Posts by Simon Grigg
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The "hundreds" might be going a wee bit far
Yep, and I fixed it on Discogs.
It could also mention that he hosts a mean bar-b-que on occasion, but that may be outside the scope of the profile.
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Nope, very much another Doug Hood. Our one (sadly unpermed) deserves automatic entry in the the NZ R'n'R Hall of Fame.
I'm still gob-smacked that the current organisers tried to charge him to get into the Big Day Out last year....
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The gigs were sponsored by Pepsi and boy did Iggy go to town dissing it. Barnesy also wore a fair bit of crap from him, too.
Which included symbolically urinating on a Pepsi sign on stage.
We had the AK after party at Celebre and Ig was keeping well away from Barnes.
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It features a lot of blood, dirt and broken terracotta.
You mean it didn't feature a rousing version of Kill City 200x with Robert Smith, as commissioned by Palmer's Garden Centres?
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I'm well pleased you and Jim have finally buried the hatchet, Russell.
But, seriously, that is so sad. Maybe it's just me, but times can't be that tough for the Ig surely?
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It's one thing admitting that you were a pro-isolationist in the US or in favour of appeasement (which in my opinion was an understandable if indefensible position with 20/20 hindsight), and were proved horribly wrong by events. But pretending you were never any such thing? Moral cretinism of the first water.
Thank you. Yes.
I could only grimace in the build-up to Iraq when the political heirs to the US isolationists raged on about appeasement.
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On the interesting discussion on the Pacific War, the key point to me is that the Japanese could never have managed an invasion of the US mainland. Without this, the US had unlimited time to rearm.
They didn't need to invade the US mainland, they just needed to force the US out of the Pacific for a reasonable time. With the Pacific fleet out of the way the door was open to Hawaii and the US would be forced to withdraw to the West Coast. They were aware there were very strong and loud isolationist forces at work in the US, and that the US would not have been ready to come back into the Pacific until 1943/44 at the earliest. Remember, they agreed with Britain that Hitler took precedence.
Firstly the US would've had to retake Hawaii which was a huge task given the distance from San Diego and the force that would've been required.
They were well aware of the US industrial might, hence the need for a Pacific knockout, which would have given them the breathing space to take Burma and India without a major threat from the East.
I do think that Japan gambled and lost but from their POV (and this is not to justify anything they did as a nation) it was the smart thing to do.
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context is king.
Indeed, and apologies for not making the context clearer.
Once again, just their way of handling the nuances of dealing with a demanding media?
Not that far from the nightly news bulletins where the polisi can be seen dragging their latest suspects from the cells, bruised and bloodied, for show to the cameras and are often seen smiling and sharing a kretek with them before throwing them back in.
Indonesian TV takes some getting use to. The coverage this week of the horror in Padang on primetime news has been especially gruesome, with extended zoomed shots of mangled corpses cutting to extended closeups of the faces of their distraught relatives as they're shown the body.
But for all that, the nation is utterly traumatised by this second major killer quake in 3 years, and 5 since Aceh. You wonder how much a people can cope with.
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U-571 (which was on television here recently, and received generally positive reviews from American critics) which had "based on a true story" all over it when it was nothing of the kind.
I felt the same way about United 93, which had, as a subplot, the cowardly German, when there was and remains no evidence that the German on the aircraft was not as brave as the others. It was a slur that played to US "old Europe" bigotry at the expense of a real person whose family had to suffer as much as any American 'hero'. For that reason I'd give that movie, despite it's glowing critical reception, a large moral #fail.