Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Out, out on the street...
Too many Johns in this story.
Guess that's what happens when you prostitute political process,
Party animal, pimp JK touting his old Epsom salt, Banksie Boy...
The ballad of Banksie & JK...Down in my cups
I read the tea leaves and saw
one united nation, howling
under a Banks Key moon.Legs 11.11.11,
all the Ones
the Right One,
the Brighter One.
the Shining Ones.12.12.12 Crystal Mg
hydrated, sulfated
an ill feted desiccant
to suck the life out of uscupping their infusions
of obfuscatory confusions
a hollow chai char charade
two jonquils reflect... -
Hard News: Some things just don't let…, in reply to Alex Ross,
Kiwipedantia...
...because I didn't think it was all that great. But I decided it might be good for something.
...come back all is forgiven, Alex no malice was intended and I applaud the spirit in which it was originally written, we is just crowd source pedants, every little bit helps and as The Clean would have it Great Sounds Great, Good Sounds Good, So-so Sounds So-so, Bad Sounds Bad, Rotten Sounds Rotten - we cover the whole gamut... sing out if you are ever in the country and we can point your thing towards the hills that are alive with music!
I see Flying Nun have just posted this on You Tube this month - and again it is a shame they make no mention of it originally being released on Simon's Furtive Label (an offshoot of Propeller) - much the same as Flying Nun claim the Gordons first album as their release now - when it was originally self released and only distributed through F Nun for the first few years... nit picking I know, and the victors write the history... -
Hard News: Some things just don't let…, in reply to dyan campbell,
Alex Ross - New Zealand Music
this touches many bases, and is a tidy overview for foreigners,
but once again it is a history of Flying Nun that omits the contribution
of Doug Hood (who did more of the production of Pink Frost
than Chris, as Alex Ross asserts) aside from being the technical
adept who partnered chris on the four-track forays, it was Doug's
live (and studio) mixing that captured the sound and it was his
running of the wIndsor Castle gig and national (and International)
tours that helped get all these bands heard, he took so many bands and
budding sound men under his wing and gave them a chance to fly...
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Hard News: Some things just don't let…, in reply to Lilith __,
here's one for the Doctor Who (& Torchwood) fans:
was it just me, but did any one else think the Torchwood finale was a bit rushed and once over lightly - while setting up the premise for a US sequel...
another glorious Bats song with a video preserving part of the town we lost in February...
oh you're cherry pickin' now...
Though don't ya reckon that Block of wood start would make a great ringtone...
:- )NB: Paul Kean posted footage (that I can't find now) from that same intersection , minutes after the February earthquake - the old ANZ bank bldg was rubble with the (now missing) copper dome upside down in the street - sadly I think someone died in the World shop on the ground floor.
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Hard News: Walking upright again, in reply to merc,
sewer rage is never pretty
rats....
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Life in one cord...
We have airplugs!
I prefer earplugs.No, no, the air plugs are
for the air guitar...
You'll be bop deluxe...Oh good, another discussion about bands I have never got. Keep your drear. If you can't bop around frenetically to it, I'm not interested.
aahh, don't worry, The Bats just take over the audiences' motor control, you will not be able to not dance...
...and if you are at the Bats gig in Dunedin tonight, or Chchch tomorrow, (or Wgton & Auckland next week) look out for the souvenir sets of Bats poster postcards, and the new album on vinyl, too! (working on a mini-book now)...
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Hard News: Presentation and Reality, in reply to Richard Grevers,
I had a dream…
Pass that pipe over here,
I'd like some of that... -
Hard News: Walking upright again, in reply to merc,
The pipes, the pipes...
full of raw untreated sewerage
Sorry, my old Press Proofreader app automatically kicks in on that one:
sewage = waste water and excrement conveyed in sewers (sewerage).
Modern usage seems to now be allowing sewerage as a substitute for sewage, but I'll fight that to the dripping, noisome end... -
Hard News: Walking upright again, in reply to Steve Barnes,
The Shining...
Somebody called me “Bright” tonight.
That's you and the future days...
Brighter is the coming malaise...<an aside>
Brights Disease is a kidney affliction
It haunts H P Lovecraft's fiction
Slithering old horrors aside
Beware crystal concretions inside
Renal hell defies the red tide
: – )time for breakfast then
and to get me, and some
washing, out in the sun...and a reminder that The Bats play Dunedin tonight
Chchch Tomorrow (Sat) at The CPSA at CPIT
(Dux Live still not cleared for opening
- bloody red tape, this town has a bung ticker...) -
OnPoint: 3 News Exclusive Investigation…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
In our cups...
Start building a retirement wine cellar now.
We just had a RWC,
complete with screwy caps
and sommelier changing rooms
they say it was a bottler battle,
corker! Vintage stuff,
sour grapes and all...