Beep Beep!

It somehow seems ironic, that because I use a computer and the internet and Social Networking, that personally I have no interest in computer gaming. I do remember the days of early gaming with some affection, the Ping Pong/Tennis/Squash/Football  (2 Bats?? per team) Grandstand console plug into aerial socket of telly and tune in for hours of fun! (see above piccy, actual model I had from Dixons).

Then the various home computers: BBC Acorn, BBC Micro, Vic 20, Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum et al, I remember fondly, not due to the gaming content but the accessibility of stuff I had only seen in Films or read about. Although the plots of these stories didn't show a computer being loaded by an audio cassette taking 4-5 attempts and a teenager in tears.

Some explanation is needed here regarding games, my brain only tends to work in 2D, and due to this many modern games are beyond my mental ability, I don't have problems doing 3D modelling and rendering, but motion wise on a computer it tends to make me feel quite sick (physically).

The thing that sparked my interest in computing was the photography/music/video side of computing: no longer do you need expensive film and equipment, its relatively easy to knock up a short piece of anything on ya computer. You must remember it was pretty recently relatively speaking, that home PCs had decent enough sound and video capabilities.

Yes I know the "You Been Framed", "YouTube" generation of happy slappers have cast a dim light on some activities, but I find it endearing that people get their chance through their own effort to get their views across using media on the Net.

And the amount of bands doing their own production from start to finish is dead encouraging  too!

I'm no techno-geek and can't go into long winded terms about programming or owt like that, but as long as Computers and the Net and the people using them are being positive & creative I look forward to more media being available to all!

And if games are ya bag, good on ya, do still have a place in my heart for Space Invaders, but left, right & fire is about maximum amount of button combinations I can manage.

Punk Rock

Being a "Child of the Sixties", I do count myself lucky as being alive during an exciting time of Popular Music, "POP Music". arriving at the death knells of Elvis, and the birth of The Beatles (SPIT, more later!) and The Stones (HURRAH!) and many more.



In the 21st century when pop stardom relies on televisual viewing and public votes, I am somewhat bored out of my tiny bald head. Not gonna whine on about the Saturday night reality shows, as all I glean of them is through the press and not through first hand viewing, for F*%$ks sake, they're nearly all on a Saturday night, which goes to prove theres a masonic type link between schedulers and breweries, any excuse to go to pub is a good 'un.


I really am glad that I was around when Punk finally happened, I don't dismiss Glam Rock and Heavy Metal and Prog Rock and anything that happened prior to Punk, and am still happy for all musical genres to exist side-by-side.


Punk made me more politically aware, and made me question things, (authority, racism, justice), can many people say that about many groups today? I know a lot of band's do a lot of stirling work, but it all smacks of self-publicism, post Band Aid, buy my album i am nice and help people!
Yes Punk was a bit manufactured and "set-up" but a few good bands came through and it encouraged others to form bands, which is always a good thing!


By the way even as a child hated The Beatles, as was made to sing yellow submarine at school!