Posts by Peter Darlington
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Hard News: The future: be careful what…, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Those born of the less anxious or less caring walk to school and still play contact sports with an oval ball
With Tom's trolling snipped, he's correct that rugby is not in any danger. Rugby clubs do an excellent job of player retention by making the clubs very family inclusive. They have loads of events cetred around the club rooms, much of it child orientated. They're very good with support networks for members etc.. Football doesn't generally have that close relationship with local families and has a big dropoff through secondary school and even greater in adulthood. Living in a small rural town I'm very impressed with how they do this, for example the whole club turns up to morning Anzac ceremony at the community hall which adds dozens of young men from small to large kitted out in formal club gear to it. Football's not going to challenge rugby supremacy in this country any time soon, even if it is the thinking person's cosmopolitan sport beloved around the world.
Actually, maybe because of that... :)
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A good point on NatRad this morning is that rural football fans have been thrown under a bus with this deal. Most are stuck on dialup speeds right now and in the future their guaranteed bandwidth under the Rural Broadband Initiative rollout is only 5Mbps fixed wireless.
And there are plenty of football fans out there. My kids have played football against rural Nelson teams for over a decade and the country schools can all field decent teams with no shortage of kids interested. Damn shame for them.
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Hard News: The future: be careful what…, in reply to Russell Brown,
One key issue is that both of those produce the content they sell. Coliseum is just distributing imported content -- it's more like Netflix than a cable channel.
Delivery will be interesting. If they can get an AppleTV app and prove to have reliable and timely HD delivery they may be on to something. I never went for the illegal streams though, they were too painful to be bothered. I just won't bother rather than subject myself to that.
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Hard News: The future: be careful what…, in reply to Phil Lyth,
I must be a Luddite. In our household the question is framed:
Sky? Why?
While Sky is mainly the preserve of us sports tragics, if you want to watch decent TV programming nowadays you have to have it, or wait until Prime catches up, or mess about with proxy rearranging. Like their sports coverage, Sky was just easy if you were prepared to pay the price.
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Another of the great soul men goes... "Let my People Go" should be an essential item in any decent record collection.
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Hard News: Not good enough, Eden Park, in reply to Danielle,
The key difference being that no one is abusively yelling "look at that guy, what a fucking heterosexual!" about them at the rugby.
No, but it would be a great chant if they did. "You play like a heterosexual you medium sized, Corolla driving, Dire Straits loving accountant, you!"
Witty, ironic chanting never seemed to take hold with your NZ rugby crowds though, sadly.
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It's a cover of The Replacements' 'Swingin' Party'. It's an admirably non-obvious choice, and she takes it somewhere:
Funnily enough, I suspect Lana Del Ray could do something pretty nice with that tune as well.
If you like your disco house big, you could give this Tommy Rawson joint a shot;
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Brings to mind a kind of hellish "Next Top Baker" reality series hosted by Dom Harvey...
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Arf, I liked that Rock'n'Rolla remix. Nice to hear the ubiquitous Sugarman messed around a little bit. Also liked the new Pretty Lights. Look forward to the new album.
On Hype Machine, here's Noche+Sueños off Mala's album Mala in Cuba remixed by garage/dubstep chappy Zed Bias
And Mrs Dudley Perkins, aka afro'd hiphop beats maker extraordinaire Georgia Anne Muldrew with Popstopper off her upcoming album;
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I fessed up $70 for 2 Daptone vinyl releases at Nelson's Everyman Records for Record Store Day today and they came with MP3 coupons to grab the digital version. This is perfect for me as it gives me home play plus the mobility of digital. The digital version will set you back $10-$20 alone so the $35 for lovely 180 gram vinyl seems ok. I wish all new vinyl did this.
In other news I'm still a James Blake tragic. Whatever Simon Sweetman says the bloke does lovely bottom end, proper floorboard shaking business with a gorgeous fragile surface. Highly recommend Overgrown for a late night winter session or two.
And, Made to Stray, the newie from Mt Kimbie...