mark tremonti was not allowed to cut loose on creed.
alterbridge guitarwork > pearl jam guitarwork. although what type of guitar style you like listening to is of course preference; mark is a lot more high shredding on high distortion.

enough talking; i gotta eat.

Remember this?

i get chills everytime i watch something on this guy...

Raaaoooowwwwlll...

hahahahahahahahhaa...

2 roads diverged in a wood...

if you think about robert frost's famous poem, there is a benefit to taking "the road less travelled;" you run into less traffic, and so you can cruise through with the greatest of ease.

but if you take what Jesus said about taking "the road less travelled," you realize it's not necessarily faster; the road width is thinner, and razor-straight; there is significantly less room for error.

(you see, if you go by what Frost said, then as a Christian, you should run into less conflict from others; but if you think about what Lord Jesus Christ said, then you realize all the conflict comes from yourself; it's not the multitudes of people which hate on you for being a Christian, it's how you react to it; nobody's taking the steps along that road for you; only you are)

i believe that what is popular is not necessarily wrong(though most of the times it is) or right, but many people simply do what is popular because everybody else is doing it, without thinking about the inherent value(or lack thereof) behind what they do and think. it took me until i was deep into college ie my 2nd or 3rd year to realize that.

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niners, eagles, bears all win; saints won by the heroics of bush; it's a good sunday for football.
(i hope now drew bledsoe knows to keep his mouth shut about taunting defenses to go ahead and blitz him; i saw him repeatedly get hurried or get his passes blocked against the eagles, which is probably the most rush-happy defense in the league)

bears might be the best team in football as of right now.

yankees and dodgers are both knocked out; it's a good week for baseball.

should be quite clear now why dragonforce's songs, especially the solo parts are so long

damn, that's crazy shredding... by both guitarists

Free music CD from Inpop

just found this today... hey, it's free... might as well take it...

fyi, i've heard tree63's version of amazing grace, because i have their live cd; it's fairly good.

this is the vw commercial i was talking about

fyi, if you visit the website listed at the end of the commercial( v-dubsrock), not only can you take a look at the vw which enables you to plug your guitar into the vw, there's some guitar lessons on it; cool eh?

fyi, dunno why anybody would want to buy a car JUST so they can play their electric guitar whenever they want; not saying it's unuseful, but if you want to play anywhere you want, there's the mini amps. and if you want to play with quality sound, there's of course the other amps you would buy.

i guess this would only be useful if you liked playing in parking lots. a LOT. or on camping trips; should've mentioned that.

or if you want to try ghost-riding while playing fenders and ibanezes, heh.

anybody see the latest volswagen commercial where there's a lead guitarist riffing away, and his electric guitar's connected to 6 vw's as an "amp?"

that guitarist is Slash, the guitarist for Guns and Roses. very good guitarist i think.

good stuff; i love "You Could Be Mine," and there's a ton of other songs i love that they have.

if i could list 5 rock bands i really liked that are from "back then:"

metallica(they've been going on a long time, but yes, their sound used to be slightly more shredding back then; Master of Puppets is a good example)
guns and roses
joe satriani
ac/dc
van halen

there's probably more; i always forget how many classic rock bands i used to listen to. these are just 5 i really liked. i don't think i ever heard steve vai.

oh yeah:

my bro loved Rush. come to think about it, i really like their song, "Tom Sawyer."

Aerosmith and KISS were good too.

good ol teen days where i would just sit around in my room listening to 92.3 FM.

madtv r&b parody

heh heh...

I find this picture on wiki's page describing how to use chopsticks humorous. Step 3 looks a tad absurd.

it'll be interesting to see how the new nba ball does; i just recently read more info on it on espn.com and spalding.com, and it looks kinda cool, but at the same time i heard a lotta negative reviews on it.

speaking of which, i intend to get a new spalding basketball anyways; one specifically for just outdoor playing, not indoor-outdoor. the one i've used for such a long time is just so worn down that it's impossible to grip it.

i need to wash my flippable jersey and headband.

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not sure where spalding.com gets their info, but:

"basketball is the most played team sport in the U.S. with more than 32 million people playing in 2005."

"in 2004, almost 8 million people said that basketball was their favorite sports activity, far exceeding the number of people who said any other team sport."

Stanford professor receives Nobel Prize

crazy... and his contribution was something related to genetics... RNA interference...

i'm gonna read some of his articles on pubmed later...

mcnabb's clearly on a mission; you can say what you want, but i think he feels that he needs to show that this team got where it's gotten because of him, not T.O. that's why the eagles are doing so well.

ravens are also the hotness. with mcnair, now it's not just ray lewis anymore.

some people like to compare t.o. to artest. i think t.o. is actually better compared to dennis rodman. the similarities are a lot more poignant there. they both went downhill once they had no more idols to look up to.

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i don't like/get myspace because of the way the page design is; it looks very cluttered. maybe that's why i don't have an account. for me, i don't necessarily post here because i want the whole world to know about me; just want to throw stuff off my chest. don't really like xanga either cause it seems mainly teenage asians are the ones using that, and always coming on with stuff like you'd want to listen to their day and stuff.

what i would really like though, is if there was a blogging site that let you upload .mp3's easily or .wavs, or stuff like that. i'm not always near a computer when i'm thinking, y'kno. but i usually have my mp3 player with me. then again, if i want to go through the trouble of recording, walking back to my computer, going to another website, uploading, then logging into blogger, linking back to the mp3, i'd be wasting a crapload of time too.

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thank God for third chances...

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i'd try cs: source this weekend, but my cpu doesn't have a lot of memory; maybe i'll just reinstall cs 1.6 until my cpu has less stuff on it. cs:s is 3+ gb.

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i have 1 video uploaded to my youtube account(same name), plan to upload maybe 2 more.

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i think it's only fair i cut myself off from youtube.com, shoyuken.com, and combovideos.com for a week or two. i think it's taking up too much of my time.

Ridin Dirty parody

omgoodness, i can't stop laughing...

think i'm too white and nerDAY...