I have decided to walk up that long and winding path called 'Having Two Blogs'.
http://theformulaoneblog.blogspot.com/ is obviously a blog about Formula One.
Check it out, if you dont like F1...Dont?
Blog 149: Crystal Meth
10 years ago
Saturday, 10 January 2009
Tuesday, 6 January 2009
Welcome To 2009.....Oh Great!
Happy New Year!
Those three words are used so automaticaly. I mean do we really mean it? As i look outside it is Cold, Wet, Snowy and Horrid.
I look very much foward to 2009, but does it have to be so cold? I used to love Winter but now, as i said i find it Too Cold, Wet and Annoying.
Who finds having to wrap up warm, putting on layers of coats and jumpers, making sure that everything is tucked in, putting on a scarf that either strangles you or itches you to find that you have to take most of it off so you can make sure your wrists dont get cold when you gloves dont fill the newly created void between you gloves and coat, fun?
I dont, i think it is a pain to be honest. And then there is Snow!
When you are young Snow can do nothing wrong. It could come up to you knock you over, tie you shoe laces together and run of like a spastic Lamb, spitting everywere and still be fantastically funny. But now i just feel like ripping off my shirt, all Hulk like and beating the living day lights out of it. I find it so annoying and then Slush....Dont get me started.
Well that is the first rant of 2009 over with...Onwards and upwards!
Those three words are used so automaticaly. I mean do we really mean it? As i look outside it is Cold, Wet, Snowy and Horrid.
I look very much foward to 2009, but does it have to be so cold? I used to love Winter but now, as i said i find it Too Cold, Wet and Annoying.
Who finds having to wrap up warm, putting on layers of coats and jumpers, making sure that everything is tucked in, putting on a scarf that either strangles you or itches you to find that you have to take most of it off so you can make sure your wrists dont get cold when you gloves dont fill the newly created void between you gloves and coat, fun?
I dont, i think it is a pain to be honest. And then there is Snow!
When you are young Snow can do nothing wrong. It could come up to you knock you over, tie you shoe laces together and run of like a spastic Lamb, spitting everywere and still be fantastically funny. But now i just feel like ripping off my shirt, all Hulk like and beating the living day lights out of it. I find it so annoying and then Slush....Dont get me started.
Well that is the first rant of 2009 over with...Onwards and upwards!
Sunday, 21 December 2008
Chinese Democracy - Worth The Wait?
I start with an apology, im sorry i have not posted for some time...a number of things such as being ill, meeting friends and also a small thing called Christmas (its a very big thing dont worry!) have all got in the way...but im back!
A couple of weeks back i decided to grab the bull by the horns and purchase the new Guns N' Roses album 'Chinese Democracy'.
Having heard small samples of all the tracks on there Myspace i was under the idea that it was basicaly...Crap with a capital C. But as with so many things in my life i have been made to think again.
2008 has been a very good year for Classic Rock fans. The releases of new albums by AC/DC, Metalica, Whitesnake and Def Leppard have all made in into the top 1o uk Album Charts. Now i dont own the AC/DC album and i dont think i will and the less said about Metalica the better, but Def Leppard and especialy Whitsnake have put out material that is up there with there best stuff (Sorry DL but you will have to try much harder to make a new Hysteria). But with a double figure year wait for the new GNR album this was the album that everyone was waiting for.
Chinese Democracy was also the first single released. And upon first listen i couldnt see what all the fuss was about. An ok Rock song with a very punky delivery by Axl Rose. To be honest it was one of the worst spent 79p on Itunes ever!
But my whole opinion has been changed. The album mixes good old Rock and Roll, Industrial, Piano (Never saw that comming), Metal and R&B and is actually very, very good.
For example my two favourite songs on the album 'Better' and 'If The World' take the listener on a musical journey. Better starts off with some very R&B (even hip hop) drums before settling in for the night with a typical rock riff. The song then takes another level with the heavy chorus and then later about a million different riffs (ok slight ott from me there) but it's very Axl Rose to be so unpredictable.
If The World is Guns N' Roses doing R&B. No rap (Thankfully) but a very R&B riff makes this a standout track. The Solo is there in the end but this is a very very good song...if you disagree with the R&B infulence, then please feel very free to keep that opinion to yourself!
The album does not get through this review scott free. First of all 15 years is a very long time, secondaly if you were expecting a new 'Appetite For Destruction' then you will be disapointed and thirdly it is basicaly a Axl Rose solo project...there is no Slash and no Duff.
This is being very picky to be honest, which i know alot of people are and have been. For me this is a very good album. Not the best rock album of 2008, that goes to Whitesnake, but i really do feel that this is a very good album.
Saying that, i still feel that there is something missing. I wouldnt give it 10 out of 10 but then again im not sure why not. Its a confusing thing, maybe that is what Axl Rose wanted? Who knows and to be honest who cares!
On a final note...If you read throughout the million pages of thankyou's in the CD booklet, Axl Rose thanks Ferrari Formula One driver Kimi Raikkonen...Random!
Friday, 5 December 2008
For The Love Of...
I mean really?
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ANTDkfkoBaI
This has made me give up on Life and Humanity
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ANTDkfkoBaI
This has made me give up on Life and Humanity
Saturday, 29 November 2008
Buddugoliaeth
Just in case you dont know welsh, that means victory!
Today at the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales held of Australia in a great game of rugby to win 21-18. Now im not the biggest Rugby fan (if you compare to my love of Football and F1) but i know when its a good Rugby match! Wales were brilliant with Shane Williams and Lee Byrne the stars.
Great day for the Welsh (and me) because it ended a 12 year barren run againts Southern Hemisphere teams.
Get In Wales!!!
Saturday, 22 November 2008
My Top Three...
Albums!
Yes i know it has been some time since i last posted (this was pointed out to me by a follower of the Blog on Friday...he will remain un-named...he was a good man), so with very little to rant about (well at least to the world) i felt i wanted to talk about my three favourite music albums.
1.Def Leppard - Hysteria
Big, Bold and 80's, Hysteria is in my opinion the ultimate 1980's Metal experience. Def Leppard may have helped shape the 'Hair Metal' scene but there is nothing embarrising about this album (ok...maybe the Hair). Songs like Pour Some Sugar On Me, Animal and Rocket are big rock anthems whilst tracks like Love Bites and Love & Affection show how well Def Leppard do 'Slow'. This is my favourite album of all time!
2.My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE ARE NOT EMO. Just to get that out of the way, they do not endorse self harm and emo stuff but are a bloody good rock band (sorry if that offended you...you can talk to my agent). The Black Parade is a modern rock classic which takes influences from Queen, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, The Smashing Pumpkins and good old 70's rock. Emotion runs high in the classic Welcome To The Black Parade and the album screams of 70's on the rocky Dead. This album shows that rock and roll is not dead and that modern bands are not afraid not tribute there heroes.
3.Keith Urban - Love, Pain & The Whole Crazy Thing
A change in mood here. Keith Urban is apart from being known as the husband of Nicole Kidman is a Damn good Country Singer, Guitarist, Bass Guitarist, Drummer, Banjoist, Ganjoist, Mandolinist and Bouzoukist. LPWCT is one heck of a album, from start to finnish it is musicaly brilliant, written beautifuly and produced beyond belief. Country may be seen as old but Country now is rocking and Keith Urban is perhaps the best song writer at the moment. There are so many good tracks on the album Once In A Lifetime, Shine, I Told You So, Faster Car, Everybody, Got It RIght This Time and my personal Favourite Stupid Boy. Learn more about Keith at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?sid=284e3432b325fdaf74d406f015e0384a&refurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fs.php%3Fq%3Dkeith%2Burban%26init%3Ds%253Agroup%26k%3D200000010%26n%3D-1%26sid%3D284e3432b325fdaf74d406f015e0384a&gid=20719900632
Sorry for the link but it is needed!
I promise it will not be so long before my next blog!
Yes i know it has been some time since i last posted (this was pointed out to me by a follower of the Blog on Friday...he will remain un-named...he was a good man), so with very little to rant about (well at least to the world) i felt i wanted to talk about my three favourite music albums.
1.Def Leppard - Hysteria
Big, Bold and 80's, Hysteria is in my opinion the ultimate 1980's Metal experience. Def Leppard may have helped shape the 'Hair Metal' scene but there is nothing embarrising about this album (ok...maybe the Hair). Songs like Pour Some Sugar On Me, Animal and Rocket are big rock anthems whilst tracks like Love Bites and Love & Affection show how well Def Leppard do 'Slow'. This is my favourite album of all time!
2.My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE ARE NOT EMO. Just to get that out of the way, they do not endorse self harm and emo stuff but are a bloody good rock band (sorry if that offended you...you can talk to my agent). The Black Parade is a modern rock classic which takes influences from Queen, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, The Smashing Pumpkins and good old 70's rock. Emotion runs high in the classic Welcome To The Black Parade and the album screams of 70's on the rocky Dead. This album shows that rock and roll is not dead and that modern bands are not afraid not tribute there heroes.
3.Keith Urban - Love, Pain & The Whole Crazy Thing
A change in mood here. Keith Urban is apart from being known as the husband of Nicole Kidman is a Damn good Country Singer, Guitarist, Bass Guitarist, Drummer, Banjoist, Ganjoist, Mandolinist and Bouzoukist. LPWCT is one heck of a album, from start to finnish it is musicaly brilliant, written beautifuly and produced beyond belief. Country may be seen as old but Country now is rocking and Keith Urban is perhaps the best song writer at the moment. There are so many good tracks on the album Once In A Lifetime, Shine, I Told You So, Faster Car, Everybody, Got It RIght This Time and my personal Favourite Stupid Boy. Learn more about Keith at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?sid=284e3432b325fdaf74d406f015e0384a&refurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fs.php%3Fq%3Dkeith%2Burban%26init%3Ds%253Agroup%26k%3D200000010%26n%3D-1%26sid%3D284e3432b325fdaf74d406f015e0384a&gid=20719900632
Sorry for the link but it is needed!
I promise it will not be so long before my next blog!
Monday, 3 November 2008
Lewis Hamilton...WORLD CHAMPION
It seems as though we have been waiting for ever despite Lewis Hamilton only being in his second season of Formula One, and he has already been crowned World Champion!
What a brilliant achievement for one of the best young drivers around today. He did however make life for every one in the country just a little bit harder when with a few laps to go he lost the all important 5th place which was all he needed to win the championship. As Massa crossed the line to win the Brazilian Grand Prix it looked as though he would become to first Brazilian champion since the late great Ayrton Senna, but with only two corners to go Timo Glock slowed in the wet conditions and that allowed Hamilton to take back 5th place and the World Championship!
It has been a vintage year for Grand Prix racing with a host of great races (including Brazil) and a frantic tense fight for Motorsports greatest prize.
In the end the right man won, despite making as many mistakes as Massa throughout the season Lewis Hamilton showed at many points throught out the season that he is a worthy champion and none more then his stunning drive in awful conditions at Silverstone.
Will 2009 be a walk over for Lewis? I doubt it...but until the lights go off at the start in Australia we can bask in the glory of Lewis Hamilton and know that the stewards will not take this away from him.
WELL DONE LEWIS!!!
What a brilliant achievement for one of the best young drivers around today. He did however make life for every one in the country just a little bit harder when with a few laps to go he lost the all important 5th place which was all he needed to win the championship. As Massa crossed the line to win the Brazilian Grand Prix it looked as though he would become to first Brazilian champion since the late great Ayrton Senna, but with only two corners to go Timo Glock slowed in the wet conditions and that allowed Hamilton to take back 5th place and the World Championship!
It has been a vintage year for Grand Prix racing with a host of great races (including Brazil) and a frantic tense fight for Motorsports greatest prize.
In the end the right man won, despite making as many mistakes as Massa throughout the season Lewis Hamilton showed at many points throught out the season that he is a worthy champion and none more then his stunning drive in awful conditions at Silverstone.
Will 2009 be a walk over for Lewis? I doubt it...but until the lights go off at the start in Australia we can bask in the glory of Lewis Hamilton and know that the stewards will not take this away from him.
WELL DONE LEWIS!!!
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