Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Wolves..OKC

 


8 fucking views..go figure.

I'll likely make at least 1 more video about the WCF. I do still hold true to my feeling about OKC. Their defense is at times, very effective, and part of that is playing 9 or 10 guys. 

But they still get away with fucking murder and it feeds it.

They resemble the Bad Boys in some ways, how smothering they are.

Did the Wolves play up to their potential? no. Had they, could have won? I still contend they could have. 

But it does go back to that video and this thing we have seen so many more times. Why this loss and so many other Final 4 losses or even a few championship round losses in the history of Minnesota Sports is to always be ASSUMED.

OKC down the road gonna have a dynasty..youngest team in the league, blah blah..that remains to be seen. Let's see if they even win the title 1st. If it is the Pacers, I may not watch that much, but I'll admit, if the series is closer, or if Indiana goes up on them..I may.

Not that I love the Pacers, but I respect them after those 2 losses and after beating Cleveland, who I contend, impressed me more than OKC this season. They dealt with injuries. But the Pacers did them in.

But the question is..can the Wolves do more, learn more to beat OKC and for that matter, the other Western Conference teams that'll get better. Lakers, Spurs, Rockets even. Can they? Maybe even the fucking Mavericks..although again with Flagg..I wouldn;'t be shocked if he doesn't end up being as hyped as he's getting.

I kind of think unless Ant does progress a lot, also demanding teammates to play better..that he actually may be best as a 1b or even #2. Dwayne Wade who he reminds me most of. Not Jordan or Kobe. 

Ant needs a guy like Jokic or Giannis. Put Ant and Giannis together, and some effective role players and they could win. But I'm uncertain at his current ability, he can be the clear cut #1. Randle and Kat were good, but they were not 1a or 1b level enough. Ant would thrive as a #2 or a #1a or #1b, drawing the defense, so he would not be swarmed so much.

He needs to benefit from being 1 on 1 for the majority of the game. The last 2 seasons, that hasn't happened, and it's affected him.

Plus this is 2 straight years of WCF meltdowns. Not showing up in Game 5. And now looking at it, it does have the feel of those Yankees Twins series, or 41-0 or 38-7 Vikings meltdowns. 

If tonight they had loss like Game 4 or even maybe Games 1-2, I don't know if it would feel quite as bad. I mean after what happened in Game 4, it was like, that's it. We can't win, give OKC the game and series.

We can't beat them, we won't be able to beat them because they're deep, young, and had this gaudy record., 5th best all-time. So that means they're the 5th greatest team in NBA History? lol..and their depth, youth, and now experience deems them to dominate the NBA for extended years? So why even try?

or why even bother paying attention to the NBA? kind of like I did tune it out in the mid-late 2010's.

They're a boring team to watch anyway, lol

Back to the French Open and the PGA tour it is I guess....

Monday, May 5, 2025

Bots and YouTube...

 I didn't fully realize, but the more I think about it, the lost views and the gained and lost subscribers I see on my YouTube channel are due to Bots.

Bots watch and sub, and then unsub. They get flagged by YouTube.

And when I get new subscribers and don't see who it is, there;s a good chance it's a Bot.

Lovely..blech.

Another reason my plans at 1000 videos make sense...

But of course many views are from non-subs of course, lol.

Saturday, May 3, 2025

WAMR Radio: Mid-Spring 2005 New Releases Playlist

 



sElf - Summersound 3:35

Klimt 1918 - They Were Wed By the Sea 4:35

The Receiving End of Sirens - This Armistice 5:55

Shaman - Reason 4:46

Gospel - Congratulations...You've Hit Bottom! 3:41

Shadow Gallery - The Andromeda Strain 6:46

dredg - Hung Over on a Tuesday 4:05

Dream Theater - These Walls 7:36

The Chap - Oozing Emotion 2:41

Time of Orchids - All We Ever Wish 8:06

Subterranean Masquerade - Six Strings to Cover Fear 6:48

Cloud Cult - Transistor Radio 4:08

Avenged Sevenfold - Bat Country 5:11

The Most Serene Republic - Where Cedar Nouns and Adverbs Walk 4:32

Ulver - It Is Not Sound 4:37


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This is a beta test/dry-run deal. That's a playlist for May/Mid Spring 2005. 

15 Songs/Tracks 2 hours, 11 minutes exactly or 131 minutes.

Script? haven't done it yet or for this one, but I may try. I would estimate if this is the 2 hours 11 minutes it is, with talking, the Podcast would go maybe but not quite 3 hours, but close.

Paige Bueckers..twitter paused

 The Trash that never ends from the weak feeble minded trolls are among several reasons I've Paused twitter indefinitely.

The clips of Paige were decent in her 1st preseason game with the Dallas Wings. 

1st game for fuck's sake.

"4th best rookie in the game" bullshit.

These mofos needs to go back to Troll school.

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Friday, May 2, 2025

Music Release History Radio Show/Podcast and PLAYLISTS (immediately) Update

The plan is looking to be:

YouTube: likely on Pause at or around 1000 videos barring something changing to focus on this in the short and maybe long term. Shorts and.or TikTok on the other hand may be still done. This likely will be sometime in 2026 or 2027..maybe 2028 even. It mostly depends on when I hit 1000 videos 


Instead of 20 Songs and 3 hours..it'll likely be more like by decade

60's: 5 songs 

70's: 5 or possibly up to 10 songs

80's: 5 or possibly up to 10 songs

90's: 10 songs or possibly more

2000's: 10 or maybe closer to 20 songs

2010's: 10 or maybe closer to 20 songs

2020's: 10 or maybe closer to 20 songs

Windows of time:

Selecting 1 month that includes songs from releases released in January along with the releases from the previous month and the following month. Aka a 'Season" and a part of the season that, that month is. So the following months are considered:


January: Early Winter (+December and February)

February: Mid Winter (+January and March)

March: Late Winter (+February and April)

April: Early Spring (+March and May)

May: Mid Spring (+April and June)

June: Late Spring (+May and July)

July: Early Summer (+June and August)

August: Mid Summer (+July and September)

September: Late Summer (+August and October)

October: Early Fall (+September and November)

November: Mid Fall (+October and December)

December: Late Fall (+November and January)

So January (Early Winter) would include songs from December and February,
February (Mid Winter) would include songs from January and March, etc

And the songs chosen are intended to be nearly all from the information I have on the release Date or Month.

Playlists and then a podcast at some point? Initially, a Playlist and I may do a writeup (or script per say). The hope would be if the time is allowed, to record an actual Podcast where I get to play historical DJ and put it up on Substack or Mixcloud. Clips? well..not ideally, but that may find a way to get around copyright concerns (and Mixcloud or Substack vs YouTube, Spotify, etc).

And the Radio Station name (or Podcast even) may be called KAMR or WAMR
(AMR = All Media Reviews, K or W being common for the 1st Letter in a Radio Station depending on location based on where they are broadcasting from relative to being East or West of the Mississippi River I guess).

Doing the same Month/Season multiple times? yes because some albums/releases will not necessarily be included due to the song/time limit. So going back to a month/season would make sense depending on how committed I get. It may be several years though before the same month/season is done again.

Research? while I've done a lot, there's still a lot to do of course. I estimated, it's approximately 720 Months/Seasons going back to 1965 through the present. I will do as much as I can, but also may do some on the fly aka I have many of them in order and listed, but will miss some, and then go back at some point. Hence that among other reasons to plan to do the same Month/Season again eventually.