Playin' Number Six, Show Business is My Ish

Been a couple days. Good news? I'm feeling healthier. Possibly even spry. Bad news? I just drank a raw egg. Moving on...

In other news, the Arizona Cardinals are in the Super Bowl. The Arizona Cardinals. Yeah, moving on...

The Knicks actually won a close game against Chicago today. The team actually looked slightly better than 16-24 today... they were like a solid 19-21. Yup, you guessed it, moving on...

I have three projects I'm sort of working on right now. The first is a video training montage of my roommate before his basement boxing match. The second is a video montage of my other roommate playing Halo 3. Not the actual playing part, but basically talking about other peoples' mothers over the headset. Both are guaranteed to be hilarious. The third is my rap album with Scott. The hilariousness of that doesn't even need to be mentioned. Needless to say, I'm staying busy with a bunch of stuff that will never ever matter in the grand scheme of my life.


Two new-ish-kinda rap songs that I love:
Charles Hamilton - Brooklyn Girls
Kid Cudi - Day n Nite

And somehow in normal Jay Shayy fashion (hearing a song, liking it about three weeks later, loving it two months later), "Green Light" by John Legend and Andre 3000 is my favorite song right now.

Most Played Artists in the Last Week (according to last.fm, which I've linked many times before)
1. Outkast
2. Crystal Castles
3. As Cities Burn
4. Kid Cudi
5. Common

Days until I'm 21 Counter: 36

Then I CC'd Every Girl That I'd See-See Around Town

I'm feelin' good for some reason.

This music video/song always puts me in a good mood.

So does the fact that the Airport Plaza Jewlers commercial is on youtube.

So is a Buffalo Cricket commerical!

So does a man singing puppies to sleep!

So does a dude going through his fridge Cribs-style.


Really I'm just happy to be back to my apartment. I have my own room, my own bathroom, I have a washing machine and dryer right next to my room (not a big fan of being woken up by my neighbor's thumping bass at 11 in the morning, though). It's funny how the simplest things can be so excellent. Plus the Internet actually works here, which means I can watch as many NBA games online as I want again.

By the way, so glad that I don't bet on football. I would've been 0-4. It's literally been the most inexplicable NFL Playoffs I've ever seen. The Cardinals or the Eagles are going to the Super Bowl. I can't get over this.

Still working on my 'Best of 2008' list, it'll be released later this week I think.

-Jay

One Night to Be Confused

Sometimes life makes my head hurt. Even on a day that I pretty much spent switching between laying on the couch and laying in my bed every hour. I should feel safe on a day like that.

I'd like to start out with a couple things.

First off, on a kickoff with about 20 seconds left in the half in the Arizona-Atlanta NFL PLAYOFF GAME, I heard the unthinkable. University of Phoenix Stadium (home of the Arizona Cardinals, who needed a swimming supplies store to buy out the remaining tickets for an NFL PLAYOFF GAME so that there wouldn't be a local blackout) was playing "Leavin'" by Jesse McCartney not only before the kickoff... but during the play! The tackle was almost made before the song was turned off. AN NFL PLAYOFF GAME! I move on.

Charles Barkley has always been controversial. He's punched fans in the face, gambled away tens of millions of dollars, has been seen chugging bottles of Patron, criticized just about every person to have ever played a sport, criticized his alma mater for not hiring my boy Turner Gill, among like a million other things. Now he got caught with maybe the most mentally-devoid DUI arrest in history. Basically, he got pulled over by the cops for a suspected of DUI. Pretty standard, until you hear the rest of the story. These are the various rumors that have been attached to this incident (most of these coming from deadspin.com and Awful Announcing, wonderful sites, google them):

• he refused to take a breathalyzer test, but got blood tests taken that will probably prove him to be guilty anyways
• he told the cop that he was driving fast (and running a stop light) because... well lets ask the officer who wrote his report (from The Smoking Gun): "He asked me, 'You want the truth?' When I told him I did he said, 'I was gonna drive around the corner and get a blow job. He then explained that she had given him a 'blow job' one week earlier and said it was the best one he had ever had in his life." Well then.
• they found a loaded gun in his vehicle, which they immediately seized
• they also found a box of bear claw donuts. Go figure.
• reports say that he spent that night (before the incident) partying in a V.I.P. lounge with Michael Strahan and Jaleel White... yes, the guy who played Steve freakin' Urkel!

Somebody give me Charles Barkley's number... that sounds like a night and a half! Hell, give me Urkel's!

Needless to say, at this moment, Barkley is still working for TNT Basketball's pre-game show. Barkley can choose any of his normal excuses: the race card, the "I warned you I'm not perfect" card, the "I don't get paid to be a role model" card, or the "I can do it as long as I can afford it" card.

Anyways, an awesome NFL PLAYOFF GAME is on right now, so I think I'm gonna watch it.

Peace.

AutoTune & Heartbreak

Today was the first day of immersion into Kanye's 808's and Heartbreak. And after about three hours I still don't know what to think. Everybody's heard the singles by now, and yeah... the whole album is sung in AutoTune. I assumed I would probably still like it, since I can listen to just about anything and enjoy it these days. I can't say I don't like it... I like the concept, some of the songs are fairly dope, but it just seems like he got lazy with it. The album got finished waaaay ahead of schedule, and I think it clearly shows. I'll probably have a better idea on how I feel about it in a couple days.

By the way... GO BILLS! I'm not ready to get excited yet, because after all it was the Chiefs, but at least they showed they can produce against a bad team. 54 points against anybody isn't anything to scoff at. Big ups to Leodis McKelvin... apparently you were worth a first round pick.

Two days til I leave back to Rochester for Thanksgiving. Should be fun stuff.

Games I Watched (at least part of)
Buffalo vs. Kansas City (NFL) (Yeah!!!!!!)
NY football Giants vs. Arizona (NFL)
Philadelphia vs. Golden State (NBA)
San Diego vs. Indy (NFL)
Minnesota vs. Detroit (NBA)
LA Lakers vs. Sacramento (NBA)

Players Who Killed It
Leodis fuckin' McKelvin!
Trent Edwards
Andre Miller
Randy Foye
Kobe Bryant
Jason Thompson
Bobby Brown

Listen to
"Paranoid" Kanye West
"Robocop" Kanye West
"Love Hangover" Kidz in the Hall feat. Estelle