Posts by Russell Brown
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The one that really doesn't seem to produce good music is cocaine.
Damn. Bowie made his best records on that ....
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The counterpoint is the list of artists of various sorts who have had their talented careers cut short through drug overdoses. Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison (possibly), Janis Joplin. Elvis's death was possibly complicated by his addiction to pills. etc etc. Kurt Cobain shot himself, but I'm guessing his use of drugs didn't help his state of mind.
Janis: heroin and alcohol
Jimi: red wine and sleeping pills; choked on vomit
Jim: alcohol abuse, possible ingestion of heroin
Kurt: severe depressive illness, self-medicated with heroin
So there's a bit of a pattern there.
On the other hand, as Danielle pointed out, there's a long and storied history of the association of various drugs with movements in popular music, on the part of both the artists and the fans: the Beatles and whatever; reggae and pot; punk rock and speed; the dance revolution and ecstasy. The one that really doesn't seem to produce good music is cocaine. Ask Oasis.
There's a difference between using drugs and being a casualty: most people do the former, a few troubled souls take the latter path. Amy Winehouse has me worried ...
Just don't do heroin.
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I'll start ...
Hilarious (but apparently serious) re-positioning of Hillary as the candidate who can drink McCain under the table.
And darn those fancy economists with their high-falutin' theories and all.
This is stupid, but possibly also effective.
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It's time for another Democratic primary round and the turnouts are huge. Will Hillary's conversion to whisky-drinkin' and economic populism keep her the race? Or does it turn from here?
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iPhone coming to NZ ...
http://www.vodafone.com/start/media_relations/news/group_press_releases/2007/vodafone_to_offer0.html
Interesting...
Very interesting, given Telecom's confident hints that it would get the Jesus Phone.
It looks to have happened at a higher level. And it's something of a reversal for Vodafone, which has hitherto been unwilling to meet Apple's terms.
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Its not about our achievements or not, its about theirs before, during and after drugs.
perhaps visual art works differently with drugs but its pretty well documented the effect it has on the creativity and productivity of ones career. There are exceptions, but not many.
I think the exceptions would be the leading popular music artists who didn't take any drugs ...
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I was always struck by how little we actually got for the "privilege" of being raped with a splintery broomstick by Fay, Ritchwhite et al.
It just should never have happened. Fay, Richwhite ran a sale in which it was a buyer. Then, with Wisconsin Central, it loaded NZ rail with debt and ripped all the cash out of it -- this after the government had written off $1.3 billion in debt.
That was a company given every chance to develop, and those bastards raped it. They even ripped off Fay, Richwhite's shareholders in doing it. And then, knowing what was happening to the business, they got out.
If you believe in a market economy you should despise those men, because they undermined that concept like no dirty commie ever could.
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I think we were, and I don't think snapping 'ideological' at someone is a slam dunk outside a first year politics tutorial.
He didn't "snap". He put it to Prebble that he was ideologically opposed to the buy-back, in that he disapproved of government ownership in general. It was a perfectly reasonable way of establishing where his subject was coming from.
Prebble could have agreed or otherwise, but he immediately got hostile and jabbered "if you're going to abuse me we might as well finish the interview now!". Robbins just dropped it and carried on.
I wonder if you'd be quite so sympathetic if Robbins was giving Cullen -- who in my opinion was getting some pretty softball airtime today -- the same treatment.
I've listened to it twice now, and it wasn't any kind of "treatment"! Cullen would simply have responded and carried on.
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Ah, Seoul ...
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Seoul Charge!
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