Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: The music I listened to, in reply to bob daktari,
sadly (being a dance music lover) not one DJ floated my boat this year... oh well Greg Wilson in March to look forward to
No shit!? I will look forward to that too.
I still harbour dreams of getting Leftside Wobble over for a Great Blend.
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Hard News: Word of the Year 2011 -- The Vote!, in reply to Ross Mason,
Think about how you have a perfectly good cup and your drop it and it ends up in a million pieces.
It’s Munted.
I beg to differ. I would argue that for a thing to be munted it must maintain some semblance of its original form. It should be beyond repair but still a thing.
A smashed cup isn't munted, it's smashed into pieces.
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Hard News: The music I listened to, in reply to hot_grits,
I imagine Cobra Khan’s Adversities is possibly a little on the chunky side for Russell’s delicate, generally heavy-avoidant sensibilities. But it is a great album no less. Fierce and rich with texture.
Delicate? Moi?
I've seen Cobra Khan play live and liked them. And I certainly get Beastwars, love Shihad, etc.
But Tool, Soundgarden, etc, just sound pompous to me. Not what rock 'n' roll means to me at all.
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Gigs, you say?
Same as everyone, I loved The Clean -- although I'd go for the set they played at the Arch Hill Sunday party at the King's Arms ('Point That Thing' with David on keyboards!) and Shayne's show. The Bats were delightful recently too.
Going way back to the beginning of the year, Holy Fuck were electrifying at Laneway and so were LCD Soundsystem at the Big Day Out. Also, the LCD final show webcast was the best concert I've ever watched on the internet; a tiny bit like actually being there.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to James Butler,
Can we call this Brown's Law (by analogy with Wheaton's Law)? "Don't be a dick, but it's OK to pretend to be one on TrueBlueNZ"
Precisely.
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Hard News: The music I listened to, in reply to flash,
Cool! Must hunt down a download ...
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to DCBCauchi,
However, if your aim is to promote a vigorous discussion that includes variant and unconventional (some would even say deviant) points of view, then you cannot worry too much about people getting their feelings hurt. Nor can participants be overly concerned with how they appear to others. What matters is the exchange of ideas, not self-serving posturing. The participants put their self-image to one side.
I, too, have been doing this for a while and I see it more as:
1. Attack the argument, not the person, although the line between the two might be blurry and people might be quite hurt by having their arguments mocked or torn up.
2. Do try and bear in mind that there is a person behind that screen name.
3. Argue positively and in good faith. i.e.: don't write something purely to wind up someone else. (nb: unless it's some wing nut blog and you're bored)
4. It's just a discussion thread on the internet. There'll be another one tomorrow.
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Wow. Doug, these are wonderful pictures.
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Just for Megan, there's a download of 'Damn Your Eyes'. It's just a128k rip from the original Soundcloud stream, but that's all there is out there.
And also for Megan, I think we need another big gay remix of 'Someone Like You'. Because one wasn't really enough.
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Hard News: Word of the Year 2011 -- The Vote!, in reply to Danielle,
Anecdata point: I am as middle-class as they come (I grew up on the Shore, for goodness’ sake) and I am equally puzzled by munted being on the list because I’ve been using it forever.
Dude, I personally explained “munter” to Kim Hill on the radio some years before the much-loved character of that name turned up in Outrageous Fortune.
The point isn’t that munted is new -- and I don't think it carries any great weight of class either -- it’s that it had a particular resonance this year in the context of #eqnz.