Starting 5ives: beards over basketball.
Over at our favorite public radio station, KCRW, they have a nice thing going with their “5ive Things” lists. Recently, they posted this: 5ive best beards in music. Honestly, I would have picked a different starting five. For one, leaving both ?uestlove and Rick Rubin on the bench shows a strong bias against hip hop which is almost inexcusable. However, one thing I will say is that this beard lineup could not only do pretty well in a beard challenge, but they could also beat the current Golden State Warriors starting lineup in a game of basketball (and the beard team includes a dead heroin addict)
If there’s anything that will make you want to go off the grid and join a cult of bearded troubadour forest creatures, it’s watching the Warriors play basketball, followed by some post-game color commentary by Gary St. Jean (BTW - is it me, or does St. Jean look like Santa Claus with no beard?) At the end of tonight’s debacle against the Sacramento Kings, the only thing that could calm me down was listening to Iron and Wine. I think of Sam Beam walking by a stream in some uninhabited woodland catching butterflies on his finger and everything’s right in the world again. So, now that we’ve established that writing about Warriors basketball is about as worthwhile as drinking a bottle of Simple Green just to see what will happen, you, good readers, can expect more beard-related posts. Beard up and enjoy. Happy Monday!
