Monday, January 14, 2008

Getting Back Into Braille Pt. 1

Person a- What a bad song that is.

Person b- What's that you said? That's a bad song? But it's not a bad song. It's just that you don't like pop. That's just good honest pop. Listen to it. There's nothing pretentious about it- it's pop through and through, nothing else. That's the difference between you and me- I can appreciate a good pop track and you've never understood pop. If you put that pop song on a stereo, I'd enjoy it, because it's pop and I've always liked pop. Pop music has always been successful because it's never been anything other than pop. You don't like enough pop, so get off your high horse, get your feet on the pop moral high ground, and start listening to honest pop. And don't turn your nose up at pop, because you don't have a nose for pop. I've always understood pop- great honest pop, it forms the basic of any good pop song. You say "bad song", but I say "pop", just keep the pop coming. All the great composers would like pop you know, if Schubert had been around now he wouldn't like your music, he'd like pop, because pop can be clever, but not so clever that it stops being pop. Pop composers are the smartest people there are, just like classical music was pop back in the old days, they're both the same. It's all great pop. In a lot of ways Steps are better than Mozart, it's more honest, it's all pop and nothing else and Mozart would probably be the first to hold his hands up and say "I admit it, they've made a better pop song". He'd have a lot of time for good pop. The sooner you like good pop, the sooner we can have a chat about pop, even though you've never understood the genius of a pop song. But I agree it's quite difficult to appreciate the genius of a pop song, but I can definitely do that.

Sunday, January 13, 2008

House Rules For Contributors

(Subject to development as problems appear)

General:

-Please be self-editing so the editors don't have to trawl through your shit. Endless links, pictures and videos not appreciated.
-Editors reserve the right to edit basically whatever they want and remove posts. Don't be offended.

Writing Styles:

-Proper title writing please: Although the main titles appear in upper case anyway, the sidebar titles don't so crap capitalisation (crapitalisation) will show up there
-One blank line between paragraphs, no indentation
-Use of quote marks only where absolutely necessary
-No experimental typography, changing type sizes, colours etc.

Pictures accompanying writing:

-Always left aligned, sized medium when uploading pictures to accompany writing
-Please make sure that your text doesn't run down the side of images, if it does go back and edit your post, adding a few blank lines between the image code and your text until it appears a line or so underneath the picture on the blog. This sometimes takes a couple of tries to get right
-We all know there's lots of funny pictures on the internet, but please limit pictures to vaguely relevant stuff otherwise the blog turns to shit
-One image per post maximum if it isn't the focus of the post

Art contributors

-Pencil/pen drawings welcome but must be suitable for viewing at blog size/resolution. The art editor says no to loads of hideous colour or anything that's too busy to look okay on screen
-Upload all images left aligned, large size if there is no accompanying text
-One image per post, make it good

Video contributions
-Youtube links welcome, but keep them to a decent standard

New Contributors
-Please feel free to suggest new contributors, or get in touch if you're reading this and would like to contribute.