Posts by Simon Grigg
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But the chip on the shoulder stuff about Wellington and our noses being placed firmly in the taxpayers trough can get rather tiresome as well.
maybe its the circles I move in, but really I've not heard that for years, and even then only once or twice. I'd say most people in Auckland regard the capital as a fairly pleasant, sophisticated place to visit, with good food and coffee. And we are rather happy that the capital is down there...god forbid anyone ever considers moving it.
And coming out of the gorge and seeing the harbour is one of my favourite vistas in NZ. I love the road into Wellington.
To be honest, the only folk I ever hear being nasty about the place are ex-Welingtonians moved north. Not sure what that means.
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I have found it the other way (see Damian Christie's pronouncements)
to be fair Don, DCs comments were spoken with tongue firmly placed, rather than the pure vitriol many of us Jafas have to deal with once we venture past Levin (you rarely get it north of that line, not sure why, perhaps there is a sense of identification with the north). It gets quite nasty at times.
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Can't start a War On Anything without one!
I hear Paul McGuiness has evidence that Steve Jobs has been sourcing yellowcakeMP3s in Niger.
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any MP3 file should play in iTunes. If iTunes is your default mp3 player just click the file and it should import automatically.
If not they're likely corrupted.
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And the boogie man isn't biting as much as some would have you think. It's good to have a boogie man though, no?
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I still believe it is unlikely to work.....
It almost doesn't matter anymore. It's tokenism as much as anything. Regardless it ain't gonna bring back the good old days that BPI etc would like to think it would, anymore than the RIAA lawsuits slowed down file sharing in the USA. Its head in the sand stuff blaming the boogie man of file sharing for the collapse in music sales. Its a contributing factor, that's all, as are things like the label consolidations and a whole lot more.
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not if you're a radiohead fan looking for interesting treatments in the same vein as the band. this is just rap over backing tracks. "every breath you take" any one?
Actually some of these are quite well done and the reviews are have been very good. This sort of thing, and they are much more than just banging a vox over a track, is exactly what R/H stand for and it seems that once they got grumpy old Warner-Chappell to agree, which they should because they still get broadcast return, this fitted perfectly with their philosophy. They're free and there is no downside to anyone. C'mon Rob, the only one that seems upset about these is you...
There were some killer mixes of The Eraser last year too including a rather good hip hop one from Kanye West & Pharrell, which essentially just worked its way around the original but did it so well.
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although its nowhere near as bad as you get further south.
Try telling folks south of the Strait that a) you are from Ak, and, worse, b) you don't follow Rugby and have no idea who the Crusaders are.........
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I'm a self identifying Aucklander. Fifth generation, very proud of it. There are lots of us around you know. I don't think that Auckland is better than any where else, it's just my home.
Agreed, even though, right now I don't live there. But also have never been able to get my head around non-Aucklander's obsession with Auckland, especially as it's not reciprocated. We tend not to notice or really care. I guess its the classic small town obsession with the big smoke..like NZ with Australia and Australia with the USA. In global terms Auckland is probably the only region in NZ that could really be called a city in 2008. Here in Indo, I live on the outskirts of Denpasar, with a population approaching a million, but Indonesians rarely refer to it as a city..its the biggest town on the island.
part of the reason for that is all the people who live in Auckland :-)
which people in particular, or is that just everybody? Can you be more precise?
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Wellington Sux
No it doesn't but I'm always bemused by the need to redefine a city as a bunch of people who can get together easily and walk everywhere.