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The Opinionated Diner: 03/14/2010 - 03/21/2010

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Thursday, March 18, 2010. Lonely days are gone / I’m a going home…. I was going to post a Box Tops clip here as a tribute to the late, and extra-ordinarily great, Alex Chilton, but I guessed the internet would be filled with such things in the next day or so. So, I thought I’d post this instead:. I'm sure he'd approve. Wednesday, March 17, 2010. L never got over bein a tax man. Well I do my best to understand, dear / But you stiil mystify / And I wanna know why. Tuesday, March 16, 2010. Eat to the Beat.

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The Opinionated Diner: 04/11/2010 - 04/18/2010

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Friday, April 16, 2010. Theres a stack of shellac and vinyl / Which is yours now and which is mine? Since we're celebrating record stores and all things vinyl, I thought I'd repost this, originally from August last year. I've had a couple of conversations of recent with people about record stores in Auckland.the lost sort.where was Record Warehouse? When did Taste close? That sort of thing. Method, outside Rock'n'Roll Records, Queen St, 1980. I worked in several of these shops over the years myself and h...

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The Opinionated Diner: The bats have left the bell tower

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Friday, May 07, 2010. The bats have left the bell tower. Hugely recommended, this interview with Martin Mills, owner of the most important independent record label in the world (and the bloke who released some of my favourite records ever and still does):. The internet has revived interest in music, thinks Mills, by encouraging people to experiment. Indie music mogul: The net's great for us • The Register. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Ian Morris and Kim Willoughby. Kim Sinclair and Kirsten Shouler.

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The Opinionated Diner: 03/07/2010 - 03/14/2010

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Friday, March 12, 2010. Sometimes it short circuits / sometimes it’s a golden glow. Ohh, I’ve been a bit quiet on the blogging front. No Particular reason.mostly just ennui and observation. Today, though, given as how some 500,000 folks in red shirts are marching on distant parts of Bangkok (and the panic stricken western travel alerts.how many tourists have been robbed, raped and murdered in fair NZ in recent years? Not many, if any…), I thought I’d throw up a couple of images of this city.

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Friday, August 11, 2006. Watch out young love…. I’ve had a fair response to my last post, more than I expected, mostly from people I know fairly well and overwhelmingly in agreement with the concerns I raised therein and the question I asked myself. One point that was, however, thrown back at me, several times, with some justification, was “but look how far we’ve come in such a short period”. And there is that of course. Except its not such a short period is it…. In all its forms are dwarfed by the big N...

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The Opinionated Diner: 06/20/2010 - 06/27/2010

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Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Im looking through you / youre not the same. This blog has now moved to my own dedicated server. The Opdiner.com. Address is the default address for the blog. These pages, which are also hosted on the new site, will remain as archives. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Ian Morris and Kim Willoughby. Kim Sinclair and Kirsten Shouler. Im looking through you / youre not the same. Follow me on Twitter.

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The Opinionated Diner: 05/16/2010 - 05/23/2010

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Saturday, May 22, 2010. So they flew the Super-Constellation all the way from Rimini / And feasted them on fish and chips from a newspaper facsimile. What a very odd few months it has been. What a surreal few weeks. Both gross understatement I think, but better that than gross overstatement. I think odd and surreal describe the extended period better than any adjectives that imply bloodshed, disaster, civil mayhem or urban warfare. For a better commentary on this, I point you towards t his pretty convinc...

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The Opinionated Diner: 05/02/2010 - 05/09/2010

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Saturday, May 08, 2010. So let me sing a song for you / Just to help your day along. How many of the world's armies travel with mobile Karaoke trucks? Friday, May 07, 2010. The bats have left the bell tower. Hugely recommended, this interview with Martin Mills, owner of the most important independent record label in the world (and the bloke who released some of my favourite records ever and still does):. The internet has revived interest in music, thinks Mills, by encouraging people to experiment. About ...

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Saturday, August 05, 2006. There are no sheep on our farms. A rather respected name. In gods name happened? Of course I’m absolutely aware of the on-going global downturn in sales of compact discs and the inevitable flattening out of digital sales. Especially from acts represented by the major industry organisations such as the RIAA, or their equivalents. But the percentage drop in sales, from labels represented by RIANZ. Flashes in neon rather brutally. Two years ago the country was feting the rise of.

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The Opinionated Diner: I'm looking through you / you're not the same

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Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Im looking through you / youre not the same. This blog has now moved to my own dedicated server. The Opdiner.com. Address is the default address for the blog. These pages, which are also hosted on the new site, will remain as archives. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Ian Morris and Kim Willoughby. Kim Sinclair and Kirsten Shouler. Im looking through you / youre not the same. Follow me on Twitter.