Take - "Incredibright"

Great new stuff from Take's new album Only Mountain. 'Nuff said.

The Tropics EP

Love this stuffff. It was released on vinyl 3 weeks ago. It' so beautiful. Listen to the entire EP (7 tracks) right here:

Android Love Mayhem!

Android Love Mayhem

Manu Ginobili: A Spur For Years to Come

It's official, folks, Manu will remain a Spur for the next three seasons. Manu was in the position to be a free agent this summer, but of course the Spurs ownership and front office did have some marbles amongst them and shot for El Contusión and his unborn twin boys, (the future of the Spurs, I have no doubts) to remain in San Antonio by offering $38.9 mil/3 years, the maximum amount we were allowed to spend for him. It was crucial to make sure we extended Manu's contract now (or sooner) because we couldn't allow him to test the waters of free agency, where I'm completely certain he would be offered BIG money. I know his near 40mil might seem big enough, but when teams like New York have been completely and unabashedly cutting players and trading for players with expiring contracts in order to throw massive checks at the numerous skilled, high profile free agents like Dwayne Wade, Lebron James, Chris Bosh, Amar'e Stoudemire, Rudy Gay, etc., it's a good idea to make sure the Manu Ginobili gets cut out of that moneypool.

So, this is the news that any sensible Spurs fan was hoping to hear. Without Manu, our current team has no future. No one in the entire league can play like Manu. Just watch one of his highlight videos.

As Kobe has said, "[He's] a bad man," and we couldn't let our bad man become anyone else's bad man. We just couldn't. He is, after all, "The Man with no Swagger."

Song of the Moment - "The Saddest Song" by Morphine

Here's some music that's likely as new to you as it is to me. This band is the essence of cool. Don't let anyone else tell you different. Morphine forgoes the typical rock band arrangement and instead have vocals, a 2-stringed guitar with bass guitar strings, drums, and baritone/tenor saxophones. If that doesn't pique your interests, there's no hope for you in my world.

Fuck it, they're good enough for my song of the moment to be more than one song.

Also, these songs are from their first album, Good, which critics rank below their other albums, basically stating that it lives up to it's title. If there's any hint of what's to come after this album from their opinions and our friend, the English language, just know that my ears are eager for more.

Spurs 102 - Cavaliers 97

Hey LeBron, we had some fun together in 2007, didn't we? Ah, the memories.

Last night, the Spurs edged out a win in a statement game against the top team in the league, winning percentage-wise, which happens to have some guy with the last name of James. I've never liked it when people's surnames are given names. Do you? We still have a tough road ahead of us in the regular season, but I think people around the league are certainly not counting us out of contention for the time being. I know I'm not.

Also, there was an impressive dunk by Matt Bonner, and if I find a video of it, I'll edit it in here ASAP. There's nothing like witnessing that, haha, and it's even better than the first one this season against the Raptors.

GO SPURS GO!

New Poem

I wrote this two days ago while listening to "Neuköln" by David Bowie. Bowie plays the sax admirably, and I love saxophonists like John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and Pharoah Sanders. I knew this would come someday, and here it is.

"A Tribute to Saxophone Squiggles"

That ephemeral warmth
Emanating from its golden bell
Begins to wrap around you
While dancing on blade's edge
Only to rise and sink between
The mountains and canyons
Found in the furrows of your brain
And so, a leaf on the pedestal
Gets caught in the slipstream
And from that point forward
It erupts into flame
That is extinguished only
At song's end

FlyLo

I realized that I don't have any Flying Lotus tunes here. Insanity if there ever was such a thing. Here are two great tracks from his '08 release, Los Angeles, with amazing fan-made videos. "Infinitum" is one of FlyLo's more understated tracks that is beautifully accompanied by Laura Darlington's voice. "GNG BNG" is a "club banger," but of course the only proper way to dance to it is on a bike, as demonstrated here. Enjoy!