So, my views on vertical tutor grouping are already getting more and more derogatory and I'm not even back yet.
Reasons? Like the majority of Lutterworth's prospective Year 12 this evening I logged back onto the network to see which form I've been FORCED into now they've put the lists up for all to see.
And while everyone else parties over on Facebook about how they're with such and such and so and so....I know about 3 names in my new 'yay happy families let's all love each other and look good on OFSTED reports' VT group... and then again these 'names' and I have never really had a conversation. Did these 'names' even EXIST lastt year?!?!
It's not exactly filled me with enthusiasm about next week.
More than anything, I'm intrigued to discover who this mysterious JA character is as they appear to be my new tutor.
So I've just read this amazing debate on JRB's website about copyright and how people who illegally sell/trade/download etc their music are causing so much damage to the music and theatre industries. He gets very passionate over it.
But the damn man is giving teenagers a bad name. Some of us *cough* actually BUY our sheet music. Some of the fine youth of today CARE.
I never claimed to be a saint. Occasionally I will have downloaded songs maybe I should've paid for. But I've always tried to make up for it somehow. Honest. I have seen the error of my ways now that I realise what it means, and since part of me wants to be in the industry myself.
See, for example, when Barstow and I become little known theatre legends (the JRBs and Jonathan Larson's of our time - except I'm less of a man) with Little Dorrit (LOL) and people start illegally putting our masterpieces on the internet for people to download, we'll get pretty upset and annoyed. How else will I be able to pay off my mammoth student loan debts and pay for the 7 houses I desire?
People argue that this easier way of file-sharing gets the artists more recognition. That it's not fair on people who can't afford it to make them pay silly amounts. People say most of the artists don't need the cash because they're already super rich.
NOT ALL THE ROYALTIES GO TO THE ARTISTS. And not all artists are super rich either. A load of bands just starting out or who are on the less well-known indie scenes can't break even and won't be able to keep going. They'll break up their bands instead and go work in McDonalds.
But it's not all about the artists. There are hundreds of jobs within the music industry we don't consider each time we listen to a new song or switch on the radio or go to a concert.
Think about Fred Bloggs who sits in his office at Ellen Records all day sorting through the artwork for MC Ellingwoof's latest megahit (an interesting example, I know...). Fred Bloggs is going to lose his job when the budget at Ellen Records gets too tight and they can't go on. Fred Jr won't have a happy Christmas, Fred Sr will get depressed, and Mrs Fred will comfort-eat and have to go to Weight Watchers the following year.
Seriously, PR people, techies, office-like people, people who do the album artwork, runners, financial peoples, law peoples...you get the picture.
Mrs JRB put it in a nutshell when she said on her own blog what a shame it is that the people who love music so much are the people who are destroying it by breaking copyright law and not respecting the system.
Was a pretty amazing debate though :) Sorry for the partial lecture :)
Onto more theatrical ramblings....SHREK IS FINALLY OFFICIALLY COMING TO LONDON! :D :D :D
I've heard lots of it and it's hilarious and amazing...when we were in NYC we tried to get tickets but it was too damn popular (so was Wicked...lol, Wicked..popular...pun?!?!).
I hope to TODD they cast Michael Ball as Shrek.
It's my Grandma's birthday today. I doubt that she reads this (and would probably be a little bemused and scared if she does), but Happy Birthday Grandmaaaaaa.
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