Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Nice John Lennon birthday animation on the google search page today - ya need latest Flash
(or summat) though I think, 'cos I can't see it
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What were Gary Steels 'factual' errors that let his article down?
I'd hazard at least one error would be that
Real Groove was......New Zealand’s only serious music publication
I think Rip It Up and New Zealand Musician could lay claim to being serious and still continue...
...and Murray Cammick's SHAKE! was a
far better pop magazine than RTR Countdown
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So Auckland has changed games...
no longer embodying Snakes and Leaders
its rolls are now defined by Hide and Sikh......is that my coat?
I'll be off then! -
Patiently awaits the onslaught of pendantry.
It seems the world has moved on...
decimate
verb (often be decimated)
1 kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of : the project would decimate the fragile wetland wilderness. the American chestnut, a species decimated by blight.
• drastically reduce the strength or effectiveness of (something) : plant viruses that can decimate yields.
2 historical: kill one in every ten of (a group of soldiers or others) as a punishment for the whole group.USAGE Historically, the meaning of the word decimate is ‘kill one in every ten of (a group of people).’ This sense has been superseded by the later, more general sense ‘kill or destroy a large percentage or part of,’ as in: the virus has decimated the population. Some traditionalists argue that this and other later senses are incorrect, but it is clear that these extended senses are now part of standard English. It is sometimes also argued that decimate should refer to people and not to things or animals such as weeds or insects. It is generally agreed that decimate should not be used to mean 'defeat utterly.'
self fulfilling prophecies...
A 'vigourous assault, or attack' of pedantry?
vigorous surely...
perhaps it could be a barrage of pedantry
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On a serious note
Kiwi music won't be the same after
the sad news that Tony Parker just posted
R.I.P. Tex - Ian Morris dies in Napier -
R.I.P. Tex
that is sad news -
I've looked at life from both sides now...
after a raft of letters in The Press defending Bob Parker as only having one vote and therefore not responsible for all the "bad things" that have come down from on high in Christchurch.
Someone wrote in pointing out that therefore he couldn't be responsible for any good things that
had happened either!
Brilliant! Well done that person...
Occam can still razor laugh... -
Dot Dash and the Last Straw...
You I've missed most of all, scarecrow.
...more Goldbricking?
How was Kansas via Oz?
;- )PS Looking forward to William Gibson on
Nine to Noon today after 10am -
bloody aftershocks
- a couple over mag4 got me up early today...
but they dislodged a few other songs, such as:Stoned Euphonium
Human Instinct with Don McGlashanFunny Boys
Flight of the Rubiconchords - all acting up a storm...and some local covers of kiwi
and overseas songs, like:The Immigrant Song
Taito Phillip Field and the Titlersother Politicians followed suit:
No Futures b/w Smiley
by John Key, the double A side single
off his post-Parliament debut
Songs in the Life of KeySpinning, Spinning, Spinning
by local Black Eyed P - Michael LawsAnne Tolley with The Dunce Exponents
and The Missed Children's Corral
are in the studio to cover some Standards -
Bad Wolf...
maybe Affront Man is a more apt title?...these may be the final days, as P Henry mutates into Fenrir - the wolf that eats Odin at Ragnarok...