I was trying - futilely, as it turned out - to do some research on the Mensheviks with this awful ringtone rap/Beyonce + thick-ass beats = profit/churning unremarkable synth-pop anthem party going on outside. Just boring, reprehensible music. Here's what I decided to do instead, before holing up in the library:
--This video is a beautiful idea beautifully executed; it's the Platonic ideal of ironic, retrosexual youtube videos. "Help," by the way, has to be in my top five Beatles songs. (h/t Videogum).
--Grant Hill seems like a cool guy, and J.A. Adande has a nice piece on what really is an incredible - and tragic, in the traditional sense of the word - story. Speaking of current Phoenix Suns, Love in the Time of LeBron has some compelling reasons to like Channing Frye, the team's enormous Stephen Curry, and Steve Nash, the most consciously anti-mainstream MVP in any sport. My favorites: the most ridiculous man in the world, and the futuristic, web 2.0 commercial for VitaminWater's facebook. (h/t SB Nation).
