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Dr Claus Noppeney is based at Bern University in Switzerland, he has received funding from the Swiss Science Foundation and collaborated with the perfume house Humiecki & Graf to look at how perfume is written about and how blog writers and journalists bring meaning to the experience of smelling perfume. With the help of social science researches and economists, he has tried to break down, something which he admits is very subjective, in the most objective way possible. Part of his stated aims were also analyse trends, look at the way in which meaning is injected in each stage of the creation process, and to examine ‘knowledge related qualities’ , when writing about the sense of smell.
People deserve honesty. People also deserve the assumption that they are at least attempting to create a powerful image. No one deserve the pithy and dull. If it sucks someone should say so.
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CJLO's You're Related: Montreal Artists Covering Montreal Artists compilation has three highlights: Snailhouse's doing Land of Talk's "It's Okay" , Freelove Fenner doing "Mint", and Adam & the Amethysts' rendition of Bran Van 3000's cancon classic, "Drinking in LA". Each of these covers is its own song, beautiful and stand alone. First let's talk about "Drinking in LA". Bran Van 3000's 1996 single (a hit in Canada, Italy, Ireland, Britain and Scandinavia - bot not the USA) has always been a strange creature, part booze-up party song, part hangover. Now a two-piece, StG favourites Adam & the Amethysts mine the song's melancholy, honing in on that central lyric: What the hell am I / doing drinking in LA / at 26?
