Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Where do you get yours? https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Martin Lindberg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258660#post258660 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258660#post258660 Indeed...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXvIkBe2Ll8

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 06:56:25 +1200 Simon Grigg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258659#post258659 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258659#post258659 RIP Donna. She changed the world (with a little help from Giorgio Moroder):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1km3Fbeo0w

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 05:08:00 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258456#post258456 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258456#post258456 Hiptathlon

Pelvis has left the building….

Bum's rush.

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 21:40:21 +1200 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258453#post258453 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258453#post258453 What the hell is happening here? Next thing, we will be discussing adult nappies--as advertised in a deeply depressing interlude in Call The Midwife*on TV One on Sunday night. Apparently you can get them in different colours.

* I watch it just for Miranda Hart.

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 20:44:50 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258451#post258451 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258451#post258451 Heptagon...
Even hipsters sometimes need hip replacements
Pelvis has left the building....

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 20:28:40 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258450#post258450 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258450#post258450 Tue, 15 May 2012 20:24:03 +1200 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258449#post258449 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258449#post258449 Tue, 15 May 2012 20:10:37 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258445#post258445 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258445#post258445 mobility scooters!Enough; or else you'll be bend. ]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 19:41:08 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258444#post258444 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258444#post258444 Tue, 15 May 2012 19:35:59 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258443#post258443 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258443#post258443 Tue, 15 May 2012 19:22:52 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258442#post258442 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258442#post258442 Tue, 15 May 2012 19:14:19 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258441#post258441 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258441#post258441 PA’s hip factor

Even hipsters sometimes need hip replacements ;-)

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 19:03:24 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258440#post258440 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258440#post258440 Tue, 15 May 2012 19:02:18 +1200 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258439#post258439 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258439#post258439 Tue, 15 May 2012 18:55:54 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258438#post258438 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258438#post258438 Tue, 15 May 2012 18:30:04 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258437#post258437 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258437#post258437 Sheesh!
I paid $340 for
*thorough eye exam (being doing these things since I was 6 – necessary)
*new Adidas frame & couriered lenses (yeah- orange & optical grade plastic.)

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 18:29:31 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258430#post258430 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258430#post258430 My current sunglasses cost $300 all up

I had to get prescription sunglasses because although my ordinary glasses can take clip-ons they're really awkward to take on and off because of the type of frame. $415, not including the exam.

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 17:30:59 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258424#post258424 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258424#post258424 Here they have these fancy machines they put on your nose. They press a button and it prints a prescription out the top in seconds. It's free if you buy glasses and if you require a longer eye test that's also part of the gratis service. My last pair of… ]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 16:54:56 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258423#post258423 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258423#post258423 Glasses seem to be one of the great scams of New Zealand. Why you should be charged for the test when you are about to be overcharged for the frames and lenses still bemuses me.

To be fair, my optician and opthalmagic surgeon suggested, that since initial cataract op had…

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 16:47:49 +1200 Steve Reeves https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258417#post258417 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258417#post258417 I was with some friends in a glasses shop some time ago, and I was holding forth about the scandalous prices---I think I used the words "for a bit of bent wire...".

This brought on a huge, loud tirade of, basically, abuse from the shopkeeper---including the priceless (!!) "how much…

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 15:58:56 +1200 Simon Grigg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258416#post258416 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258416#post258416 When I got a new prescription last year it was almost $400 to re-use my existing frames!

Here they have these fancy machines they put on your nose. They press a button and it prints a prescription out the top in seconds. It's free if you buy glasses and if…

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 15:35:10 +1200 Jos https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258398#post258398 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258398#post258398 great place to download old jazz and new beats, changes almost daily

http://rappamelo.com/

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 12:37:21 +1200 Danielle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258397#post258397 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258397#post258397 The disadvantage with astigmatism is the lenses cost a fortune. When I got a new prescription last year it was almost $400 to re-use my existing frames!

I have astigmatism in one eye and short-sightedness in both. I've worn glasses since I was ten. I get all my glasses from…

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 12:25:30 +1200 Martin Lindberg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258365#post258365 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258365#post258365 Because in my recent experience what used to take 2-3 days now takes around that many weeks.

I don't know where they make them, but I got mine about 3 days after exam and that was quite recently.

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 07:11:15 +1200 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258361#post258361 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258361#post258361 Chinese product without Chinese pricing?

May well be, cos last time I got glasses it took two to three hours.

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 00:09:27 +1200 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258358#post258358 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258358#post258358 discovered the joy of Chinese optometry
Does anyone know if prescription glasses are actually put together in NZ any more? Because in my recent experience what used to take 2-3 days now takes around that many weeks. Chinese product without Chinese pricing?

]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 23:00:25 +1200 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258357#post258357 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258357#post258357 The disadvantage with astigmatism is the lenses cost a fortune. When I got a new prescription last year it was almost $400 to re-use my existing frames!

Unless you live where I do. There are two huge optometry markets 10 minutes walk from my place. I've bought a few pairs…

]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 22:40:13 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258353#post258353 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258353#post258353 Some of my friends expressed commiserations that I had to wear glasses, but I was like, “Are you kidding?? Now I can see !!”

have heard similar from some who finally get a wheelchair

]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 22:07:16 +1200 Steve Withers https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258338#post258338 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258338#post258338 Mon, 14 May 2012 20:59:44 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258336#post258336 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258336#post258336 one eye=longsighted/other eye= shortsighted thing

I've known several people with this problem. Apparently it's easy to tell if you put a contact in on the wrong side. :-)

It's now possible to get contacts that correct astigmatism, although they are expensive and apparently not as good as glasses vision-wise (although…

]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 20:42:57 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258334#post258334 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258334#post258334 Mon, 14 May 2012 20:36:20 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258332#post258332 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258332#post258332 Mon, 14 May 2012 19:51:37 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258328#post258328 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258328#post258328 Mon, 14 May 2012 18:23:22 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258323#post258323 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258323#post258323 Mon, 14 May 2012 17:17:17 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258321#post258321 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258321#post258321 Maybe you’re astigmatic!

Nah just old.

Been short sighted since I was ... well, found out I was short sighted at age 11.

Developed long sightedness over the last 3 or four years, simple age related lack of ability to pull the lens into the shape need to focus on…

]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 17:07:07 +1200 Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258320#post258320 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258320#post258320 Mon, 14 May 2012 17:04:13 +1200 John Armstrong https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258295#post258295 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258295#post258295 I'm now both short and long sighted

Maybe you're astigmatic!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astigmatism_(eye)

I discovered that I was on the Friday before last, during my first ever proper eye examination. Since getting my glasses on Monday, I've been engaged in what can only be described as a delightfully distorted orgy of…

]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 13:27:39 +1200 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258262#post258262 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258262#post258262 Sun, 13 May 2012 21:59:19 +1200 Caleb D'Anvers https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258259#post258259 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258259#post258259 I guess I'll come around to them eventually, but streaming services — Radio and Spotify — don't really really work for me, and I never really got the hang of Last FM.
What really makes last.fm useable, I think, is the Chrome extension that queries the entire database seamlessly and…

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 20:59:31 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258257#post258257 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258257#post258257 All the Chris’s – Chris W, Chris, and Scott Chris – thank you so much for making my evening – China soundscapes & a lyre-bird – so excellent!
(Wonder if we could ever organise a meeting between tui&korimako&lyre birds & a troup of indomitable older Chinese with the birds & the games?
Be such…

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 18:54:50 +1200 Scott Chris https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258256#post258256 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258256#post258256 In Bali there was a bird that I'm convinced was recycling the incessant dominant local racket – the whine of low CC motorcycles. I have no idea what it was but it did it very accurately in the early morn.

Possibly a relative of the incredible lyre bird. This Attenborough clip…

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 18:31:01 +1200 chris https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258255#post258255 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258255#post258255 Yes all the live music on the streets and in the parks and compounds is chaotically beautiful: view out the window.

On Topic – taobao.com

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 18:25:25 +1200 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258253#post258253 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258253#post258253 Sun, 13 May 2012 17:02:29 +1200 chris https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258251#post258251 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258251#post258251 Sun, 13 May 2012 16:58:20 +1200 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258249#post258249 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258249#post258249 I've been wondering over the weekend if some of the really ugly sounds some Beijing birds make are connected to the constant rumble of traffic punctuated by the large bangs and crashes of demolition, construction, and, occasionally, fireworks. But out the window I can hear quite cheerful chirping.

But then…

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 16:51:45 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258248#post258248 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258248#post258248 Sun, 13 May 2012 16:47:20 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258247#post258247 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258247#post258247 n Bali there was a bird that I'm convinced was recycling the incessant dominant local racket – the whine of low CC motorcycles. I have no idea what it was but it did it very accurately in the early morn.

I have a crackly tape that sounds remarkably like a…

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 16:37:13 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258246#post258246 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258246#post258246 Great!
-cataract ops are very quick, and generally totally successful. It was wellworth putting the $5000 plus on my mortgage (because I was no longer able to drive safely, and driving isnt a luxury in a remote area....and while I was near the top of the list, the opthalmologist reckoned…

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 16:34:34 +1200 Simon Grigg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258244#post258244 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258244#post258244 Cicadas are reciprocal- but both tui & korimako will use tropes from other intruiging sounds

In Bali there was a bird that I'm convinced was recycling the incessant dominant local racket – the whine of low CC motorcycles. I have no idea what it was but it did it very accurately…

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 15:48:03 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258243#post258243 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258243#post258243 Bart – despite a cataract operation in my dominant left eye (which has given me better vision than I have ever had before – waua! waking up and actually being able to see! Right now!) I havent craved any kind of e-reader.

I was talking to my mum this morning…

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 15:36:04 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258242#post258242 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258242#post258242 It sounds trivial but it really isn't.

like many access features.

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 15:26:07 +1200 Simon Grigg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258241#post258241 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258241#post258241 Hrm. Unorthodox – but interesting – choice.

No so unorthodox – one of those pointless Mojo thingies also named it thus, as did the fabulous but sadly late Roy Carr in his just as fabulous The Beatles – An Illustrated Record way back when.

Mostly it's the originals that do…

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 15:21:59 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258240#post258240 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258240#post258240 and cherish the close-up vision I still have in my right eye

May you keep it a long time. I'm now both short and long sighted :(. It was just a feature that I hadn't ever though of as being useful and for me it is a great boon.

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 13:12:58 +1200 Danielle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258238#post258238 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258238#post258238 Nah, nah, nah: With The Beatles is it I’m afraid.

Hrm. Unorthodox – but interesting – choice. On the shortlist for most kickass unappreciated opening song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYa0S65E3vo

Plus some of the best of their covers in 'You Really Got a Hold on Me', 'Please Mr Postman' and 'Money'. And is…

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 12:34:14 +1200 Bevan Shortridge https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258237#post258237 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258237#post258237 Rewind, for a comparison of features in different regions. A lot of Region 4 DVDs will miss out commentaries and featurettes – of course a lot are either delayed in release here or never released… ]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 12:12:48 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258227#post258227 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258227#post258227 Bart – despite a cataract operation in my dominant left eye (which has given me better vision than I have ever had before – waua! waking up and actually being able to see! Right now!) I havent craved any kind of e-reader.

I just relish enhanced sight in my dominant…

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 00:09:38 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258221#post258221 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258221#post258221 One thing about e-reading I never thought of is, if I have to take my glasses off for one reason I can just make the font bigger. It sounds trivial but it really isn't.

I love books, physical ones I mean but you can take my e-book from my cold…

]]> Sat, 12 May 2012 23:15:40 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258219#post258219 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258219#post258219 aeolian cadences!

When you listen to birds as much as I do – and when you have the exceptionally good hearing that I do-
you realise that birds sing to and with the wind – as well as with each other- and with other sound factors* in their world-

most…

]]> Sat, 12 May 2012 22:53:17 +1200 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258197#post258197 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258197#post258197 Just to point out that if you acquire music in lossless (flax/wav) you can transcode to anything easily. Converting between two compressed formats isn't recommended.

So I try and buy everything in Flac / Wav at the fastest bit rate available.

]]> Sat, 12 May 2012 20:31:17 +1200 SteveH https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258195#post258195 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258195#post258195 Also, I can't use the iPad in the bath.
Why not?

http://www.over-board.com.au/waterproof-technology-cases/waterproof-ipad-cases.html

]]> Sat, 12 May 2012 20:04:16 +1200 Simon Grigg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258179#post258179 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258179#post258179 I had no idea it is well regarded.

Lennon's response was:

To this day, I have no idea what [Aeolian cadences] are. They sound like exotic birds.

]]> Sat, 12 May 2012 18:11:18 +1200 Stephen Doyle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258174#post258174 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258174#post258174 Sat, 12 May 2012 17:47:33 +1200 Simon Grigg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258173#post258173 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258173#post258173 DJ History

As you're aware Russell, Bill Brewster is in town – he's asking for pointers here.

Somebody needs to introduce him to some of our local crate digging legends over a beer or three.

]]> Sat, 12 May 2012 17:45:38 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258172#post258172 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258172#post258172 The tips I find on DJ History are always worthwhile once I get past the Balearic references to obscure Fleetwood Mac records.

The DJ History group on Soundcloud is a good follow too.

]]> Sat, 12 May 2012 17:33:40 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258170#post258170 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258170#post258170 Sat, 12 May 2012 17:26:17 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258169#post258169 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258169#post258169 With The Beatles is it My mum bought that new when it came out; I grew up with it and have always loved it. Pure pop in the best way. I had no idea it is well regarded. ]]> Sat, 12 May 2012 17:21:09 +1200 Simon Grigg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258167#post258167 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258167#post258167 Revolver: it's the best Beatles album. I think we can all agree on this. ;)

Nah, nah, nah: With The Beatles is it I'm afraid.

To back this I happily quote William Mann in the pre-Rupert Times:

harmonic interest is typical of their quicker songs, too, and one gets the…

]]> Sat, 12 May 2012 17:04:04 +1200 Paul Campbell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258153#post258153 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258153#post258153 Sat, 12 May 2012 16:35:30 +1200 Samuel Scott https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258150#post258150 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258150#post258150 Sat, 12 May 2012 16:14:10 +1200 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258149#post258149 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258149#post258149 Music: Mostly listening to radio, or sharing files with friends. Occasionally renting and ripping CDs from library. By radio I mean internet radio, the 50,000 odd channels on Shoutcast stream well enough to my Android over 3G if I'm out, and perfectly when I'm on the WiFi at home.

Books:…

]]> Sat, 12 May 2012 16:05:48 +1200 Martin Lindberg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258108#post258108 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258108#post258108 The Best of The Beatles" ]]> Sat, 12 May 2012 10:08:15 +1200 Scott Chris https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258107#post258107 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258107#post258107 Meanwhile, some free goodies …

Post Mint Chicks band Opossom’s newest MP3 …

Always get the feeling that I’m listening to an exhibit rather than a song with the Mint Chicks. So intense. Especially liked the collaboration with Pip Brown a couple of years back.

You can buy it directly…

]]> Sat, 12 May 2012 09:43:45 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258104#post258104 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258104#post258104 nuff respect to the moptop massive

teeworthy

]]> Sat, 12 May 2012 09:32:16 +1200 bmk https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258100#post258100 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258100#post258100 Jo Walton at Tor, however, is my goto blog for keepers.

Yep, she's great. I've just finished her extensive re-read blog on Patrick Rothfuss's Kingkiller Chronicles.

I also agree about finding it easier to read on a Kindle. I was, also, surprised to find this having been one of those…

]]> Sat, 12 May 2012 09:17:56 +1200 Danielle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258099#post258099 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258099#post258099 Revolver: it's the best Beatles album. I think we can all agree on this. ;)

My favourite comment on that remix, Russell, is towards the end and someone says something like 'nuff respect to the moptop massive'. Heh.

Righto, I'm off to lay down all thought and surrender to the…

]]> Sat, 12 May 2012 09:16:15 +1200 Ross McA. https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258098#post258098 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258098#post258098 and here is a you tube snippet on the making of the original...

An astounding original it is too. Hard to believe it was recorded first off for Revolver, cos it's a brilliant segue to Sgt Peppers.

]]> Sat, 12 May 2012 08:05:14 +1200 Phil fryer https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258096#post258096 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258096#post258096 Music,mostly comes thru; air frieghted Uncut Mag,Elsewhere,Marbecks,Jb's R /G.
industry MD mates for 30years,provide 10cs's per week, for awhile,see 3/5 gigs a week,local & O/S, cause my name is on the door – often !
Arts & letters Daily,keeps my eyes & ears on a cultural mix,books films literature,
there always seems to…

]]> Sat, 12 May 2012 05:43:40 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258066#post258066 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258066#post258066 Books from Mightyape.co.nz Fishpond.co.nz thebookdepository.co.nz
and a large number from bookaramas/secondhandbookshops…since my local “Take Note” closed, I no longer buy locally (except when I am south, where there still remain good local bookshops-)
Music-I never buy from iTunes or any on-line source – ditto for dvds.I have libraries of these…

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 18:40:00 +1200 Dave Howell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258065#post258065 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258065#post258065 I'll use that for stuff I would previously have got through the library. But things I want to re-read, or stuff like the Jim Butcher series that's currently being read by three members of my family, I'll buy in dead-tree format.

I've been astonished, and in all honesty somewhat dismayed,…

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 18:39:40 +1200 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258061#post258061 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258061#post258061 Fri, 11 May 2012 18:11:09 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258060#post258060 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258060#post258060 Basically, they’re not MP3 or FLAC files. I’ve still got devices round here that don’t know what an M4A is, but can play any old MP3 you throw at them. There’s nothing about an M4A that makes it better than an MP3 file, so there’s no reason to like them.… ]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 18:07:11 +1200 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258059#post258059 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258059#post258059 Fri, 11 May 2012 18:03:55 +1200 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258057#post258057 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258057#post258057 I keep expecting you to say where you get your porn from ;-)

After dinner. I'm more than happy to go into that, I just don't have time right now.

Though. As far as 'native guides' go (y'know, those people you trust to find stuff in the vastness of the…

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 17:51:24 +1200 Julian Melville https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258055#post258055 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258055#post258055 Can I ask what problems you have with m4a-files?

Basically, they're not MP3 or FLAC files. I've still got devices round here that don't know what an M4A is, but can play any old MP3 you throw at them. There's nothing about an M4A that makes it better than an…

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 17:46:07 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258053#post258053 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258053#post258053 I keep expecting you to say where you get your porn from ;-)

FWIW, Indie Nudes leads to a cornucopia of alt/indie/amateur, arty porn and porny art. NSFW, obviously.

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 17:20:57 +1200 stever@cs.waikato.ac.nz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258052#post258052 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258052#post258052 Fri, 11 May 2012 17:17:44 +1200 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258051#post258051 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258051#post258051 Those 30 boxes have sat in storage untouched for three years

I regularly weed our bookshelves. Rejects go out to the garage. If they can sit out there for about six months without me wanting them, they can go.

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 17:14:28 +1200 Pete https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258050#post258050 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258050#post258050 http://pricespy.co.nz/ ]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 16:51:35 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258049#post258049 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258049#post258049 Now I need to buy bookshelves...Our house had a weed-out of books when we moved house three years ago and got them down to 30 boxes full of our favourites, odities and rarities. Those 30 boxes have sat in storage untouched for three years — how many could I get… ]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 16:50:05 +1200 Peter Darlington https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258048#post258048 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258048#post258048 Call me old-fashioned (as some do), but I buy music on those round,, shiny things that come in plastic cases.

If you look on my Web Twitter page you'll see our CD shelves in the background, stacked to the gunnels. All that plastic, started to depress me after a while.…

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 16:45:48 +1200 Peter Darlington https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258046#post258046 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258046#post258046 My book-buying has alarmingly increased since I started using The Book Depository. What I want is always in stock, and cheap, and delivered for free and very promptly.

Yes, damn their eyes!

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 16:42:49 +1200 Peter Darlington https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258045#post258045 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258045#post258045 Can I ask what problems you have with m4a-files?

Just the DRM. Like MP3s that can be transported without prejudice and played in multiple players.

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 16:41:21 +1200 Rob Hosking https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258039#post258039 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258039#post258039 Main thing for me is books -always bought a lot second hand, and I'm buying more at abebooks.com, an international secondhand books site which acts as a gateway for secondhand book shops around the world.

Never had a bad experience. I've even been able to buy out of print NZ…

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 15:49:06 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258036#post258036 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258036#post258036 And that rare thing, a Beatles re-rub that shouldn’t be drowned in a bucket:
and here is a you tube snippet on the making of the original... and the fact that it appeared recently on Mad Men – for a mere quarter million dollars! *
I'll leave as a link…

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 15:37:52 +1200 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258035#post258035 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258035#post258035 Call me old-fashioned (as some do), but I buy music on those round,, shiny things that come in plastic cases. Nothing more enjoyable than rummaging through the New/Recommended racks at Marbecks.
For movies, I use moviemail-online UK. Just received a 5 DVD metal box of Mark Cousin's "The Story of…

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 15:37:08 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258034#post258034 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258034#post258034 I get some magazines issues from Zinio, works nicely on iPad but can also access them on my laptop. Cheaper than the print versions and I don’t end with a big stack of mags that I don’t know what to do with.

I subscribed to Harpers via Zinio for a…

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 15:27:38 +1200 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258032#post258032 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258032#post258032 Which is one reason I love my iPad.

I'll use that for stuff I would previously have got through the library. But things I want to re-read, or stuff like the Jim Butcher series that's currently being read by three members of my family, I'll buy in dead-tree format.

Also,…

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 15:07:22 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258029#post258029 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258029#post258029 Now I need to buy bookshelves

Which is one reason I love my iPad. I love real paper but we either have to buy a new house or go electronic.

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 14:51:30 +1200 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258028#post258028 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258028#post258028 For books, it has to be the Book Depository

My book-buying has alarmingly increased since I started using The Book Depository. What I want is always in stock, and cheap, and delivered for free and very promptly. Now I need to buy bookshelves...

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 14:47:20 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258027#post258027 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258027#post258027 Fri, 11 May 2012 14:41:52 +1200 Tom Beard https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258026#post258026 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258026#post258026 Yep, my kids play a lot of tunes straight off YouTube. It's only the keepers that they nick...

It took me a while to realise that I didn't actually own the last LCD Soundsystem album, because I was playing Home, Dance Yrself Clean and Drunk Girls so often on YouTube.…

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 14:40:05 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258025#post258025 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258025#post258025 Fri, 11 May 2012 14:36:19 +1200 Dave Patrick https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258024#post258024 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258024#post258024 Fri, 11 May 2012 14:34:51 +1200 Martin Lindberg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258022#post258022 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258022#post258022 or the damn M4a files

Can I ask what problems you have with m4a-files?

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 14:27:46 +1200 ppjamieson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258021#post258021 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258021#post258021 Fri, 11 May 2012 14:21:51 +1200 Carol Green https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258019#post258019 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258019#post258019 Fri, 11 May 2012 14:16:29 +1200 Peter Darlington https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258017#post258017 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258017#post258017 This post is very handy as I've been a bit of a music buying nomad since eMusic blew itself up. Partly hence, Russell and my conversation yesterday.

I'll be Mr Square and say that it's mostly iTunes for me.

Yes I use iTunes a bit as sometimes they have identical…

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 14:11:43 +1200 Tom Beard https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258016#post258016 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258016#post258016 Fri, 11 May 2012 13:59:44 +1200 Phil Light https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258014#post258014 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258014#post258014 Fri, 11 May 2012 13:38:20 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258012#post258012 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258012#post258012 Fri, 11 May 2012 13:29:27 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258010#post258010 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258010#post258010 I really am a techno turkey. I’ll try this:

http://www.discogs.com/

You didn’t actually put a link in there. Fixed it for you now.

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 13:22:39 +1200 John Armstrong https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258009#post258009 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258009#post258009 I really am a techno turkey. I'll try this:

http://www.discogs.com/

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 13:17:45 +1200 John Armstrong https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258008#post258008 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258008#post258008 discogs, which I use as an enormous musical family tree, invaluable for tracing the work and connections of artists I already enjoy. ]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 13:16:31 +1200 Martin Lindberg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258005#post258005 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258005#post258005 I'm interested to know where you get your cultural stuff — not just music, but books, ebooks, comics, video etc — and in y'all sharing with the group who you are in those places.

The A.V. Club is a pretty good site for finding out about all those things and…

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 13:07:03 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258004#post258004 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours/?p=258004#post258004 Discussion from blog post.

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