Music Video of the Day 10.24.2010

E has been carrying this blog. Updating daily, delivering non-naked women, beautiful, if rare rants. I figure I should give something back, especially since I've told our favorite German about the page.

So Trent Reznor (who got his start in the Cleveland recording scene) of NIN on hearing this cover of his baby:

"I listened to it and it was very strange. It was this other person inhabiting my most personal song. I'd known where I was when I wrote it. I know what I was thinking about. I know how I felt. Hearing it was like someone kissing your girlfriend. It felt invasive."

Also
" I pop the video in, and... wow. Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore."



The song is a bit of a downer, so tuck your dick away safely.

Oh, When the Saints Throw Lots of Picks...

The Browns win!  And in convincing fashion.  Behind three of the gutsiest trick plays ever, the Dawgs railed New Orleans 30-17.  By the end of the game, I was shell shocked.  I was unable to find words to express the stunned awe that enveloped me.  How did this happen?  Well, Drew Brees threw 4 interceptions.  2 of them were returned for touchdowns by David Bowens, including a 64 yard scamper with less than 5 minutes remaining to ice the victory.  In case you're unaware no player has ever taken 3 picks back in the same game.  This means that David Bowens, yes David Bowens, now holds a share of the all-time NFL record for interception returns for touchdowns in a single game.  I suppose that might have been enough to push the Fightin' Manginas to victory, but we'll never know because the head coach turned to the last page of the playbook and dialed up some trickeration that absolutely zero living people foresaw.  (1) After fielding the Saints' first punt, Josh Cribbs threw a perfect spiral across the width of the field to Eric Wright (he later got beat again for a td, but this is a happy post) who rambled 62 yards to the 19.  This set up Phil Dawson for the games first score.  (2) In the 3rd quarter, Reggie Hodges dropped back to punt, but, instead, ran up the middle for 68 yards, juking Lance Moore out of his shorts in the process.  One, literally, could have driven a tank down the lane that Reggie was free to run in.  (3) As the offense ate up 6 minutes of the 4th quarter on their way to another field goal, they converted a crucial third down when Peyton Hillis took a direct snap and completed a 13 yard pass back to Colt McCoy.  McCoy got drilled after the reception as he conciously chose to stay in bounds and keep the clock moving.

Wow.  Wowee, wow, wow.  The way I see this team is in diametric opposition to what I felt about 8 days ago.  I'm now ready to jump on the Colt drawn buggy to the future.  His accuracy is ridiculous, especially for a rookie, and he has a head on his shoulders that betrays the fact that he started for 4 years in a Big12 program.  McCoy looks like a leader, a winner.  As does Hillis, who ran the ball 7 straight times (43 yards) during the aforementioned drive.  Take the true QB1, let him start the rest of the season (hell or high water), add the bruiser, set them up with the fear of some ridiculous play call, watch their backs with a defense (props to Roth, Benard and Fujita) that showed a pass rush for the first time in a coon's age and wins will follow.  Stay the course ManGenius, don't overthink this one.  Keep your foot to the gas with the creativity and soon the whole town will join me in this flushing new anticipation of every given Sunday.  Go Browns!  Cheers.

Pretty Girl 10.24.10 - Kristen Bell

Was in Heroes w/ Jessalyn Gilsig.  Watch Pulse & you'll fall for her, watch Sarah Marshall & um... excuse me, I gotta... um... excuse me.

Trainwreck At the Shoe... No One Cares

The Buckeyes put 42 points on the board in the first half and coasted to a 49-0 victory over Purdue yesterday.  The Boilermakers are not the cream of the Big10 crop, but they're certainly not the Little Sisters of the Poor either and OSU destroyed them.  At no point during the game did Purdue look anything except completely over-matched.  The first drive of the game: 5 plays, 60 yards, touchdown, ALL hand-offs to Boom Herron.  The Bucks toyed with their opponents and, outside of 2 TP picks (ugh), looked like world beaters.  The D produced 4 takeaways, Andrew Sweat flew all over the field and Orhian Johnson continued to emerge as a the next big thing in the secondary.  All of this and nobody gives a damn.  It was, by far, the most unenthusiastic and robotic crowd that I have ever been a part of on campus.  The south stands NEVER filled, the place was half empty during the 4th quarter and barely anyone stood during the second half.  Compounding the issue was an utter lack of coverage by the national media.  In my mind a 49 point shutout win, over a quality conference opponent goes a long way toward establishing the Buckeyes as the best 1-loss team in the nation, but the game was glossed over in many halftime shows without a single highlight, barely mentioned at all.  Seemingly the team has become an afterthought.  OSU simply is not sexy enough to hold the attention of the pundits or their spoiled "fans" once they have dropped from the peak of BCS championship contention.  That's a shame because, before the loss of Tyler Moeller, this team was better than any of the others that played for the crown over the past decade and, even now, is of such quality to deserve a level of recognition that many are unwilling to give.

Pretty Girl 10.23.10 - Jessalyn Gilsig

How hot is a chick who can hold fire? (see Megan Fox in the "Love the Way You Lie" vid)  Glee Gone Wild!

Na Na Na. Na Na Na. Hey Hey Hey...

GOODBYE!

How appropriate is it that A-Roid went down lookin' to end it?  Rock on, Texas.

Couldn't They Hire Will Ferrell Instead?

RedSox pitching coach and former Indians pitcher and farm director, John Farrell has emerged as the front runner to fill the Blue Jays managerial vacancy.  On one hand this would mean the Tribe's retention of first base coach and fan favorite, Sandy Alomar Jr.  Unfortunately, it would also entail losing out on a bright, impassioned baseball mind with strong ties to the organization.  I've been screaming for Farrell since the beginning of '09, but the Indians approached him during the middle of a BoSox playoff run last year.  Thus, Cleveland is once again the friggin' bridesmaid.  Mark my words, John Farrell will be successful in Toronto, and we will all regret not making a bolder push for his services.  And I'm sure Rojo Johnson would love a crack at big league managing.  Cheers.

Can't He Just Count His Money And Shut the F Up?

From LeGrande Jackass - "If I was a fan and I was on the outside looking in, I could be upset a little bit if one of my favorite players left, or if I felt like he betrayed us or whatever the case may be. But you have to get over it."

Above and beyond the fact that the face of the NBA is a spoiled 15 year old child wrapped in a 6'8", 240 lb, freak of nature body.  Forgiving him for the tactless and self-serving manner in which he chose to frame his departure.  Ignoring how he flagrantly stuck one foot out of the door during the playoffs and phoned in the Boston series.  Not even mentioning that the "greatest" player of his generation has failed to win 1 game in the NBA finals, let alone a championship.  For all his bravado that he came from nothing, pulled himself up by his bootstraps, and will never, ever lose touch with his roots, LeFraud has become aloof and detached.  The ultimate hometown legend has morphed into a new money embarrassment.  My only response to this rotten little boy it would be "We're not upset that you are who you are.  If you've got it, flaunt it.  If you're just about your own glory, your own legacy, then so be it.  Maybe we thought that when the next big thing came straigh out of Akron, it was finally our turn to stand proud as a community of fans.  We're just disappointed, disappointed that we believed in you in the first place."  So stop it with the salt, you worthless scab, you reap what you sow.  This is what you chose.  You are indelibly scarred.  You are damaged goods.  Your legacy is one of immature arrogance.  Deal with it.  And shut your bloody mouth, douche-bag.

Pretty Girl 10.22.10 - Naya Rivera

She's on the show to tantalize.  Mission accomplished.  Glee Gone Wild!

Now That They've Got Wood...

The Indians get a couple of never-will-bes from the Yankees.  Headed to the organization - RHP Andrew Shive, 25, who has never pitched above single A and missed the entire 2009 season & 3B/2B Matt Cusick, 24, who has at least made it to AAA.  They're not prospects.  Don't bother remembering their names, you won't hear them again.

Also, dig this wicked well-done piece on Adam Miller from IPI.  Consider him a real possibility to steal a bullpen job in the spring.