Posts by Russell Brown
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to goforit,
Its documented, look up Murdoch/Uber on goggle, he became a share holder about 6 months ago.
Recode reported that he owns a small stake, perhaps 0.5%, through an investment vehicle.
He owns 15% of APN, which he bought into last year. But APN is floating NZME, the local vehicle that includes the Herald and The Radio Network – it really wants ou of NZ.. It’s possible that Murdoch could step in and pick up more of NZME as APN shareholders let go their NZME shares, but far from certain.
Anyway, I think the possibility that Murdoch has been directly influencing Herald coverage of Uber is beyond remote. NZME has other things to worry about, like the prospect of merging with Fairfax NZ.
It’s a different story at the Huffington Post, whose editor in chief Ariana Huffington is now on Uber’s board – there have been claims that she killed a HuffPo story that was critical of Uber.
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Hard News: Obama's Mana, in reply to Paul Campbell,
not sure whether it’s the Alzheimers or the coke)
Whatever it is, Michelle is clearly wondering wtf is going on.
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Hard News: Obama's Mana, in reply to Joe Boden,
The anti-Clinton hysteria is a fully and intentionally manufactured product of the republican witch hunts against the Clintons which have been doing on for 25 or more years.
True, but it's interesting the way it's jumped the tracks so that a lot of lefties believe it – even to the extent that some of them are calling Sanders a traitor for negotiating a notably progressive platform as a quid pro quo for his backing of Clinton. I would note that a lot of those people don't seem to have a deep grasp of history ...
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Capture: Garden of Arcane Delights, in reply to Lilith __,
But I can give you this photo from winter house hunting.
Old school!
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Curse of…, in reply to Grant McDougall,
Yes. I'm pretty sure the stand-in drummer will have been a mate of Craig Taylor, the future manager of The Chills.
Craig was working at the time with the Thompson Twins' publisher, which also had an interest in Point Studio. Wild guess: maybe it was former Thompson Twins drummer Chris Bell?
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You know what's banned, Marc C? You.
I have asked you not to redistribute these videos here and you did it anyway.
To be honest, I won't miss your tendentious lectures.
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Curse of…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Posters: Toy Love
Oh, I love this.
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The is the live version glimpsed in the Curse of the Chills trailer, recorded May 10, 1985. I was presumably there, and this how the song always sounds to me at heart – fast and defiant.
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Apparently there were five attempts to record 'Oncoming Day'. It says here ...
This is the first of five separate attempts to record the song "Oncoming Day", the fifth and final version being released on the Submarine Bells album in 1990. This particular version was recorded and filmed at South Dunedin's Mayfair Theater circa October 1982 by cameraman Peter Janes. At the same time, they also recorded and filmed a version of the song "Dolphins" (an alternate live recording of which finally appeared on Disk One of the Secret Box compilation in 2000), however the said film has never been screened and still resides in the T.V.N.Z. vaults. The second version of Oncoming Day was recorded in March 1985, this particular version was scrapped and is available on Disk Two of Secret Box. The third version was recorded during the "I Love My Leather Jacket" sessions at Point Studios, London in December 1985 (with a different drummer other that Alan Haig to tackle the difficult drum beat), and the fourth was recorded during the June - July 1987 "Brave Words" album sessions, again recorded at Point Studios in London. Like the December 1985 version, this version was scrapped too.
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