Hard News: What's on David Bain's iPod?
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Just to play the devil's advocate for a moment, I'm a bit more worried about the media bitch pack baying for blood after the death of the Kahui Twins.
I know it's tiresome - and pretty crap television - when the Police have to build a case before they lay charges, don't make public every detail of an ongoing investigation, and actually have to respect all that silly legal crap about not being able to coerce people into co-operating with their inquiries. What kind of world are we living in when not every thing revolves around the media?
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How about Excitable Boy by Warren Zevon?
Someone buy the man a copy of Nelson Mandela's autobiography.
Yeah right.
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Nice unbiased "cartoon" in the Press this morning on David Bain.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/0a17216.html
And the Stuff website: "New jumper for Bain"....
And the Herald headline "Bain spends first night of freedom partying" - like he'd downed a dozen E's and a box of alcopops and was having it large with the laydeez when the article goes on to describe just how wild the party was: "David was bouncing kids up and down on his knee. We had pizzas and potato chips. You know, he was in very, very nice, happy surroundings."
Can the media please try to take this a little more seriously?
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How about Excitable Boy by Warren Zevon?
B/W "Lawyers,Guns and Money" by the same artist.
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On the DRM pricing, as with the USA, $37 for a digital copy of a 15 track album I can buy at the Warehouse for $24, rip to my heart's content at whatever bitrate I want, peruse the sleeve, and then sell at Groovy later on.......
It all seems like a gift to Soulseek. When will they learn....
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Russell, your link to the tv3 web site is broken. It's mangled the public address url in there as well. As is Dave's above to the Stuff website, but people can just copy and paste that in.
John Campbell had the biggest grin on his face last night, and earlier in the day when he was part of the media scrum. Karam used the words cheshire cat a few times, but it applied to the interviewer almost as much. I was torn between feeling he should be more unbiased, and thinking 'good on you, media that actually doesn't pretend shit like that'.
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After emerging into the glare of banality like "Whats for dinner tonight" I suspect
Welcome to the Jungle by Guns n Roses
Ian Wishart: Dont Believe the Hype by Public Enemy
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2. Fuck what you heard
Ben,
Somehow I don't take him for a DNB/Breaks fan, and if eh was, I'm not sure if TC and Scratch Perverts would be his thing :-P
Good track though!
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On the DRM pricing, as with the USA, $37 for a digital copy of a 15 track album I can buy at the Warehouse for $24, rip to my heart's content at whatever bitrate I want, peruse the sleeve, and then sell at Groovy later on.......
No - if you're buying the album, it will (it bloody better be) still $NZ17.99, which is significantly cheaper than buying a disc at retail in most cases. It's individual tracks they're stinging us on.
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Russell, your link to the tv3 web site is broken. It's mangled the public address url in there as well. As is Dave's above to the Stuff website, but people can just copy and paste that in.
Thanks - the Campbell link had a stray space in it - should work now. And Dave had mucked up his formatting.
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No - if you're buying the album, it will (it bloody better be) still $NZ17.99, which is significantly cheaper than buying a disc at retail in most cases. It's individual tracks they're stinging us on.
oh, ok....I have to be honest, iTunes and I don't spend a lot of time in each other's company. It just seems too user unfriendly
It's still cheaper to buy a 3 or 4 track CD single than the iTunes equivalent
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I enjoy your columns, but the rest of the team seem to have scarpered. I know they've all got to earn a penny somewhere.
Can't you get some new writers on who will post regularly?Well, five of us have posted in the last week, and Russell probably five times himself. That's a couple of decent-length columns a day, plus all the ensuing discussion here at the System... you not getting your money's worth or something? :)
I thought the law professor on Close Up was good last night, saying he thought Bain was being treated like a returning war hero. While I don't want to sound like Looney old Laws, baying for Bain's blood on the talkback, he is still accused of mass murder isn't he? I don't pretend to be an expert on the case, but I don't think the majority of the public are either, so perhaps we should hold off on the tickertape parade for a bit?
Re the "how do you feel" style questions to Bain (and I don't think those first few actually came from Sainso, listening to them again) from all the journos, I know it's cliche, but isn't it probably the most relevant question to someone who's just been released from prison after 13 years? Short of any questions about the retrial and the judicial system, which he wasn't going to answer.
Here's a list of all the questions I could make out in the scrum:
How does it feel to be out David?
how does it feel?
How does it feel david?
how does it feel?
Is it?
Were you expecting this today?
And did it feel like a long time waiting in the court?
What are you going to do first?
When you were standing in court, what was going through your head when you were listening to the judge?
A big smile came over your face when they said they were granting bail, could you believe it?
Did you expect it?
How hard have the past 12-13 years been?
How’s your heart rate feel?
How did you keep your head together the last 12 years?
Do you want a new trial?
What are your plans for tonight, do you have any plans for this evening?
What’s the thing you missed the most?
Do you have faith in the judicial system?
How odd is this entire experience right now, being free, being out of jail?
Was it emotional last night for you?
No jersey David?
Are you guys going to live together?
Which one’s the tidy one?
Who’s going to do the cooking?
What are you looking forward to?
You don’t like prison food?
How do you feel about not being able to go back to Dunedin?
What do you (unclear) want to do now, find a job?
Most of the questions seem to relate to emotions and Bain's mental state, whether it's "how do you feel", or "what's going through your mind", "how odd is it being out", "how did you keep it together" etc. Once those questions were done the reporters seemed to move pretty quickly to jerseys, prison food and whether living with Joe was going to be like a scene from 80s sitcom Perfect Strangers.I like Morgan's question earlier. But if you were in that scrum, and were only going to get one question before being shouted down by the others, what would you most want to know?
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David Bain's iPod: We Are Family by Sister Sledge
Wha? Too soon?
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I like Morgan's question earlier. But if you were in that scrum, and were only going to get one question before being shouted down by the others, what would you most want to know?
Um ... are Guns and Roses still relevant?
But seriously, I understand what you're saying - it was just that there was that few seconds where everything was filled with how-do-you-feel.
I don't envy the reporters having to to the jostling through - the Sainzer looked pissed off at one point. Ands there was a funny moment where a cameraman reached his hand forward and moved JC's immaculately-coiffed head several centimetres to the left to get his shot back.
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oh my god, damian - you just defended the lazy journos fallback question - how do you FEEL about that?
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one question before being shouted down by the others, what would you most want to know?
"david! have you been getting regular action?!"
what?... tell me you aren't curious christie.
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like, ah, "whats your prison nickname?"
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where a cameraman reached his hand forward and moved JC's immaculately-coiffed head several centimetres
My televisual highlight of the year.
In the spirit of the politics of envy and spiteful whinging. where was Holmes? -
Peter: All I'm saying is that it's a cliche for a reason, and I don't think it's because journos are lazy (though some are, sure) but because when you're interviewing a human being about their reaction to a life-changing event, asking how they feel is a pretty good start.
But yes, of course it sounded ridiculous when the first four questions to Bain were all "how do you feel?"
If I'm writing a question line in preparation for such an interview, there will almost always be something along those lines. Even if nowadays we all know to phrase it "what went through your mind when..." or "what were you thinking when you heard...". There you go, trade secret number one revealed...
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Damian - interesting response, there. Hmm. Yes, its a cliche, but repeating it over and over to Bain revealed nothing. I dread the next round of interviews with him - don't you?
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"who is your wool-yarns supplier?"
quite hard to ask and answer the 5w's and h in such a "we're gonna need more angle ladders here people!" melee
even more astounding to me was the petrie dish and sainsburger stalking clearwater estate, with astonishing revelations such as "well david bain has changed over the past 13 years, he's grown up, he's more of a man" + the fact that under the lights she looked like a deer (doh?) in headlights
arent gnr playing nz soon?
...If you got a hunger for what you see
You'll take it eventually
You can have anything you want
But you better not take it from me... -
one question before being shouted down by the others, what would you most want to know?
How much would you like everyone to take one big step backwards?
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even more astounding to me was the petrie dish and sainsburger stalking clearwater estate, with astonishing revelations such as "well david bain has changed over the past 13 years, he's grown up, he's more of a man" + the fact that under the lights she looked like a deer (doh?) in headlights
To be fair, Campbell Live also spent an inordinate amount of time determining that the good folk of Te Kauwhata were okay with their new neighbour. If there hadn't been yawning spaces of TV time to fill that could serviceably have been covered in one line of script.
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Since its likely his friends would have loaded the iPod its likely it would be Opera. With Now That's What I Call Music Volume 23 thrown in for good measure. But since we're not supposed to be serious ...
The Message - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
[Chorus:]
Don't push me cos I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head
It's like a jungle sometimes
It makes me wonder how I keep from going under -
Here are the converted prices, based on todays NBNZ tourist rates:
Click here to see the spreadsheetDRM, Local DRM, NZD Cheaper? Non-DRM, local Non-DRM, NZD Cheaper? Rate (16-05)
US 0.99 1.35 24% 1.29 1.76 2% 0.7317
EU 0.99 1.85 -3% 1.29 2.41 -35% 0.5356
UK 0.79 2.15 -20% 0.99 2.69 -50% 0.3679
NZ 1.79 2.49
Basically, the US is cheaper on DRM, same as NZ on non-DRM.
Everywhere else is more expensive.BTW, how does iTunes work out domicile?
- IP address?
- Credit card currency?
- Billing address?
- Where you bought the iPod?
- All of above?
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