Public Address | Cafe | Cracker: We Haz Talent? https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Tim Michie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297314#post297314 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297314#post297314 seeing young talents shine in interviews as well and where they're coming from, quite appropriately free to air. ]]> Fri, 04 Oct 2013 10:25:18 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297302#post297302 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297302#post297302 a pernickety pedant's post...
Sunday magazine piece by the prodigal singer herself,
Apropos nothing really, just wondering which sense of prodigal you were invoking here?
is it that she is:
– yielding abundantly (luxuriantly, even)?
– recklessly spendthrift or profligate?
(in wanting to give her music away perhaps?)…

]]> Fri, 04 Oct 2013 08:19:28 +1300 Damian Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297266#post297266 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297266#post297266
LORDE!!! Now I have got your attention....

Heh – yeah it might read a bit like that. But I just had some thoughts I wanted to put down in writing, which is kinda what a blog's about, no? :)

]]> Thu, 03 Oct 2013 17:39:41 +1300 BlairMacca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297262#post297262 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297262#post297262 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 17:15:43 +1300 Damian Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297190#post297190 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297190#post297190 This piece would have been a lot stronger if you’d deleted the first six paragraphs. 250 words to say that you don’t care about Lorde? I

I'm not saying I don't care about Lorde. That's not what I'm saying, and I wouldn't want you to think that. I READ all…

]]> Thu, 03 Oct 2013 12:18:02 +1300 Robyn Gallagher https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297180#post297180 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297180#post297180 This piece would have been a lot stronger if you'd deleted the first six paragraphs. 250 words to say that you don't care about Lorde? I'd rather just read about the rockquest!

It’s proof that New Zealand’s Got Far More Talent than silly TV shows would have you believe.

And…

]]> Thu, 03 Oct 2013 11:52:40 +1300 Damian Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297167#post297167 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297167#post297167 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 11:17:25 +1300 Damian Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297165#post297165 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297165#post297165 You can’t avoid Lorde; this from today’s New York Times:

naaanaanaaacan'thearyounaaaanaaanaaanotlisteningnaaanaaanaa

]]> Thu, 03 Oct 2013 11:08:47 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297157#post297157 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297157#post297157 You can't avoid Lorde; this from today's New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/arts/music/shes-16-but-not-thinking-of-sweet.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20131002

]]> Thu, 03 Oct 2013 10:34:15 +1300 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297145#post297145 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297145#post297145 Gee there's some great bands there. Paper City got screwed if they didn't go to the national final.

Grumble grumble at that list of bands from Smokefreerockquest. Die!Die!Die! did not compete there, they formed in 2003. Carriage H won in 2000, and then the band fell out and two members…

]]> Thu, 03 Oct 2013 10:04:25 +1300 Ana Simkiss https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297077#post297077 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297077#post297077 Rich, I LOLd.
Rockfreesmokequest. How long has that one been rolling around in your head?

]]> Wed, 02 Oct 2013 22:17:32 +1300 Damian Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297069#post297069 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297069#post297069 I’d love to know the technical details behind John Bu’s video

He used a program called Cinema 4D I believe.

]]> Wed, 02 Oct 2013 19:06:59 +1300 Jarno van der Linden https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297065#post297065 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297065#post297065 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 18:50:57 +1300 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297064#post297064 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297064#post297064 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 18:44:37 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297063#post297063 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-we-haz-talent/?p=297063#post297063 Discussion from blog post.

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