Posts by Jeremy Eade
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Mostly it is asking you a question that if you say no to you feel bad:
"Do you care about global warming?"If you say no to that one you are a fantasist. Global warming isn't a
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Actually, the next sentence quoted from that student, Mere, is: "No-one ever talked to me about this before I got to AE."
See that's the true story, a dropout kid finds a unique school that listens to him.A progressive education concept.
That's a sensible way to deal with juvenile deliquency, give them education and a more flexible learning environment. Education is essential to any kid, who gives a fuck about where it takes place, these kids need education beyond anything else before the lack of it dettaches them from their city.
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You know I’ve been thinking about this. I was a written about musician once and I spoke to a lot of the New Zealand journalists that have been mentioned here.
The biggest problem by far was the news print guys internationally and local. The misquoting and use of bad or jumpy context, many times probably in attempt to spice the humor up or correct my sloppy verbal grammar bugged the shit out of me because sometimes they weren’t anything like your words or ideas but they were attributed to you in print . I want Truman Capote reporting in music.
admittedly the New Zealand writers are in a weird position. I’ve had a few drinks with various ones over the years and they seem to get targeted by the industry reasonably hard. Music Companies lobby them, it’s still an industry, even though it’s in decline..
I guess the real test of a music writer is actually picking winners rather than inflating expectations with flamboyance on patchy choices, that's just writing. -
I'm glad Gordon Campbell was mentioned. His recommendations were always solid and well thought out. He built my brothers record collection which was lucky for me.
Mathew Hyland had a style and was quite brave . I actually saw him get attacked once in a pub.Thats why i don't write, it's too violent.
I read the nme and the melody maker a lot during 1986 -1991. The nme was very professerly and sometimes dull but was good for making a passionate fuss quickly over unheralded bands. The melody maker was a lot more fun I seem to remember, very pasionate writers who made you feel excited about a record without even hearing it. Everett True writing about sub - pop stands out.
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The time when he pasted in an old (and rather poor) column he'd written about Shihad to make some sort of point about NZ Music Month was a low point.
What was the point he was making?
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I've got a dollar for anyone who can tell me what qualifies him to 'write' about music...I think he worked in a music shop at some point, in which case, colour him qualified!
Nothing qualifies you but your ears and your writing. In fact the idea of having to qualify to write is a bit shit.Send me a dollar now.
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I suppose it's a bit of a lesson for what happens when you go out there and put your story and put what you, you know, perceive to be for everyone the full information that sometimes they do.
- Paula Benefit
Look , the full information actually does nothing to make the mothers' case any less real or or any less justified.
The amounts given can be eaten up by a family of three effortlessly. In auckland at least half of that money goes straight into a rental agreement if you want to give your children a reasonable and safe home. Then you are clothing, feeding, schooling and transporting (in this case) at least three people for seven days and at the same time putting aside large chunks of that money away for power,phone and unseen health bills and then trying to build up savings for emergencies. Forget insurance, forget holidays, forget entertainment, forget going out.We have got to stop dumping on our mothers and start recognising motherhood as a hugely rewarding investment in the health of our future society.
We've also got to get media commentators who can add up. Both woman and their children are living on fuck all at a very critical time in monkeys lives...the childhood period.This is not extravagance, it is in fact about $200.00 below what may bring a degree of peace to various DPB HOUSEHOLDS.
I also think it's amazing to think only 3 weeks ago the pauls, leighton and other light entertainers were crying tears of outrage that NZPOST wanted to know their finances.
How important is their privacy, ashamed of their paypackets maybe?
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In April 2009 Standard & Poor's called for "new faces" in the Irish Government, which was seen as interfering in the democratic process.In a subsequent statement they said they were "misunderstood. - from wiki
How the PC brigade must be cheering.
-which is mikey laws gig.
What is P.C?
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Well one thing ya gotta say
Robin Bain. WTF!!!!!
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That's like saying that physics is too bloody complicated and we should go back to the Plum Pudding Model.
Physics is beautiful. And the theory of the atom, they might as well still call it the mother fucking plum pudding model, electrons spend the majority of their time in other dimensions.It deserves a trippy name.
Economics...ugly, unsatisfying, a poorly researched subject ,although we all know a history teacher who had a nice grasp of historical failures