Francesco, one of the sweetest men I have met, actually appeared to be the cute, geeky kid one wanted to talk with at lunch, however that is not the case. His life is charmed to the extreme: what appears to be innocence is actually debauchery! How interesting! That made me fall in love with the idea of getting to know him; the only problem was and remains to be that I am not that interesting. Actually, that is a lie, I am quite interesting, but I would never tell fellow adolescents about my many sexual, revolutionary, scandalous experience (at least, I wouldn't tell them all) -- for what would they think of me? Francesco is a rich kid, son of hard-working upper-upper-middle class Irish-Americans. His friends look like they just stepped out from ads in Hollister, the Gap, Banana Republic (you get my drift). Thus, I can say with certainty and complete admonition, that his is a charmed life, without a doubt.

As much as I wanted to get to know him, a girl who shall not be named, took his attention from me (actually she is one of the duo deemed dorm-mates at the beginning of the blog -- how ironic if one thinks about it). People say it is her personality to be so open and touchy-feely with the guys, however, I clearly demarcated my territory in a very typically French manner and she (purposefully, in my opinion) went against that demarcation and sought his attention. Now she tells me, he finds me fascinating.... hmmm, there is foul play a-foot and I don't like the smell of rotting fish. (To be frank, though, it really IS in her nature and I hold nothing against her... she is much more fascinating than me, so her attitude is quite acceptable and welcomed.)

As far as Francesco is concerned, I will do nothing and say nothing up front because who am I to talk? Although I must say this, I did see him in his boxers and although it was not spectacular, the event is brag-worthy. I promise I did not look. To give you background as to why I would have possibly seen him in his boxers, I will say just that I woke him up one day; he was actually very cute, cuddling his very expensive Blackburry. He looks like a hybrid of Prince William and Prince Harry, but I must say he has the personality of Prince Harry. Harry is daring and rebellious and the fact that Francesco snuck out to get drunk (or not to get drunk, as he says) at a concert is a typically Harry Windsorian thing to do.

Will he be my friend in the next few days based on mutual fascination (as some claim the situation stands)? Will the attention-grabber grab his attention without allowing me to grab anything (yes, yes, that is a sexual innuendo... how could I not include one in here?) ? Is there enough of a foundation in his moral character to withstand a denouncement on my part perpetrated by this very post? -- These are all difficult questions for a hormonal teenager to ponder while doing absolutely nothing, getting bored, watching British sitcoms (My Family to be specific), and getting ready for bed.

Love always,

Miruna B.

P.S.

I am actually in the mood for snooping around, finding the address and zagat-rating of Francesco's father's posh, New York City restaurant and eat there. But if they have the words fish, chips, mashers, or any combination thereof on the menu, I will probably commit suicide. I seriously think that ther is an invasion of Irish culture and it would do the likes of me pure Americans (yeah right) well to reject these silly nick-names for real, hearty food. I feel in such a conniving mood, but it really isn't all conniving, for this too is a hybrid of emotions, conniving + hungry, which is increasingly worse because those two moods make some of us do crazy, crazy things. And no one wants me, of all people, trying my hand at crazy because I am way to good at it.

**VERY IMPORTANT**

Now, with regards to the change in the name, it is quite simple: Francesco was the first to read the blog in front of my very eyes; suddenly he turned red (even redder than his natural Irish hue) because of heaps of embarassment; I am doing a nice thing and changing the name to Francesco... Voila, my benvolence.

6 Nike could sue Nigo, but the company probably wouldn\'t win.
Anyone who\'s ever looked at one of A Bathing Ape\'s popular Bapestas has surely noticed their striking similarity to Nike\'s Air Force 1s-sans swoosh and plus gaudy colorways. Though neither Nike nor Nigo will comment on this astounding likeness, one can\'t help but wonder if Nike could sue Nigo for patent infringement? "If [a sneaker is] functionally the same but looks a little different, you\'re safe," says Dick Turner, a partner at the Sughrue law firm in Washington, D.C. "Changing things just a little bit will change the look enough where it will be outside of the design patent. To win on a design patent it almost has to be copied." Sneaker companies file for design and technology patents by submitting a drawing to the United States Patent and Trademark Offices. (According to the USPTO\'s website, Nike owns over 2,000 patents.) While design patents are a fairly recent phenomenon, it\'s much easier to file for technology infringement. "Take the [Reebok] Pumps," Turner says. "Anybody else that makes a pump-able shoe is going to have problems regardless of what it looks like. It covers a pretty big area of real estate." And thus it seems that Nigo may continue pumping Air Faux-ce 1s all the livelong day, ay!

7 Known as a California skate company, Etnies actually started in France.
8 Goodyear, a division of the U.S. Rubber Company, is the original manufacturer of Keds.
9 Samuel L. Jackson and Eric Clapton are celebrity fans of Hiroki Nakamura\'s exclusive Japanese sneaker brand VISVIM.
10 Oakley designed sneakers for the U.S. Special Forces.
11 Jerry Seinfeld owns over 500 pairs of mint condition white sneakers.
12 By dividing the model number by 10, you can determine the approximate retail price of a New Balance sneaker. (i.e. NB574=$57.40)
13 The letters D and C are the 4th and 3rd letters in the alphabet, and many of the details on DC\'s shoes are based either on 3s, 4s, or the combination of the two, 7.
14 The Air Force 1 was the first basketball shoe to use air technology when it debuted in 1982.
15 The Air Max 1, which debuted in \'87, was the first Nike to expose the air bubble.
16 Jacob The Jeweler created a diamond encrusted Allen Iverson "Question" sneaker with 246 white-gold diamonds. It sold in 2004 in the Eastbay catalog holiday gift guide for $65,000. What a steal!
17 Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman started Blue Ribbon Sports, Nike\'s forerunner company with $500 each. B.R.S. is now a division of Nike specializing in clothes that complement its kicks.

18 Customization is all the rage today, but it\'s nothing new to vans.
For those who believe Nike i.d. is the best thing since shelltoes, peep game. Before sneaker customization went from niche hobby to overpriced mainstream trend, Vans was on it. With its understated designs, Vans may not seem like a beacon of cutting-edge creativity. But don\'t get it twisted; the company started customizing sneakers in March 1966. Founder Paul Van Doren believed in selling shoes directly to customers and allowed them to bring fabric to the factory to be turned into a shoe. "We\'re known for having funky patterns and doing Hawaiian prints, and stuff like that," explains Vans spokesperson Chris Overholser. "And the way that started was people would bring in their board shorts that got too ratty, and we could pull fabric from them and make them into shoes." The company put a halt to its custom business when its factories moved overseas in 1995. In 2004, Vans got back in the game with its website, shop.vans.com. Who want what?

19 Rocky Balboa wore Converse. The "Rocky Steps" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art have his bronzed soles set in concrete.
20 In 2001, K-Swiss acquired the rights to Royal Elastics. Royal Elastics prides itself on making sneakers that are "elasticated." Ironically, K-Swiss are designed to prevent stretching.

21 In True Crime: New York City, players have to search for special-edition Puma sneakers and return them to shoe stores. Puma produced the actual Puma x True Crime RS-100 sneaker, and they could be found in the same stores featured in the video game.
22 When the original Nike Dunk pack was released in school colors to NCAA basketball teams (Michigan, Syracuse, Kentucky), Georgetown wanted to have its own distinct model. As a result, the team received a Terminator that read "Hoyas" across its back.
23 In 1985, the NBA banned the red and black Air Jordan Is because they were "too colorful," and fined Jordan for wearing them. The move spawned the marketing campaign "Banned By The NBA."

24 On May 27, 1990, a huge shipment of Nikes got lost at sea.
In one of the strangest shipping accidents ever, 80,000 pairs of Nikes went missing in the Pacific Ocean en route from South Korea to the U.S. Oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer has been recovering Air Solo Flight, Strike Force, and Pegasus from that overboard shipment ever since. "Nike makes durable shoes," says Ebbesmeyer. "Apparently they\'re tougher than the ocean." Now, Ebbesmeyer tracks their movement. "If you follow the shoes you can follow the currents." He says a shoe from the spill can drift at an average rate of seven miles per day. "There\'s 24,000 miles around the Earth at the equator. So they\'ve been floating long enough to go around the world twice." Dope floats, indeed.

25 Sneakers got their first shine on the silver screen in 1961.
In addition to talking deer and magic nannies, Walt Disney Pictures was also the first movie studio to highlight performance sneakers. In the 1961 film The Absent Minded Professor, physical chemistry prof Ned Brainard invents a gravity defying substance called Flubber ("flying rubber") and successfully tests it on the struggling basketball team. With a little dab of Flubber added to the soles of its players\' sneakers, Medfield overcomes a 43-point deficit and defeats rival Rutland College. Knicks fans, relax; movies are make-believe. You\'ve got about as good a chance of getting your hands on Flubber as you do getting Starbury and Stevie Franchise to improve their teammates.

26 Bulletproof?
When hip-hop and skateboard culture converged, it was a no-brainer that some poor skate kid was gonna get shot. Luckily for Dante Formosa, he was wearing pro Colin McKay\'s signature Havocs from DC Shoes. On July 4, 2004, Dante-12 years old at the time-was enjoying a Philadelphia fireworks show when shots rang out. "I looked down and saw a hole in my shoe. I took my shoe off. It was all bloody," Dante told NBC News. "My friend pulled out a bullet." Apparently DC\'s rugged design, meant to protect from grip-tape abuse, slowed the stray bullet. Dante was wounded, but it could have been much worse. "I am happy that our durability can stop a bullet; my next shoe will have Kevlar sides just for that reason," jokes Colin McKay. "Oh, and they will work well for skating, too." While never intending to produce a shoe that could withstand a blast of lead, DC does build skate shoes tough enough to handle the rigors of skateboarding. "We test our kicks in the most abusive way possible-with a skateboard," says DC Founder and Chief Brand Officer Ken Block. He wouldn\'t comment on the possibility of stealing G-Unit from RBK.

27 The Beatles felt Nike subverted their "Revolution."
In 1987, Nike used the Beatles song "Revolution" in a commercial after reportedly paying Capitol Records Inc. $250,000 for the North American licensing rights. Apple Records, the Beatles\' recording company across the pond, had adamantly opposed the transaction and sued Nike Inc., Capitol Records Inc., EMI Records Inc., and the Wieden+Kennedy advertising agency for $15 million. Capitol-EMI said that Apple director and shareholder Yoko Ono had supported the deal. An out-of-court settlement eventually resolved a tangled web of lawsuits between the Beatles and their American and British record companies, and the terms have been kept secret. In March 1988, Nike stopped airing ads featuring "Revolution." When in doubt, blame Yoko. (JM)

28 Michael Jordan nearly ended his Nike sponsorship after his first two sneakers. In an attempt to convince MJ of Nike\'s commitment to him, designer Tinker Hatfield included him in the design process-an unprecedented move at the time. The Jordan III was the first in the line to featurethe Jumpman logo, and it helped convince him to stay.
29 Michael Jordan wanted to sign with Adidas in 1984, not Nike. He was a self-described "Adidas nut," and told his agent that if the deal was even close he\'d sign with them.
30 Members of the Heaven\'s Gate cult, which conducted a mass suicide in 1997, died rocking fresh black leather Nike sneakers with a white swoosh, giving new meaning to the term "fresh to death."
31 Ès and Emerica are  divisions of Etnies Sole Technology.
32 The limited edition New Balance 547s, attributed to graffiti/graphic design legend Haze on eBay, were actually designed by Josh Widcomb. [See p. 25, flip, for Haze\'s real NBs.]
33 Nike employed Hunter S. Thompson collaborator Ralph Steadman for the launch of its 180 Air line.
34 Converse Chuck Taylor All-Stars, first marketed in 1917, are the all-time best-selling sneakers, with total sales nearing 600 million pairs.
35 In 2005, Air Force 1s accounted for $1 billion in Nike sales, and a profit margin of 70 percent.
36 In 1980, the branded athletic shoe business was less than $1 billion. Today, industry experts put it at close to $8 billion, not including accessories and clothing.

37 Computer love
Launched in 2005, the Adidas 1 running shoe features a magnetic sensor, a microprocessor capable of five million calculations per second, and a motor-driven cable system that adjusts compression and cushioning based on your weight and the strength of your footfalls. It is not the first computer shoe, however. In 1984, the Adidas Micropacer boasted a digital pedometer in the tongue that displayed distance, time, average speed, and caloric expenditure. By 1985, the more complex Puma RS featured a computerized pedometer that could transfer data to an Apple IIe or Commodore 64 after the run. With improved technology, now humans can serve their computer masters even while running from them!

38 Footloose
Eccentric, 6\'11" NBA center Darryl "Chocolate Thunder" Dawkins was a true pioneer. In 1975 he was the first high school player to go directly to the league, and he made history by shattering a backboard with a dunk in 1979. His oddest groundbreaking came in \'82, when the Nike-endorsed behemoth was offered money by rival brand Pony. Instead of taking sides, he took the money and wore one shoe from each company (Nike wasn\'t amused and promptly dumped Dawkins). Okay, considering that Dawkins claimed to hail from the planet Lovetron, where his girl Juicy Lucy still lived, it may not have been his oddest moment.

39 The name Adidas was derived from its founder, Adolf "Adi" Dassler. Puma was started by Rudolf Dassler, Adi\'s brother, in 1948, after the two had a personal falling out.
40 Nike did not terminate Kobe Bryant following his arrest for sexual assault in July 2003.

41 Reebok spent $25 million promoting the Dan vs. Dave decathlon battle.
42 Martina Hingis blamed Sergio Tacchini sneakers, which she endorsed and wore, for her seemingly career ending ankle injury in 2002. She began competing again this year, wearing Adidas.
43 Diadora has a museum devoted to its history and athletes housed in the basement of its store in Florence, Italy.
44 Before B.R.S. was renamed Nike, Phil Knight proposed the name Dimension 6.
45 Carolyn Davidson, the Portland State University graphic design student who designed the Nike swoosh in 1971, was originally paid a fee of $35. In 1983, Nike gave her shares of its stock and a diamond ring featuring the swoosh.
46 Arthur Ashe, the late tennis star whose name is licensed for a shoe line through Run Athletics, was the first African-American man to win Wimbledon, in 1970. Sadly, apartheid kept him out of the South Africa Open. Don\'t hate the player, hate the game.

47 Dee Brown was the first NBA Slam Dunk Champion to wear Reebok Pumps.
At the 1991 Slam Dunk Contest, Brown repeatedly pressed the inflatable basketball on the tongue of his Reebok Pumps, sprinted downcourt, leaped, and flushed a diagonal left-handed slam. The company sold 20 million pairs of the $170 Pumps in four years, but their popularity faded. The Pump\'s latest edition is the Romulus, a high-tech upgrade. "When we took prototypes out, we had the manual pump and the new version," says Bill McInnis, Reebok\'s Director of Advanced Concepts. "Everybody picked the pump ball first, but once they tried [the Romulus] on, the conversion rate was 100 percent." Still, neither guarantees a Slam Dunk title.

48 In 2002, the Jordan XVII retailed for $200 and was the most expensive sneaker ever at retail.
49 William Riley, founder of the New Balance Arch Company in 1906, based early designs on chicken\'s feet.
50 New Balance makes up to six different widths-from 2A to 6E.
51 The Nike waffle sole was originally called the "nipple sole" by its inventor, Bill Bowerman.
52 After realizing that they wear the same size, Steven Malkmus of Pavement once traded a pair of sneakers with Damon Albarn of Blur and Gorillaz.
53 Skater Stevie Williams was first signed to DC shoes, but now skates in his own line of Reebok DGK models.  "DGK" stands for William\'s group of friends, who went by the name "Dirty Ghetto Kids."
54 Reebok signed Allen Iverson to a lifetime contract on November 28, 2001. A.I. gets a reported $7 million a year from the company.
55 Jordans are released on Saturdays so that kids don\'t skip school to get \'em.
56 Gwen Stefani\'s L.A.M.B. clothing line makes sneakers through Royal Elastics for both women, and, believe it or not, men. That shit is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S!
57 K-Swiss\'s five-stripe design is utilitarian; it helps prevent stretching.
58 Marc Jacobs bases the designs of the Louis Vuitton sneakers on "ordinary occurrences and everyday anecdotes." You couldn\'t tell?
59 Reebok almost signed LeBron James to a $75 million-dollar contract, until Nike snatched him up for $90 mil.
60 In 2003, Reebok signed a three-year-old basketball prodigy named Mark Walker. They scooped the youngster after his parents sent in a video of Walker making 18 consecutive free throws on an 8-foot hoop. In a press release Reebok referred to Walker as "short of everything but talent."

61 Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman once thought the large swoosh made the shoes appear heavy.
62 According to market research company The NPD Group, sneakers priced over $100 made up only $611 million of the $8 billion that customers spent on footwear during 2005.
63 Skate legend Tony Hawk and MTV jackass Bam Margera skate in Adio footwear, a sneaker company based out of Cali.
64 Nike SB sneakers have monthly drops rather than hard release dates, making it harder to predict when they\'ll arrive in stores.
65 The big sneaker companies, such as Nike and Adidas, own viewing boxes at most large sporting events like the U.S. Open and NBA Finals. However, should you step into their box wearing the sneakers of a competitor, you may be promptly asked to go barefoot- or offered to exchange your shoes temporarily for the host brand\'s.

66  Adidas helped win a World Cup.
At the 1954 World Cup, Adidas founder Adi Dassler made a halftime adjustment even Phil Jackson would be proud of. The underdog West German soccer team was down 2-0 to Hungary\'s "Mighty Magyars"-undefeated since 1950-and having trouble with the stadium\'s sloppy turf. "Adi had a very close relationship with the team and worked with them," says Ben Pruess, Global Head of Heritage for Adidas. "He introduced a new piece of footwear with a screw-in stud, which gave players better traction." Germany pounced with two quick goals to tie the match 2-2, and with six minutes left, Helmut Rahn scored the game winner after Hungary\'s keeper slipped on the wet grass. It was Germany\'s first World Cup, but more importantly, inspired a nation devastated by war. "This sporting event really gave them pride," Pruess says. Proof positive, a dramatic feature about events surrounding the game, Das Wunder Von Bern, was released in Germany in 2003. Adidas is for the children!

67 MTV refuses to play Nelly\'s "Air Force Ones" clip.
"Air Force Ones" were the three dirrty words Nelly couldn\'t say on Music Television. In early 2003, MTV, MTV2, and VH1 banned the "Air Force Ones" video due to excessive product placement. For those MTV die-hards who refused to watch BET, which did show the video, here\'s what you missed: Nelly and the St. Lunatics perform an impromptu concert after fans interrupt their shopping spree. How did you live without that?

68 Adidas\'s Stan Smith is named after a tennis player who won two U.S. Opens and Wimbledon in the early \'70s, not the titular character of Fox\'s \'American Dad.\'
69 In August 2005, Adidas acquired Reebok for $3.8 billion-the deal should be finalized by this summer.
70 Reebok and Pharrell share a love akin to Eminem and Kim. After falling out and threatening to sue each other, the two reconciled and went back into business together. You scream, I scream, we all scream for Ice Creams!
71 Until 1966, Converse All-Stars were only available in black and white.
72 The 1992 film Sneakers, which starred Robert Redford and River Phoenix, had nothing to do with sneaks. FYI, the forthcoming documentary Just For Kicks, does.
73 New Balancesneakers were emblazoned with "Made in the USA," but the company has factories in China and was taken to court over the claim.
74 Reebok is named after an African gazelle called a rhebok.
75 Skechers and L.A. Gear are both the brainchild of Robert Greenberg. Say what you say, he\'s rich.
76 Adidas\'s three-stripe logo is rumored to represent the three sons of Adidas founder, Adi Dassler.

77 On the Coq
It might not produce an anthem like "My Adidas," but legendary rapper DMC has found his new fit in upscale French sneaker brand Le Coq Sportif. After seeing Run\'s "Time For A Change" Phat Farm sneaker campaign and undergoing personal revelations (he recently discovered that he was adopted), D went searching for a shoe that would match his new persona. When a friend brought him to Le Coq Sportif\'s showroom, he immediately knew he\'d found a sneaker for an older Darryl "DMC" McDaniels. "In the \'80s, I was always afraid to mess with it because it was too fly for me," D remembers. "I can get fly now." While artists like the Fresh Prince and LL Cool J were known to rock the triangle rooster in the \'80s, the brand (which was actually owned by Adidas until 1995) has been largely unknown to American consumers in the last 10 years. "DMC is known for making Adidas what it is today," says Jennifer Delevante, Marketing Communications Director of newly launched Le Coq Sportif North America. "He considered Adidas to be part of his great past, but he\'s reinventing himself, and he needed something new. He\'s become a brand ambassador." While the company\'s new ads will be tied to the release of his new album, Checks, Thugs and Rock \'n Roll, D is more than just a public face. With input in colorways, cuts, and styles, he\'s helping to define the future of the brand. "I\'m not just another rapper with a sneaker line. That\'s the worst thing that I could ever do," he says. "We didn\'t do Adidas for any commercial reasons, that\'s what we wore. This is what I wear now." Just close your eyes and imagine a concert hall with thousands of 40-year-olds holding their Le Coq Sportifs proudly over their heads.

78 The Nike Air Max 95 design was based on the human body.  The midsole represents the spine, the graduated panels represent the muscles, the lace loops are the ribs, and the mesh  represents the skin.
79 In 2005, Reebok pulled a 50 Cent commercial because it showed 50 counting from one to nine, referring to the nine times he was shot. Reebok thought it was a positive message, but a mother whose son was shot to death complained, so the company pulled the ad.
80 Keds was the first company to call its rubber-soled shoes "sneakers."

81 In 1968, Puma became the first shoe to introduce Velcro fasteners.
82 Asics is an acronym for the Latin phrase "Anima Sana In Corpore Sano," which translates to "a sound mind in a sound body."
83 Featuring a kangaroo-esque pouch, Roos were endorsed by former NFL rushing leader Walter Payton.
84 Only Nike and Reebok sell more basketball sneakers than And 1.

85 Etnies made the first pro-model skate shoe.
Founded 20 years ago by the Rautureau Apple Shoe Company and skateboarder Alain "Platoon" Montagnet, Etnies was the first shoe company to be owned by a skateboarder, to develop a pro-skate shoe, and to sign a skater to a contract. It was luck-as much as visionary thinking-that helped bring about the signing of California\'s Natas Kaupas. "The original owner came to Venice Beach," explains current C.E.O., owner, and ex pro-skater Pierre André Senizergues, "and saw Natas on the cover of Thrasher, so he went to a local skate shop, got his address, went to his house, and found him. It was lucky. He could have not been there. They decided right then to make the deal." Sometimes opportunity knocks, literally. (DS)

86 When Saucony started in 1910, it made "carpet slippers," constructed from actual rugs.
87 The Air Max 360 heel pull-tab with two lines inside a 16-dot circle represents the birthday of designer Martin Lotti.
88 The "PF" in PF Flyers stands for "posture foundation."

89 Fabolous got his kicks collection exposed on  ESPN\'s \'It\'s The Shoes.\'
When ESPN\'s Kevin Wilde and David Jacoby decided to make a show about sneakers, Bobbito Garcia was the first and last name on their list of hosts, and rightly so. Garcia, famous for hosting Stretch Armstrong\'s popular \'90s college radio show, penned the groundbreaking article "Confession of a Sneaker Addict" in The Source in 1991, as well as the sneaker culture tome, Where\'d You Get Those? New York City\'s Sneaker Culture: 1960 to 1987 [Testify, \'02]. The producers had no idea the resulting half-hour show, which airs on ESPN2 at 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday nights, and features segments on sneakerhead dons like Flight Club\'s Chris Ridell, and celebs Carmelo Anthony and Trick Daddy, would expose F-A-B-O\'s F-A-U-X collection. "All the kids on niketalk.com were like, \'Yo, Fabolous was showing some fake Jordans on the screen and he didn\'t even know it,\'" Bobbito recalls. "I don\'t think he knows to this day." The same haters might be inclined to think that Fab\'s kicks aren\'t the only phony thing about sneaker TV. "You got a host that got legitimacy up his fuckin\' asshole," says Bobbito, unfazed. "So just sit back and enjoy it."

90 Hungar For More
Thought every corner of the universe had been dusted for retro sneakers? Not quite. In 1971, Hungarian athletic shoe company Tisza introduced sneakers in communist Eastern European countries as an alternative to the standard-issue leather shoes. When the Iron Curtain dropped in 1989, Western brands soon buried the once popular Tiszas. "Slowly, we are getting over this shock of capitalism and these new brands," says 23-year-old Tisza designer Zsofi Fenyvesi. The line was re-released in 2002 and Hungarian youth embraced Tisza, the only fashion and shoe company to design and produce in their country. It\'s a distinction that also keeps the shoes, um, limited edition. "It would be great to have products in other countries," says Fenyvesi, "but it isn\'t worth it because the shoes are produced in Hungary, not Vietnam, so it cannot be sold cheap." For us, by us-for real. (MJ)

91 New York\'s Department of Correction forbids prisoners in NYC jails to wear Nike Air or similar sneakers because razors and drugs can be stored in the hollowed-out sole of the air bubble. Ironically, prisoners can wear Converse Weapons, as they can\'t be used as a weapons cache.
92 DC Shoes\'s L.A. headquarters stands on the very spot where founder Damon Way was conceived.
93 Kurt Cobain died wearing a pair of black suede Converse One Stars.
94 Fila signed Grant Hill to an $80 million deal in 1997. Since then, Hill has played in only 249 games. In two and a half seasons, LeBron has already played in over 200.
95 In 1991, MC Hammer was endorsing British Knights.
96 When Reebok signed Yao Ming in 2003, it was the first time the company won an endorsement battle against Nike.
97 Andy Roddick\'s signature Reebok shoe was called the "Figjam DMX." "Figjam," which stands for "Fuck I\'m good…just ask me," comes from the nickname of Aussie Rules Football player Nathan Buckley.
98 Nike Air technology was born in 1979.
99 LA Gear still exists.

100  Nike Cortez were born at Asics.
In 1969, Asics, then known as Tiger, released the Cortez. Phil Knight, who\'d been a sales rep for Tiger in the \'60s, felt that he\'d been instrumental in the development of the shoe, so he took the design with him when he left to form the company that would later become Nike. Thus began a lengthy legal battle. In \'74, the courts decided that both parties had the rights to the design of the shoe, but that Tiger could not use the name Cortez. As a result, the company renamed its shoe the Corsair. Thirty years later, both models are still available.

101 When it premiered in \'73, the Puma Clyde was the first endorsed basketball shoe. When it came time to re-release the shoe, Puma didn\'t have an original blueprint, so designers and shoe engineers meticulously dissected an employee\'s deadstock pair to re-create the specs

Hip Hop DX recently reported that infamous rap due Mobb Deep, comprised of Prodigy and Havoc, are filing suit against former manager and owner of Street Core Music, Normal "Purfek Storm" Bell. Bell was manager from May 2004 to November 2007. During that time, Mobb Deep believes Bell promoted, distributed, and sold unreleased tracks without the proper authorization from the group. Tracks were released to on several mixtape series' including Mobb Deep: The Infamous Archives and The Purfek Storm Mixtape Vol. 1 and 3.

Like most disputes between artist and manager in this business, the majority of them could be resolved overnight by looking at the original language in the artist management contract. However, and this happens way to frequently, Mobb Deep claims that had an "oral agreement" with Bell. The lawsuit filed states that they "never warranted him the power to distribute unreleased music."

As hopeful as this sounds for Mobb Deep, all of this could have been avoided if they had an artist management contract. By laying out the details, roles, and responsibilities of the involved parties, when disputes come up, just look at the contract. If they had a contract with Bell, it should have explicitly stated what he was, and was not entitled to do with their music.

My advice for Mobb Deep and anyone else thinking about "signing" on with a manager: Get an extremely detailed contract that outlines the roles and responsibilities of the artist and the manager.

Again: "I'm the one they all run from"
diatribes of clouded sun
someone help me find the pause button

All these tapes in my head swirl around
Keeping my vibe down
All these thoughts in my head aren't my own
Wreaking havoc

"I'm too exhausting to be loved"
"a volatile chemical"
"best to quarantine and cut off"

All these tapes in my head swirl around
Keeping my vibe down
All these thoughts in my head aren't my own
Wreaking havoc

"I'm but thorn in your sweet side"
"You are better off without me"
"It'd be best to leave at once"

All these tapes in my head swirl around
Keeping my vibe down
All these thoughts in my head aren't my own
Wreaking havoc

Deep-ers Prodigy and Havoc -- that's Albert Johnson and Kejuan Muchita to their moms -- say ex-manager Norman Bell used their recordings to on "best of" albums they never authorized. Albums, they say, they didn't get paid for. They say Bell, who calls himself "Purfek Storm," owes them over a million bucks in back royalties.

Oops! Woman’s house gets razed by mistake

7:55 p.m. ET, Tues., July. 1, 2008

JACKSON, Miss. - A Jackson State University official blames pranksters for the mistaken demolition of a house — and everything in it. Owner Annie Wilson of Dallas said trying to get fair compensation has been a nightmare.

Vice president Troy Stovall said Jackson State bought the lot next to hers for potential expansion. He says somebody moved signs with the address and a notice that it belonged to the school onto Wilson's lot — so the contractor worked at the wrong site.

The 713-square-foot house had been appraised for just over $10,000. The school offered Wilson $8,000 in May. She says someone from the state finance department offered $20,000 on Thursday.

Update #2: Oh Yes, it's much better to see someone sell their body for money than gas. All the difference in the world. Probably one of the stupider statements I have heard lately.

Update #3: Here we have evidence of a schism that isn't being helped to heal with cute stunts.

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Ok, now this is something I never expected, even though the liberal movement in the US typically has in common with each other only one thing: Hatred of conservatives. Ok, two things... Hatred of conservatives and Bush. Ok, three things... conservatives, Bush, and Rush Limbaugh. Ok... well crap... they hate lots of things but they agree on damn little that isn't involved with their personal pet ideology. It all comes from within, it appears.

But the democrats stifling protests behind chicken-wire?

I guess they only support fences when it serves their purposes. Found a good cartoon on Stashiu's blog... (comic strip "Day by Day" - click the image below if it is too small)

DNC Protests Will Be Behind Fence

The fence around the public demonstration zone outside the Democratic National Convention will be chicken wire or chain link, authorities revealed in U.S. District Court today.

That may allow protestors to be seen and heard by delegates going in and out of the Pepsi Center during the convention.

But the American Civil Liberties Union and several advocacy groups have filed an amended complaint to their lawsuit against the U.S. Secret Service and the city and county of Denver that says protestors and demonstrators may have their First Amendment rights violated by security restrictions.

The ACLU has said it wants to avoid the conditions that existed during the 2004 convention in Boston, where protesters were caged, infuriating First Amendment advocates.

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In other news, which isn't shocking at all, certain people are itching to call Amadinejad's bluff.

HERZLIYA, Israel – Israel should use force to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, urged a former director of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency in an exclusive interview with WND.

The comments from Meir Amit, one of the most esteemed figures in the Israeli intelligence establishment, are significant since, until now, he has refused to support an attack against Iran.

Maybe by the time Iran blockades Hormuz, $250 a barrel of oil won't be so bad.

It will severely put a cramp in Wal-Mart, where everything is 78% plastic or your money back (including some of the food). No longer will you be able to buy shoddy chinese plastic crap for $0.99. You'll be able to buy shoddy chinese plastic crap for $8! What a deal folks! Imagine it: You find that perfect plastic dog-turd that you have searched for all your life, you walk up to the counter with trembling fingers, plunk that turd down on the counter, take your velcro camo wallet out and pull out a fresh-minted $50 bill and get your seven cents in change back in bright new pennies. Now you can buy that operation for your sister with the change!

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You cannot make this stuff up. I dare you to try...

You can't.

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More (old) news... stuff has been circulating around a while now that questions Obama's citizenship. Stuff would read like what I was sent tonight:

Barack Obama is not a legal U.S. natural-born citizen according to the law on the books at the time of his birth, which falls between December 24, 1952, to November 13, 1986. Federal Law requires that the office of President requires a natural-born citizen if the child was not born to two U.S. Citizen parents. This is what exempts John McCain, though he was born in the US Panama Canal Zone .

US Law very clearly states: '. . . If only one parent is a U.S. Citizen at the time of one's birth, that parent must have resided in the United States for minimum ten years, five of which must be after the age of 16.' Barack Obama's father was not a U.S. Citizen is a fact.

Obama's mother was only 18 when Obama was born. This means eve n though she had been a U.S. Citizen for 10 years, (or citizen of Hawaii being a territory), his mother fails the test for at-least-5-years- prior-to Barack Obama's birth, but-after-age- 16.

Got that? Well, stop salivating. The rationale why that doesn't work is:

Credit to: John Crewdson

Now pay strict attention, because I'm only going to explain this once: Is Barack Obama a natural-born citizen of the United States and therefore eligible to become president? The answer is yes, according to Ron Gotcher, a noted California immigration lawyer and The Swamp's resident expert on presidential eligibility.

"The poster's confusion," Gotcher writes, "is over the concepts of jus sanguinis and jus soli." Under jus sanguinis, a person's citizenship is transmitted "by the blood" - by inheritance from his or her parents or grandparents. In the United States, we recognize citizenship through parentage in a number of cases.

But it is not necessary to look to the statutes that deal with citizenship through jus sanguinis, since Senator Obama's citizenship derives from jus soli - citizenship through place of birth.

According to Gotcher, "The Fourteenth Amendment commands that "[a]ll persons born or naturalized in the United States , and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside."

"This was clarified by the Civil Rights Act of April 9, 1866, which provided that 'All persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power are declared to be citizens of the United States.'"

"Senator Obama was born in the State of Hawaii two years after it became a state on Aug.21, 1959 As such, he acquired United States citizenship automatically at birth. While it is not necessary to go into all of the other legal errors contained in the posting (and there are many), the simple fact is that, with rare exceptions (children of diplomats), everyone born in the United States is a citizen of the United States at birth."

source: http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2008/06/is_barack_obama_a_us_citizen_y.html

As much as I detest the guy, I hope to hell that the matter of his citizenship continues to be borne out to be true and valid. Do you have any idea of the violence that would occur over a technicality this late in the game? The worst of it is that he'd become a martyr. You can't fight martyrs.

Plus, I think he actually is a citizen, I'm not just saying that because I'm afraid of bloodshed. If he wasn't a citizen, I'd say "Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war" (Act Three, scene one, Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare) and be damned the consequences.

(Brando, da MAN - in Julius Caesar, 1953)

If you care, the segment where Marc Antony returns to find Caesar (dead) goes thusly:

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times.
Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!
Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,--
Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips,
To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue--
A curse shall light upon the limbs of men;
Domestic fury and fierce civil strife
Shall cumber all the parts of Italy;
Blood and destruction shall be so in use
And dreadful objects so familiar
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war;
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.

Beautiful, no?

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I can die happy - all warm, fuzzy, and validated. Sean M. posted over at doubleplusundead (welcome to the group over there, Sean) what he found on the Urban Dictionary. Go over there and look his stuff up OR head over to The Brea Canyon Monument - he's got some fun stuff to read. Really. Would I lie to you? Anyway, I'm slapping what he put down verbatim because I'm cheap, lazy, and it keeps my word count up.

moronosphere: That sector of cyberspace which is home to the slack jawed troglodytes, knuckle draggers, and hopelessly reactionary among the world's netizens.

I've always wanted to be known for my slack-jawed troglodytedness quotient.

[Thanks for pic Nessa]

Currently in the middle of serving a three year prison term, rapper Prodigy and one half of Mobb Deep, refuses to let his unfortunate circumstances slow him down and ironically seems to be busier then ever!

In this quick interview with Mad News, the Queensbridge (NY) native talks about his highly successful online blogs, G-Unit and his up and coming projects……

(Special thanks, goes out to Jackie O and Kiki)

Mad News: On the odd occasion in the past, when you and Havoc visited the UK to perform at sell out shows, due to excitement, your fans here always seemed to end up losing their minds. They would run up on stage to join you and Havoc, and as a result your shows would come to an abrupt halt because things would get out of control.  At the time did you find the fans behavior during your live performances overwhelming and slightly unnerving?

Prodigy:  Nah. That show right there in London… everybody jumped on stage, it was so hyped, it was like a riot, it was like a breakout, and the security was scared. We had to act as our own security and s**t. We had to control the crowd. But it was all love. As long as every body shows respect, then we got respect.

Mad News: Mobb Deep has always had a die hard underground fan base. But when you and Havoc signed to G-Unit many fans didn't hold back when it came to voicing their displeasure at the union via website forums/blogs, and some even flat out refused to purchase the album "Blood Money".   Looking back do you regret some of the decisions that you made business wise during that period?

Prodigy: Nope! We sold the same amount of records like we sold before. We do what we do every time around man, so we don’t regret nothing!  With the G-Unit deal, we made a lot of money with that. We travelled the world and you know, ‘Blood Money’ went gold.

Mad News: Is Mobb Deep still very much a part of the G-Unit family at this point in time?

Prodigy: Yep! We got the tattoos, 50 got 'Mobb Deep' tattooed on him. It’s not here today, gone tomorrow.

Mad News: I was impressed to read that you filmed a video for every track from your most recent CD, H.N.I.C. Part 2'. These days most artists are lucky if they can get their label to cough up funding for two videos. How did you manage to persuade the label to give you funding for each music promo?  Or did funding come out of your own pocket?

Prodigy: Yeah I did everything myself. I recorded the whole album, did all my videos and then just handed in the project to the label. So that’s how I’m going to do things from now on.

Mad News: Tell me about the DVD that you plan on releasing soon?

Prodigy: H.N.I.C.2 the DVD edition, there’s a video for every song on there. It’s crazy. We got some bonus videos on there, some bonus songs. I got the video for ‘Dirty New Yorker’ on the Grand Theft Auto 4 game. I have a bonus song called, ‘Sleep When I’m Dead’. So I got a lot of fire on there.

The reason why I made the DVD is because my videos aren't made for TV. My music's not made for the radio. So I had to make a DVD. TV is not going to play my videos. They are too graphic for them. My lyrics are too graphic. They might offend a whole lot of people and scare the s**t out of a lot of people. So I had to make a DVD.

The fans don’t never have to sit there and wait for BET, MTV or any other video channel to play my s**t. They can pop the DVD in and watch it all day, everyday, as much as they want, whenever they want.

Mad News: What is Havoc working on at the moment?

Prodigy: Havoc’s working on beats for the whole damn world! He’s always working on somebody’s album.

Mad News: You have two really good blogs, one on Vibe.com and the other on your site HNIC2.com. Admittedly when I first got word that you were blogging I just assumed that this was a case of an artist having a blog, but it was being ran by an assistant, posing as the artist. I was soooooooo wrong! Why did you decide to embrace the Internet and the world of blogging?

Prodigy:  Mobb Deep’s been on the Internet game since ‘99/2000’. We were like really, one of the first rappers to take advantage of the Internet. It’s just a community that you have to pay attention to. There’s millions and millions of people all around the world on the Internet. Everybody around the globe is on the Internet, so if you’re not on there, you’re missing out on a whole lot of people.

A blog, that’s just a new way to communicate, to leave my voice out there for the people. I can write whatever’s on my mind while I’m here in my jail cell, send it home and then it will be up on the blogs Vibe.com and HNIC.com, for everybody to see. It’s my way of reaching the people.

Mad News: Do you have any favourite blog sites (apart from your own) that you visit on occasion?

Prodigy: Nah. I ain’t in to all that really. What I do is something special. It has a message in it. I’m not just blogging just to be typing words. My words have messages in them. Nobody else out there is doing what I do. And if they are, well I haven’t heard about them. So I ain’t really in to checking out people’s blogs.

Mad News: Do you plan on releasing a book at some point (fictional or autobiographical)?

Prodigy: Yeah, I got an autobiography coming out soon. It will be about my life, rap music, and living with Sickle Cell Anaemia.

Check out Prodigy’s blog on his official website HNIC and on Vibe - "Because Prodigy Says so!"

The one word in which I would use to describe his blog posts.... DEEP!!!

We'd like to apologize for going MIA yesterday. We're just going to blame it on technical difficulties and move on from it. To make it up to you, we're giving you not one, not one and a half, but TWO Fictional Journalists of the Day! Today!

For this selection, we have chosen Andy Sachs and Miranda Priestly of The Devil Wears Prada. Now, you could argue that they're not really journalists, and the aptly named Sachs (inappropriate!) was just a typical pretentious college grad at best.

We'll have more after after the jump. But first, the links:

- You might get put off by the headline, but they make a good point about comments. Newspapers are adding comment sections for their online articles, but then subsequently disregarding them. The point of the comment section is to drive discussion and provide readers with a forum to be heard. Otherwise, what's the point? Leave us one, we'll talk to you. (Online Journalism Review)

- Hm, remember how we had the post about the UK teenage tycoons? Here's America's answer! America! F**K YEAH! (Forbes)

- Money lessons for the couch potato. Bloggers, pay attention. (AOL Money & Finance)

- More perks of the job! Our favorite? Smug Reporter vs. the Roided Revenger. (Gawker)

- And the Webby goes to... (Webby Awards)

- Here's a piece on men's mag publisher Felix Dennis. We used to be BIG fans of Maxim back in the day. We stopped reading it when we realized we were paying to read ads disguised as content. (Times Online)

- The good news about the newspaper bloodletting? Fresh eyes, of course. Will this be looked back on as the Great Journalistic Purge of the 2000s? (Slate)

- Interesting idea, and a lot of great reads. We'll be keeping tabs on this. (Britannica Blog)

Now, back to our fictional "journalists." Now, we must admit, when the movie first came out, we were interested because of the "journalist" portion of the movie. Watching an enterprising and engaging young reporter cutting their teeth in the big world.

Unfortunately for Sachs (hehe), all she becomes is a glorified personal assistant. To us, she's sort of the Luke Skywalker to Priestly's Jedi-gone-astray Darth Vader. Don't judge us, please.

Sachs, of course, chooses her morals over the glitz and glam of the fashion magazine lifestyle. (Oh no! Spoilers! Our apologies) Meanwhile, Priestly stays the same old dead-inside-but-at-least-I'm-still-on-top magazine chief.

In any case, the movie is more about generally following your own path and maintaining your own values/integrity, and that's applicable in any field. It ended a little too cheesy for our tastes, but then again ... Well, we're just saying.

Also, it kind of bothered us that Sachs (Northwestern grad, supposedly impressive clips) felt like she had to slum it to get some journalism cred.

Random Tangent: Oh yeah, before we forget. A couple years ago, we wondered what the hell Anne Hathaway was doing with her career doing all these kiddish movies like Ella Enchanted and the Princess Diaries. Then out of nowhere she does Havoc and um... shows her Sachs. Then does it again (we hear) in Brokeback Mountain. Now? She's a full-fledged bankable actress. I don't know if anyone's ever achieved the transition from child star to legitimately respected adult actress by showing her goods better and in a shorter timespan than Hathaway.

I guess our point is, like Hathaway, Sachs forged her own path, and that's why she's one of today's FJOTD.

As for Priestly? She's in because she's got this:

About.Com'un Rap&Hip-Hop bölümü yazarlarından Henry Adaso'nun yaptığı listeyi yayımlıyorum.

Listeye pek katılmıyorum ancak farklı fikirleri de göstermek gerek.

25 | Organized Noize

24 | Da Beatminerz

23 | DJ Clark Kent

22 | DJ Muggs

21 | Easy Moe Bee

20 | Salaam Remi

19 | The Alchemist

18 | Just Blaze

17 | Diamond D

16 | Hi-Tek

15 | J Dilla

14 | DJ Quik

13 | Havoc

12 | Prince Paul

11 | The Neptunes

10 | Rick Rubin

09 | Timbaland

08 | Kanye West

07 | The Bomb Squad

06 | Marley Marl

05 | Large Professor

04 | RZA

02 | Dr. Dre

02 | Pete Rock

01 | DJ Premier

Listeye Sorular:

• J Dilla taa Nerede?
• Madlib Nerede?
• 9th Wonder Neden Yok?
• Listenin tam bir kişiliği yok; ağır toplara ilk 7'de yer verilirken cart diye Kanye dir The Neptunes dür Timbo dur çıkıyor, ne biçim iştir?

]]> http://kbooks.wordpress.com/B000FCKKTE Thu, 29 May 2008 20:04:48 +0000 kbooks http://kbooks.wordpress.com/B000FCKKTE While the Clone Wars wreak havoc throughout the galaxy, the situation on the far world of Drongar is desperate, as Republic forces engage in a fierce fight with the Separatists. . . . The threatened enemy offensive begins as the Separatists employ legions of droids into their attack. Even with reinforcements, the flesh and blood of the Republic forces are just no match for battle droids- durasteel. Nowhere is this point more painfully clear than in the steaming Jasserak jungle, where the doctors and nurses of a small med unit face an impossible situation. As the dead and wounded start to pile up, surgeons Jos Vandar and Kornell -Uli- Divini know that time is running out. Even the Jedi abilities of Padawan Barriss Offee have been stretched to the limit. Ahead lies a test for Barriss that could very well lead to her death-and that of countless others. For the conflict is growing-and for this obscure mobile med unit, there-s only one resolution. Shocking, bold, unprecedented, it-s the only option Jos and his colleagues really have. The unthinkable has become the inevitable. Whether it kills them or not remains to be seen.

Order Star Wars Medstar 2 Jedi Healer from Amazon for $5.59

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Other Kindle Books of Interest
Star Wars: Medstar 1: Battle Surgeons
SW: Jedi Trial: A Clone Wars Novel
Yoda: Dark Rendezvous
Star Wars Cestus Deception
Star Wars: Shatterpoint

Last two weeks memang havoc. I did a lot of things and had travelled to lot of places. I also had attended my 4-days skill group enhancement program and shortly after went fo a recce to Ipoh, Cameron HIghland, Sunway, Bukit Tinggi and few other interesting places for my company Family Day Program in 2008. And this week again attending my skill group program which is Project Management line (fyi Skill Group Program is a training program conducted by my company to give training and guidance for us (the doers) in ecah functional skill).

And today I have to attend a workshop or brainstorming session in Kuantan. This 3 days 2 nights program also is a program or initiative of my company to improve work processes in the workplace. But the good things is the schedule is not very tight and maybe I'll have the times to pamper myself with jalan-jalan and shopping-shoppping coz  I've planned to buy 8 Gig Pendrive and few other things.

Till then , see u again next time and hopefully with the pictures taken during my recce last week

Note : Which team do you support in Euro 2008 which will kick off in next 9 days. My prediction will be Germany and Italy and the dark horses will be Czech and Portugal. Are u ready for this tournament..... if not then you better watch out coz it'll be coming soon to you 'special' at http://fullyhalfemty.wordpress.com

Here are videos for three of my favorites on the record, "Survival of the Fittest," "Give Up the Goods" and "Shook Ones Pt. 2."

"Survival of the Fittest":

"Give Up the Goods":

"Shook Ones Pt. 2":

V Mostra LUI LUI de Arte Cultura

Artes Plásticas
Fotografias
Pranchas
Instalações
Biblioteca
Carros
Homenagens
Palestras
Celebração da Cultura Surf

IV Festival OSKLEN de Cinema

High Water (Dana Brown)
Bustin´Down the Door (Jason Gosch)
Sliding Libéria (B. Cauiollette & N. Ludlow)
Havoc (Never Satisfied Prod)
Mundaka (Jarrod Tallman)
Surfwise (Doug Pray)

III Festival BILLABONG de Música

Henry Kapono
De La Soul
Jake Shimabukuro
Guru´s Jazzmatazz

e outras apresentações

I Salão Internacional do SURF

AS 25 MELHORES MARCAS DO BRASIL E DO MUNDO

O Salão do Surf é uma ação institucional do segmento dentro do Festival Alma Surf que apresentará um seleto grupo de marcas e empresas escolhidas com base no critério ''legitimidade e compromisso com o surf brasileiro''.

Palestras e Workshops
Bob Mignoga (fundador Surfing Magazine)
Romeu Andreatta (Publisher Alma Surf)

somente para convidados

De 9 a 12 de Julho
Pavilhão da Bienal do Ibirapuera
São Paulo

Peace

Play that shit again.

Original Version

As a bonus, this is my new shit. I think they released a month or two too soon and shoulda put it out right about NOW when its just gettin warm out. I can't wait to right through (north/west/southwest) Philly with this shit bumpin:

He actually had another song on his first album that was JUST as good as this one, it was more laid back and has Dre from the production team Cool & Dre on the hook. This was my superswag anthem for a minute. Here it is:

Rick Ross- Boss feat Dre

And this lil bonus is by one-half of one of my favorite rap groups. This shit got overlooked:

Havoc- I\'m the Boss

WE STUNT TO INSPIRE!

Cast & Credits

Directed by Barbara Kopple. Screenplay by Stephen Gaghan; story by Stephen Gaghan and Jessica Kaplan. MPAA: Rated R for strong sexual content, nudity, pervasive language, violence, drug and alcohol use - all involving teens. Runtime: 85 min.