Rants and Ranks

These are the flicks that I would want with me on a deserted island.  Assuming that island had electricity, a TV, and DVD player. Return of the King: This movie is iconic in so many ways.  Sure it won best picture, but even if it didn't, it's a epic in every sense of the word.  Never in my life have I been so captivated at a movie theater.  I had just seen the first two right before this was released in theaters, and just went to see it for something to do.  I instantly fell in love, and haven't looked back.  Batman Begins: When I left the theaters after watching this one, I uttered one of the biggest understatements of my life, "I think that may have been better than the first Batman." (1989)  Holy crap is it ever.  I had no hopes whatsoever that this would be good going in, and was blown away by what I saw.  Still to this day, my favorite super-hero movie, and I still feel the best super-hero movie, as I've ranted about in the pa...

Here comes part one of my All-Star Game rant.  Why two parts?  This first one is a warning.  The second is the inevitable results of the All-Star Game voting, that will surely result in some ridiculous choices.  I touched on this a bit last year , but I feel so strongly about this, I need to revisit and probably in much greater detail.  If the voting ended today, the starters would be: East: Rose, Wade, James, Anthony, Howard West: Paul, Bryant, Durant, Griffin, Bynum I honestly can't complain about that list.  But I'm sure this may be the only time I don't.  I drives me up the wall, such as past years when Allen Iverson, Tracy McGrady, and Yao Ming were voted starters, even though they weren't playing anywhere near All-Star levels, or in Yao's case, not playing at all.  This has always bothered me, ever since I was a little kid.  Remember when Penny Hardaway and Grant Hill would get voted in, even though they had been hu...

Kobe now has 4 (and counting?) straight 40+ point games (3 wins).  Has he found the fountain of youth?  Is he hogging the ball more?  How about all that, and then some.  From what I can tell it's a perfect storm of things.  The first thing attributing to the cause is due to the lack of bench.  Now, the last few years the bench, minus Odom, hasn't been that great anyway.  However, this bench is all on the injured list.  Kapono, McRoberts, Barnes, Murphy, now Steve Blake have all missed game(s) within the past few weeks.  Even Gasol is banged up.  The loss of Odom also puts more ball handling duties on Kobe.  Let's face it, if Odom was in the game, 99% of the time he was bringing the ball up the floor.  So, since Kobe now shares it with Fisher exclusively, he would theoretically have the ball in his hands more, thus meaning (for him anyway)to shoot more.  (The fact that Blake is now out for...

Nothing is better in music than a good guitar riff.  I don't need a four minute guitar solo, just a catchy riff that I can hum to all day.  Here are some of my favorites (in no particular order), some are well-known, others you probably have never heard of (or will again).  Click the link for the song. Peaches - Presidents of the United States of America Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones Reply - Staind Everlong - Foo Fighters 10 Ton Brick - Hurt Jumpin' Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones Monster - Skillet Beat It - Michael Jackson You Really Got Me - The Kinks In Bloom - Nirvana China Grove - The Doobie Brothers Where the River Flows - Collective Soul Come As You Are - Nirvana Man in the Box - Alice in Chains Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd Times Like These - Foo Fighters Superstition - Stevie Wonder Over Now - Alice in Chains Walking in Circles - Our Lady Peace Stacked Actors - Foo Fighters December - Collective Soul Glycerine -...