Andress Eagles

Andress Eagles 2013 (Junior Varsity)

No. 1!

Photograph by Lee*

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

On the Shoulders of Giants

BB.Zoo's latest read. 

Here is a clip from the foreword by the great Quincy Jones.

"In the epigraph that begins this introduction, the brilliant African-American scholar Ron Karenga says, "Our youth can be our fate or our future."  Something is our fate when we blindly stumble into it without having any control.  But the future is something we first envision and then go about creating - if we know what we want and how to get there."

Tao 1

Lee Jun-Fan Tape Tao 1

It's been a while since the last post.  Back on November 27th, 2013, Bruce Lee's b-day on the 40th year since passing, RBroNo.1 aka DJ Lee posted the Lee Jun-Fan Tape.  It's a mixtape that's been in thought for well over seven years.  The mix started with a cha-cha song from Victor Cugat that was discovered at local record store All That Music.  The hold up was on finding the right song to introduce the mix, that had the right sound, and that would connect with audio from Bruce Lee's acting years as a youth and into what I learned was Bruce's love for cha-cha music.  Over the past few years, we revisited most of Bruce's films, checked out interviews, clips off YouTube, soundtracks, documentaries, and were of course inspired by Shannon Lee's work online and all of the documentary, film, book projects, and videos promoted at brucelee.com and through the foundation.

The first set of mixes I put on CD were passed on to my youngest brothers BB.Josh and BB.Zoo.  I also provided a copy to my father who played a big part in putting me on to Bruce Lee through his involvement in the martial arts throughout my childhood and after.  My brothers and father each received a mixtape customized for them with their own Bruce Lee quote... Those quotes are included below:

"Learning is discovery, the discovery of the cause of our ignorance.  However, the best way of learning is not the computation of information.  Learning is discovery, uncovering what is there in us.  When we discover, we are uncovering our own ability, our own eyes, in order to find our potential, to see what is going on, to discover how we can enlarge our lives, to find meaning at our disposal that will let us cope with a difficult situation.  And all this, I maintain, is taking a place in the here and now." -For BB.Josh*

"To develop the creative attitude, analyze, focus on the wanted SOLUTION; seek out and fill your mind with the FACTS; write down IDEAS, both sensible and seemingly wild; let the facts and ideas simmer in your mind; evaluate, recheck, settle on the CREATIVE IDEAS." -For BB.Zoo*

 "The more we understand, the greater and deeper will be our contact with all that is around us." -For Dad aka King Kong*

The mixtape is split in two sides, Yin Side & Yang Side.  There are a total of 40 pieces reflecting the 40th anniversary, something I discovered after the mixtape was tracked and complete

Til' the next tape.

Treme Blu-Ray

Treme Season 3

Our latest screening!  Treme Season 3.

Katttpacalypse

Katt Williams

I wouldn't call this a family show, unless you in our house... We never been the type to censor what's on the screen when it came to comedy from my earliest recollection of Pryor, Paul Rodriguez, Sinbad, Eddie Murphy, & Andrew Dice Clay... to my brother's era of Chris Rock and Def Comedy Jam comics (Joe Tory, Sommore, Chris Tucker, Adele Givens, Juan Villareal, Martin Lawrence, and my pop's personal favorite Arnez J)...and then on into my youngest brother's era with Katt Williams, Kevin Hart, etc.  At the moment this special here is our favorite just recently having learned about it through Netflix. The game been missing Katt for a while! 

Playstation 4

November 22, 2013

We've been anticipating the new NBA Live 2014 for a minute.  We're serious fans of the game and so with the release of the new PS4, we set a date to purchase everything on the 22nd of November.  The 2K series just doesn't measure up to the game play of Live, regardless of what some consider to be better in terms of graphics, or features...the game play itself just doesn't do it for us.  Especially the 2K13.  Rondo looked like a senior citizen in that game.  Even as old as NBA Live 10 is, its still the basketball video game of choice in battles with our favorite squads...be it the Lakers, Celtics, or Heat.  Since 2009, despite the availability of the new 2K games we've been working with the dated rosters of Live 10 awaiting EA's return.

On the 22nd, no store in El Paso was carrying a PS4.  Everybody was sold out, supposedly.  Between PS4 and the new XBOX, I wonder how much revenue got exchanged out there.  As high demand as these systems are, I'm surprised by previous reports of a platform like Sony ever losing money.  How does that work?

Jurassic Life

Jurassic Park
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Big time flick for me in the 90s was the film Jurassic Park... from renting the VHS from grocery stores to eventually collecting all three on cassette.  If I'm not mistaken checked this game out on Sega back then too.  Just learned Jurassic Park or "World" is coming out in 2015.  There are some cool stories about what those actors from those first films have been up to since then.

As much as I liked those old Jurassic Park films though, I couldn't watch them no more than a couple times.  Not much of a fan of super hero, transformer, type, blockbuster flicks when it comes to watching them over again.  Looking forward to the new Jurassic World, nevertheless.

The above video is of a new dinosaur me and my brother learned about today through CNN's report by Greg Botelho.  I've never cared much to look into what exactly a person has to do to become a paleontologist, but its something I've thought my youngest brother would want to do to if he knew the steps.