RIAA = Macarthy

I've just seen this on the drowned in sound site, and couldnt believe my eyes.....?? It features in a short article about being able to download tracks from the recent Reading festival in Blighty. Is it for real? Or a total joke??

Qua - Aussie group are cool shock

The music from the group Qua, aka one Cornel Wilczek, is tremendous. Really. If you are enjoying the soundscapes of Explosions in the Sky, Boards of Canada, Trans Am or similar stuf, then you will like Qua. Get the mp3s, watch the quicktime movie animation. It's all very good news for clever music fans everywhere.

http://www.quamusic.com


[cheers spamnet]

Jack Valenti proved to be 'wanker'

So yet again the courts in USA, whilst being more easy to manipulate [hello friendly financial perks for senators touting the 'stop all dirty illegal we cant control the horrible internet usage' type bills] than over here in Blighty, have still come out in favour of the companies providing file sharing software. Grokster and Streamcast are NOT legally resonsible for what is being shared over the net using their software. Jack Valenti and his enormouss legal purse cannot stop the download war by bullying the manufacturers and designers of the technology. Oh how he must have cried. Oh how the rest of us laughed our teeth out.

http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=29116579


[23-08-04]
More on Morpheus and the sad state of the RIAA etc.....
http://www.vnunet.com/news/1157557

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[23-08-04] Today it was announced on British Radio that the BPI [British Phonographic Industry] has released sales figures confirming that sales of singles have increased for the first time in many years. Sales of albums are at an all time high - this in a country where an estimated 17 million people have used p2p file sharing to get music from the net. Who is lying to whom about the so called devastating effect of p2p on the entertainment Industry. Are they all just too scared to accept that they don't rule the roost anymore????

Working Britain, the Greatest People in the World

Ive wanted to post this rant by Tom at Artrocker for the last week or so, but blogger has been behaving very oddly, so only now do I get a chance...[is anyone else having problems with the posting a blogger? Or even accessing he site? No? Just me then....]btw, the picture here is of the main pier building at Southsea, another rotting British Amusement Arcade Coastal Paradise.

Anyway, it's a great rant singing the praises of the British Working Class. Should be very educational to all Stateside residents.....

full rant here


>>>> ARTROCKER 143 EDITORIAL <<<
>
> I'm taking a day off tomorrow. I booked it several weeks ago and I've been
> ticking off every day since. A whole day to myself, what on earth will I do?
>
> Well top of my options list is a day on Margate beach. I love Margate, it's
> everything a British sea-side town should be, tawdry, tired, cheap,
> uninhibited and boozy. The beach is well cared for and when the tide goes
> out it's endless, you can walk out half a mile to sea (wearing a knotted
> hanky on your head, trousers rolled up with a pint of Old Bob in your hand)
> and the water is still only up to your knees. You can hire yourself some
> deckchairs and a windbreak, buy freshly made doughnuts, a cup of tea,
> water-wings and an inflatable boat without ever having to leave the beach.
> Perfect.
> And best of all it's jam-packed full of the finest people in the world, that
> is to say the British Working Class. You know, the people this government
> hate, the people middle-class metropolitans find embarrassing because they
> do awful things like wear Union Jack bathing trunks, drink beer rather than
> Pimms, show off their beer guts and have a great time in a noisy way. I'm
> one of them so for me they're the real deal, the children and grandchildren
> of those who gave their lives in two world wars to make the world free. .


http://penworks.members.easyspace.com/blogpics/artrockrant.txt

Punctuation and Good Grammar?

Anal bloggers may have seen/read the article on blogger about spelling and grammar etc. Interesting, in that, it's written by an American. To any 'bad teeth' English type, that's a bit of a non starter. Honor, anyone? What about center? What about 'sidewalk', not the correct 'pavement'? Or just look at this list, as they've done the work http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/BritishCanadianAmerican.htm

Point taken then. Is it living language, or is it Lazy Good For Nothings dictating to the rest of us a dumbed down level of interaction? In the name of the market place, the hallowed ground of the money making machine. It's not just charming regional expressions we're talking here, it's full on changing the rules. [Ebonics, anyone? ]

Anyone lucky enough to visit the wilds of Yorkshire, Cumbria or other bleak far flung corners of Blighty will hear a sense of wordage that has long died out for the rest of us. Is that a good thing? Or are we all full of s**t. [Did I just make up the word 'wordage'?]

the article
http://www.blogger.com/knowledge/2004/08/eats-blogs-leaves.pyra


[Update - there were 3 sloppy typos in this post when I checked properly. Let that be a lesson to us all!]

Its a Beautiful Day

Ive not been able to post for the last couple of days as Blogger seemed inaccessible to me, but now at last, it has returned. Normal service will be resumed once Ive got some annoying 'work' out of the way.

Creepy Head Flash

It's spamnet's fault, he keeps finding very cool flash type things, and I obviously live in his shadow. This is, like he says, the best music flash around in a long time......a must view, even if you dont like the 'head.

http://www.lowmorale.co.uk/creep/

Dodgy Justice for All

So I finally found a bit of news covering what Banksy has been doing in Clerkenwell - erecting a statue of justice, thats dressed as a whore. Haha indeed. For anyone who isnt too familiar with Banksy, he is a legendary figure of rebellion and art, that I think comes from Brighton[?] or London, been around since the graffiti days, and is a whole lot more interesting than damien hurst and tracy emin et al. I think Banksy rocks my world........

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3537136.stm

Banksy 2

The email about what he was up to didnt arrive till after Id 'left the building', so I didnt get it til later, but this is what they were up to:

Banksy Unveiling tonight 7.30pm sharp

CLERKENWELL GREEN, LONDON EC1

Nearest Tube: Farringdon

Refreshments provided. Children & dogs welcome.

http://www.banksy.co.uk/

Banksy Event

Just got notification that Banksy is up to something on Wednesday the 4th Aug. Watch this space for what and where.......Ill post as soon as I know.