I understand that Steve Kerrr trying to get the egg off of his face for the horrible Shawn Marrion for Shaq trade. And when it comes down to it I think he got the better end of the deal. He got rid of the slowest piece of his team that was designed for speed. And Ben Wallace can still play passable defense, if he doesn’t retire. That being said…
What the hell is Danny Ferry thinking? Didn’t he learn his lesson last year? The Cav’s built their team to beat the Celtics in the Eastern Conference finals thinking that they’d have a shot against the Lakers. And let’s face it, the Nuggets would have swept the Cavs too. When you gear up to beat one team, when you don’t meet up with them and you end up playing an entirely different kind of team you’re going to be screwed.
As a side note, look at the Lakers. They didn’t try to beat one team, they wanted to beat them all. And they did.
Now the Cavs are at it again, they are gearing up to beat a single team… the Magic. What’s going to happen when a healthy Celtics team exposes the Cavs fatal flaw? Shaq is a player who takes up a lot of space in the middle but he’s not going to demand the double team like he has in the past. And more importantly, he doesn’t have the speed necessary to keep up with the fast paced game most of the top teams in the NBA can throw at them.
And here’s the other consideration that nobody seems to be willing to address yet… Shaq is a glory hog. I’m not saying that LeBron has a massive ego to feed, but Shaq does. And on this team Shaq is definitely going to play second fiddle to LeBron. But at the end of the season, if (and this is a Shaq-sized if) the Cavs somehow win the NBA finals, does LeBron want to be like Kobe and have to wait another 5 years to win a title on his own to get out from under the shadow of Shaq?
Danny Ferry is a fool and I can’t believe he got sold a bill of goods from Steve Kerr.
I got 4 hours of sleep last night. It’s always a dangerous thing for me because I end up day dreaming most of the day and I end up being completely ineffective. It’s sad, but that’s the thing you have to put up with when you break scripts and have to spend all night fixing them.
At one point I caught myself rolling up Provo canyon on a motorcycle, a Suzuki GSX-R750 to be exact, pushing into the curves of the road as hard as the bike would let me, weaving around the slow as molasses traffic racing up to the top of Deer Creek so I could turn around do the drive back down again. But on the way back down the road was clear and since I had the road to myself I ripped my helmet off, put on my shades and rocketed back down the canyon at lightening fast speeds with the wind assaulting my face and the curves daring me to let off the throttle as I leaned into them as hard as the bike would let me…
…and then somehow I was transported back to the office where I was doing an interview with a reporter about something somebody had done. If you don’t believe the last part just wait and see… there’s video evidence.
While I was doing the DJ thing I had these 4 song setlists I would use because I knew I could always hit the transitions in between the songs and because I knew the songs worked exceptionally well together. I started thinking about it the other day, and since I had to work on a back track for a broadcast I started thinking about them again…
While chatting wtih a friend of mine the other day I had changed my status to One Perfect Sunrise As The Rush Comes and she inquired where it came from. Randomly my computer, on shuffle had played Orbital’s One Perfect Sunrise followed up with Motorcycle’s As The Rush Comes (G&D Chillout Mix). My iTunes has a ridiculously long crossfade setup so that I can get a better “flow” going on, and I started to think about how I could engineer the crossfade together to get a sweeter mix. And then I started to think about what tracks I could put together to make an insanely awesome mix.
- Ranta /Darude
- Silence / Delerium feat Sarah McLachlan
- As The Rush Comes / Motorcycle (Gabriel & Dresden Chillout Mix)
- One Perfect Sunrise / Orbital
Ranta has a dark beat with solo acoustic guitar sitting on top of it that gets you thinking of a face paced scene being played in slow motion. The beat, on it’s own, would leave you with a feeling of “I’ve got to get this done” and the guitar detaches you from that feeling. I could make some amazing video sequences to that song.
Silence is a slower smoother beat that with Sarah McLachlan’s amazing voice floating over the top of it. Her voice moves so nicely into this genre it’s almost like this is what it was made to do. I had to speed this track up 7% to get the beat into a pace that was more to Ranta’s liking.
As The Rush Comes was introduced to me by a friend as we were hanging out one day and she said you HAVE to hear this track. She played the Chillout Mix for me and I fell in love almost instantly. It’s kinda like Ranta in that it has a dark beat underneath an amazing voice. This voice isn’t as angelic as Sarah’s or isn’t as solitary as the guitar in Ranta but it has an edginess to it that gives it power. This track had be pushed 3.6% faster to get the beat where I wanted it to be.
The tracks went dark, smooth, dark and with One Perfect Sunrise you bring it back to smooth with a kick. This song actually is pretty close to the pace that Ranta sets (140 bpm) and I left the beat alone even though I really should have pulled this track back by a .25% margin to really make it match up, but I decided to put a delay between where the beat of the Motorcycle track ends and where the beat kicks in on this track. This track is easily the most fun one on the list and it’s why it wraps up the playlist.
I guess you can’t really call it a playlist anymore because I spent time matching beats and putting together good transitions (I don’t say perfect because I have friends who could do an amazing blend of thise tracks without even trying live.) If you know how to find me, either text me or email me and I’ll hook you up with a copy of this CD. It’s that good 
