truck driving on the internet
Friday, August 30, 2002
Wednesday, August 28, 2002
ILL Mitch Rap Songs
1. Rap to the world
2. My fans are friends
3. Boarding fast
4. I will win
5. Punching while rap
1. Rap to the world
2. My fans are friends
3. Boarding fast
4. I will win
5. Punching while rap
Tuesday, August 27, 2002
Monday, August 26, 2002
"the tube will suck the mind out of your head"
What Phil Jackson is Reading
Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson is known for giving books to his players. He tailors his choices to fit the players' personalities, and usually, to help them solve a problem or to better understand something about themselves. And quite often, the aim is to make them better basketball players.
When he was coach of the Chicago Bulls, he gave Dennis Rodman The Perfect Vehicle, a picture book about motorcycles. "He loved motorcycles and he wasn't a reader," Jackson explains. Rodman loved the book.
More recently, he gave Laker Mark Madsen Riders of the Purple Sage because the book depicts the Mormons in the Southwest, and Madsen is a Mormon.
He gave another Laker, Ukrainian Stanislav Medvedenko , the Dr. Seuss book Oh, the Places You'll Go!. "It's a great book for guys who are just learning the language and learning to read," Jackson says.
Jackson says Shaquille O'Neal is the one player who takes him seriously when he tells players he expects a report upon completion of a book. Jackson gave him Siddhartha, Herman Hesse's take on the life of Buddha, and O'Neal told him, "I understand why you gave this book to me. It's about a guy with everything -- a lot of money, a lot of women -- and still can't find the pleasure in what he's doing."
Jackson's own reading list of late includes several books about American Indians. He spends much of his summer in Montana, and he spends much of his time there reading.
One such book he recently read was Tony Hillerman's The Wailing Wind. "He weaves a good mystery story around a lot of Native American culture," Jackson says.
He likes books about Indians, he says, because "We glibly accept a lot of things that are foreign, but here in our own country we have a lot of native American cultures that are still flourishing," and deserve more attention.
Currently Reading:
•A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead, Dennis McNally
Recent Reading:
•It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life, Lance Armstrong
•Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, Anthony Bourdain
•The Cold Six Thousand, James Ellroy
•Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand
•Hotel Honolulu, Paul Theroux
