Arr, Jim lad.

[tahariel]

Since I left the Hell-Job on Friday I have:

tidied the entire flat so it is now all clean and lovely

cleaned out all the photos I don't actually want to keep (elbows and people I don't know)

spent all the iTunes vouchers work gave me as a leaving present

finagled a single ticket for the National Theatre's production of Frankenstein starring

Comments

[lemniciate]

OH MY GD WHAT WHAT FRANKENSTEIN AND THE CUMBERBATCH? :OOO WHAT A FABULOUS COMBO I CANNOT EVEN

[tahariel]

I NO RITE?

Apparently they open up tickets for the Circle on the day of the show, but as I don't live in London this is clearly no good for me. Also they will be opening more tickets in, like, March, but I will totally forget by then and/or fail to get to see it, so, I have bought ONE TICKET and will go to see it all on my lonesome.

[tellezara]

Thanks for those links, they were an interesting read! Everybody seems to have a Kindle these days and it's disappointing to think they might be used for pirated ebooks.

[tahariel]

I have a Kindle these days too, but you don't need one to read pirated ebooks - you can just get them on your computer, too, which is why there isn't even that minimal extra outlay for people. It just makes me really sad when you think how little money authors make anyway for their hard work that this screws up their livelihoods so much. At least musicians get paid to do gigs on top of producing albums.

[wickednotevil]

Downloading things is a bit of a weird thing for me. I do it constantly, but as a musician we're constantly being told the only way to make money is to get people to pay for our music. Which they won't because they don't have to. But the lecturers who tell us this also make us go download so much music a week that it's sort of lost all meaning ;P
Idk, I buy official things when I like them. Even when they're awful (like some of the 'officially' translated manga, urgh) I have my own little code of download-y-ness which goes something like:
Books I pay for
Things to watch I dl then buy if I like (...I like the portability of my hard drive versions...)
Music should be free

[tahariel]

But the whole "music should be free" thing is an embodiment of modern culture's entitlement complex regarding art. Why should it be free? Why should somebody who spends a lot of time and effort making something not be recompensed for that time and effort in such a way that they can a) afford to live and b) afford to make more of the music you like

[tourdefierce]

YOU ARE SO PRODUCTIVE, I'M SUPER JEALOUS AT YOUR SKILLS.

ALSO. CUMBERBATCH ON STAGE. SOOOOO JEALOUS.

[tahariel]

No, it's interesting to see other people's POVs on this, so thank you for taking the time! Wow, though, $25 for a paperback?! How do Australians even afford to read at all?! I think the fact that you do go to the gigs and buy the DVDs and books kind of balances out. Piracy is just one of these endemic things nowadays where we all subscribe to this collective opinion that if everyone is doing it it's not stealing. I hadn't really thought of it so starkly before reading all of those articles yesterday, but it has made me really seriously consider what I do on the internet.