RE:SOUND
The restaurant is being harassed with bills from RE:SOUND.
They claim to represent artists and send out invoices - dating back to 2003 - that attempt to collect royalties on background music played in your establishment. Now the simple fact is is that background music will help artist sales - if it's good, and if it's lousy, well, the business might not be around long enough to pay ....
Exposure helps artists. It's that simple. Free exposure, like that done by restaurants and shops that play background music - is terrific. Or was terrific, until RE:SOUND started billing....I'd be curious to know what percentage of the collected earnings actually go to the artists getting the exposure (as RE:SOUND has no knowledge of what music you're playing, how can they attribute royalties correctly?). But those questions are really irrelevant, what is important is that they collect money, and like the complacent Canadians we are nothing will be done about it ...
Link: RE:SOUND
Media: Calgary Sun, CBC
- Details
- Category: Rants
Anticlimactic
I can see the postwoman on her rounds and she's stopping at my house.
I try not to get excited, don't want to greet her at the door, instead I count to 60 after hearing the slamming of the mailbox and go outside - it's a delivery notice. There's a parcel at the nearest postal outlet, which, checking google maps, isn't very near at all. Not at all. And so I have to wait until Wednesday and plot a route northwards to try and find it.
But there's a parcel here...
- Details
- Category: Miscellany
with the kids at the Lydo
Sunday we go for lunch at the Lydo in Kensington. The food's lousy, but a big menu, the decor is appalling, but - hey, it's an original 50's diner and that's enough. There isn't much open on Sunday afternoons in Kensington.
So we've got a booth and are waiting for our food and the girl is keeping the conversation rolling along...
"What secret things should I do in my bed tonight...?" She asks out loud, a rhetorical question.
The boy, he just stares straight ahead, he's not saying a word, does not want to get involved....
"Why don't we ask your brother what secret things HE does when he's alone in bed" I offer.
She comes to his rescue.
"I know. He's got a TV and a Wii in his bedroom, he probably plays that....I'm going to ..." And here she mimes herself playing on her DS.
"You're right." I say. "He probably sits up late playing with his Wii..."
- Details
- Category: Conversations
For Sale - Helicopter Pilot's Helmet - $125.00
For Sale: 1 Helicopter Pilot’s Helmet.
I've tried to sell it before, with limited (no) success. I put it down to a failure in copy writing and the fact that it was probably priced "Too Good To be True". So I've raised the price and re-listed it on Craigslist and Kijiji in the Sports Section. I'm pretty sure it will sell now....
- Details
- Category: For Sale
Page 880 of 997