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The new Ferrari 458 Italia: I just got a semi.

July 28th, 2009

Ferrari 458 Italia

So, for the first time in almost a decade there is a new Ferrari that is truly drop dead gorgeous. Beautifully balanced proportions, a big, rakish windscreen that plunges into the hood, flared haunches pulled taut over massive five spoke wheels with rubber-band thin tyres on them and that glorious, sinfully wet looking red paint.

If I were a cat I’d be purring right now…

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WordPress is being a bitch again… and Eurythmics

July 23rd, 2009

British electronic/pop duo (composed of Dave Stewart and the hugely talented Annie Lennox) Eurythmics’ 1986 album Revenge featured this song “Missionary Man“. The duo are best known for their single “Sweet Dreams” from the album of the same name from 1983 but my favourite is this song. Classic Eurythmics, Annie Lennox’s powerful voice laid over Dave Stewart’s highly processed electronic arrangement. It was good enough to win them a Grammy.

Get the MP3 Here
P.S. WORDPRESS ATE MY BLOG POST! Had to do it again from scratch. Adding “Fuck WordPress” to the tags…

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Didn’t Cha Know

July 18th, 2009


From Erykah Badu’s 2000 album, Mama’s Gun.

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That Don’t Mean Shit: Legalising ‘The Gays’ in India

July 12th, 2009

One Creepy MotherFuckerSo, a few days back the Delhi High Court sort of revoked Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. (it makes sodomy a crime, along with bestiality) And just my luck that I find myself in a new city, sitting in some old geezer’s house as the news channels whip themselves into a frenzy about how this will lead to people running amok in the streets, buggering anyone caught bending (Bad pun, I know)

So, the old geezer is one of those religious farts and he starts right off with his mini-polemic about how sodomy is a Sin and Unnatural according to the Bible and how the Delhi High Court has in one fell swoop, legalised bestiality too, the fools!

He carries on about the Pope (creepy picture above) and the Queen of England being the head of the church and both of them saying that this is deviant, unnatural behaviour (bestiality and sodomy) and he goes on and on and on….

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Sing Aloud Song for the Week-Lump!

July 6th, 2009

It just goes to show how popular the song Lump is that its the first result that comes up when you Google the word ‘Lump’. The song is off Seattle based Alt-rock group The Presidents of the USA’s debut album from 1995. These guys made a successful career of singing silly songs with ridiculous lyrics and catchy tunes that stuck in your head forever.

I spent a whole lot of my teenage years singing their songs at the top of my voice, while it broke. Sorry Mom!

Also worth listening to is The Presidents’ Best Of compilation from 2000, also called Lump.

Get the MP3 Here

P.S. Another proof of the song’s popularity is that Weird Al Yankovic has done an absolutely brilliant parody of it, called Gump. (As in Forrest Gump)

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Michael Jackson & Farrah Fawcett:They don’t make ‘em like they used to.

July 1st, 2009

So Michael Jackson died. Call me crazy but I wish it happened 20 years ago. Maybe 15. Before he allegedly touched little boys (that’s the Church’s job!), before he plastic surgeried himself into a nightmarish china doll, before he was commonly referred to as Wacko Jacko, (The next person who calls him that in my presence gets punched in the face) while he was still known as a musical genius, worldwide superstar and the only human being ever, who’s image graced the walls of my boyhood bedroom.(Okay, maybe not so much that last one)
Above is a clip of him performing ‘Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough’ (a song that makes most music of today sound like insipid bile) and below is a clip of ‘The Jackson 5′ performing ‘I Want You Back’ (After a news reporter with a huge cigar does stand-up for a mintue)
Even though he was knee high to a grasshopper in this video it is so obvious that the kid was gonna be a star.
Farewell Michael Jackson, I even forgive you for recording ‘Earth Song’

Also, totally overshadowed in typical fashion by the media frenzy about MJ was the death of Farrah Fawcett…. of ANAL Cancer! Geeeeeeez!

If I ever die of anal cancer I’ll have instructed my people to put out a press release saying I died of something a little less embarassing. (assuming that I’ll have ‘people’)

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