“How Long Have You Known?” is a Best New Track from shimmering Brooklyn band Dive, our latest Rising act. Photo by Nika Milano.
Barça’s 30 passes.
The day after we had a decent discussion focusing on possession not always leading to substance, Barcelona exhibited exactly how you can pass a team to death, and complete such exquisite sequences with an end product. The blaugrana were in great form when they traveled to Zaragoza, gliding to a 4-1 victory. But the 4th goal was yet another lesson for us all to learn from.
Of course, most teams cannot replicate how Thiago (his pass was the true catalyst), Pedro, and Messi combined to create the goal, but 30 passes strung together serve as an excellent example of tiki-taka’s potential effectiveness even when being implemented against a well-disciplined opponent. [AFR on Twitter/FB]
Soccer
Every once in awhile, a commercial comes along that makes you say, “YES.” This Guitar Center commercial did that for me.
There were two lines that stuck out:
“You don’t have to be rich to do what you love.”
and
“When you pay for music by playing music, that means everything.”
That second line in particular reminded me of a post I wrote awhile back about how to make your hobbies pay for themselves. If you can find a way to earn a buck or two doing something you love, you don’t have to dip into your budget to sustain it.
The Arsenal Ballet.
Always appreciative of attempts to fuse together the beautiful game with fine arts, this spot for the Citroën DS5 was pretty well-executed. While the location looks like a luxurious room at Versailles, Arsenal’s Alex Song, Wojciech Szczesny, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, and Bacary Sagna learn ballet with dancers from the English National Ballet. And if that doesn’t do it for you, Arsenal legend Martin Keown is casually providing the music on the piano in the background. The four players seem comfortable enough in such a foreign environment, but I’m sure Per Mertesacker is still celebrating the fact that he didn’t have to partake. [posted by EB]
In a perfect world, CatTron would have busted into the Government debt meetings and peed on everything.
I love cats
