Thoughts

Fucking Referees

I can’t believe the bloody football referees in the SPL, I hope Dundee Utd follow up on their complaint because it sounds like we were given little chance in a match we could have won by all accounts.

Having a stonewall penalty and a blatant goal chalked off are bad enough at any time of the season, but in a game as vital as this, European football is out the window for another year. Maybe the SPL were doing Rangers a favour because they fucked them over in the fixtures debacle ?

I think more has to be done to make sure this never happens again. On a side note games really shouldn’t be postponed in this day and age. It just spoils it when you get ahead of a team and you’ve overtaken then but then they have 3 more games to play than you do… Fucking bollocks!

Rant over… also someone has amended Mike McCurry’s Wikipedia entry to reflect todays’ events already! :

McCurry has been subject to criticism for his handling of a match between Rangers F.C. and Dundee United on 10th May 2008. Dundee Utd intend to lodge a complaint to the Scottish Football Association over the events.

Dundee United manager Craig Levein was quoted after the match: “We had a blatant penalty and he bottled it. If it’s not a level playing field and, if we don’t get the decisions, blatant, important decisions then what is the point of turning up?”

New Music?

What is new music anyway? Is it just something I’ve never heard before? Is it something I’d forgotten about? Why does the music I listen to have to be new anyway? Is there such a thing as a Neophiliac?

I used to stumble upon good music through a variety of ways, usually it was using various websites that had something like, “people who liked this band also liked this one”, but personal recommendations were also a big part of it.

Is it possible I’ve reach critical mass with my music collection and it’s going to implode in on itself and all I’ll be left with is Muscle Museum by Muse?

I think I’m just looking in the wrong places, I need to look in genres I’d never have considered, countries who don’t sing in English and music I just don’t know. I am doing that to extent but it’s very slow and harder work than it should be.

I don’t remember the last CD I bought, are CDs finally dead? My collection feels like a large slab of plastic I drag from place to place.

Now it seems like it’s dried up, maybe I am getting old? What have I lost that John Peel seemed to keep? Why is it so hard to find something mind-blowingly exciting and new? Maybe I need a podcast? Which would be easy enough if it weren’t for the bloody copyright implications. Maybe.

Whole in one

I can’t remember when I was first reminded of this quandary, I think it might have been someone mentioned on The Talk Show (Episode 16 I think) with the ever miserable John Gruber and Dan Benjamin. Here’s the quandary, do you ever hear about a TV show through a friend, but it’s already either finished or halfway through? Do you watch the old ones to catch up, or do you wait until it’s finished and watch the whole lot at once?

The obvious thing to do would be download the first episode and see how it is and then watch the others if it’s good. Catch up with the TV show and then start watching it on TV regularly, as this is the way we’re used to watching a TV show. But what if the first season is already finished and it’s really good? Do you ration yourself? Or gorge yourself in the episodes but miss out on the suspense? and of course no one will be in the same episode as you are unless you’re watching with a friend.

If you watch it all in a short period of time, if it’s something like Lost or Heroes which rely very much on suspense, then you’re surely missing out on something?

I think this option has been more apparently with things like Bit-torrent around where you can download an entire season or if it’s a few years old you can buy it cheap. If like me you tend to forget when things are on and just download it to catch up anyway it might be a good choice.

I’ve been watching some old Chinese TV shows this way (Legend of the Condor Heroes) and they don’t really have the same concept of cliffhangers. Some episodes are left hanging, others just stop! It’s frustrating and takes self control when you know the next episode is right in front of you. Can you really stop yourself from watching it?

A few problems here and there...

While I’m working on a new layout there are likely to be a few bugs, the main problem I’m having at the moment is with the comments, textpattern has a strange way of dealing with them and it’s too late to fix them. I’ll get around to it tomorrow hopefully.

Sorry...

I’m back, there were a few technical problems with the website, they’re now fixed and normal service will resume shortly.

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