love and bile, in one pretty post
Oct. 19th, 2003 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nigeltdeI'm dead, I'm dead, I'm gone. A while ago I thought 'eh, I've heard some good things about Oz, I'll download it, see if it's any good.' Oh man, I am so addicted, I fucking love (or love to hate, at least) these characters. It's total crack. I wish it could be sniffed, it just won't download fast enough and the DVDs are impossible to find. Damn, it, I wish we could get HBO in this fucking country. I bet Six Feet Under season 4 will be starting soon.
The Big Issue is my favourite magazine. It's so relevant and so full of stuff that doesn't make it onto the nightly news. I think its reason for existing is a wonderful idea and I just love its whole ethos. It's great to see the names of Dennis and Gerald on the front cover bookending names like J.Lo and Mikey Robins.
Anyway, from the latest issue:
The recording industry is promoting a "stealing is bad" curriculum in America's schools that will include classes on the history of copyright and games such as Starving Artist, a role-playing game in which children pretend to be musicians who no longer receive royalties because their work is copied on the internet. Cool. When can we look for ward to the... Why Does The Artist Only Get 6% Royalty While The Recording Company Gets 30% Royalty role-playing game?
THE FUCKING ARROGANCE. Please allow me to fume impotently. These fucking companies DROPPED THE FUCKING BALL when the internet became a major player in people's lives and now instead of trying to embrace it as best they can, they are PISSING AND MOANING (much like me, except rather louder), and getting their lawyers and their buddies in the govt. to fuck us all up the ass.
People no longer have to tolerate an overpriced, mediocre product. We can get music, movies, and TV shows over the internet. We can hack past region codes on DVDs and DVD players. Companies can't, or very soon won't be able to, hold us ransom to different release dates in different parts of the world or ridiculous restrictions on where we can watch a particular DVD. We won't pay exorbitant amounts for CDs when blank CDs cost less than blank audio cassettes, especially when we know where that money is going. They need to ACCEPT THIS AND MOVE ON AND QUIT FUCKING ALIENATING THE PEOPLE WHO GIVE THEM MONEY. Fuckers. just, argh, fuckers!
In an amusing, ha ha, note, from this week's TV Guide, Rove McManus discussing Skithouse: "However, as it turned out, the fast pace was one of the elements of the show that people really enjoyed about it. Yeah, no shit, Rove.
Finally, a note of advice. Quiz nights are often enjoyable to attend, but never, ever, ever become involved in the running of one. I may expand upon this incredibly traumatic experience later once the (figurative) swelling in my brain has gone down
The Big Issue is my favourite magazine. It's so relevant and so full of stuff that doesn't make it onto the nightly news. I think its reason for existing is a wonderful idea and I just love its whole ethos. It's great to see the names of Dennis and Gerald on the front cover bookending names like J.Lo and Mikey Robins.
Anyway, from the latest issue:
The recording industry is promoting a "stealing is bad" curriculum in America's schools that will include classes on the history of copyright and games such as Starving Artist, a role-playing game in which children pretend to be musicians who no longer receive royalties because their work is copied on the internet. Cool. When can we look for ward to the... Why Does The Artist Only Get 6% Royalty While The Recording Company Gets 30% Royalty role-playing game?
THE FUCKING ARROGANCE. Please allow me to fume impotently. These fucking companies DROPPED THE FUCKING BALL when the internet became a major player in people's lives and now instead of trying to embrace it as best they can, they are PISSING AND MOANING (much like me, except rather louder), and getting their lawyers and their buddies in the govt. to fuck us all up the ass.
People no longer have to tolerate an overpriced, mediocre product. We can get music, movies, and TV shows over the internet. We can hack past region codes on DVDs and DVD players. Companies can't, or very soon won't be able to, hold us ransom to different release dates in different parts of the world or ridiculous restrictions on where we can watch a particular DVD. We won't pay exorbitant amounts for CDs when blank CDs cost less than blank audio cassettes, especially when we know where that money is going. They need to ACCEPT THIS AND MOVE ON AND QUIT FUCKING ALIENATING THE PEOPLE WHO GIVE THEM MONEY. Fuckers. just, argh, fuckers!
In an amusing, ha ha, note, from this week's TV Guide, Rove McManus discussing Skithouse: "However, as it turned out, the fast pace was one of the elements of the show that people really enjoyed about it. Yeah, no shit, Rove.
Finally, a note of advice. Quiz nights are often enjoyable to attend, but never, ever, ever become involved in the running of one. I may expand upon this incredibly traumatic experience later once the (figurative) swelling in my brain has gone down
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Date: 2003-10-19 01:25 pm (UTC)and yes, those characters are fascinating, aren't they?
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Date: 2003-10-19 07:04 pm (UTC)I've never seen a 'drama' show before where such a high proportion of the characters suck me in. F'rinstance Schillinger, man, he's so fabulously EVIL. I love that creepy smile of his. And then Fontana & Co go and make him human on me...
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Date: 2003-10-20 02:48 am (UTC)I think the number of professional musicians around that are happy with the industry could all be fitted into one small office space, & the number of music fans who think likewise would fit into not much more than that.
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Date: 2003-10-22 05:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-23 12:05 am (UTC)