Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight

Well .. it certainly isn't the LP we know; it's softer than Hybrid Theory & Meteora, but it's worth a listen. It'll grow on you. Stand-out tracks for me are "given up", "leave out all the rest", "shadow of the day", "what I've done", "no more sorrow", and "in pieces" ..
There's definitely a new direction in LP's sound. More ballads, less rap-rock-electronica-metal .. not necessarily a bad thing .. they've have gone political in "no more sorrow"(I see liars and fiends, abuse power with greed, thieves and hypocrites, your time has come to be replaced) , Mike Shinoda's rap solo "hands held high" (When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die) and the Anti-Bush"the little things give you away"...

4/5 stars ...

Why Shakhbat Shakhabeet ?

What does Shakhbat Shakhabeet mean?!...well since 90% of my friends and readers are non-arabic speakers, and since I always try to be original and innovative in making up names in English, this time I'm going to choose an Arabic name, for 2 reasons: 1. Whether I liked it or not, Arabic is my native language, and 2. It's a new kids' song by the Lebanese singer "Nancy Ajram." The name intrigued me because it's funny, random, childish, and just downright silly. In English it means something like "scribbling scribbles", so there you go, I guess it's self-explanatory.

And because no post is complete without images (or so I'm told), here's a few of my idol ...

Che Guevara