The Ranting Room

OOOH OOOOH OOOOH !
Just thought of one - music fans (seemingly out of touch or dated in their knowledge) bitching about MTV or the Major record labels being bad for the music world.
Catch up ! MTV plays almost no videos and hasn't for years. The majors rarely if ever have been in the business of artistic development.
Face it, your great ultimate great I can't believe that everyone is not buying all their albums great favourite group of yours would not be able to sell a million copies of their album because they do not play the sort of music that the mainstream like. THIS IS NOT A COMMENT ON THE QUALITY OR ARTISTIC WORTH OF THEIR MUSIC, JUST a fact of life. If mass acceptance of your musical idol(s) is so important, ask yourself why you need so much approval from others. IF you need a quote, check out the one from Oscar Peterson. And if you despise Justin Timberlake, so what, I do too, but he didn't get rich by killing babies, so why waste my time getting upset at his success. DO you remember Rick Astley from the eighties ? In general, what are the chances that a group like the Pixies stand a better chance of their music from that decade actually being played & enjoyed in a century from now (albums, but the one top 40 single).
Time will separate the chaff from the wheat, and unfortunately will occasionally get it wrong. But be assured, if you need to be, that no one will die from it..........

Blacksword wrote: Three words: Heather Mills McCartney. ..'nuff said..

I could say more.

Turn. Indicate. Look. In that order.

Ok, I'm sorry I cant hold back!! I have to say something more..

Isn't that awful harpy the most self obsessed, out of touch, manipulative waste of space who ever dug gold?? Outside court today she was bleeting about her poor daughter having to travel 'B class' while daddy travels 'A class' Is that her biggest worry?? If I came out of a divorce settlement £25 million richer, I'd be crying with joy. Then I'd keep my head down and my mouth shut.

At least the trial isn over now. Hopefully that will be the last we hear about it. Of course the media will milk it for as` long as they can. She has yet to sell her story about how the whole world hates her, and how no one loves her, and how she is only looking out for her daughters well being..

James wrote: I won't add to the above, because Andy has it well covered, but another court case related rant...Paul ing Burrell.How big a contraDICtion is that guy?

Burrell has one of those faces you'd probably never get tired of punching. If of course, you were of a violent persuasion, which of course I'm not..

But, yes he is a total contraDICtion..

Blacksword wrote: Ok, I'm sorry I cant hold back!! I have to say something more.. Isn't that awful harpy the most self obsessed, out of touch, manipulative waste of space who ever dug gold?? Outside court today she was bleeting about her poor daughter having to travel 'B class' while daddy travels 'A class' Is that her biggest worry?? If I came out of a divorce settlement £25 million richer, I'd be crying with joy. Then I'd keep my head down and my mouth shut. At least the trial isn over now. Hopefully that will be the last we hear about it. Of course the media will milk it for as` long as they can. She has yet to sell her story about how the whole world hates her, and how no one loves her, and how she is only looking out for her daughters well being..

Humanitarian ? - from the BBC site -

The judge added that her tax returns "disclose no charitable giving at all", despite Mills saying she gave "as much as 80% or 90% of her earnings ... direct to charities".

This will really endear her to everyone...

Mills and Burrell, both examples of why we should still have the death penalty in the UK.

Bloody interior architects who seem to find it reasonable to put up the bog roll up on the wall BEHIND the loo.

Jim Garten wrote: npjnpj wrote: Bloody interior architects who seem to find it reasonable to put up the bog roll up on the wall BEHIND the loo. And at the same time decide it's a really good idea to have a 6 inch gap at the bottom of lavatorial division cubicles; why?!? Is the profession of architect riddled with ankle fetishists? Great - in addition to breaking your shoulder trying to reach the loo roll, you also have to worry about some weirdo architect drooling over your socks.

Or American Senators trying to be helpful Or so he said ...

Jim Garten wrote: OK time for a rant... This follows on from the execrable BBC Saturday night shows to choose a Joseph and a Maria for those horrid west end shows that the great theatreland toad-lord himself (Andrew Lloyd Webber, for it is he) still churns out in favour of honest & innovative productions which may actually stretch the minds of theatregoers as opposed to stretching the seats themselves by packing theaters with the lowest common demoninator MacIntestine munching wobbling classes (again, for it is they) to see yet another re-hash of shows which were creakingly out of date in the 1970s. So what's next you ask? Which classic stage roles are they going to attempt to cast on prime time TV from the morass of theatre school rejected wannabees who will descend on BBC TV Centre in a vain attempt to get either their Warholian 15 minutes of fame on the London stage (or at least be shown in a humourous 'let's look at the crap ones who failed' segment)? Oliver Twist & Nancy. Great. Not only are they now going to get the same flood of hopeless hopefulls who strutted their over-confident yet under-talented stuff for the part of Maria, but they will be doing the same with 11 year old boys, who would no doubt be perfectly happy to continue their lives as normal until an overbearing & over ambitious mother figure who will make Roger Waters's phantasmagorical haridan look like Mother Theresa by comparison (TV Centre will echo to massed cries of "eyes and teeth, Tarquin - eyes and teeth!!") pushes them into the forefront of their vicarious ambition for the sake of maybe a few minutes on TV with all the subtelty of Romans throwing christians to the lions - THESE ARE YOUR CHILDREN FOR 's SAKE! And to whose tender mercies will these young boys be thrown...? I rest my case!

Hah!

Nice to know one of my favorite actors agrees, too:

Kevin Spacey agrees with Jim's rant... sort of

"Actor and theatre director Kevin Spacey has criticised the BBC for airing talent shows such as Any Dream Will Do and I'd Do Anything.

"I felt that was essentially a 13-week promotion for a musical - where's our 13-week programme?" Spacey said.

The Hollywood star is artistic director at the Old Vic theatre in London.

"I have spoken to your chairman but he has yet to get back to me," Spacey said. The BBC replied that its shows were not "unduly promotional".