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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to Rich Lock,
I stuck a hardcopy on the fridge at home.
This is definitely fridge worthy.
Doesn't he want the company to grow? He shakes his head. "We get offered 200,000 unsolicited demos a year and yet only sign about one artist a year. We're basically saying no to everything, lots of big artists as well. You need an element of fearlessness to do that. It's basically an anti-business philosophy."
Perhaps one Adele a year would be enough for most people.
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Leigh Davis in the Reading Room discusses Wittgenstein, Curnow, taste in poetry and a few other things besides. Lots to read, but some interesting things covered, if you have the energy. The link is to page 7, where Lone Kauri Road is covered in some detail, with sample verse.
In Lone Kauri Road these compositional ideas blow up. Time is revealed in the sheer of one process, the representation of a coastal sunset in the west, against another, the process of writing. The poem is the Big Bang in New Zealand poetry. It is the most dramatic delamination of scene and the conceptions of language set among New Zealand words. And the central reflex of the poem, that things looked at hard look back harder, with its soft connection to Nietzsche’s parable of the abyss, sets a distinctive velocity and violence in all of Curnow’s subsequent writing.
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Hard News: A Century Since, in reply to Lilith __,
Hmm, feel like I've hijacked this otherwise brilliant thread.
More Curnow, anyone?
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#thatboyneedstherapy
The whole album kind of works.
another first
I'll keep serving them up, if you keep slam-dunking them.
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Hard News: A Century Since, in reply to Sacha,
chin-furniture
I consulted Google, and was reliable informed there's no such thing.
However, I am disappointed to note that this helpful wall chart does not include Chaise Lounge.
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Hard News: A Century Since, in reply to Lilith __,
OMG, now I'm seeing sofas EVERYWHERE!!!! The red one is nice.
Wondered when you would notice. Thanks. The physical manifestation is in my lounge.
Have couch, will travel.
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Hard News: A Century Since, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
we are the theses of our parents
bracketed and put out for marking...A+
A life history
a two minute mystery
or a love poem.Garden
back veranda
It's spring
there's Frost and light fornication in mind
with a happy ending
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to Simon Grigg,
I'm New Here
Jamie XX Remix still streaming via the Guardian. Nice soundtrack for a Monday morning.
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Hard News: A Century Since, in reply to Islander,
chaise longue!
I do like a good chaise, but not for too longue. ;-)
a flurry of commas
& then
a full stop.A comma coma
'Ja make an
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Back on topic... turd-polishing goes online, and there's mention of the Devlin incident.
And more here.
"We also use article spinning - a technique which works on the principle that Google likes unique content; taking an article and rotating alternative keywords to create dozens of unique articles
[with hyperlinks] ... which are then placed on article sites around the web."I feel so much better. And Internet New Zealand director Rhys Coffin says;
"There's lots of dirty little secrets involved in getting websites ranked," he admits. But he says he draws the line at spam-bots...
Small mercies.