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I think this is a pretty bitching set of tracks, for even the rainiest of days:

Don't Stop Believin'			Journey
Tiny Dancer						Elton John
Talfan Ayyash					Fairuz
Me Llaman Calle					Manu Chao
Chelsea Hotel					Leonard Cohen
Made Of Stone					The Stone Roses
Requiem 						Mozart
I'll Melt With You				Modern English
Ya Rayah						Rachid Taha
Abdel Kader						Khaled
The Boxer						Simon & Garfunkel
By Your Side					Sade
Angie							The Rolling Stones
The Man Who Sold The World		Nirvana
Bling (Confession Of A King)	The Killers
Ooh Child					The Five Stairsteps

Sorry about the formatting there, WordPress kinda bit me in my lazy ass.

I’ve recently acquired a copy of The Escoffier Cookbook written by the eponymous High Baal of Haute Cuisine, Auguste Escoffier.

Now this book is something that I am sure my uncle Pena (a gourmet and chef par excellence – feeling pseudo-French today, btw) would enjoy – unfortunately he comes from a generation of Finns whose command of English leaves something to be desired, so I decided to look for a Finnish translation of the book at Stockmann’s Akateeminen.

The search results on the website were a bit random though (look at the first line):

Escoffier @ Akateeminen

These kids rock so hard. Esp the chubby Latin soloist, he’s my hero.

I bow to our new Youtube-posting Kermit-loving overlords..

When I saw that hilarious article regarding the magical CD improving box I emailed the authors to ascertain whether they were kidding or not. Here’s the reply:

“Yes, we are definately serious, really. We do know that comes off a CD
are *not* bits. i.e. 0′s and 1′s. What’s on an audio CD contrary to what
is on a data CD is an interpretation of the musical sinewave encoded in
9 types of pits T3 through T11. Only after extensive manipulation a
bitstsream of zeros and ones is presented to the DAC’s input. Before the
bitstream is created all things are happening in the analog domain. We
all know that the analog domain is very susceptable to external
influences. Hence the existance of a meriad of tools, gadgets and
methods that all have an effect on the resulting musical perception.
Whether the effects are positive or negative in a musical context is of
a different category just like the financials associated.
Our upcoming PS Audio PWT/PWD review will refocus on the analog
persuation of ‘digital media’. For now you might take a look at this
article: http://www.6moons.com/industryfeatures/eac/eac.html”

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, contrary to popular belief and decades of audio engineering, the “Doctors” have “discovered” that CDs are in fact ANALOG.

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Laugh, probably.

These guys are just so retarded it almost hurts – an “Intelligent” (seriously, these guys are funny) box with an LED that makes your (digital) CDs sound better. For USD 400. Oh and it needs to be “recharged” (of course) every 100 CDs for another 200 USD. Bargain – like discount homeopathy products!

"Intelligent" Box

“It does give us a viable off-line device to enhance optical discs by means of photon treatment – at a price. Audible results are very good and it is hard to listen to a non- treated disc after listening to an enhanced version of that same disc on any CDP. Once used, always hooked so to speak. With the ease of use the IB offers, the crème de la crème of a CD collection can be enhanced in no time.”

No mention of the fact that this is physically impossible of course.

“Dr” Denk and “Dr” Marja, you guys are my Morons of the Month. Seriously, WTF?

Source: 6moons Audio Reviews 2007