Chew Lips – Slick
<object width=”560″ height=”340″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/zy7YuWMwPls&hl=en_US&fs=1&”></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/zy7YuWMwPls&hl=en_US&fs=1&” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”560″ height=”340″></embed></object>
Yes, that video is them playing live in their living room and you’ll have to take my word for it when I say that they sound better on stage. Trio originally formed in late 2008. Their sound is very unique and i like alot of their stuff but I have a feeling it won’t last for too long.
For one thing they have no real choruses in their songs and for another they seem to be rising waaay too fast for an indie group……. very strange …… oh well at least their album is good and most tracks are downloadable from their website for free.
(yes …….. I did use it as a ringtone for a while ….. her voice gets to me …… )
Broadcast2000 – Rouse Your Bones
More famous for songs they’ve written for Hollyoaks (U.K. Soap) and various soundtracks (Yes Man being the most recent) and adverts, the best thing about their album has got to be the fact that it just sounds righ. It sounds like a group of people sat down and ironed out every aspect of every song.
Please BUY the album ,,,,, most of them have kids to feed …..
The Floor is Made of Lava – Happy Monday
<object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/Fvpp6_qvL1E&hl=en_US&fs=1&”></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/Fvpp6_qvL1E&hl=en_US&fs=1&” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed></object>
I know fuck all about this band but I like their sound ….. enjoy ……
Yeah Yeah Yeah- Maps
Born in NewYork’s alternarock scene the Yeah Yeah Yeahs may be one of the few good bands to be put on 99.7. They started off as a trio, became a duo and are now four people.
Band members include(or have included :
Brian Chase: The guy who gave Bloc Party their bang-calang sound in “silent alarm remixed” (apologies I really don’t know how else to describe the way he sounds on guitar)
David Pajo: Guitar, Bass, Banjo, Drums. Multi intrumentalist who does most of their production work since their second EP
Karen O: Those sweet cold vocals, that were only discovered after she posed for playboy and was an extra in various music videos.
Imaad Wassif: The main songwriter, Canadadian born. Embarking on his own solo career soon.
The Problems We’ve Never Gotten Round to Fixing
Congratulations on surviving the first decade of the millenium and oh what an amazing decade it has been for healthcare, we have seen the advent of a slew of drugs including statins (lipitor) which have lowered our cholesterol, given us hard-ons that last longer than hangovers from the night before(viagra) and breath easier (the new generation of once a day asthma meds). We’ve also managed to make advances in medical imaging that have made it such that any cancer any where can be detected far earlier than ever before thanks to the wide spread distribution of PET and SPECT scanning and yet there’s still one aspect of healthcare that we have continued to fail epically at no matter how much is spent on it.
And (surprisingly) it’s not exclusive to Kuwait. I’ve seen it in hospitals in the UK, the States and even Thailand and Germany, infact I’ve yet to see any hospital find a way of fixing it……… the food sucks balls ……..
Lloyd Grossman ….. if he can’t do it no one can ……The man plays guitar, dresses like Steve Jobs and cooks!
You go to any hospital anywhere and try the food there ….. it always tastes like cardboard wrapped in turd sprinkled lightly with rabbit droppings ……..
and it’s worse ….. it CAN’T BE FIXED, 3 different chefs and fifty million pounds in the UK tried to fix the problem at NHS hospitals(Yes, the list includes Lloyd Grossman of Spaghetti Sauce fame) and gave up halfway through the 5 year program.
What’s even worse is the the food not only tastes like puke from last nights party but is also far worse for you, in two different surveys of hospital food 18 of the 21 NHS hospitals tested were found to have food had too much salt, too much fat and not much of anything else. Infact, 86 per cent of meals contained too much salt, 67 per cent too much saturated fat and 52 per cent too much fat according to Food Standard Agency guidelines.
Oh and don’t you go calling it prison food ….. it’s far worse ……. Dr. Edwards (Bournemouth University, NHS Food Services Czar ….. yes, they had to employ one things were so bad) did a side by side comparison and found that prison food is far more nutritious and is made in a far cleaner environment than anything served in any NHS hospital…….
Infact since the advent of this millenium (2000) 2,600 people have died of malnutrition in UK hospitals (I’ll be quick to point out that alot may have died because they simply can’t digest the food from extensive surgery or other malabsoprtion problems, but still I’m pretty sure that bad food plays a role) and although we can’t make the same claim in Kuwait, I think it’s because we simply don’t have the statistics.
Our problem in Kuwait is probably that nutritionists and dietitians aren’t given the freedom required to change/fix things after all if you look at places like Dietcare, Nutrition and Care and other places, their food is edible (albeit quiet pricey) but quiet healthy.
So perhaps we should add better food to the list along with a cure for cancer, AIDS and a flying car …………
Have a good year everyone ………
High in the Sky
Couldn’t find the 2009 one …… apologies …..
No one can deny it, we all did it at some point, we all wanted to go visit aliens some where, or see what the moon was like or walk on saturns rings (which I later found out were actually just tiny meteorites circling the planet ….. not all that solid.
But what is space travel really like? How long does it take? and what does it entail? Well, it takes us about 8 hours to get to the moon, which is not too bad I suppose …… however it takes about 2 years to get to Saturn …… which sucks balls given the fact that Ipod touches only last about 4 hours these days …….and lets not forget all those people who spend their time on the Space Stations, sometimes spending months at a time there …….
Furthermore, like most form of travel it does take it’s toll on a person, most those smiling, bright, and healthy people you see in those pictures will suffer from depression, motion sickness, radiation exposure and depressed immunity, many will also loose alot of their muscle mass and bone mass as well, making their bones as floppy as a toddlers (try and squeeze a babies head …… feels like a bouncy ball !)
The low gravity environment also makes it very hard to keep anything down, many astronauts tend to get very nauseous, head ache prone and dizzy while in space.
So how do space cadets fight off the blues, upchucking and muscle loss? The answer is quite simple …….. drugs …….
Most NASA space travelers take uppers (smart pills that get you high and keep you awake for days at a time, the most used of which is provigil), they also take a combination of a drug called scopolamine and another dexedrine which when combined will turn you into a zombie which can think for it self (the best way to think about it is that they take the scopolamine to subdue their emotions and bowel so that they don’t get nausea or cabin fever and combine it with dexedrine which will boost their productivity and keep them on course (pun intended)).
It’s interesting that Scoplamine was first used in mind control experiments by the CIA in the 1950′s, then by the colombian cartel to turn human trafficking victims into zombies and subsequently by NASA to make ships fly straight and stop pilots from killing each other …………
NASA is also training their latest crop of Buzz Lightyears to restrain and subdue each other then induce comas on each other just in case one of the crew becomes unruly.
They’re also trying to use stem cells to keep peoples bodies growing while in space.
So if you want to become an astronaut you need to:
a) develop a drug habit
b) turn yourself into a zombie for weeks on end
c) Be able to with stand a 6 month flight to mars and back.
d) Have the heart to tie down and drug up other crew members.
e) Live with no TV or good music for a while
f) be content with not having the same mobility you had prior to flight and end up being hobbled the minute you step back on earth.
Fuck it …….. the cool space suite ain’t worth it ……. I’m sticking to weekends in Bahrain …….
Kings and Queens
Watch more YouTube videos on AOL Video
Have a good day happy people ……….
Enter Shikari: Juggernaut
Forget the crap music video, the song it self is rather good. Enter Shikari began in 2003 when a bunch of school mates tried to make good music and failed epically, three years later they made some average music that didn’t suck as much and landed them at Download 2006 (it’s a music festival that people who don’t work at 99.7 know about) and a subsequent record contract. Now I have to confess, I hate everything they made until their latest album “common dreads” which is why I suspect they landed a good producer that knew how to make them sound good.
Howlin’ Wolf – Smoke Stack Lightenin’ and How Many More Years
Granted it ain’t music for all tastes but I think it works better than barbie Girl. Probably one of the most influential blues singers of his time …. too bad he died old and poor …….
Who would blatantly sing about how he was kicked out by his wife and begged her to take him back ……..
“I’m gonna fall on my knees, I’m gonna raise up my right hand
I’m gonna fall on my knees, I’m gonna raise up my right hand
Say I’d feel much better darling, if you’d just only understand”
Super Secret Hoo Hoo Smelling Samurai death blow
I love sushi, you love sushi, we love sushi. We also love to travel to places like New York, Denver and Houston (well maybe not Denver …… but the rest …….) and once we get there we all tend to go for something exciting, novel and a wee bit different …… namely sushi.
But what do they put in it? It all tastes the same …… a bit smelly while going in but finishes off quiet nicely I think we could all agree ……
Does that yellow tail, nigri rolled, sumomaki ridden tuna actually contain tuna or is it the McDonald’s version of the real thing filled with tons of corn starch and what not……
Although many people would probably try and find out online or by simply asking the chef, very few people could actually come up with a clear cut litmus test to find out where their sushi comes from, you’d think that scientists would have the answer, but the PhD toting crowd are probably far too busy schlepping their secretaries while thinking about their students ………
But thanks to the genius of two girls trying to think of a final year school project we finally have the answer.All they did was order sushi from every where they could, take a sample of the tuna used in making it and send it to the international barcode of life consortium (or IBOL) ( a group of people who will trace any given tissue sample back to it’s species origin and tell what it came from (e.g. saliva that came from a specific dog bite etc) the consortium was originally founded to help track things like the trafficking of endangered species, but their technology can be easily used to trace back any raw meat anywhere in the world ……. kind of like a biological GPS).
It took these two 19 year olds (Kate Stoeckle (left) and Louisa Strauss (Right) to tell all you people that you’ve been eating killer fishies …..
The people at iBol then analysed the alleged Tuna and came up with some rather erm …… interesting findings; for one thing …..almost 30% of the sushi places that were sent off for analysis didn’t use ANY tuna and used everything from makerel, to endangered species (T. maccoyii) (so basically you and your girlfriend or for the more lonely of us, fat ugly porker of a friend were munching on the marine equivalent of a baby seal paw) and even fish that have been banned for being toxic (they were even banned in south american countries where cocaine comes in regular or lemon scented varieties) and potentially fatal.
What’s alarming is that the two girls weren’t allowed to submitted as their end of year school project and were told that it “lacked and form of logic” and did not fulfill the assignment ……. which sound a wee bit like the attitude people havein good old K-town, namely, if it isn’t something I would do or think then you’re wrong ……. now go back to twiddling your thumbs and let me gawk at the hot patients ………
But forTUNAtely (hehe ,,,,,, tuna ….. hehe) people far smarter than their school teachers managed to recognize their talent. The two 19 year old girls were recently accepted at Johns Hopkins and are due to start their legal drinking, pot smoking, jello shot infested college lives very soon.
The motto of the story is that rocket scientists aren’t the be all and end all of discovery and innovation. Most of the people reading this are probably very well educated, highly knowledgeable and have probably made numerous attempts at fixing things where they work …… but the problem lies in trying to recognise talent as opposed to degrees or senriorty because when talent is put in the right place and given the right tools that’s when you get innovation and that’s when you’ll stop hearing about people needing to spend 3 days waiting on a slip of paper from a ministry or crazy doctors who know nothing better than to prescribe adol an a weeks worth of Heroes and How I met Your Mother.
At the same time it’s also very hard for me to imagine any Kuwaiti hospital without at least one or two people who seem to have a slew of degrees and became heads of departments then sat back and let the whole place turn into that scene from Gangs of New York.
….. and here it is to refresh you memories …….
Recent Comments