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Having had, over the years, the misfortune of being involved backstage at several performances given by kiri, operaNZ productions, opera in the park, her private 50th birthday pig-circus, I can honestly sayi believe she is the bloated arrogant pompous rude condescending vile cow that you can well imagine she would be. Amoung some of the gems of behaviour i have witnessed I have seen her spit her chewing gum into the outstretched hands of berated and abused dressers/wardrobe staff, i have seen her walk past and deliberately ignore her awestruck, proud as punch relatives, whom she kept waiting for an interminable time in the Aotea foyer after a performance, in order to schmooze some tosser she had obviously determined was of more value than her cuzzies from down the line.I have watched her swan about her "estate" in the Bay of Islands like some cross between cruella deville and Penelope Keith's "Margo" from "The Good Life" whilst the local maori "serfs" scutter about avoiding disturbing her with their presence....whilst still having to serve her needs such as housekeeping and groundskeeping...and trying to set up her 3 day birthday celebrations of hideous indulgence and excess. All the while trying to portray her persona of "just a good kiwi girl dun good"......
I have also witnessed Hayley's backstage behaviour and have seen nothing of such revolting behaviour or attitude from her whatsoever...
Personally i prefer opera to popera but with having seen kiris true nature i find it impossible to even listen to her (fantastic voice i agree) without having a strongly negative response....
This is the pompous cow who once declared she would never perform in NZ again untill it had a decent venue for her to perform in...and where did she first perform once she did return after that comment???....at the first of what became the opera int he park/starlight symphony annual events....in the Domain??? ok so if a scaffold stage set up in the corner of the Auckland Domain was an adeqaute venue for her to deign to come perform in was she not aware it has been there for a hundred years or more??? and then she goes on to perform at that respected acoustic masterpiece, the Aotea centre!?!?!?! i mean really!!!....just a sad old bag!!!! -
Equally pointless, but the fictional frame makes it a hell of a lot less fraught.
why pointless......???
surely challenging absolutist philosophical statements such as "Death is death, it's always horrible, and undeserved." is both desirable and frequently done by using extreme examples to test their legitimacy???
the chance to prevent the death of millions by the death of one is surely a legitimate angle to investigate with regards to ethics and morals????
death is often deserved, and desired (youth in asia etc)......tho i am assuming you were referring to murder as opposed to death itself....
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marginally on topic, a recent email exchange with the herald re a lame assed review...(all exchanges are complete I have edited out the sender/addressee info only).
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/author/story.cfm?a_id=208&objectid=10487656
BEST RUDE ROCKER
Billy Bragg, who spent much of his set reprimanding the sound guy - "I didn't come all the way from London to give you feedback!" - and complaining about our obsession with sharks.My first wasted rant……(itself embarrassingly semi-literate burble that should have been ignored!!)
I don't know which of you idiots obviously didn't get the concept of irony
and humour that Billy Bragg is well known and loved for.....he was having
a joke with his front of house sound engineer... and was making light
amusing comments about the sharks...(and perhaps your low rent gutterpress
papers cynical fear mongering shark sighting obsession-hype!!!).....once
again a staggeringly incorrect and primary school "journalism project"
level of output from you twits....pathetic!!
The first reply from the herald…….Staggeringly incorrect? Kinda obvious he was making a joke. Did we need to
spell it out to you? We named him "best rude rocker" for his efforts
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Feedback from the nzherald.co.nz websiteThis message has been sent via the NZ Herald Website
My response……ignoring the total nonsensical nature of that reply
"I didn't come all the way from London to give you feedback!"....
if your going to quote someone then have the decency to get it right!!!!!
he said....."I didnt bring you all the way from London to give me
feedback"........he then went on to joke about how his FOH engineer had
already been in NZ for 4 weeks getting a tan......but then accuracy and facts are not something one expects from the
herald.....hell you lot can't even run a spellcheck over half the things
posted on the website......fantastic journalism!!!!!
And then I got another bite from this fool….You obviously reckon you could write a better review - on the spot. So why
don't you and we'll post it online. You'd better use spellcheck yourself
"if your going to quote someone..."
But first, you'll need a sense of humour.To which I (after a few ales in the sun) replied……
Ahh yes, but i'm not in the business of print media...you are!!!!.....my
spelling is irrelevant when compared to the ignorant garbage that gets
spat out in what claims to be one of New Zealand's leading news
publications....(further example of the continued errors and crap that the herald puts out
as"journalism"...i just looked at the photo montage of Sir Ed's coffin
being brought into the cathedral.....for a start the caption claiming that
a wreath of flowers were placed on a photo....that is plainly and clearly
is the painting from the museum.....and the gentleman your rag states as
being a member of the police force is in fact from the airforce..the
errors just wash through your low rent tabloid don't they.....)as for writing a review that's not my job...its yours!!!!!! do it with
perhaps a modicum of professionalism and effort and your lazy ignorant
attempts might not be quite so annoying...but yes if i had been inclined
to, I along with most of the kids who passed ncea journalism courses could
have done a better job than that tripe........for gods sake take some pride in your work and "up your game"!!!!!!
And yet more twaddle from the astute herald employee…Alright, point taken. You hate the Herald. And based on one line you
disagreed with in a review, you've come to the conclusion we are all
unprofessional, bad at our jobs, lazy, ignorant and stupid. Would you have
had the balls to say that to my face? I highly doubt it.Realizing I was in fact dealing with a child__…..
Nope!!!..however I do hate the fact that the herald is so lacking.....it
would be far better to have a decent daily newspaper than the woefully
inadequate tabloid that the herald has devolved into in the 20 years....
thanks be to Arts&Letters Daily!!!!As for your leaping to the conclusion that i myself have reached a
conclusion regarding "all" of you at the herald are of a particular
nature..Hardly!!!....rather a ridiculous leap you make there...not trying
to crudely set up a "straw man" argument there are you???? Though i do
believe, based on numerous examples, that your paper, as an organisation,
is significantly lacking in the ability to perform even the simplest act
of spell checking, let alone error checking, your output....As for my opinion that some of you are in fact "unprofessional, bad at our
jobs, lazy, ignorant and stupid" well that opinion is based, in your case,
not as you incorrectly claim, on one line in review, but on several lines
in the particular review regarding Billy Bragg, and more conclusively, on
the staggering lack of inductive reasoning and argument you have provided
in the previous few emails....res ipsa loquitor!!!!and yes i would have gladly "had the balls" and inclination to have said
exactly that "to your face".....(rather schoolyard stuff your getting into
there!!!)__And then im guessing a grown-up at the herald got involved for the final missive I received from her…
Cheers for the feedback. I have to get back to work now. Have a good week.
Kind regards
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What would be amusing is if current "legal" highs were subjected to this onus to prove safety.....alcohol?...tobacco?....and conversely the current illegal substances also have their legality determined by such a process....now what is the LD50 on some nice Hokianga skunk???
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MY vote goes to Scruff!!!!
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robbery.... i repeat i found you to be an idiot and not worthy of further time being wasted upon in attempts at rational conversation......and nah dont i dont lug heavy speakers...on occaisions i get stuck telling others where to lug them to but thats about the limit of my involvement in that realm for me....
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also perhaps you might like to front up with your apparent "qulifications" and or background with regard to the music industry.....you hide behind an anonymous nickname and cast aspertions on others level of knowledge or experience....as compared to Russel who is about as open with regard to his background/personal experience frame of reference as anyone can be....
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Dude!!!!as your postings devolve further and further into illogic and low rent "argumentum ad hominem abusive" fallacies of reason you have explained your continued support of moore and his lowest common denominator jingoistic twaddle and lies.....
and yes the country could afford to pay you for your no doubt exquisite artisitic outpourings that you have crafted with great skill and originality for no other reason than your love of the craft and a desire to express yourself....."were not worthy.... were not worthy"...... and it would be even more able to afford it if they didnt spend all the dollars they do on NZ music month or any number of other initiatives!!!
has McCains been in touch with you about getting resource consent to commence mining the freedom fries deposits that appear to abound upon your shoulder??
as for standing in bars drinking a Spitfire.....SERIOUS QUESTION here..... any ideas where in Auckland i might find such a drop?? im counting on Galbraiths to the rescue when i return.....fingers crossed!!!!
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as for you ever being in a porition to pay me...HAH!!! niceone!!!!
apart from Promoters musicians are probably the last people on earth i would allow myself to be owed money by.....i have done, and will in future no doubt, provided my services directly to musicians but in those cases remuneration wasnt an issue as i was doing it gratis due to my personal interest in their work or the cause they were promoting etc....if im working in a professional capacity then i very fortunately have the luxury of only neediing to work for established, trustworthy, well resourced commercial entities...
i repeat...its show business not show art!!!
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if your unable to see the difference between the SATIRICAL entertainment basis of the Today show etc and the factually incorrect, outright lies, and deception of Moores "Documentaries" (as entertaining as they may seem) then you really are "the missing link....goodbye!"
do you think moores output is anything but propoganda??? it just happens to correlate with your preconceptions.....which by the way are most likely right.....but by intentionally decieving and manipulating his audience the way moore has been clearly shown to do he has lowered himself to the level of the scum he rails against!!!
moore uses deciet to prove a point
stewart uses satire to achive the same resultboth entertain and both push the same message.....its just one has some honour in doing so!!!