This year the maillot jaune is taken home by Cadel Evans, instigator of the CadelMageddon and best-of-the-rest.

The maillot a pois this year goes to mountain goat and fearsome attacker Sammy Sanchez who demonstrated that eating Spanish steaks all year around doesn’t necessarily mean a bad thing.

And the maillot vert is likely to go to cry-baby and fast man Cavendish who defied all the Krachtwerk by Belgian stronghold Gilbert.

For the 0chblog t00rp00l we have a classical end result and J-One can collect his bottle of Berentzen in EHV whenever he’s around. Thank you all.

Paar krachtige aankomsten tot dusver van ondermeer Thor Hushovd en Philippe Gilbert. Ook krachttermen van ondermeer Johnny Hoogerland en Laurens Ten Dam. Reden tot vreugde wat betreft het verloop van La Grande Boucle tot nu toe.

Life got a little bit in the way but we’re just in time for again another t00rp00l here @pl0rg headquarters. Join Team Kalashnikov and all other 0chers at the OCHBLOG subleague at sportpOOls (I guess the password was OCHochOCH). Registration is open until 12.00hrs CET this Saturday July 2, 2011. A votre demandé, les coureurs, les protagonistes et les grandes ettapes.

You can stack your vuvuzelas where the sun don’t shine as it is time again for the t00rp00l here at zérocéash. Join Team Kalashnikov and all other 0chers at the OCHBLOG subleague at sportpOOls (JayJay will probably throw the password for the subleague in the comments). Registration is open until 12.00hrs CET this Saturday July 3, 2010. A votre demandé, les coureurs, les protagonistes et la première semaine.

Performance by MC Spandex

De Keerzijde

Prelisten 1
Prelisten 2
flac
monkeyballs

an installation entirely constructed of objects that have lost their function and through small adjustments

have become improved version of themselves.” Within three days, Bob & Marcia made a bed (see below), a stool, a bar, and all the other furniture in a standard Dutch household.

With Alessi’s open-up presentation in the Designhuis only admissible to captains of turtlneck-industry, I strawled a bit further and ended up at the Plakboek book presentation. A compilation of the street-art that EHV has been blessed with the past decennium. Have a look at the works of Erosie, Space3, some kroketten, or perhaps some Space Invaders? A very nice book, and fits well in the ‘tradition’ of EHV graphics at DDW.

So, after a quick baguette at Dubbeldik, where we spotted famous Eindhovians such as preachers Arnol and Theo and that bald guy from the city works who always empties the trash cans while smoking hefty cigars, we were off for the Dutch Design Awards at Strijp-S. But again, only admissible for people who know more than three ways to scroll through text messages on their iPones. Made me ponder about the gap between creativists such as Bob & Marcia or Erosie and board of director satisfiers who win Audi awards.

U bent niet verplicht
om uw VRIJHEID
te willen hebben. U mag uw
vrijheid VRIJWILLIG inleveren,

maar zonder
VRIJHEID
geen
LIEFDE.

–A. Kox

One man. One bike. One dream. To grow the biggest beard a cyclist ever had. To smash the record, Mark Beaumont must cycle eighteen thousand miles in just two hundred days. His epic journey will take him through floods, burning deserts, freezing winds, and desolate plains. The experience will push bike, body, and facial hair to the limit. It’s the ultimate endurance test. If he pulls it off, the world record will be his.

Watch Mark struggle to keep his bike, designed in Heerenveen and made in Pookiwookistan, rolling along Europe. See him blush over the compliments he recieves in India about his manly physique. How he rides the famous 90 mile straight, Australia’s longest straight road, with no hands. And his sufferings to keep his vegetarian body pedalling around the US on chicken and steaks.

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With its heavy intro, a fine smooth groove, and very slick lyrics, Papa Was A Rolling Stone has always been a favorite of mine. Most well known in its Temptations incarnation, Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield wrote the song originally for The Undisputed Truth. And as for most Undisputed/Temptations songs, my favorite lies in the Truth.

The Original
What can I say? This is Psychedelic Soul with a capital Freak. The Undisputed Truth’s sound is usually way more gritty and raw than that of The Temptations. And Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone is no exception to the rule. Joe Harris puts so much grit in his voice and Billie Rae Calvin and Brenda Joyce throw that much energy in their lines. And the lyrics are of course the most defining part of the song. And that it sounds so much different than the other versions makes it a keeper.

The ‘When You Got Time To Spend’ Twelve-Minute Version
But then again, there is little wrong with polished and shiny ingenuity in heavy production. Especially when performed by such masters of the genre as The Funk Brothers (instrumentation) and The Temptations (vocals). See the wiki for more info about the music and the recording hassles.. And check out Law Of The Land, if you fancy another face-off between Truth and Temptation. I call it a draw.

The Bass
With a theme based around drifters, loans, dealin’, and another wive, and with a bass that deep, we’re on a crash course to a reggae cover. And The Pioneers deliver in full effect. It’s amazing how so little has to be changed to instrumentation and vocals to make this a true reggae song. All basic ingredients remain: the bass, the wah-wah, the handclaps, the funk. Great cover imho and expect some more reggae covers at Och.

The Break
With a song that funky, it is inevitable that someday someone somehow extracts and builds on its break. However, in this case it’s not by the likes of AL Green-aficionado DJ Premier or Donald Byrd-fanatic Pete Rock, but by the eccentricities of David and Don Was of Was (Not Was). Though I’m still not convinced by G Love E’s rap, this is 90s funk at its best and serves the song right.

For some sake of completeness, you might want to listen to the covers by George Michael and the South Central Cartel and the sample in Papa Crazy by Run-D.M.C. Plus, you might want to dig into the story behind that other Strong & Whitfield song.