Posts by Sacha
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"Welcome to California" - exactly
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It's hard maintaining a position of good faith with politicians when their occupation rates so low in public trust polls for a reason.
However I believe most have the best of motivations even if their methods aren't always admirable. It's too tough a job to attract the moderately committed (though that level of passion is also part of the problem).
Yet I feel perfectly comfortable saying that Garrett, Hide and their enablers are worthy neither of our trust nor the privilege of office. Those who voted for them deserve better representation.
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it was generally implied (in the media, etc) that Worth's comments were of an inappropriate sexual nature and there's been little dispute about that being the case
The whole idea of carefully refusing to say why is that it creates an information vacuum. I wouldn't go assuming we know what happened. You could say it seems likely to be about more than 'comments' given some of the other behaviour that has been tolerated since. Anything but "simple".
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It was that simple.
Actually Grant we don't know that at all - because Key refused to tell the public why one of his Ministers resigned.
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Thanks, Recordari. Maps is beautiful song - even moreso when I heard the backstory
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Can't we have critics calling it as they see it, rather than repeating the received opinion?
I welcome people raising informed concerns about the state of our music industry, and it's certainly not about musos being Kiwi.
However Sweetman bitching beccause TNAF aren't rock and roll enough for his tastes just annoys me. It's like complaining that a cat doesn't bark loudly enough.
The Herald did the same some years ago by getting Russell Baillie to review drum'n'bass gigs and his columns were littered with rock-framed assessments like "clattering" drumlines. I mentioned it would be like asking one of their specialist classical reviewers to express a meaningful opinion about a rock gig ("dreadful lack of harmonic progression"), but I don't think it troubled editorial consciences much. I'm exepcting Sweetman won't give a toss either.
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I know and respect two of the four trustees. I can't say what they think they're doing there.
I'll be interested to hear. I know someone who knows Gabriella but I've never seen anything about what she does or believes. Wonder if Corrections are exposing inmates to Te Secret?
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Simon Sweetman can't resist being a crusty know-nothing. Apparently he's keen on Phil Collins.
But when Chris Knox or Dave Dobbyn or James Milne/Lawrence Arabia won a Silver Scroll you knew it was because he had written a great song; a song that danced, that pulsed, that was alive - that twisted and grew, that had a melody, some lyrics, some meaning, something to say...
But this year The Naked and Famous won the award. I think it spells the end of the award being taken seriously as meaning anything for serious songwriters and the craft of songwriting - it's a dead duck now; some cool kids that can say "yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah" can win. That says Game Over.
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Sobering thought that NZ didn't have our own Feingold. Not one.
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Chris go back and do some reading will you - that's a term *you* introduced here.