Posts by Russell Brown
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No clickage-ability Russell.
Whoopsie ...
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Oh really? I would love to know who told you that, Russell
I'll email you.
My advice for all involved: keep personalities out of it.
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__Through due process would be best.__
perfect
But:
Recording Industry Association chief executive Campbell Smith said that would not be acceptable as it would require copyright holders to sue infringers to prove their guilt. "That is just impractical and ridiculous. I don't think that is what was intended."
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In some ways, I think it would be easier if I had a Mr Hyde that came out when I drank. But I don't: I'm a friendly drunk, I rarely offend people and I don't get into confrontations. And I don't have massive drinking binges either, least of all out in public. So I'm down to cutting back purely for health reasons, and we all know how easy they can be to ignore ...
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That said I do expect to get stopped in my downloading of copyright material. section 92a should say "disconnected on demonstration of proof". How they get that proof is another matter ...
Through due process would be best.
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I thought I'd better weigh in ...
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Hmm - "Clark, by contrast, was standing, smiling and enunciating every word like she meant it." Yeah Right.
Note to self - "Through Helen all things are possible, well at least good diction.”
Yes, actually. We judge the quality of people's thinking, and to some extent their character, by the way they speak. Key's speech under even modest pressure can be quite poor, and it makes him seem unconvincing.
Seriously: I'd have found someone to fix that. It would hardly be unprecedented: Margaret Thatcher famously deepened her speaking voice to add authority, and Clark had to make hers friendlier.
Her appearance at the NZ Music Awards made me hurl - Rock Me Baby - she appeared to me like the proverbial grasping Scout Master plying select members of the troop with cheap alcohol.
Really? I just heard the usual speech -- a bit of cheerleading, a killer sales fact, a who's-your-daddy reminder about how Labour believes. It's never very lyrical. But it came off well.
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__If you don't need the advance there is no need to assign your publishing to anyone.__
That's good to hear, I'm glad it's changing. (And yes, I know you know a bit about the music biz ;-)
Simon makes a point I was trying to make, but with more knowledge on his part. I've met plenty of artists for whom their publishing is what lets them do what they do -- it underwrites their creative independence.
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While the student loans announcement is nice, I was more pleased - or more accurately - relieved by the TV ad for Labour I've just seen.
It's like the opening broadcast on Friday: Clark, sitting down, discussing an issue, as the camera pans gently from left to right.
It's nothing amazing, but it's a hell of a lot easier to understand than those appalling, inept, baffling 2005 TV ads of the baby suspended in mid-air and the old biddy booting the rugby ball.
It wasn't a "gentle pan", it was an edit every 30 seconds that forced me to re-engage with what she was saying every 30 seconds. But it was effective, and it seems very clear that there's been an uptick in competence. As I noted, you can also tick the ads on the newspaper websites this morning. That 300 × 250 position they bought this morning was good.
It's interesting that other people seem to be spotting Helen Clark in fine fettle. They live by their research, those people, and I wonder if she's seen something that makes her think it's all on again.
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I'd dispute that, as all the musicians I know have a sense of humour.
They're terrible flatmates though. Never have any money.
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