Lakers' guard Jordan Farmar writes one of the more entertaining blogs for athletes.
His latest entry, for Playboy Magazine, takes Dick Vitale to task for dissing his Bruins and Farmar's expertise in video games. But he also revealed that his music guru is Luke Walton and perhaps most amusingly is how he refers to Bill Walton, a fellow UCLA alumni and one of the greatest players ever.
I hang out with Luke Walton and he's turned me onto classic rock like the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin (their music was used with P. Diddy in the movie Godzilla). Luke's dad Bill was a big-time hippie who loves all that music. Luke's my best friend on the team, so we're together all the time. He's turned me onto the alternative, rock and roll, old school music. That's one thing about us Lakers. We're kind of positioned as the rock stars of the NBA, we're in the entertainment capital of the world. And as a team, we have a chance to really be special, and so every night we get to rock out in front of everybody on the court.
I'm also a big fan of Kanye West. I love his music so much because he intertwines different genres. He says his new CD, 808s & Heartbreak, is not traditional hip-hop music. He used a lot of drum machines to create this synth-pop sound mixed up with R & B. He also says he wanted to use this pitch correction software called Auto-Tune "to distance (him)self from that traditional rap sound."
http://blogs.usatoday.com/gameon/2008/12/jordan-farmar-a.html?csp=34
