Welcome friends and foes, those who pee in the shower and those who walk to school…everyone is welcome. Be them they, those or them…horse or she, fish bladders or Misterus Gail Stickupher/himarse from home economics class…it matters not and confuses all who run headlong into the paradigm shift of entitlement and general piss-poor desire to do actual work for renumeration….it is a funky-upped world out there and honestly, if everyone just tried to be nice to everyone else, realized life isn’t fair and that you have to actually do shit to get something accomplished, we would be in a better spot. But I digress, well cannot digress from a spot that I was never at…let us begin.
As an aside that I am not going to on about, but the more I read the more I discover that there is NO alcohol that is safe for humans to drink…that is if you do not want cancer. But like I said, everyone needs to die of something. Like airplanes, we never have left one up there yet….
Some Really Cool Shit
Any interest in radio controlled vehicles? No? Well that doesn’t really matter to enjoy these bad bois….quick little videos and makes you realize this smart and handy fella isn’t out causing the world harm….these are supa kewl. Take your mind off of what is ailing you, and try to focus for more than 13 seconds (I think they are like 2-3 minutes long…so try and keep up…warning they are not tiktoks so some may find it difficult)
CornerShop
No, that title of the blog was not a titillating attempt to push up your underwiring (bra reference) of your reptilian brain for cheap thrills or even live bait, the ole-bait-and-switch or even clickbait…it was and still is, in reference to a tune from 1998…performed by Cornershop and managed to top the UK charts for a time off their album When I Was Born for the 7th Time….
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Everybody needs a bosom
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Everybody needs a bosom
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Everybody needs a bosom, mine's on the 45
Who is Asha Bhosle? She is an Indian playback singer (still active at 89!!), entrepreneur, actress and television personality who predominantly works in Indian cinema. Known for her versatility, she has been described in the media as one of the most influential and successful singers in Hindi cinema. She has sung in well over 1000 movies. Many more than I have, over 1000 more actually. I have never sung un a Bollywood movie. Dance? Well, I am known for dancing in some circles…mostly in a lopsoded circle, then falling to the floor, but renowned in those circles nonetheless.
Cornershop is a band from the UK started in 1997 or thereabouts. I only ever heard this tune from them but they did a thing for an anti-Brexit media event and then they released a new album in 2021 called England is a Garden and I kind of dig it…so if you tired of your TikTok, your Iron Maiden and your feet are tired of dancing to James Brown, give it a listen. They also have a version of Norwegian Wood in Hindi…or what I believe to be Hindi…cool.
But here is Brimful of Asha for your listening pleasure and if you enjoy tunes without a bridge, well, this is especially for you…like Emmience Front is another one (“what’s ‘ard is making it feel ‘ard, you can’t understand what I’m sayin’ can you?”)…..:
Mind Bending
Ever heard of fractals? They are neat. How about Shepard Tones? Also neat. Now combine the two and you get mind numbing endlessness and one way to leave your body and forget almost everything…the tones are said to even cause dizziness, nausea and perhaps inner peace…you may not care, but if you are at all interested, here is a video with 10 hours (wowzer) of falling shepard tones and fractals to let you drift off into somewhere only you are allowed.
The best part of this experience is that it is all yours, and yours alone…nobody else can go with you…enjoy (maybe not whilst driving…):
And lastly…
Macky Sall, the president of Senegal is not running for re-election. He has been head dude since 2012 when Senegal gained independence from France. Why is this important? Well, it isn’t, except I guess unless you are Senegalese perhaps.
But I do occasionally like to read about African politics and get drawn in by the politicians with the names, the names that are long or interesting…
Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa za Banga -Congolese politician president of Zaire
Goodluck Jonathan - Nigerian president born to two canoe makers
Canaan Banana, former President of Zimbabwe…
I would love to have a name as cool as these fellas…but getting back to Senegal. I was not aware (again) that they have a groundnut valley where a shit load of peanuts are grown. Macky Sall’s parents were peanut growers.
China has many, many companies installed in Senegal and is the biggest importer of Senegalese peanuts…and did you know peanuts were initially used in Europe for soap?
But, like everything we humans do, we have almost destroyed this peanut basin with sole specie farming, the soil has become inert, dusty where there used to grow all kind of stuff, now the farmers have to add chemicals and artificial whatever to make shit grow.
So there you go…from soup to nuts, from bosoms to nuts….we have come full circle my friends. And many of you have been asking me for my thoughts on the best product name I have found in public toilets…well, I have found it and will share below. Stay thirsty my friends (but do take note of the alcohol health issue I mentioned above…oly because I care).
Blue side up.
And always remember…if you get confused, listen to the music play….stay grateful and be kind to one another…
That's awesome...I only ever liked the tune, never ate anything she made...I assume it was pretty good as few chefs ever get a top 40 song written about them..maybe actors I guess... Thanks for sharing!
I ate several times at Asha’s restaurant in Dubai. It was in the Wafi (wave) Mall complex. It was a superb and expensive establishment. I miss it.