...OMG!
I see it all now, it all fits together..
Justin... Beaver... Timber... Lake...
Idle youth... idols... idylls...

Prof Haywood... Rustle, anyone ... would you please... find some way to silence this guy, as he is very close to uncovering the the plot that I, along with all Canadians (including…

Heh, yes the wailing can be deafening.

...not to mention the blubbering!

World's Largest Beaver Dam found in Canada

That is a dam good story!
and no Resource Consents I'll bet...
Clever Rhodents and their Gnaw Willed Order...

Spookily, Beaver originates from the Dutch Bever and German Biber (from Indo-Euro…

All those French-language folk songs they're taught in school, about flaying beavers and suchlike?

Canada's busy rodents are safe for now, what with top hats being out of style, and their tireless industry bringing glory to our nation:

World's Largest Beaver Dam found in Canada

I was born in 1957 and I was too young for the Beatles.

I had two older brothers who brought the frenzy into the house so I was exposed to it younger than most :).

I'm just not sure why such a need to go crazy exists in our species (and yes I am accepting that Canadians are the same species :P).

All those French-language folk songs they're taught in school, about flaying beavers and suchlike?

hmmm old enough to remember the Beatles frenzy and to be horrified that my female friends liked this.

Uh, if you're old enough to remember the Beatles frenzy then you must be the same age as Beiber's Opa. I was born in 1957 and I was too young for the…

It has ever been thus. There are no more ardent fans than tiny girls.

Oh yeah I get that. And I also get that it isn't a creation of the modern media. For some reason there is a need to adulate (and ululate).

Jeez, how old are you Bart??

hmmm…

Bart, listen to the interview in NZ – the guy keeps saying "Gew-man" in his NZ accent – the interviewer – being a NZer – does not pronounce the "R" sound.

The technical terms are "rhotic" and "non-rhotic".

That was the very first thing I thought when I heard about…

theres now a whole gaggle (googol) of wannabe teen idols looking to do the same.

it's like kiddie porn with live soundtrack, dunno…

The question is why do 13 year olds need idols/heroes that have to be adulated en masse.

You know, pre-teen idols are not just in the public eye either. I remember years ago, when I taught gymnastics in Canada, I held up a jacket left behind by a very good-looking,…

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adulated en masse

and ululated

Heh, yes the wailing can be deafening.

adulated en masse

and ululated

He is being educated by tutor

Yeah right

Er, yeah right and he will probably go to college after high school.

In my entire life, I have only met one Canadian who didn't finish high school – and even he was forced (by his appalled girlfriend) to get his GED.…

He is being educated by tutor

Yeah right

I did listen to the piece which is why I know he looked at the written question. Sure he could just have been flustered, him not being used to being interviewed and all, or he could just be a kid who knows…

And as for his not recognising "German" – well he did look at the the written question so one presumes that he really just doesn't know

Either that or he was genuinely flustered by what he thought was a rude question, to the point where even seeing the card didn't…

Justin Beiber's family is German. His Opa is German. He's spent time in Germany and speaks a little German.…

What is it about that age that requires some kind of mass…

Not a geography (or languages) major.

To Canadian ears it sounds like "Jewman" as there is no "r" sound in Newzilndish. You could see Bieber was startled by the question, which he mistakenly thought was rude.

The Canadian take on rude questions is often passive non-comprehension which is usually interpreted…

Not a geography (or languages) major.

Woah. Hope his music career lasts a long time, limited other prospects apparently.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkKqihEUmH4

Not a geography (or languages) major.

what do you reckon ?

Well, I reckon this, from Otaki's finest, is about as real as it gets and deserves those bucks far more than those pot addled freaks that normally get to make vids:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yCUrj0DYHE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXQOEDOpnrA&feature=related

Sir, I tip my hat to you.

...this is the Bee Bah Bee Boe See Whirled Service...
and a tip o' the hat back & to Martin's fillips, natch!

may your night be chill blue...
and your frost ever pink!

There was an early Chills song that could be wilfully misheard as 'Bieber Bieber Bebo' which would make it impressively, if not perfectly, prescient.

Damn, I spelt it wrong on page one...
Damn, those spelling Bee Bah Bee Bah Bee Boes

Add your own alliterative titles and reductive lyrics from the catalogue of the Ramones if you will.

There was an early Chills song that could be wilfully misheard as 'Bieber Bieber Bebo' which would make it impressively, if not perfectly, precient.

This just sounds like a peevish, unsuccessful applicant for funds. I need a more considered explanation of NZOA's failings if you want my attention.

Maybe you need to look at who gets funded, check out the criteria for selection, who selects, why and open your ears and eyes to the…

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I was going to say, the properly popular forms of theatre were always pretty daft too. But I've got a sneaking and sometimes non-ironic admiration for proper melodrama.

I just reserve the right to run once the screaming begins..

Haven't read Twilight but again, not in my age range really.…

fuck those clowns at NZoA treating us like dumbed down peasants who think we can't choose what we want to listen to and see ourselves.

This just sounds like a peevish, unsuccessful applicant for funds. I need a more considered explanation of NZOA's failings if you want my attention.

It's a bit like Twilight isn't it? I find Stephanie Meyer barely literate and downright creepy, but I'm not a twelve year-old girl and I'm not supposed to get it.

I think she tells a compelling story (first book).

I get it and I'm 63. Yes, there are co-dependent relationships…

That would be Chris Brown.

Zing!

It's a bit like Twilight isn't it? I find Stephanie Meyer barely literate and downright creepy, but I'm not a twelve year-old girl and I'm not supposed to get it.

Except that Justin Bieber doesn't try to convince twelve year old girls that abusive, one-sided relationships are romantic.

That would…

Yay...now if a few more old school music heavyweights in the media/blogosphere would say what they actually thought in public rather than fear losing their VIP status to insider gigs and free lunches.

Its time for Brendan Smyth to go. Start…

just what is happening at NZ On Air? While the funding schemes available are appreciated by those who use them, just when is this government going to get around to chucking a…

Why structure video/music funding to cater for groups/artist who will try to make…

Maybe she didn't know what she was given.

I think it's more that she didn't have any genuine personality in the first place.

That's probably the truth of the matter.

@Danielle- yeah, I'll concede that "Toxic" works. Actually, it was reminds me of the first time I listened to f…

Maybe she didn't know what she was given.

I think it's more that she didn't have any genuine personality in the first place.

images of Russell tucked
on top of a speaker stack...
...does someone have a recording
of that fab BFM live to air Chills
Mini Drama at the Windsor gig...

The two girls who stole his hat at the airport are students of my beloved. As Josephine said, she didn't know whether to laugh or cry--especially as they were bunking off school to engineer the hat theft.

I would compliment them on their considerable dash and enterprise together with their…

Having said that, I'm not Joni Mitchell convinced that Madonna marked the brain death of Western civilization. (On a tangent,…

Regarding Britney, I've always been disappointed by her music.

Apart from 'Toxic'. That one's a corker.

After that I had an ongoing dalliance with some of the glam rock boys – Sweet, Slade, Mud et al (Bowie and T-Rex were a little grown-up for me, however)...

...who all, incidentally, have all received fairly extensive reissues and fulsome appreciations from Mojo magazine at some point.

Which I…

I took my daughter (who is right into the whole Justin Bieber thing) to Lady Gaga. It was a fantastic show, and a real contrast to the Pixies the night before.

Anyway, a good friend was holding her 40th…

I constantly remind people who dump on Britney

You don't have to be a certain demographic to recognise that Britney made some absolutely classic pop tunes. Anyone who can't see that is just a moron.

Still at least we don't have these guys to contend with. My irish nieces are Bat crazy over them. Beiber is Kurt Cobain…

I heard him on radio dismissed with the self-damning line from a commentator, "I'd never heard of him until the other day".
Well, isn't that true of everything? You have to hear about something a first time.

But the subtext here is, "He can't be any good because I haven't…

And I agree Tom: I constantly remind people who dump on Britney etc that I really have no opinion because she doesn't…

I did thoroughly enjoy the more surreal aspects of his stop here though. Tess Woolcock and Josh Gillman's Twitter feeds were a marvel of absurdist observation.

Which is not to say that seeing a bit of teeny girl hysteria ("We ran until I died of exhaustion!" made me smile) isn't refreshingly sweet – Justin Bieber is almost (but OMG!!! just that…

I heard him on radio dismissed with the self-damning line from a commentator, “I'd never heard of him until the other day”.

Well, isn't that true of everything? You have to hear about something a first time.

But the subtext here is, “He can't be any good because I haven't…

My first love was David Cassidy – I felt some what guilty replacing his poster in pride of place on my bedroom wall with that of Donny Osmond – but goshdarnit I was gonna marry Donny, after all!

(I made sure there…

New Zealand's Terenzo Bozzone was too quick on the half-marathon leg to secure victory in the Texas half-ironman in Galveston yesterday.

It's just missing a comma, though even then it could still be better-phrased.

But I suspect there's a bit more to the we'd-never-heard-of-him factor. If Simon Reynolds and other critics are right — and I…