The Ranting Room

I've yet to hear DMB actually, so I cannot make comments.

Geck0 wrote: I've yet to hear DMB actually, so I cannot make comments.

Most everyone in my high school listened to them, and on top of that, my parents are fans.

Is this the new Velvet Room?

I play Opeth in the car too, that probably works quite well.

King Crimson too.

Haha, didn't you realise, Jacques?

We're all going to get villified in the morning.

My rant du jour:

    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

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.

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

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

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?