Posts by Kyle Matthews
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This looks good:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/audio_video/podcasts/the_bugle/
John Oliver of Daily Show.
"The caucus is like selecting your leader with a tea party, amazing it hasn't caught on"
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That's a pretty fair summation of the situation Danyl. A bit of a plague on both your houses really.
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The bells will only work for a short time. They learn to hunt with them.
Now there's an image. A couple of cats beating some poor bird to death with a couple of bells. Maybe wrapped up in a sock? Cat mafia.
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I remember that Karen Hunter tour, Kyle Matthews do you think that that good atmosphere you remember from ARC (as it used to be) can be recreated by pushing play on your home entertainment system?
Oh yes, the live music experience is definitely different from the studio recording.
But lots of live music experiences I find get wrecked by excessive volume. Live music seems to often translate into loud music, which is a shame, and often not necessary.
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The problem with keeping the volume down while attempting a balanced mix is you are stuck with being as loud as the loudest instument off the stage. this is commonly the cymbals or snare drum.
Yes those are good points. It's big venues where they've miked up all the drums to hell and then every guitar to go with it so that I feel deaf at the back of the hall that gets me.
I heard Pluto at the Dunedin Town Hall some four or five years ago at orientation and I got to the point where I concluded that the music would be about the right volume if I was next door in the public library having a wee read. I went out of the main hall and into the outside corridors because the noise got to be unpleasant.
I have tremendously fond memories of dancing to Blackthorn every Monday night at the Albert Arms in the mid-90s. The floor used to bounce up and down about six inches there were so many people doing their own impression of Celtic dancing in a cramped space in front of the band. At least we had rhythm, if not talent.
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Really though you shouldn't be going to live concerts without hearing protection these days.
I really don't get the whole loud live music thing, never have. I'm not such a massive fan of live music to start with - I won't just pay to hear a band unless I already like them, as I'm more into it for the music than the experience of the gig.
But for me, the whole listening to a band play live would be vastly improved if they would turn down the volume about 25%. Of everything except the lead singer's mike, I find it very annoying that it's so hard to hear the actual vocals these days.
Paying 10, 30, 90 dollars to have my hearing damaged for a couple of hours, when I could buy the CD for $25 and play it a hundred times in a much more pleasant environment... becomes a bit of a no brainer for most bands these days.
Best gig I went to in the past five years was Karen Hunter at ARC in... 2002? Her with her acoustic guitar, about 20 people sitting around on couches drinking coffee and wee tidbits of conversation in between lovely husky singing and wonderful guitar playing.
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But that diversion would obviously just be pedantry. And “guns are dangerous” is a more sensible starting point for a conversation about guns & gun use than “such-and-such power source is intrinsically evil”.
Ah, you need to spend some time talking to NRA lobbyists. "Sensible? Guns don't kill people! People kill people!" Or, if you like to remain non-violent and not bash them with the butt of a gun, like me, stay away from them :)
And it’s difficult to debate whether it is a good or bad thing in a particular circumstance with someone whose starting position is that it’s the preferred power source of Satan.
Yes true. But I think it'd be fairer on the Greens (or, small-g, greens), if they were fairly represented in terms of their knowledge rather than by stereotypical anecdote. I think we'd probably find that most Greens could give you a pretty good amount of information about the various sorts of energy as it's a particular interest of theirs. Better than members of most other political parties. They'd be pretty biased, but that's what politics is about.
After all, a sizeable portion of our community portion of our community believes the earth is only six thousand years old and was made in seven days. Which, if it's true, must have some pretty big implications for the energy debate. I'm going to listen to the greenie first I think.
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I used to have a pair of Siamese cats, but given that I moved away to university, they really became my parents.
Emma's wee note made me notice that this sentence makes more sense with an apostrophe in 'parents'.
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Oh I wasn't defending them. Just pointing out how the finances probably work out well for them about 90% of the time.
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Does McGillicuddy Serious still exist?
They wound up after the 1996 election. Some friends who were candidates said that it was just getting too hard to be silly enough any more - mainstreams parties such as NZ First and ACT had 'stolen their centre' so to speak.
I also wonder why AFFCO's making all the noise? Surely its the insurance company thats up for the million dollars? Or were they "self insured"? Or did they not insure themselves properly against all the risks they were relieving ACC of?
They were presumably self-insured. Once you're big enough you can cover the risk of covering a couple of hundred employees and as long as you don't get any really big claims, it's a saving not to be insured, on the averages. The profit that the insurance company would have made, you end up saving.
Of course, if you suddenly find you're liable for the lifetime costs of an employee who gets shot in your carpark...