I Can't Eat This

Archive for March, 2010

This is their second and I think their best one.
The broken guitar sound, like on their first EP, is gone, but you can still sense it under the surface of the songs.

DANCE WITH THE DEAD is a dark hit, maybe a little too long (approx. 6 min.), but you can’t listen to beautiful, melancholic melodies long enough, can you? Side 2 opens with IN ANOTHER TIME which reaches almost side 1. HUNT THE HUNT is a pogo-smasher just to get you out of the chair to flip this record over again and again and again and again.

To fully understand what I mean:

Dance With The Dead
In Another Time
Hunt The Hunt

I stumbled across this little image while I took a look at the website of one of my webstat services.
Can you say that your blog, your website, your shop is really 100% Microsoft free? Or do you still use faulty software or an OS full of security gaps made by a monopolist? Made by a greedy company, that just cares for its customers until the product is sold?

Get me right, please. I am not against making money by developing software or giving support to users. As long as you do the best that you can, developing and working on your product or your service, everything is fine.
But in case with e.g. Microsoft we have the following constellation: Products released as fast as possible to make as many bucks as possible. Only working stable after the third update.

For this crap I should have to pay for? No, not me!

I can use opensource software instead. If there are some bugs or something doesn’t work right, no problem, I did not spend anything on it. I can be patient and wait or better tell the developer that something is wrong with his product and with just that little note to him, take part in making it better. You got that?

I use Ubuntu Linux for three years now. And I can tell you, it has all the features you need for the daily work with your computer. Nearly every kind of software for Linux is available for free.

Switching from microsucks to ubuntu was not easy for me, but I made it. You can do it, too.

Maybe you want to give it a try

You all know about the damage that sugar gives to your teeth and to your whole body, don’t you?
If not, just google, or better ecosia, for “sugar body health”. You will find enough about.

If you already know and think: “Oh, that bad, bad sugar makes me fat, makes me blahblahblah. I will drink a coke light and eat fat-reduced yoghurt. That’ll be much better.” Forget about it.

In most of the products that are sweet, but don’t contain any sugar, there is some kind of “sweetener” (doesn’t sound that nice?). The Industrie’s favourite is called Aspartame, often used in combination with Acesulfam. You can find it also under the name “Nutra-sweet” or “Amino Sweet” and several other names.

Aspartame is made of Aspartic Acid (40%), Phenylalanine (50%) and Methanol (aka wood alcohol/poison) (10%).
The Problem is, if I got it right, that Aspartame is split into its components again inside your body. And these components can cause damage to your health. Read more about that at Mercola.com and at dorway.com.

But that is not the worst thing about it. What I really can’t eat is the following:

There is a substance which is more sweet than sugar and is naturally grown!
Stevia rebaudiana or just Stevia. And the best of it all: It causes absolutely no damage to any part of your body!

Is it a wonder that this little plant is prohibited for use in food-products in the European Union and the USA?

Not to me. As it is natural grown, there is no possibility in making patents on it. And without a patent the only way to make profit of it is to grow it, pack it, sell it. And not just selling patents to other companies.

There are several sources on the net to get more information about Stevia and its prohibition.
Maybe you’ll start at the European Stevia Association:

Do you ever wanted to know where the name of this blog comes from? Sure you do!

“I can’t eat this.” is a line spoken by Mr. Lovebucket in the film “Mr. Jolly lives next door” which is a part of an english comedy series called “The Comic Strip“, screened in the 1980s.

As I am not living in the UK I did not knew this series until an acquaintance brought this video-cassette someone taped for him in England. So we gathered together turned on the tube and I could not believe what I saw: I knew Monty Python and loved them (I still do) for their anarchistic, macabre, silly humor, but what the guys from The Comic Strip did here was more absurd, more outragous and more silly.

Some nice stills from the movie at the estonian full-metal-metsavana

If you wanna watch the whole thing, do it here: Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door

Sorry for linking you to youtoobe, but they don’t allow to embed that video.
The whole series was issued on DVD by BBC UK. I think you’ll get it from amazon or elsewhere.