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Yoga Detox

Let me introduce yoy to this weeks renter - Workout4bloggers, click the link and give him a look - say that pupski sent you.

Workout 4 Bloggers as the name suggests gives you exercises and general health tips for those of us who sit at our desks blogging for hours at a time.

This seemed liked the perfect blog for me to host this week as I am starting a detox. Trying to get fitter, eat better and lose weight. So far it is good (except I haven't cut out coffee yet - although I am cutting down slowly - I didn't want to be laid out with a headache for two days like I was last time I detoxed). The main things I am trying to cut out are dairy (cows) produce and wheat, but I am also avoiding things that are very acidic, like tomatoes. The test will be the weekend - watching Hunchermuncher consume coffee and cake - help!

Well I'd better go - I'm off to yoga now.

Dance the Demented Dance

Just another manic playlist...













1) Little Sister - Queens of the Stone Age
2) These Days - Alien Ant Farm
3) She Never Understood - Comet Gain
4) It Girl - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
5) Nietzsche - The Dandy Warhols
6) Closer to Fine - Indigo Girls
7) Cement - Feeder
8) Who needs Enemies When you Got friends - Cooper Temple Clause
9) Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival
10) Godless - The Dandy Warhols

Filling The Creative Void

My Horoscope for today says that my creative and imaginative powers are at their height, so why is it that I feel I am in a creative void?

I have done my morning pages, been for a walk, done some affirmations, cooked celery soup. I just don't get it - maybe I just need to go splash some paint about or cut up some magazines and see what happens....

Pandora's Box

Hunchermuncher introduced me to a great website called Pandora. Basically you type in bands you like and it plays you music, you say whether you like it or not and it finds you more - you get the idea. It's basically a great way of hearing new music, which you can then look for either online or in the music shop. i warn you though you may get hooked and find yourself still plugged into it two hours later!

Goodbye to a Reggae King

Was saddened to hear of the loss of Desmond Dekker on Friday to a heart attack. His songs have often been on my playlist.

Dekker is just the latest in a long line of dead reggae greats (Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Augustus Pablo, Delroy Wilson etc) but he is by no means the least and he definitely deserves a star in the reggae hall of fame (if there is such a thing).

His single "The Israelites" topped the UK charts in 1969 and was the first reggae single to do so, paving the way for other artists like Bob Marley, Gregory Isaacs and Peter Tosh.

Thirteen great lyrics

Thirteen Songs With Great Lyrics 1…. Black - Pearl Jam, It was hard to choose just one Pearl Jam track as they have so many great Lyrics. "Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay, Were laid spread out before me as her body once did. All five horizons revolved around her soul, As the earth to the sun, Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn" 2...The Changing of the Guards - Bob Dylan, This has all the ingredients that make a Bob Dylan song great: Tarot, violence, politics and a bit of mystery thrown in for good measure. "I stumbled to my feet. I rode past destruction in the ditches With the stitches still mending 'neath a heart-shaped tattoo. Renegade priests and treacherous young witches Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you." 3... Fire and Rain - James Taylor, This is one of my favourite songs of all time and the lyrics are sad and lovely. "Been walking my mind to an easy time my back turned towards the sun Lord knows when the cold wind blows it'll turn your head around Well, there's hours of time on the telephone line to talk about things to come Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground" 4...Young Americans - David Bowie, Love this! All the way from Washington, Her bread-winner begs off the bathroom floor "We live for just these twenty years Do we have to die for the fifty more?" 5...Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd, another band where it was hard to choose just one (and I may have another yet. I like this a lot - simple yet poignant! "And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? 6...African Children - Aswad "All of the nation are living in these tenements Precast stonewall concrete cubicles Their rent increases each and every other day Structural repairs are assessed yet not done Lift out of action on the twenty-seventh floor And when it work it smell" 7...Southern Cross - Crosby Stills and Nash "So I'm sailing for tomorrow. My dreams are a-dying. And my love is an anchor tied to you, tied with a silver chain." 8...Sense - The Lightning seeds "I'm flying high on something beautiful and aimless, it's got a name but I prefer to call it nameless. It comes and goes leaves me on a bed of splinters, feels like I'm living in a town closed down for winter." 9... Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen "You can hide 'neath your covers And study your pain Make crosses from your lovers Throw roses in the rain Waste your summer praying in vain For a saviour to rise from these streets" 10...Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) - Bob Dylan "Well, the last thing I remember before I stripped and kneeled Was that trainload of fools bogged down in a magnetic field. A gypsy with a broken flag and a flashing ring Said, "Son, this ain't a dream no more, it's the real thing." 11...Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd "There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ships smoke on the horizon. You are only coming through in waves. Your lips move but I cant hear what youre saying" 12...White Man in Hammersmith Palais - The Clash "White youth, black youth Better find another solution Why not phone up Robin Hood And ask him for some wealth distribution" 13...I Predict a Riot - Kaiser Cheifs "I tried to get in my taxi A man in a tracksuit attacked me He said that he saw it before me Wants to get things a bit gory" Apologies! How did I manage to Miss the Red Hot Chilli Peppers off the Lyric list! oh well too late now... Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1. Lam(b) 2. bar bar a 3. norma 4. mom2fur 5. jayne d'arcy 6. justacountrygrl 7. janice

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