Posts by Rich Lock
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Article here exploring pregnancy food advice and 'myths' associated with it.
Some responses here.
WRT the judging thing, it seems to me that there may be significant overlap between one persons boundaries and another's 'just trying to help'. My wife has threatened to unleash whatever the verbal equivalent is of 'shock and awe' on the next poor unfortunate stranger who offers unsolicited parenting advice. 'Oh, she's grizzling! Maybe she's hungry?' Yeah? No shit, we hadn't thought of that.
I'm sure it's all well-meaning, but it does start to wear on the nerves somewhat.
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I'd guess perhaps I'm a bit too young to 'get' the relevant context.
Blue Monday is one of those tracks that seems to have been part of the aural landscape since forever. A re-release with a couple of new remixes seems to come around every few years with depressing regularity, probably around the times the bank manager calls about the mortgage on the 3rd mansion (reckon we're probably about due for one, actually).
So, yeah, intellectually, great. Thanks for changing the musical landscape, chaps. But I'm not feeling it deep down inside. Most of your stuff does nothing for me. You should write more poppy tunes with decent hooks, like 'crystal'. They're a good listen.
(runs and hides).
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I always liked the techno remix of 'confusion' more than the original.
And I've always thought 'blue monday' was highly overrated. But 'crystal' is a tune...
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if childbirth is like long-haul air travel, I suppose that solves the 'to drug or not to drug' question. I can't even get on an hour-long flight to Wellington without serious prescription tranquillisers and a gin and tonic.
I recommend the drugs. Epidurals are your friend. My wife went from 'I dont know how much more of this I can take', to 'this isn't so bad after all' after the epidural was administered.
After 12 hours of sitting in the ward listening to women in the other rooms screaming in ways I would never have guessed they were capable of, that came as something of a relief. She was able to (rather vaguely) feel what was going on, and to push when she needed to, but it turned what could have been an extremely traumatic and painful experience into something that was...actually really not that bad...
My only regret was that there wasn't any gas. I didn't get to have a sneaky suck on it when the doc's back was turned.
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Rich, gotta say: nice to find that it's not just me and Simon here who love this music.
Well, the problem with music is it's like history: they've already made so damn much of it and they keep making more. It was a lot easier to keep up when I was a one-genre pony.
So the sum total of my knowledge of '80's Chicago house comes from about three tracks and watching a UK Channel 4 series called 'Pump up the volume: a history of house'.
Which, thanks to the wonders of the internet, appears to be available here.
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Will catch up with the rest of this thread later, but can I just put in a good word for Marina Hyde as a female Guardian columnist? And about the only one I bother reading these days.
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They've got the year wrong though..it was 84 or 85. And poor Jamie Principal loses his credit?
copyright 1987 to Trax Records, according to the inlay I'm looking at.
The youtube version was just the first decent one I could find
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invoking the lords name in vain...not so much
Jehovah! Jehovah! Jehovah!
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Heh, what may be the warmest, most comforting and blissful record I own was recorded on cassette in a Chicago bedroom.
Awww yeah. You just made me crank up 'Can You Feel It' in the iTunes. What music.
Well, since we're getting all Chicago on it...
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What did you/do you do about the vinyl?