its interesting. i feel like you go through stages of your life where decisions are very insignificant and then you go through stages of your life where the decisions you make are extremely imperative. like, the decisions you make will impact the rest of your life, and beyond. like, i feel like at some point, you start to look and realize that your daily decisions and routines are suddenly fucking important. i feel like sometimes in life you can go YOLO style and say fuck it, gamble, and hope for the best. but there are sometimes where you need to be extremely cautious, take lots of time to think about it, and then take more time, and then make a decision.

i would like to see a visual, a graph of the decisions that you make and how significant they are to your life. like when you're ages 6-10, the decisions that you make have a low impact . ages 16-18 they get a smidge more imporant. i mean, it's hard to fuck up when you're 16-18 (i mean its possible, but even if you do fuck up, you're still young and have lots of "time" to recover. and finally in your early to mid 20s you start to make decisions that are huuuuuge. the people you hang out with, the career choices, your exercise and diet routine, the youtube videos you watch, whether or not to start THE WIRE.

i mean, at some point the decisions you make go back to being less significant right? i'm seriously asking, i'm not sure. decisions when you're a child don't matter that much, then in the prime of your life they get big, then at some point they get insignificant again right? i don't know. this is a jumbled piece of shit, but when i was walking home today after getting off the bus, this popped up

quarter life anyone?

side remember note: ru $100. 25. oct. 

30for30s

the most recent 30for30, BIG SHOT, was one of the top 5 i've seen yet. such a crazy interesting story

but it got me thinking, i can't wait to watch the sports stories of today turn into great sports documentaries. off the top of my head, i can think of 3 super interesting (maybe just interesting to me) future 30for30s.

1. Linsanity. there's already documentaries about that 2 month stretch of Linsanity but still. I still specifically remember where i was during those first 4 or 5 games. i remember i was eating Korean BBQ with my old roommates when he killed the lakers on that friday night at madison square garden. i was staring at my phone in disbelief. i remember i was driving when he hit that game winner against toronto, and i remember reading a text saying "tell me you just saw that..."   and i specifically remember going out drinking with poco on a saturday night. waking up at like 8am from a text (long story short) that basically told me to bet a decent amount on Dallas to beat the knicks...i remember watching the game hungover and watching linsanity hit those huge 3s to ice the game...oh man...linsanity. i loved it. i remember going to work each day watching every youtube video about jeremy lin. how the fuck did i not buy any jeremy lin rookie cards before he blew up? not a single one. you bastard

2. The decision. i loved the decision and the week leading up to it. all the rumors, speculation. it was awesome. and the actual DECISION was must-see tv. the sports world stopped. i loved it. decent 30for30. at least i think. one of the best players to ever play the game leaves his hometown...on national tv.

3. Manti Te'o. the story of the year. the story of the past 2-3 years. i still remember where i was when i read that first deadspin article. i just got home from work and i checked deadspin and i saw the title "...dead girlfriend was a hoax..." and i was like ohhhh my god. it was just pure gold. PEAK gold. lol i actually re-read the article about 2 months ago just for funsies. yep, it was still gold. i remember the 6 or 7 days after the initial article...i seriously checked tmz deadspin and espn.com about 10 times per hour. it was the craziest sports story ever imo. but weirdly, my interest fell off a cliff once i realized that manti was innocent. i still haven't watched his or the tuisisssapo guy's interviews with dr phil/katie couric. but man...good shit

-i bought the new hp chromebook 11 that came out recently, and i think it's amazing. i should have bought a new laptop sooner. oh and i also bought the google Chromecast, also amazing. now i can watch my youtube box breaks on my tv. long GOOGLE

-i saw Captain Phillips last week and thought it was awesome. i need to see Gravity! and i also want to see Rush, and Don Jon. so many good movies out right now

-in my espn basketball keeper league (you keep 3 players from last year, and 1 of those has to be a rookie/sophomore). I'm keeping lebron, damian lillard and al jefferson. it was either al jefferson or demarcus cousins. cousins is more exciting and younger. al jefferson is boring but good, and his team sucks. i'm not as excited for basketball this year compared to the last couple years. i'm not exactly sure why

-i wish i could erase my memory and watch good TV shows over. like, if i could pay some amount of money to erase my memory of Friday Night Lights, just so i can watch it all over again and get that entertainment back. does that make sense, watching a really good season of a tv show is awesome entertainment, and entertainment is valuable. so, i think i'd pay some dollar amount to have my Friday Night Lights memory erased, just so i could watch it over again. i'd pay for homeland season 1, i'd pay for the last season of Breaking Bad, i might even pay for Orange is the New Black. or, i could just watch..THE WIRE

bab

a couple weekends ago, i went to a 2day concert in mountain view called BEYOND, which is a rhythm and blues music festival. i was excited, plus greg jt and kyle were flying up for it. it's saturday, sunday

all you need to get into the concert is your ticket and your driver's license. easy. ticket and your driver's license. as we are waiting in line, i pull out my ticket and my driver's license. we wait in line for about 20-30 minutes. as i'm about 5 people away from security, i look down and boom, no driver's license. umm, fuckkkkk. i go into full blown level-10 monkey tilt. i mean, it was classic online poker tilt. just classic. a bunch of "fuck me" "are you kidding me?" "where the fuck did it go" "wow" "horse shit" "fuck my life"

15 minutes go by and nothing. LUCKILY, i tell an employee walking by that i lost my ID, he says don't worry, follow me, and he lets me in without any ID (good vibes, employee man!). after saturday's show, i check Lost and Found...nothing.

fine, so i get into Sunday's show with my passport.
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one week after BEYOND, my mom calls me and tells me that i got a letter in the mail, from mountain view, that looks like a gift card. she opens it and boooom, my driver's license. it's from barbara shofield with a note that says "found at Beyond Saturday".

thoughts:
1. why didn't she leave it at lost and found?!?
2. why didn't she facebook message me and say that she found my DL? why make me suffer and think i lost my driver's license. (seriously, #1 and #2 seem so obvious to me!)
3. when i hear the name barbara shofield. i think of a 52 year-old mother of 2. (the average age at BEYOND was...i'd say 24)
4. i hate to complain. i'm very happy that i got my DL back. Barbara was extremely nice to mail it back to me. but! wouldn't that be an amazing story, guy loses his driver's license at a rhythm and blues concert, they connect on facebook, agree to meet up and return the DL, instant chemistry, 2 hour conversation over coffee, sparks fly...and the rest is fucking history...
5. not going to lie. i was a smidge disappointed by the name. barbara shofield
6. i'm an ass wad, i should be grateful.
7. but...um...couldn't a girl named Jamie Park! send it back to me. or a Stephanie Lee!...i'm a jerk...or Kristin Chu?.....how about a Sarah White?
8. no but seriously, hypothetically. if you give me a list of 1000 random girl names that were at Beyond. and I got to pick 1 name, that would find my Driver's License and return it to me. Barbara S.  would be in the bottom 2 percent. just saying.
9. i should be grateful. i'm going to mail barbara a thank you card

the dry cleaning place i go to is 2 block away. there's only 1 lady that i've ever seen work there, she's superrr asian, and somewhat nice. she says hi, i say hi, she says how many shirts, i say 4, she asks light starch or no starch, i say light starch, she says ok pick up Thursday, i say Ok thanks, hands me the receipt, i'm out. everyyytime. but when i went to pick up my shirts this week, she was standing toward the back of the building with a white face mask/lotion (or something) all over her face. no joke. it looked like mrs doubtfire when she put the cake icing on her face. 

when i walked in she looked super surprised, said "sorry" and then walked to the back to wash her face. loll i just laughed and said "it's ok". but i was thinking, what are you doing you weirdo???  are you surprised that a customer would walk in during business hours?

really good

scab eater

would you rather be derek jeter or brandon belt? (like, would you rather be derek jeter right now and live the rest of his life, or Brandon belt)

-i've talked about this with scottmizuno.com, and i think we both chose Belt. derek jeter is 39 and brandon belt is 25. derek jeter has all the money, fame, championships, beautiful women. but i don't necessarily think he's happier then brandon belt. for all i know, he could be extremely unhappy (but let's be real. money fame and women =happiness!!). 14 years younger, still makes lots of money, and flies under the radar. i don't like attention to begin with, belt!!

David Lee or AJ McCarron?

if i had to pick, i think i'm going David Lee here. david lee is 30 and AJ is 23. 7 years is a long time, but still. AJ McCarron has a really cool name, like super rare and super cool. David Lee not so much, there's probably 8,000 David Lee's in the world. and probably 945 David Lee's just in California. They both have good looking girlfriends (maybe david lee is engaged? i dont know), but i have to give the edge to David because his girl went to SHM and EDC. boom. and i'm a football hater, i would not want to be a professional football player, their career could be over the next play. 

floyd mayweather or kobe bryant?

i think i'm going kobe on this one. being a boxer is kind of scary, floyd has a higher chance of health problems when he gets older then kobe

andrew wiggins or kendrick lamar?

wiggins! why would i want to be a rapper? no thanks i'm not thirsty (Blank Check quote btww. famous DJ? nowwww we're talking

good job by youu

i love bill simmons, and i have never seen one episode of the Sopranos. However, bill always mentions the show, and the series finale in particular. if i had to guess, i think bill has mentioned the last episode probably 4-5 times (through his column and podcast) in the past couple years. even though i've never seen any episode, i know (because of bill) how the series finale ends. something like this "the camera just turns to black, and most people watching felt like their cable just went out, bill thinks that if the producers put a 'hbo' logo on the black screen somewhere, then it's a great series finale. but instead, most people were confused and upset"

so i couldn't take it anymore, i decided that i needed to watch the last 10 minutes of the Sopranos just so that i can understand what he is always talking about. i wonder how many ppl have done the same thing. if you asked me how many people in the world are fans of bill simmons, have never seen an episode of the Sopranos, are curious about the series finale, and finally to hboGO and watch the last 10 minutes?? gun to my head,  i think there are 21 people in the world that did it.

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ever since miley cyrus cut her hair really short, she's looked very scary to me. almost like a mixture of crazy, psycho, and even a little bit racist. like, i imagine in my head that if you see her walking down the street and you call her a crazy b. that she will absolutely flip out and cut you or something. however...
i know why i have this picture in my head. SHE LOOKS exactly LIKE EDWARD NORTON'S CRAZY NAZI GIRLFRIEND IN AMERICAN HISTORY X.

EXACTLY.

miley cyrus = edward norton's crazy nazi girlfriend in AMERICAN HISTORY X