Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
KANYE WEST - Champion
haha! Tsy nisy nanampo.
Kanye West "Champion Video" Official Directed by NEON from nabil elderkin on Vimeo.
Monday, August 4, 2008
COLDPLAY - Viva La Vida
Title: Viva La Vida
Artist: COLDPLAY
Album: Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
Directed by Hype Williams
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Friday, July 11, 2008
MIYAVI - Selfish Love
Miyavi's a musician from Japan. Here's an interview if you want to know more about him.
This song is called Selfish Love. I don't have a clue about the lyrics but the guitar style is kick ass!!! haha
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Monday, June 2, 2008
BUSTA RHYMES ft. LINKIN PARK - We Made It
This song is the theme of this year's NBA Conference Finals. You can see Lamar Odom, Los Angeles Lakers' forward, in the video!(2:08) YEAH!!
Check out TNT introductions of Game 1 and Game 2 of the Lakers vs Spurs series on JD2K.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Kaba Modern
A group of Filipino hip hop dancers. The cutest of the girls is Korean though, and the other two are Japanese and Chinese! But who cares as long as they're asians, haha!
Check out this vid, it's pretty cool (at 1:05).
Friday, May 30, 2008
LAKERS TO THE FINALS!
Ayy!! They did it man! Not only the Lakers beat the defending champs, the San Antonio Spurs, the team that defeated the Suns and the Hornets, but Kobe and his crew did it in only five games!!! Now they're heading to the NBA Finals... Unbelievable. It feels good to be the West champs, but as Kobe said after the game, "the real season starts now!"
I'm pretty confident about those Lakers right now, no matter which of Boston or Detroit they will match up against next week. Kobe won't let them waste that chance. Finish the job! GO LAKERS!!!
Thursday, May 29, 2008
KANYE WEST - Flashing Lights (3rd Video)
Don't really feel this last one.
Title: Flashing Lights
Artist: Kanye West
Album: Graduation
N.E.R.D. - Everyone Nose (Video)
This is the awesomest vid I've seen in a while. Very much like "Lap Dance." Right, GIRLS GONE WILD!!!!
Title: Everyone Nose
Artist: N.E.R.D.
COLDPLAY - Violet Hill
Coldplay's first single off their upcoming album "Viva La Vida or Death and All his Friends."
I love the song but not the video.
Title: Violet Hill
Artist: Coldplay
Album: Viva La Vida and All his Friends
KANYE WEST - Flashing Lights (2nd Video)
Who else but Kanye to make not 2 but THREE different videos for the same song!
This is the 2nd one and my fave.
Title: Flashing Lights
Artist: Kanye West
Album: Graduation
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
NEW CAMERA!!!
Ayy!! Our new camera arrived yesterday, the Canon Ixus is really cool! I think we'll post a lot more pictures right now! haha
Sunday, May 18, 2008
LAKERS BACK IN THE WEST FINALS
Ayy! Kobe and the Lakers ended the series against the Utah Jazz, in the West semifinals, with a game 6 win on the road! YEAH! Very nice game! Strong efforts by all starters.
They'll matchup against the winner of monday's game 7 between the New Orleans Hornets and the defending champs San Antonio Spurs. The Lakers crew can rest until the West Finals game 1 wednesday.
GO LAKERS!!!!
Friday, May 16, 2008
MAROON 5 feat RIHANNA - If I Never See Your Face Again
Ayy!! Here's Maroon 5's latest video "If I Never See Your Face Again" from album It Won't Be Soon Before Long. RNB star Rihanna joins the band in this one! I have to admit she's HOT! Though I'm not fan of her new hairstyle, nor her new boyfriend! haha
Anyway, enjoy!
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
MVP! MVP! MVP!
 | It's official, Kobe's NBA 2008 Most Valuable Player! We won MVP guys, finally!! YEAH! PLUS, the Lakers did really good in the 1st round sweeping the Denver Nuggets, and beating Utah in Game 1 of the 2nd round. Feels good to be a Lakerfan!! We're definitely gonna win it all! |
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
Which Mayuko would you hit? :P
Néna lé vintage, nén'i Ando lé fresh. :D
Lay volo no sarotra indrindra dia avy eo ny molony. Mmmh!
T@ alina no natomboko, t@ Photoshop.
Friday, March 21, 2008
Captain vaky andrina
That's fucking teamwork!! Ra Ando no nanomboka an'lé vector sy namorona ny background (smoke sy fire brushes). Zah namita ny maso, shadows/highlights, blood sy details kely isan-karazany. Lay green/red idée-ako! :P Fa tsy haiko ny fanaovana an'lé hatsembohana, haha!
Photoshop dôdôdôly.
It's far from perfect but we LOVE IT!
Hala bêê
Inona moa ny anaran'tony?
Reveko lé loko. Tsy tadidiko tsony iza no naka an'ty sary ty. Otrn hoe zah, haha! Fa mety ra Ando.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
I want to ride my batcycle, I want to ride my bike!
Ra Toky no nitazona an'lé izy, haha!
Namboariko t@ photoshop ny hazavana (lay effet neon vinany). Dia blur kely manome dynamisme.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
GUILLEMOTS - Made Up Love Song #43
Title: Made Up Love Song #43
Artist: Guillemots
Album: Through The Window Pane (2006)
They just released a new album called Red. Get Over It is the first single out of the latter, but this song is my favourite. It makes me feel good. Not to mention that the girl playing the bass guitar is a BABE!!!
Monday, March 17, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
It's Kobe Bryant Blog Day!!!
(Photo by Noah Graham/NBAE via Getty Images)
Let's all celebrate the Mamba... MADAGASCAR loves Kobe Bean Bryant!
Friday, March 7, 2008
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Do Japanese love Madagascar?
I'm currently watching the well-known japanese drama Hanazakari no Kimitachi e. The characters are stupid as hell but it's just a lot of fun.
In 2 of the episodes they mention "Madagascar." That's something! It sounded weird the first time you hear it, especially with the japanese accent.
Below some snapshots of episode 8.
Lakers around the Web
Some recent talks about Kobe Bryant, the Force, the MVP award, JeBron Lames, Phil and the Coach Of The Year... Interesting.
(Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)
Much has been made of LeBron James’ clutch performances this year. And rightly so. His improvement in that area has been astounding, as he has proven, game after game, that he can handle the pressure. But amidst all the buzz about James, many have forgotten about Bryant.
They’ve forgotten that Bryant has already done what James is doing, time and time again. They’ve forgotten that he’s done it at a higher level, and on a bigger stage, than James has. And they’ve forgotten that he’s been doing it for the last decade.
Until now.
Now they realize that it wasn’t that Bryant had lost his edge, and it wasn’t that LeBron had surpassed him. It was simply that, by leading his team to more blowout wins than any other team in the league save Boston (both LA and Boston have won 29 games by 10 points or more), he hasn’t needed to do this very often this year.
For Bryant, any personal achievements are meaningless — winning is all that matters. But for everyone watching, this was a reminder: Kobe Bryant is still the most clutch player alive.
JTbatahk at Respect Kobe (comment #2)
Lebron supporters think of him as some good guy, saint-like character, and pin their hatred for Kobe purely for issues of character, whether they believe they are or not.
However, Bron-bron ain’t no saint whatsoever. Comments from people that have met him aside, he is no different from Kobe, possibly much worse. It is a very rare exception for the wealthy and celebrated to be free of arrogance. It is practically a given that they are. Yet Nike, and Bron fans, try to portray him as a humble, basketball loving individual that actually cares when his goal-in-life, in his own words, is "I want to be the first billionaire athelete."
His many actions since he entered the league completely support the premise that he is every bit as pompous and arrogant as any celebrity, and as much of a "poor teammate" as people portray Kobe to be:
- His celebrated, over-the-top pre-game hand powder routine
- Calling out his Cavs team while playing for Team USA (a topic you touched upon)
- Sitting away from the team huddle in a recent loss
- Last year, leaving the court for the locker room, WHILE the game was STILL BEING PLAYED, in the last seconds of a close loss. This was heavily critisized by Barkley, Miller, Magic, AND his Airness for the lack of class, but was quickly swept under the table by ESPN and other sport news outlets.
- Avoiding, and basically refusing, to shake the hands with the Pistons’ players in last year’s conference finals
These are just some rarely reported tidbits that go to show LeBron is JUST AS MUCH, if not MORE SO, an egotistical person than Kobe. Yet Kobe gets knocked for his drive to want to be the best, while LeBron is celebrated for it. And the media just plays right into it.
Hollinger is a prime example. Everyone should read his comments on his latest chat.
He states that LBJ is, by far and away, the best player in the league, and deserves the MVP this year.
A fan then suggested that this year’s Cavs were the Lakeshow of the previous 2 seasons, a great player with scrubs, which Hollinger agreed with. Someone then popped the question; if he had voted for Kobe in ‘06 (35-6-6, 62 in 3 and 81 pt season). He said he voted for LeBron, even in a year when Kobe dominated statistically. Last year, he voted for Dirk, and we all know where that lead.
David Neiman at Sports HubLA
If you’re going to make a case for LeBron James, focus on LeBron James and his virtues. Emphasize why he is the league’s most valuable player. Why bother trying to disparage Kobe (or Chris Paul, for that matter) when what both are doing is amazing in its own right? It’s totally unnecessary, and more than anything, detracts from any compelling argument instead of advancing it. In fact, aside from mentioning that Kobe and Chris Paul are viable MVP candidates, there really is no other reason to mention them at all.
Take into account that LeBron has no scoring help, that he’s leading the league in scoring, is shooting 49 percent from the field, and that he’s essentially defeated some of the best teams in the West this season by himself — nearly all of which are points made by Dwyer — and you’ve got yourself an argument that stands on its own.
Is it convincing? Is anything going to convince a die-hard Bryant supporter that his guy isn’t deserving? Probably not, though I would contend that a column emphasizing what LeBron has done — rather than what Kobe has not, or has not done as well — has a lot better chance of making a Kobe Bryant fan pause, if only for a moment.
In the end, the reality is that there is no objective way to decide the MVP, regardless of what statistics you use, unless the choice is obvious. It’s an inherently subjective award. Personally, I think Kobe is deserving at this point — not because of his statistics, skills, clutch shooting and so forth, but because to me, this season really represents a quantum leap for him as a player, teammate and leader.
But if LBJ or Chris Paul won it, would I be up in arms?
Not really. The Force is strong in both of them.
Mike Bresnahan at LA Times
The Lakers are legitimate contenders in the Western Conference, with Bryant contributing across the board. He is averaging 28.3 points, 6.1 rebounds, 5.4 assists and 2.0 steals after Tuesday's game. He is shooting 46.4%, his best field-goal percentage since 2001-02.
Bryant's scoring is down from his combined average of 33.5 points a game the previous two seasons, but Lakers Coach Phil Jackson stated the platform for Bryant as MVP.
"He's playing a more rounded game than perhaps the end of the last two seasons, just measuring what the team needs and how to get it done including his teammates," Jackson said. "Defensively, his game has improved a lot. He could be defensive player of the year simply on the improvement between last year and this year on his defense."
Bryant wanted to leave the Lakers last summer, though Jackson said there had been a full commitment to the team since the season began.
"His teammates were worried about him obviously," he said. "They were concerned about being left behind or being ditched, if I can use that term. But he's been totally there."
The Lakers started out 9-8, but have turned it up since then. Bryant has had the league's highest-scoring individual effort this season with a 52-point outburst Sunday in the Lakers' 108-104 overtime victory over the Dallas Mavericks.
"His game has improved as he's gone through the season," Jackson said. "His involvement with his teammates -- you can see them playing off of him and [see] his appropriate movements through a ballgame, whether it's scoring or passing, whatever he needs to do to help win a game."
Mike Bresnahan at LA Times
In the same way that Kobe Bryant gets mentioned as one of the front-runners for league most valuable player, Jackson also faces the possibility of being recognized.
The Lakers (43-18) have overcome blase expectations to rise above the Western Conference, although Jackson didn't seem to want to address his chances of winning a coaching award.
"I think the best interview usually gets coach of the year," he said wryly. "Usually it's a team that's a surprise team. Favorites aren't usually given coach of the year."
What else?
"At one point in the '80s, it was an honor of doom, because the next two years, the guy was going to get fired from his job," Jackson said.
Jackson, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame last year, was coach of the year in 1995-96, when the Chicago Bulls with Michael Jordan set an NBA record by going 72-10 on the way to another championship.
Jackson's players, though biased, would support him winning a second time.
"How many championships has he coached? For him to only win it one time and have nine championships is kind of crazy," forward Lamar Odom said. "When did he get it, when he won 72 games? It might be tough this year, know what I'm saying? It's crazy."
Thursday, February 28, 2008
THE KOOKS - Always Where I Need To Be
Title: Always Where I Need To Be
Artist: The Kooks
Album: Konks (2008)
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Why Kobe Bean Bryant is the MVP
(Photo by Jennifer Pottheiser/NBAE via Getty Images)
By William Smith, Bleacher Report
He plays both ends of the floor. His defense is lock-down and he's quite possibly a candidate for defensive player of the year.
If you don't believe me ask Yao Ming, Andre Kirilenko, Dwayne Wade, and countless others that Kobe's simply embarrassed with his defense this year.
In addition to his offensive and defensive production come Kobe's intangibles. "Doesn't make his teammates better?" Hogwash. This is a guy who led a team with Smush Parker as its starting point guard, a guy who doesn't even get playing time on the ailing Miami Heat now, to the playoffs in the always competitive Western Conference.
Kobe's leadership has allowed guys like Jordan Farmar, Sasha Vujacic, Luke Walton, Andrew Bynum, and Lamar Odom to grow and strive over the past couple of years.
He’s Beethoven Bryant… Now Hear the Music!
By Ted M. Green, SportsHubLA
You wouldn’t think a man who seems to have everything would need anything.
You wouldn’t think a man loved by millions might need a friend.
Kobe Bryant has oodles of talent, tons of money, a pretty wife, beautiful young family and the respect, if not unconditional affection, of most of his peers. So what could a man with all that possibly need?
Oh, just understanding, appreciation and, finally, an end to the hating.
Understand what, you say?
That he is the best player in the NBA by eons and quite possibly more skilled than even Michael Jordan.
Appreciation? Yup, by finally naming him MVP of the league.
And hating? That’s right, it’s time to put a merciful end to the petty envy and ugly jealousies, time to stop holding Colorado over his head, time to stop penalizing him because he’s ridiculously gifted and kinda comes across like he knows it.
The rap in the past that he didn’t make his teammates better? Bullfeathers. He passed to them. They missed. What was he supposed to do, shoot it in the basket for them?
Look at the Lakers now: If you don’t think Jordan Farmar, Sasha Vujacic and Ronny Turiaf are all light years better than a year ago, you’re just not paying attention. Heck, playing in the backcourt with Kobe, Derek Fisher at an age (33) when lots of guys are fading, is having a career year, with all-time bests in every shooting category. Coincidence? Not hardly.
What I’m REALLY talking about is, for Kobe’s detractors, the haters, to drop the pretense and stop the posturing and just admit that as a shooter, driver, finisher and defender, as the ultimate basketball Jedi master as we speak here in the late winter of 2008, Lebron James with all his Nike marketing power and funny/cutesy Old Man commercials, can’t hold Kobe’s jock. Or gym bag.
Oh, he can hold it, all right, but only if he asks real nicely.
It is absolutely incomprehensible to me, but yet fully expected given the history of Kobe Bryant, that not one major national NBA writer, far as I know, has been smart enough, fair enough or honest enough to come out right now and say what is now startlingly obvious:
That if Bryant isn’t the MVP this year, that award needs to be put on the shelf forever, never to be dusted off again.
In the real, un-spun NBA, it’s Kobe’s world and everybody else is just living in it. And if you don’t believe me, ask the players. Trust me, they’ll tell you.
Over the past two years, Kobe Bryant has done everything humanly possible to help the Lakers win — leading a team even worse than this year’s Cavs to a better record in a better conference. He has performed minor miracles on a daily basis. But despite his heroics, he was unable to lead what amounted to a D-League team to 50 or more wins.
Now, that is changing. As Bryant continues to do everything anyone has ever asked of him, and more, his Lakers are on pace for anywhere from 56 to 62 wins.
Bryant has led the Lakers past the Suns for the Pacific Division lead, currently one game behind New Orleans for the best record in the West, with the hardest part of their schedule behind them. He has the Lakers on an overall pace for 56 wins. However, since the Pau Gasol trade, the Lakers have won 7 of 8 (and 9 of their last 10) — a pace that, if maintained, could result in an astounding 62-win season. If they continue to play as they have since Gasol’s arrival — especially after the return of Bynum — the Lakers could very possibly finish the season with the best record in the West.
This removes the only remaining excuse MVP voters have had for not giving Bryant the Award: the Lakers sub-standard record of the past couple of years. He has sacrificed his personal stats for the benefit of the team — taking 7 fewer shots and scoring 7 fewer points than he did two years ago — while trusting his teammates in ways that his critics claimed he never would. Now, if the universally acclaimed best player in the world leads his team to 55 or more wins in what experts are calling the most competitive conference ever, the voters will have no remaining excuses for not giving him the MVP Award he rightly deserves.
But there’s more.Not only does Kobe have the Lakers on track for a very impressive win/loss record, but he has kept the Lakers playing .500 basketball after Andrew Bynum’s injury and before Pau Gasol’s arrival — during a time when many thought the Lakers might even fall out of the playoff race. Overall, the Lakers are 12-6 since Bynum’s injury.
Of the 5 losses suffered during the post-Bynum/pre-Gasol period, all were to teams with winning records, and four were against 4 of the top 5 teams in the NBA: Phoenix, San Antonio, Dallas, and Detroit.
These accomplishments — the Lakers overall record, and their recent record without Bynum — are even more impressive in light of the multitude of injuries the Lakers have suffered. In addition to Andrew Bynum’s 8-week absence, defensive swingman Trevor Ariza is also out for 8 weeks (now looking more like 12 or more weeks), Chris Mihm continues to struggle with injury, and Vladimir Radmonovic and Luke Walton have each missed a number of games with ankle injuries that are still not fully healed. Meanwhile, Pau Gasol did not arrive on the scene until very recently. Thus, Kobe’s ability to keep the Lakers on pace for 55+ wins despite the constant flux in the roster around him cannot be overlooked.
In addition to constant injuries to those around him, Kobe has himself been hit with food poisoning, flu, wrist injury, shoulder injury, ankle injury, upper respiratory infection, and dislocation of the pinky finger on his shooting hand — and has played through all of it, not missing a single game. Aside from the first two games following his initial pinky injury (in which he made up for poor shooting with very high assist totals), he has played excellent basketball in all of these games.
Now, having aggravated his pinky injury, he is currently playing through an injury on his shooting hand that will require surgery, with his pinky finger taped to his ring finger. He intends to do this through the rest of the season, the Playoffs, and the Summer Olympics.
The significance of this cannot be emphasized enough. This is what MVPs do. Compare this to LeBron’s lesser injury to his non-shooting hand earlier in the season: LeBron sat out six games, all of which the Cavs lost.
Were this the East, Kobe could probably afford to have the surgery, miss six weeks, and return for the Playoffs. But with 4.5 games separating the 8 playoff teams in the West, the Lakers cannot afford to play without Kobe Bryant. It could mean falling out of the Playoffs entirely.
Thus, if Kobe is able to successfully play through an injury that would result in a minimum 6-week absence for any other player, and in so doing leads the Lakers to one of the best records in the NBA, there will simply be no way for the voters to deny him any longer.
In addition, Kobe’s Lakers have the surprise factor going for them, much like Chris Paul’s Hornets. Before the season started, many thought the Lakers would be hard pressed to make the Playoffs. Many others assumed Kobe’s days as a Laker were numbered. All expected this season to be grim, tense, and full of frustration. As it turns out, none of the above has been true.
Kobe has formed closer bonds than ever with his teammates, has become a stronger leader, and the Lakers were considered one of the best teams in the West even before the Gasol trade! As such, the Lakers may be an even bigger surprise than the Hornets.
Also like Chris Paul, Kobe and the Lakers have achieved all of this in the ultra-competitive Western Conference. Again, I couldn’t possibly overstate the significance of this. Were this Lakers team in the Eastern Conference, they would likely be on pace for 65 wins — or more! The West has long been drastically better than the East, but this year it is also drastically better than previous Western Conferences. To be achieving such success at such a time as this in the Western Conference is truly impressive.
Unlike Paul, however — not to mention Garnett — Kobe has accomplished all of this without any All-Star help. Pau Gasol only recently arrived, and Andrew Bynum, while significantly improved and a dramatic upgrade over Kwame Brown, was nonetheless averaging numbers similar to Cleveland’s Zydunas Ilgauskas — 13 points and 10 rebounds — before his injury. While his potential is seemingly limitless, he is not an All-Star yet. And while these numbers are similar to Tyson Chandler’s 12 points and 12 rebounds, Bynum is not yet the defensive presence the Chandler is in the paint.
And while the Hornets’ fourth-best player is Peja Stojakovic — averaging 16.3 points per game and leading the league in 3-point shooting — the Lakers top scorer from behind the 3-point line is, in fact, Kobe Bryant himself.
Friday, February 22, 2008
Where do The Beatles, Oasis and Coldplay rank among the best British albums?
Put your mouse over the album covers to find where they rank in the Top 50 British albums since 1958 (Q4Music).
The only thing that bugs me is that they voted Don't Believe The Truth higher than The White Album?! And Be Here Now? And every Coldplay album?! Come on!
Via Reuters