Like they say: war is hell.

Another thing is that newbie infantry sometimes pee themselves before battle.

Dr. David Thorpe continues to scientifically deduce the best music out there. I particularly like his "punk rock" hair.

Your Genre Sucks

hiya!i think i am dying! i woke up at 5 am and went to shoppers to buy cough syrup...then i went back to bed until 1pm....i have never been so sick!

Pretty strange Eric.

There is a band called Rude Mechanical who got there name from a line in Shakespear's play a midsummer's night dream.

Bands take there name from everything for example there is a band in Japan called ATP for short and AdinoTriPhosphate in the long form. Yep they named themselves after the ATP packets that power our body.

Poison: Talk Dirty to Me

Cause baby we'll be
At the drive-in
In the old man's Ford
behind the bushes
till I'm screamin' for more

Down the basement
lock the cellar door
And baby
Talk dirty to me

from Pitchfork's review of the Mars Volta single:
"Most At The Drive-in fans know the band took its name from a Poison lyric"

tha fuck? i didn't know that.

About that fart bomb. It wouldn't really work in a war time situation. A battelfield smells like crap to begin with. Dead bodies are decomposing, entrails are leaking out of wounded or nearly dying, there is uncontrolled defecation and any other horror of combat I won't care to mention. This all adds together to form the so called smell of death that war veterans talk about. Even when there is no battle a soldier has been on patrol for untold number of hours lugging around about 35 pounds or more of gear. To say the least he is not going to smell very clean or sterile. I don't think those pencil pushing military scientist were actually thinking when they developed that weapon. That is bureacracy (sp) for you, there is no communication between the ground pounders (infantry) and the people developing this equipment. The scientist have never fired a shot in anger and can not think what the soldier is going through. They don't know the real rigours of combat. What am I complaining about? The average army division of 17,000 men only have about 7000 men and women actually doing the actual shooting and combat. The other 10,000 are pencil pushers, truck drivers, logistic, and whatever other cushy position that those desk generals can think of. Yes I have been reading too much Military Sci-Fi books.

It's from a Tom Jones song, and I think even R.E.M. did a cover of it.

ha ha ha! "sex bomb, sex bomb, you're a sex bomb" ha ha ha! what's that from again?

Yeah, it was in the paper this weekend. They were also thinking of developing a fart bomb (though it had a different name) so that people would get grossed out and start accusing eachother of passing gas... until they realized that that's more of a cultural thing than anything... and that a lot of the adversarial armies wouldn't be as affected by it as the Americans... so backfires weren't really all that positive, I guess.