C.U.N.T stands for Crappy Uninspired Nonsense Tripe.
Ever since they were youngsters, music was always central to Ramitinn Balldeep (RickyM), and Pat McGroin(Aesthetic). Coming from India and Ireland respectively, this hot duo specializes in the murdering of 80’s tracks into modern dance pieces. Pat McGroin was destined for a musical career, with his father Phil McGroin being a keen triangle player, it was written (in shit) that Pat was going to make it big. Pat’s experience working part time behind a meat counter would later come in very useful, when the time came to butcher a classic 80’s track.
Ramitinn Balldeep had a tough upbringing, his mother often worked as a whore to keep the family of 11 afloat. The often musical tones coming from the bedroom, as mother entertained yet another customer, inspired Ramitinn to choose a musical path.
He became aquainted with Pat after getting a transfer from his callcenter, to Ireland. When they both discovered their mutual admiration for the band aqua, they were inseperable. Naturally their own productions followed, and this is the result!! A bootleg sampling the song ‘The Power of Love’, from the back to the future film. ENJOY!!
Undoubtedly the cheesiest thing that you will EVER hear, so go on… download it!
Al Azar are two TA producers Mr Mystery (Finland) & MaRt (aka. Echano from the UK). After much anticipation their album ‘Glaciation’ is now available for download free.
01. LV241
02. Decapod 10
03. Infinitude
04. Hypnotoad
05. Voyage Into Darkness
06. Arctic Dawn
07. Lost Without Trace (No Way Back)
08. Orchestral Interlude
09. No Such Thing As Two
10. Esquilax
11. Wither
12. Lights Out
A journey through various styles - melodic breaks, ambient soundscapes, progressive trance, even a hint of psy and tribal, all blending together on this 66 minute album.
DOWNLOAD! The file contains the full 320kbps album, cover artwork and the cue file.
Once in a while somebody special will come along and completely three-sixty the way you approach life, or at the very least make you review how it’s going at present.
This happened to me last Thursday whilst in ambulatory care at the hospital. There I was relaxing on one of the two recliners waiting for my daily dose of treatment to be pumped intravenously into my body when I noticed a middle-aged man in the bed diagonally opposite me. He was lying down and what caught my attention immediately was the fact that his stomach was abnormally large and fluid was being drained from it. I wondered what his condition was and how he ended up in that bizarre situation. Curious as I was, I decided it best not to say anything. So I focused on the tennis being played on the television screen hanging from the ceiling above me.
It wasn’t long before I learned that the gentleman across from me was quite talkative, grasping at any opportunity to engage in conversation with one of the attending nurses. A couple of hours later most of the liquid had been drained from his body and his stomach had shrunken to its normal (less freakish) size. Soon he was sitting up on the bed and chattering away. I had since learned that his name was Michael.
A moment presented itself where it was basically Michael and myself in the room and sensing that it was the right time I asked the man with the friendly eyes the question that had been plaguing me ever since I had first set eyes on him. Michael advised that his heart wasn’t functioning normally and the result was that his body retained fluid at an incredible rate, most of which was going to his stomach. He stood up at one point and recounted the time he bought XXL shorts at a shop and laughed as he told the story, for the sales person didn’t believe the shorts were for him despite his honest claims that they were. I laughed along.
It saddened me, broke my heart, to know that such a spirited character who had been in hospital only once in his sixty years was now faced with a heart that was failing. The doctors told him that his only chance was to find a new heart. Earlier one of the nurses asked if this worried him, and his response was simply
if I die, bad luck.
What struck me more than that comment was when Michael stated that he wasn’t "cranky" (to use his words) with it all. As, to paraphrase,
being cranky is not good for no one.
The man - in his simple yet infinite wisdom - had an optimism and a passion for life that blew me away and touched my soul deeply.
Once my treatment was over I stuck around a little longer. I pretended to watch television but I was there because I somehow felt that I was in the presence of a great spirit.
Michael told me that he felt bad for young people such as myself who had to go into hospital for whatever reason. To him, there was so much more to life than dealing with illness and staring out the window inside a room in a hospital. He smiled when I said that I was improving.
Michael spoke to the nurse about his two dogs - his babies. His eyes lit up as he spoke about them. He also believed that people who didn’t like pets or specific types of animals were more inclined to be racist. The nurse, also an animal lover, nodded knowingly. She listened to him, and for that he was grateful.When the nurse’s shift was over and she was ready to leave he thanked her and told her that she was special, not in those words exactly but the sentiment was there.
It was at this point that I also took my leave and I wished him the best of luck with finding a heart, and he wished me a speedy recovery.
Had this been Christmas and I were twenty years younger I might have thought that I had just met Santa Claus. Or perhaps this was the angel that John Travolta portrayed in the movie "Michael"? Was the name a mere coincidence?
Whatever it was, once in a while somebody special will come along and completely three-sixty the way you approach life, or at the very least make you understand that staying positive i.e.. having hope and a healthy attitude is important when life challenges you.
Effective advertising triggers an emotion response and remains in the viewer’s memory long after the TV has been turned off. It can also feature identifiable music - a catch tune. These are only two of American Research Group, Inc’s 10 rules for more effective advertising.
Once again, YouTube has come through with the goods.
I also found the Mcdonald’s "Inner Child" commercial on YouTube, but had no success with finding the old Ansett Airlines (defunct since 2001) ad featuring Enya’s "Storms of Africa" track. That rates as one of my all time fave ads, and was my introduction to Enya’s beautiful music.
Fortunately I was able to locate the Qantas "Spirit of Australia" adverts on YouTube. This is a classic series of commercials featuring renditions of Peter Allen’s legendary song "I still call Australia home" performed by different artists and choirs. They also feature fantastic photography and visuals from locations all across the globe.
Let’s not forget one of the greatest ads ever - Honda’s "The Cog".
The two-minute commercial appears as a single, long camera pan along a Heath Robinson / Rube Goldberg-like chain-reaction arrangement of parts from the car but is in fact two stitched together, the join being at the moment where the muffler/exhaust box rolls across the floor (this can be seen by watching the floor pattern change). The commercial took 606 different takes to complete, and only minuscule CGI was used, simply for fixing the lighting on the final car’s window. The cars featured, one disassembled for the pieces and the other on the trailer, were two of the six hand-built pre-mass production Accords. (Wikipedia)
Finally, not an Australian ad but hilarious nonetheless - check out Irn Bru "Around the Piano"
