Posts by Russell Brown
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"Nobody Important" with out the tits?
Unnecessarily coarse, Steve, but whatever did happen to Nobody Important?
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Sing it, sister. I have a dear friend, same age as me, who frequents the Kings Arms, and is right into all the latest rock music. I simply admire her for being able to withstand all that noise.
There's noise and there's noise. You have to be able to feel it, but I get really pissed off when a gig is pointlessly screechy and loud these days. (Case in point: the Bird Nest Roys reunion -- not the band's fault.)
But props to your friend. It gets harder and harder to get off the couch and go and hear the bands as one reaches a certain age ...
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russell, (assuming you notice this comment and read it), any more thought given to that 'cage-match' idea i floated with you when you were drawing up system?
if i remember right, you could have a "featured-comments" section where only your given experts discuss an issue. then you have a lurkers section where they lurk and/or talk about the experts.
this way the smarty-pants don't dominate the conversation, and the lurkers can ask each other clarifying questions.
The idea of the cage debates was to rope in a half dozen acknowledged experts on a given topic, commit them to at least one post a day for a week, and just watch.
I still might do it some time, but it soon seemed less necessary. The idea was to get a better signal-to-noise ratio, but we sort of got that anyway.
In terms of getting people directly involved in the issues we discuss to come and talk about it, I think we're still let down by the general image of blog discussions: they don't feel secure in joining in. (Although it apparently really __was__Don Brash that time on Kiwiblog.)
Which is why I'm all the more grateful when people like James Griffin and Hamish Keith (and today, Alan Perrott) do front up under their own names.
BTW, for all I know there may be the odd such person lurking behind a pseudonym. I make a point of never knowing the email addresses of registered participants, except when it's absolutely necessary, which it almost never is.
Perhaps we could have a competition to guess who International Observer is ;-)
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Almost as good as when I was part of the Enzso performance there, and people kept swimming across the lake to get to the stage to hug Dave Dobbyn, Neil Finn etc. They got pretty concerned as they were standing next to live electrical equipment being assailed by dripping wet drunks. They probably would have welcomed the ducks.
Wasn't there a moral panic about people in the lake when British glam rockers the Sweet played there in the 70s? You'd have to be a certain age to remember that though ...
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For that I will crash my mountain bike into your miserable abode that is overpriced by at least thirty per cent.
It would hurt more if you used your skillz to pwn his wi-fi.
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.. which I won't repeat here for legal reasons.
I salute your discretion.
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'Stories' is back, soliciting tales of joining: clubs, societies, boards, unions, churches, political parties. How was it for you? Traumatised by Girl Guides? Made for life by MENSA? Troubled by the rugby club? Or just loving being no longer alone?
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David Slack interviews the woman Rolling Stone called "the most underrated diva of the century," in advance of her appearance at the WOMAD festival in Taranaki.
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Of course, Kiri sounds idiotic singing popular music, so it goes both ways.
Quite. I can see that "proper" operatic singing ("propera"?) is on an entirely different level technically to what Hayley et al do, but that period when Kiri decided she wanted to be a pop singer and kept blathering about Tina Turner was just embarrassing. Hayley, OTOH, can get on a stage with Blindspott or Scribe and not look silly.
And yes, it's more intelligent than popular music - it has to be to have withstood the test of time.
Um ... no. "Intelligent" isn't the right word. I'd pit any number of "pop" tunes against most opera librettos. It's just more musically sophisticated and technically prodigious, and has a longer tradition.
BTW, a friend of mine who works as a field audio engineer was working on a show at the Aotea Centre years ago and happened to be near Kiri while she was rehearsing. He found it distinctly uncomfortable -- she just made too much sound.
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Here's one up your alley, Graeme: speculation about the Clinton campaign's pre-emptive tilt at the Texas primary rules.
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