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I wondered where you had got to. Now I know. Sorry you got ill-treated by the Guardian. Thankfully there are a number of decent blog’s like this one to engage with.

Try typing into to google – Steve Finney Bradwell Facebook – I should come up at the top as the Uncle Fester lookalike.

According to Charles Ferguson, the mega wealthy don’t care about the collapse of western civilisation, because they make more money out of asset stripping it and destroying it. One day they believe they will be able to live in their guarded communities with all their money hidden in offshore tax havens. Until our wages falls to Chinese levels, they see the East as the place to invest, and Vietnam has some of the lowest wages now, so many companies are relocating there.

How did anyone fall for the trickle down theory? Do you think that the fabulously rich who spend every moment of their lives thinking about how they can make more money would ever let any of it trickle down?

Hi Stevie,

About that link, Facebook said page not found.

Kavy – It’s hard to stop me waffling about one of my true loves. You & any others are welcome to join me on FB where we could perhaps talk of other things besided the actions of those made from flint. Shoes & ships & sealing wax or whatever : https://www.facebook.com/steve.finney.39

The same with me, its looks good.

Thanks for your reply on my article on Hi-Fi, Stevie. And I have tinnitus too. Sadly my spell checker changed distribution socket to destruction socket without me realising.

Yes, I figured that out too about music. My girlfriend loves listening to music on her little transistor radio, and the young lads at work will sing along to Kiss FM on their mobile phones. What happens is you just get into the song and taken up by the tune so you stop noticing the lack of bass, etc. Your brain compensates.

And very good Hi-Fi’s can be very revealing, so your friends might come around to hear your new system and Pink Floyd sounds just fab, but then one of your friends asks you to put on the Chameleons whose first album had a very dreadful tinny sound and then everyone starts diving for cover behind the sofa.

Kavy

Nothing of what you say surprises me in terms of hi-fi. I still have a 17 year old technics system which I use & the only time I improved it’s sound was by setting it up in a room like it was a soundbox. I managed to get the bass so I could fel it moving through ny ribs, but to be honest I have found that my particular mood is much more important & the actual piece of music or whatever fidelity it is being played at.
Back in the 60’s & 70’s as a kid when I first grew to love music, I got a huge amount of joy from transistor radios & very crap by today’s standards record players, gramaphones, stereos etc, but was disgusted by my Dad’s old 78’s while wondering how anyone could listen to such a bad quality reproduction.
It took a long time for me to realise that it is about tuning to the essence & magic of a piece of music, which if you open enough, can bring joy through a simple whistle. For me it’s a kind of saving grace to realise that the so called better always seems to a certain extent to come with extra baggage. I remember when I would play imported Japanese jazz album masters on my then top ranked denon hi-fi. The slightest click or disturbance would destroy the mood, like a time at a concert of Faure’s requeim with incredible acoustics which was ruined for me by the coughing & clearing of throats of old ladies.
I am starting to go a bit death these days & probably due to earlier over indulgence have varying levels of tinitus, but my brain somehow succeeds in balancing the sound, filling in what I can no longer in reality hear & I forget about the tinitus.Also I have learnt to expect unexpected disturbances, noises etc which has made me more tolerant & less likely to make things worse by throthing at the mouth.
Anyway – we are very O/T but I would be with Bill Hicks on marketing & marketeers. I saw how it works in giftware & more lately in the Art world. It’s not about the product but about the best BS that can be said about it, in politics of course it is called spin. It was I think invented by American washing powder companies, in an effort to give virtually the same products from various companies an edge over each other – ‘ Whiter than white ‘ etc – kind of fits in well with the link from Penny Bloater’s last post.