Stripey

anyone here a PRS member? any experiences to relate?

Is anyone else watching these on E4? How come everyone suddenly describes themselves as a "Fun and bubbly practical joker"

Pathetic.

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".

So Count Dooku being beheaded' date=' Anakin getting his legs chopped off and horribly burned alive are things that are marketed to children these days? Hmm, I'd hate to see your kids.[/quote']

Well, yeah, the film is rated 12 afterall.

Gridlock' date=' well you have done in hiding your scene points, for expect to lose lots!

If you look back on the original trilogy, all the same jokes are there! What the hell movies are you basing these on?

I for one think it's the best of the saga, and I'm about to watch it....right now! God bless the internet![/quote']

No really, it's a rubbish film by any standard, and it's quite sad to see so many supposed adults buying into something which is so obviously written for, aimed at, and marketed to children.

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.

How did the american TV networks handle that? They blanked out the sound and said he was going off on a rant.

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

sacher-torte!

I dont doubt for a minute that Saddam was/is an evil bastard Alkaline but recent surveys do point out that Iraq civilians' date=' in general, are 58 times more likely to die from violence compared to before the war.[/quote']

If you adjust the figures for population differences, the amount of people in iraq dying weekly is roughly equivalent to 2000 people being killed every week here in the UK. food for thought eh.

http://www.superactionheroes.com/sahvid1.mov

the bit at the end involving a snare and a cymbal is really cool...

Yeah' date=' I'm right into films about men that love cows so much they want to be one.

Move over Star Wars.[/quote']

I dont get the joke.

He was in power solely because America and the UK wanted him in power.

I'm all for the 'West' helping to 'liberate' oppressed people' date=' but how about we start at the bottom and work up. Guess what though, the African countries have no oil, and Saudi Arabia is in bed with Bushco.

No one will ever argue that Saddam Hussien was an upstanding member of the world community, but to suggest that he was the worst and deserving of 'regime change' [b']first is completely and absolutely ludicrous.

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!

Maybe Saddam didn't have nukes etc etc' date=' But how many times did he threaten to 'use' them?

That's a good enough reason to have him removed.[/quote']

how many times? none, because he knew he didnt have any, and never had in the past. Iraq had a 10 year long war with Iran, gulf war 1 and operation desert fox, plus 10 years of UN sanctions (which were resposible for the deaths of 1.5 million people), and no usable airforce due to the continued overflights by usa and uk aircraft - and bombing of radar and anti aircraft installations weeks before this latest war.

The longest range weapons possesd by Iraq had a 100km range, and they even started to destroy them in the lead up to the invasion. Anyone who has taken the time to read the facts which are easily available, anyone whos awareness of political events extends beyond the realms of the daily record and the sun, knows that Iraq wasn't a threat to anyone.

Hmmm' date=' am curious to know what vintage of mp3 you heard, basically if its last years I agree that it sounds a bit dodge, and if its this years I don't, whats the song & describe any distinguishing features please. The thing is that the electronic tech element is what I love about it, the more we sound like a rock band the less interested I am. We ave started working with a drummer recently, and he is a full-on member of the band now, even though not YET live. But the crucial factor is that he is (I THINK) the best techno/house/electro etc DJ in toon, so that remains a huge influence on the sound & riddims. That said, I just don't buy the orthodoxy that 'real' drums are better than 'fake'. Ta for comment anyway, always handy.[/quote']

it was "higher than your haircut". I'm not into the whole "real" drums are better than "fake" drums thing atall - I just think bog standard drum machine samples are tired, too recognisable, and a bit boring, especially if you are putting the beats together on a computer it's a bit of a cop-out.

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.

Not true' date=' apparently: [url']http://www.intelliscore.net/

a similar but cooler bit of software is celemony melodyne, it's pretty amazing.

http://www.celemony.com/index.html

i found out who you are the other day (in real life!) ' date=' and i honestly dont think you are in any position to talk about anything, ever...

oh how i laughed and laughed.[/quote']

You don't know me and you never will.

not having a go or anything but do you smoke a lot of weed?

paranoia?

before i got to know anyone' date=' i used to turn up at drakes on my own and i always felt very welcome. i made some awesome friends and seen some awesome music as a result of that place being open and welcoming

who actually cares about what is underground and what isnt?[/quote']

I don't smoke weed. Maybe you felt welcome because you fit in with that whole underage, needs a haircut and a dose of puberty or middle aged and needs a dose of reality type crowd that frequented drakes.

The place just wasn't somewhere that had a lot of fresh faces, i.e the general public, going through it, and that was because a lot of the music was shit, it was down a dark alleyway, and it was full of sad weirdos.

eh?! o_O hehehe not even gonna get into that one!!

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.

utter rubbish! thank god not everyone in aberdeen thinks like you....what a tragedy that would be! it takes time to build audiences, and to encourage people to come and see something a little different....it is working slowly but surely in aberdeen i can assure you - and plenty of touring acts are now favouring, and enjoying, aberdeen over glasgow/edinburgh believe it or not...

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.