Posts by Simon Grigg
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Hard News: The Huawei Question, in reply to Sacha,
Happened years ago, spurred on by woeful transport/urban planning that encouraged shoddy chicken-coop apartments for predominantly Asian tertiary/language school students and made free parking at suburban malls more attractive.
And at least there are people back in the street. A decade back you could roll a runaway steam engine down the footpath from top to bottom on a weekday afternoon without causing human harm.
Now it bustles along quite well.
that means attracting big offshore retailers to suck even more out of the economy
We don't have the population to attract most, and even if we did bring in the global chains like Armani Exchange, Zara or proper Top Shop they'd head straight to the malls.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to nzlemming,
For someone who didn't much like punk, I'm still a little surprised at how much I enjoyed Foxx's Ultravox.
You can almost forgive them for naming one of my most disliked...
which unfortunately leads us to:
then to:
and unfortunately to:
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Scott Chris,
I though you said Carlene Anderson and I thought, now you're talking a common language:
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
I just went looking for that and there it is...
I'll click play one more time - the first minute or so of that is amazing, after that it's just fabulous - once I crawl up for air from my Philly box set.
Here's another:
Greatest UK pop singer ever.... (today it's all about gushing superlatives)
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Lilith __,
Ultravox. Still got no idea what this song is about, but.
On that Synth Britannia doco Midge Ure (who wrote it) says exactly the same thing.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
"You have thirty seconds to make at least twenty different plausible orgasm noises or this adorable kitten gets fed to this not-at-all cute puppy. Three, two, one, GO!"
Or - more likely - "The preacher has a vacancy in the choir. Three, two, one, GO!"
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Good Lord.
Which may be the perfect entry to mention the 4 CD boxed set of Tom Moulton remixes of Philadelphia International soul that arrived in the mail today.
It is - for the next few days at least - the greatest album ever released:
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Russell Brown,
But Chris told me it was called 'Nothing'
You may well be right. It's an hilarious, heavily disjointed piece of film, which I guess is deep in the Knox archives now.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Hebe,
Given the difficulty of procuring hallucenogenics in the early 1980s in the south Island, I suggest rebranding this as "Time to Spew -- the Fairhall river Claret box set".
Ha - brilliant!
At some stage I found myself in possession of a reel of Super 8 which documented a road trip taken by Chris Knox, Doug Hood and couple of others north to see Elton John at Western Springs in 1974. It was called something like Nowhere Goes North (Nowhere being the name of the Combi they used). I have no idea where I got it from, but we all tended to leave things all over Auckland in the late 1970s and I suspect I may have been given it when Toy Love went to Oz.
It was - I assure you - very chemical.
I returned it to Chris, along with box of pre-Tally Ho Clean demos that I'd also acquired somehow, in the late 1990s.
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to DexterX,
I also hate the Bee Gees
Some of the pre-disco psychedelia is actually rather fine.