Showing posts with label Chicago Bulls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicago Bulls. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Auld Lang Syne

Happy New Year!



2010 was a long year. The election was the usual politics in DC. A bunch of empty promises and lies from both sides. The economy was slowly recovering, slipped, slowly recovered. Unemployment pretty much stayed the same. The Cubs didn't win the World Series, we'll get it next year! The Bulls made the playoffs at .500. The Bears, as predicted, finished better than 10-6 (11-5) and won the NFC North as well as the 2nd seed. Dubstep and HipTronik are surging.



Personally, I went through many ups and downs. I still don't freaking know what I want to do after college. The most lucrative options seem appealing, but boring. The most passionate options seem appealing, but for how long? New year, new degree, new career. Maybe I should look into becoming president...?



The 112th group is now in session. My prediction for this year is that nothing will get done and everything that is done will be for political leverage. We're electing a bunch of rich people to debate about nothing. Even debates about debates are going to be prolonged.. Why can't we form more than 2 parties? Split the progressives from the liberals, the Tea Party from the conservatives. Competition breeds the best. Having two parties should give us better presidents than Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Carter, Reagan, Ford, and Nixon.. Obama is weak, Bush Jr. is stupid, Clinton is horny, Bush Sr. is misguided, Carter is stubborn, Reagan is fake, Ford is boring, and Nixon is a crook. Good job America.



The Bears will face the Saints at Soldier Field, beat them and then face the Falcons. If they beat them, they're going to play the Patriots in Dallas. I'm hoping they make a run and don't disappoint like in '06. Hester-mania!



The Bulls are going to limp into the playoffs as the 4th seed and rock the Knicks, but lose to the Magic. Magic vs Heat for the East. The Lakers are slipping up a bit, but I think they're going to pull it together in the playoffs.



The Cubs are going to be mediocre again and finish with a mediocre 80-80, but the future looks bright. (sounds very familiar)



Natalie Portman is back at it again. Black Swan was a great performance. Breaking out of her shell and expanding into different genres. Can't wait for her next movies to come out.

Norwegian Recycling is pretty good at their mashups. Check them out.

For 2011, my New Years resolution is to continue being lazy and smoking. No one ever keeps their New Years resolutions. Gotta love reverse psychology! Is it possible to break the habit this year?

JSung if you read this and wanna rip on me, gimme whatchu got.

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Next Chapter

The door creaks. It closes shut. Suddenly, a trill slowly gets louder and louder. The door slowly creaks open. Open just enough so a mouse can sneak away from the ghastly aura. Finally, the silence returns. The door creaks and slams shut. This is the bar room. It could be the howling wind; it could be the friendly ghost.

In Da Club- 50 Cent vs. Eric Prydz by DJTP

"The truth is that many who leave the faith or turn away from God do so because they have come to realize that this mindset led to nothing more than a shallow or empty relationship with God." Read this if you want to reflect on Christianity. It's getting clearer, but still murky.

Tupac vs. Andrea Bocelli-My Block by DJTP

My brother and I talked about our childhood, our parents, and our future. It revealed a lot to both of us about who we are, who we're becoming, and why we're becoming what we're bound to become. It's comforting to know that we talked about things I never mentioned to anyone for over 10 years. Slowly, I'm realizing what family is all about. In the past, I've claimed that I was a family man who cared about nothing more than my family. I knew I was lying when I selfishly left my family in the dust to hang out with friends when they needed me the most. I don't regret it because I made friendships that I still cherish and I realize that I won't repeat the same mistake twice. Even though I never tell my family, it doesn't mean that I don't love them.

Only 99 Problems-Jayz vs. Enya by DJTP

There's only three weeks left in the semester. Then one more semester, maybe one more. Then off to life! Adult-life, how much I dread the thought of waking up at 6 am every morning. I guess the money will be enough motivation..

Airplanes vs. Nothin to Lose by DJTP

The Bulls are so exciting! Luol Deng definitely stepped it up this season. Joakim Noah made a lot of progress on D and on offense. DRose is sick. The passing and motion offense is a lot better than I thought. One more month until Booze!

Izzo by DJTP

I just listened to the beginning of this song and the door creaked open.. Halloween was two weeks ago..

Monday, November 1, 2010

Practice Take 7

"You can't let nobody take your heart from you. I didn't and I know I'm always going to work hard and nobody's going to tell me different." - James Johnson, talking about his role in helping the Bulls rally to beat the Pistons.

The Bulls look squeamishly good. Why squeamish? Because the motion offense they have involves them running around in circles and throwing up shots (brick) or having Rose use a pick-and-roll without a bonafide big man making the play selection dangerous. After Boozer comes back, everyone's numbers should increase. EXCITING!



It's quite funny how a Cubs bullpen catcher gets caught with over 8 pounds of weed, the British list alcohol as the most harmful drug, and Alan acts like a ruh-tard. Election Day is coming up and California is voting on Proposition 19 which could or could not lead the way to legalization of marijuana. Personally, I'm against the ratification of any legal marijuana. There is no reason why we should make a drug legal when it makes hundreds of thousands of people lazy and unmotivated. The proposed taxes and revenue California can gain does not outweigh the consequences. There's still a good chance that even if it is legalized, drug dealers will take it to the streets more readily with a likely age limit being placed. Prohibition failed, but that was due to the Roaring society and limited knowledge of the general population. Alcohol is still by far the bigger evil. One wrong cannot make another right. The synergistic capabilities of legal marijuana, alcohol, and tobacco will most likely wreak havoc for the first few months/years it is legal.



The Lions beat the Redskins. Wait what? Didn't they Skins beat the Bears last week? Of course the Skins would lose to a crappy team. They play up (or down) to their competition, as do the Bears. How aggravating is it that the Lions' running backs Kevin Smith and Jahvid Best each had 12 carries for about 50 yards and Stafford had 4 touchdowns and 1 interception? Very. I wish the Bears could utilize the running game with that shitty offensive line. OH YEAH! Forte and Taylor have no gaps to shoot through because of them. Can't blame Martz for going with mostly passing plays. But why plays that involve 7 step drops and having Cutler getting owned. Those cheeseheads caught up with our bye week, but hopefully Martz will realize the 3-/5-step drops with quick passes will be more effective and that Greg Olsen has pretty good hands for a tight-end/receiver.



Halloween is a good holiday. Not because of the boatloads of free candy given out to little children, or the skimpy outfits girls tend to wear, but because the good spirits people tend to be in. Even though it's original holiday may not have been all too great, people gather together to enjoy costumes. The only thing that I do not like about this year's Halloween is how some guys mistreat girls and that no one knows who the hell Pillsbury dough boy is! (A fat chef to the FOBs and a dough boy to the natives. Sheesh.)



The beginning of November is one to remember.
It may not be like December or even September.
October ended with a boo by who knows who.
Still, there's a lot to look forward to.
There's Thanksgiving break
with much sleep to take.
But best of all, everyone's gonna be burpy-
right after they eat their turkey!



Why did I write that? So bored! Lab report here I come!

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Take 4

OH NO! T-Mac to the Bulls? I am not for this at all, but it should be interesting. I'd much rather take him than James Johnson. This NBA offseason, however disappoint that LBJ, DWade, and Bosh went to the Heat, wasn't all that bad for the Bulls. Better than getting nobody like years before. (Jalen Rose!!!! not.) Eerily, the Bucks have just done what the Bulls spent 5 or 6 years trying to recover from - bad free agent pick ups. They managed to sign Gooden, Salmons, and Maggette all within weeks! Now, people might think them teamed up with Jennings, Bogut, CDR, Redd, and the rest of the gang that they have added good pieces. I think not. Gooden 8 years 8 teams. Salmons good after he's traded, but played terribly with the Bulls when Gordon left. Maggette is the biggest ball hog ever who seemed to polarize his teammates with his selfish play. I applaud Milwaukee because now the Bulls have less competition to win the Central.

Thank you Mother Nature for taking a piss on the Chicagoland area in 1 night. I guess it was bound to happen since it was sunny and 90s for several weeks without a drop of rain. 6" at O'Hare and 10" down by Oakbrook.

Inception was by far the best mind fuck I have ever endured. Even before watching movies, I loved to dream knowing that it was never reality, but fantasy. I can't wait for the next adventurous dream. Leo does a great acting job. Cannot forget how pretty Juno looked. Joseph Gordon-Levitt - can't wait for the next G.I. Joe knowing that he can do action scenes. But I really do want people to stop with the "I need a totem" or the train riddle or even just saying "How do you know you're not dreaming?" If people can't differentiate between fantasy and reality, they belong in the psych ward.

Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are. Good song, and now the bar for guys just went up.

Let's be clear- I am in no way a communist, fascist, or socialist. I have capitalistic views. I would say I'm more of a centrist. A perfect balance is needed. Now, I'm not looking up facts for this rant and have no grounds to support it except my memory and what I do know are to be facts. So I'm going to pose the question - What if America as well as the rest of the world is going down the road to Marx's communism. How? Well here goes my attempt at a conspiracy theory while being beyond bored.

-300 years of war. Since the inception of the US started from a revolution, it could mark the first year of the war. The US has fought in wars, even without necessarily being directly involved, in almost every decade of the nation's history. The Iraq and Afghan wars have continued with no clear aims of knowing how to end the war. I do think that the US intends to keep these wars going in case any hostile actions arise between us and Iran. It is tactically advantageous for us to be within striking distance of the country we started. Oops, but that's a different story. Now say we do start a world war with them, that would mean it would start about 250 years after the birth of the US. It is likely that the citizens of the US would be very unhappy that a war could have even started and try to overthrow the government. (The Roman Republic failed as well due to similar reasons and the Roman Empire began.) Let's say citizens do revolt, it would mean a revolution. (Thank you, France for your revolutionary ways.) Down the road it would take years to stabilize a new government controlling the people. Now based on the past and the greedy ways of corporations, a possible new form of government could be some idealistic "communist" government treating all people fairly with the destruction of social classes, which would be the truest form of communism to date. (North Korea, Cuba, and China do not count as communist. They're socialists.) I guess Karl Marx had some kind of crazy vision. There is a 99% chance that this will never happen, but this is what happens when you get bored on a Sunday afternoon.

Now that my Mexican food craze is coming to an end, it is only fitting that I continue with ethnic food. I tried Indian food the other day and it is AMAZING!!!!! more to post later

time to go bowling!

-Allen

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Take 3

I guess I'm blogging only once a week - every Thursday around noon.

I'm listening to Curren$y - Breakfast (In & Out). Man, I'm digging the jazzy background with some rap. Today's rap is evolving by by blending with different genres. Lil Wayne's rock album? (Haha Rebirth was so bad..) All these new songs with a techno/trance beat? (Flo Rida especially! Club Can't Handle Me!!) Now jazz? Don't get me wrong, these songs aren't bad. Just taking note.

The BP leak is dragging. Another leak in another attempt to cap the well? WTF! Let's get this shit over with. Almost 3 months now.. I know it isn't an easy fix, but 3 months? My guess is that there's only one worker and he's writing ideas down on a piece of paper and drawing the "best" one out of a hat. That or the fact that drilling thousands of feet underwater with tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands of oil gushing out with incredible force just makes it kind of hard to fix, just a little bit.

Got Kid Cudi ft. Rostam Batmanglij & Bethany Cosentino - All Summer stuck in my head. Pretty chill ass song. I could see potheads liking it too, since it is Kid Cudi..

It's been a week since Lebitch owned Cleveland on ESPN. Some have already handed Miami the Larry O'Brien Trophy; others claim the Lakers are still the team to beat. I, for one, do not want to see the 'Bigger 3' getting any rings for the next few years. But, did anyone not watch the finals? Boston did stretch it out and even had a lead throughout Game 7. The Lakers aren't invincible. But then again, it could've been rigged so there was a Game 7 no matter what with the best team winning in the final game regardless of the 82 plus games prior to that game.

Trey Songz ft. Nicki Minaj - Bottoms Up. Damn her voice is so sexy.

The Bulls suddenly got better. Hopefully Orlando doesn't sign Redick's offer sheet. We'd have a stacked rotation. Rose, Redick, Deng, Boozer, and Noah as starters with Taj, James Johnson, Korver, Asik, and whoever else we sign (Brewer? BMiller?) coming off the bench. We just need that top notch defender, including Thib's defensive schemes, which would put us into the top 4 for at least the next few years.

Huey ft. Lil Wayne - Another Planet. Catchy song. I hope it goes on the radio

Either way, next year is going to be a great year of basketball. Can't wait.

Rick Ross ft. Diddy & Trey Songz - No. 1. I think I found a new workout song. Not really a good song, but motivation to keep working out. I'll take it.

FUCK VOTTO! 15 homers against the Cubs so that means 7 homers against everyone else he played. Doesn't that mean he's overrated and just a Cub killer when it comes to homers? Can't wait for Cashner to drill his ass!

Yeah that's pretty much it for today. I'll think of a new title for the blog. Seems kinda stupid haha

-Allen

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Take 2

Today is finally the day! Lebron-a-thon 9pm ET on ESPN. I think more Americans are going to watch that than the World Cup final on Sunday. Sad that garbage news is more exciting than the biggest game for the biggest sport in the world. Well, it'd probably more exciting if Lebron had made it seem like he wanted to go to Da Bulls. If only those garbage years by Reinsdorf and Krause didn't turn off so many players.. Well plus one for Bulls management for getting Boozer.

Kudos to the Cubs for finally getting a sweep one week before the All Star break. One more sweep and we're right back in it. Hopefully Ramirez can keep it up! (Knock on wood)

Spain vs Netherlands. I'm gonna root for Spain but hope that Netherlands keeps it close. This cup was crazy this year.

In the past, I've never been too political or cared much for politics. Lately, I've been reading more political blogs and independent news outlets. Man, the shit the media tells us really fucks with your head. If you're a Republican, Fox News doesn't tell the truth. If you're a Democrat, CNN or MSNBC forget to tell you the important minor details. Most of it's about money and less about the importance of current events. Otherwise, we'd hear more about underreported amount of oil after the BP leak or how the unemployment bill was put off or even about Noriega getting 7 years for being a terrible dictator. Interesting picture I found online. It's skewed since it says "as low as 15%" which implie it could be around 25% as well, but I guess that's up to the person. To put it in perspective, why should the bourgeoisie who make about 20 times more than the average American pay less taxes than more than 97% of the country? At the same time we have the proletariats struggling to survive this second Great Depression. When the pursuit of happiness denies basic privileges for the working class, capitalism has exceeded its moral boundaries.


Denny's has the best drunk food. The $2-$4-$6-$8 value menu gets you the most bang for the buck. But for people who want to try something new, try the Santa Fe skillet or the Ultimate skillet. Diced potatoes, grilled onions, mushrooms, and peppers, two eggs of your choice, and either chorizo or breakfast sausage depending on which one you choose. Don't forget to add hot sauce!

Big Boi (Follow Us, Hustle Blood, and Tangerine) and Enrique Iglesias (I Like It, Heartbeat, Dirty Dancer, and One Day At A Time) have pretty good songs out. Bring back Outkast!

Rick Ross - Live Fast, Die Young (ft. Kanye West)

If Lebron goes to Miami, all i gotta say to the Heat: