Posts by Tom Ackroyd
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Do I not recall a super superb Clean gig at the old Bodega around 1999/2000?
That might have been the Bats Bodge gig I remember from around then. (Although in my memory that was around 1997?)
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How would it sound to them? How does a McCahon look to someone who's never seen one?
I'm not from these parts and The Clean weren't part of my musical history. Coming to them late, and learning of their history second-hand, makes me yearn for a past I never had.
Their Wellington gig was superb - just the simple opening of "Point that thing somewhere else" made me, ooh, all shivery. And *exactly* the same sound as the record. Could it be the same gear? The absorption of Robert Scott's musical molecules into the fabric of his bass guitar?
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If in 20 years we discover that we could have stopped global warming and we did nothing our children will not forgive us.
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Isn't the whole "we owe it to our children" thing just craven hedging?
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2."Fuck off you crazy old dyke."
I love it. Do you have a link?
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Buy some Sam Broad gear at Craft 2.0 -
I merely meant to suggest that a move from "blank-slate" to "informed by science not sociological wishful thinking" philosophy in the formulation of social policy might be seen as a Good Thing. By me, for instance.
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That give me an idea - perhaps an elimatination diet, Russell? I mean, is it the dialectic, the poststructuralism ...
I'm pomo intolerant. Gives me irritable brain syndrome.
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DOH, I thought Tom was just being all Paul Holmesey...
*looks around, points at self*
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Russell Brown anti-intellectual? Surely not. Eh, readers.
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Blimey, Che has a blog.
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I enjoy reading spiked but where Furedi et al lose me is their refusal to accept that Darwinian thinking as it applies to human nature should be brought to bear on social policy. (See Peter Singer and the "Darwinian Left"). They still have a discredited (Marxist?) belief in the plasticity of human nature, and their whole approach squares badly with their optimistic, pro-science, skeptical, "we will overcome" approach, which appeals to me.
It may be a matter of politics that they continue with the climate skepticism, so don't expect an about face any time soon ...
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Sorry Andrew - what exactly does the well-known fact that carbon dioxide is heavier than air have to do with the global warming debate? And where is your evidence that "CO2 will eventually fall to earth."? Like, when?