Luxury cars at a car show

Went to a Luxury car show the other day and took a bunch of photos. Unfortunately, once at home I had no idea which car was what. Ferrari or Lamborghini, I just realized that can't tell them apart. Kind of sad, but then again, I am not going to buy any of these any time soon.

To be honest, I would much prefer making cars like this rather than owning them. I think it would be extremely satisfying to make something most others would covet. But I am not in the car business.

Filthy soap

I just came across one of my old photos I took of a pile of soap in someone's bathroom. I remember that at the time I was amazed at their quantity - there were a lot more than on the picture - and filthiness. After all, we usually associate soap with cleanness.

Having looked up the concept in Google, I came across Filthy Farmgirl Soap where the word "filthy" definitely refers to the farmgirl, not the soap.

Otherwise the idea of filthy soap is not a very dominant one in cyberspace. But in reality soap is made of animal fat so that must be some disgusting process that turns cows peacefully grazing in the sun into that white and fragrant product on the side of your sink. If you have ever driven on highway 5 past Bakersfield and smelled the stench of cows being cooked into glue or something, you know what I am talking about. Or whetever they do there...

Way of the Rock Star: Keith Richars on his way to fame

Keith Richards in the early days of the Rolling Stones, young and full of promise.


A bit later but still pretty normal.



By now one of the most successful guitarists in rock history.

A Keith Richards profile.

A naked torso snapshot for the magazine.

On the 1872 Rolling Stones album Exile on Main Street the song "Happy" was written and sung by Keith Richards. In there he sings the following lines:

"Never wanted to be like papa,

working for the boss every night and day."

Well, his relationship to his papa just got a whole lot different when he snorted up the ashes of his recently deceased father. This is a not a joke, he really did this. Perhaps this is a sign of affection, or whatever. What's even more weird is that this story made it to the public. How? Why? If you do something like this you might want to keep it private, don't you?

The screaming rock and roll singer

Munch's famous scream. Did you know that this figure was actually singing?

Little Richard with his high-pitch screams. He did not actually need a microphone.

Mick Jagger, whose trademark is his wide-open screaming mouth.

It's the singer not the song -- says Mick Jagger in an old song. There are a lot of songs and a lot of singers but people really mostly remember the stars. There are only a handful of well-known songs we cannot associate with a name but there are tons of singers we know relatively well.

And when it comes to rock and roll, the singers tend to project the image of screaming. Just like sugar and salt in junk food, screaming and crying makes the music more appealing. On a very non-intellectual level but still...