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Sunday, 09:19 pm, 10 October 2004 Only on Barbalet's Log, from Antiques Roadshow, to the WeFunk Show 350 snaps c/o Professor Groove.  Butta Beats(left), Loe Pesci and the Nasty Nasty P. Star  Documentary maker Stefan(left), Butta Beats advertising some kind of water and Professor Groove(sitting) Classic show, time and time again. Good night. Sunday, 04:46 pm, 10 October 2004 When I was travelling through Switzerland in 1999, I turned on the television in the hotel and saw the BBC World service's broadcast of Antiques Roadshow. I had seen the program, the US version of the program, when I was travelling through the US. But there was something slightly more restrained about the British version. The people's reaction to the dusty box in the attic being worth more than the house. This emotion was conveyed in a much more subdued manner. I am now, nearly five years on, thoroughly addicted to the program. Why? The idea of inheritance. The idea that perfectly normal, the blander the better, folks can be holding things that have value through their scarcity or through their history. All the people need to do is hold on to the items for a couple of hundred years. Time is the hero of the Antiques Roadshow. Part of the games narrative yesterday was about the failed gloss of everything old being forgotten. Time is the enemy of modern consumer culture. But the Antiques Roadshow goes against the culture of currency. The new gloss fails, in fact it is a false nirvana. Those that hold the old, have the last laugh. Or in the case of the Antiques Roadshow, a gasp and a slight chuckle. Good night. Saturday, 08:46 pm, 09 October 2004 eBay Marathon Twenty six items listed on eBay today. I forgot how slow it was to list items on eBay. It took me the better part of the morning to get the photos done of the items and a similar time to weigh and list them. I haven't listed so many items in a single sitting. It will be interest to see the final numbers. My first and only rule with eBay is to start low and let the market decide the price. I have never listed anything I needed to sell for a specific price. My use of eBay is just to clear unwanted stoof. Missing Link Whilst online, I went by Justin's Links. Justin's site links through to Barbalet's Log on occasion. It is a random square 'banner' link. Justin's review of the Japanese Game Show provides a video description of the demise of the games industry. For all the flashy music and colourful suits, games are going down a very tight channel. Hollywood is the model that the games industry media is pitching as the model for the modern games industry. As a consumer, any industry that wanted to follow the music or film industry would lose my business. The mainstream music and/or film industry seems to be run by lawyers and accountants. The creative vision of both industries has died. Games too. Now I have been in the UK for three years, I seem to be on a number of games marketing mailing lists. I get glossy magazines that explain marketing and sales plans for the next six months with graphs for each game explaining when their media campaigns are going to hit. It's a strange world. Good night. Saturday, 08:01 am, 09 October 2004 Classic WeFunk Show 350! Featuring freestyles (that I heard) from Butta Beats, Lou Pienza, Loe Pesci and the Nasty Nasty Mr P Star (by request from a Mr Barbalet, but probably still on the bill and not quite as filthy). A couple of records broken on the show. For me, first two calls into a WeFunk show. First to chat to Butta Beats on the colab work and a CD he and his group, Nomadic Massive, are launching in Montreal on Sunday. Big fan of Butta, Static, Lou Pienza and of course Montreal's answer to KRS-One, Rawgged MC (sp?). I wired Professor Groove some moolah for a copy of the CD. Record Two - Loe Pesci dropped my name too many times to count into a freestyle. I heard four times. Here's the first and the last (~560k .wav). The views expressed by Loe Pesci in no way represent the views of Tom Barbalet or Barbalet's Log. As Nick (aka Professor Groove) pointed out in the second call after the show, he mispronounced my name throughout. Barba-let is probably harder to rhyme than the correct (family?) pronunciation of Barba-lay. But I chatted with Loes briefly after the show and thanked him. Mad props to Loe Pesci for some serious representing on WeFunk. A day of eBay listing for me. The BBC link will be packed again. Good morning. Friday, 09:21 pm, 08 October 2004 It's the WeFunk Show, 3-5-0! Special congratulations to Nick and Mike aka Groove and Static for their 350th show - just shy of seven years of WeFunk! I don't know if Butta will be performing but Barbalet's Log's recent correspondent, Loe Pesci, will be dropping a line or two. I'm debating listening to it live. I will certainly be picking up the playback. Good night. [ Previous Log ]
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