It seems a fairly screaming indictment that there is no mention of Beautiful Machine. Once upon a time this site would have been abuzz with a new shihad album...
Hmmm. I'm not sure when it became OK to say fuck, but it's been around for a while. It really depends on how late it is, and who the show is aimed at. I do know when the first time 'cunt' made it onto TV. That would be Newsboy interviewing S Club 7. Gold. They were pretty taken aback. Although it was clearly a set-up. Newsboy was hauled from the room, and replace by Bob Parker (now mayor of the flatlands) to continue the interview.
I'm not really sure there is anything too new with this. Tapes always used to be a 'standard' price as well, and when CDs came out, they decided they should sell for $10 more, despite the fact that they were cheaper to make. So I'm not really sure that this is some new thing relating to The Perfect Storm.
Admittedly the fetish with standard pricing seems to be a bit of a New Zealand phenomenon. I was at Amoeba in San Francisco the other month, and while it might be an anomaly (how many records stores have a wikipedia page?) I was really excited by the the non-standard pricing, and I guess the CDs I was buying would have been 'imports' in a New Zealand context, but it was exciting to be able to get re-mastered back catalogue albums at sensible prices. And I guess the strength of the New Zealand dollar has helped. Not that that seems to have affected domestic CD prices. Hah!
People are pathologically bad at cutting their losses, especially when they start to get bigger (and where they feel the loss is their fault).
The wikipedia page on sunk cost is pretty shit... so I'll explain a little of the theory.
As losses start, the business will blame some "one off" thing, like poor christmas sales because of the sunny weather or something.
The bank manager goes "no worries, we'll let you trade out".
It turns out not to be so one; and the bank manager realises they made a bad call, but if they admit they made the bad call, and call in the loan, then they look like an idiot.
The company is probably mostly paying the interest, so there is still some money coming in, but it slowly gets worse.
The bank manager now wishes they called the loan at the earlier time point, but to call it in now further makes them look incompetent because they should have called it in earlier.
Repeat a few more times.
oops. My bad. I hope sounds didn't go under because I was avoiding them. Not that I go to the CD Store either.
Yeah. 'Tis a little bit pre-RHCP the use of the word
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californication_%28portmanteau%29
this whole wikipedia thing is becoming a bit of a running joke. I'm not shocked when I can't find the answer to a question in under a minute.
I think this was the outfit that was in cahoots with the fundy christian right. I seem to recall they had something on the last eminem album. They either didn't stock it, or donated the purchase price to a charity. Maybe they've been making too many donations or something. heh.
I'm slightly bitter, as I have a voucher I was about to spend. Although there was a thing in the herald recently saying that over a third of all vouchers are never spent!
I went to the CHC concert. 2 bands I never thought I'd see again.
Crowded House were fantastic, although I'm starting to tire of Neil defaulting to a 2-encore format. Especially when it's made really really obvious, by leaving certain songs til the second encore. On the other hand, it was kind of exciting that it seemed like they might have actually played an extra song in the second encore, despite the rest of it seeming so bloody orchestrated.
Half way through Supergroove's setlist, I began to wonder if they had deliberately balanced the set in favour of songs featuring Karl's vocal. OTH, Supergroove brang more cowbell.
Being lumped with this group of arch-conservatives wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the presence of dantheman. That's the bit that stings.
The kilo is effectively shared between 4 of us. And we use the beans for work-based coffee consumption, not just home...
Last login to myspace 2 days ago...
http://www.myspace.com/marshmallowmusic
otherwise it seems deadly quiet
Wow. That's pretty hardcore. Growing up, sugar was 'unavailable', so you had to learn to drink tea and coffee straight up. I think I finally started to succumb around 5th form (which coincided with my parents rediscovering real coffee during school cert studying). And, uh, yeah. Now me and the guy in the office next door split a kilo a week.
Heh. I remember ye. Don't recollect you being much of a tool. There were other people who had far more charged and random opinions on things.
and there's still the delights of nz broadband...
Although, can I just share how excited I am that archive.org is available through KAREN, which means like at work it's free!!! (and fast)
Glee!!!!
The thing that gets me with that is it is not even like he has lived in Dunedin. On the other hand, maybe that he dreamt that up without tasting Dunedin tap-water means it is more creative than we give him credit for.
Can't think of any stunners off the top of my head, but there have been a fair few songs over time that I've really like until I've thought about the lyrics for half a minute.
yeah. some of the old threads bubbling to the surface are really cool. or really scary.
//somehow the increased competition and competitivenes from actual race time leading up to and during the louis vuitton seems to give the eventual challenger a slight advantage
I thought this as well. Although I guess we've been racing Alinghi a bit this time round. Dunno if that will make a difference...
Spelt or sounds like ileweis?
Could be 'Outlook for Thursday' by DD Smash. Involves dave dobbyn, and as there's a 'outlook for thursday, your guess is good as mine' and I'm pretty sure the rhyme for that ends in fine, and probably has some mashed words in front of it?