Back To The Future No Longer The Future

Its really sad to think that today October 21st 2015 Is now in the past rather than the future. The significance of this is the fact that All Three back to the future movies are now actually set in the Past, where as we know that back to the future part II was the one film out the Trilogy that was set in the future, but not any more after today.

It was good to see the odd video on youtube with Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd on youtube, reunited after all these years. Leading up to this event i covered back to the futures main theme by Alan Sylvestri, which can be heard here (hope i did it justice)

This was an unusual track to play and its amazing how how it almost feels like an homage to John Williams and Ennio Morricone which i found really odd (note this is an assumption from when i was trying to create Instrument banks that would give what i played the right sound, brass is very noticeable by era. The more i worked on creating the banks the more i could hear other stuff, in fact for an hour i sat mixing Raiders of the lost ark, Superman, Star Wars, Jurassic Park and Back to the Future  They all have such moments where they don't just mix and overlap they also blend for unusual durations of time.  I'm certainly not saying "this is" a tribute from alan to john, as i have no idea, but it sure does match johns exceptional orchestration and pretty much compliment the mix.

I did a Tutorial on how to play this piece of music, i have been able to play this for years, but not how i played it in the video. I used to play it in another key/place, it was recognisable, so much so no one ever noticed it was wrong, but i could hear the difference between me humming it and me playing it, so i learnt it properly. Its not actually that complex to play "the main bits" that is, the small fiddly extras are a real ear pain to master, but the main thing most people hear is fairly simple to play..

If you've never sat back one night and watched part I, II and III in one sitting you really should do...  I remember a few years ago (you could get 1,2,3 on dvd with a 4th bonus disc) But when they Re-Packaged the box set and stuck the extras across dvd 1,2,3, removing the need for a 4th disc they over produced the discs compared to the packaging and across the UK stores such as poundland where selling each film disk in a clear cd jewel box for £1, in essence people got the 4 DVD box set (on 3 genuine discs) for £3, rather than the often boxes prices round £35 to £59.  Oddly the company distributing Jurassic Park 1,2,3 also had the discs over produced.

while i remember, Images in this post are from a sweet little iPhone/iPad app on the iTunes app store, there are a few back to the future apps, but this was the cheapest and yet also the cleanest looking one.

For time circuits you hold device in landscape, for the flux capacitor you hold it in portrait. You can get it Here

Please be aware i am in no way affiliated with the dev's Nor does this link to their app have Any Referral information at all, i am linking out of courtesy.... and to by pass questions regarding it.



Other odd memories of back to the future for me was playing BTTF III on the Sega Megadrive and also playing a great looking TC Mod on Vice City which was a back to the future game of sorts built within the gta game, i still have that full install somewhere lol.

Check back on this Post some time in the Future.. or the Past lol, will try and sort the tutorial sometime and Maybe some screen shots from the GTA Conversion.

E.U 14 Day Off-Site Purchase Return Policy To Screw Struggling Artists and Tax Payers

First post of 2015 brings some sad news tbh

E.U 14 Day Off-Site Purchase Return Policy
To Screw Struggling Artists...??
While Law Makers Build Their Personal Collections...
And Screw The Tax Payers & Artists??
ALSO... Enabling Chart Manipulation??


In June apple will be forced by E.U law (covering all E.U countries) to return money to anyone unhappy with an iTunes store purchase, be it app's, music and videos. Giving them 14 days free use of the content. Before this change in law, users could request a refund for content which had failed to download, or failed to work properly, but even those were manually dealt with on a case-by-case review. For any content which had actually downloaded, Apple reserved the right to reject refund applications, And they Still Do outside the EU.

But this new law means that people can essentially download a full album and have 14 days to cancel the purchase (and immorally keep the album) Most reading this will think well that's cool, free music, movies and app's. but what about the Tax?

This will make it a hell of a lot simpler to rip off multimedia in HD quality, with no fear of a knock on your front door (meanwhile governments already struggling will struggle even more) let alone the loss to the struggling artists.

Now before the Pirates out their condemn me.. ber this in mind, I give ALL my music away (buying my stuff is 100% OPTIONAL) I can earn off royalties, the actual sales do not interest me OR define me or my future dreams. but struggling gov's will start struggling more right?
So just how will gov's offset that massive yearly loss?  INFLATION on something else?

Ive seen people talking about DEMO apps that should just expire after 14 days and then unlocked with an in app purchase?  That's clearly just fkn stupid, so you get an app for free (well you haven't bought it.. it's a DEMO.. DUH...)  So you buy this suggested Inapp to unlock it?  Well you have 14 days to get the money back.. That's full circle stupidity right there... And that's besides the fact it ain't rocket science to navigate an iPad or iPhone Sub Directory Structure and maybe crack the thing.. people have been cracking things since MS-DOS Applications.. If it can be closed, it can be re-opened.
But you wont have the full app until you pay? That's irrelevant.. 14 Days on ANY Sale AKA Financial Transaction.

It makes me wonder (as this will be LAW with no ifs or butt's)  But on GooglePlay AKA Android Market. An artist has the option to allow TWO full playbacks of each song. Clearly anyone in the right mind can grab that from a temp folder while its streaming.. But the fact you CAN listen to a whole track TWICE then choose to buy it, then have the option to return it.. that's wrong. You have ample opportunity to figure out if your buying the right song from 30 seconds, let alone 2 complete playbacks. No one benefits from this besides the people changing the laws & the downloaders.
Meanwhile another breadline is stripped away from each countries breadline system (let alone the poor fkrs who spend the time making the object being ripped off)

With the GooglePlay aspect of 2 full playbacks, it also begs the question who researched this new law, why wouldn't google play have a tick box on the artists side that tells them if they offer the Full preview mode then refunds wont be accepted?  It's clearly the song you wanted.. you had the chance to hear it twice?

This isn't just about music, apps and videos, its about the system we live in, the system supported by taxes.

TO me.. Right of cancellation is just a slap in the face of "Creative People" by people who are in a position of power to make and break rules while fkn creative people all over for their own benefit..
Regardless or how the next budget will survive.

REMEMBER.. I couldn't give a fk about sales, i have no Front Man aspirations, i get by.. But many don't, and this will be a massive Incentive KILLER for creative people who don't need that pressure when their trying to be creative. Ide understand if this was a washing machine "THAT DIDN'T WORK"  but then again, if you buy a washing machine "THAT DOES WORK"   and you "Don't Like It"  maybe you should of got off your lazy ass and went and looked at one before hand?.. or maybe read some reviews?

The more stupid your treated.. the more stupid you become...  oo you have some food on your chin. just let me get that for you...

This law is going to crush the coders, the artists, the musos, while making piracy simple
meanwhile the "Tax MAN" is gona be looking for money in all the wrong places AGAIN!!

GIVE PEOPLE FREE STUFF.. THEY DIVE AT IT WITH NO THOUGHT OF THE CHANGES THAT'LL FOLLOW!!  YOUR A SHEEP THINKING THIS IDEA IS WELL COOL.

CHART FIXING??
So lets spend say £10,000 through a scam to get an album into number 1 in the charts, then recoup all that money. I mean that's a fantastic concept to isn't it?
no more will you LOOSE £10,000 to publicity and media fees just to make your make £50,000 in real sales, Hell you can also get that £10,000 back now to (people/jobs no longer needed)
Another case of manipulation of sheep right?

THE IMPLICATIONS ARE PRETTY ENDLESS AND WILL COST "US" MORE IN TAXES ON OTHER THINGS...  THINK ABOUT IT FFS....

PS
THIS IS NOT DOWN TO APPLE.. THIS IS NOT APPLES FAULT...

ALSO THINK ABOUT THIS..
because you can get that 69p app for FREE, 20 million people will pay an extra 2 pence on a loaf, and extra 3 pence on a 4 pint of milk, it'll all creap up around people who don't even use apple.

We all have gov's that have become accustomed to a way of life, that way of life is done by dealing, shaking hands, sliding policy's.. BUT every palm you grease, every back hander you pay.. that POOL gets bigger, them numbers of people ON THE TAKE increase.. until their is nothing left to take.

I realised a while ago why NO ONE in power cares about Longevity, why No One in power cares about tomorrow.. Because as soon as their dead.. the rival is out the woodwork with what they had over them with zero fear of reprisal.. so why give a fk or worry about the future?
They live for the moment, take what they want, change the rules as they go
and this one.. is going to fk society, creativity and respect even more...

YOUR GOV is going to have to re-coup these losses somewhere right?
after all.. they have become Accustomed AND Dependant on those taxes right?
Local county's, boroughs, what ever your local system is that maintains parks and crap like that.. say goodbye to what little we got in our communities...

This is bigger than thinking  "YEAH FREE STUFF WOW YEAH KEWL MAN"
the money has to come from somewhere to keep them in the life they have become accustomed to
sheep sheep sheep...