The Whole Truth

I dont like intelligent kids who can do things. Especially if they create an invention every bloke has wanted to create since the start of time. These kids should instead go and study journalism and spout nonsense about silly things Ala Daily Mail style.

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Recently I have come to the conclusion that work aside I spend far to much time on the internet. Lets be honest in the health capacity spending to much time on the ‘net’ is not a good thing as I thought it was probably time to compile a list of reasons why spending to much time on the internet is not a good thing.

Of course some of them will probably be in keeping with the whole style of The Whole Truth and slightly silly. Oh Well!

• You lose your friends because you spend to much time talking to “online contacts” on sites like Twitter or Facebook. Now frankly there is nothing wrong with sites like Twitter or Facebook its just how you go about using them. Twitter is essentially a brilliantly devised networking aide which contains far to many ‘gurus’ and marketing experts who try to sell things through talking to you. Sound Familiar? Its a bit like phone salesmen/women just with a lack of human interaction! Automation people – the way forward! The truth be told “what works for one doesn’t always work for another”. It is fun however to hound girls you have a crush on who you have no chance with.
• Shopping on the internet. Now occasionally I buy from the internet and tend to find that the clothes I buy from online retailers never fit. Probably because I’m slightly fat and with delusions of grandeur.
• Enjoying sites like Digg and Reddit - Far to much nonsense is spawned from these sites to make them edifying at at all. I frequent Reddit and feel ashamed to say its one of the first things I look at on the internet. Sure, you ‘learn’ things, but its all been at a terrible cost to my already failing eyesight.
• Making Friends. Who wants to make friends with someone from the internet if they are not from the country you are from. Bit of a waste of time if you ask me. Still you tend to find you do it daily. Especially if you are sites like Digg and Reddit

There you have it rant over. I’m going back to bed to sleep and think about how I should come back and edit this post to say what I actually mean…

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Levi’s have decided to invite ‘pioneering musicians from pop, rock, soul and rap to re-craft the classic songs which inspired their sound’. The outcome: a fabulously nebulous collection of tunes by varied artists which in many ways bare no relation to what they do as artists now.

Passion Pit - Levi's Pioneer Sessions

Now really the only song I actually like from the site is the Passion Pit cover of Tonight,Tonight by the Smashing Pumpkins. However, its probably best to admit that I havent listened to the whole collection which is availiable at at the Levi’s Pioneers Sessions site here. All of the tracks are available to download for free. I have however taken the liberty at uploading the Passion Pit cover to The Whole Truth. One to save you money and secondly because it feels good to legitimately post a song on a blog.

Passion Pit “Tonight, Tonight” – Smashing Pumpkins Cover

Please feel free to download the track (right-click, save as) or alternatively re-blog it using the “zemified” button at the bottom.
Lauded electro-pop band Passion Pit have re-crafted the Smashing Pumpkins‘ “Tonight, Tonight” in a manner that is at once reverent and full of daring. Michael Angelakos’ affinity for the song is clear in the way his high voice hems to the original melody. But where the Pumpkins went for ambitious grandiosity, Angelakos submerges the song into an electronic world of synth.

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