Hard News: Good Newsing
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Pixies were fab both nights. But Powerstation was better, BOBVIOUSLY. Powerstation is a really great venue, fantastic P/A and lots of good viewing angles.
PREG ROCK! Yes I concur. Well I managed to get my fairly preggers other half to both shows so...
...and I also had to be a fan boy and introduce myself to FB in the Powerstation bar. But hey I have all his solo albums. I even love the average ones. He is so fantastic.
The only bummer was that they played nothing off Bossanova. A
much misunderstood album. Now we just need Frank/Charles to come back for some solo shows...perhaps he could play Teenager of The Year from start to end. Might not get 12,000 people along mind you. -
I even love the average ones
Hah - know what you mean. On a trainspotting note, the FB Peel sessions with Teenage Fanclub are well worth tracking down :)
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My luck for the week was taking Kim Deal sailing Wednesday, and after the show Thursday I got to have a glass of wine and talk with Charles in the backroom. I know I'm bragging but WTF it was the Pixies.
"This Monkley's gone to heaven"?
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"This Monkley's gone to heaven"?
I thought that was "This monkey's going to heaven"
The whole thing about "If the Devil is six, then God is seven" as compared to the line "Man is five and the Devil is six" the this would suggest that there is a numeric correspondence where Man passes through Evil to attain Godliness, where as the character of the storyteller is putting forward the concept that monkeys are more "innocent" than mankind, with respect to the concept of "success" as the accumulation of "wealth" as being the "Key's" to heaven. Therefore. "This Monkey's going to Heaven"
Innit?.(edit)
Oh, Monkley. Bastard. I couldn't even get tickets.
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Kim and I got on to the subject of mining at one stage; she had met some people Monday who were enthusiastic about the idea of mining. They thought that they were not rich enough and mining was the answer. They owned Range Rovers and they were bitching, generally believed that the environment was only a minor issue to deal with. They obviously did not understand the Pixies or the lyrics to "This monkey's gone to heaven" to even get on that subject or that most people from where she was from, were miners, still dirt fucking poor and staring at a shitty landscape. We had a small laugh and I explained that most Kiwis were not that greedy, stupid or naïve….she was pleased.
Oh, Monkley. Bastard. I couldn't even get tickets.
One, very, lucky bastard!
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late posting, but thanks for all the clips peoples... "hey" was my particular highlight... i loved that everyone knew all the words to everything - nothing like a good singalong to raise the spirits.
but seriously, this monkey went to heaven at the Vector Arena on friday night.
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Weta, for example may choose to employ people overseas to work on digital animation on line, the downside of that is that more money goes out of the country. The reverse is also possible that Weta could do more overseas work from Wellington thus earning valuable foreign currency but then you get to the point of running out of actual people to do the work and you are back to square one.
Weta would be quite happy to just be able to upload daily runs to foreign clients in an hour instead of a day. When you have companies seriously considering using international air freight to send hard drives full of content to the other side of the world, something is very, very wrong. It's the equivalent of digital pre-press and graphics artists using couriers to send their work across town instead of sending it by FTP or a web site - something that very definitely happens in this country, courtesy of our backwoods internet.
One thing that the PF project would be great for is affordable link diversity for major companies. At the moment the only choice for high-availability terrestrial connectivity is to buy a protected circuit on the SCC. That's expensive, both because it can be (courtesy of the monopoly) and because the hardware to do that over the SCC is expensive. If companies can get link diversity on terrestrial services from competing providers at the physical level, they'll take it. They may even save money doing it, in addition to getting real diversity of service.
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this monkey went to heaven at the Vector Arena on friday night
Gaga?
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courtesy of our backwoods internet
thanks a bundle, Maurice Williamson
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Pixies return to play Christchurch August 3rd
This truly is wondrous news. I might even be able to attend!
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