Turtle Power

Introduction

This is the second most read post on my Seven Days In Blog which you can read more on here:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have always been fun and were, and still are favourites of my two daughters.

I do find some of my old stories quite interesting and hope that my Vocal audience do as well.

I still love the Partners in Kryme song and the video from the film at the time is great fun, though like many films such as this and Ghostbusters I think "Why do they have to remake these?" then I watch the remake and enjoy them, so that is me told so to speak.

I am amazed an the longevity of these things that started out as comics and then children's toys.

Turtle Power

Switched on 6Music this morning and Chris Hawkins was playing "Gravel-Pit" by Wu-Tang Clan which for some reason reminded me of "Turtle Power" the theme from the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, which was a surprisingly excellent song and the film wasn't that bad either.

My daughters Juliet and Kirsty were huge fans and the action figures were very difficult to get hold of, but I remember walking into Asda at Boldon just before Christmas and there were two huge baskets filled with the figures. Christmas was sorted, sometimes things do unexpectedly drop into your lap.

So it's Friday and this is effectively my diary entry to fine the Partners In Kryme song should ever want to listen to it, so just a very short post before I get off to work wondering if I've got that record, it's probably somewhere in my digital collection and that has just reminded me of a couple of streaming service surveys that i've seen.

Basically streaming music is being pushed in many forms , including podcasts and the like. The thing is when you stream music or video you have to remember that if you are not on wifi then you are using up or paying for your data and this is what the various communications companies are pushing. From an artists point of view the Spotify business model doesn't work but most of my friends are aghast when I say I don't have Spotify. Apple Music, Amazon and the rest will all devour your data.

I had a chuckle at the latest EE 5G advert advertising "Hannah" from Amazon Prime where Kevin Bacon says you can download it in seconds when the girl says she hasn't got time. If the network is that good why not stream, the data use would be the same. Also while you can download something in seconds it still takes 90 minutes to watch and generally it's better to watch on a big TV that a relatively little phone, I'd rather watch on a fifty inch screen than a five inch screen.

So now it's time for work.

Conclusion

It will be interesting to see if this gets picked up on Google or something. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are still very popular so the Turtle Power and content may tempt the odd non-Vocal reader in, which could work out in the form of a little extra coffee money for me, or it could just dive-bomb and disappear without trace.

There is no accounting for what catches the eye of the readers on the internet, I scroll past and ignore a lot more than I actually take notice of, and that is true of every reader, including Vocal readers.

Anyway, if you have got this far, thank you for your time.