Born To Play - Dustin Pedroia

At some point this summer I read Dustin Pedroia's book Born To Play, My Life In The Game and I thought "I should review this for the old blog. Now I'm not going to write too much because to be honest it wasn't that great a book. It was exactly what you would expect it to be: ghost-written, mostly stuff you already knew if you have an above average interest in the Boston Red Sox, with the occasional interesting tidbit thrown in here and there. The stuff about him growing up, mostly his time in high school and college was pretty good, and occasionally he had some insight to offer on some of the other beloved Sox players (the scene where Jon Lester finds out that he has cancer is especially poignant). If you really like the Red Sox, then you'll probably enjoy reading this book. If you don't like the Red Sox, then I can almost guarantee that you won't at all.

Now Greg over at Confounded Fret Buzz already posted the now infamous MLB The Show commercial, so I thought I'd post another of my favorite Pedroia commercials:


The Dropkick Murphys - Tessie

LaGrecia - You Like Baseball I Like Ghosts

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LaGrecia

Much thanks to College Humor

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Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

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Daft Punk

File Under: Stuff I Happen Upon While Surfing the Net

Whenever 'artists' like Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, or bands like Dream Theater come up in conversation (and you be surprised how often that is) I always say that my problem with such "virtuosos" is that as impressive as it is that they can play however many notes a second and in 65/19 time its boring. Its not music, its just a dexterity exhibition. Now fast-forward to today when I'm reading an article about the beginnings of Mtv. As everyone knows the first video played on Mtv was the Buggles 'Video Killed the Radio Star' but did you know that the first video played on Mtv in Europe was Dire Straits' 'Money For Nothing.' First I went and watched that video, but then I began watching more and that led me to this little gem. I believe that this is simply Mark Knopfler with backing band and not actually Dire Straits. Note how, while Knopfler plays incredibly intricate guitar parts, they are all as tasteful as you could possibly want. No lead riff distracts from the rest of the song, no solo goes on a second too long, and even the classical instrumental section at the end of the video fits perfectly and doesn't overstay its welcome. It's an incredibly dynamic little jam section.



Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing

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Dire Straits

Jenny Lewis vs. Everybody - Round II

A while ago I made a post in which I mentioned Neko Case (here). This led to a discussion in the comments, fueled by my fellow blogger Greg, about Neko Case's beauty and in particular how it compared to Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley. It was eventually decided that Jenny Lewis won. Now there is a new challenger to the throne; Alison Mosshart of the bands Discount, The Kills, and most recently, the Dead Weather. The format of will be as follows: live photos, staged photos, video, and finally music from each. As reigning indie-queen, Jenny Lewis will lead off in each category.

Rilo Kiley - A Better Son/Daughter

Rilo Kiley - Does He Love You?

Discount - On The Counter

The Kills - Cheap and Cheerful

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Rilo Kiley
Discount
The Kills

Songs to Blow Your Mind Pt. 7

I'm really on a tear with these songs with female vocals. This song gets stuck in my head every time I listen to it.



Tegan and Sara- The Con

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Tegan and Sara

This movie is going to be awesome.

Between being about roller derby's and starring Ellen Page (From X-men not Juno) and it appears Alia Shawkat (from the best television show ever made) this movie looks awesome. Course I've been wrong before. It just doesn't happen much. Like, ever.



Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl

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Bikini Kill

When it's time to party....

Its been quite a little while since we took a look at Keegan's blog reader, and today seems as good a day as any to remedy that. Today's blog is one I discovered while attempting to find out more about this video:

mostly because it looked like the coolest place ever. Further looking took me to the blog of the girl who had posted the video. About once a week, she posts a link to something I find fairly amusing such as the Sexy People Blog. And recently she posted this:




Andrew W.K. - She is Beautiful

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Andrew W.K.