Stripey

anyone here a PRS member? any experiences to relate?

Yea I was watching them today, I watched one then changed channel in disgust, but came back later and got sucked into it for like 2 hours. You're right about all the people who say shit like "IM REALLY CRAZY! IM MAD ME, IM A RIGHT LAFF!". I hope the guys behind the camera were thinking "no, you're just a twat". There was one girl who just had a really low cut top on and said something along the lines of "i'm gonna wear a bikini!" and just sat there adjusting her top and grinning at the camera like some insipid wannabe razzle model, as if her tits are her only redeeming feature. The ones that really made me cringe was the old people who ought to know better, but were trying to act all "zany". Very sad indeed. Come to think of it, someone should comission a show which just consists of random people who've been conned into thinking they are auditioning for some kind of gameshow etc, it was quite interesting just to see all these freaks. I certainly won't be watching big brother itself though.

cliched song structures are a thing of the past

I would have loved to have met Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, in my mind they are the real celebrities of the 20th century, although I would feel humbled in their presence. I think I would have got on better with Franz Kafka.

LIGHT-SABRE DUEL PUTS TWO IN HOSPITAL TWO Star Wars fans are in a critical condition in hospital after duelling with lightsabres made by filling fluorescent light tubes with petrol. The pair - a man aged 20 and a girl of 17 - are believed to have been filming a mock fight when one of the devices exploded in woodland on Sunday. They were rushed to West Herts Hospital before being transferred to the specialist burns unit at Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, in Essex. Police say a third person present at the incident was questioned. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/showbiz/tm_objectid=15552841&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=light-sabre-duel-puts-two-in-hospital-name_page.html%5B/url%5D

no no no this stuff is awful. The co-ordination between the musicians is terrible, the singer sounds like some guy humming along to the music and isn't putting the expression into the vocals in the way that the music demands. This stuff is so sloppy and pointless that I'm not even going bother commenting on the engineering because the material and musicianship is so piss poor. The only words in my head after listening to those 3 tracks are "parochial" "pointless" and "disband and forget it, for the love of god".

This is probably the worst movie ever made. The opening scenes weren't too bad, but it quickly descended into the most childish, cliche driven nonsense I've ever seen. Yeah, there are lots of loud noises and explosions which I'm sure excite the younger viewer, but after 50 minutes I walked out of the cinema, feeling like I'd just been ripped off for the fee to watch an elaborate episode of startrek. This ruined my childhood memories of the original movies, and well, maybe that is what to expect, since this is a movie for kids.The scripting and acting was on a par with the average baywatch episode. Utter drivel.

people who say "I'm wanting to" instead of "I want to" irritate the hell out of me.

where did you hear that he got censored? got a link?

sacher-torte!

http://www.superactionheroes.com/sahvid1.mov the bit at the end involving a snare and a cymbal is really cool...

Good point, it's particularly apt given that today the uzbekistan government was shooting protesters - and thats a government that the UK and the USA approve of and assist - the UK ambassador to uzbekistan resigned last year because of the human rights abuses in that country and the tacit support the UK was giving to it. Funny how george bush isnt going on a photo shoot and making statements about how he is "with the uzbek people" in their "quest for freedom" as he has been doing this week in the balkans and ex-soviet states.

Anyone else been watching the Cinema Iran nights on channel 4 this week? There has been some great films on, like "the apple" and "20 fingers" http://www.channel4.com/film/filmontv/microsites/C/cinema_iran.html It's fascinating to get an insight into Iranian society and even just to see the landscape and the cultural differences, the films are as good if not better than the best art-house cinema from europe. The ones I saw were leisurely paced, full of detail, really touching stories and acting, infact some of them are true stories and even involve the people the story is based on. I think it's great that channel 4 is screening these films, although it's a shame they are all on after midnight!

this is probably the worst tune ever made.

I just listened to an AKA the Fox mp3 at last and this is my opinion on it: The singer is really good and has a very distinctive voice, definately the strongest element of the whole track. Something about this reminds me of simple minds! It's definately very poppy, and a little retro, well structured, and certainly a lot more interesting than the average aberdeen band. On the downside, the vocals sound digitally clipped and harsh and the drums are pathetic. The bog standard 909 kick in the intro says it all, the drum sounds used are bland default drum machine samples, the closed hat is far too high in the mix and the end result is that it sounds like an otherwise good tune has been ruined by some untalented producer sticking a shitty half-arsed drum track over it. Bin the drum machine and get a human drummer and producer with a degree of competence that matches the vocal and guitar parts. Good effort though all in all compared to the usual aberdeen fare, plenty of potential, just needs tightening up.

a similar but cooler bit of software is celemony melodyne, it's pretty amazing. http://www.celemony.com/index.html

Put it this way' date=' I have never been into any other venue in aberdeen and felt everyones eye's on me the way I did when I walked through the door at drakes. To me that indicates stagnation, it felt like I was walking in on a private party, and I don't think that is healthy atall. I understand that it takes time to build audiences, and I think it's great that there are people trying to make that happen in aberdeen in all sorts of ways, in a way you are agreeing with me by really saying that - it wouldn't be necessary if the people in aberdeen already had good taste or the desire to seek out genuinely good music Re: what is underground - Prerequisites are sincerity, finesse, and genuinely GOOD music. a quartet of sweaty students pissing around at captain toms practicing the monkey-see monkey-do ethic doesn't cut it, neither does people in their bedrooms putting together a hideous a-musical mess of noise and calling it experimental.