Posts by Spbmssen 7 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Nov 2007
Is it not true that, if you are on any sort of monthly phone contract, then you don't actually own your phone? Sure, the network will recoup the cost of it from you through monthly fees but if you read the small print the phone is their property.
The fact that no network ever attempts to recover phones when contracts end has maybe led us all to believe otherwise.
Or am I wrong? Shall I get my coat?
I always maintained a feint hope that one day CBBC or CBeebies would go to Oliver Postgate, cap in hand, and say "OK, you were right - most of what we're doing IS crap...what have you got?". Sadly the opportunity is gone, but we still have the videos and DVDs of the Smallfilms output to remind ourselves, and show our children, how to tell a story for television.
Lazy Town can shove the Secret Show up the Fimble's collective arse.
God bless Oliver Postgate, god bless Peter Firmin.
In Mr Postgate's memory, lets now boycott the BBCs childrens' channels until they agree to stop purveying the merchandise-led, brainless bottom-gravy that teaches our kids nothing but how to be brash, loud, soulless and dumb.
Nice, good job, top hole and all that.
Just one thing though...the highlighted stories in the two and four boxes (grey backgrounds) don't change link colour when I've visited them. Makes it hard to remember if I've read them or not.
Also (okay, so that's two things) the fact that they are in a grey box makes them about 78% overlookable.
"If anyone has any idea how we can reconcile the appeitite for free music and musicians rights i think all of us but the record companies would like to hear from you :)"
Well, what about moving away from the whole recorded music sphere, and paying to go and see a band play live. Seeing a half-decent band play - especially one you haven't seen before can often be incredibly satisfying and moving, and give you much more musical 'payback' than listening to the best produced recording from a plastic band from the corporations.
The financial transaction is a nice local one, the experience is a personal one and everybody's happy.
It needs some of the bands/stars to spend less time promoting themselves on telly/radio etc, and more time actually singing and playing there instruments to people...and at smaller venues where the punter doesn't have to fork out £80+ for a ticket plus the train fare to the nearest big city.
Let's get it back to basics.
I'm as guilty as the next man of not seeing as much live music as I used to, but for me that's because there's a huge empty space between your pub-blues-band and your Wembley-Crusty-Reunion gig....and that empty space is where the sort of gigs I want to see should be happening.
Look, this isn't the first time I've read an 'amanfromMars' post and wondered how long it was going to take me to crack it.
Are they relevant? Are they a coded message to our covert boys around the world? Are they just way too clever for me? Are they just bollocks?
Can anybody help me out here?
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