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The trade for Crawford was in hopes of finally getting some bench scoring. Too many games this season has seen the Dubs get an early lead, Jackson put in the second team and the second team proceed to lose the lead. Same goes with at the end of the game, Warriors work their way to a blow out, second team is put in, suddenly it's a game again and the starters are back in. Defensively I think Jackson is suspect with some of his substitution choices(leaving Bogut on the bench at odd times and not playing Draymond enough) but I think the second team's inability to score is currently the team's biggest problem.

The Vampire Diaries(outside of the pilot episode) is filmed in Georgia actually. That said Nina Dobrev is hot and Canadian.

So I watched Mission: Impossible 2 today on Netflix. Going into it I had to say I had a hard time remembering anything about it because I couldn't remember anyone actually ever commenting on it and I don't actually remember actually seeing a commercial for it when it came out. Like I remember the first one being a huge deal and I remember the third one(which I haven't seen either) because of JJ Abrams and Katie Holmes but the second one I just didn't seem to know anything about it. The Tom Cruise climbing sequence at the beginning at least refreshed my memory that it was the one with the nu-metal soundtrack but didn't help much more than that. I did learn from the credit sequence that it was directed by John Woo which I'm not sure if it would have mattered much to me when it came out. I don't think I saw Hard Boiled till I was in college. Anyway, I'm not sure what the general opinion of the movie is but I have to say for a dated action film I kinda loved it. The plot was pretty basic and straight forward, the cinematic choices for me were so over the top that they actually went from absurd to fun, and the convoluted action sequence setups looked so bad that I didn't mind them.

Might be an odd question but if I wanted to get into the current Deadpool series through the past series what would be the essential reading? I figure with Marvel Unlimited I might as well look into it.

Comixology is having a pretty big 99 cents Valiant sale at the moment. Unlike the majority of the sales it requires the promo code "Valiant" when you're checking out. It seems to cover everything Valiant on the site except the newest releases which are still $3.99.

So how long have I been missing the existence of the NBA Game Time app on PS3? Having the TV version of LP already means that it doesn't have much use for live games but it's a god send for watching the archived games. So much more convenient than running the video feed to my TV from my laptop/phone/tablet.

I'd just like to completely blame my being in third place for forgetting to update my starters on Saturday. ONLY REASON.

I love how the television media can quickly turn you from feeling bad about a tragedy to simply being disgusted by what we call news.

I'm not sure what it says but I think this is probably the first famous person's death that has really resulted in an emotional feeling from me.

I'm on the fence when it comes to a new phone. From a price/benchmark perspective it seems like the Nexus 5, G2, or Xperia Z1 would be the logical choices. (I'm a T-Mobile user.) Yet at the same time I never find myself feeling that my phone is slow(I'm a Nexus 4 owner), that I need a bigger screen, or that my camera isn't good enough. In fact the only thing that probably ever slightly bothers me is battery life which still isn't a deal breaker for me with my Nexus 4. Really as a large tech specs just don't excite or do much for me anymore, which means that the only phone that is really speaking to me is the Moto X. But even with the price drop to $499, I just don't know if there's enough there for me spend money on a new phone when I really don't need one. I imagine I'll probably wait and see what state the Nexus 4 is in after Kit Kat is officially released for it and the dev-community has some time to play around with it.

Klay Thompson is playing out of his mind.

Apparently the only people who were looking more forward to the basketball season than fans were advertising agencies.

The Voice doesn't push itself as an amateur competition and if anything tends to play up that a lot of the contestants have had some degree of past success. While the judges often time have no clue who the contestants are, they pretty much always mention it in the pre-performance video packages.

The Voice doesn't push itself as an amateur competition and if anything tends to play up that a lot of the contestants have had some degree of past success. While the judges often time have no clue who the contestants are, they pretty much always mention it in the pre-performance video packages.

I'm wondering if I should be worried that someone in power at ESPN is going watch an episode of Highly Questionable.

Buying the contents of the Starter Bundle individually with the 99 cents sale would save someone $9.20

Comixology is having a pretty big 99 cents pre-Unity sale for Valiant. It's both a good starter and catch up point. Does make me regret the two Archer & Armstrong issues that I purchased last weekend though.

It wasn't horrible. I honestly had no clue what the show was going be about till a week or two ago. When I heard they were making a "Sleepy Hollow" series I just assumed that it was going be a period piece. Apparently it did good in the overnight ratings even though outside of a likable male lead it didn't seem to bring much to the table that a million cancelled Fox genre shows didn't also.

Hawkeye #11 is so amazing. I know I'm really behind but I honestly can't think of a comic in recent memory that I read was that awesome.

So I've been playing catch up getting ready for the new season, this meant getting to the last three episodes of last season's Person of Interest. The first episode was kinda meh but boy the last two episodes of the season were so great. So many really great moments and really left the show with one big question mark for the third season's status. Crazy to think of Sarah Shahi going from Fairly Legal to this.

I'd imagine Tiger Woods, the Williams sisters, minority hockey players, and black football players playing quarterback in the NFL might have issue with the idea of sports being universal. That said as many of us have said, it's not so much what Miley did, it's what Miley did poorly. If Rihanna came out next year in a tutu and did ballet poorly I'm certain that she would get a backlash from it. But I think it's important to say that the majority of the Miley backlash isn't racially charged and more of a "save the children" reaction. Before the VMAs the media was reacting to Miley exactly the same way, simply about her mentioning "Molly" in the song instead. All the VMAs did was change the subject of the uproar which considering her newest song release was an obviously calculated move. And yes, race and culture are really overrated ideas in 2013 which we probably would all get along better if we spent less time clinging to them.

I think the black/rap/urban thing comes from the constant talk about her twerking, which has been going on for years, but one little white girl does it and it is now trendy. It is kind of like rock music, I've often argued with people that The Isley Brothers are the best rock band of all time. People always look at me and say, "That's not a rock band." It's because as a society we can't even fathom a black band is a rock band despite the fact that rock music was invented by black people. The racism that people feel about her twerking has almost nothing to do with her twerking, it is the fact that her twerking, poorly by the way, is now a topic of conversation. When Luke's dancers were twerking all over the place, not only would MTV never dream of showing it, nobody thought it was worth talking about. Miley Cyrus is to twerking as Christopher Columbus is to America. She didn't discover that shit, there were people doing that shit for years. Well it does seem to be the normal cycle of things. You have a piece of black culture that is then adopted by a subset of white culture which is eventually makes it when into mainstream American culture which results in a backlash by both black and white cultures. That said if Miley had simply done it well or simply left it to backup dancers we'd have a lot shorter thread. Hell if they had simply had Iggy Azalea do the "white girl twerking with black backup dancers twerking" we would have had a totally different conversation. The mainstream media could have simply continued to be outraged over the "Molly" reference instead of moving on to "twerking." In the end "We Can't Stop" isn't a bad song nor is it a bad video. The video is highly derivative but fun, much like Thicke's "Blurred Lines" and "Give It 2 U", and because it's Miley Cyrus gets more airplay than videos in the style it borrows from, which is usually how the mainstream works.

Oh hey this thread is still going on. Am I the only person that really sees Miley as more subverting hipster/party culture than black culture? Really it seems much more a stab at the kind of stuff you'd get from Mad Decent artists than anything you'd get from black/rap/urban culture. If you look at the "We Can't Stop" video it seems like someone found an "indie hip-hop/rap" video blueprint and used it to plan the video.

So I'm thinking it's safe to say that I'm a lot better at the box office list than the RT list.

The VMAs simply aren't about "popular" music, they're about "mainstream" music and right now "popular" and "mainstream" are on two pretty different wavelengths. Kendrick Lamar was on the VMAs and I would say he's popular but at the same time I'm sure lots and lots of people watching the VMAs had no clue who he was. I think we're at the point where Google/YouTube/Vevo/Whatever probably should try introducing their own award show. Maybe Fuse can go in with them on it since all they have at the moment is re-airing the MuchMusic award show. They can try to find a balance between the VMAs and the mtvU Woodie Awards.