Thanks to a freak blizzard, I am reviewing test reports from the comfort of my couch today. In fact, I may not even change out of my pajamas today. Hah. So there.
I don't know. On the one hand, pretty much all scenes of intimacy in media are between strangers. Actors of some kind, you know. And they're paid for it, and given a script, and rehearse it, and make it seem real. That video? The narrative of "we asked strangers to kiss!" makes it seem really amazing, but we don't know how scripted it was, what kind of direction they were given, etc. So there's a chance - in my view, a narrow one - that the scenes were just improvised as we see them. In which case, it shows good acting at the best, or it shows experience making out with strangers in front of a camera (in the case of actors), or some exhibitionism at play. But I find it pretty hard to believe that there wasn't a fair bit of instruction given by the director as to how things were supposed to turn out.
Of course there was something. They didn't lead these well dressed people in front of a camera with the promise of free cookies and milk. But as you saw in the different scenes, there was some interesting moments on how it was executed as it came by the people. Now I'm not dancing around like "Hey, this is a perfect scene of human kind!" Its just a great video for what it was. The advertising side of me has a fucking boner for it, because no one outside of L.A. knew shit about this brand and now MILLIONS of people know about it. For all the effort to make something go viral, something so simple as this concept got millions of dollars worth of advertising for pennies. God damn brilliant.
I fix fishing reels on the side and a guy I know in California has 3 reels he wanted me to look at, they weren't kidding when they said if it fits it ships. This was just delivered to my office.
dewercs you know you can accept money as payment too, although the Baywatch Playboy ain't bad. As a casual sports fan, man I love hockey!
American Hipster... I swear to God I can never get the damn youtube tags to work the first time. Damned https...
This says it all. Remember, he didn't just faint, his heart stopped completely. When he regained consciousness his first question wasn't what happened, it was whats the score. There was also a player out there on a penalty kill who blocked a shot, that shot broke his leg. Instead of falling to the ice in pain, he finished out the penalty kill and skated back to the bench. The NBA can suck a dick.
I think basketball overall has become one big fucking joke due to shit like that. It's like the spoiled rotten kid that gets anything he wants because Mommy told him he is a unique and special snowflake. It has totally turned me off of watching. Sure, I have a soft spot for football but, I still watch college hoops. It was really over for me when he had his "press conference" announcing where he was going.
We have identical views on sports. I love college basketball but hate the NBA, the Announcement rubbed me the wrong way as well.
I would love to see a TV special called Set Lebron James On Fire. What a gift of talent. And what a complete, utter, total bitch.
This was the second best day of my life oddly enough. I hate Basketball in all forms. However, I hate the city of Cleveland more. Watching what he did to that city made me laugh at the top of my lungs for hours. Watching the twitter comments and the facebook comments come in. He was the one thing the city had going for them, then he dropped their pathetic souls down to a level not seen since the Browns left town. I wish you could see the smile on my face now. Just typing this brings back the fondest of memories.
I have never heard anybody defend Cleveland in my life. Even God hates it, he refuses to let the sun touch it all year. They should put a giant toilet seat over it.
LeBron James is arrogant as fuck, whines too much to the referees, and acted like a ridiculous diva when it came time to signing with Miami. I still love him as a player and root for him incredibly hard. Because once you strip away all the drama and the pomp and the circumstance, he's exactly the kind of player you'd want your kid to be. With the exception of whining to the refs (which is annoying to no end), he's a phenomenal ambassador from an on-court standpoint. He passes the ball willingly: LeBron's premier skill is his combination of size and vision. I love that the strongest, fastest, player on the team is also focused on getting his teammates involved. He plays defense: He might be the most singularly destructive defensive force in the league, and it's not just because he's big. In an era where stars like Love, Curry, Harden et al. either show no aptitude or interest in defense, it's great to see a star that plays hard on that end of the floor. He guards five positions, and he is the key to Miami's unique scheme that won them back to back titles. He stays on the court: Wade has been out for extended stretches. Bosh has had injuries. LeBron just keeps trucking, through 3 straight finals appearances, an Olympics, and grueling regular seasons. He gets better: He was already the best player in the league, but he worked hard to get even better. Over the last three seasons, he's now shooting 38% from deep. He's added a post game. He's added a step back. He took the best package, and is continually working to improve it. He's incredibly smart: People just see the highlight reel dunks and the power, but LeBron is up there in terms of basketball IQ. Not just from an in-game perspective, but from a planning one. He relentlessly hunts for the most efficient play, even at the expense of his own points. He shot almost 48 percent from the floor, which is great for a wing player. That was in '06. His field goal percentage has increased every year since. Every single year, he's gotten more efficient at converting shots, because he actually takes the time to think about the game. I understand why other people hate him, but for me, he's so transcendently brilliant as a player that I can ignore the arrogant stuff. Especially since Jordan was much more of an asshole than LeBron will ever be.
Having lived long enough to follow Jordan's entire career, no, he wasnt as big an asshole as Lebron. Nobody is as big an asshole as Lebron except for Vernon Maxwell. LeBron is utterly reprehensible. I have never seen an athlete in any sport who more believes the entire sport revolves around him. Fuck him and his 80's exercise video headbands. His entire personality goes really well with the other things in your garbage.
Then there's this: If you think LeBron is a Jordan-level asshole, I urge you to read any of the many biographies written about Michael. He makes LeBron look like Durant.
To follow up on Nom's post, if you honestly think LeBron is a big of an asshole as Jordan was I really don't know what to tell you. But you are so wrong it hurts. Jordan was a goddamn sociopath. You guys ought to read "The Jordan Rules", it's fascinating. The funny thing is that the team denigrated Sam Smith and nobody wanted to believe it, only for it all to be revealed as truth as time went on. He was pathologically competitive, not only in basketball, but in everything. As we well know, he is a compulsive gambler, and he would clown rookies out of their money until the Bulls made it a point to tell rookies to stay out of the poker games that would occur during travel. He punched out Stacey King during a practice. As his Hall of Fame speech proves, this was a guy who held on to every single slight, real or imagined, and would make you pay no matter what. Every time he torched Dan Majerle during the finals he would yell at Thunder Dan to go fuck himself, all because he hated Krause and Krause really liked Majerle's potential. He destroyed Drexler after the media played up the whole "Jordan or Drexler" angle. I might be remembering it a bit off, but Craig Hodges told a story of how Pippen did something to Jordan during a practice, and Jordan proceeded to absolutely wreck Pippen for as long as he could, scoring on him at will. He would bet teammates his luggage would come out first after away games, then bribe handlers to put his luggage out first. He did all the things Nom mentioned. If it wasn't for his basketball skills, I'm firmly convinced Jordan would likely be in jail. LeBron is just a bit of a flopper. He has nothing on Jordan in the asshole rankings.
^^^^As an aside to that, I've read The Jordan Rules(all of what FreeCorps says is true), one part of it that got me laughing out loud was when Jordan, Grant and Pippen had a bet on which of their infant sons had the biggest penis(apparently Pippen won). Also the stuff with the rims and balls(that teams fucked with them to get a competitive advantage) was fascinating.