Bass Ache FM

Okay everyone and their pet alien knows that I am a metalhead. (I suspect my brain is actually made of some kind of metal too, lead probably.) Ive been listening to heavy metal since 1980 and for me, nothing comes close to the raw power and imagery it produces. Country music is its closest genre (country musicians make those appalling 'gansta rappers' look like children), and although I do like country (NOT the Shania Twain type), it is to the devil horns my allegiance lies. Play it loud, play it plowed!
Anyway I was surfing my radio app on iPhone earlier and found a German station dedicated to 'hardcore trance bass' music. Intrigued (and tired of talk radio) I tuned in and gave it a listen for thirty minutes. Now Mr Jakes is not going to rubbish another style of music because quite frankly it never achieves anything (other than the complainer looking like a mouthy tool), but I will admit that this music is not for me. Perhaps I listened twenty minutes too long or something because I enjoyed the odd beat and rhythm here and there but could never suffer longer than say 10/15 minutes. It started to sound all the same and indeed I even came away with the conclusion that 'trance bass' is the sound of real insanity. This my friends is what lunacy sounds like. Have a listen for yourselves.

iBerry ~ When Life Gets Too Much

Soon the new iPhone 5 will be launched onto a public, eager for another toy to finger and cool! I like techy toys as much as the next nerd but when will all this end? Or is it at and end already? I mean just what kind of new bells and Apps can be added to mobile phones? I find it hard to believe anyone can muster enough excitement to get them to the phone shop these days because Smartphones are already filled to the pinging gills with everything you need.


The nuke app proved popular among teenagers

There are Apps for everything! Weather, news, money, temperature, blood pressure, fingernail growth checker, etc etc. (Okay I just made the fingernail app up but it will probably happen soon). What can Apple possibly conjure up for this new cell phone? How can they get better than they are now? Are Apps going to cook us dinner? Hoover the house? I would love one that can clean my deep fat fryer, horrid job!
Also, do we need Smartphones to be our personal assistants? Have our lives become so busy that we need a helping hand? Sure they are convenient and after a shaky start with my Blackberry, im enjoying iits many uses but I highly doubt my life would collapse into a shambles if for some reason mobile phones suddenly disappeared.


When phones were real phones

I had a brick like that one in the above picture and the only thing you were able to do on it was ring someone. *Shocker* I occasionaly wish for such simple times back again.