Posts by Rich Lock
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Our household summer holiday project has been ripping every CD we own to a hard drive/media server, and then storing the whole music collection in boxes in the garden shed along with the weedeater. All CDs do is collect dust.
Well, having ripped most of my collection to mp3 3-4 years ago, I spent last Sunday unboxing all my CD's and lovingly alphabetising* them in their new home in the lounge. Inevitably, I stumbled across a whole bunch of stuff I'd forgotten I owned. Which of course needed playing right there and then. Great way to spend a Sunday. I'll probably end up listening to more music now they're all unboxed than I have done with the mp3s - it's easier to idly browse, pull out anything that catches my eye, and give it a spin.
You'll be back. Hardform data storage media for life, yo.
*alphabetically by artist, since you ask. And although I briefly considered sub-alphabetising by album title, and cross-referencing solo albums back to the parent group, I didn't. Because that would be sad.
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mine was clouded by comparison with the superbly-organised Gathering.
A mate from back in the UK was at 'The Gathering' for one of the years. Despite the fact it apprently rained continuously, I've heard nowt but good things. Why is no-one doing anything like that anymore?
The unreasonable bias towards rock acts also pissed me off.
When I did my 'reverse OE' back in '95, I came over to NZ and Oz with my head full of bangin' choons and hopes of carrying on my hedonistic illegal warehouse rave ways. But more or less all the locals over here I tried to sound on on the subject gave me fairly blank looks. I tried playing some 'Prodigy' to some people and got a reaction along the lines of 'turn that electro doof doof shit off!'. I may have been looking on the wrong places, but I get the impression that that sort of...lifestyle?...was fairly slow to catch in here.
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Does anyone still buy CDs?
Well, without wanting this thread to become infected*, I do. But not usually by walking into a shop with cash and walking out with a product. Online, mostly.
And, oddly enough, more or less for the same reasons as Gregg Gillis AKA Girltalk, the de facto poster boy for the Copyleft movement. I read an interview recently (which I can't find online) where he says something like: 'I love buying CD's, I love buying albums, taking them home and reading the liner notes and listening to the tracks the artist decided were good enugh to make it onto the album, in the order they selected'. Which is more or less why I buy an album, rather than source the music elsewhere. He also acknowledges that he's probably a member of the last generation which will ever think of music in that way.
Playing the boiler room at the BDO - 3:50 - 4:50 slot. Here's a clip of him 'live', forcing Kelly Clarkeson and Trent Reznor into unholy matrimony from minute 1:55 onwards.
*All your threads are belong to The Scottish Thread.
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Without a draw...the half dozen bands I like a fair bit (but would rather see at a small venue) are not that attractive a reason to be stuck in a sun baked sound prison for 10 hours.
My feelings too. It was my first and probably last BDO.
Did anyone else see this Greg Dixon column just before Christmas?
I was horrified to find that instead of chortling at the grumpy old man, I was instead nodding along in agreement.
I went to my first (and so far last) BDO in (if memory serves) '03. I didn't really take to what I thought was a really shitty venue, and a general feeling of being treated like I was sub-adult and therefore totally incapable of anything approaching sensible behaviour. "You're not going to allow me to drink anywhere but in this wire cage? Hmmm, OK, but this single choice of beer had better be good. Oh, it's E*p**t G**D. Yum....".
Seriously. Mt Smart Stadium? There has to be a better venue in the Auckland region, surely? I'm sure there's plenty of good reasons why not, but how about, oh, I dunno, Cornwall Park?
My experience has probably been coloured by having UK festivals as my yardstick. Despite valid criticism, Glastonbury is, for my money, the festival that other festivals wish they could be.
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Quite surprised Tiki Taane's 'Flux' isn't on anyone's top ten of 2009. Got a lot of airplay round at my gaff.
Also getting a lot of airplay was Rodrigo y Gabriela's 11:11. Can't go wrong with a bit of Mexican metal-influenced flamenco acoustic duelling guitars. Especially when they cover Metallica's "Orion", and also list Megadeth and Slayer as influences.
And they're playing at The Edge on Jan 11th. Wheee!
I'll also be getting the latest offering from Rammstein* when I have the pennies. But I'll probably not bother with the deluxe special edition (link NSFW). Not really, um, up my alley, as it were.
Hope every one had a good Crimbo, and happy new year to one and all.
*Yes, I'm a fan. Wanna make something of it?
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's Frodo!
didn't 'flight of the conchords' already write most of the tunes?
Frodo, don't wear the ring.
The magical bling bling.
One ring to rule them AAAALLLLLL!!!! -
Ahem. Yes. Of course, I couldn't possibly comment on where my 'inspiration' came from until I've talked extensively with both my publisher and my legal team.
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Rodney Hide, Rodney Hide, riding through the woods.
Rodney Hide, Rodney Hide, and his band of hoods.
They steal from the poor, to give to the rich.
What a bitch, what a bitch, what a bitch. -
My favourite poem on love:
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread
and you beside me singing in the wilderness,
and wilderness is Paradise enoughNot incidentally because I used it to talk the lady who is now my wife into bed with me (chicks dig that poetry malarky...)
Omar Khayyam also wrote:
The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.Which I think is as good a way of any to say thank you to our host for the most significant event of 2009 - the provision of an edit button. Thanks Russell!
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Not to mention that it fucks up the franchise.
Can we send a Terminator back in time to kill McG?
Or, given that this is the season of goodwill, teach him how to make a film that has pace, plot, dialogue, etc. Y'know, all those things that music videos don't have, but which feature films are meant to have. And, also to point out to him that his adopted name makes him sound like an insufferably pretentious twat?