Never Apologize For Partying Lawrence
Not too much going on today, patiently waiting for the beginning of the MLB season, very anxious for more tournament action starting tomorrow night, and I guess there’s the NBA. But who really cares about the NBA. And then there’s been the 6 month wait for the fantasy baseball draft (this sunday). If you like fantasy sports and think you’ve got the dedication to stick with it, I would really recommend it. Relies a little less on luck and matchups (read: fantasy football is a giant crapshoot) and a little more on manager skill. Its the coolest. So, for now I’m resorting to a token post that should hopefully hold me over until tomorrow when there will actually be something good to discuss.
Opening thoughts: as a huge Kansas basketball fan, the exodus of Jacob Pullen and the will he/won’t he stories about Mike Anderson “possibly” leaving for Arkansas are awesome, because undefeated conference regular season records are my favorite. But as a college basketball/Big 12 fan, (along with Texas’ really crappy loss to a less talented team in Arizona) its tough to see the conference taking this many hits in one week. Pullen really turned his season around and became one of the best players in America, not to mention he was thoroughly enjoyable to watch. His reaction at the post game press conference after the Wisconsin loss was pretty difficult to watch, and really illustrated the kind of passion and fire he had for the game. Anderson turned around the Missouri program and brought it back to semi-relevance (although, the higher-ups at Missouri will have to explain to me how 2 straight seasons of double digit loses and finishing in the middle of the pack of the conference warrants a 500K pay raise to 2 Mil a year). And until Dick Barnes did his usual post-season crapping-on of another absurdly talented team, the Longhorns seemed like an under-seeded, but totally legitimate title contender. Things really changed in only a week, but I expect the conference to carry on, even if it may be a little bit down next season in comparison to this one.
The good stuff: on the unintentional funny scale (not funny to funny) this article from espn.com is funny. LT\’s Prostitution Woes Never, ever apologize for partying Lawrence. I think we can all take a lot from this situation and think about just what it means to party. This HOF linebacker is willing to sacrifice his marriage, as well as the comforts of a relatively normal personal life, on behalf of partying. This is dedication, and sends a message to all of us that we, as fellow partiers, seriously need to reconsider what it really takes to get to that next level of partying. Well done LT, your an inspiration to us all. Thoughts on the article itself. Lawrence seems to confirm the many suspicions about the world of prositution when he lets us know “you never know what your going to get.” Fantasy football, prostitution…hey man, its all a crap shoot.
Now as promised (but more of a space filler than anything), here is some of the music thats been playing on my iPod the last few weeks
Most of the songs on the new Chris Brown album, see previous post for information on those
International Love, Pitbull and Chris Brown. Pitbull really just sucks, but its a nice cameo by Chris, good beat, generally fun song.
No Russian Hands, Mashup of Basshunter’s Russian Privjet and Waka’s No Hands. No Hands is admittedly starting to get pretty old, but it’s a mashup that really works. You have to let it build for about 40 seconds, and then Roscoe comes in and its all kinds of awesome.
Lover Like You Remix, Jodie Connor, Maxsta and Benz. Good Times, Roll Deep & Jodie Connor. Both songs are from are brethren across the Atlantic (the accents in each song are decidedly British) and both are a little bit girly, but solid songs to break out at a party nonetheless. Lover Like You (the more I type out “Lover Like You”, the softer I feel) has a decidedly spring-summerish feel to it, and Connor has a nice voice. Credit goes out to my buddy, Bradford Wiedeman for Good Times. He showed it to me last summer and I kind of shrugged it off, but rediscovered it a while back and it’s not bad.
Grand Hustle Kings and Higher. Both songs are from Bobby Ray’s most recent mixtape No Genre. Higher is a better song for chilling, whereas Grand Hustle Kings goes pretty hard, and is definitely one of my favorite songs from the last couple months. T.I. and Young Dro make nice appearances on it as well, and the song uses a unique sample from the theme to 70’s sitcom Sanford & Song to set the tone.
Deuces Remix, Chris Brown and Keri Hilson. This is different one from the much more subdued version featuring Drake and the gang. This song is very upbeat, gets people moving, and is a nice take on the original.
My Last, Big Sean and Chris Brown. Not really too much to be said about this song. Chris does a great job with the hook (probably too much Chris on this list) and Sean gives off a few passable verses. Good song to break out for any kind of situation really.
Little Bad Girl, Taio Cruz and David Guetta. This one is a little bit more difficult to find on the YouTube circuit, but once you do, its worth it. Good party song.
Price Tag, Jessie J and B.o.B. Love this, also one of the more feminine selections on the list. This song screams summer.
Backseat, New Boyz. This one was produced by The Cataracs. Good for parties. Nuff said.
E.T., Katy Perry and Kanye. This song rocks, Kanye manages to fit in pretty well and Katy is just awesome. Im getting pretty lazy with my explanations. For the 0.5% of you who haven’t heard this song, go get it right now.
Champion Remix, Chipmunk, Chris Brown and J. Cole. Last Chris Brown song, promise. Chipmunk is another British artist, who went with a very unique moniker to establish street cred among his fans. Personally, I think squirrel would have worked a lot better (getting pretty lazy with the jokes here). Good song, I guess its best purpose is to serve as motivation. Good song to use for the next time you go for a run or lift, since you’ve been meaning to do that for a while now, but just haven’t gotten around to it.
Pass Out, Tinie Tempah. Pretty old song, but rediscovered it a few weeks ago. Everything about this jam is great. This guy is huge in Britain (I have absolutely no clue whats going on the with all the songs from England on here, apologies to Greg Reintjes), and is slowly starting to gain a following in America.
This last one is courtesy of Scott Kennedy. Teenage Dream Accoustic Version, Boyce Avenue. AWESOME take on the song. Also a little bit girly you could say, but I feel OK saying this version needs to be on peoples iPods a.s.a.p.
I could probably put a few more songs on here, but I don’t really feel like it. Its been raining all day and it seems to make me apathetic towards just about everything. Any music suggestions, please comment or shoot me an e-mail. Will be posting picks on tomorrow nights games sometime tomorrow afternoon. Also will be taking an in-depth look at the question of “If you could have one media guy, play-by-play person, etc narrate your life as its happening, who would it be?” The easy answer, of course, would be Gus Johnson, but I’ll try to get a little more creative than that. See you guys tomorrow, and in the words of Veronica Corningstone, thanks for stopping by.
JayWalking33 
You asked for music suggestions. I’m not going to give you any music suggestions, although I will give you a suggestion about music…Stop listing your music tastes on your blog. This is only an acceptable thing to do if your music taste is relatively unique, while your music taste consists of awful, top-40 bullshit, that is expected from a Villanova asshole. No one cares about Chris Brown, Pit Bull, Waka Flocka, or any other shitty music that you were introduced to by a DTD party. It completely discredits anything you have to say about anything, and personally, it will lose you readers. The reason I’m not listing my name, is because I am in your economics class, and I don’t want to make things awkward. But heed my advice, no one with any type of decent musical taste listens to Chris Brown, nevermind reads a 40-page review of his shitty album.