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People get unnecessarily rude. There are all kinds of DJ and nowadays it seems to be a matter of what age you are and what your musical proclivities are what you think a DJ is. And confusingly these days they are a few different things. The DJ we all hate are the idiots interjecting their voices every once in a while purely to give the illusion of a real DJ changing disc on the commercial radio stations (the playlists are programmed). Then there are the DJ's that actually play the discs themselves and added worthwhile commentary. Nowadays probably relegated to college or community radio stations. I have great respect for these guys among them Dr. Strangedub and Steve Barker who play my stuff. The legendary John Peel (RIP) worked in tandem with his program director to help expose bands that never would have been given airplay by other radio shows. They like it so they play it. If they didn't like it they wouldn't. Then you have performing DJs who work with vinyl all the time, some times or not at all and really in their case it is a misnomer. There has been some move towards calling them turntablists but I find that clumsy and it doesn't seem to have caught on. they get up on stage and cut from track to track, blending mixing etc. Much of it done with software. Aren't they really mixers? So which DJ is being ragged on here? But you probably know all of this...see sig. See if you would hypothetically give my stuff airplay...
Oh my God! Bands can produce their own music? OK, I knew that. I do so myself. See sig. Really all the record companies have nowadays is the marketing and publicity end of the business. I have maintained for a few years now that if the record companies want to save themselves, they need to split up their various divisions and make them autonomous. The viable divisions will find a way to survive and thrive and the deadwood will go to the wall. These record corporations are horribly bloated entities and have no real right to survive in a changed business world. I'm all about music as ART, not product, but I can see that there is nothing wrong with making a profit from it. But enforcing a corporate stranglehold on distribution is healthy for no one involved. If you want a business to survive and ultimately thrive you need to sell a 'product' that people really want. Nowadays, there is so much variety. The 'next big thing' should be anybody's guess but the record companies still want to take the guesswork out of it and basically buy their way to a HIT. I really hope that time is over and the little guys get a fair go of it. The internet has been great for me and my musical efforts and I hope it one day corrects the imbalance of power that record companies have exerted for far too long. If I had the money, would I engage EMI Marketing and Publicity to work on getting me some exposure? Sure as hell I would. I know they have very capable and connected people. See my meaning? Musicians have no problem making the music. They don't need the record companies and the big studios. They just need to get it out there to the right markets.
Unless they have been withholding material for release for all these years. Surely all of their catalog is out there in some form or other and safely archived in the collections of the people who love the music - on vinyl, cassette, CD, harddrives, iPods (and their like). I've said this before, but record companies are notoriously bad at actually archiving their own collections. This material is much safer in the hands of hundreds, thousand, millions of avid listeners. If they have been holding back some good material, now is the time to set it free. If they want to charge money for it, no problem, but do so in a way that will make people willing to pay for it. Oh, that has been the problem in recent years. No sympathy for their impending demise. They have mismanaged and exploited from the outset and now is not the time to mourn their loss of control of a catalog they don't deserve to manage. Well, that's my take on it.
Steady, steady. Irish people speak and write more or less the Queen's English with some differences but would never call it such! It is Anglo-Irish English. Why that is better, I'll never truly understand but it just feels a bit better than taking the Queen's shilling and drinking the soup. I realise, but cannot realize the importance of lucid prose. If you know what I mean.
Don't let us keep you. The horse is doubtless ready for your uncle's sexual ministrations! Do you also have an uncle Jerk, Wank or Suck? Just wondering.
Young kids not of a sexually curious age may be briefly disturbed by some imagery they inadvertently come across on the internet, be it porn, war imagery, cans of unicorn meat or whatever but they are very adaptable and they will quickly move on to being frustrated that they were diverted from finding; that Pokemon game tutorial video (or whatever) they were looking for. Prepubescent boys are for a few years repulsed by the opposite gender and it is not until puberty kicks in that they start finding themselves drawn to thoughts of somehow getting intimate with them. Even during puberty I think that porn is mostly going to go ever their heads and have no real lasting impact if viewed. When they are ready for porn, it will be there, however it is generated or obtained, internet or not. An artistically gifted fellow cave boy will have no trouble providing murals to fuel the fertile imagination. Maybe what is most wrong with high resolution video porn is that it reduces the need to exercise the grey matter which can conjure imagery lurid beyond the capability of our current technology. I say we ban the imagination and be done with it. Boys are dirty, filthy minded beasts and need mummy to protect them from themselves. No thanks.
Nah. See, they were using Internet Explorer 6 so when they looked up something educational on Wikipedia a gazillion windows with big boobies popped up out of nowhere. Happens all the time. Even to school teachers. Really.
Well done sir! did she ever find out that her doubtless noble efforts were in vain? And just what was she trying to protect you from? Have you become a monster? Does she now know that she was mistaken or is she still convinced that she protected you valiantly from teh smut? I don't mean to pry, but your story is fascinating!
I think if they are healthy and 'normal', kids at the age of sexual curiosity have no difficulty discerning the obvious differences between pron and real physical intimacy. Pron is a great outlet for kids who just aren't going to get any for a few years. At least that was my experience.
He's got blisters on his fingers! As for him inventing heavy metal, I really don't think so. Many more proto-metal tunes predate Helter Skelter. There is no winning against the pro-Beatles majority. Sort of like being an atheist!
The Who were rubbish too, in my opinion.
Not only overrated, but mostly annoying in my opinion. I am not a violent person but I really want to slap Paul McCartney around. Just rough him up a bit for being so friggin' annoying. Know what I mean?
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@maevius People get unnecessarily rude. There are all kinds of DJ and nowadays it seems to be a matter of what age you are and what your musical proclivities are what you think a DJ is. And confusingly these days they are a few different things. The DJ we all hate are the idiots interjecting their voices every once in a while purely to give the illusion of a real DJ changing disc on the commercial radio stations (the playlists are programmed). Then there are the DJ's that actually play the discs themselves and added worthwhile commentary. Nowadays probably relegated to college or community radio stations. I have great respect for these guys among them Dr. Strangedub and Steve Barker who play my stuff. The legendary John Peel (RIP) worked in tandem with his program director to help expose bands that never would have been given airplay by other radio shows. They like it so they play it. If they didn't like it they wouldn't. Then you have performing DJs who work with vinyl all the time, some times or not at all and really in their case it is a misnomer. There has been some move towards calling them turntablists but I find that clumsy and it doesn't seem to have caught on. they get up on stage and cut from track to track, blending mixing etc. Much of it done with software. Aren't they really mixers? So which DJ is being ragged on here? But you probably know all of this...see sig. See if you would hypothetically give my stuff airplay...
Ask your program director to play my music please. I don't have any money. See my signature. Ah. AC, you may never read this.
Oh my God! Bands can produce their own music? OK, I knew that. I do so myself. See sig. Really all the record companies have nowadays is the marketing and publicity end of the business. I have maintained for a few years now that if the record companies want to save themselves, they need to split up their various divisions and make them autonomous. The viable divisions will find a way to survive and thrive and the deadwood will go to the wall. These record corporations are horribly bloated entities and have no real right to survive in a changed business world. I'm all about music as ART, not product, but I can see that there is nothing wrong with making a profit from it. But enforcing a corporate stranglehold on distribution is healthy for no one involved. If you want a business to survive and ultimately thrive you need to sell a 'product' that people really want. Nowadays, there is so much variety. The 'next big thing' should be anybody's guess but the record companies still want to take the guesswork out of it and basically buy their way to a HIT. I really hope that time is over and the little guys get a fair go of it. The internet has been great for me and my musical efforts and I hope it one day corrects the imbalance of power that record companies have exerted for far too long. If I had the money, would I engage EMI Marketing and Publicity to work on getting me some exposure? Sure as hell I would. I know they have very capable and connected people. See my meaning? Musicians have no problem making the music. They don't need the record companies and the big studios. They just need to get it out there to the right markets.
Unless they have been withholding material for release for all these years. Surely all of their catalog is out there in some form or other and safely archived in the collections of the people who love the music - on vinyl, cassette, CD, harddrives, iPods (and their like). I've said this before, but record companies are notoriously bad at actually archiving their own collections. This material is much safer in the hands of hundreds, thousand, millions of avid listeners. If they have been holding back some good material, now is the time to set it free. If they want to charge money for it, no problem, but do so in a way that will make people willing to pay for it. Oh, that has been the problem in recent years. No sympathy for their impending demise. They have mismanaged and exploited from the outset and now is not the time to mourn their loss of control of a catalog they don't deserve to manage. Well, that's my take on it.
Sweet!
how about 'snot or 'tain't?
scent phrom yer iPhone
Steady, steady. Irish people speak and write more or less the Queen's English with some differences but would never call it such! It is Anglo-Irish English. Why that is better, I'll never truly understand but it just feels a bit better than taking the Queen's shilling and drinking the soup. I realise, but cannot realize the importance of lucid prose. If you know what I mean.
Don't let us keep you. The horse is doubtless ready for your uncle's sexual ministrations! Do you also have an uncle Jerk, Wank or Suck? Just wondering.
Young kids not of a sexually curious age may be briefly disturbed by some imagery they inadvertently come across on the internet, be it porn, war imagery, cans of unicorn meat or whatever but they are very adaptable and they will quickly move on to being frustrated that they were diverted from finding; that Pokemon game tutorial video (or whatever) they were looking for. Prepubescent boys are for a few years repulsed by the opposite gender and it is not until puberty kicks in that they start finding themselves drawn to thoughts of somehow getting intimate with them. Even during puberty I think that porn is mostly going to go ever their heads and have no real lasting impact if viewed. When they are ready for porn, it will be there, however it is generated or obtained, internet or not. An artistically gifted fellow cave boy will have no trouble providing murals to fuel the fertile imagination. Maybe what is most wrong with high resolution video porn is that it reduces the need to exercise the grey matter which can conjure imagery lurid beyond the capability of our current technology. I say we ban the imagination and be done with it. Boys are dirty, filthy minded beasts and need mummy to protect them from themselves. No thanks.
Nah. See, they were using Internet Explorer 6 so when they looked up something educational on Wikipedia a gazillion windows with big boobies popped up out of nowhere. Happens all the time. Even to school teachers. Really.
No, I do not want to watch my children fap to porn. Next question!
I applaud your policy. I noticed you spelled 'son' with a capital 'S'. Is he perhaps the messiah? Just curious.
Well done sir! did she ever find out that her doubtless noble efforts were in vain? And just what was she trying to protect you from? Have you become a monster? Does she now know that she was mistaken or is she still convinced that she protected you valiantly from teh smut? I don't mean to pry, but your story is fascinating!
I think if they are healthy and 'normal', kids at the age of sexual curiosity have no difficulty discerning the obvious differences between pron and real physical intimacy. Pron is a great outlet for kids who just aren't going to get any for a few years. At least that was my experience.
Pencils don't kill people. People kill people!
Why would he have to explain to the parents why they didn't graduate? This is supposed to be a university not a high school.
He's got blisters on his fingers! As for him inventing heavy metal, I really don't think so. Many more proto-metal tunes predate Helter Skelter. There is no winning against the pro-Beatles majority. Sort of like being an atheist! The Who were rubbish too, in my opinion.
gleaned not gleamed
Hey, ever heard the Manson Family Opera? Weird stuff. Quite amusing.
The Beatles can f*** off. Beefheart is the man.
Not only overrated, but mostly annoying in my opinion. I am not a violent person but I really want to slap Paul McCartney around. Just rough him up a bit for being so friggin' annoying. Know what I mean?
Definitely a better choice. Better still The Monks (billed in the 60s as the anti-Beatles!)
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