Posts by Danielle
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Hard News: Some things just don't let…, in reply to Lilith __,
I know several Magnetic Fields fans in Auckland alone. Fear not!
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Anyway, here's the video for 'Hello Hello'
1. You know what would really help Bic in her particular 'hiking through New Zealand with a donkey on windswept country roads and beaches' situation here? A HAIR TIE. Jesus lady, break out a scrunchie if you have to.
2. Not revealing what's in the suitcase - ARGH!
3. She is such a wonderful pop songwriter that I find it difficult to say anything about the music but get all swoony. That shit is right in my wheelhouse.The funniest thing
In the epic battle for my favourite Verlaines song, that is up there. 'How long have you been living with him anyway?'
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Muse: The Very Odd Future According to…, in reply to Grant McDougall,
all we’d have available to listen to is Cliff Richard
He's out too, because of 'Devil Woman'. :)
I've argued about Tyler the Creator with a friend before. He was all 'this has no value!' and I wasn't happy with that assertion. I have a long history of loving songs which make me a Bad Feminist (TM), and I often ignore lyrics anyway in favour of other things like beat or flow. I also note that this kind of lyrical thing in hiphop particularly is often a sort of crazed braggadocio which is meant to make people laugh with how horrible/excessive it is, and/or meant to rark up middle-class middle-aged people. But OTOH... it's kind of gross and hate-validating, even if it does sound cool. Thus, I fence-sit, pathetically.
(This is all apart from the issue of avoiding normal Council process, which I agree is quite dodgy.)
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give or take a year at the end
Doesn't it go up to 1965? Or do those people get to be 'Generation Jones'?
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Cracker: On the trail, pt 1., in reply to Martin Lindberg,
Sorry. I've decided my personal marketing slogan should be 'Danielle: Harshing Your Mellow Since 1974'.
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Cracker: On the trail, pt 1., in reply to Kyle Matthews,
But if you were to set a personal retirement age of 60, should we start paying you then?
I get that. It's not that I disagree. I think I'm just a bit peeved by these ideas floating around the retirement discussion, both here and elsewhere, that if you're a sprightly sort of 65, tally ho old bean, why not keep on trucking doing your terribly enjoyable and fulfilling job? As I said, uh, diplomatically on Twitter, "The answer to the question 'why shouldn't people keep working into their 70s?' is BECAUSE WORKING FUCKING SUCKS AND WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE."
(Here, where I am not limited to 140 characters, I can note that of course not ALL jobs suck, but most of them obviously do, or they wouldn't be jobs, and I am sure that the lovely person I have hired to come and clean my bathrooms while I am Hugely Pregnant would greet the well-meaning suggestion that she should continue to work for some unspecified longer amount of time with a giant bird-flip, and I wouldn't blame her one bit.)
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Congratulations! Good work, team. (Also, one of the five percent of babies who arrive on their due date. Whoda thunk?)
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Cracker: On the trail, pt 1., in reply to JacksonP,
That show is all about the constant renegotiation of in/appropriate behaviours within an inherently ridiculous and highly gendered subculture, dude. I'm all over it.
(Plus DJ Pauly D is endlessly quotable. "Oh YEAH!")
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Hmm. I think Winston's a pandering racist douche myself, but I must say the "old people are stupid amirite?" thing does seem a bit much around here on occasion...
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Cracker: On the trail, pt 1., in reply to DCBCauchi,
How do you spend your time now? Your spare time after paying bills and looking after children?
Pondering my own inadequacies as a socialist-feminist revolutionary, mainly. And sometimes I watch Jersey Shore.