Posts by Simon Grigg
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Boston bun was used for large roundish flattish buns with coconut-sprinkled pink icing in my Christchurch childhood.
Those things, white or pink, as sold at the PNBHS prefects' room canteen (who also sold cassette copies of new albums as I recall....I can't recall anyone thinking or understanding it was wrong!) in the early 1970s were all Sally Lunns.
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Paul: I guess we'll see whether the inclusive tone works once the excitement of the inauguration wears off.
A couple of quick thoughts:
1)Lets be real, very large parts of the nation don't want to be included in Obama's vision. And never will.
2) I loved the slaps against Bush and thought they were both timely and necessary with him sitting there...his demeanour went from smug to to visibly pissed off. Good. Many of those folks in that two miles and further out around the world remain seriously fucked off with the man and don't think a get out of jail free card is appropriate. However, I think he's already been given one, if not by history.
3) I know there is some sort of need to play to the national psyche but I still grimace at the militarism, the dishonestly about the American moral high ground in the decades before Bush and world's beacon of freedom stuff which gets relentlessly trotted out. Part of the nation's ongoing inability to adapt is the wallowing belief in this sort of bullshit. I'm old enough to get an unpleasant knot when Obama lauded Vietnam. I still am not sure he's quite worked out just what the rest of the world is so pissed off about and how far back this goes. It ain't just about waterboarding. -
what o you reckon the figure is for nz, a country where majors stayed away from a large portion of the local output.
Sure it's higher, but most of the key stuff before about 2000 is owned by labels not the acts.
And much of Pagan's output is owned by Sony & EMI now. With FN, Roger said most of that was pretty clear these days and was owned by FN / Warners or at least leased very long term.
But bear in mind that copyright extension story relates only to the EU.
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Not a terrible speech, but lots of platitudes and cliches, so now I guess we wait.
Righto..time to go to sleep.
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I didn't post it, Jon, it was Bradley Peak. But my opinion has changed little since I wrote this.
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what about artists who control their own works?
They don't take that into account when building a case against copyright extension based on evil record labels getting 90%That's easy, up until the indie label boom, post punk, virtually no recorded music was owned by the artists. That date doesn't come up, under the current law, for expiration into the public domain, until at least 2030. Even, after that date, until this decade, most music has been made, and is recorded by, major labels (well into the 90% figure) and most acts who recorded for majors remain thoroughly unrecouped so 100% of what is returned from those masters go to major labels. When you also take into account the fact that much of the indie output globally of the past thirty years, at least the stuff that sold any quantity, has been bought or somehow acquired by majors, that 90% figure is easily an under estimate.
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we get it about midnight so it's pretty good timing for us (I'm a night person by habit).
And to make it even better, I get to NYC next Weds, and as much as I'd like to be there now, I think it's a pretty decent time to be arriving.
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He'll never cheer up...grumpy old fucker. He truly doesn't get it.
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Does that clear it up?
Except that they recorded it, released it as a single and then released it on the album a bit later, mistake intact. I asked Maurice Greer once about it a few years later and he just laughed.
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Tidak Mau, got me some street cred from the sharks in Indonesia
I think it was your getting in the wrong car with that poor Indonesian family at the mall in Denpasar caused the biggest impression. After that, the word spread like wildfire across the island...you were not to be messed with.