Posts by Nick D'Angelo
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And last month the LA Times ran a feature on ta moko.
And last month I saw a banner ad on a foreign site promo'ing the latest episode of The Hills (a teen 'reality' show). The girls were all off to a tattoo parlour and (as best I could judge from a 15 sec promo) the man with the needle was Maori.
it may be that I'm not a parent, so I don't naturally assume the worst.
Yeah, well that will all change when you do mate! And fast. I used to do a club night called Cheap Sex in the 90s. Then I had a daughter ... now I'm a born again Puritan.
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what I really want a copy of is your Ak89 tape (but not on tape as I don't have a deck). I'd love to hear what that sounds like now. Any chance?
My Mac sits on a tape deck, but I haven't a clue how one transfers cassettes to disc (email me the info on suitable free downloads anyone). As for the tape itself (for it was only ever released on cassette) I have one somewhere and it would be worth a look if I could transfer it. I also have the 'master tapes' somewhere in storage - probably next to a large magnet and mouldy by now!
FYI (for anyone else): AK89 - In Love With These Rhymes was a snapshot of local rap at the time, and the title was an obvious play on the previous AK79 and In Love With These Times releases. Only 200 copies were produced and Flying Nun bought the lot to distribute. How many were actually sold I have no idea, but they must be worth millions by now.
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You can do it your way: so how do you want to go? ... with a bang?
Oh god, yes please. Blame Denny Crane but I want to go out like James Howard Marshall II* (but not like Hef, cos that's - y'know - just too much).
As for the actual funeral ... meh. I'm gone.
(*OK, so he didn't actually die doing it but let's not let the facts get in the way of a common male fantasy)__ (What do you mean I'm on my own on this one?)__
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It's crusty old white guys thinking they know
Who you talkin' 'bout, Willis?
A shit tune is a shit tune
And when you get to my age you realise someone is always ready to swallow a shit tune. You really can fool some of the people all of the time ...
And when you get to my age you also realise that one person's shit tune is another person's Anthem ...
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Great post Damian but lets juxtapose two of your comments.
... so Phil Goff should've known full well how his comments would be interpreted by the ravenous pack of the Press Gallery.
You're criticising one politician for not playing the political game as expected (and other mediatypes have used this to infer Goff knew and wanted to set off this little bomb); but then you criticise another politician __for __playing the political game as expected:
So excuse me for wanting a little detail. I understand it makes sense strategically to hold off as long as you can, to provide the detail and swing the voters at the last possible minute, making it harder for them to become un-swung.
But it just pisses me off.
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ray was their mentor or manager or something
I think Chunn was the creative force behind this effort. He may have handed the act over to Columbus once he got his radio hit.
I CALL ON SIMON GRIGG TO ARBITRATE/INFORM/EDUCATE!
He seems to know alot about a lot of things. My info is based on my distant memories from interviewing them in 1989. They were very nice genuine chaps, and I winced inwardly because they sincerely believed that 'anything was possible' ie they might have overseas success too. I guess OMC proved them right. -
... while it might not seem that big a deal to the lay observer ...
Ah yes, we lay observers don't understand the real truth of what is really going on. That's why we need the media to tell us what is going on. So the fact that Goff didn't chuckle and tell Driver "you're not catching me out with that question Ollie, I refuse to answer hypotheticals" must mean that Goff really__ is planting a seed.
Of course even if __had given ALT a non-answer, and it was a slow news day, the headline would still be GOFF DUCKS QUESTIONS ON LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE!
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Considering they were exploited by ray columbus to cash in on the youf market and probably funded cos of the good ol boy connection still running most things in this industry.
Where do you get your info from? Ray Columbus had nothing to do with it. It was Mike Chunn who thought the country was ready for a rap version of She's A Mod. If you check the songwriting credits you'll see that the track is actually called She's A Mod / Mod Rap (Medley) and that Chunn 'wrote' the 'medley' part, allowing him to get (part of) the royalties.
Where are those guys now anyway? jail term?
Wow - is there a reason you think they're in jail? Do you think the same of that chap from World Gone Wild?
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I mean really, if you're #3 in a queue at the supermarket, and #1 and #2 both pay for their food and leave, you're likely to find yourself at the front of the queue.
Unless Obama walks in ...
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I licensed a tune to a well known international label for a fairly significant sum just by entering an online voting competition for inclusion on its anniversary compilation. It was selected from about 80 tunes which made the labels cut to 10 and generated 80 000 votes. So in effect the public programmed the tracklist.
There's an interesting warning about online song contests in the last APRA magazine, but I'm guessing you've read that already.
There's no reason why we cant do that with demos currently submitted to NZoA for funding and applied to radio. NZoA can still fund retroactively as they do with the 5k for radio hits of the month...
Yeah, but why do I think we'll end up with 300 teenage girls deciding who gets funded? At what point do we agree that there weren't really enough votes to validate the poll? And how do we ensure bands/labels/managers don't manipulate the online vote to secure funding?