Posts by Russell Brown
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I'm starting to work it out. The playlist and discovery stuff is awesome.
I think I'll have to write a Help file blog on actually using it though.
Saving things on my phone remains the big problem, because it's contingent on enabling iCloud Music Library.
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Nice one, guys.
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Anther Dunedinite. Kayne Strang and band, last night at the first of a series of events in Flying Out's Pitt Street basement. Pleasant evening, good music – and home by 9.30!
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Hard News: Friday Music: Mixed Blessings, in reply to Andrew G,
Really enjoyed the Saints doco. Thanks
No worries. Oddly enough, I was put onto it by the old, old friend who originally introduced me to The Saints, way back in high school.
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I'm listening to Beats1 and quite enjoying it, even if I don't like all the music. It's much better than the NZ commercial music stations. I can actually bear to listen to it and find out what the current pop music sounds like.
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Hard News: Whakamomori: Raw, open and honest, in reply to ,
I don’t know you mean when you say “we all agree”
Steven, this just seems unhelpfully niggly. Don't we agree that follow-up is important?
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Hard News: About Campbell Live, in reply to Alfie,
The Herald summarises the Press Council decision but appears to make no apology to Bailey.
I think it's pretty clear that would be the decent thing to do now.
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Hard News: Whakamomori: Raw, open and honest, in reply to ,
This then raises the questions: who are the correct people?
I'm not sure if "correct people" is the right phrase, but Mike's work is conducted through his own organisation, the Key to Life Trust, rather than through publicly-funded services. And it does seem that the social services mainstream is wary of his approach.
One advantage of a coordinated approach is that you can plan in advance to get support services in behind a campaign – the It's Not Okay campaign against domestic violence is a really good example of that. I was asked to be part of the ad campaign, but the ad campaign was joined up with support and information – it got people thinking about the issue and then gave them somewhere to go.
By contrast, something covered in the doco is the Northland school that Mike got banned from after he visited. Not because he'd done anything wrong, but because he'd been too effective – and the school didn't have the resources to cope with the demand from students after he'd spoken to them.
And why should we treat metal health in a demographically spacific way?
I'm no expert, but I think it makes sense to anticipate that teenagers might respond differently to adults – especially where there might be a danger of copycat behaviour. As Malcolm Falconer explained in the interview, one thing Mike deliberately didn't do was charge in to acute situations, shortly after a suicide.
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Hard News: Whakamomori: Raw, open and honest, in reply to ,
Mike King is doing much the same thing, but his target demographic is different. So lets get this correct. It’s different becouse it’s not sanctioned by the correct people? Or that the target demographic are young adults?
I would say "not sanctioned by the correct people" is the main one, but both of those things are true.
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How the Supreme Court's decision is playing out in Iran:
A leading Iranian actor has apologised after coming under pressure over a tweet he posted in support of a historic US supreme court ruling on gay marriage.
Bahram Radan, who is known as the Iranian Brad Pitt, created controversy in the country when his tweet hailed a verdict last week which made same-sex marriage a legal right across the entirety of the US. Homosexuality remains a taboo subject inside the Islamic republic and is punishable by death.
“The US supreme court’s ruling that same-sex marriage is legal was historic, perhaps on the scale of the end of slavery ... from Lincoln to Obama,” the award-winning actor tweeted in Persian at the weekend.
But within a few hours, after many users bombarded him with homophobic abuse and hardline media criticised him, Radan deleted the tweet.
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