Unpopular opinions
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I hate cats.
I find babies all look the same.
Old people who go into Post Offices at the weekend should be beaten.
Now you're just starting to sound like me…
Old people should be shot. Babies should be drowned in wells. Cats, however, are the best animals cause they give minus ten fucks... People who have cats and think they love them are dumb sods.
Oh: and all small dogs should be fed to tigers.
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Ok Monday. For you
Music is everywhere, maybe more-so than ever before. No need for A&Rs, today we have Youtube, that's gotta be GOOD news no? In part yes. What is damaging the music "industry" is the fact that our relationship to that music has changed. We now consume music like we do everything else. We download a track, Ipod shuffle it for a while and forget it. Not so long ago we (well some of us) would search for that elusive album (who buys those anymore?), and once found would treasure it, listen to it again and again, come to love it. The most perennial favourites of mine took time for me to love them (bit like the missus!) but that love is everlasting. A love borne of patience and investment. For artists the fallout is potentially fatal. Why buy (and enable artists to live from their trade) when you can download?
Also, for me, music has always been a motor, or soundtrack for change. A means for the youth to vent their anger. Are today's youth simply happy with their lot/world? The seventies had Punk/Disco, the eighties rap, acid house, the nineties house and rave….and the noughties? -
Also, for me, music has always been a motor, or soundtrack for change. A means for the youth to vent their anger. Are today's youth simply happy with their lot/world? The seventies had Punk/Disco, the eighties rap, acid house, the nineties house and rave….and the noughties?
I know your reply is directed at Monday but anyway….the above I can get with. Had actually considered tacking something similar onto my earlier post.
For me no A&R men is a good thing. No looking for the "next"anything. No pre conceived ideas of what will sell sell sell and looking for the round peg in the square hole. I accept that music is now consumed but that doesn't mean it's devalued it in the eyes of music lovers. Things have become much more democratic, more about the spark of creativity than the business plan. Anyone can now make music at home so a tune can be written, recorded and up on the internet in a day. That's very much part of what the punk ethos was about - three chords, lash them together and play the fucking thing. We're all partly the sum of our influences and the more we're exposed to the better we become, the more we're inspired or influenced. There will always be bad music but there will always be music for the music lovers. Personally, there are some tunes that are considered classics that I would have preferred if they had been consumed by something and ejected out the other end.
In the end everything changes and what you do and what you listen to, for example, is a choice you make. Just because a movement or a technological seismic shift in how music is radicalised in terms of how it's made available doesn't mean your personal shit filter cannot still discern. I will always prefer a world where the likelihood of an 80 million five album record deal for the Robbie Williams of this world is diminished.
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Yeah, the internet has democratized music and empowered musicians. Record companies and corporate radio are no longer the sole route to discovery for fans. So I'd say the exact opposite is true. If something is killing music it's something else. Like society imploding in general.
Opinion: aisle seats are lame. Only thing lamer is a middle seat. I wanna lean against the fuselage while I sleep and to not be awoken by the old chap with the enlarged prostate. Since I'm a piss camel I'm not worried about getting out. But come time to leave the plane that isle asshole better be ready.
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Opinion: aisle seats are lame. Only thing lamer is a middle seat. I wanna lean against the fuselage while I sleep and to not be awoken by the old chap with the enlarged prostate. Since I'm a piss camel I'm not worried about getting out. But come time to leave the plane that isle asshole better be ready.
You must be my long lost twin. I feckin hate aisle seats. I can easily do a transatlantic flight with no piss. I sit down, put my earphones in, have too much to drink and ignore everyone (including Paula)….The first time we flew long haul together she thought she had done something to piss me off, now she just takes the piss and tries to make me reluctantly interact with her and other human beings.....
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I've been up and down with the Christy, I loved them, then hated them, and now I'm coming around again.
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Perhaps we are long lost twins, I'm completely with you here. I think I may have griped about them previously. Are they comfortable? Sure, in a way. I prefer a bit more firmness. But they look so trashy. They just ruin the look of anything above them.
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I feel the same about service boots, fed up of seeing them.
I like some of the more vintage style engineer boots, weirdly I think they look better with a thicker sole. I really like Rafas but never saw the fuss about Road Champs at all.
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Flat toe profile engineers are the best. The toe profile on davito's Viberg horse engineers are exactly how it should be done. I don't like the bulbous lasts, though I understand the necessity with steel toe versions.
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I've been tempted with a pair of Wesco Boss, but I'm sticking with Bounty Hunters as my favourite boot style.
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See, I think they are nice boots, particularly considering I love a pull on. However I have seen the style done to death, so I wouldn't get a pair. I like classic looks as much as everyone else, but you gotta have variants somewhere. It's like Meg with the service, burned out for me.
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I'm ready. I'm even many rows up the plane already. If you have any kind of shoulders on you, and are flying on 2-4 hour hops, even coast to coast in US sometimes, the window seats on those smaller planes don't cut it. Your shoulder is hunched the whole flight, and if you are an old geezer like me, you go lame. Younger days, I didn't mind and agree there is more peace stuffed into the window. Weirdly, the middle seats are often the best. No shoulder cramp from the convex fuselage curve, no aisle walkers and carts knocking your other shoulder, and sometimes the seats, on certain planes, are outfitted to be at least an inch or more wider. Then again, I sometimes just suck it up and stand in the back of the plane til everyone's on and take the most open seat left…forward. The engine noise at the rear is brutal.
@mclaincausey:Opinion: aisle seats are lame. Only thing lamer is a middle seat. I wanna lean against the fuselage while I sleep and to not be awoken by the old chap with the enlarged prostate. Since I'm a piss camel I'm not worried about getting out. But come time to leave the plane that isle asshole better be ready.
