Est. September 2001
These Dwight Howard and Derrick Rose commercials “produced in cooperation with the blogger Free Darko” are amazingly well executed. Plays hard off of Free Darko’s book. More details here. Definitely worth watching.
I went to dinner last night with my wife and a couple of her co-workers. After about an hour of polite conversation (which isn’t easy when you’re an outsider at a work outing … sorry, honey, just sayin’), I zoned out and started checking my Twitter feed (via Twitterific) on my iPhone. Rude, I know. But the Tweets that were taking place were actually pretty riveting stuff. One of my contacts was watching a hoops game on TV in LA, while the other had just seen a pedestrian get hit by a van in NYC’s East Village. Both were pretty excited, but for very different reasons. And when both feeds were juxtaposed on Twitter … well, the end result was pretty interesting.
Here’s how it played out:
@lvlewitinn: Pedestrian struck in middle of street on Third Ave between 9th and 10th. Doesn’t look good. Ambulance called, not here yet.
@lvlewitinn: Still no ambulance but there are cops and a fire truck. Doesn’t look survivable
@JonesOnTheNBA: Why do the Magic continue to forget about Dwight Howard late in games? Jeeeebuzzzz!!!
@lvlewitinn:Van driver’s windshield is smashed from the poor victims head. Victim appears to be white female in her 20s. Possibly an NYU student.
@lvlewitinn: Even if victim survives, she will have brain damage/paralysis, Van driver will have this on his conscience for the rest of his life.
@lvlewitinn: Victim “such a beautiful girl”, says Black and White barback.
@JonesOnTheNBA: So I guess Shaq was right about Stan Van?
@lvlewitinn:Hit of victim let out an audible “thonk” (I heard it half a block down). Ambulance just left scene. Victim was bleeding from mouth.
@JonesOnTheNBA: Celtics showing the heart of a champion.
@lvlewitinn: Accident occured as van driver tried to rush a yellow light.
@lvlewitinn: Police claims victim’s condition “not as bad as it looks”.
@JonesOnTheNBA: Dwight has to learn to be more like Shaq and demand the ball. People hated Shaq for his “big dog gotta eat” statements, but twas necessary.
@lvlewitinn: One of victim’s shoes was found underneath the van’s rear wheel several yards from where she landed. Cell phone, other belongings scattered.
@JonesOnTheNBA: Stan Van has managed this game very poorly. Sorry, it’s the truth.
@lvlewitinn: As the girl lay bleading in her white blouse and khakis, about a dozen witnesses converged around body, forming protective ring from traffic
@JonesOnTheNBA: RT @Unsilent: Time to bury Stan Van.
@lvlewitinn: Third Ave now back to normal as if nothing happened. City That Never Sleeps is also City That Stops For Nothing.
One of the best songs I’ve heard in a while. Eighty seconds of English pop-noise bliss. 7.9 on Pitchfork, et sootera.
(Download | Via: Nothing But Green Lights)
Birthday No. 38 (my lucky number … sort of … no, really) is rapidly approaching, but v. 35.0 is still being blogged about to this day. But not for the right reasons.
At least we didn’t make it onto these pages. At my age, that’d be a real kick in the ol’ adulthood.
This new Travis Rice commercial where he barely avoids being sucked down the face of a mountain by an avalanche is not so un-amazing (watch it here). Peep, peeps!
I’ve always thought Phoenix was a pretty underrated band. Hopefully this excellent 80’s filmic mashup helps spread the word about their new album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, which drops on May 25.
So embarrassed to admit that I actually got chills watching this video. Twice.
Also, the MP3 of the song exists here. If you’re into that sort of thing. I, for one, am.
(Personalized communiqué originally carried out via Keanesian’s Twitter.)
I meant to run this a while ago, but the following is an interview I did with Danica Patrick for FanHouse while she was at the SI Swimsuit shoot. It’s the first on-camera thing I’ve ever done. No, really. Also, here’s a link to the full interview, text stylee. Enjoy.
I fee like I should apologize (profusely, at that) for having slept on this track for so long, but this new-school/old-school PE is pretty brilliant. Something about those gawldarn horns …
I have watched this approximately 13 times in the last 36 hours. BAWNG! BAWNG!
Early front-runner for best photo of 2009, if not ever. (via Jeffs to Brazil)
Myron Rolle’s decision kind of balances out the acts of the yay-hoos below. Kind of.
Like DJ Khaled (We the Best!) slurpin’ serotonin, I’m full of superlatives these days. Greatest catch ever, another greatest catch ever, and now … the greatest wedding photo ever taken? Well, peep the image here) and tell me that the background lighting don’t just blow your mind. And it was snapped with a regular ol’ digicam, to boot. Amazing.
I know I pimped out another amazing football catch a few weeks ago, but I think Chadron State WR Isaac Stockton’s recent grab is even more impressive than the one I posted previously. I’m just amazed that his head stayed attached to his body. Definitely worth a peep.
(Via: FanHouse)
Fans of Jets to Brazil and Jawbreaker (most definitely including yours truly) have finally found their Blake Schwarzenbach fix sated. As tumbl’d forth from the pages of Young Manhattanite:
HOLY FUCKING SHIT, Blake Schwarzenbach and Aaron Cometbus are in a new band, possibly called Thorns of Life? And the bassist is transgender Max from The L Word?? And she was part of the Gilman Street scene and played in The Gr’ups??? Consider my world thoroughly rocked. More info/links at Unlikely Words.
I’m pretty much speechless. This is the best news ever. 2008 rules.
Somehow the short pants are really important here …
What’s one to focus on now that the next four years are settled? Well, while I’m sure I’m way behind the curve with this (in fact, if I could rename this site anything, it would probably be “waybehindthecurve.com”) Annie Leonard’s “The Story of Stuff” might give you a few ideas. Despite the video’s vague “UPS whiteboard” feel, it simply, yet intelligently, breaks down the challenges we all face in a consumerist society. Definitely worth watching.
(Via: A certain UMD MBA candidate)
Philip Lutzenkirchen of Lassiter High School gets extremely remarkable on the gridiron.
(Via: FanHouse)
The Lakers do Zoolander, moments before the gasoline fight. For no reason whatsoever.
(Respek: The Lifestyle…)
Not the one originally posted — that got pulled — but here’s one on Brad and Angelina. Funny stuff.
(Via: T-A-J)
My 11th grade teacher was right, after all. Physics is phun. (And not for pussies, evidently, according to this post.)
(Respek: Ovablastic via Jeffs to Brazil)
Apologies for not knowing where the original came from, but this is pretty funny.
Update: Found here.
(Respek: T-Allen)
1. Lil Wayne is “blogging” about sports for ESPN the Mag
2. NYT did a pretty weak article on skate shoes (Respek: Dens)
3. New “greatest catch of all-time” in college football?
4. Couple of Danes convert Young Weezy’s “A Milli” into … lord only knows what (Respek: Wife/T-Allen)
5. And this is old, but still so very cool (Respek: Dens)
Maybe it has something to do with the 25th anniversary of their breakup. Or maybe Sir BK (a true British Knight) is a big fan of eary-80s DCHC. Either way, this is one of the oddest videos I’ve seen in some time, and I don’t say “odd” with any positive or negative connotations. It just is that. Odd.
Coincidentally, I’ve been listening to Minor Threat nearly non-stop the last few weeks. And my conclusion is that after my, what, fourth rediscovery of these guys, I’m pretty much convinced that they are a legitimate American treasure.
Apparently the good people at Mean Magazine feel the same way. Thanks for that, guys.
I’m not one for rally cars or freestyle motocross, but this DC Shoes commercial is pretty much on point. Definitely worth a look if you have 62 seconds.
As seen on the street. The front said: “I Know H.T.M.L. (How to Meet Ladies)”
I didn’t look to see if there was anything on the back.
I’m not sure if there’s a name for this phenomenon of random people shooting homemade, full-length videos of them dancing to their favorite songs in public locales (it smacks hard of lip dub to me), but this is one of my all-time faves. It might be because I love the song, but I also love how said artiste gets interrupted about two minutes into the clip. And he’s also got some decent moves.
The title says it all. Other than this is a commercial. But you probably would have figured that out about three seconds into the clip. You’re smart like that, after all, aintcha?
(Respek: FanHouse)
