I’m a little late to review this, but I know there are still a lot of people out there that aren’t keeping up to the minute on reggae releases, so here we go…

Pressure’s latest album is titled ‘Love And Affection’ and, luckily for him, that title track has blown up. If you do a search for the album, you’ll find videos for that track on almost every video site I can think of and even the lyrics and ringtones are plentiful. It is a catchy song, although not my favorite on the disk. The track ‘Ghetto Life’ is dripping with flavor, with a fat beat and great samples of Tenor Saw. I got that one playin’ on 10 right now (Fyah!). Nice message in that one too. Some other favorites are “Be Free”, “Most Wanted”, and “Boogey Man”, all of which have that ‘new’ conscious reggae sound. There are some other’s that I’d prefer not be on the album at all (“Personality” and “Never Fail”) which both have dancehall beats and are really rough.
Overall, this album has both strong and weak aspects. I’d recommend purchasing specific downloads instead of the whole album because of this. I’m looking forward to seeing Pressure live in the near future…
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Click below to play “Ghetto Life”

This is some strong stuff!…hehehe. Wow. When I first opened the bottle, I got a whiff of something that reminded me of a cross between Old English 800 and Sierra Nevada Big Foot. The first sip hits you with some intense flavor and then the little buzz in your belly afterward is a reminder of the alcoholic content of this badbwoy. It’s almost like sipping on a semi-sweet liqueur. There are a ton of flavors going on, but I’m not versed enough in the art of bullshitting alcohol nuances, so I won’t try to label them. This one is definitely not something you’d want passed to you loaded into a beerbong…hehehe. I would recomend sipping this sitting around a campfire on a cold night. This beer isn’t for light beer lovers or anyone that doesn’t want a strong buzz. If you like barleywine style brews, this will most likely be right up your alley.
From what I’ve gathered this beer used to be brewed by a different brewery and then was M.I.A. for about four years. Then Castle Brewery of Eggenberg, Austria began brewing it again in 2000.

Now, how and why did I just review a beer that is known to only be released in December of each year? And even more importantly, why does the label say 2001? I was at my local liquor (Bay Crest Spirit & Wine Shop)store talkin to a buddy and we got onto the subject of beers…specifically good, strong I.P.A.’s. This led to him asking if I wanted to try a beer for a dollar, that he guaranteed was the strongest beer I could get. Next thing you know, he’s handing me this ‘Samichlaus’ and telling me that it’s been in the back of their store, and that it’s been fermenting ever since they got it back in 2002. The label says that it is 14% by vol.
I was told this comes in 4 packs and those are usually about $15.
I appoligize for the bad scans…the label’s print kinda melted off when I was trying to peal it off…and my scanner is on the crappy side.

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If you’ve paid any attention to this blog, you’ve probably noticed a bit of a trend toward supporting or recommending documentaries that deal with our planet. Of all the ones I’ve seen, I think that this one might be the most impactful yet. This film ties in a few different themes that other movies have covered, but does it in such a way that each summarized version does what it needs to. This is a movie that I would recommend every American watch. I know that some people don’t believe in ‘global warming’ and don’t believe in ‘the evils of oil,’ but I’d hope that these same people might still not be completely lost and a movie like this might just snap them out of their slumber.
I don’t want to quote anything from the movie or give an kind of spoiler, but I will post the trailer because I think that the trailer might actually fire some people up to go and and see it (or download it, rent it, just see it).
One thing I will say (and the trailer gives some more info about this) is that this movie is not just a ‘we are horrible, we do horrible things, all hope is lost, we suck’ bash-fest that one might think. There is an inspirational message…so just watch it.

Official movie site: CLICK
Community action site: CLICK

What’s the difference between a condom and Congress?
-You can only put one dick in a condom.

Hehehe….funny. Ok..and sad if you actually take this image seriously.
I didn’t draw this…just animated it. Props to whoever did.

I read this post on green.yahoo.com, written by Ramon Cruz, and had to copy and paste it here. Hope peeps read it.
It’s ironic. In many parts of the world, there is no clean drinking water. Here in the U.S., pure, drinkable water flows out of every tap, and yet Americans buy a staggering amount of bottled water. We pay big bucks for it, too — more than $15 billion a year.

• More than a quarter of bottled water is just processed tap water, including Pepsi’s Aquafina and Coca-Cola’s Dasani. Despite this, bottled water consumption is growing at 10 percent a year, faster than any other beverage. We drink 15 times more bottled water today than we did in 1976.

• This doesn’t mean we’re healthier, despite the ads. Federal regulations for municipal water are far more stringent. Bottled water rules allow higher levels of many contaminants, with more lenient requirements for filtration, testing, and reporting. See NRDC’s bottled water report for details of contaminants by brand.

• The earth isn’t healthier for it, either. According to the Pacific Institute’s fact sheet (PDF), manufacturing the 30+ billion plastic water bottles we bought in 2006 required the equivalent of more than 17 million barrels of oil, produced more than 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide, and used three times the amount of water in the bottle.

And these numbers don’t include transporting the bottles. Nearly 25 percent of bottled water crosses national borders before reaching consumers.

Adding in transportation, the energy used comes to more 50 million barrels of oil equivalent — enough to run 3 million cars for a year.
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These numbers are troubling. I don’t see how we continue to do the things ‘we’ do. Hopefully more people will pay attention, which will help to bring a change.