Posts by Danielle
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the Civic on acid
I thought the Civic was already on acid.
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I write as a veteran of last weekend's PA plagiarism wars ...
I would call it PA's 'plagiarism skirmish'. Or perhaps, like the Korean War, a 'police action'...
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customers are not screaming for legitimate product
Erm. Didn't iTunes make a profit of over 500 million US dollars a year or two back?
ETA, wimpishly, that I don't wholeheartedly agree with either Paul or Matthew's positions. Isn't there a place where the twain can meet?
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asked (in broken English) the crowd to stop clapping along
Oh *man* do I hate clapping along. HATE. I mean, unless there are people actually doing the whole 'take them to church!' thing up there on stage, I want a clap-free experience during the songs.
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Except Nick Lowe didn't play Cruel to Be Kind in Welly
WTF?
Or in Auckland either. Like I said: could have used more Lowe. (He did play '(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding', though. Very pretty.)
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Erm. So, just how stupid does he think we are?
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people like myself who had spent the whole day getting squashed by Metallica meatheads
Although! The meatheads had occasional redeeming qualities. That was the year I was sitting in the stands in the afternoon for one of the middling main stage bands, and I looked over to my right and saw a woman who had The Most Wondrous Tattoo Ever: a full-arm-sleeve of the disembodied heads of *every single member of INXS*. Every one! And Tim Farriss was the biggest! Michael Hutchence was like a squashed little afterthought! I mean, INXS is not my cup of tea, but respect: that woman clearly loves her music more than me. Maybe more than anyone.
(Loudest show ever: Primal Scream on the XTRMNTR tour. Dear lord. Luckily I was... less than coherent at the time.)
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"Free Bird!"
Speaking of this, a friend of mine in Texas went to a high school with a jukebox in the cafeteria. He said that every single day of his senior year, some mysterious person had gone into the cafeteria before lunch and cued up a 30-minute live version of 'Free Bird'. Twice. So he never experienced a lunch hour that entire school year without hearing 'Free Bird' for sixty straight minutes.
(I always feel like that story has some grand significance, but I'm not quite sure what it is.)
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JUDAS!!
I don't believe you... you're a liar.
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But back to Ry and Nick Lowe: when people started to yell that it was too loud (I didn’t think it was
It emphatically wasn't. I was incredulous at that.
I could have done with a bit more Lowe, m'self. But it was a very good show.