oh yeah...

i forgot, i watched Coach Carter this morning...

Coach Carter- one of the great sport's movies...BB can feel me on this one, in fact i'd posit most boys can feel me on this one, we love sport's movies...one of my fondest sport's movie memories (and there are plenty) involved Brandon Brown (BB) and i buying a 32 pack of Pabst and renting The Rookie...that night involved lot's of tears and hooting...i mean, i seriously get teary eyed if a commercial plays the theme from The Natural (still in my opinion the greatest sport's movie of all time)...oh yeah, Coach Carter, first of all it takes place in the East Bay Area, where i'm from (so, automatic props)...specifically in Richmond, which is about a 30 minute drive from Concord (where i grew up)...Richmond is in Contra Costa County (CoCo County, as is Concord) and is a place you avoid at all costs, i mean, my theo peter and thea betty lived there and we NEVER visited, they visited us...according to statistics Richmond was recently classified as California's most dangerous city (a recent survey, i think i saw it over x-mas break)...you read about Richmond's "Iron Triangle" neighborhood in the papers every other day...it's a sad sad city...so it was great to see a movie like Coach Carter, based on a true story, rooted in the city of Richmond, rooted in something positive about Richmond, getting the movie goer rooting FOR Richmond...as the chant goes "Rich-what?! Rich-mond!!!...

secondly it was super fun to recognize locations and names...Fremont, Pinole, Hercules (all places very close to home (literally))...and the final game was played at San Francisco State University (my alma mater)...

if any of you are familiar with DJ Shadow, on his album The Private Press, the found recording that begins and ends the record is from a woman visiting Richmond, she says as much...

...currently listening to The White Stripes Elephant...