Post-Game Thoughts No One Asked For! WHoooo!

(Image via The Telegraph)

That's right!  I have a Blogger account.
I spew opinion whenever I want.
(Non-soccer fans must HATE the last few days of this blog . . .my bad)*

Anyway...

Am I alone in the feeling that if you've seen one US match since the '02 World Cup, you've seen 'em all?  Watching our beloved Nats is a truly Groundhogian (nice, right?) experience.  Its as if American soccer is scripted.  The back 4 hold formation well, and handles 1v1 juuuuuust well enough to avoid disaster. [Insert left back] has a semi-shocker and makes a critical, game-changing mistake.  The central mids surprise us with their ability to defend against superior opposition.  We get worked and out-classed technically on the wings.  Landon Donovan is always in the right place, but never gets the ball.  We lose possession very quickly whenever the defensive pressure is ramped up.  The strikers are always one and a half notches of quality below when we play mojor competition.  Bocanegra scores of a set piece.  We manage a scoreline that makes us look alot better than the reality of the 90min.  Yadda Yadda Yadda. 

I feel like I could insert that very same paragraph into 90% of every US game.  Snooze.  I want to sit here and type "2-1 loss vs. the Dutch?  I'll take it"...but why should I?  It appeared to me that (with the exception of Elia) the men from The Nether Regions didn't give two shits about this game, didn't fear the US at all, and were in a perfect mindframe to be beaten yesterday.  Buuuuuut...oh well.

*Or is it?  You all found your way here from TOR or TOW anyway, right?  Probably.

MLS Play-In Portion of US Open Cup Announced

So let's start with the grandest news: The play in-game for the play-in tournament (yeah)
New York will host Filthadelphia for the right to join the play-in stage.  The winner will host New England (all home sites determined by coin toss).

NE/NY/PHI will take on the winner of DAL @ DC
RSL @ SJ winner vs. COL @ KC winner

The 4 winners of those games will join the Final 16 of the Open Cup.

ONLINE FEED????

I'm a Grade A moron.
I forgot to DVR the game this afternoon.

Where can I watch it on the internet?
I can't get ESPN360 here either.

Little Brother - Curtain Call

"Khrysis on the boards with the heat".
Very bitter-sweet.
This is the first single from the last album from one of the best groups in Hip-Hop since Tribe.

Luda on The Fallons...

Wow, what a horrible song, Ludacris.
BUT...I had to share this because ?uestlove on the voice-changer thing is too funny.
And I love how the usual batch of hipsters that stand behind the performance space on Fallon have no clue how to move to this song.  Great viewing stuff.

Ill Doctrine: Lyricism and Capitalism

On point as always.

Jamiroquai - Canned Heat (Calvin Harris Remix)

Yeah!

So this remix is 10 months old, and I've never heard it before.
I warn you, if you're sitting in a cubicle right now...don't play this.

The video doesn't have titties in it or anything, but the groove on this is waaaaaay to heavy for you to not at least get a mean (3:46 mark...nasty) head-bob going.  And with your luck, Angie from sales is gonna walk up to your desk with the intention of offering you free steak and guilt-free fornication.  She's gonna see you doing that awkward thing you're doing with your shoulders, change her mind, and instead, bone down on Carl from the legal department.  You hate Carl from the legal department.

...and where the hell is Jamiroquai, anyway?!

Nobody Beats The Drum - Grindin'

This is either great or horrible.
I'm not sure yet.

It might be The Jam.
I might just be catching Spring fever because my calendar (and presumably yours) says March.

9thmatic (9th Wonder), Khrysis & Thee Tom Hardy - Fresh & Fly

Ahhhh . . .Sping is comin'
Sounds so beautiful, don't you agree?
Have some.

Ferrari 599 . . .HYBRID

 

You read rumors about things, but you say to yourself...

"There's no way they'd actually do this...right?"

Wow.

The Geneva Motor Show opened today with a stunner.  The most romanticized sports car marque on the planet unveiled a gas-electric hybrid version of their 599 GTB Fiorano.  The new prototype partners a 100hp, zero-emissions electric motor with the standard 6.0L V12.  For more tech & spec, head here.

Crooked I - First Time

Crook is quickly approaching Joell Ortiz levels of short song prolificness...prolificacy...
He has alot of jams out.

ESC Membership Drive: Jersey Edition

 

Who:  YOU,son!  And my drunken ass.  And a gang of other fools.

What:  ESC 2010 season sing up extravaganza

Where: El Pastor, 570 Market St., Newark

When:  Noon-4pm, Sat. Mar 13 (before the RBNY U-18 v USA U-17 game)

Why:  Because sitting at midfield and listening to the sound of screaming children and jinglin' mini-van keys is for suckers.

How:  If I were you (and maybe I am), I'd take the train to Newark Penn Station and foot it a couple block.  Then you can join us for our first unofficial march to the new house.

Gorillaz ft. Mos Def & Bobby Womack - Stylo (Video)

Do you think Bruce Willis is even aware that his coolness is "post-ironic"?
Do you think Rumor Rumer is kind enough to explain that last sentence to him?

To be honest, I'm still not sure I like this song, but there's only a certain point to which I will allow myself to complain about a track that has Damon Albarn, Mos Def and Bobby Womack* on it.

Oh, and this is one of those "we need to prove our popularity to the people in marketing, so we're gonna force everyone to the same place to watch this video and generate hits" videos.  So go to You Tube to check it.

* "When its cooold outsiiiiiiiiide.....hah..."

Reflection Eternal - In This World

Reflection Eternal - "In This World" by Warner Bros. Urban

I've posted this before, but now that it's officially a single, it needs to rock again.
And really...when something is this right, does it even matter why I posted it?
Video later this week.  Album Apr. 6th.

Random Thoughts #13: My Cache Is Full

Good afternoon, peoples.
Believe it or not, I have a day job, and by some shitty stroke of corporate luck, I'm kinda busy today.  But I will be doing my usual internet bottom-feeding later tonight.

BUT...
If there was ever a sign that I was a bit overloaded on soccer/music/pop culture internetification, this could be it:  This morning I woke up during one of those hazy half-awake dreams.  In this dream, I was surfin' the net (as it were), and read a headline on some site that said "NY signs Grizzly Bear and old Mexi-alt bro as DPs".  I kid you not.

It's alllll starting to merge into one big KFC Famous Bowl of random shit, my friends.