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Toronto Rap­tors (32–30) @ Sacra­mento Kings (21–43)

Game­time : 10pm

TV Cov­er­age : The Score

Had the great oppor­tu­nity (see the behind the scenes HERE) to be apart of Jayd Ink’s sin­gle, in shoot­ing for the cover of the offi­cial sin­gle “Go Hard”

So now avail­able for down­load, be sure to go cop that sin­gle and sup­port good music

Down­load Song HERE
Jayd Ink’s Offi­cial Myspace Page

Toronto Rap­tors (32–29) @ Los Ange­las Lak­ers (46–18)

Game­time : 10:30pm

TV Cov­er­age : TSN

“Big­gie — A Trib­ute” by Hans Poppe (www.hanspoppe.com)

Can you hon­estly believe that it has been 13 YEARS from this day that Big­gie was killed?!  I’m not going to even start on how they still haven’t found his (or 2pac, Freaky Tah, Big L’s for that mat­ter) killer yet.. but again bring atten­tion to the fact that it has been this long now.

Don’t know how Big­gie would have fit into today’s hiphop scene, even though on his last album recorded when alive (Life After Death) we wit­nessed him going out of his com­fort zone, switch­ing up his flow and do a song with Bone Thugs (who at the time were pop­pin’ off).  But him on that south stuff?  I dun­nooooo… would have been inter­est­ing that’s for sure!

RIP to a lost talent

one of the most under­rated for sure, but too ill to overlook

I don’t think any­thing is more bolder than this right here! And the fact that this hap­pened WHILE TAPING, classic

If you are 30 or older you will fully under­stand this with a great big smirk

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious dia­tribes about how hard things were. When they were grow­ing up; what with walk­ing Twenty-five miles to school every morning.…Uphill… barefoot…BOTH ways Yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remem­ber promis­ing myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to laya bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they’ve got it!

But now that… I’m over the ripe old age of thirty, I can’t help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You’ve got it so easy! I mean, com­pared to my child­hood, you live in a damn Utopia!

And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don’t know how good you’ve got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn’t have The Inter­net. If we wanted to know some­thing, we had to go to the damn library and look it up our­selves, in the card catalogue!!

There was no email!! We had to actu­ally write some­body a let­ter — with a pen!

Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mail­box and it would take, like, a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!

Child Pro­tec­tive Ser­vices didn’t care if our par­ents beat us. As a mat­ter of fact, the par­ents of all my friends also had per­mis­sion to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!

There were no MP3’ s or Nap­sters! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitch­hike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself!

Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usu­ally talk over the begin­ning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD play­ers! We had tape decks in our car. We’d play our favorite tape and “eject” it when fin­ished and the tape would come undone. Cause — that’s how we rolled, dig?

We didn’t have fancy crap like Call Wait­ing! If you were on the phone and some­body else called they got a busy sig­nal, that’s it!

And we didn’t have fancy Caller ID either!
When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a col­lec­tions agent, you just didn’t know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn’t have any fancy Sony Playsta­tion video games with high-resolution 3-D graph­ics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like ‘Space Invaders’ and ‘Aster­oids’. Your guy was a lit­tle square! You actu­ally had to use your imag­i­na­tion!! And there were no mul­ti­ple lev­els or screens, it was just one screen.… for­ever!
And you could never win. The game just kept get­ting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!

You had to use a lit­tle book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to chan­nel surf­ing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the chan­nel! NO REMOTES!!!

There was no Car­toon Net­work either! You could only get car­toons on Sat­ur­day Morn­ing. Do you hear what I’m say­ing!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for car­toons, you spoiled lit­tle rat-bastards!

And we didn’t have microwaves, if we wanted to heat some­thing up we had to use the stove! Imag­ine that!

That’s exactly what I’m talk­ing about! You kids today have got it too easy. You’re spoiled. You guys wouldn’t have lasted five min­utes back in 1980or before!

Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd

Turn your face to the sun and the shad­ows fall behind you

- Maori Proverb

I haven’t really sat down and watched the Oscars in a long time really, because I never find the jokes funny and it usu­ally drags on to the point of sheer bore­dom.  Tonight’s Oscars really wasn’t any dif­fer­ent from what I just described, yet I was inter­ested to see if Pre­cious would win some awards and if Avatar would com­pletely clean house.

As usual, the put all the not-so-anticipated awards at the begin­ning of the show so that you’re forced to either sit there for the full length of it to see what you really tuned in to see, or come back around 11:30pm and catch those awards you really wanted to see.  I was glad to see Steve Car­rell present an award, because he has become my mod­ern day Jim Carey (who I used to admire much as a teen grow­ing up)..

The Intro : Much is made of who hosts the Oscars, and then how they per­formed after all the lights die down.  Steve Mar­tin (whose last movie escapes me, CAUSE ITS BEEN THAT LONG) and Alec Bald­win (guess­ing from 30Rock fame) got the green light to enter­tain the masses.  They did alright, noth­ing too mem­o­rable really.. some­body hit me up when they choose Steve Car­rell and who­ever else they want, cause that would be a treat in itself.

The Awards : I was sur­prised on more than one occa­sion dur­ing the show, more-so at the fact that movies I never thought twice about, got so much praise tonight.  I remem­ber when I watched The Hurt Locker, I thought it was a good movie and I do remem­ber rec­om­mend­ing it to a few peo­ple but I hon­estly never looked at it as Oscar mate­r­ial.  When I think Oscar, I think Glad­i­a­tor. Even the Blind Side, a movie I also didn’t think much of, pro­duced some golden man totin’ win­ners.  So when San­dra Bul­lock beat out Meryl Streep and that chick from Pre­cious, I was very sur­prised.  And when Hurt Locker beat out Avatar for both best direc­tor and best pic­ture.. let’s just say, wow!  Did you see how fast Tom Hanks came in and announced the win­ner for Best Pic­ture at the end?  So quick I thought it was fake.. ha, I was wait­ing for him to be like, “just kid­ding… AVATAR!”

** side­bar — that was James Cameron’s ex-wife right? (that won best direc­tor) Ooooh, that must really suck

But that didn’t hap­pen.  Clearly.  Over­all, very ho-hum and makes me wish I did some­thing else for the time spent watch­ing it, cause I could have had the same reac­tion either read­ing about it tomor­row or on my twitter.

Philadel­phia 76ers (22–39) @ Toronto Rap­tors (32–28)

Game­time : 12pm

TV Cov­er­age : CBC