Posts by Sacha
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you threw your hands in the air and couldn't bring em back down again cos of the crush
I'd forgotten about that part of the 'experience'.
I get the impression that that sort of...lifestyle?...was fairly slow to catch on here
Nothing near the scale of the UK with their close complementary markets in Europe and the USA, viable career path for DJs, bigger population and cheap party drugs.
However for example the Gathering attracted crowds of up to 10k and there were often about a thousand for visiting DJs at Auckland gigs (and that was just drum'n'bass - way more for the house ones). Admittedly our equivalent to those dodgy warehouse raves were mostly only a few hundred people big and without the thrill of outwitting the cops. Well, most of the time.
Why is no-one doing anything like that anymore?
Events like Phat and Splore are keeping the outdoor tradition alive even if only once every year or two. And there are undoubtedly others I'm no longer aware of due to my advanced lack of fitness and impending senility..
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My experience has probably been coloured by having UK festivals as my yardstick.
And mine was clouded by comparison with the superbly-organised Gathering. After a few times I just stopped going to BDOs.
The unreasonable bias towards rock acts also pissed me off. Who puts Fatboy Slim in a tiny tent alongside the 'supertop' rather than on the main stage when he was one of the biggest sellers in the world at the time? The crowd crush was so full-on we had to escape while we could still breathe.
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apparently got paid a $15,000 monthly retainer just to corral a bevy of willing women on demand
That aspect slipped right past me until you mentioned it now. I must be gazing at even fewer magazine covers than Keith.
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the saddest part is not that we choose "real life", but that we choose to enshrine its stupidest, crassest, most debased stories... and call it celebrity news.
Hyperreality, etc, but I'm not feeling like delving. Where's Giovanni?
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We may be forgetting how puritanical the United States is, though I agree the celebrity and throwing to lions aspects are rather universal.
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NZ seems to be one of the last surviving physical media markets where CDs are retailed beyond the odd K-Mart or Best Buy
So that's why the musos all want to visit us. :)
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probably make nothing from selling cd's now
Ahem, I'm sure Mr Grigg can hit us with some numbers, but I believe music sales are still pretty profitable aren't they?
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Oh and I'll be most interested to see what comes out of the current discussions between Health Ministers Ryall and Turia about tobacco control. I'm aware that what's on the table will be challenging politically, to the credit of the public servants involved.
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With pressure on health and social service budgets, the balance and boundaries between personal and social responsibility is bound to become an even hotter issue this year (especially after the Budget in May).
To give another example, someone who knowingly accepts risk by choosing to play rugby can end up in a spinal ward alongside a person with spinal tumours. Both can have exactly the same degree of function, same level of existing resources and consequently need the same amount of support in everyday living. However the rugby player is covered by ACC and funded far more generously than the cancer patient.
The ethics of health and disability have some strange features.
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Now a Baptist theologian in the Herald tells us Myers may have helped deliver the valued sense of danger that young women have been missing due to PC parenting. Bless.
Many of these young women come from middle-class homes where they were brought up on a diet of safety.
...For many of these young women, binge-drinking is not about alcohol or simply getting "pissed". Rather, it is about creating dangerous situations where they don't know what will happen next.
Drinking sessions are for them a high-wire act, full of exhilarating fear and unanswered questions. Will they survive the night? What will happen to them? Where will they be in the morning and who with?