was that at the 'Two Month Club'?
which was where? Nelson St?

http://youtu.be/7GWL-lXtlqE

http://youtu.be/HvsOPzQikBg

some Chills
and Sneaky Feelings too

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My theory is that after years of carpet manufacturers trying to eliminate static build up, they joined forces with Hairdressing gel makers,who created a mixture of black lard and iron…

if you Like em on Bookface.
a detail worth including

That's such a sad look for Hosking. Bwahahaha!

I trust you invited everyone back to yours afterwards :-)

This seems eminently sensible.

Fair point, sir. By that phrase, I meant that I placed my shiny new compact disc in an optical drive attached to my computer and clicked the button to import the songs on it, having previously set my iTunes software to use the Apple…

...it's so hard to keep up!

I got the shiny vinyl. Which, I must admit, I was a little surprised didn’t come with a download code. Still, sounds pretty damn fine through the needle.

Might wait for…

It seems to be an issue that every mainstream social democrat party in the industrialised world…

I don't think they are worthless but maybe they have lost their way. I think they are trying to please everyone without offending anyone. They could just accept they are not in it alone.

While there have been occasional pretenders, as any Australian Liberal Party grandee will assure you, there has only ever been one pair of truly legitimate eyebrows.

It's not a question Geoff. Its a statement, and proving quite effective today. Frankly I see a similar response to when I was a punk rocker in !978/9 in NZ and the same in OZ from then onwards. We could do nothing right. I found…

Stuart Nash's N*A*S*H Billboards round Napier are particularly tone deaf too – what is he saying?
That he thinks politics is a comedy?
That Hawkes Bay is like the Korean War?
Which character does he want us to think of?
All I see…

It's a pathetic stunt. Seeing Labour MPs howling that free speech shouldn't be tolerated in our society or politics is the definition of entitled petty authoritarianism.

The problem is that both Hipkins…

I imagine that these new songs will be absolutely massive live. Tbh, I haven't bothered too much with new Shihad albums for a while, but this one is a beast.

Vietnam was an utter tragedy on so many levels, and it also casts a massive shadow over…

There’s plenty of room for that, Russell. But I'd like to think there's legitimate questions to be asked about how politicians use that in campaigns. I know this seriously risks getting Godwin-ish, but you…

Seriously? Link?

Parties are only "serious" if they speak to the old and the rich.

@chrishipkins v dangerous when megalomania meets disaffected. Totally irresponsible behaviour & no place for it in NZ politics – or society

There's no place in our society for the disaffected to feel angry. Right. Fuck Stuart Nash.

Haven't today's media/political commentators ever held passionate views about anything political and expressed them collectively?

Drinnan's media column notes the nearest thing we'll get to an apology:

"I think it would be better if I had taken my reaction down by…

I believe the Nats backroom worked hard at that angle – bound to dogwhistle older voters – but agree those repeating it without any thought are mostly useful idiots.

Exactly – and there's the more general point that he's a Minister…

Yeah, that's fair comment.

I mean, really, the only thing that's "new" about this is the event organisers taking advantage of the…

More than 10 years ago some Australian politicians were doing the same about The Herd singing "Burn Down The Parliament" (complete with drug references!), then NWA's " the police" springs to mind. And wasn't that Tane guy getting headlines recently…

A lot of the genuinely intellectual ones, like Simon Upton and Rob Storey, retired from politics years ago. Or are…

Especially since when you talk to people who have actual contact with him he is apparently smart and hard working, he apparently actually reads and comments on some of the grant applications and they are not light reading.

There are…

(Snap). It isn't a smear when the guy rolled in the mud of his own volition.

And owner of a signed copy of Mein Kampf.

If you pay a lot of money for an autographed Mein Kampf I damn well will think less of you. "Owning a book" is wilfully missing the point.

"Federated Farmers is refusing to explain the exact origins of $7.45 million in “other revenue” it has recorded since 2008, as PwC auditors flag “significant financial reporting matters.”

Kind of like punk rock in 1976-77, methinks?

Is there really any surprise at the chant arising from a combination of students, alcohol, a function hosted by a political party opposed to John Key, in an area where the National Party has failed to provide adequate leadership in the…

Well, point take and well made. So, you know... play to your real strengths not distasteful twatcockery. I don't actually care that much about…

‏@TheNBR Election 2014: 'F*ck John Key' and how Laila Harre just helped National get re-elected

It's when they try the same tactic with their larger allies or repeatedly shoot their own feet that I despair at their selfish stupidity.

A faction would rather lose than become part of a left wing party with truly radical elements like the Greens and IMP.

But it is only a…

Listen up kids, here's the real rabble-rousers...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOD9e7I6bHs
are you ready?

or in the immortal words of Skip Williamson:
__"An' when you're smashing the state, kids...
don't fergit to keep a smile on your lips
an' a song in your…

Also while I don't think it's Nazi-like, "fuck John Key" is never going to play…

Unlike for example the right honourable Mr Joyce in full "I see nothing mode"

Do I like politics consisting of a bunch of kids (god I'm old) shouting their dislike of the PM, and lets just for a second do them the courtesy of considering their dislike…

Head-desk.

cos they'd never do it on their own.
someone think of their pure innocent souls!

"chrishipkins: Finally had a chance to see the Dotcom video everyone's talking about. It's alarming. No place for that kind of thuggery in NZ politics"

"chrishipkins: Getting a bunch of people drunk and getting them to chant abuse isn't political leadership. It's…

oh, puhleese. Internet Party policy forum. Mana policy statements. Yep, nothing to see there..

What I thoughted.

Second is Danyl at the dimpost’s ‘scare the middle-class horses’/distraction from real issues…

Their policy page is actually quite good — not least because it's a small miracle of good political…

this! If any young people followed the boring old news media... they'd have their suspicions confirmed -that "old" people really are quite weird

Had the pleasure of hearing the Shihad album last night – wow its amazing and simply…

I might be the only one who didn't know this, but I thought FVEY was a bizarre title for an album until a rogue Wikipedia link led me to discover that Five Eyes (and its military abbreviation FVEY) is the…

Danyl reminds us what we missed in the meantime:

Labour…

Well, that's an interesting assumption.…

Is a party only serious if it speaks to…

Lock up your pearls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plZRe1kPWZw

As for this, Russell —

Is it rude and unsophisticated to chant “Fuck John Key!”? Of course it is. It also quite within the bounds of the kind of protest marches long attended by the…