Wholly unrelated to the picture above, check out this high school QB in Texas...this is what we call gutting it out.

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The best name in college football is now no more.

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Nick Diamonds of Islands spoke to Pitchfork recently, and among other things now wants to be called by his given name Nick Thorburn. Aside from having the next two Islands albums already planned out, Nick had some very odd commentary on a range of issues:

On packaging the new album:
We're going to make each one ourselves, fold it up in a CFC Styrofoam container, non-recyclable, double plastic individually wrapped. The CD will be wrapped as well, and the booklet. Each member of Islands is going to hand-make the record. It's going to be really special, so it's going to take six months.

On the song "Rough Gem" from the first album:
I find [that song] a little insipid. I feel like that's really not encouraged, to shit-talk yourself...but that song gets on my nerves. It's really too chipper, too cheery for me right now. And it's cryptomnesiac. I stole that song unconsciously from Prince, so I'm giving it back. Cryptomnesia is a funny thing that has occurred throughout history-- authors and artists stealing from other authors and artists, either willingly or unknowingly, subconsciously or inadvertently. And it's pretty cool.

On ditching his stage name Diamonds for his given name Thorburn:
Diamonds is just a tacky, cheap kind of tawdry image, a little iconic graphic that people get tattoos of in Brooklyn, and I don't feel like I identify with that whatsoever. Thorburn is-- I've often thought it was a weird, punky sounding name, but it's kind of cool, it's got two pretty cool things in it: burn, things that burn-- that's cool-- and Thor. He was pretty cool. So I'm into it.

Islands / "Rough Gem"

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I'm not sure what is more surprising about this video of Phil Mickelson: the amazing trick shot he pulls off, or the fact that he's not tubby.

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Peter Vagenas of the LA Galaxy is delusional, but at least he's honest about it:

"I think, as we all are fans of soccer, he is David Beckham and a wise man told me you're worth what you negotiate. But at the same time, of course there's resentment, I'd be lying if I said there wasn't. On the one hand more power to him and on the other you say 'why can't I be getting some of that?'."

Let me break it down, Pete.
1) You're a hack who isn't good at soccer.
2) No one has ever spent money to watch a game because of you.
3) You're ugly.

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I saw this random story about the mayor of Pittsburgh sort of getting into trouble at a Steelers game, but it's not the story I find interesting so much as the fact that the city of Pittsburgh is being run by a 26-year old.