Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Speaker: The Voyage: On Interpreting and…, in reply to DexterX,
Selling us short...
NZ is presently shit out of luck as regards leadership with Key and English – this is becoming apparent in MFAT, Class Size, Handling of Pike River and the other fiascos, which are becoming indicative of the hallmark of their administrative incompetence...
... I suspect they may both be feeling a little worried now that they met, and riled, the real 'Mom and Pop' investors in our country's future - the rapid backdown on class sizes shows they have had to listen when voters' genuine outrage reaches critical mass and boils over.
Can we replicate this over asset sales, we may have to...
Which buttons to push though?
I'm hoping this genie doesn't get squeezed back into the lamp, and that the folk who reacted vociferously over education cuts have had the scales drop from their eyes, and will now see how ludicrously short-term the Government's actions and plans are...
But what else would one expect from a Trader like Key, he has no thought of long term investment or loyalty, the action's all in the quickfire sale and the margins, and that is where he will leave the country, marginalised! -
Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Even without snow we have a heater hog.
I love the floating-antigravity-cat-magnet look this has ...
... and that sated grin! -
Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Nora Leggs,
All trees are black at night...
...this tree was definitely not multi-coloured.
What frequency were you looking on?
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Speaker: The Voyage: Dutch Disease –…, in reply to Terry Johnson,
Am I being naiive?
Well you're definitely not one 'i'ed about it...
" - )But you lost me at 'magic money'
after that it feels like a shell game... -
Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Nora Leggs,
An Auckland cityscape composed of quavers.
Now you are raising the semitone of the thread....
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Hard News: Friday Music: More Finding, in reply to nothingelseon,
Oz rock was born and INXS became megastars
Yeah, we used to play with them 2 or 3 times a week sometimes, same set list on the monitors everytime, slick, but soulless - the good stuff was happening with The Sheiks and Paul Kelly and The Dots and similar, at even smaller venues...
Meanwhile back in New Zealand...
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Dike Ottomanny...
aah!
That Dutch Disease,
I thought it was going to be that
earlier commodities madness - Tulips!
Commodity dell'arte indeed... -
Hard News: Friday Music: More Finding, in reply to paul mckessar,
Took me back to my days as a 15 year-old poster boy in Hamilton, sticking up for Doug's tours of both a post-Wilko DF line-up and then Wilko himself with his power trio.
And then on to Rip it Up and Flying Nun and beyond - Paul at roughly one comment a year you are a parsimonious poster boy now...
" - )Good to see you out and about, thanks for the heads up on Oil City Confidential - I also note at the Wilko Johnson site that he is appearing in Game of Thrones as well...
When will the New Plymouth movie be made I wonder...
Base it around that fabulous Flying Nun New Years gig
- but it would have to be written by someone who has
coherent memories of the night/weekend, I don't... -
Hard News: Friday Music: More Finding, in reply to Russell Brown,
L’ Offender…
Highly embarrassing 70s sexist rock cover art though …
Well, you can say that now…
Shall I raise you a
few Roxy Music covers
and an Electric Ladyland…That was then this now,
on we move…Speaking of Sunbursts
you may have noticed
(ex punk musician) Rob Lamb’s
homage to Leo Fender
on a wall or bollard
near you…Enjoyed part one of Punk Britannia – I guess they get to The Stranglers, and Be Bop Deluxe in later episodes – so far it’s my old record collection note for note (I feel a Dr Feelgood binge coming on). Imagine if Caroline Coon had eschewed Shakepeare’s 'Punk', and coined it as ‘Brick Pop’ after the Clash’s White Riot …
...and it all just goes to show what happens in dynamic systems when things reach critical mass - things change.
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Hard News: Friday Music: More Finding, in reply to Russell Brown,
Also ‘Ships in the Night’ is a great song
Sunburst Finish great album (as I recall)...