Dave Matthews

My brother-in-law dated Cara Black -- nice girl. She just won the Aussie Open women's doubles title.

 

My hatred of Dave Matthews borders on irrational. I've seen him live twice from about the 6th row and have never been more bored at a concert.

 

Seen him twice. And I got completely the opposite impression.

 

I saw him twice and could take it or leave it.

One of his shows provided one of my most memorable concert moments, though. That's when 21-year-old drunk girl pushed my 12-year-old daughter aside to get closer to the stage, and daughter's 39-year-old mother got very, very close to throwing down with drunk girl right there in front of the stage. And Matthews, singing "Ants Marching" at the time, actually was watching the goings-on with an amused expression on his face.

 

I don't like the music so I've never seen him live.

 

He's not African-American, he's just African. He was born there. Same with Ernie Els. Dave's children were born in the U.S., so they're African-American, I guess.
I've been to seven DMB shows but none for three or four years. I want to see another one sometime. When's he coming out with a new album?

 

I've seen two live shows and was not impressed (one in a downpour, the other in 110-degree heat), but the guy can write a damned song. In the discussion of the best songwriters born between 1962 and 1980, he merits consideration.

 

Tiger is Asian-American.

 

Frank Beard of ZZ Top is the only member of the band who did not sport a beard.

 

Shouldn't he be Asian-African-American?

 

It's easier just to say "cobblination."

 

If you're trying for Tiger's self-proclaimed ethnic mix, that would be cablinasian.

Ca -- caucasian
bl -- black
in -- indian
asian -- pretty self explanatory


http://www.salon.com/april97/tiger970430.html

And then Tiger Woods said he wasn't actually "black" at all -- he was "Cablinasian."

Woods made his remarks on "Oprah," when he was asked if it bothered him to be called an African-American. "It does," he said. "Growing up, I came up with this name: I'm a 'Cablinasian.'" As in Caucasian-black-Indian-Asian. Woods has a black father (or to be precise, if I am interpreting Woods' reported ancestry correctly, a half-black, one-quarter American Indian, one-quarter white father) and a Thai mother (or, with the same caveat, a half-Thai, half-Chinese mother). "I'm just who I am," Woods told Oprah Winfrey, "whoever you see in front of you."