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Recently I got myself an 16GB Apple iPhone 3GS it was one of those items that you want more than you need. So as a result I procrastinated over it’s purchase for weeks. Finally I bought the gizmo that everyone’s talking about.

What do you think about it? I hear you say, I love it! Apple really know how to put a quality feature packed product together. No regrets so far the only thing that I am not happy about is the exorbitant price of data access, but can hardly be blamed on Apple.

Although I don’t do a huge amount of text messaging the ease of use of this feature and the attractive bubble like conversation history have me happy to send a few more with the The iPhone keyboard accelerates your typing because it tracks what you type, then suggests words, corrects spelling, and inserts punctuation for you.

With all the excitement comes a little bit of sadness, knowing that my 8OGB iPod Classic has become redundant. With a 3.5″ touch screen using the iPod feature has never been easier. choose from you music by scrolling through artits, album, playlists or cover flow. My favorite feature is the new shaking to shuffle songs.

With the addition of  TomTom for iPhone it has turned the iPhone into a fully featured GPS. Will this thing ever stop amazing me with it’s versatility and ease of use? I think not!  If you are like myself and have been thinking about getting yourself one of these all I can say is GO FOR IT!

Edit: after a bit longer using it I have noticed that battery life is a bit low, but considering the size of screen I am not all that surprised.  And the lack of ability to easily share ring-tones and photos etc with blue-tooth is a disappointment. All is hope is not lost, there are third party apps designed to help you do this. As a side note to this issue I am glad to say the iPhone connects easily with my Nokia blue-tooth in car kit and works a treat.

21st Century Breakdown

Green Day’s 21st Century Breakdown is one of my most-anticipated releases for 2009, due for releases in May. Today I was able to listen to the demo of 21st Century Breakdown (possibly one of their most epic song yet)  and was pleasantly surprised at the familiarity of what I was hearing.

With a typical punk urgency and angst filled lyrics, this song and I am sure the whole album is sure to please die hard Green Day fans and rope in quite a few ones.

21st Century Breakdown is the follow-up to the 2004 Grammy-winning American Idiot, and took Billie Joe Armstrong three years to write. The band has been in the studio with producer Butch Vig (Nirvana, Against Me!) for some months, and is due out mid May.

I really can’t wait I find myself almost champing at the bit.

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after recently hearing a song on a television show called Fear Itself I had to track it down. It turns out the song is called Lie Lie Lie and it was a solo effort of Serj Tankian. Front man for Alternative metal, Experimental rock, Nu metal band System Of A Down. This album has become my favourite of the last 2 or 3 years hence my need to blog about it better late than never I always say.

On this debut solo album Serj played most of the instruments himself but did receive help from several drummers including fellow S.O.A.D band member  John Dolmayan, along with Dan Monti on guitar and bass and an Opera singer Ani Maldjian.

Release Date October 2007

TRACKLIST

1. Empty Walls (03:49)
2. The Unthinking Majority (03:47)
3. Money (03:54)
4. Feed Us (04:32)
5. Saving Us (04:42)
6. Sky Is Over (02:57)
7. Baby (03:31)
8. Honking Antelope (03:51)
9. Lie Lie Lie (03:33)
10. Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition (04:24)
11. Beethoven’s Cunt (03:13)
12. Elect the Dead (02:55)

Empty Walls

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