tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051823036562401979.post7684315372504062391..comments2024-03-28T09:44:39.781-07:00Comments on Metro Wynn Presents.........: Movie Quote and Scenes relevant to you..................Metro Wynn Presentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12225345619193116509noreply@blogger.comBlogger4999125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051823036562401979.post-58532753324747606752020-07-01T22:13:34.148-07:002020-07-01T22:13:34.148-07:00How many Houses could you buy with the Money "...How many Houses could you buy with the Money "Titanic" made ...... and that's just one Film?<br /><br />According to one set of Figures you could buy every new build House in Portishead at the average Price, plus about 500 more. An Irony not lost on me as I spend ages, and most of my Internet Allowance, searching the Web in the £50000 and under Market.<br /><br />In that Category there have been some intriguing Phenomena. <br /><br />Kilburn and the High Roads, AKA Ian Dury and the Blockheads - and an Album called "New Boots and Panties" might be a Town in Scotland, and even one in South Wales. None of this for any of those that Money went to of course, as they buy up Stuff rather more solubrious. No Rhythm Sticks for them huh!<br /><br />As I do this I often wonder how many Houses I must have indirectly bought other People via the Creative Economics Process!Metro Wynn Presentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225345619193116509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051823036562401979.post-19787086727021077472020-07-01T04:39:41.032-07:002020-07-01T04:39:41.032-07:00And it isn't just the Money that was made, fro...And it isn't just the Money that was made, from Box Office to Charity Fundraisers, it's also how many People worked on all these.<br /><br />One thing it certainly isn't, and that is those little HTML Widgets that appear everywhere now. Even CGI in a Movie or TV Show still needs the Show to be in, otherwise it's nothing more than an alphanumeric Strip of Digits and a flicker on a Monitor. There's a misconception about Computers that confuses what you might see on Websites and Computer Programs, and a Film or TV Series. They are not the same, and while a Film or TV Show has a Crew and Actors, Producers and a Film or Production Company, even a quite sophisticated Widget could be written by an individual on a Mobile Phone. All you need is a virtual Keyboard with all the required Digits and something to write it onto, even an Email Client will do. You can then copy and paste the subsequent HTML onto any Website you wish, or it will appear automatically once another piece of Code has been written. These are called Cookies, and you might notice how a Banner relevant to something you bought recently appears on Websites - even if the Website has nothing to do with any of it.<br /><br />Less polite People call them Spyware!<br /><br />None of this particularly employs anyone!<br /><br />From someone who remembers the Media Unions tussle with the Bosses about ENG I do know how a lot of it works. ENG or Electronic News Gathering appeared at the end of the 1970's when Video was becoming portable enough and sufficient in quality to start replacing Film for News Programs. In the age of Film you might need a Director, a Journalist, Camera Person, Sound Person, Film and Audio Editors to make a several Minute Item for a News Program. When Betamax and Hi8 Video arrived you cut the Staff by half. No Director, no Film or Audio Editor. You can imagine the Unions weren't too pleased about this, while everything could be edited in situ by Camera and Audio Kit.<br /><br />Now even the Camera People and Sound Recordist are only intermittent as Journalists have to do everything, and sometimes even they might use a Mobile Phone with a high resolution Camera.Metro Wynn Presentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225345619193116509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051823036562401979.post-22526852255573941332020-06-30T10:14:50.247-07:002020-06-30T10:14:50.247-07:00An incalculable Amount .....?
It isn't just F...An incalculable Amount .....?<br /><br />It isn't just Figures like those published for Film Box Office Receipts, or even those of Record sales and TV Companies selling Programs abroad. There are many others ....<br /><br />A Film also makes Money from VHS and DVD/Blu-ray. There is Merchandising, from Posters and T'Shirts to Soundtrack Albums. It's the same with TV Shows, while both get Payments from Broadcasters when they are shown. Soundtrack Albums and Theme Tunes get PRS Payments too, like every time "My Heart will go on" is played on the Radio or used as background Music. <br /><br />Moneys raised for Charity are another big earner as Stars from all of these make Fundraising Appearances, while they, the rest of those working on the Project and everyone else involved in the above have paid Tax and National Insurance based on what they were paid.<br /><br />This doesn't include however much the Companies themselves have paid in Tax Returns on the Profits.<br /><br />So when you read that "Titanic" made $2.2 Billion at the Box Office for example, that is just the proverbial Tip of the Iceberg!Metro Wynn Presentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225345619193116509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051823036562401979.post-87727846530127670312020-06-29T04:40:34.512-07:002020-06-29T04:40:34.512-07:00Meanwhile, is it possible to edit completely a Vid...Meanwhile, is it possible to edit completely a Video on YouTube but retain the Comments? Thus, you not only acquire Comments dishonestly you can also completely change the Context those Comments were made!Metro Wynn Presentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225345619193116509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051823036562401979.post-24957748998928576632020-06-28T19:32:30.603-07:002020-06-28T19:32:30.603-07:00Writing as someone who has made an incalculable am...Writing as someone who has made an incalculable amount for Creative Economics, and however much Tax and National Insurance Revenue that has made for however many Countries Governments, I thought it horribly ironic that I should have to do an anti-poverty Campaign at all in 1999.Metro Wynn Presentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225345619193116509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051823036562401979.post-1312600613742739892020-06-28T05:38:53.596-07:002020-06-28T05:38:53.596-07:00What happened in Rwanda was caused by deliberate W...What happened in Rwanda was caused by deliberate Word Manipulation. The Refusal to call "Acts of Genocide" a Genocide was excruciating. That's the Perspective of someone in Britain watching and reading the Story as it increased in brutality. What it must have been like for Tutsi and Hutu supporters in Kigali is horrendous.<br /><br />Bad enough if you weren't in some of the Places Films are set in like the Milles Colline Hotel or the Ecole Technique Officielle ("Shooting Dogs"), and you spent it fleeing or in hiding, worse when you were and heard Rumours of a European Intervention Force that never showed up or watched UN Soldiers pack up and leave.<br /><br />Then there was the Aftermath, and Survivors wanting to know why no-one intervened. Politicians not garnering Votes supporting a Country with nothing more than a Coffee or Tea Economy, or hand wringing about another Somalia.<br /><br />The thing is, the Americans particularly didn't learn from their Disaster in Mogadishu. Using Trucks and HumVees and an over dependence on Helicopters was bound to fail in an urban Paramilitary Environment. Those stranded in the City were rescued by an armoured Column.<br /><br />So, why not use Armour in Rwanda if it proved more effective in Somalia than a bunch of Helicopters and thin skinned Vehicles? Surely, a few armoured Divisions and an Airstrike or two would have cowed the Interemhamwe while the Army could be bought for a few Bottles of Scotch. In the end both were routed by RPF Fighters, who although they might have been better armed and disciplined than the Rwandan Army, were still just a Paramilitary Force.<br /><br />Also, I've just read a lengthy Article about all this by Helen Epstein. While she is critical of both RPF excesses and Hutu scapegoating and Violence isn't it great to see Britain leading by example and no-one being left out of anything they might once have been part of or initiatives meant to stave off any hardships they might have to put up with!Metro Wynn Presentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225345619193116509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051823036562401979.post-21492801357289147852020-06-28T02:04:49.412-07:002020-06-28T02:04:49.412-07:00Watched "Hotel Rwanda" quite a few times...Watched "Hotel Rwanda" quite a few times in recent days. Brilliant Film about the Genocide that was never called one in 1994.<br /><br />At least it isn't "Lord of the Rings".Metro Wynn Presentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225345619193116509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051823036562401979.post-25583001677440913382020-06-15T18:40:09.676-07:002020-06-15T18:40:09.676-07:00The Great Creative Economics Dwindle!
What has ha...The Great Creative Economics Dwindle!<br /><br />What has happened in Bristol isn't unique as Creative Economics not so gradually dies off in Britain. Not only don't we have a Record Industry to speak of anymore, the Independent Sector has been decimated and we don't have a weekly Music Press.<br /><br />When the Lease runs out on the HTV Building in a few years it probably won't be renewed. What was meant for about 450 People now accommodates about 70 as ITV West became the Region's independent Franchise. When the Lease ends they'll probably relocate to smaller Premises and the Building demolished for redevelopment. Bigger doesn't necessarily mean more as ITV is a national Company with regional Outlets.<br /><br />EMI and Subsidiaries, Polygram and theirs, along with all the Indie Companies have also gone. If George Martin was around now he'd be just another struggling Classical Musician rather than the Man who signed and produced the Beatles. Andy McDonald and Go-disc/beat - Andy who?<br /><br />The last Music Paper - the NME - is reduced to online only and a freesheet after dwindling to about 40,000 Copies sold every week.<br /><br />As there seems to be less and less at least some of us can have some consolation that it hurts the sort of People who treated us like Shit for years!<br />Metro Wynn Presentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225345619193116509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051823036562401979.post-67182140012398968232020-06-12T00:42:38.200-07:002020-06-12T00:42:38.200-07:00So, if you don't want to be the villainous Luf...So, if you don't want to be the villainous Luftwaffe you need to stand anywhere in the 10 - 2 Region!Metro Wynn Presentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225345619193116509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051823036562401979.post-28683527831321151232020-06-11T21:45:52.019-07:002020-06-11T21:45:52.019-07:00"Bandits 2 to 10 O'clock".
This was..."Bandits 2 to 10 O'clock".<br /><br />This was the System used by RAF Pilots during WW2 to describe the Position of enemy Fighter Planes. If a Spitfire was the Pivot on where they were on a Clock Face, where the Hour, Minute and Second Hands are attached, where anything is corresponds to each Number on it if they looked towards 12 o'clock. If that was North and someone was stood East or West they would've at 3 or 9 o'clock.<br /><br />Thus, if you were trying to talk to someone who was stood at a 4,5 or 6,7 o'clock position that would be very uncomfortable, while 6 o'clock would be impossible.<br /><br />So why do People insist on doing that here, unless they can't do the most basic of Communication Skills?<br /><br />Or are we being Bert the Turtle in the American Nuclear War Public Information Film "Duck and Cover"? Y'know, where he's "very alert"!<br /><br />If I was Jackie Mann, one of the Beirut Hostages and a former WW2 Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot I'd be saying it every time any of those People did that, because it doesn't feel particularly friendly! Maybe I should start calling them Mr, Mrs or Ms Goering!Metro Wynn Presentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225345619193116509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051823036562401979.post-89040873114817757542020-06-06T09:41:42.212-07:002020-06-06T09:41:42.212-07:00I would like to draw North Somerset and Portishead...I would like to draw North Somerset and Portishead Councils to this .....<br /><br />https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-6848139/amp/Councils-ordered-remove-pointless-road-signs-new-guidelines.html<br /><br />It seems we have had quite a few of these in the Town. Still do as some are still up despite the Roadworks they might apply to being finished at least a Week ago. Not sure why they were there at all, that particular Road was never closed, and being right in the Thick of the Lockdown quite empty anyway.Metro Wynn Presentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225345619193116509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051823036562401979.post-17395952161882368142020-06-01T15:07:07.618-07:002020-06-01T15:07:07.618-07:00Meanwhile, having just bought a Tape Measure maybe...Meanwhile, having just bought a Tape Measure maybe we should start seeing if these Keyboard Players measure up!Metro Wynn Presentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225345619193116509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051823036562401979.post-6843604555644110012020-06-01T02:09:33.017-07:002020-06-01T02:09:33.017-07:00Particularly as the Town then, as 'now' go...Particularly as the Town then, as 'now' got its Publicity from a Group whose Career is rooted in our Associate of Jack Astor's Family. Nothing has improved since the 90's despite all these Newbies of the last 20 years!<br /><br />Corona Virus ....... The Movie!<br /><br />"Shielded People" he said, looking at his T'Shirt and something about how these will be "allowed out" today!<br /><br />Is this something we are allowed to do, or are we selling Kyliehead Records?<br /><br />Are we fighting Covid19 or still fighting Saddam in 1990, with his "Human Shield"? Maybe Covid19 was created in Dr Chapman's Laboratory in a George Cukor Movie?Metro Wynn Presentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225345619193116509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051823036562401979.post-16015680780458784792020-06-01T01:21:35.222-07:002020-06-01T01:21:35.222-07:00They are the Passengers .......
It was the late 9...They are the Passengers .......<br /><br />It was the late 90's and Airbus, one time local post-Grunge Rock Band asked if they could borrow my Iggy Pop Tape to learn the famous Song.<br /><br />It was around the time of that huge James Cameron Movie - where they go on about that Passenger List and how someone wasn't on it.<br /><br />Here at RMS Portishead, the eponymous Band have been doing Concerts since 1994. A Concert Promoter isn't an Employee of the Group, it's Management or the Record Company. They are either Venue Owners, self employed Individuals sometimes on Contract or work for a Company like SJM, MCP, Metropolis or Kennedy Street.<br /><br />Every time they do a Concert or Tour they keep a Record of who any Guesties might have been. These might be whoever they or anyone else sent Tickets to or the Guestlists kept in Venue Foyers. These are all collated at the end of each financial year as Expenses against that years Tax Returns. Thus, they will know who has, and who hasn't seen a Group or Artiste they promoted in those 12 Months.<br /><br />So, while Jack Dawson never appeared on any Titanic Passenger List guess who doesn't on any of those Portishead Guesties?<br /><br />Bit harsh isn't it!Metro Wynn Presentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225345619193116509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051823036562401979.post-58983547544835375722020-06-01T01:04:19.023-07:002020-06-01T01:04:19.023-07:00And don't get me started on "Cum on feel ...And don't get me started on "Cum on feel the Noise" and Anagrams of Isla!Metro Wynn Presentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225345619193116509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051823036562401979.post-14419300685473686042020-06-01T01:02:16.651-07:002020-06-01T01:02:16.651-07:00Something about "Wicked men being no more&quo...Something about "Wicked men being no more" eh Mr Tyler!Metro Wynn Presentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225345619193116509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051823036562401979.post-7507002560887095532020-06-01T00:52:45.097-07:002020-06-01T00:52:45.097-07:00Currently monitoring the George Floyd Story while ...Currently monitoring the George Floyd Story while unsure if what to have on the Stereo .......<br /><br />Pink Floyd or No More Heroes! Metro Wynn Presentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225345619193116509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051823036562401979.post-3219112069768881762020-05-30T07:28:44.676-07:002020-05-30T07:28:44.676-07:00While they fiddle with the Album Cover Photo, mayb...While they fiddle with the Album Cover Photo, maybe they ignore the Motif. The Hand clutching the Hostage.<br /><br />What is it they say?<br /><br />The more you try to grip something the more it slips through your Fingers. That, as they scam something there always seems to be less and less of it.<br /><br />That while there might have been more than 400 People working in Brislington, there is now less than 80. There's no Community Festival for them to waft about at, even stalwart Bristolian TV Shows like "Casualty" and "Holby City" have gone to Cardiff. Portishead have become a big Yawn, Beth now looks like your Grandmother, and while there might have been those who wept into their Guitar Cases - there is no EMI, or Parlophone anymore. Liverpool hasn't rocked the World since Melanie C's debut Appearance as Sporty Spice in 1996.<br /><br />Bristol hasn't made any serious incursions into the Album Charts with a new Group since Portishead's Debut in 1994. As it was agreed that their Career Timeline began with us on, and before, 1968 it seems those Thugs, Yippies, Oiks, and Trogladytes aren't as adept at negotiating the Industry as Ormsby-Gore was. Big shiny Cars and Tattoos do not an awesome Creative Industry/Camelot Contact Book make!Metro Wynn Presentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225345619193116509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051823036562401979.post-21262621419832254872020-05-30T05:56:53.127-07:002020-05-30T05:56:53.127-07:00Interstellar Overdrive.
Here's a thing .....
...Interstellar Overdrive.<br /><br />Here's a thing .....<br /><br />People have taken to collecting Pink Clothes so they can stand either side of someone who doesn't. Presumably this means we're all off to the Ally Pally to see the Floyd play this psychedelic Magnum Opus.<br /><br />Hey, when you do, why don't you watch Tommy Vance's superb Documentary about them on youTube first!<br /><br />The Long, the Short and the Tall!<br /><br />So, how tall are you Holly Herriot?Metro Wynn Presentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225345619193116509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051823036562401979.post-54288838294223917512020-05-29T04:46:17.426-07:002020-05-29T04:46:17.426-07:00No War ...... and no Thancs either!No War ...... and no Thancs either!Metro Wynn Presentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225345619193116509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051823036562401979.post-81461660299304994642020-05-29T04:35:36.594-07:002020-05-29T04:35:36.594-07:00The spoof Songs continue .....
How about a Rendit...The spoof Songs continue .....<br /><br />How about a Rendition of "Pinball Wizard" sung through a Tannoy, the Video filmed at a Harbourside with Clips of Isengard thrown in?<br /><br />Looks like old Weinstein is still at it!Metro Wynn Presentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225345619193116509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051823036562401979.post-65041349545050623322020-05-28T06:48:10.662-07:002020-05-28T06:48:10.662-07:00Might do a couple of spoof Songs ....
One might b...Might do a couple of spoof Songs ....<br /><br />One might be called "Making it up in Travelodge" to the Tune of "Hotel California", with a "Bus Stop" by the Hollies Flourish at the end.<br /><br />The other could be called "Chewy Bass Players in Ashton", done in a Syd Barrett style Lyric to the Tune of "On the Road again" by Canned Heat. The Video will feature someone looking like Jack Bruce playing a short scale Gibson SG Bass Guitar!Metro Wynn Presentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225345619193116509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051823036562401979.post-17375942758371197782020-05-28T00:03:42.174-07:002020-05-28T00:03:42.174-07:00Is this Music?
"You always want to be on the...Is this Music?<br /><br />"You always want to be on the side that's winning" Bob Dylan sang in "Positively 4th Street". Robert Zimmerman would be one half of the most influential People in Rock Music. The other was Elvis Aaron Presley.<br /><br />But let's rewind all the way back to the days before Elvis met Sam Philips and Colonel Parker.<br /><br />He has a different Attitude. Instead of being who he was he thinks like everyone else might have in early 50's America. Subsequently he never picked up a Guitar.<br /><br />A few years later at the Zimmerman Hardware Store the young Robert is about to become his small town Parents and is being cultivated to inherit the Family Business. He never picks up a Guitar either!<br /><br />1950's Liverpool was full of young Men who were going on to work on the Docks, just like their Fathers, Grandfather's etc. They ignore those exotic Rock and Soul Records brought by Sailors from America.<br /><br />Slade, a Group called Earth that Featured a certain Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi, and a young Vocalist called Robert Plant are none of these and never venture further than the Midlands.<br /><br />In 1977 the young People of Bracknell never got to see this new Band from Bromley, Kent called Siouxsie and the Banshees because they were never Regulars at the Roxy.<br /><br />One Evening in 1979 Portishead stops being a small Town as the Vice Squad and the Xcerts came from Bristol to play the Youth Club. The local 'hard men' cowered in the Corner as the Band's Bristol Punk Fans took the Venue over.<br /><br />Lemmy Kilminster appeared on Dads Shipmates "Friday Rock Show" and was asked why he thought Motorhead were so successful. He said; if you'd spent each Week being bored or bullied at Work, College or the Dole what better Antidote than a Motorhead Concert? People could just continue the Shit instead I suppose, and subscribe to the Veneer of middle class, middle aged middle England.<br /><br />"Same old boring Sunday Morning, old man's out washing the Car" "Mums in the Kitchen cooking Sunday Dinner" - this was the Sound of the Suburbs, and something odd has happened to Music. Music itself has become those Suburbs, an Extension of everything Rock Music promised a "Great Escape" from.<br /><br />Drug Store Truck driving Men now play Guitar, Music is sold by small Town Shops, that think like small Town Shops, People from Liverpool are no longer influenced by those Records from abroad because hardly anyone sails there. People from Kentish Towns now insist they decide the Agenda instead of being inspired by Clubs like the Roxy. Small Town Bands plays the small Town Youth Club, a small Town Band becomes famous and is a Crony Structure for other small Town Bands.<br /><br />The Agents of Boredom and Bullying have learnt to play "Ace of Spades" and "No Class" like they were learning how to play Golf or all the other Stuff middle class, middle aged, middle Englanders do.<br /><br />Supermarket Music Shops sell Guitars like they were Walmart - complete with Sales People that might have been those Charlatans in 19th Century America.<br /><br />People you meet talk about Music, collecting Factoids like Arnold Layne collected Clothes.<br /><br />A dead or retired Teamster now lives in Memphis called Elvis Aaron Presley. A retired Hardware Shop owner advises his Children about running the Zimmerman Hardware Store!Metro Wynn Presentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225345619193116509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051823036562401979.post-90031249039143093272020-05-26T10:07:25.506-07:002020-05-26T10:07:25.506-07:00All 3 Media is part of all that, but it all starts...All 3 Media is part of all that, but it all starts looking a bit spooky doesn't it.<br /><br />Maybe if they spent more time watching the Taliban and the Chinese and less interfering and 'managing' our Lives the current Debacle might have been avoided.<br /><br />Maybe they spent so much time in the 90's weeping into their Guitars they didn't notice People like Mohammed Atta and others with those Flight Simulators for 5 years!Metro Wynn Presentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225345619193116509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7051823036562401979.post-26094128384495443592020-05-26T09:56:33.490-07:002020-05-26T09:56:33.490-07:00I've mentioned this elsewhere, many times, abo...I've mentioned this elsewhere, many times, about the Trisyllabic Word Template exploitative Doushbags call 'management'. Like Today's being Pri MARY Ly or Lee. Obviously connected with Maryland, Baltimore, the Calvert's and Robert Cecil.<br /><br />While all this goes on People speculate about how the Corona Virus was grown in a Laboratory, I could say that Osama Bin/Trash Can, Garbage, Laden was grown in a Lab in Kabul, and was retained in the 1990's for future juxtapositional use. How many Embassy Staff and Ships Crew had to die before you were going to do anything about it Mr Clinton?<br /><br />Erm ....... 'Now' about these "nasty, grungy Guitar Solos" on Manic Street Preachers Songs!Metro Wynn Presentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12225345619193116509noreply@blogger.com