That's Gotta Hurt a Little

Who says basketball players don't risk the same type of injuries as other more physical sports? Here are 2 fine examples:

Example #1


Example #2

The Soundtrack of My Life - My 100 Favorite Songs of All Time

So I've compiled a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. These are what I guess you could call my "deserted island" songs - all of the songs I would want on my iPod, if I were standed on some deserted island, (well if island had a power source so I could constantly recharge my iPod.)

This list is a bit biased for some bands, that is to say, that some of my favorite bands (U2, The Beatles, DMB) had more songs listed than others, but hey they're my favorite, so that's the way it falls. Also, some of the songs are pretty cheesy, but they're on there because at one point or time in my life, the song always seemed to be around me, and now whenever I hear it, I always go back to that time. (Woah! I'm starting to sound like a Kenny Chesney song)

Songs #11-100 on the list are arranged in alphabetical order (no, I didn't alphabatize them myself, I let Excel do that for me), since I didn't want to take the excruciating task of weighing where each song should fall on the list. For the top 10 songs, I did rank them in order of favoritism. Anyways, here's the list..

Songs #11 to #100:

#41 - Dave Matthews Band
A Day in the Life - The Beatles
A Horse With No Name - America
A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum
Acrobat - U2
Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone - Bill Withers
America - Neil Diamond
Baba O'Riley - The Who
Back in Black - AC/DC
Belief - John Mayer
Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
Bobcaygeon - Tragically Hip
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something
Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp - Led Zeppelin
Cantaloop - Us3
Cap'n Kirk - Bob Schneider
Come Undone - Duran Duran
Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
Crush - Dave Matthews Band
The Distance - Cake
Don't Change - INXS
Don't Look Back in Anger - Oasis
Down Under - Men at Work
Drive - Incubus
Get Back - The Beatles
Glory Days - Bruce Springsteen
Grace, Too - Tragically Hip
Handle With Care - The Travelling Wilburys
Hey, Hey What Can I Do? - Led Zeppelin
Hey Ya - Outkast
House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground
If I Had $1,000,000 - Barenaked Ladies
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers
In The Blood - Better Than Ezra
In the Ghetto - Elvis Presley
Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots
Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
It's A Hit - Rilo Kiley
I've Just Seen A Face - The Beatles
JTR - Dave Matthews Band
Kodachrome - Paul Simon
Laid - James
Losing My Religion - REM
Love Shack - B52's
Loves Me Like a Rock - Paul Simon
Me & Julio Down By The Schoolyard - Paul Simon
Merry Christmas (The War Is Over) - John Lennon
Never Tear Us Apart - INXS
Night Moves - Bob Seger
Nightswimming - REM
Norweigan Wood - The Beatles
One - U2
One Headlight - The Wallflowers
One Man Army - Our Lady Peace
Ordinary World - Duran Duran
Paint It Black - Rolling Stones
Plush - Stone Temple Pilots
Ramble On - Led Zeppelin
Rebel Rebel - David Bowie
Right Now - Van Halen
Rock the Cashbah - The Clash
Roll Me Away - Bob Seger
Roll the Bones - Rush
Shotdown - Agents of Good Roots
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
Soulshine - Gov't Mule
Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2
Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams
Superman's Dead - Our Lady Peace
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
Sweet Child O'Mine - Guns N' Roses
To Be With You - Mr. Big
Tom Sawyer - Rush
Turn the Page - Bob Seger
Typical Situation - Dave Matthews Band
Ultra Violet (Light My Way) - U2
Unchained - Van Halen
Wake Up - The Arcade Fire
Walk of Life - Dire Straits
The Weight - The Band
When I'm 64 - The Beatles
Where the Streets Have No Name - U2
Whipping Post - Allman Brothers Band
White Room - Cream
With or Without You - U2
Wonderwall - Oasis
Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
Your Time Is Gonna Come - Led Zeppelin
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away - The Beatles

Songs #10 to #1:
10.) American Pie - Don McLean
9.) Suspicous Minds - Elvis Presley
8.) It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - REM
7.) Mr. Jones - Counting Crows
6.) What Would You Say - Dave Matthews Band
5.) Centerfield - John Fogerty
4.) Yesterday - The Beatles
3.) Bad - U2
2.) All You Need Is Love - The Beatles

And the #1 song on my Top 100 Song list is....

1.) Imagine - John Lennon

Of course, some or all of these could change tomorrow (except the top 10 - those 10 have been favorites for awhile now), but as it stands right now, these are my favorite songs. Feel free to poke fun.

Sings That Spring Is Right Around the Corner

"Well, beat the drum and hold the phone - the sun came out today!
We’re born again, there’s new grass on the field.
A-roundin’ third, and headed for home, it’s a brown-eyed handsome man; Anyone can understand the way I feel."
-John Fogerty "Centerfield"

Well after another cold week here, where we were hit with a bit of an ice storm on Tuesday night, finally today comes a hint that spring is just around the corner. Spring Training has started!

Funny Video Friday

Ok, so its been awhile since I've last posted. I haven't really been able to think of much to say on here, to be honest. I think its just a case of the winter doldrums finally setting in. And yes, its finally winter here. We got about 2 inches of snow on Wednesday, and its been insanely cold here (well insanely cold for Virginia...I hear its been even colder in the Midwest). The word is, that we're supposed to get some more snow early next week as well. As much as I hate snow, I feel that if we're gonna get some snow, I wish we would just get hammered with a snowstorm, and get something like 12-15 inches, and just shut everything down for a few days. Then it can melt away and Spring can then come.

I've decided that I'm going to try to start posting on a more regular basis. One way I'm going to do that is to start a weekly series called "Funny Video Friday" (creative title, eh?) , where I'll post a video (or two, or three), that I find mildly entertaining. Since I come across some pretty good ones, on the blogs I read, I figure it can't be too difficult to do, right?

So anyways, here's the first installment..

Video #1 - Slingshot

I wish I had thought of this when I had my 4-wheeler growing up. I'm sure our neighbor Paul would have volunteered to be the one in the slingshot.

Video #2 - Trampoline Basketball

I'm surprised this never happened to me or any of my friends actually. All we ever did was play Trampoline Dodgeball on my friends Wayne & Scott's neighbor's trampoline, before they started putting up the safety nets all around them.


Video #3 - Basement Basketball

No, this isn't actually a video of me as a teen. I'll just say I'm glad my parents never had a video camera while I was growing up.