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The Rough Streets of Compton LA err I mean Christchurch.
it was a 750 ml coke bottle with dry ice inside it. thats only just one step up from shaking up a bottle and leaving it for some unsuspecting person to open. then the headlines would be "cleaner got coke stain on overalls" instead of a bruised hand.
I think chch would like to think it was important enough to be a terrorist target but really, if the best you could do is bomb chch you'd probably get all the other terrorists making fun of you at the next terrorist sunday drinks night.
chch is just a good indicator for the general lowering of the national intelligence level. how stupid do you have to be to try placing those things in a security camera area.
There were bigger implications to the removal of free or cheap tertiary education than just saving some tax dollars. we're paying for it now though......
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I recall it was Germany that some NZ bands had to adjust to when they toured. Reverent silence is great when you know that's what's going on, rather than indifference. So serious, the Germans.
germany was great, they really looked after you.
meet you at the venue with fresh food, set up your gear, took you back to your hotel, attended your gig, stood right up the front politely enjoying your songs, and chatted to you knowledgeably into the night about your music. rather civilized compared to some places.
Japan is even more so though, they don't talk at all even amoungst themselves between songs. dead silence while the guitarist twangs his guitar back into tune and the bass player tries to crack a joke about strange food he's eaten in tokyo -
Ugh. Why would people do that?
guess she was drunk and thought 'he hadn't done anything good since railway surfing' and wanted to let him know. maybe she was chch? (fill in suitable sarcasm brackets for observer)
How did the gig go apart from that?
chris says spinal tap. take from that what you will.
his new album has some really lovely songs on it.
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thank you sir.
I'll pass your tosser comments on to the applicable losers the next time I see them at a non free gig, which hopefully will be never, although people actually paid to attend the recent chris matthews robot monkey orchestra gig in dunedin in order to yell at him he was "shit" and that he'd "done nothing good since railway surfing",
I'm sure he was pleased he'd stepped out of retirement just for that :) -
sorry should have written <irony/sarcasm>, (doing us all proud bless em),......Is it still good to be the best at something even if its being the best at being the worst?</irony/sarcasm>
I'm more from the japanese school of "silence reverence" toward performers I admire in concert, (suitable applause and shouts of support at applicable moments of course).
I'm merely recounting the shame, tosser :)
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didn't attend the mainstreet one but the same tour in chch was one of the best things I've ever attended.
Don't recall it being too loud, just right, pulse pounding, mesmeric,..
Tickets were cheap cos no one knew who they were, ($6 if I remember) The gig had one of the best endings ever.A skinny punk girl jumps on stage in order to dance, bouncer shooed her off away, she climbs back on, smith is amused, and stops the bouncer removing her. soon she is joined by a hoard of like minded stage dancers, and suddenly the band are hoisted onto shoulders still playing.
very non shoe-gazing post punkers.
"we'll be back" robert said, and they were a year later with the faith tour, where boot boys proceeded to spit at the stage, (doing us all proud bless em)........and they never returned, ever.
Many years later chatted to Robert I mentioned I was at those CHCH gigs. he said, "I remember chch, but not for good reasons", I coughed and changed the subject. nice bloke though.Others sworn never to return were Australia's Died Pretty who had a bottle thrown at them at the gladstone, The DP warned others not to visit cos CHCH were the meanest audience ever.
Is it still good to be the best at something even if its being the best at being the worst? -
i repeat i found you to be an idiot and not worthy of further time being wasted upon in attempts at rational conversation
and yet here you are, ;)
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Not my diesel you wouldn't...oh God look what I have become, hehe.
Did anyone watch the 'who killed the electric car ' doco.
It wasn't a funny one like M Moores or daily show, but very interesting about the politics behind change, or the lack of it.
my car is less economical than the car I could by 20 years ago, most are. I'd ride a bike but its colder than something really cold out there, nd I'm not going anywhere, fast -
Two copies cost very little, but the time and hassle add up. ..........But even in the abstract, the threat of a $5k fine is a big stick to wave around.
Thanks rob but I've already been executed, :)
now all I need is joan baez to do translated renditions of my works, posthumously of course.I've 'talked' to the legal deposit people and they do seem sympathetic to the situation. my issue is with the people who drafted the whole thing up,
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It's a measure of the guy that he dealt with you so gently, that's a generous spirit in action right there, that is.
that was gentle?
And I did note his love of th' arts, and don't diss that.
but as far as speaking for someone like Federico García Lorca, I can only hope to understand what led him to his decision and ideally walk in his boots for a bit before I'd feel I could speak for him,
If he wasn't dead I'd ask him and I'd listen.But these were simple points and I can't see anywhere where its said," I see what you're saying and why you're saying it"
opinion is great but listening has its benefits.