Nice writeup. I love Crunchbang, too. In fact, I tried several distros on my netbook before settling on it. Crunchbang is just so fast and elegant, and doesn't have the Ubuntu under the hood.

Here is the review:
http://www.myintervals.com/...

bodhi is great fun but it doesnt have 64 bit version 

 for me, this isn't a problem.  I am using it on OLD hardware which isn't 64bit.  Might be bad for those people who have piles of money for new machines :)

First off, E17 is a minimal desktop so to compare it to Gnome 3, which, is bloated beyond compare just isn't fare. Personally, I'm a fan of minimal desktops like E17, LXDE, Openbox, etc. and really disklike Gnome and KDE. The nice thing about Linux is that there are many choices.

U mm well here i was, thinking why am I having these disconnect issues..

I tried both Bodhi and Crunchbang recently and although Bodhi looks great it doesn't have a 64 bit version and once you get past the looks E17 isn't up to par with Gnome 3 for usability in my view. Crunchbang is great if you're comfortable with apt-pinning your way to more recent versions of programs and you can live with the very minimalistic interface. I'm looking forward to your review of it.