Best TE Tackle

Mountain Man

New Nike Basketball Ad

New commercial from Nike for it's Hyperize line. Features the best young player in the NBA, Kevin Durant, as Velvet Hoop. Mo Williams and Rashard Lewis are great in this as well.

Last year, Durant averaged 25 plus points a game, 6 plus rebounds, and shot over 42% from three point line. The 6'10 small forward is still only TWENTY YEARS OLD! With Durant, Jeff Green, Russell Westbrook, Nenad Kristic, and 2009 number three overall draft pick, James Harden...OKC Thunder will be one of the most exciting teams to watch this year. They also have oodles of cap space if they wanna bring in a few blue chippers during the season or next off-season.

Re-Reflection Eternal

Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek, better known as Reflection Eternal, are dropping their followup to Train Of Thought this summer. The track, Internet Connection, came around this fall but the premiere of their first video, Back Again, can now be found on YOTB anddd on this blog. Video is dope...all hip-hop videos should be done in this style. I don't wanna see said rapper running around some club shirtless or wiggling in front of a Rolls...I want something creative...something that emphasizes the lyrics. Good looks Talib.

Playing For Change

Broken Arrow Ranch

A superb acoustic version of 'Old Man.' Neil could jam with the best of them but he could also make his songs feel so intimate and delicate when he wanted to.
Young describes this song as follows:
"In 1970, I had also -- just, you know, being a rich hippie for the first time -- I had purchased this ranch, and I still live there today. And there was a couple living on it that were the caretakers, an old gentleman named Louis Avala and his wife Clara. And there was this old blue Jeep there, and Louis took me for a ride in this blue Jeep. He gets me up there on the top side of the place, and there's this lake up there that fed all the pastures, and he says, "Well, tell me, how does a young man like yourself have enough money to buy a place like this?" And I said, "Well, just lucky, Louie, just real lucky." And he said, "Well, that's the darndest thing I ever heard." And I wrote this song for him.

I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

Rules That Describe Our Reactions To Technologies

According to English author and musician, Douglas Adams...

1. "Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works."
2. "Anything that's invented between when you're 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it."
3. "Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things."

A lot of truth in this... but I don't know if it will always be this way. More and more are realizing that a "natural order of things," does not exist. Technology is developing so fast that most understand that rapid adaptation will be necessary in many careers.

MTV Nostalgia

Dylan At His Best

I could watch Dylan interviews from the 60's all day. His sharp wit was only matched by his utter contempt for "journalists." This poor chap from Time Magazine tried to hold his own with Dylan but only ended up infuriating him.

To me, Dylan is one of the most fascinating American writers in history. Each composition of his is deserving of hours of analysis. I finally got around to reading part one of his memoirs, Chronicles, Volume 1, and completely recommend it to anybody who is the least bit intrigued by our true Poet Laureate.