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In my family there's a strong streak of 'but it might come in handy' running through our veins. My parents' garage tends to accumulate old white goods, old cupboards, cardboard boxes and miscellaneous electronics until my mum can't get her car in anymore and throws a wobbly. Having tried very hard to ensure that as little as possible of my stuff was left at my parents' house (because they've got enough to contend with their own hoarding, let alone mine), I've realised that the house in Durham (their investment property) is now full of my stuff. If they sell it, where is all of it going to go.... |
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« Reply #4532 on: 20:27:47, 26-01-2008 » |
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Requisite dash to West End to pick up cd's this afternoon.
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1. Why are major record stores on Oxford St where none of the punters -present company excepted if applicable-have any substantive interest in music? Any sales engineered from this lot appear to be achieved by wearing down resistance through compulsive grazing. Equally, otherwise nice specialist outlet no longer seems to be set up for esoteric purchases-instead you have to wait for when there is sufficient demand for a bulk order.If record shops have a future, is this the only way to guarantee it?
2. Various grumpy internal mumbling about epidemic wandering/ hooray tendencies of modern student bodies. can't help feeling they are in need of a planned leisure module,preferably somewhere soundproof and out-of-town.
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« Reply #4533 on: 22:47:58, 26-01-2008 » |
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marbleflugel,
May be most people are buying their CDs on the net. You can order anything you like. May be you are afrain they will steal your creadit card.
My gramp is about Neway company. Father of a student gave me DVD of this NeWay company. One has to create a network of agent to distribute goods. In fact it is a piramide. When we lived in the USA they had companies like that. Now it came here. It is like one wants to use his/her friends to sell stuff.
The sale pitch is based on the fact that our food is not fresh and there are harmful chemicals everywhere: tooth paste, creams etc.
I don't like people who are trying to sell things to me, very annoying. I always feel people like that think that I am an complete idiot.
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« Reply #4534 on: 23:01:25, 26-01-2008 » |
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t-p, I agree. Before Xmas I found myself in a shop with about 100 TVs on display at full volume playing
adverts-it was very like "1984". Its the repetition as well as the content-only a very few actually create
a feeling of well-being, which according to Vance Packard in 'The Hidden Persuaders' is the point-they are trying to unsettle us, experience a void in our lives which we do not really have. But Rachmaninov's lovely Symphonic Dances on Listen Again(too rubato at times but great playing by the Halle, and I think I somehow know the woman he depicts walking in at the end of the 1st movement)so grumpiness is on hold...
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« Reply #4535 on: 23:06:04, 26-01-2008 » |
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What program are you listening? may be I will try to listen to Rachmanonoff tomorrow too.
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« Reply #4536 on: 23:09:36, 26-01-2008 » |
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It was last Thursdays' Performance on 3, t-p. Also Strauss' Don Juan and a(?) neo-classical new Cello Concerto by the great John McAbe. Hope you enjoy it.
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« Reply #4537 on: 23:15:47, 26-01-2008 » |
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Even more bizarre is the way that non-specialist shops stock and display their last remnants of real classical titles. I happened to go into Zavvi (the re-branded Virgin Store) in Dundee this week, and had to walk round three times before I found anything. When I did locate it, it was a weird and very unrepresentative selection, basically fewer than fifty titles with no rhyme nor reason behind them, and quite often five or six identical copies of the same CD, and nothing else to represent the composer whatsoever. Not a single Naxos disc, even. Utterly beyond bizarre....
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« Reply #4538 on: 08:41:06, 27-01-2008 » |
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I wandered round the classical section of Zazzi at the corner of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road and it looked the same as it did when it was called Virgin.
(My favourite grumpy opening to a sermon was: "Today the church gives us the story of the Wise and Foolish Bridesmaids to read. Huh, they were virgins in my day.")
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« Reply #4539 on: 13:22:21, 27-01-2008 » |
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I've just received the MDT January Newsletter by email - it was sent 15/01/2008 17:46  That's even slower than Royal Mail! Also, I've only just got online having been trying for the last 2 hours - the server seemed to be down. Ever since Tiscali said they were going to give me a free upgrade this month to a faster broadband service, it seems to have got worse  |
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« Reply #4540 on: 13:31:04, 27-01-2008 » |
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Ah, the old free upgrade/promotion scam, Andy! Kid people that they're getting more, and they might just believe you...
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« Reply #4541 on: 16:47:38, 27-01-2008 » |
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Today has not been one of the most relaxing! I took child and dog out this morning and they both decided to go into the local pond and get soaked to the skin. Came home got child completely changed and took him to football practice. Came home, gave him lunch and then the mother of the child who was going to spend the afternoon with him rang to say he was ill and couldn't come. The jobs I had lined up this morning I had to do with child and dog running around me all the time in the garden - which made hosing the sand off the windows and sweeping and hosing the front porch, extremely difficult! WHAT IS IT WITH KIDS, DOGS AND WATER? WHY DO THEY HAVE THIS AWFUL DESIRE TO KEEP GETTING TOGETHER AND BEING DRENCHED??? Never mind, all done. Front of house and back of house are sand-free and all the windows are sparkling, kids and dog are now dry, dinner is in the oven and I'm sitting here in an exhausted heap wondering if I'll have the energy to do that pile of ironing tonight. |
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« Reply #4542 on: 18:32:40, 27-01-2008 » |
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Children get over the water obsession. I don't expect dogs do.....  My rant is IVY. It's like a green crawling monster all over everything. A reasonable amount of ivy is rather pretty on a wall, but this year with all the rain it's gone mad. Not only here - son in London removed 30 binbags full from his garden today.  |
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« Reply #4543 on: 18:40:07, 27-01-2008 » |
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Mil, if I may humbly suggest, don't do it all at once-be a bachelor girl.Sesh today cancelled due to Diva
client of my colleague complaining about cd rendering-knowing that studio as i do they'd be hard pressed to find fault. So weekend having been re-arranged twice now quiet, but can't bring myself to do chores after Oxford st grockles yesterday. Is the dog a feral, tabloid-reading type, given to impulse?
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« Reply #4544 on: 19:39:42, 27-01-2008 » |
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Mil, if I may humbly suggest, don't do it all at once-be a bachelor girl. Much as I'd love to take your advice it'll only mount up again if I don't clear it. I've recovered enough I think to make a start after child has had shower/hair wash, reading and in bed. If I start about 8.30 I should be through by the time "Something Understood" starts and I can listen to that in bed with a cup of hot chocolate. I can't believe how quickly the weeks are flying by. Sign of age I suppose... |
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