Venus On Earth - Dengue Fever

Advantages: Great working of the 60s Cambodian pop sound, some great lyrics
Disadvantages: Don't understand all lyrics

...-legged Tibetan nose-flautists, we want the real thing, not Giles and Miranda sitting in mummy?s gazebo churning out the sounds of downtown Jakarta from a well-tended garden in the Home Counties. Dengue Fever are one exception; a band that are so cool and pull off the Cambodian 1960s pop-psychedelia thing so well I can forgive them their rather mundane Los Angeles roots. Like their name, Dengue Fever are highly infectious and the catchy numbers of their third album ?Venus on Earth? , while not breaking any new ground for the band, see them go from strength to strength with a collection of competently played and composed pop songs. A friend introduced me to Cambodian pop music through a compilation CD; I?d no idea there?d been such a thriving pop scene in the country at the time and to find out that the genre has such a strong following today... Read review

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Advantages: Great Read
Disadvantages: None

.... It will see Venus eventually terraformed into another Earth. Iris passionately wishes to be a part of this and so is sucking up knowledge like a sponge. When her chance comes she will have to make some startling sacrifices. Opinions: ****** Iris can come across as sometimes desperate and sometimes uncaring. She gets pregnant to one of the spacers in order to get up to the orbiting 'Islands' with him when he finally leaves. She seems uncaring about her new born son, Benzi, maybe this changes in the next novel. I can't emphasise enough how unlike my normal Sci-fi this book is. Which really shows how well written the story is. It is a slow building novel which exposes layers upon layers of future Earth. It's a touchy feely novel, with a slight twist to the Sci-Fi end of things, maybe I'm getting old? When they get to Venus... Read review

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Advantages: Lovely orangey smell, hides bad smells, long lasting
Disadvantages: expensive

... Lynx Fever - Deodorant Bodyspray - with Brazilian Orange Essence Well hello folks, its me again! The Hairy One back to review another of my favourite products, and oh boy do I have a biggy here for you today... product I mean!!! You see I came by this stuff completely by accident. Literally it just happened, but ever since that fateful day I have been hooked. Let me tell you a story... I have been with my girlfriend now for 6 months. We moved in together on 31st August 2009. Everythings great. Except one thing. A big thing. Which is absolutely killing me inside..... ... I'm lying to her. ... But for a very good reason. Read on... Why I bought it OK I'm lying to her. As far as I see it, its not a big lie, and its something I'm working on so very very hard so I don't have to lie anymore... Read review

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