A paper on Plato and Homer has taken up my time, so much so that I was avoiding watching Heroes and the Phoenix/Spurs game to try and finish up. I was able to miss Heroes comfortably due to the wonders of bittorent, but the Suns game was another matter. I checked the score a few times, but when the 4th quarter started, I caved, and knew that I had to watch in case Phoenix made an epic comeback. And lo and behold, they did, thanks to some amazing Steve Nash magic. But Robert Horry, out of frustration, slammed Nash into the announcer’s table, which sparked off a tense standoff, and also included Amare and Boris Diaw making moves to come off the bench to the floor – this might get them both suspended for game 5. If they aren’t, then I like Phoenix chances – just need to win two of the next three games, with home court advantage.
Another bonus to tuning in tonight was that Shaq was a guest on the TNT Inside the NBA show, to join Charles Barkley (the possible future governor of Alabama!) in providing colour commentary. It was predictably hilarious, but one thing stuck out – they had a photoshopped image of Shaq’s head on Raphael’s famous painting School of Athens, which depicts Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, and many other ancient greek thinkers in the forum. This is because one of Shaq’s many nicknames is “The Big Aristotle”. However, they put Shaq’s head on Plato’s body, not Aristotle’s! Strange that they would do the research to make that clever connection, and then not get it quite right as to who is who.
Two indisputable bits of proof on how Pitchfork is retarded:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/16385-shut-up-you-fucking-baby
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/16386-its-not-funny
But David Cross gets his hilarious revenge:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/10279-guest-list-david-cross-albums-to-listen-to-while-reading-overwrought-pitchfork-reviews
Tomorrow night - !!! concert/date! I’ve talked about their latest album Myth Takes before…and I’m real excited to see how their live show holds up (their first show at Coachella in 2004 was a large part of their buzz).
1 comment:
nice one. man, if only David Cross wrote reviews for pitchforkmedia ALL the time....it would make that site worth reading....eg."Let its volcanic rapture overwhelm you like a 19th century hand-woven blanket made of human hair might have done back in the days when they enjoyed such things." Seriously, this is such great revenge.
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