Portland Trail Blazers Playlist

This includes stuff they play at The Rose Garden and some of my own pump ya up style tunes

Young Jeezy - Standing Ovation (The first 3 picked by players during warm-ups)
Birdman - Pop Bottles
Jibbs - King Kong
The Who - Who Are You (who is the visiting team???)
Daft Punk - Harder Faster Better (Deadmau5 Edit) (Pre-intro warming up)
Carl Orff - Carmina Burana - O Fortuna (One of the intros, the other is GNR... boring)
Run DMC - Walk This Way (Def Beats)
Jim Noir - Eanie Meany (Fat Boy Slim Mix) (The World Cup 2006 Adidas Comercial song)
The Game - Compton (Def Beats)
Spoon - I Turn My Camera On (the Blazers cuz they is rollin)
DJ Food - Dark Lady (Def Beats)
Timo Maas - To Get Down (One of my favs)
Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop (Ay Oh, Let's Go)
Junkie XL - A Little Less Conversation (Def Beats)
Republica - Ready To Go (The Blazers are always ready to go)
Randy Newman - I Love LA (When Lamarcus Aldridge scores)
Outkast - Hey Ya (What's cooler than cool??? The Blazers!)
Dubfire - Rib Cage (Def Beats)
Groove Armada - I See you Baby (shaking your a... watch your mouth, I'm just talking bout Blazers)
Modest Mouse - We've Got Everything (NW represent)
Nelly - Hot In Here (Def Beats)
Finger Eleven - Paralyzer (Heard this at an Auburn game)
Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At (I didn't know Kevin Pritchard could get down)
LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk Is Playing At My House (How come they don't play MY house?)
Black Box - Strike It Up (Dumb early techno/house, but it gets people going)
Dusty Kid - The Cat/The Kitten (Def Beats)
Ennio Morricone - The Good The Bad & The Ugly (When Travis Outlaw scores... The Good!!!)
Gary Glitter - Rock n Roll Part 2 (Necessary at sporting events)
Gorillaz - Re-Hash (Def Beats)
Blur - Song 2 (Loud)
THX (Lets grill, lets grill, lets grill 'em!!!)
Lyrics Born - I Changed My Mind (Def Beats)
Ole Ole Ole (When Sergio Rodriguez scores - He's Spanish, he must like soccer)
Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So (Also loud!)
Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People (Def Beats)
The Isley Brothers - Shout (A little LOUDER now!!!)
2 Unlimited - Get Ready (dumb lyrics, but not bad if you edit them out)
2 Unlimited - Twilight Zone (see above, plus good riot inducing early techno/house)
AC/DC - Hells Bells (Rock the bells, geetar pumpin)
BTO - Taking Care of Business (The Blazers have done just this 11 out the last 11 games!!!)

NYTimes Baked Eggs

GO BLAZERS!!! 9 in a row!!!

Orange Confit from the NYTimes

I love this quote from Tyson Chandler about the Rose Garden after an ugly Blazer's win, "(The Blazers) are playing great at home. They definitely have home-court advantage because you couldn't hear anything out there."

NYTimes on carving a turkey

The Portland Timbers will host their first-round, home playoff match on Sunday, Sept. 16, at PGE Park at 5 p.m. A first-round opponent will be determined by the United Soccer Leagues at a later date.

USL Division 1 Playoffs 1st round
Portland Timbers vs ???
Sunday Sept 16 5pm @ PGE Park
Timbers Army Chants with video
Timbers Chants with audio
Talk Timbers message board
PortlandTimbers.com

Great Portland rock I'm just getting around to checking out...
Menomena
Boy Eats Drum Machine
The Shaky Hands
Blitzen Trapper

RIYL: Super Furry Animals, Radiohead & The Flaming Lips
ok, the Radiohead part is a bit of a cop out, I don't mean folks like near twins the Muse, but more like like minded, artists who aren't afraid to push boundaries a little. Also, you could say TV On The Radio and maybe (I can't even believe my fingers can type these words) the grateful dead (just a bit on a couple Shaky Hands and Blitzen Trapper songs). Somebody else said acoustic Neil Young, that's much better, but not what came to my mind. Nevertheless, these bands are all quite good and deserve you attention.

Hey Big Ten alumni in Oregon, I know there's a lot of you out here, I work with a buncha ya. Go to the Big Ten Network's site and tell Comcast you want 'em to carry it out here!!!

Blazers widget

Go Blazers!

CNN-SI has its list of top 10 ugliest uniforms in college football, and they are close but missed the Oregon triumvirate... with Portland State. I don't know how such a beautiful state could have such nasty jerseys??? here's my top 3...
3. Portland State
2. Oregon
1. Oregon State

Cleveland High Football 2007

Song from Shrek the Third commercial???
The Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger, 4th track from their Costello Music album... you know, the one that goes doo doo doo.... doo doo doo.... doo doo doo... doo doo doo doo doo. Sounds kinda like T-Rex meets the Datsuns meets Franz Ferdinand. Great, and extremely catchy tune!

GO TIMBERS!!! Destroy the Flounders!

Timbers have the week off, to keep you in the mood checkout Fuzzball's version of Green Is The Color. Next game May 5th in Seattle, who will be destroyed!!!

Portland Timbers beat the Puerto Rico Islanders 3-1 in their opening game of the 2007 USL season!!! Sweet!!! and the Timbers Army is still growing!!!

Blazers beat the Wizards 100-98 and Gilby doesn't come close to 50, infact he didn't even come close to 50 in the two games, now sit down and shut up Gilby. Blazers' rookies rule!!!

Been checking out the Portland chocolate scene lately. Most recently we went to Alma on NE 28th between Couch & Davis. Had the Manjari truffle, which was excellent, such good rich chocolate flavor!!! Highly recommended.

Then there's the downtown 4:
Teuscher
Moonstruck
Leonidas
See's

Both times Teuscher was our favorite. The triple chocolate truffle is excellent. Leonidas & Moonstruck split 2nd place on our two trips. Quite liked the Mayan truffle (with almond & cinnamon) at Moonstruck but the mostly straight chocolate truffle the first time left something to be desired. See's comes in last, more like candy (think snickers) than chocolates.

BeatPort! Damnit!

http://www.rainydayfitness.com/

Went to see Clint Eastwood's Flag's of Our Fathers last night at the Academy Theater in SE Portland. First off, that was a tough movie to take and also quite moving. But on a Portland bent, the folks at the Academy have done a wonderful job remodeling the old theater. Very comfortable, new seats, new paint, new carpet. They have pizza (from Flying Pie) and numerous beers on tap as well as wine and hot dogs. Looking forward to seeing Letters From Iwo Jima and returning to the Academy!