Posts by Joe Wylie
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Very deep. Very moving.
Somewhat more low-brow, but not entirely irrelevant:
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Why would Cullen preface his request for trustiness so coprolalicly ?
Just someone's way of coping with the traffic and insane house prices, etc?
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I can't believe Lawtanya hasn't provoked at least some comment. Let me be the first to congratulate you on un-earthing some genuine internet gold!
If you liked Lawtanya, you'll love BoingBoing & Growabrain:
http://www.boingboing.net/
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I'm all for the promotion of giving a shit about your music when it comes to people who play it, but utterly against the promotion or glorification of musical ignorance by people who don't do anything but listen...
I recall hearing a visting Charlie Parker clone, whose name eludes me, being interviewed on a Sydney radio station. His repertoire consisted entirely of interpretations of existing tunes, the show-stopper being a drawn-out free-jazz version of the Doors' Light My Fire. Jim Morrison, however, was treated to a lengthy diatribe. While it was fine to appropriate his work, he was entirely devoid of any musical talent. So there.
I reckon that Sturgeon's Law ("90% of Everything is Crap") applies to musicians just as much as it does to critics.
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most formula one racing drivers and all professional racing car drivers started out in the cart racing competitions when they were kids and progressed through the ranks. They didn't learn to drive when they were 20 and suddenly realised how awesome they were and turned pro.
Yet another boy racer, and from Taranaki:
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Nice historical time-slices, thank you.
From a little before the "Funky seaside village" era - late '77/early '78: as you rounded the point heading towards the city, on the ruined sewage-structure that later became Kelly Tarlton's was the clearly-visible graffiti NZ - DISCO DUMP. -
I have no idea what sort of reward Psych Canterbury offers participants in these tests, but chocolate fish seems to be a popular currency. Here, for example:
http://www.ling.canterbury.ac.nz/experiments.shtml
I'd respectfully submit that such inducements can only skew the demographic, as it takes a certain kind of person to bite the head off a chocolate fish.
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Canadians will spend a fortune on their kids' teeth.
That and maple syrup.
Sodium bicarbonate powered submarines were the best-ever Weetbix freebie, I collected all the colours. -
Paul and our NZ friends describe a very different era in the 1960s with terrifying dentistry with foot powered treadle drills . . .
Lordy. The only time I ever saw one of those drills was in a display of an army field hospital at an open day at Linton camp in around 1964. Very effective disincentive to recruitment. My local primary school Murder House had a drill that buzzed loud enough to dislocate the individual plates in your skull, but it certainly wasn't foot-powered.
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congratulations and thanks Russell & crew for PA.
Yes Sir.