murs is coming back to australia!

in rotation: murs - the end of the beginning

following the release of his first major label album 'murs for president', murs of living legends fame, will be touring down under in the upcoming months. personally, murs is easily one of my favourite emcees so this is gigantic news for me. when i was in berkeley a year or two ago, i happened to catch murs at an in-store signing at amoeba records. it was a pretty big deal to me not only because murs is one of my heroes, but also because in australia we just don't get the same sort or frequency of hip-hop shows that other countries do. nevertheless, it was dope. murs rocked the mic right in front of a packed out record store. it was amazing. when i got the chance to chat to him, he was mad humble and down-to-earth. he even signed a copy of 'murray's revenge' for me (see below). my point? go see murs!


oaf touring and trentslingshot presents murs with scott burns and dj ology on saturday 10th of january at spectrum. get your tickets here. murs rules the world.

for those that have yet to be introduced to the wonderful artist that is murs, here are some clips which might shed some light on what you are missing out on.


murs feat john cena - h.u.s.t.l.e. (remix)


murs - l.a.


murs - can it be (half a million dollar and eighteen months later)

lebron soars past the hawks

still in rotation: john legend - evolver

i've always been on lebrons nuts. i don't care what the haters say, the man is a beast. in a 110 - 96 victory over the hawks, lebron finished with a line of 24 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists, plus two filthy crams shown below. this is why i think lebron could be the m.v.p. this season.


lebron stuffs it on evans


lebron dunking left

before i go i will leave you with two clips from last week - a nice kevin durant throwdown and a filthy al thornton two-handed block on maggette.


durant's huge righty jam


thornton block maggette

oh yeah and for the record i'm still fucking cut about the whole vince carter reverse alley oop with 2.1 seconds left o.t. loss. that game was easily one of the worst losses in raptors history... and i can think of a lot more.

the bad guy wins again

in rotation: john legend - evolver

i just got done watching the raptors lose a game they were in control of the whole way to the nets in ot on a vince carter reverse alley oop dunk. the score was 129-127. i have to say vince always wins these battles. i don't know, i'm feeling numb. vince torched the 4th and ot. i'm pretty sure he went for 12 straight at one point. that 3 he hit to send it into ot was bananas. the raps had it in the palm of their hands pretty much the whole game til vince really stepped in. vince went for 39, 9 and 6. i want to smack that look off vince's face on that last play. jose had 26 and 15, bosh had 42 and 9, and andrea had a career-high 29 and 10. j.o. went out with an injury and is currently waiting an update. i hope he is okay. i can't quite describe this feeling. both bosh's and parker's shots were amazing in overtime but damn, the last time i truly felt this horrible was in game 6 of round 1 2006 playoffs when the nets eliminated the raps. i feel violated. see below.


vince strikes again

old people rock!

in rotation: elton john - rocket man: the definitive hits

this is the funniest fucking thing i've seen in a while. this crazy old senior adult choir cover everything from eminem to andre 3000 to pussycat dolls to mc hammer. the funniest shit is when they start singing nelly's hot in herre and actually start taking their robes off. imagine your grandparents singing this shit.


seniors doing their damn thang

sheed is the man!

in rotation: little brother - the listening

how can anyone hate sheed? listen closely to this clip and you will see how awesome he is.


sheed being awesome

the monaco bar's triumphant return!

in rotation: pigeon john - and the summertime pool party

the monaco bar is back. that is right! i said it! for those that don't know, shame on you! the monaco bar is the original ice-cream sandwich. monaco bars were one of my favourite ice-creams back in the day. somewhere along the way though, they just got taken off the market.

a while back, i was craving the delicious taste of this incredible ice-cream, so i drove around from servo to servo looking for a monaco bar. unfortunately that's when i realised it was never going to happen. i was heartbroken and any true disciple of the bar that is monaco will tell you that the maxibon shit just don't cut it. after driving around for about an hour, i gave up and went home to do a bit of research. below is an extract taken from one blog which sheds appropriate light on the issue.

"the monaco bar was the adult's ice-cream bar long before anything like streets' magnum or nestlé peters' heaven were available and it had the gold wrapper and higher price to prove it. sometime before 2002, the international food and beverage company nestlé acquired peters ice cream in every state of Australia except western australia, where the trademark was owned by peters and brownes, now fonterra brands australia (p&b) pty ltd. as a result many of the products produced under the peters brand were lost in eastern states, including the much loved monaco bar. nestlé australia explains that while the monaco bar had a loyal following, declining sales had forced them to cease production. whether or not monaco's popularity in the eastern parts of australia was low, it is still produced by fonterra/p&b in western australia under the name giant sandwich."

so with all that being said, after much hardship and turmoil, the monaco bar is back! i have yet to try the 2008 version but have big plans to make tonight the night. apparently the new monaco bar is bigger and also more expensive. some forum wanderers have explicitly said that the new monaco bar is not like the old one at all, claiming the biscuit is much harder. others have claimed that the new monaco bar is just as fantastic as it was before.

although i am hoping that my first monaco bar experience in a few years is not that of a disappointing one, i am just grateful that the monaco bar has returned to the forefront.

the moral of the story? let's not take the monaco bar for granted this time.

a step forward?

in rotation: panacea - a mind on a ship through time

before i start rambling nba jibberish, i have to say that it feels pretty darn strange to have finally finished my undergraduate degree. that's right, i sat my last exam of my course yesterday afternoon. i'm so relieved that it's all over. in saying that, i have decided that for an unknown period of time, i will be dedicating my life entirely to nba, xbox 360, tv shows, movies, basketball, writing, freestyling, reading, chilling and so forth. for how ever long this period is, i will simply be...

anyways, for those that haven't seen the clip from yesterday's pistons/suns games where shaq absolutely clobbers stuckey on a drive to the basket, here it is. shaq was ejected for this foul. it looks pretty bad. i wouldn't wish a clobbering from shaq on my worst enemy.

shaq clobbers stuckey

"they were the worst rebounding team in the league and they outrebounded us by 17," heat guard dwyane wade said, "so we can blame ourselves."

so the raps advanced to a 5-4 record with a win over the heat yesterday. we started the big three of j.o., bargs and cb4, and it looked pretty good. i remember hearing talks during the preseason that they were going to try this out and i was a bit skeptical. nevertheless, they were all pretty amazing. really though, bargnani is looking so much better than last season. he's aggressive inside, playing great d, and hitting his shots with confidence. how about jermaine with the double double! j.o. had 18 rebounds and some incredible blocks! the sequence where o'neal blocked marion then kapono hit the open 3 in transition, was crazy sick. you have to love it! cb4 was just his usual self. bosh had 27 points on the night. with jose out with a hamstring injury, solomon ran the show and actually did pretty well finishing with 15 points and 11 assists. even humphries was getting his hustle on. i especially liked the general, cool, calm play in the 4th. overall, i was quite pleased with the way the raps played yesterday. check out two of bosh's dunks below, as well as jermaine's crazy sick blocks.

damn it's so good to have nba back in my life.

bosh's dunk

bosh's second dunk

jermaine's block

jermaine's second block and kapono's three