NBA Playoffs Rapidly Approaching-Going to Miss Nash

It is coming up on my favorite part of the year. The time of year when the NBA Playoffs begin. These last few weeks of the season have been very exciting, with teams still jostling for playoff position. The top 3 teams in the east, Bulls, Heat, and Celtics are only separated by three games. Personally I don't have an allegiance to one team, I've kind of grown up just enjoying any good basketball game. I was introduced to basketball at the age of 2 and have been hooked ever since. My favorite players have been Steve Nash and Amare Stoudemire ever since their years together on the Phoenix Suns. It was a big let down for me when Amare left Phoenix this last summer for the glitz and glam of New York City, but I understand why he moved on and have to say it has been very exciting living in the same city one of your favorite players is playing for. After bringing Carmelo Anthony in late February, the city certainly has been buzzing for New York Knicks basketball for the first time since probably the 1994-1995 seasons when Jordan retired for baseball.
Last season the Phoenix Suns made a great run through the playoffs and made it very exciting for me to root for Nash and Stoudemire, but this year that excitement will be missing. Nash has been my favorite player to watch for almost a decade and I even based my own basketball game off of his. It will be sad for me to watch the playoffs this year without Nash present. The Suns have fallen out of the playoff picture and despite making it to Western Conference Finals last year, they have all ready been eliminated as a playoff team.
Nash isn't getting any younger, at 36 years old, he continues to defy his old age and still play at an incredible level, while still makes his teammates around him shine. Sure the Suns might be out of the playoffs, and not nearly be the team they were a year ago with Stoudemire, but Nash still managed to lead the league in assists this year for the fifth time in seven years. I still think of Nash as being the best offensive point guard in the game, the way he plays the game is unmatched by anyone else in the league, even the chris paul's of the league. The one bright point is that it seems the Suns are finally realizing that Nash probably will need to move on from his franchise player role in Phoenix and help a contender bring a championship home, only question is where will that be; New York, Miami, Dallas, we'll find out this summer.


john

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Being Disconnected

So to make an incredibly long boring story shorter I just recently went 5 weeks with no cell phone (not by my choice), and it definitely gave me a totally different look at how things would be if I didn't carry my usual smartphone device.
I have to say that being "disconnected" for those 5 weeks was not all bad. I initially thought that it would be hell, because i'm thinking to myself, "how will I check sports scores when i'm out? How will I keep up to date with what's going on? How will i respond to emails? All these things passed through my head, but ultimately it just hit me that having a phone that can do all that was a major luxury and not a necessity no matter how much I thought it was. It was weird not having a phone, suddenly instead of me texting people and being "connected" to everyone that had my number, I all of sudden was out of touch, people had to work to get in touch with me, which I must say was nice. I would show up at my dorm room after class and have about 5-6 messages on Facebook of people asking me to call them. When I was home for spring break, people had to call my house phone! Yes my landline at my house! I know some people that don't even know their own landline numbers anymore because people just never use them. So after that 5 week period passed I picked up a brand new HTC Thunderbolt and this phone literally is the complete opposite of not having a device. This thing syncs my Facebook and Twitter into one and updates them constantly. It is truly amazing, but not having a device for that long of time was definitely strange but also very cool to experience because it had been so long since I had been disconnected. Like I said, the only advantage is that people have to reach out to you, you do a lot less work finding plans and kind of just get pulled into plans. I must say, it was nice.

Timeless Music

Today's music is without a doubt very different from music 50 years ago, or even 15 years ago for that matter. The age of "pop rap" is upon us and offers poorly constructed lyrics with a catchy beat and chorus. Don't get me wrong some music put out today is great, there are some truly great musicians out there, but do you think the music that is being put out right now will survive the test of time similarly to lets say The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, or the Rolling Stones? I really hope everyone just answered "no" in their heads. The artists I just listed are among the legends of rock n roll and music in general, Bob Dylan's second album, first album with 100% all original songs, "The Freewheelin Bob Dylan," which did I mention is a classic, featured such songs as "Blowin In the Wind,"(which was famously written by Dylan in just ten minutes), "Don't Think Twice It's Alright," and "Girl From The North Country," all make up this great album that was released in May of 1963, and did I mention Dylan wrote it when he was at the just so tender age of 22, truly amazing.
I really feel that 60's and 70's era was THE era of music, THE era of pure expression through art. That is why you see these amazing artists last 30, 40, even 50 years, and surviving generation after generation. The crazy fact is when our parent's (the baby boom generation) are old and grey they will be playing classics like The Beatles "Hey Jude" or Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man," and thirty years later much of our generation will be too.

john

Back From A Short Break

hello all, back from spring break..very relaxing time

Bob Dylan and Joan Baez

Doing Their Own Thing..But People Continue To Hate On Them

so recently two people who have been in the news and just been getting bad mouthed is of course charlie sheen, the loud mouthed, drug addict, who did i mention is hilarious in two and half men. the other guy who i think gets alot of flack that he doesnt deserve is everyone's favorite boy toy justin beiber..haha alot of people will question me on that one but if you look at it the two people are quite similar. both are just living there life like they want to doing what makes them happy. now for bieber that is singing girly songs and attracting girls as young as 11 and as old as 27, sheen is doing the same, just what he loves, which in his case happens to be drugs, hookers, booze, ect..basically his character from two and half men has passed through to reality. anyway i dont understand how people can criticize these folks, when they are clearly happy with things, if you want to criticize sheen for spending thousands of dollars on drugs and hookers, go ahead, if you wanna call bieber a "bitch" and make fun of him for prancing around on stage, fine do it, but realize bieber is prob making more money this year than you will in the next 10 and sheen is just being sheen, so remember this the next time you're about to do something stupid or lame, would you want people judging you..i think not