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I just posted to my MOG...so I thought I'd be consistent!
Just found out I'm off to see one of my favourite bands that I've never seen in concert; VNV Nation are coming to Montreal (3 hours away).....after all the aborted attempts to see this 2 man power-force in action it's finally going to happen and I'm very happy!
I was going to embed the YouTube video of my favourite track of theirs but I decided that if you wanted to you should discover VNV on your own.... but for the record my fave track is Epicentre and it's from their Futureperfect CD.... check YouTube for some videos of the boys in action.
I generally hate most forms of sport so this weekend held very little for me out in the NFL crazed continent of North America! I don't watch any forms of American sports, no Canadian ice hockey nor will I be watching any baseball when it starts - it's just me right? well maybe others out there - somewhere.
I occasionally catch the odd game of international football (soccer to my NA readership... !!!!!) and I watched some world cup games up until England got booted out.... and if there is some curling on I find that quite therapeutic!
Th ONLY thing I try to watch RELIGIOUSLY is international rugby union and today saw the first games of this years Six Nations championship kick off with France v Italy and England v Scotland.
Now, I can forgive Canadian TV moguls for not including these matches in their line up - I really didn't expect it......
BUT.....why can't I get a live stream of these games on the BBC site? The dumb wits (restricting my language there) - the live stream was only available for UK IP addresses - so when I try to get the stream it wasn't available to me in Canada! I paid for my BBC TV license all those years and frankly always thought I was being ripped off for what I got (puffed up overstaffed corporate TV company that very occasionally made some interesting programmes - but 95% was crap).
I can watch the highlights after the game, I can listen to Radio 5 Live commentary of the game and get a text update which has 3 minutes lag time. Absolute crap!
Even the highlights are the poorest excuse of quality I've ever seen in my recent streaming life - the Real Audio window popped up and I could make out a field of green and that's about it.
WHY?
BBC - get your collective world wide asses together and have a real WORLD SERVICE instead of this half assed fucked up attempt as breakthrough technology!
You have people wanting to watch this stuff - if you are IN THE UK - guess what? You can watch it on TV - it's the Brits OUTSIDE the country who want it streamed!
