Posts by Lilith __
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Notes & Queries: Confessions Of A Sleepwalker, in reply to hugo,
They turned up with a blanket and a hot chocolate 5 minutes later. They said, “you’re not the first and won’t be the last…”
Wow, the things security guards must see! Glad they came to your rescue. :-)
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Hard News: Friday Music: History, motherfuckers, in reply to Danielle,
If you’d like an opinion about music unswayed by baubles and trinkets, you could ask me: I’m a housewife with a giant music collection.
Danielle, will you please start writing a music blog? It would be an AWESOME thing to come out of this mess.
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People who go to lots of gigs and mix with people in the music industry often have knowledge and insight that someone who merely buys CDs doesn't. Excitement and engagement can make for superb writing.
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Capture: Spring Breaks, in reply to JacksonP,
Took my close up lens, but not the tripod. Seems they best go together, with hindsight.
Tripods are for sissies! ;-)
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Since none of us can see the future, I'd rather stick with what's happening now. Lorde's having a big success, and hurrah for that. Team makes me feel like dancing. Excuse me...
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Hard News: Friday Music: History, motherfuckers, in reply to Russell Brown,
There are literally hundreds of these covers on YouTube. Amazing.
I love that so many young folks have been inspired. They obviously feel a connection with the lyrics. Fantastic!
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Hard News: Friday Music: History, motherfuckers, in reply to Jim Welch,
I just have a hobby-horse about people saying “oh, that’s the tall poppy syndrome” every time a NZer says something critical about another NZer. It’s lazy, it’s anti-intellectual, and it discourages honest debate.
Sweetman's review is not honest debate. Of course critics should be able to respond honestly when analysing local acts, but this isn't analysis, it's bile and spite.
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Hard News: Friday Music: History, motherfuckers, in reply to Peter Johnston,
judging by the quotes you have presented here, this time he has gone way too far. NZ’s tall poppy syndrome lives on, sadly…
I totally agree.
I’m usually in favour of “don’t feed the trolls”. But it’s one thing to be gratuitously mean about someone from the other side of the world who will never know or care what you think. Lana del Rey will survive your character assassination. But Ella is a local girl, and she will read this, as will her Mum and Dad and brothers and sisters. They will be hurt, and that sucks.
If you don’t like her music, that’s fine, but she’s one of ours, and she deserves your respectful treatment.
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Hard News: Friday Music: History, motherfuckers, in reply to Dan Slevin,
Worth remembering that Stuff bloggers don’t get paid so all he has to measure his own impact are page views, comments and furore. (Also hard to justify time spent on second drafts too I’m guessing.)
Very few bloggers get paid. But I could name you at least a dozen off the top of my head that write powerfully and brilliantly, far more so than most of what newspapers do pay for. Look at the folk here at Public Address. High standards got nothing to do with money.
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Hard News: Game Lorde, in reply to Russell Brown,
the super-cool Antoine de Caunes!
"Lorrrrrduh" as he calls her. :-)