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This weeks Rant / s

Mindless Throwaway Music
The over influence of bland, throwaway music. I know, I know. You're probably thinking it's just an age thing. Well, I don't think so. I'd be the first to admit to the fact that there's always been a lot of mediocre stuff around during times past but I don't think it's ever been as bad as it is just now. Besides, isn't it time we had another music revolution to shake everything up again? Like punk music did in the seventies.

It's not Cool!
People who say 'cool' all the time. It's a stupid word to use and should have been banned years ago, unless of course, you're talking about the art of refrigeration or describing a David Attenborough programme about penguins in the Antartic! I rest my case.

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My previous rant

TV News
What is this obsession with illustrating news items by using special effects to make a simple 'PowerPoint style' graphic out of something that appears within the camera frame. Yesterday I sat dumbfounded as I watched a lunchtime news reporter who explained away the budget using random road signs around London. He even used simple up and down 'street' direction signs to report on the state of the economy. Have we really become so stupid we have to have everything explained to us like children using banal graphics and simple, complementative (?) dialogue?  Come the revolution brother, come the revolution ...