Posts by Samuel Scott
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HDU were really really good last night. And my AIRplugs worked great thank you very much. They impede the flow of air into my ears so I call them airplugs!
Umm, eerrr anyway. So yes HDU were on top form. And Glass Vaults were really great too. I was quite drunk and a bit excited about being out on the town in Wellington for the first time in forever so I was finding it hard not to talk. After enjoying the first half of their set very I decided to not be that annoying talking person and went outside so I could regurgitate my nonsense. But Glass Vaults (or is Glassvaults) are pretty impressive, genuinely trippy as fuck.
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HDU tonight in Wellington. We have a baby sitter, we have airplugs!
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Sorry, huge comment. I am full of rugby fuzzies.
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We'll be watching the last game in London which will be kind of weird but also probably satisfying. I am looking forward to walking off to a Sunday market after we (hopefully) win and feeling a bit smarmy about it all. Our UK record record company is run by a couple of delightful chaps who both played rugby but prefer to watch football, which defines the British game really. 2.5 million registered players? Crazy. But the passion is nothing compared to what it is here.
This world cup has had some brilliant games. Ireland and Wales have been great to watch for quite different reasons. England and Scotland were underwhelming. Italy continue to improve. SA are probably too old, lots of excellent players at the very end of their careers, but still playing some pretty brutal rugby.
Australia are on the verge. They will be massive next year. If they find a front row they will be unbeatable.
...France.... je ne comprends. they are crazy. The coach, amazing, what a nutter. Looks like a jewel thief from a 50s sassy crime comedy.
All in all, very very entertaining.
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I would say a good 95% + of the music I have made has been made using Mac computers. Not that this has always been a healthy relationship (Mac have been very good at making sure their new software doesn't like protools until digidesign fix a whole bunch of things).
I once signed a record deal which included a Macbook Pro. I ran this little bastard into the ground.
...I wonder is Jobs used a mouse with 'right click'? Maybe in the afterlife (the special afterlife reserved for the super rich) they have mac mice with two buttons!
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The Fab/Arabia record is going to be so great. I think it may confuse a few Black Seeds fans.
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Fair enough point.
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Breastfeeding is only free if women’s time counts for nothing.
Well of course not. I think you're maybe making some leaps between me think breastfeeding is great and your already established idea of how society views breastfeeding in general or something.
Let me be clear once again; I pass no judgment on what you or any other parent chooses to do. But I support encouraging breast feeding as the first choice. The concept of formula being a perfectly good second option is fine by me. AGAIN, no one should guilty or persecuted for making that choice. Once the choice is made, then great, what ever works in your life.
Thanks for correcting my structural error before too (breastfeeding; one word, I get it now).
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But encouraging someone to [breastfeed] is just totally freakin’ great.
Not when it comes with a huge dose of judginess about being a bad mother if you find that you can’t breastfeed.
Well of course. Was I being judgey? I don't think so. It certainly wasn't my intention. I just think breast feeding is great and it deserves repeating.
Also, breast feeding doesn’t necessarily cost less, because most mothers need to eat more higher protein food in order to be able to breastfeed.
I don't believe this to be a rational argument. If you can't breastfeed or don't want to that is none of my business, I wont judge you, never, no way. But I will question the validity of that as an argument for formula feeding.
OK I am leaving this thread. I am a man, I'm not sure I even have a valid say in these matters and my child is dancing to Belle & Sebastian and I wan to join in.
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Breast feeding is great though eh? Like, it's just really really great.
Also, there may be problems with the system around midwifery that need to be addressed, but it goes without saying they're pretty freakin' great.
Anecdotal story here; someone (maybe my mother) was told not to breastfeed her first child for a couple of days so she could rest after giving birth (this was in the 60's). In hindsight she decided this was totally dumb and made her own choices with future kids. Of her 5 children this child (maybe my sister) was the only one with a multitude of allergies and severe asthma. That is only one case, and obviously not every formula feed baby is gonna to get asthma.
But seriously, is there that much pressure to breastfeed? If so, why do so many people not? And isn't breast milk heaps cheaper? And isn't it the least well off New Zealanders who would most benefit from more breast feeding? Both economically and health wise? Are they the least likely demographic to do so? (genuine question, I have no idea...seems likely). Isn't this the target of policy to encourage breastfeeding.
Obviously I know that I think breast feeding is good because I am middle class as fuck and eat organic soy bullshit and the liberal media taught me that nature is awesome.
No one should ever feel bad for deciding not to breast feed. It's their own business. But encouraging someone to do so is just totally freakin' great.