i dont know but i’m determined to find out
been a very random week – weds night ended up at a friends house where a band is rehearsing – got back around 5ish which wiped me out for the week (must be getting old) – then sunday night went and saw them (nowthen) play down at guarana in the port and they were brilliant – ended up chatting with them all till some stupid hour
i did have a cd of theirs but left it in someones car on weds night – ejit
for reasons that are far too boring to go into ive been reading up on natural language processing and came across this conundrum:
The sentence “I never said she stole my money” demonstrates the importance stress can play in a sentence, and thus the inherent difficulty a natural language processor can have in parsing it. Depending on which word the speaker places the stress, this sentence could have several distinct meanings:
* “I never said she stole my money” – Someone else said it, but I didn’t.
* “I never said she stole my money” – I simply didn’t ever say it.
* “I never said she stole my money” – I might have implied it in some way, but I never explicitly said it.
* “I never said she stole my money” – I said someone took it; I didn’t say it was she.
* “I never said she stole my money” – I just said she probably borrowed it.
* “I never said she stole my money” – I said she stole someone else’s money.
* “I never said she stole my money” – I said she stole something of mine, but not my money.
i absolutely love this:
i’m sort of jon’s side on all of this this but i.m not sure he’s railing against the wrong things and how exactly this new magazine is going to work
i watched jon start ranting about the nme on twitter about 2 or 3 days ago and it was a concerted rant that i wouldve been proud of.. but it was almost the very personal attacks that he didnt want in this new magazine
he twittered at one point that maybe the mag should only do positive reviews – i and i guess many others thought that was a bad idea – after all a review is essentially one persons opinion and if you cant get past that then you are sad and you get what you deserve
“ok so maybe allow bad reviews but not directed at individuals”
fine
but this is the essence
opinions are like arseholes – everyone has one
i said that its human nature for personal feelings to creep into personal reviews – thats just the way it is – to deny that is to ignore human nature
get a balance then
post 3 reviews of everything – one for, one against and one indifferent – link to the track so it streams and let people make up their own mind
and do the same for gig reviews etc
what did piss me off was jon then having a cheap pop at chris martin on nmeradio – whatever you may feel about the magazine the online radio version is a mile away from it and is, beyond anyone else, truer to the original xfm ethos that sammy jaobs started with xfm and then subsequently got hijacked by richard park and his capital radio cronies
jon – please let me know of a better radio station than the nme and i will listen to it for a week and make a judgement (ps ive listened to radio all day for about 20 odd years so have become adept at weeding out bullshit) – otherwise petty attacks on one tweet by one dj is quite frankly – er petty 
i read the manifesto that went out today – i just cant immediately see how its going to work financially – but hey sounds good – just dont like the way its being done on personal attacks when there are far more insidious media than the nme….
for some random reason me and the burn the negative starting following each other on twitter and got into a bit of a chat as i’d listened to their stuff on myspace beforehand to check them out and really liked their stuff. so when they played ibiza rocks last tuesday i made a point of introducing myself after they did their support gig
top fookin blokes – had a great chat with them and the next day i thought it would be nice to ask their management if they wanted my photos of their gig as realistically other than the website they werent really going to get used. they came back straightaway and said yes please and have sent me 2xcd edition of their album
the day after both matt & lee from the band Facebooked me and put up my photos and changed their profile pics to ones i’d taken – very flattered
though at one point they insisted we have a joint photo in front of the photo wall – i’d forgottten about that until i saw it pasted up on facebook – i look like a grinning idiot
top geezers : Burn The Negative – Ibiza Rocks – The Photos
i saw this following quote on a friends wall about i guess 20 odd years ago. it was printed on an old piece of paper as though it had been ripped out of a magazine. i loved it.
first thing i did when i went back to work was to put the phrase in a word document the same size as the one i saw – ie a4 landscape – i printed it and got it framed
for a reason i got reminded of this qoute today so i thought i’d google it as i figured it must have been quoted by someone and that she had liked it and stuck it up on her wall. as it turns out i can find absolutely no reference anywhere of anything even remotely similar –
so here’s the quote:
there is only one truth and that is that life under capitalism is shit and only drugs, loud music & fucking make it bearable:
still got the original piece of paper framed
(as i’m going to send you the link to this did you ever see this one: ?) http://mrlk.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/jimmy-pages-contract-termination/
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its very rare i get choked up about someone i dont know who dies but ferris bueller, pretty in pink, breakfast club, planes, trains etc defined my growing up
try and read this without getting a lump in your throat
http://wellknowwhenwegetthere.blogspot.com/2009/08/sincerely-john-hughes.html
i have to watch them all again tonight
twitter has been down now for a i reckon about 2 hours (5pm CET) and facebook is behaving weirdly
could this be the end of civilisation ?
full moon party tonight though – whatever 
spent the afternoon with an ibiza artist who has painted the most amazing stuff ive ever see – we’ll be doing some promo for it shortly – nice guy – we all talked about everything you can imagine – great fun
trueblood doesnt dissapoint with ftw moments
ive been moaning to anyone at nme who will listen about them doing an iphone app for about a year
this morning nme announce that their app is now in the app store… but….
you have to pay for it..
if i could make this sentance any bigger i would
the response i got back was “by having a charge (even a small one) means we can provide good offers later on – cheap tickets etc that we can’t do if free.”
BUT YOU DONT HAVE ANYTHING TO OFFER & 95% OF YOUR ONLINE AUDIENCE CANT PARTAKE ANYWAY
i’m sure the app is wonderful – now its just made me want to get into nefarious territory and spend tomorrow trying nicking the bloody thing – which can be done
its 2009 not 1989 – wake up you idiots
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