Haterzz and Shtuffs

See this Obama vid yet? There's like a thousand versions of it on YouTube. It's become enough of a phenomenon that the Washington Post put it on the front page of their Style section. Whatever, I just think it's funny:



It would be interesting to see how Obama's professed appreciation of hip-hop affects his votes. According to the WaPost article above, the Post's Richard Cohen said the shoulder shaking was "contemptuous and aloof" and "not smart." He obviously overlooked how freaking funny it was, though...

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We at JJ like to keep our readers up to date on various cool music that is less visible or so obviously good that people pass it up. Jhuff alerted me to Boys Noize and the album "Oi Oi Oi" last week.

It's good enough stuff that GW's hip-hop group Famous Corners hyped the crowd with & Down (below) at their show at GW's Battle of the Bands on Thursday.

Here's some good tracks:

& Down:



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Yeah it's pretty loud head banging type stuff, but it's good for you every once in a while. Kind of like those real spicy Asian soups that clear your sinuses, you dig?

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Arsenal finally won a game! 2-0 over hapless Reading earlier today. Good to see Walcott getting a start, and Adebayor actually scoring. Not to be overly harsh on Adebayor (who's had an amazing season just as good as Torres'), but can you say too little too late?

Arsenal 2-4 Liverpool

Wow.

Wow wow wow wow wow. What is there to say really? Arsenal's season is as good as over, while Liverpool has, for the second year in a row, squeezed through yet another round of the CL to keep their season alive.

Yesterday I wrote that Arsenal wouldn't go through because of their scoring problems. And, indeed, Adebayor missed a wide open chance in the second half, just him and the goalie. That chance would no doubt have changed the game completely if he had converted it.

But in the end Arsenal were able to score. Diaby had a great goal that had some beautiful one-touch passes and some horrible goalkeeper positioning to thank in the first half. And, of course, Theo Walcott created a goal that hearkened Thierry Henry's very best, and even (dare I compare it to an American sport??) Memphis's Derrick Rose.

And just as they did last Wednesday at Emirates Stadium, Liverpool bounced back and took control of the game after Arsenal scored--eventually tying it through a Hyppia goal that reminded me of Onyewu vs. Mexico, taking the lead through a clinical Torres goal, and then winning through a really bad horrible disgusting penalty call.

You know, this game will go down as one of the greatest Champions League ties ever. It had all the makings of a classic--two old time rivals, three GREAT goals--but the fact that it hinged on a terrible referee decision will scar it forever.

I don't care what anyone says. There is simply no argument that can justify Babel's PK being called and Hleb's last week being waived off. There is no argument, that is, except for bad officiating, which is exactly what we saw. And though I'm tempted to follow my farther's eternal advice, "It's never the ref's fault," because Adebayor should have scored his wide open chance, I can't leave it at that.

I wrote yesterday about the homefield advantage, the 12th man, that Anfield provides. But I didn't know that it had as much affect as Old Trafford on the outcome of games. Besides the ref's blatant PK atrocity, there was also the conspicuous absence of the correct amount of extra time. If I told you that there were three goals and four substitutions in regular time, would you have expected THREE minutes of extra time?

Look, I don't want to be a big cry baby about the game. The fact is that Liverpool is through, and because Gerrard made the PK, because they defended well after finally taking the lead for good, because they didn't concede another goal last week, for all these reasons and more, Liverpool deserve the win. I will, of course, be rooting for them down the stretch.

All I ask is that as much as today's game will be remembered as classic, it should also be remembered as a disaster.