Posts by Mark Harris
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Consider yourself special...it's perhaps a little surprising that you still have access to dissident blogs and Gmail ;-)
Is PA a dissident blog, then? How neat! ;-)
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<quote>rather than an edit button, I'd like the preview function to scan the thread to see if anyone has posted any links contained in your comment, as a comment previously. (in which case it let you draw emphasis to the original post)<quote>
Nice idea! CactusLab, are you listening?
Can we have both? And a pony?
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so you are saying that she and her publicist decided she should die from cancer before she was 30?
Did I say that? No. No, I didn't. Read what is written, stephen, not what you want me to have written.
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She lives, she will die. That much is fact. What happens in between or, more importantly, what you know about it is up to her and her publicist. More than half of what you read in a tabloid (especially a UK tabloid) will be made up by a 'reporter' with 5 column inches to fill.
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but the reason i find it disconcerting that teens seem to love all this old stuff is that (a) they aren't rebelling; and (b) surely it shrinks the market (live/recorded) for new stuff. no?
a) they're rebelling against the marketing machines' desire that they only listen to the new hotness
b) the industry overall sales stats from last year would belie that -
OMG they do the FSM as well!
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Part of why they listen is because they can. In 1960, if you wanted to hear a song from 40 years before, you had to know someone who had (probably) the 78, and then you had to have a player that could do 78's. The most that most of us had was the radio, which might play your request (if the "hip" DJ could stop laughing long enough) - or you might hear some oldies on National Radio, in between all the classical (and Parliament).
There are great chunks of the back catalogue of New Zealand musical culture that you might never hear again, if they hadn't been put online in all their scratchy glory. But Generation Pod is finding that music is universal, that there was life before Nirvana and that their grandparents' music wasn't half bad. And that, to me, is Very Cool.
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Who moved my "f"?
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Juha
That's a really good article from Dast Company. Thanks -
Oh bugger, (should have looked first) Jason Kemp linked to it back on page 2, so if you looked at it then, it's the same one.