Posts by Rich Lock
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
Muse: The Very Odd Future According to…, in reply to Russell Brown,
I'm okay with the discussion thus far.
You're more of a Cliff fan than Craig is, then?
-
Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to JacksonP,
For reasons that may be considered in some circles as equal, but opposite, I concur. The only 'whatever the future' PR campaign I'm buying is the one in which we survive long enough to enjoy it.
Yeah, that too. Voting Green could easily be argued as hugely against my own self-interest. If that interest was defined rather narrowly: in purely monetary terms, and in terms of making it harder to indulge in various hobbies.
If Green policies were enacted, I'd probably end up paying a big chunk more tax, and I'm also a big petrolhead. I also do my bit to try and hug the occasional tree, but I've come to the realisation that I need a lot more legislative stick to make me 'do the right thing', than a self-provided carrot can give me.
As the frog once said, it ain't easy being green.
-
Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Jackie Clark,
I knew I could count on you, oh fabulous one.
You're too kind, m'dear.
-
Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Jackie Clark,
So what's the best thing to do for all of us, then, who want to see a change of government? Do we all vote Labour, and hope for the best? Do we split our vote and give our party vote to Green? The latter is what worries me. A bit like the Auckland Mayoral election a few years ago, when people gave their votes to others, and Banks got in. Not the result anyone wanted.
A few years ago I realised that more or less every election for the last 20-odd years, both here and in the UK, I'd been hearing the same background whisper from the supposedly 'left' party, which was itself threatened with vote erosion from the left.
NuLab in the UK, threatened with vote erosion from the Libdems. Labour here, threatened with vote erosion by the Greens. 'Don't vote for them, vote for us, otherwise the rilly rilly eeevil tories will get in, and you don't want that, do you?'. So you vote for them, and they move in, start taking you for granted, knock you around a bit, and sleep with big business behind your back.
Well, personally, I'm kinda tired of being told it'll be different this time round, baby, she meant nothing to me, I promise I'll treat you right if you'll just give me another chance.
Labour don't have a hope in hell of getting back in, so I'd prefer to actually vote for something, rather than strategically. Green it is.
-
Muse: The Very Odd Future According to…, in reply to Danielle,
He's out too, because of 'Devil Woman'. :)
-
Muse: The Very Odd Future According to…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Yup, another gold-digging uppity ho gets put in her place. Which might speak to the truth of where Public Enemy was at, but it sure ain’t no party song.
‘She watch channel zero’ has some…interesting….lyrics.
The woman makes the men all pause
And if you got a woman
She might make you forget yours
There’s a 5 letter word
To describe her character
But her brains being washed by an actor
And every real man that tries to approach
Come the closer he comes
He gets dissed like a roach[Flavor Flav:] Yo baby, you got to cut that garbage off. Yo! I wanna watch the game. Yo, cut that garbage off now. Yo, I got the
Tyson fight on, you know what I’m sayin’? Yo, we gettin’ ready to
watch the Super Bowl, we got a black quarterback so step back.Although it’s the first track that got me interested in hip-hop, as Terminator-X cuts up a Slayer riff in the background beats.
No one gave a squirt of piss (those of you who know the reference good on you, those who do not you should do some research) when Rammstein came to BDO. And I bet they have not heard “Pussy” or seen the video clip. Why did no one care? Because its not Hip-Hop.
Well, Heavy Metal fought it’s own wars against censorship a couple of decades ago. And Rammstein get a pass because it’s, like, ironic and shit, yeah?
-
Muse: The Very Odd Future According to…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Not every rapper has to be a sociologist.
I got 99 problems.....out of 100 correct on my final Sociology exam.
Can we get Tiki's name correct? I believe it's a double-a in Taane, but I may be mistaken.
-
Muse: The Very Odd Future According to…, in reply to Craig Young,
including Tiki Tane’s attitude toward police officers
Well, strictly speaking, that was NWA...
-
Muse: The Very Odd Future According to…, in reply to DCBCauchi,
How is ‘hate media’ defined? Have I got the wrong end of the stick again?
No, but it's a big issue to deal with (a bit like 'positive discrimination' - does it work/does the end justify the means, or not?).
And, as other commentators have pointed out, possibly a distraction in this instance. The main point is the abuse of process (or not).
-
Muse: The Very Odd Future According to…, in reply to Russell Brown,
I’m not real comfortable with Odd Future being described as “hate media”. The music’s misanthropic and often offensive in its themes and language, but it’s not the same thing as Beenieman’s “coming to Jamaica to execute all the gays”.
Fucking hate media, how does it work?