Posts by Danielle
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Oh, Eric B. and Rakim, 'Microphone Fiend'; Blondie's 'Hanging on the Telephone'; Bowie's 'Always Crashing in the Same Car', that incredibly obscure band's 'Happiness is a Warm Gun'... if I YouTube clipped everything I'm thinking of this thread could get unwieldy pretty quickly.
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I'm curious, now: what was on their list? 'Computer Games'? 'Are Friends Electric?' 'Autobahn'? (Actually, half of Kraftwerk's catalogue?) 'Video Killed the Radio Star'?
If David Bowie comes to the BDO there's going to be one pretty damn pregnant person at it...
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But they were singing in te reo long before it was common. And it isn’t even that common now.
This reminds me of something: on my mother's side of the family, in Southland, in the middle of the twentieth century, they had a lot of parties. People would gather around the piano and sing, and some of those songs were definitely in te reo. Now, these people mostly 'lived as Pakeha' - they 'passed', as they say in America, but they were Maori-Irish. So did most singing parties include Maori songs, back then? I tended to universalise my own family's experiences and think everyone sang some (poorly pronounced!) songs in te reo, but perhaps not?
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I'm sorry to interrupt a clear-cut case of Darroch's Law, but I'm just happy that Animal Collective is at the Powerstation. What it loses in historical atmosphere it makes up for in, like, actually being able to see the band.
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What about the snarls... elsewhere in the country, though?
TBH, he really hasn't had too bad a time. He is quietly-spoken and self-deprecating, though, so tends to be a 'good fit' in NZ social situations. Not that that's any comfort to people who are louder talkers or more openly confident - I imagine we kind of suck for those people. I do recall my father being called a 'Yankee bastard' by someone about twenty years ago. As he's from Louisiana, the choice of words was doubly insulting. ;)
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a 'white' migrant with an 'American' accent (real or perceived), just how friendly the place is
If our experience is typical, any person with those qualities will be very popular with teenagers in south Auckland. Of course, they will be asked constantly if they knew Tupac or hung out in the LBC. (The best response to these sorts of questions is 'yeah, I knew Tupac. He still owes me five bucks.')
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Anecdata: I have never bought a drink at the King's Arms. Not once. The sheer horror of getting to the bar is too much.
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a few more gigs timed to allow one to enjoy the music
Kraftwerk came on at 8.30 on the dot. I was asleep by 10.30! Another reason why they rule. (Yes, I am a nana. I accept it. If you people don't give me, um, some *pharmaceutical help*, I'm going to bed. And loving it.)
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the nap beforehand is a sound scheme which I practise when I can
Napping just makes me cranky. It's like my body is annoyed I didn't do the sleep thing properly.
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If you want to mount a defense of race relations in the mainland, I'm all ears.
No defence, but there are an awful lot of we 'pale plonkers' from the mainland who are also Kai Tahu. Just sayin'.