i think the parameters for this are "rock"
not lame ass shit MOR for Remuera housewives
'fools' has such a benign ring to it
'frighteningly paranoid freaks' rings truer for me...
SRV got me into Hendrix and for that i will be eternally grateful
gosh it was all such a long time ago now...
we totally one a free party last xmas with xfm: me n 200 of my nearest and dearest getting plastered on Jamesons and Carling
urgh
i don't remember any of the music of course but props to Xfm
it was fucken pants. every generation comes of age and achieves self awareness and postions itself in opposition to what came before. then, we grow up and realise that basically we are all the same. its ridiculous.
strange how those chosen for the doco seemed to be swept up in some consumerist whirlwind whilst CLAIMING to be insusceptible to the tools of marketing.
people like stuff. my dad who is 73 can not only programme a video, he runs a Mac users club and teaches people half his age how to navigate the internet!
everyone should read "All families are Psychotic" by Douglas Coupland. strangely, he wrote Generation X back in the day. this book treats every person as valid and individual, the antithesis of some saddo marketing research.
i would say that after 4 years away from NZ that in fact almost every city i have been to so far on my holiday has been great: AKL is big n buzzy, but not too big and not too cool for school. you still need ac r to get around though. Wellington is fun and compact and a hedonist paradise, but the weather is still rubbish. CHCH ssems to have grown and matured beyond my possible imaginings and Dunedin is just so brilliant, creative, together and fun. Hamiltons rock scene is fantastic.
i saw these dudes at the garage in Islington, London and fuken hell i haven't moshed in years but they rocked. if i had known they were in NZ i would have seen them again, no doubts
i particularly liked the singers sunglasses. in fact, i think "cool dudes with sunglasses" should be anew topic for the bar...
how much does a beer / latte / newspaper / chocolate biscuits / eggs benedict cost?
are bars "cool" or "hot"?
have people in Wellington gotten over themselves or is still a paranoid cool chain?
from the UK a trickle effect is starting to snowball into "oh, New Zaland, i didn't know anyhting about it except its really pretty, but now i understand there is a great cultural depth to it, i really am interested in going".
Sophie Ellis Bextor said this also.
so, if the cultural ambassadors for NZ can turn that into something good collectively, then yes they should be supported, but also made to pay it back.
i use the word 'grandfather' carefully. there were cool labels through the sixties and seventies, its just the ethos that rules
...in much the same way the majority of NZers are by and large good people, its just the minority who aren't. lets not going pointing fingers or saying that due to their cultural heritage somehow SAFers are inherently 'different' to us. That puts you in the same boat as those who created apartheid in the first place!
NZers are, i think, on the whole fairly tolerant people but tend to be rather complacent in it. I would warrant a crazy guess but racism seems to be a prevalent thread in NZ society, its just we dare not talk about it. it what 'other' people do.
i dislike smugness.
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i am about to come back to NZ for the 1st time in 4 years, and what i want to know is what has changed culturally over the last wee while? i will be there (here?) for 3 and half months and cannot wait!
when i left Labour had just been voted in.
as far as i can make out from here is:
1: everyone is getting wasted on meth amphetamine, even the cops
2: the PM is a terrible artist
3: LOTR was quite good
4: the world cup was a disaster
5: the music scene has exploded (yay the quota! fuck i am glad i signed that thing)
just get me up to speed please.
ta.
i wish i had called myself "jandal"
then, i would be handle jandal.
can you handle the jandal?
etc etc
there are plently of weird little empty towns just like invergiggle in the USA dude
Dear Lucifer underscore Sam
um...aren't you the son of the Devil?
i don't think Nicole Ritchie is too skinny, but she definitely shouldn't lose anymore weight.
and before you get irate, i was married to an anorexic for 3 years, and they were 3 years of hell.
in fact, i wager most people know someone with an eating disorder.
personally, i think Rik Okasek from The Cars is a prime candidate.
sadly, now that Nicole and paris are no longer buddies, she might not have anyone to talk to