Yep, at least they'll get reimbursed eventually but it's not what you want when you're getting married in a week and have family coming over from abroad (my colleague). Bad timing!
Big water leak in a basement in one of the flat complexs Which houses all the mains boxes for all the flats. They have evacuated 2 of the flats because of it. But won't be paying for people to get a hotel up front (you have to claim it back), some people are rightfully pissed.
As long as they can claim it back, I'm not sure why they'd be pissed. If they couldn't, different story.
i would imagine because claiming back isn't a care free business, and not everyone has a positive bank account, after expenses.
I would be pissed that it is a companies fault that my complex is in pitch blackness. That I can't see how to get down the stairs as their was no emergency lighting and no one helping. Then not saying anything but simply you need to get a hotel and have to pay.
I have got to say that the comments about music taste and the assumption about the music industry unwilling to take risks is something that really chimes with me. Where I would differ is that I think that the situation with Pop music is almost the inverse of the situation with creative music like jazz or contemporary music. Every now and again I take a punt of a pop album but tend to come away hugely disappointed. The usual split of an album is 1./3rd good, 1/3rd average and the remaining 1/3rd essentially 2filler" material that serious artists would never consider releasing. This is not always the case as I would suggest that two "new" discoveries for me, Michael Kiwanuka and Laura Mvula, are genuine musicians as opposed to O level music student knocking out something on their laptop in their bedrooms as was the case with the Jemina sample kindly posted above. I keep hoping that pop will produce something genuinely daring and over the years have found that singers as diverse as Bjork, Kate Bush and Imogen Heap have produced records which are generally good but not wholly consistent. The Imogen Heap album was a prime example as a good proportion of the music was sub -A level, Don't even get me on the subject of someone like Adele who has nothing to do with music / art and is more do to with consumerism.. By and large, I find that in pop music, the best stuff is frequently American and produced by people who are genuine musicians, whether we are talking about Prince, Chaka Khan, EW&F , Bill Withers , Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell or Nile Rogers. More often than not, these people have come through jazz or at least a decent level of musical education and I think it shows in the music. I have even heard Tina Turner sing with Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter with the result being staggeringly good. There was an interesting comment about the Japanese jazz pianist Eri Yamamoto that was made by the avant garde pianist Matthew Shipp in a recent interview which expressed the view that her work had integrity since she did not come from a college -produced jazz programme. Her style was all her own work. This was seen as making her music far more compelling, I like both these pianists despite their contrasting styles but Lace's comments really hit home as I think the downfall of so much pop (electronica / rap / rock./ etc, etc) is that the music isn't being produced by college educated musicians A lot of British rock is a prime case as it is pretty basic regardless if you are talking about The Beatles , The Smiths, Oasis or Status - it is all pretty rudimentary stuff. Go the "find your own voice " route as was the case with Yamamoto ( a classically trained pianist who discovered jazz "by chance") in pop music, and the results tend to be mediocre as the musicians don't have the tools to bring the music up to another level. I have a really wide range in musical taste from Baroque music through to contemporary classical as well as the Blues which I am passionate about to. I recognise a lot of the commercial pressures in jazz too where a lot of really mediocre stuff is being celebrated these fays whereas the "real" music is totally overlooked. I sympathise even though I would concede that a lot of young artists are not signed to labels for a good reason The current system of putting music on line is probably going to assist making things more democratic but pop music needs to get away with the idea of lack of commerciality means high quality music from an artistic perspective.
Oh goody goody. Poldark resumes on 11th June with the 3rd series covering books The Black Moon and The Four Swans. I understand the the upcoming 3rd series will end halfway through the second of those books numbers 5 and 6 in Winston Graham's saga. Incidentally, there are 12 books..
I didn't know there was one! I shall definitely watch that! Yes, looking forward to that too! Obviously saving The Angry Tide for Series 4. I wonder if anyone will ever film the rest of the books in full?
This is amazing, just watched it on FaceBook but I thought I'd share it on here. In a nutshell, Michael Moore completely dismantles the theory that you have to teach children to pass tests. Finland's schoolchildren are the most successful in the world but their school day only lasts 3 or 4 hours and they don't have homework. It's also illegal to charge for tuition in Finland so there are no private schools. Worth watching in full:
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/153...hen_ends_up_with_a_ban_himself/?ref=mrb&lp=13 Man follows a police car to a police station to complain about the officer's driving. He smelt of drink and was done for drink driving....the charge of driving whilst stupid remains on file. Glad he did though...one more moron off the roads.
