Posts by Jackie Clark
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Craig, to be completely fair, and without wishing to put words in his mouth, I'm fairly sure that Kyle was talking about "our" children as in all the children of the world belong to all of us. Allegorical. Metaphorical. My white, hetero, fat arse. (Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.)
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In a country as small an nz where many artists make an impact purely from their own initiatives, independently this always seem like the awards were a promotional exercise for the bigger players who had decided to form a club and give themselves awards.
also noting that a lot of popular and great music is made outside of that scope and that wouldn't it be great if the awards were selected by people who had a knowledge of what was going on (hang out at one of a handle full of venues will do that) and selected based on merit, rather than membership of the club or wanting to promote oneself through award recognition.
I know I'm going to regret asking this but what club do you speak of, Robbery? I've heard this line from other people, that the NZMA are just a big boys' club. There are a very small group of musicians in NZ making a living exclusively from their music, so it's not as if we're talking people who make shedloads of dosh giving themselves all these awards. Nesian Mystik all have day jobs. And I'm sure the rest of the nominees in the categories do too. My brother won an award a couple of years ago, and he's a teacher. Was the relative success of their album and the award they recieved about air play? Undoubtedly. Was one single from that album played incessantly? Absolutely. Are they rolling in it now? God, no. I don't see any old boys' network at work here. I know I'm not an insider like you, or Simon, but still. Are you talking about the record companies who distribute the music? I'm not sure of your premise here. I acknowledge that the music companies pick up on stuff that's "saleable" or "commercially viable" and plug it like hell. But I don't think that is a huge bonus to musicians' chances at an award, if that's what they want - unless of course it's for airplay or sales. Of course it's the members of RIANZ who vote for the awards. You and Simon would know who they are, I would imagine. Either way, wouldn't they be people who knew a bit about their stuff? It's fairly obvious, robbery, that your argument as always is with the music establishment, such as it is, of NZ. The RIANZ's and the NZonAir's. Just because your favourite musicians' aren't up for awards doesn't mean that the finalists are not there on their own merit. That's a bit unfair.
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I completely get the Greens billboard. I think it speaks very clearly to what the Greens stand for.
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Re the Music Awards - very glad to see Nesian Mystic in there for the Peoples' Choice. Feleti works as community liaison in my part of Mangere, and he comes to our kindergarten every Wednesday and he's a hell of a lovely young man.
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Character. Leadership. Integrity. My mulatto faggot arse.
Beautiful.
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When I first enrolled I went along to a meeting of a group called the Monty Python Appreciation Society.
Oh yes, university clubs. I'm afraid the only ones I belonged to were the Unifems and STAR (students against racism). We didn't have any catchphrases. We were too busy being earnest. I did hang around with a group of people who called themselves HULC (the left handers' club). But all they did was watch Hitchhikers' Guide every Weds nite, or whatever nite it was on back in 1982. <sigh>
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Oh, Jason. That's just sad.
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Craig, bless your funky soul.
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proudly told me she was one of ther names on that list (and she was indeed), she'd left NZ because she was so disgusted with the gummint.
I did point out that she appeared to have returned
ROFL
WTFATPL [wtf are these people like?]
eggsackery - I do get so tired, nay fatigued, of people blithering on about how bad it is here, and how they are going to Australia. Could we not be more imaginative, people? How about moving to, oh I don't know, Russia? And what's wrong with Belgium?
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But I really hooked into it in 1994. It was a sad time for us; we were struggling with infertility, not yet sure about what to do, not even really comprehending what had happened to us. That was the year that I discovered that the shower is a good place to cry, because the tear marks don't show so badly.
I just wanted to acknowledge you, Deborah.