The Ranting Room

Geck0 wrote: I'm popping round your house tomorrow p-c to steal your Pat Metheny albums, so watch out!

    

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ...............I'd chop yer hands off!!!! ha ha ha ha ha !!!!

Rant:

That annoying blonde woman who is on television far too much!  That Interior Decorator woman who does DFS and B&Q (I think) adverts.

She's very irritating!

Yes, that happens to us all.

It also tends to happen when you're in a rush to go out.  You spill something down your front, so then you have change your shirt.  This is especially annoying if you're trying to impress someone and you wanted to wear a particular shirt for a reason.

Frustrating!

I'm popping round your house tomorrow p-c to steal your Pat Metheny albums, so watch out!

Geck0 wrote: It's the only Metheny album I have, so what's the rest of his output like? Oh and would you class it as jazz/fusion?

THe rest os much more accessible, but very rewarding. Basically, you can split his career into the ECM years and the Geffen years. I don't have all of his albums yet, but if you enjoy a mix of world music, jazz, classical, ambient, etc..., you'll like "Secret Story." I don't prefer one phase over another, but "Bright Size Life" is worth checking out from the ECM years (also his first solo album).

It's the only Metheny album I have, so what's the rest of his output like?

Oh and would you class it as jazz/fusion?

I have a Pat Metheny album too, I must play in the car!

Pat Metheny and Ornette Coleman - Song X: Twentieth Anniversary

Great CD!

Oh, a quick rant, related to the ones above:

Chavvy girls with their funky phones, that happen to have an MP3 player incorporated into them.  They don't bother with headphones, they just blast out the crappy tune through tinny speakers and then start singing along, whilst at the bus stop and then on the bus.  It's irritating!

I don't start playing air guitar whilst listening to my prog (although sometimes I really want to, especially when I was on the 'plane to Barcelona)!

So don't sing!  Please!


Edited by Geck0 - May 25 2006 at 13:44

Good point!  I'm struggling to come up with one!

Kristoffer Gildenlow
John Wetton

They haven't!


Edited by Geck0 - May 25 2006 at 13:35

prog-chick wrote:     my RANT of the day........ I want to "nip" to Paris next week......go Wednesday, come back Thursday........ quite simple, there is a freaking train track......... CHEAPEST EUROSTAR TICKET £224.50 (plus a £5.50 surcharge for late booking) FREAKING RIDICULOUS AMMOUNT OF MONEY! I checked these dates prices about 3 weeks ago, and it would have been possible had I booked it then to do it for £59.00.......... so how the heck can they justify charging £165.50 EXTRA just because I am a LATE booker? Hey p-c, at least Amtrak in the northeast corridor here doesn't pull stuff like that...they're freaking expensive ALL THE TIME!  Over $50 for a train from Philadelphia to New York?  It's only 90 miles!! Phew.......................time to fill my coffee cup! Amen to that, sister.

    my RANT of the day........

I want to "nip" to Paris next week......go Wednesday, come back Thursday........ quite simple, there is a freaking train track.........
CHEAPEST EUROSTAR TICKET £224.50 (plus a £5.50 surcharge for late booking)
FREAKING RIDICULOUS AMMOUNT OF MONEY!
I checked these dates prices about 3 weeks ago, and it would have been possible had I booked it then to do it for £59.00.......... so how the heck can they justify charging £165.50 EXTRA just because I am a LATE booker?
How the heck do they NOT get riots on those trains? If I had paid £224 and was sat next to some smug git who had paid £59 for 3 hours ............well, no wonder no one talks to each other on trains these days!!!
So I looked up some flights.............unbelievable......it's crazy!

The woman on the Eurostar "help" line (don't get me started on "help" lines..........they rarely "help" at all ) well, she said because I was booking late I become a business class passenger.

Now I have never understood this. I run a business with my partner, and you know, we are not cheap or anything,but we watch the expenses!.... why is "business class" a more expensive option than "standard" class? Why is it accepted that businesses will pay MORE for their people to travel..........is it the "funny hand-shake" do they have their trouser legs rolled up? Why would my business pay more than Joe Bloggs to travel??? Would the Eurostar bosses pay more for my product??? No they flippin wouldn't.........

I just want to get to Paris, that's all...........

But unless I plan a trip months in advance I am not going to make it.................I certainly wont be making the trip next week...............





Phew.......................time to fill my coffee cup!

P-C