Posts by Simon Grigg
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And, and for me, if there was only to be one Wings album (which may be a very good idea), it would be Wildlife. I simply never understood why it was received the way it was and am pleased it's gained some stature over the years.
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Nice McCartney fest Graham, but I'm going to say I agree with Danielle, Another Day is rather lovely.
And I'm gonna argue with you about the 10m Revolution too, I think Take 20, as it's called is rather special, and may be the definitive version, especially as it ties all three Revolutions together rather coherently.
But, yeah, Carnival Of Light and Helter Skelter, and all that awful Get Back doodling deserve to to remain unreleased, even if, as Paul says in your comments, they are easily sourced by the curious.
And I doubt we'll ever see Let It Be, the movie, on DVD, at least in Paul's lifetime.
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While DC comics retain
Ian, who owns the dog in a cape? I always had a soft spot for Superdog..canines do that to me.
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Re PPNZ, you wonder if they'll ever learn and I guess the answer is right now a resounding no. One of the major lessons the recording industry should have learned from the last decade is the importance of the public perception of the labels and how that impacts on the copyright issue. S92 was a PR disaster as has been the RIAA lawsuits and the way Napster was handled and accentuates the pretty universally held belief that the big labels are scumbags, rightly or wrongly (very often wrongly but that doesn't matter when they do things like this).
They really don't do themselves any favours and you have to ask when will the glaringly obvious penny drop.
Like the new digital 'album' album format which I think will fail badly, things like this I guess are born out of last ditch desperation.
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Re PPNZ, you wonder if they'll ever learn and I guess the answer is right now a resounding no. One of the major lessons the recording industry should have learned from the last decade is the importance of the public perception of the labels and how that impacts on the copyright issue. S92 was a PR disaster as has been the RIAA lawsuits and the way Napster was handled and accentuates the pretty universally held belief that the big labels are scumbags, rightly or wrongly (very often wrongly but that doesn't matter when they do things like this).
They really don't do themselves any favours and you have to ask when will the glaringly obvious penny drop.
Like the new digital 'album' album format which I think will fail badly, things like this I guess are born out of last ditch desperation.
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the operation in Grenada didn't go all that well.
Indeed, it was a bit of a military fiasco from beginning to end, and came rather closer to defeat than admitted at the time. Notoriously they had to rely on tourist maps, which made the golf courses easy to find but not much else. And they forgot to synchronise watches so forces from different time zones arrived at all sorts of odd times. From that link:
We achieved our mission, but took heavy casualties. Nineteen men were killed in action and 123 wounded. The enemy was a hastily organized force of about 50 Cuban military advisers, over 700 Cuban construction workers, and one thousand two hundred members of Grenada’s People’s Revolutionary Army. Many of the casualties were from friendly fire.
To this day, I doubt that any one person knows how ineptly Urgent Fury was planned and executed…Operation Urgent Fury became the military equivalent of a Japanese Kabuki dance created by three or four choreographers speaking different languages, all working independently of each other.
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As for coming along and posting every now and again, and then disappearing for a while, I don’t have an interest in many of the topics, and I don't have the time to post that many of you apparently do!!
And there was I thinking it was you who posted the Fox-lite aside that China was unlikely ever to "come on board".
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Hence the pragmatic decision to restrict in-car use to hands-free.
In this part of the world I'd just be happy if they could stop people from txting on a motorbike whilst riding with three children and a dog in the fast lane.
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Perhaps a little less Fox TV of an evening would be a step in the right direction.
But that's James..wanders on here every now and then, toddles out a few Fox talking points as fact, has them fairly sharply shot down by anyone who's turned the dial one notch further in any direction or picked up a recent newspaper. He gets angry, either doesn't or is unable to, counter the shoot down and then disappears, only to repeat it a few weeks later.
And yes, agreed with all, NZ's healthcare is fantastic. We often don't know how lucky we are until we travel to a country that doesn't have such an encompassing umbrella.
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the China-bashing was a specific campaign by Bush, Howard and the oil industry who, as the climate science began to firm up considerably in the late 90's, began pointing the finger at China as the [future] problem [and ignoring historical emissions].
Very true, and not only is China on board, it increasingly owns the ship
If green energy is the new industrial revolution, Beijing will be grabbing many of the jobs of tomorrow. That will likely hasten the day when China becomes the world’s No. 1 economic power.
“China sees [green technology] as an enormous market that is not claimed or controlled by any one nation, and there is an opportunity for them to do it,” says Carberry. “The combination of urgency; the enormous needs; a focused, systematic planned government; an army of engineers; and access to capital may define China as the platform for the green- technology industry globally.”