Glory Days... Glory Daaaaaaayyyyyyss!! (Well they'll pass you by)

Evan recently wrote that, like an abused spouse, one needs to cut themselves off from the Knicks in order to protect oneself emotionally. I couldn't agree more, and came to that conclusion some years ago.

However...

Aren't we allowed to look at photos or videos now and then and remember what the good times were like? Are we entering the dangerous trap of allowing oneself to reminisce and thus re-opening that scar tissue?

I must. (Isn't YouTube great?) Partly for nostalgia sake, but partly to look back on better days in the NBA. Days of true hatred and passion, cold-hearted bad-ass "villians" like Reggie Miller, and gritty, kick-ass teams like the Knicks.

I was a senior in high school. It was spring of 1994. The Knicks were great. Jordan retired and the door was open for a championship. The Knicks got to the Eastern Conference semi-finals and first beat those pesky Bulls who put a righteous scare into them...



Can you imagine the level of emotional devastation we all would have felt if the Knicks lost to the Bulls sans Jordan? It could've happened.



The Eastern Conference Finals brought the Indiana Pacers. Reggie Miller did this in Game 5.





Fucking amazing. That is the definition of "on fire". In particular, that long 3 at 5:40 takes some fucking balls to take. But we were triumphant:





Finally, in the midst of the O.J. insanity, the Rockets finally did us in. It was bittersweet, to come so close and come up short. How short did we come up? This short:





(sigh)... Will I ever love a team again like those Knicks teams?

Old School Rap Sunday

... and now, for your viewing pleasure, one of the greatest rap songs in history. This still holds up. Enjoy.

One Picture and Two Random Videos

Here is a photo of the last actual Hobo With Cheese I ate at Five-Star. I'd love to somehow embed this into the header of our blog. If anybody wants to work on this, let me know. I tried this once and wasn't successful.




Here is my all-time favorite basketball highlights / music video. I posted this once before and wanted to re-post it in light of Moon's Mike Nurse post and in light of our collective lamenting of the fact that guys aren't as passionate in professional sports as they once were.





Finally, I've had Sirius Radio for a few months now and have been able to listen to Howard Stern before. If you have not been able to make the jump and/or not interested in Howard Stern, here's a taste of song parodies of people sweating Robin Quivers' breasts.

(Sexual references / foul language follow - NSFW.)

The Tyson Zone

There's crazy. There's "out of his mind". There's "he's just fucking nuts". And then there's Mike Tyson.

A funny and scary walk down Memory Lane.

Mailing it in - Two Videos

I plan on blogging soon about moving into our house. But in the meantime, here are two videos for your amusement.


1) Funny, from Family Guy. "Maa... Maa... Mum... Mum..."




2) I always think of Jay-Z as the best, but when Eminem was in his prime, he may have been better. From The Blueprint.

Saturday Music Videos

For your viewing pleasure, here are three music videos. Two of them I've posted on Facebook recently.

Here is somebody having fun with several recent sports press conference meltdowns and remixing it to a rap video. Funny. I've watched a few times.






Here is Bob Dylan performing "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)". If you haven't heard it, you must listen at least a couple of times to absorb some of the lyrics.






Finally, here's Dylan performing "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" on the Steve Allen show back in the day. While watching this, keep the context in mind that many people probably hadn't heard much like this yet, and how ahead of his time Bob Dylan always was. The story of the song can be found here.

Basketball Friday

I have a handful of long posts coming up, but in the meantime, to keep my multitudes of readers satisfied, here's some Larry Bird highlights.




And here's some Alvin Williams highlights. I played with him at my gym. His highlight reel is not as impressive as Larry's.

For a Tuesday Laugh

Was there any line delivered better than this in Lebowski, or for that matter, in the history of humanity?

Jizz in my Pants

Haven't seen this until recently. It's funny.




It reminded me of this...

Scott Howard for Finals MVP

Now this is fucking funny.

Mob Movie Monday

A magnificent... err... triuMvirate of memorable mob movie moments for your viewing pleasure.

More Videos and Links

1)



An oldie but a goodie.



2)


How To Shower: Men Vs Women - Watch more Entertainment

This is funny if you live with someone of the opposite sex.


3) If you've somehow never seen "Dick in a Box"... well, you must. Click here.


4) A somewhat contrived but yet thoughtful website about our political state here.



5) Finally, a classic if you've ever remotely loved the Howard Stern show: The Gary Tape. "I miss you, man."

Three Videos

Touching...





...hilarious.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

And, not as funny as Bowser's Minions, but still chuckleworthy.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Random Video Links 9.23.08

1) Ok, you know the big deal that's made out of censorship in our country from time to time (like, the Janet Jackson fiasco? The Imus fiasco?) I wonder if stuff like this Lil Kim video, edited (presumably) for airing on things like VH1 or MTV, actually ever made it there. To me, even though this is edited for content, this is less "airable" for kids than just somebody saying "fuck" or showing a nipple on the air. It's not like kids can't read between the muted words.



The song "Drug Ballad" by Eminem (which I personally enjoy) is another example of a song without much profanity - or, let me rephrase, even with the actual curse words censored, it's a song which I would think most parents would not want their kids to listen to, even if the curse words were bleeped. On the other hand, Eminem says "faggot", it's taken out of context, and he is slammed for it.

Anyway, on to the next video...

2) For you Hadron Collider people (I'm looking at you, ChuckJerry)... Check out the name of this link, click there, then view this:



Who the hell took the time to record this? I got bored trying to watch it through.


3) The teachers' union supports... guess who... Barack for president. Here he is talking about it... (again, I didn't make it to the end...)

Amy Walker - 21 Accents

Forget where I first encountered this...





Not having traveled much, I was wondering how accurate her accents were. The Youtube comments appear to be mixed.

Dirrty Jerrzy

Good stuff.

Nessun Dorma

I don't watch much reality TV at all these days. That being said, one of the more amazing moments in reality television happened some time ago on the British show "Britain's Got Talent". They tried to spin it off into an American version "America's Got Talent" Actually, I'm not sure if AGT is still on the air.

Anyway, this regular-guy cell-phone salesman Paul Potts, from Wales, sang an opera song called Nessun Dorma. The clip is posted below. I think the reactions to his singing are genuine and I think it qualifies as an amazing TV moment.





The song was not just a random opera song, either. Apparently, Pavarotti had done a version of it in the past and the song was widely used promotionally during the soccer broadcasts of the 1990 World Cup in Britain. The song became a popular hit, and so when the guy sang this version it was a widely known song in the Britain pop-culture lexicon.

Here is Pavarotti singing his version. It's surreal that the sound is coming out of a human being.