Never saving anything for the swim back since 1983
I've been watching that "Seven Ages of Rock" thing and it got me thinking, following a bandwagon isn't necessarily a bad thing. So what if people haven't been following whoever since the dawn of time? Music doesn't discriminate so why should people not be allowed to follow a band who are just making it big? I don't know why i started thinking about this anyway, i mean more people sharing a love for a band can't be a bad thing. It's like more people being into a tv program, you've got more people to chat about it with.
So today is the anniversary of the attacks on London. Not much news about it really, but when the 11th of september rolls on what will we see? All the news today has been about these live earth gigs, and i say good luck to that Al Gore bloke. It's funny how you see these people who were pretty unimportant back in the day go all high and mighty and judgmental all of a sudden. What really annoys me about all this stuff going on today isn't that whole argument that the artists are being flown in from wherever, that the carbon footprint (a term which will definitely be in the oxford english dictionary's next edition) created by the concerts will be massive, that it is pointless given China and India's growing pollutionification. The point that really annoys me is that i'm pretty sure all these global warming concerns were around at least a decade ago, back in the days of Captain Planet, Pocahontis and my geography lessons learning about deforestation, desertification and other such things which weren't good for the planet.
Did Gore and Clinton listen to anyone back then? Nope, so why the heck should anyone listen to him now? I personally think it is too late anyway. I do however also think that it can't hurt to do stuff like recycle and switch tvs off completely (something i was told to do at school, alongside switching lights off). None of this global warming is new. It started ages ago, probably with the prevalence of CFC emitting sprays. I really hate the holier-that-thou attitude which will be going on for a while.
And back to bomb talk. Something else i'm tired of is picking a person as a hero when what he did was jump on a bloke who was on fire. Sure, the bloke on fire could have gotten away where he may have been killed to keep him quiet, or perhaps able to hide away forever (with whatever-degree burns? Not likely) but the jumper-on isn't a hero. A person in the right place at the right time, perhaps. Then again so are the ambulance crew who spotted the first car bomb outside the club in london. So is the PC who was deactivating the bomb while the mobile signal receiving trigger was receiving instructions to send the detonation signal. Neither of those are getting the praise i feel they deserve. Nor is the likelihood that poor british products were the downfall of these attempts. What worked in iraq may not necessarily work anywhere else due to shoddy workmanship.
Oh and Fantastic Four was alright. Not sure about Silver Surfer turning out to be a teletubby though. Surely sending a telepathic image of what he was on about into Sue's head would not only have been cooler, but would have also given us some idea of the powers this bloke had without the board. But no, they had to turn him into Tinky Winky version 2.
So today is the anniversary of the attacks on London. Not much news about it really, but when the 11th of september rolls on what will we see? All the news today has been about these live earth gigs, and i say good luck to that Al Gore bloke. It's funny how you see these people who were pretty unimportant back in the day go all high and mighty and judgmental all of a sudden. What really annoys me about all this stuff going on today isn't that whole argument that the artists are being flown in from wherever, that the carbon footprint (a term which will definitely be in the oxford english dictionary's next edition) created by the concerts will be massive, that it is pointless given China and India's growing pollutionification. The point that really annoys me is that i'm pretty sure all these global warming concerns were around at least a decade ago, back in the days of Captain Planet, Pocahontis and my geography lessons learning about deforestation, desertification and other such things which weren't good for the planet.
Did Gore and Clinton listen to anyone back then? Nope, so why the heck should anyone listen to him now? I personally think it is too late anyway. I do however also think that it can't hurt to do stuff like recycle and switch tvs off completely (something i was told to do at school, alongside switching lights off). None of this global warming is new. It started ages ago, probably with the prevalence of CFC emitting sprays. I really hate the holier-that-thou attitude which will be going on for a while.
And back to bomb talk. Something else i'm tired of is picking a person as a hero when what he did was jump on a bloke who was on fire. Sure, the bloke on fire could have gotten away where he may have been killed to keep him quiet, or perhaps able to hide away forever (with whatever-degree burns? Not likely) but the jumper-on isn't a hero. A person in the right place at the right time, perhaps. Then again so are the ambulance crew who spotted the first car bomb outside the club in london. So is the PC who was deactivating the bomb while the mobile signal receiving trigger was receiving instructions to send the detonation signal. Neither of those are getting the praise i feel they deserve. Nor is the likelihood that poor british products were the downfall of these attempts. What worked in iraq may not necessarily work anywhere else due to shoddy workmanship.
Oh and Fantastic Four was alright. Not sure about Silver Surfer turning out to be a teletubby though. Surely sending a telepathic image of what he was on about into Sue's head would not only have been cooler, but would have also given us some idea of the powers this bloke had without the board. But no, they had to turn him into Tinky Winky version 2.