|
|
 |
|
|
| 1988 |
 |
This is me playing a song I wrote in my
basement.
--------------
There are four whole people in this house
And I'm the last one awake again
And tomorrow we'll be biting nails
And biting tongues to higher stakes again
I am thinking if I just don't sleep
The morning won't sneak up on me
As just another yesterday again
But I was brilliant for just one day
In 1988
I didn't have to talk, I didn't have to think
They flushed my sins right down a sink
Ten fingers and ten toes, and you're okay
Yeah I think that's what they say
Well how about today?
I think the world has got my number
Oh my God, there's digits in my eyes
I think that I've been dancing 'round
The brightest rooms in a cellophane disguise
Everybody still remembers
Things that I said last September
Oh, but worst of all, so do I
But I was a stranger for just one day
Born with the cleanest slate
My mother loved me before she knew me
Gave me a name that didn't suit me
But hey that's okay
I've kept it anyway
What if I threw it away?
And to me God's just a metaphor
A metaphor for everything that's strange
I take his name in vain a lot
But I'm not sure just what that means these
days
Sometimes I wish that I were still religious
Along with a lot of other wishes
But I don't think that God would know my name
But I was forgiven for just one day
When I still knew how to pray
And all the words were etched in gold
On the little Bible that I stole
From my teacher in second grade
The one I didn't mean to take
Oh what would Jesus say?
And things were perfect for a time
In 1999
I was eleven years old, and we drove south
Yeah, down to my grandfather's house
And everything was fine
It was right before he died
We were all so goddamn fine
We were all so goddamn fine
Tags : Lauren O'Connell 1988 rochester music singer songwriter fairport acoustic guitar girl good magic alternative folk |
|
Affichage : 15783
Durée : 271 s |
| Michael Jordan 1988: 59pts Vs. Detroit Pistons on CBS |
 |
This is the single most important game of the
modern basketball era. Also, it kept
solidifying the fact that MJ saved his best
for the best teams. MJ rarely cared to score
big against poor teams unless he had to since
it was a chance to get the team to play. In
MJ's first 19 games vs. Detroit, he averaged
36ppg including a 61pt spanking the year
before (a game I also have edited on
youtube.com). After this 59pt game on
national TV on Easter Sunday in front of a
record crowd at Detroit, the Pistons' coach
Daly had enough. He vowed never to let MJ
beat them again. Born was the beginning of
the most awesome defense ever - "The Jordan
Rules". The basics of the defense were to
'funnel MJ to the middle so the big guys
could knock him on his butt'. But, the
defense was so specific that there was a rule
for what to do wherever MJ had the ball. Go
here:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_online/fl
ashbacks/jordan/891106/
The "Jordan Rules" went on to revolutionize
the game - making defense win championships.
The Pistons went on to win two titles and
their 'bruiserball' defense on Jordan forced
the NBA to invent the flagrant foul. The
Knicks and the Heat copied this football
style and soon, the league's scoring
plummeted. MJ, still scoring 30+ ppg was
unaffected with his insane skills but the
league itself couldn't score. We saw in the
90s, slow games with teams scoring just 60
points each with no one able to make any
shots. After MJ retired, the NBA tinkered
with the rules to get scoring back up and
today, we are still seeing this tinkering
with the shortened half-court clock, the lax
hand-checking rules, the illegal step-in
defense for centers and so forth. MJ is
responsible for all this.
I remember this game vividly. Few NBA games
were on national TV so the ads building this
game's drama were strong. We knew MJ and the
Pistons already hated each other. The Pontiac
Silverdome had a record crowd. What was MJ
going to do? Well, all he did was go 21-27
for 59. But, the real key was that he won the
game on two clutch defensive stops - a block
and steal on Zeke - to make sure his 59
didn't go to waste. MJ's jumper was
laser-like here and I remember actually being
upset that he was so 'on' since that would
mean he would be driving less. I wanted to
see more acrobatic shots. But, that's just
being a selfish fan. Enjoy The Master
becoming 'The Master'.
Tags : Michael Jordan Detroit Pistons Lebron James Shaq Kobe Bryant Magic Dwyane Wade Lakers Tmac Vince Car ter Allen Iverson |
|
Affichage : 298533
Durée : 381 s |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
| |
|
