OBLIVIOS TRIO

Wow...IPhone with 3G technology ...or... Cool comp dude!!!. Hail the Newtons and the Einsteins... Charles Babbage, Alexander Graham Bell and my dearest Fourier. Well they are all scientists or inventors or pioneers occupying quite some place in our textbooks. What would the world be like without them? The answer is quotidian..."unimaginable" and sometimes "who are they?".

Well, for a change, lets talk about someone else. Its a Friday evening, and if it wasn't for my mid semester report,I would have been in my room. I would like to do so many things at this hour, but can do only a few. As i sat there, gazing into the reflection of the green meadows on my monitor(bloody no LCD monitors yet!), waiting for free snacks, i sat down to blog about someone else. Three discoveries/inventions, never talked about much.

Well, the third best invention would go to the deodorant.Axe, Denim, Park Avenue, Brut...whatever they may be. It just gives u a good reason not to take bath on a early sunny summer morning, in turn saving water, which saves money and so on and so forth. Deodorant as we know it today started with the original formulation for Mum deodorant that was invented in 1888, by an unknown inventor from Philadelphia. Helen Barnett developed an underarm deodorant and was tested in the USA in 1952, and marketed under the name of Ban Roll-On. Got to meet your girl after a hard days work? simple... it hardly takes 5 seconds to "deo" yourself, thought it might take sometime locating your deo. Have to run to an exam early morning? Grab a deo from your wingies and "pshhhhhhh..." there you go!

Back from snacks!!!We are now provided free snacks too :D

The second best invention is the ice-cream...isn't it delicious...after a sumptuous meal, an ice cream is always welcome. There is always the risk of addiction, but this is certainly better than most other addictions. African American, Augustus Jackson was a candy confectioner from Philadelphia who can be called the inventor of ice cream around 1832. In 1846, Nancy Johnson patented a hand-cranked freezer that established the basic method of making ice cream still used today. William Young patented the similar "Johnson Patent Ice-Cream Freezer" in 1848.I seriously think he deserves a Nobel Prize. Isn't it awesome, the most delicious semi-solid substance on earth, at a cheap and affordable price. I proudly say that we get an ice-cream for lunch every Monday at our office :P

The best invention of all time is the "SNOOZE" button. Man..that's the best thing that ever happened to earth after the invention of the disastrous alarm clock. What a remedy to the malaise!As the sun rises and a new day dawns upon you, the alarm explodes and u casually roll over and slam it right on its head. Wow...isn't it a nice way to steal a few mun Most of you would be really surprised to know that Lew Wallace is the person who invented the snooze button. Lew Wallace is the author of the book Ben Hur. An epic Hollywood blockbuster that still holds its own even today, even becoming a part of the English vernacular with the term "Bigger than Ben Hur". Well thanks to this legend, we can sleep for a few extra minutes before we go and face the humdrum of life.

Well...there are many more like these...and I'm sure you will be thinking more of them or doing something equivalently useless if you are as bored as me :P

METAL INQUISITION-Death Magnetic

Well... the ninth studio album from Metallica, Newstead substituted by Trujillo. What can we expect? A collection of classics? A shitload of trashcan banging by a bunch of boozers? A mixture of some melliflous solos and riffs? In this predicament, i would certainly look forward for anything better than St.Anger, something which is just not "bang bang dum dum"... may be they will lack the flair and melody of Black and Ride the Lightning, the tempo and variations of Master of Puppets, but retain a tinge of their old legacy, a style of their own and James' vocals. Thanks to some Monsieur/Madame/Mademosellie in Paris, and Rapidshare which gave me the new album and my PS where im given coffee, lunch, high speed internet, stipend and time to crap all over the net, here it goes. 

The long awaited album from the boozers has 10 songs out of which one is deviod of James' vocals. Its a pity that Unforgiven III has to be there in this... not that its too bad, but nowhere comparable to its predecessors. Starts of slowly, and if im not wrong its a keyboard(my apologies if it isnt keyboard and violon) and then ends with a good solo. 

"The Day that Never Comes" was used for the publicity stunt, and once agian...its not the "One" of  ...And Justice for all nor "Nothing Else Matters" of Black nor " Fade to Black" of Ride the Lightning, but nevertheless a good song. 

"Suicide and Redemption" is a good one, but with too many repetitions of the same riffs. 

The rest of them are good and bad in their own ways, but overall a very satisfying album compared with the last 3 or 4 of them. With Metallica lowering their bar everytime exponentially since Black, it might take more than a miracle to come up with another Black.

No wonder Ulrich says it makes no difference to them if the album leaked, they cant go firing all guns against some rapidshare this time, must have had enough with Napster. Lets all relish the faint flavour of the "Old Metallica" and be glad that Kirk's solos are still alive. 

Ive got time and Ive got space and I am no Einstein to derive relationships between them, so let me give it a rating... 3/5. That must satisfy most of them. 

Almost forgot... for those who want to download Metallica Death Magnetic: http://rapidshare.com/files/142345199/metdmr-fjortiso.rar