Advantages: The ultimately 'useless info' book Disadvantages: Disadvantages?!
From the author of the international bestseller; Schott?s Original Miscellany, Ben Schott gives the perfect dose for those still addicted to the term ?useless information?!!
Schott?s Almanac 2006 ? giving details on everything that?s everything that happened during 2005, so slightly out of date now ? is the ultimate necessity for those in need of knowing stuff that, well, doesn?t really need to be known.
Broken down into 13 sections ? Chronicle, The World, Society & Health, Media & Celebrity, Music & Cinema, Books & Art, Sci-Tech-Net, Travel & Leisure, Money, Parliament & Politics, Establishment & Faith, Sport and finally Ephemerides. (That?s stuff to do with astronomy and the calendar from what I can gather.) It ensures that every possible area of talk is covered.
It seems every page unveils something intriguing. On the first ...
Advantages: For the optimist...amazingly useless information!!! Disadvantages: For the pessimist...amazingly useless information!!!
So, upon my return to Ciao, what could I review that seemed somewhat different?? I've done a number of CD's and DVD's, but no books....but I fancied a book with a difference, and then happened to stumble across Schott's Original Miscellany....
Ben Schott conceived and wrote this book in 2002, with an updated version coming in 2003 making a couple of amendents to any potential errors in the original version. Quite simply it is the perfect book for anyone, like myself, who loves useless information...
Brought from Ottaker's for £9.99 in hardback with dust cover, these 158 pages of information, is the so-called gospel of pub quiz knowledge, or just something to impress your friends with!
For starters, the opening slice of information regards the terminology of "Golf Stroke Nomenclature" - the names of the shots in golf for you ...
Advantages: sees Sabbath beginning to experiment successfully with new textures Disadvantages: lots of instrumental
BLACK SABBATH VOL.4
1: Wheels of Confusion/The Straightener (8:14)
2: Tomorrow's Dream (3:12)
3: Changes (4:46)
4: FX (1:43)
5: Supernaut (4:45)
6: Snowblind (5:31)
7: Cornucopia (3:54)
8: Laguna Sunrise (2:52)
9: St. Vitus Dance (2:29)
10: Under the Sun/Every Day Comes and Goes (5:50)
Yet another groundbreaking powerhouse recording featuring some excellent guitar work. This includes great classics like Tomorrow's Dream, Changes, Supernaut, Snowblind, and Laguna Sunrise Black Sabbath VOL. 4 is a must have addition to any Black Sabbath collection released: early september 1972 the album features some of Sabbaths most memorble tracks and sees Sabbath beginning to experiment successfully with new textures such as strings, piano, orchestration and multi-part songs.. Yet the classic Sabbath sound is still very much in evidence ...
