The Past as Glass

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15% day! yeehawww

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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>And yeigh....will we rein in spending or will we spend as we have done all year? With this increase in goods and services tax, will the economy be stimulated, or will it grind to a halt as people spend less? The consumer is all important to New Zealand's economy - just as it is in the USA. In New Zealand consumer spending accounts for 60% of 'expenditure GDP'. Thats a fair bit, is it not? I ain't no economist, but, if us consumers really do wield power over the fate of the figures, should we really take such a gamble on pricing? Another thing - I find it so frustrating and ironic that our culture and media brand welfare beneficiaries as useless and unproductive people when at the end of the day they(we) are the greatest consumers - failsafe consumers, with most if not all 'our' 'money' going into consumer goods like food and sundry and into the coffers of telecoms, utilities, real estate, landlords trusts. These payments are merely transfers. Each WINZ client a conduit for wealth to find its way back into corporate coffers. Its as simples as that.

Hey, but anyways...considering THIS BLOG is going thorugh to 2019,,,,(as long as i live that long and we still have internet in the future) lets keep a keen eye on economic indicators over the next year or so eh what??

I believe New Zealand is far too small and under-populated to really get the right wing agenda pumping the way some assholes out there want it. If they start kicking sickness benficiaries off the dole, there'll be too many people on the street, getting sick, robbing YOUR house, pissing in YOUR pot, infecting you,,someone you know, their kids coming to school undernourished, sickly and infectious , with your righteous Tory sons and daughters in the firing line.... 4 degrees of seperation in a tiny country... welfare transfer payments prop up so many different aspects of NZ society. NZ is too small for the extreme right - they should all go to the USA .

courier new where are you?

For some reason i can't use me favourite 'courier new' font in this blog anymore. So the blog loses its 'trademark' look. Ohh well.

Electronic music seems to be a popular pass-time with young artists in Dunedin. I attended a birthday party/gig for a member of TFF recently and most if not all acts performed cutting edge electronic work . Performing live with music software like the old favourite Fruity Loops is akin to gaming. It was fresh, futuristic and urban - the open source software movement has allowed people of the remote provinces to produce music of a truly world class. That night there was at least 6 different acts that played truly exciting digital music. At the last Alt Music show two Dunedin based electronic acts supported Finnish act Tomutontuu .

Tillakaratne performed a set of soothing and civil ambient. But it was Rotor+ who proved himself worthy as the king of experimental electronic that night. His musical innovations were impeccably produced. A blend of arcane drones and staccato percussive explosions. Crisp. Drenched in radio frequencies. Super. Best electronic in town. In the fricken country.

Who knows what the future may bring. An incremental rise in the price of food perhaps. In other news : I found Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's UN speech fascinating. The Iranian clerical elite actually use deception in their dealings with each other by default.

And how bout that pack of US soldiers in afghanistan.

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the big room

Luke Munn is one of the many collaborators I have worked with this year, and he has just kick-started a project called 'the big room' over at 'the big idea'. He's collecting a huge database of recordings of peoples studios, just that, their studios in repose, so as to create this massive audio space. Interesting concept. If you're a recording artist, go submit something HERE.

The Dunedin winter dosen't want to die off this year it seems. And the town gets smaller and smaller. And the madness clogs up your mind like fat lines the veins. Slam a stake into the ground and utter ye thus: "I WILL express joy, i have the right to succeed, i have the right to exist, and i will be happy within the psychogeography of this sulphur caked city whether the cretinous cadre of bitter and twisted souls the 'run' the town like it or not." Prick ye your finger, spill the blood on the stake and the ground around it.

Completely bored.

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a newish track. nickles 'n' dimes. Its Christmas. Its illegal. I like this whole...'criminal sexy thing'. Oh my gosh. 'Hey mister! You alright? ' 'Sir??? Sirrr' black dunedin pitch dunedin hell dunedin ever decreasing circles Dunedin quiver and sprinkle

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Auckland nano-tour report

Pop-punk outfit Street Chant took a chance on the Crude and flew me up to Auckland to perform at their album release show. Dust off the old bugger, patch him up, chuck him on a plane outta Dunedin and that reclusive old school crowd oughta shake down the doors. And a few did.

So, hell yeah, why not, count me in. The commute. Like playin' politician or some kind of ambassador from cold southern lands.

Its a real shame things aren't so profitable for Pacific Blue, they're a good service. No more domestic flights soon.

So anyways, had a fab time in the sub-tropics, thoroughly enjoyed fellow support act The Transistors with their Oblivians-esque pump, crude vomited out a dorkish/sardonic guitar based retrospective, a kind of dirty guitar noise thats literally dying out (the protagonists are aging, the kids arent so angry). 'This town ' was my encore. An encore!

Street Chant have completed an album and released in on vinyl. Check it out HERE. When they hit the stage they performed with true gen Y energy but I believe their sound was overly reined in and compressed. Ive never played a gig where the support band was louder than the main act. Theirs was a 'careful' mix, everything encapsulated in a bubble. You go out to see a band play live, not in a recording session. Other than that , yes. I liked it. Booze. Lick. Diddle. Commerce. Hull. Lackey. Braggard. Thin. wafer. Yang style.