so maybe i have Attention Deficit Disorder,….. …

so maybe i have Attention Deficit Disorder,…..

but i think its mostly that i get bored easily. and yet incredibly mundane things can capture my attention for hours on end : i think i spent 20 mins the other day thinking about q-tips/cotton buds.

specifically what the machines look like that make them, and what the dude that designed the machine thought of when he was designing it,……you need a grabby thing for the stem/stalk/stick bit, then glueing thingy, then a cotton spining thingy, and you gotta figure out how much to glue, and how much cotton to use,…….

and then you gotta do the otherside!

dont get me started on those lil drink umbrellas!

then there are days like today when there are a million things i want to put down here. fuckin addictive this blogging thing! no wonder a whole lot of bloggers go on vacation,…. it must be like detox.

heres where my supposed ADD comes into play,….

so here goes:

KSE: a spectacular drop the other day,.. just over 400 points down at one point during the day. could the much anticipated second wave of the crash be in the making? it followed the saudi markets,….which any idiot could have seen coming. multiples in the 80’s??? you must be kidding me!

is this gonna be the wave that flushes out the small part time traders? heres hoping the speculators get tired in a couple months and capitulate as they should do. the average retail trader apparently doesnt last more than 6 months. that is apparently the time it takes for their millionaire dreams to come crashing down, bringing them back to reality.

saudi has corrected quite a bit already, so perhaps there needs to be one more puke there. there certainly needs to be one more here.

i’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that we’ll hit below 10,000 before we hit 11,000.

MUSIC: after fiddleing around all weekend,…..

i got jack shit done ! well not entirely,… i tweaked a couple of old tracks i wanted to finish off ( but didnt quite finish ). i did fuck about for ages and came up with a christmassy beat some how.

now all i need are lyrics and a singer ,… so anyone wanna write a xmas song? it doesnt even need to be about xmas,… just something festive,… it could be the antithesis of a xmas song , maybe take the piss out of the other xmass songs

so all you poets out there, get cracking and lets see if maybe we can get it played on the radio this winter . hahaha yeah right,.. but then again they play anything here

i am serious tho so if youre interested in writing lyrics let me know and i’ll upload my track somewhere,… havent figured out where yet

seperatley,…. i found this site that showcases lebanese artists:

http://www.indycult.com/modules/magazine/

make that ” independent lebanese artists”. the scope of work is quite interesting, and the quality of the work is really good. theyve only been going for a short while so theres not much in the way of content,… but they do offer a few sampler tracks which are streamed.

check out nadine khoury.

given time this sites gonna become one of the best in terms of underground and unsigned acts in the mideast.

while browsingi also found this:

http://www.alien-records.com/

theyre based here in kuwait.

*sigh*,… such a disappointment. not so much with the record label itself cos i know it takes a certain amount of balls to set something like that up,….

i’m disappointed that given the chance to cut an album, the content is nothing more than rehashed gangster crap repackaged for the gulf!

i mean come on,…hip hop is an expression of culture which is why it has spread so quickly. it gives the disaffected a voice. from the barrios of brazil to the slums of paris and disillusioned kids of asia, its a means of being heard.

so the middle east of all places should be screaming to be heard!!! the birth place of civilisation, the center of world conflict, incredible disparities of wealth across borders, the stage for the conflict of cultures, but not just between cultures but within cultures!

if youre a rhymer, lyricist or poet that has something more to say than the commercial diahrea that comes out of the radio, email me

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see now i’ve forgotten about what else it was i wanted to write,….

hmmm,…xmass song thingy done,kse thingy done, a lil bit of venting done,….

ahh i remember now:

DUBAI: i know everyones talking about dubai being the place to be, and yes alot of international acts do go down there, and the tourist industry is booming,…

but the weather really sucks there in the summer! it sucks here, but even more so there cos of the humidity.

so i’m thinking of beirut for a second home. apparently the weathers really nice there, so if there are any lebanese readers out there do make yourself known as i got some questions about places to live

over and out

happy easter :D !!! so who got their chocolate eg…

happy easter !!!

so who got their chocolate eggs?

i didnt.

that evil bastard up there stole mine.

fuckin rabbits!

grrrrr,…..
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currently: huntin wabbits, bitch !

why my foot falls asleep. well there you go. tha…

why my foot falls asleep.

well there you go. thats how i sit when posting.
actually right now i’m sitting upright and have my legs crossed under me on my chair.

at times i’ll recline and type which i know screws up my neck but what the hell

now its mostly when i’m reclining and typeing that either my foot or my buttcheek will fall asleep.

sometimes both.

when that happens i shift my weight over to the other buttcheek and breathe a sigh of relief as i feel the blood coursing back into my ass’s other half

ahhhhhhhhh,……

and incase you couldnt tell,.. i use a trackball mouse which is why the drawing sucks

oh and my tv comes after the monitor infront of me which is why i sit at an angle to the desk as opposed to perpendicular to it. incase that wasnt clear enough,…follow the chair to the footstool,… the tv is about a meter away in that direction.

this position also lets me lean on the desk

unfortunately my chair only goes back at an angle of 45 degrees. it doesnt recline flat like some do.

my tower is actually under my table, which allows me to prop my feet up on top of it when my feet get bored with the footrest. and when they get bored with the tower theres the speakers under my desk that they can then migrate to.

beyond my desk is an ungodly tangle of wires and cables. LAN switch, power thingy, usb cable for my mp3 player, usb hub, headphones, phone charger. i have a tendency to knock things over so i leave all that stuff on the floor

the thing i love about my desk,.. the view

we have these full height sliding windows, so when i’m looking past my monitor i can see the swimming pool and the garden.

i could never understand how some people could stand dumping their desk against a bare wall :

umm i guess thats it for now,.. time for lunch

MMmmmmMMMmmm tuna ! :D your tuna should not come…

MMmmmmMMMmmm tuna !


your tuna should not come in a container like this.
cos its a waste of food, its a sin and those captains hats are just gay,…..altho some people can pull it off,.. not many mind you,….

REAL tuna comes like this:

you have to get an old dude and a couple of his friends to drive his truck into the ocean, whereby they will lasoo a tuna by the tail and drag it back to market.

do remeber to lift the gills to check for freshness, it should be blood red

when the blood-rededness is confirmed, your mouth should begin to salivate. its failure to do so might mean youre one of those weirdos that dont like fish

i mean come on, you can eat a cute cow in a bun, or a nice fluffy chicken, but not an ugly fish??? i mean look at it, who’d feel sorry about tuckin into one of those things ?

anyway, from there, you tie it to your car after you paid the nice old dude for his troubles.

the drive home helps in the descaling process.

grab a big-ass sharp-ass knife and proceed to fillet the bastard

slice and arrange the fillets in the order below,….. add a bit of wasabi and soy sauce and voila:

and you dont even need to turn the oven on

now a trully fresh fish will not smell of fish,… oddly enough :

and good tuna has the consistency of raw beef when you bite into it ,… actually its much nicer,…cos tuna literally melts in your mouth and theres almost no chewing involved unlike raw beef.

some people have it as is, but i prefer mine with a bowl of steaming white rice.

oh and one final thing i noticed in the japanese restaraunts here:

WASABI IS NOT A JAM!

so dont be spreading it on the fish like it was butter, unless i’m there and you want me to have a good laugh at your expense:P

what you do is you take a chunk of wasabi, not too much, and drop it into the soy sauce. then you mix it till the soy sauce is cloudy and no longer clear. for extra kick, leave lumps,… and if it aint freshly grated stuff, use alot:D

do it yourself, at home, cos the japanese restaraunts here suck and charge way too much and are all staffed with indians and philipinos anyway.

unless youre eating fugu aka blow fish which is poisonouss if cut wrong,…. and yes it will kill you if youre an idiot about it,.. no matter how big your balls are. if you wanna do the macho thing, go kick a bear in the nuts,…. you stand a better chance of living

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lmao my foot is asleep again :,….. i gotta learn to sit differently when i post

so after the turmoil on the markets the last cou…

so after the turmoil on the markets the last couple of weeks, and getting to grips with this blogging thing, as well as running a hundred and one errands a day, …. i’m faced with a 3 day weekend.

the album pictured above has been blaring thru my speakers in my jeep for the past week, threatening to make me go deaf, and probably annoying the other drivers at the traffic lights. the upside to all this is that it has re-inspired me to get back to my music.

now since i’m not a musician by any stretch of the imagination, i find it incredibly hard to get inspired by jamming as most musicians do. the only thing i can play are the drums, and for some reason a solo drummer, unlike a solo sax player, is just sad.

and unless youre really good,.. its also just alot of noise.

so it does take an album such as the one above to reinvigorate me into experimenting once again. (its a remix album by the way, which is actually surprisingly good as remix albums are usually shite!)

lets see, other albums i’ve listened to which resulted in a temporary spurt of inspiration:

- rediscovering massive attacks mezzanine and portishead’s complete works.

- digging out wu-tangs 36 chambers and spinning that one more time.

- mr scruff and the herbaliser just take your brain on a trip sideways.

- dj krush,……not even gonna comment cos theres nothing i could say that would live up to the dude, except this comment about not commenting, which kinda doesnt either….. so, umm,… moving on then……

he was on the ableton website saying that hes just switched over to it. as a user of ableton and not really being into trance, house, dance etc, i was ecstatic!

so i’m gonna finish up some tunes this weekend, and try and figure out how to upload it here if i can.

if youre a writer/lyricist, vocalist, musician of any type and would like to maybe do something together email me and we’ll have a chat over a cup of coffee or something this weekend.

i really dont care if youre professional or not( i certainly aint ) cos i’d like to capture a raw and roughness to the vocals, and instruments, and lyrics even. the over polished crap on the radios really annoy me .

as far as styles go,…. hey anything goes, i’d like to stretch my legs abit and try different things. especially if there are traditional singers out there, like the singers on those dhows.

i might, however, have reservations if your 12 year old sister wants to put together a girl band. :,…..then again,…timberlake was on both timbaland and neptunes tracks,hmmm,….. $$$ka-ching$$$?

so yeah drop me a line if you fancy a collaboration of some sort

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my left foot has fallen asleep

they have the bomb!!! duck an cover, duck an cover…

they have the bomb!!!
duck an cover, duck an cover!!!
sell!!! sell!!! sell!!!
puke it all up!!!

…….only the good stuff tho cos i wanna buy