I'm happy to announce to the world wide web that I'm a DJ. Yeah I felt like an AA (Alcohol Anonymous) moment after doing the Blah Blah Blah for sooo many months and pleasing alot of the DJs on Fleet FM with my strange ear and openness to older forms of music in which I'm happy to merge into my genetic music makeup.
And I couldn't ask for a better DJ neighbor (who does his show before mines) to who I now call buddy, friend and mentor. Now I'm not going to divulge his name on this blog, because he regularly reads it, and I don't want you haters to go after him just because of my venting (and that includes you Miss Poodles!), but his reputation and knowledge is beyond reproach. In fact if you're reading this my friend, I thank you!
Photos by Neon Sleep
Now a couple of weekends ago, I went to Cross St Studios for a farewell party for my friends sister who is leaving for Berlin, the wonderful art capital of the world (in my view that is). I was approached by my good friend to do a DJ set, in which I said yes but there was a snug in those plans, and that was they had no CDJs for moi!
Now this is by no means a fault of their own knowing that buying good gear (working gear at that) is sooooo ridiculously expensive that mainstream Douche Jockeys in Auckland are that only ones that could buy the latest industry standard gear to play their awful shit house and electro house to the masses every weekend (Dare I say Zombie nation!) and with the party on Cross Street extending into the wee small hours, I was more that happy to drop a few minutes here and there, mingle and be asked to drop a couple more!
The prices for the industry standard model (Pioneer) start at a whooping $1,999.00 inc GST which is still an expense to say the least, plus you can't gig with just the one solo unit, you need to buy 2!
That's right 2 of the buggers...I say this is the price you pay to stray away from the mainstream clubs in order to start a new movement of dance. And what other locations are we talking about here....well besides Cross St. there's pubs, The Whammy Bar (as a last resort) um pubs...yeah the choices of venues here in Auckland are a tad limited due to the ongoing mafia attitude that promoters are enforcing to secure venues which forces the rather small indie dance crowd to be backed into a corner and force to sit there and watch the sucky-ness which is Auckland's well established, real named DJs!
You're probably asking yourself "why don't you do something about it instead of moaning like a woman?", well I get that all the time, and I say its about time someone did!
Over the next couple of entries I will be keeping a blog entry as to how I would set in motion to perpetuate indie dance into the zombied masses.....And I will also do case studies here and there, and seek solutions. As adventurous as that may sound, I will give it a go because I got nothing to lose!
I will make it my goal to establish a brand for all the indie-dance kids to be proud of..
Now I know you're going to add into the mix the brand parties that are out there that already servicing the average indie slash hipster kid such as "The Quay Street social club" and "Sohomo", okay I have utmost respect for those parties and I won't discount their efforts, plus I know the promoters, but for this one its strictly for the indie dance heads and punters who want a ruckus of a party with good tunes that are not sourced from Australia's cheese offcuts!
I've just finished reading an article about patients bullying their doctors because of their reluctant attitude to finding any work stating that work and income told them to go on sickness, which according to one doctor, he disagrees with how one should abuse sickness.
Dr Van Herck, a GP from Belgium and a locum who has worked 16 surgeries said that a government agency should not endorse beneficiaries into sickness!
Dr Herck said and I quote: "A lot of people on sickness benefits say Work and Income staff have sent them and just expect you to sign the form."
Holy hell guys! Don't fuck it up for the rest of us. He also referred to a case where a woman was on sickness for an astounding 19 years suffering from asthma despite smoking a pack a day. She was offered from WINZ several quit programs, but admitted that "she was just too lazy".
He also believed too many beneficiaries had been diagnosed with depression. "Quite a few are just drug abusers."
Now for my response to this, otherwise I'll be just cutting n pasting contents from the source article. When I was diagnosed with depression, it was for a genuine reason. I was cutting myself every day, I couldn't get out of bed because I couldn't face another day being unemployed and going to those awful brain draining seminars where you know that out of all the people that are in the same room listening to some bureaucratic cockface (mine was a Polynesian, which spells bad news for yours truly) spew out some motivation bullshit, you're the only one that knows his game inside out which is to draft you into a job you hate, and get himself a nice bonus!
Also having someone close crush your heart all the time didn't help neither. I had this unfortunate situation with this girl that left me bed-ridden for months. Seriously I couldn't get out of bed. However not WINZ but a friend suggested to try sickness....and I've never looked back. Now I pop my Loxamine tablets everyday and I've never bullied my Doctor. He was always understanding of my situation.......and I'm always happy to take his suggestions.
I'm currently still on sickness, and speaking from experience I would like to give you some advice...never take any courses, especially privately established courses. Okay it may work for some, but much like the idiots who abuse sickness benefits on a regular, there are fuck ups that are doing the same at those poncy courses! Trust me!
I went to that horrible Carrich computer training course in 2001, and fuck me blind, I never learned a goddam thing at that place! It wasn't the fact that I was too reluctant, but just the level of distractions that were at the place didn't help. Motherfuckers playing Quake or Doom whatever the fuck it was on campus computers, the skanks that were roaming the halls, it was just too much! I wanted to learn something goddamit! For six straight years of going to privately owned campuses and what do I have to show?........Nothing!!!!! All I got is trust issues with woman, anger problems, body insecurities and closeted loneliness! If there was any a good moment to say something to our kids today, it would be "Stay in school and go to a reputable university.......either that or become a blogger"
Now back to the issue at hand about sickness. Yeah I can definitely sympathize with the Doctors about abusive patients who except them to just sign away their three month holiday to bliss, but believe you in me, it never a holiday. You're a regularly routine to see the Doctor ever 3 months, which still feels stomach turning every time I see my GP known that he's probably going to clear me for work, and you don't want to be known as a handjobber now don't ya?
Another thing to point out is that although I suffer from depression, there are far worse people with life threating illnesses which are also terminal, and people who suffer from disabilities such as non attached appendages who need aide the most........Am I ready for a reform in medical care in New Zealand?.....maybe! That's of course if more opportunities are readily available for able bodied people because they still have that inherent danger of becoming criminals! I mean the dole can get you only so far, its just a matter of time management and old school goal setting. My goal is to get off the dole and get into something that I enjoy doing as a possible full time job.
I like blogging, and I like to be able to do that as a substitute to collecting sickness every 3 months, Otherwise I may as well start cutting a limb off!!
Now this entry is not a pretext towards how you should bully your Doctor into a 3 month holiday! Sickness is for those who really need it...the sick!
At the risk of regurgitating a story that the mainstream media may have already broken out, we will do our best to give you our interpretation to the events that have unfolded. So here's the skinny.
Russh, a Australian fashion publication has brought itself a shit-storm of controversy when 16-year old New Zealand model Zippora Seven posed topless (see picture above) for a fashion spread in a upcoming issue of the magazine. Beside the oblivious age factor, placements of champagne can be seen, while the male model (pictured above again) is passed out in the bathtub!
Among angry outcries from the modeling agency that represents Zippora, The Australian Censorship board is undergoing an investigation of Russh Magazine, and may seek legal action against the magazine!
And speaking of legalities, the champagne company which its product was depicted and the hotel that the photoshoot took place are seeking defamation and punitive damages!
Now I'm no expert in fashion or Haute couture, but how is getting a 16 year old girl naked constitute as being in fashion? I thought that the whole point of fashion was to get models fully clothed and have them prance around, striking a pose (Madonna's "Vogue") whist still fully clothed!
These fashion photographers always wanting to push that very envelope in order to execute a look, an aesthetic, a hyperplace reality that cannot be in real life!
Personally I find fashion photographers to be utter douche bag visionaries who I think don't give two shits about female models! Its all about the look.
But then again there are other factors to consider..........Zippora had a choice in saying "no" and proceed to walk out the photoshoot, an appointed guardian (its been known that Zippora's mum accompanies her to her shoots) could have taken a moral stance and said "no" on her behalf, and as said guardian could've educate the naive 16 year old about nudity and the realities of fashion industry! All options were there, follow through people!
Now the media, once it caught wind of this story decidedly spin doctored the whole fiasco and dubbed the 16 year old "The next Kate Moss of the modeling world!"...So will that mean she will be a waif thin woman with no tits or ass that a Gangster can't bang? And like Kate, will she develop an expensive cocaine habit in which her noise will break off after prolonged use?
I mean lets face it, the theme of the fashion spread was a honorable homage to "Kate Moss and Johnny Depp", and just like life imitating art, her boyfriend is none other that Kudaranee Brown, from the indie garage band, The DHDFDS
Conclusion...........? Always remember, fashion photographers are egotistical assholes with a vision....A vision of sex.....Lots of sex!
FYI: This is not the first time that an underage scandal like this has happened.....Pavement magazine had Several fashion issues which depicted underage models
I personally hate copying and pasting other peoples literature because its sacrilege and against every moral fiber we believe in, but we at The nerdy frames are getting sued over our freedoms, and yet a writer is allowed to post her opinions on stuff.co.nz? I don't think thats right.
Just because we're not a tied down to some sterile national papers blogs and obeying rules of a Nazi editor, we should be able to voice out what we really think about the down fall of woman in this century! (The dumb women, not the intelligent kind FYI)
Besides the jury is clearly out on Lisa Lewis.............! Mark this as the defining moment of Alt TV's downfall, the jumping the shark moment!
Sure we colored the entry somewhat, but the truth was starting to unravel! Even if its not from the tappings of our keyboards, it was going to come out some other way!
Great tits are laying their eggs earlier in Spring - "they say".
By JANE BOWRON
The set was blue, the topless news reader's eye shadow was blue and the text was ever so slightly blue as Lisa Lewis made a tit of herself on Alt TV's News Flash or News "Flesh" at 10 o'clock of a Monday night.
Looking like a skinny Joe Cotton, Lisa Lewis struggled through a news bulletin, which included a laboured ornithological joke about Great Tits benefiting from global warming and laying their eggs earlier in Spring.
The Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society must have been mortified to have been given a special mention, but I guess they had got well used to it when Benny Hill was at his peak.
Of course those who had tuned in wouldn't have appreciated the artistry of the script and would have instead concentrated their orbs on Lisa's, which I must say looked as fake as the news reader's hair colour.
Wasn't she a blonde when she infamously streaked across the pitch?
This is the tragedy, the drama, and sheer utter pain which I call "New Zealand Music Month". In response to Straight from the whore's mouth recent blog entry, about his shameful taste in music, which of course is New Zealand music, I will blog about my secret shame that I've harbor for many years about New Zealand music and the problems that arise when NZ Music Month comes every year.
Well if its anything to go by my friend, my taste for the nations sonnets are far more bitter. And in case you're wondering what bands that I'm showing love to for New Zealand Music Month? Well its only two at the mo, Disasteradio and Pig Out.........
So you maybe asking "Why out of the plethora of artist here in Aotearoa did you only come up with two bands to like?", well have you heard those other bands on offer? Yeah I thought so.
Well for one I've heard the "Visions" album from Disasteradio and Instantly I loved it! As for Pig Out, I've always had the pleasure of seeing them perform live, and they never cease to amaze me. Now if only Kitt from Pig Out gave me one of his albums so I can jam it on Fleet FM on his behalf!
Now every year the government has always encouraged every New Zealander to support New Zealand Music Month when it comes around, that's fine but hey you've got to meet me half way folks!
Photos courtesy of The A List (The disabling of the right click thing don't work on us!)
Just look at the schmucks (on the above photos) that these poor struggling musicians have to suck up to!
Or better yet how about the fat cow that's in this picture! (Far right with the doodles and stink lines. We pixelated the other woman for her own sake!) she does that horrible TV show (which in my opinion she single handedly ruined) "Special Features!" on C4 What the fuck does she know about music?
Helena McAlpine (some dipshit bird from the U.K.) has moved up the cock sucking ladder of Can West and became the replacement for the once prestigious show when Jane Yee stepped down!
I would like to quote something that Helena said in an impromptu piece for the New Zealand Herald in which she states the following
So what are your favourite bands?
At the moment, my favourite Kiwi band of all time is Autozamm. I'm a big Beatles fan, a big Rolling Stones fan. My genre of choice is hard dance. I love hardcore rave, I love drum'n'bass but it's right across the board. This morning I was listening to Robbie Williams' Sing When You're Winning. I'm really enjoying listening to old stuff again - the Ramones, old-school rock. I'm re-establishing the things I listened to back when music meant so much to me, what got me involved in the first place.
Wow....that's all I'm going to say to that! I'm in awe here!
Her genre of choice is Hard Dance!!!!!! Wow.........Hey in fact why don't you name some of New Zealand's Hard Dance producers of your hands......NONE BECAUSE HARD DANCE IS THE BASTARD CHILD OF SHIT HOUSE AND Illegal GATEWAYING TO HARDER DRUGS AND HERBALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry for that little outburst, but its people like her and the cronies that work at C4 that ruins it for me. From their interviewing of musicians, to their lack of education to basic interviewing etiquette, I hate it all! And what do they do during their quote, un-quote serious interviewing? They resort to using a shtick, in effect taking the piss out of the interviewee and wasting their time!
But hey what credibility do they have left over in C4? None is the short answer!!! Some of the good people that were at C4 (Jane Yee, Jacquie Brown, Camila from Bfm) have now moved on, and this pathetic channel is now unwatchable!
Juice TV is better to watch (although I don't normally watch it, but do look out for NZONE!)
Now about the other music channels!....In short its like this
MTV NZ is there to serve the greater purpose of anyone who is a fan of reality TV (The Hills, Pimp my Ride, ) product placement, and American brain wash, so it hold absolutely zero credibility for actual music television or music for that matter.
And please fire those 2 little star fuckers Amber Peebles and Jay Reeves!
Juice TV. Not a fan of it, and I'm wondering if they got rid of some of their hosts because I rarely see them every time I turn to that channel. I will give them points for hiring a fantastic interviewer (Aroha is fantastic!)
And Finally Alt TV...yes the channel that labels itself as "Actual Music Television!" Well congratulations for jumping the shark when you hired prostitutes to your network! You have lost the respect of this blog!
Other thing I would like to ask is what do they do with the profits from the sale of those NZ Music Month target tees? You know the ones (Pictured above) from Hallensteins! Where does the money go to with the sale of said tees? And don't you feel like an utter cock wearing something that is both a lie and a Target for snipers?
Now Cheese on Toast, the fantastic website that it is, has raised some valid points in his recent entry entitled "THERE IS NO DEPRESSION IN THE NEW ZEALAND MUSIC INDUSTRY" in which he uses Cut Copy as an example........Allow me to jest on it. Basically Cut Copy released their 2nd (I hope to dear god I'm right) album "Ghost Colors" which went straight to number one on the mainstream charts (circa March 30, 2008). That's right NUMBER FUCKING ONE! And bearing in mind they're signed to Modular Recordings, a record label with a Indie mind-set and a big distributer (Universal Music) as its backer!
Wow I will admit, that is one amazing feat! To have a relatively unknown band come up tops with a fantastic Sophomore..........I'm speechless!
And who do we have in New Zealand.................Well young sid (a Gangster wannabe), Opshop (Some crappy MOR Band who'd licensed their music for commercials) and Good Night Nurse (.....Fags!) thats all we got to show to the world!
Wow and all this for the greater good of New Zealand Music Month.............Bravo! We are soooo spoiled for choice here folks! Crap......!
Now lets cover some valid points about the Australian music scene, and why it rules balls over ours any day of the week!
They don't have a national commission to govern over Australia's music (ie. No music month in Australia folks)
In fact they don't need a national commission anyways because their product is of a high standard time and time again
They don't force their musicians to wear targets on their apparel to show some patriotism towards Australia's music scene
They have no need for a quota system to telly up airplay
And finally what international would want to come to New Zealand? Most of them end their Oceanic touring in Australia, meaning better exposure for Australian music and more variety and value for the consumer! HELL THEY HAD DAFT PUNK NOT SO LONG AGO@! FUCKK!
I Know that I maybe showning favoritism towards Australia despite my reservations about traveling to the country, but hey if its anything I don't like their Rupert Murdoch grotesque TV media conglomerates strong hold! Case in point, the guys who host Beat TV! What a bunch of drongos!
So will anything make me change my mind about New Zealand Music when this dreadful month concludes? Maybe........Only time will tell.
Hey at least I got a love for 2 bands okay! Don't sweat me!
I would like for a relatively unknown band from here to reach that stratosphere of Cut Copy's success nationally, and don't bring up Steriogram okay! Those guys......ouch! They've cleaned up and found jesus so shut the fuck up! Oh yeah Capitol Records drop them so......blah!
Its time that our bands locked themselves in a room with adequate ventilation and lighting for months, hell years if need be, and practice on those instruments that you bugged your parents for!!!!! Because if we have to ride the coattails of our past successes such as Split Enz and the Flying Nun era, we may as well call it quits!
Another thing that I want to point out before concluding......More Maori music for airplay!!!!! I mean Iwi stations can only do sooo much (And no Mai FM and Flava are not Iwi Stations by definition), it would be nice if our national tongue was still preserved and we as a nation didn't follow Australia's lead and their crapping on indigenous culture....(Where the Abos guys? I only see white people).
Come on ZM, drop some Whirimako Black! Or better yet Kiwi FM drop some Dam Native on some of your prime time shows!
SO HAPPY FUCKING NEW ZEALAND MUSIC MONTH ASSHOLES! NOW PRACTICE YOUR INSTRUMENTS and beat up the members of Opshop.....
Well its Wednesday and I'm blogging live and direct from your mommas house bitches......Nah from the Dole cue.
Yeah its Nerdy Frames Music Month, and I know that someone from the team said that they I was going to review DISASTERADIO's album, well that's still going to happen, its just I've got 10 other albums dying for my attention including the new Shinichi Osawa (Mondo Grosso) album "The One".
I know I know, my love for Japanese music is somewhat obsessive, but it masks the pain of my environment that I live in which in my case is my neighborhood. If you haven't caught on, I live in the most dangerous part of Auckland which feels like damnation if you ask me. I've been living in South Auckland for far too long. I've seen friends come, and friends go. Back in the day it was a good time to be alive, go to the pools, play at the arcades (Otara had the best arcades around), you know good times!
But fast foward to the present, and I'm now regretting the fact that I now call Otara home because people have changed. More violence crimes are now rampant, and newer criminals are emerging from drugs, alcohol, spousal abuse and speed (both kinds).
Which leads me to my next point about speed, in fact I'm talking about "P". The Killer Beez (a local gang here in Otara) were raided this week when police seized $500,000 worth of methamphetamine and $200,000 in cash. The scumbag who spearheads this gang goes by the name of Joshua Masters.
This lying sack of shit was recently interviewed by John Campbell for "Campbell Live", stating that The Killer Beez were not running tinny houses around South Auckland nor selling the drug "P". He lied on national Television!
And bearing in mind that I was also close to this action when to my surprise, colorway records (their Record label) was just down my street! Jesus Christ grid!
The media is not doing any favors to fan out the fires in which they dubbed the local gang as "Modern day Robin Hoods". Well if that were the case, where's my fucking crumbs you greedy assholes? I do remember Robin Hood going by a motto "Take from the Rich and give to the poor", well this logic was not present when 18 people were arrested, 120 cops were involved in the operation, a entire neighborhood terrorized and scared for life! What do you have to say now?
It makes me sick to the stomach that this is happening around where I live. No wonder why the youth around South Auckland is fucked in the head, because things like this are happening.
Kids around South Auckland harbor their own problems, and I know they're looking for an escape and gangs are the answer. They're seduced by the money, the lifestyle, the black culture! I would amount the whole experience as brain washing, because thats what it is! Want proof? Look at the youtube vid below.
Put your Colorz on
Behind the scenes!
I'm no rap expert, but fuck a tree these guys seriously can't rap. Not even for a record company advance I would not give or grant them! The 2 vids shown here were used as recruitment tools for possible future members. Well they can forgot about me that's for sure because I'm not convinced nor seduced. I think for myself bro's!
I read somewhere that youth gangs are vast in numbers. There are 72 gangs recorded in South Auckland which is 7200 strong! And if you want a Hitler figure head, it would most likely come in the form of this guy
Young Sid (to my surprise has not been arrested) has ties with the Killer Beez and several other violent gangs around South Auckland. I personally don't think highly of him. His rapping is too "macho" and too "Blingy" for my taste. Why the fuck did they give this guy a grant to film a shitious video for? Yeah I'm sure that his performance at the last Big Day Out was a ripper...........Yeah right!
He and his beehives nest released a diss track about established hip hop label "Dawn Raid" probably calling them fags or something....but like who cares! I personally don't like them either Sid rinse, believe me I've tried to diss them from time to time but hey they know how to brush off their haters my friend. Just come to a realization that there are here to stay, and much like cancer they are not going away!
Sorry about all this talk pertaining to gangsters! All I know is that I for one will do my best to get out of the hood and just be a friend to all!
If you've been living under a rock for quite some time, then let me update you with the latest fad in entertainment........Virtual Killing via video games. Last month (circa 29/04/2008) Grand Theft Auto IV (Or GTA 4) went on sale at every Dick Smith's, every EBs (Electronic Boutique),every JBs Hi Fi, in fact practically any place you can think of (well not all places).
Unbeknown to the happy electronic consumer here in New Zealand,but the local distributor of the violent video game was told by our national censor lobby that Rockstar (the makers of the game) have already done a striped down version of GTA 4 for the Australian audiences, which means that if you buy the New Zealand version of the game, it will be the Australian censored edition.
Its unclear what has been removed from the Australian edition of the game (I presume its the usual shit such as sex scenes, less gore, and drug use) but why should we align ourselves with what Australia says is bad and immorally wrong!?
Are we as a violent hungry nation of gamers allowing ourselves to be censored by Australia? The same Australia who in history have themselves violent criminals who are praised as national heroes! You know them, Mark 'Chopper' Reed, Ned Kelly and Lindy Chamberlain. And this is coming from Australia!!!@!@# People we have got to stop living under the shadow of Australia!
I bet that Australia has ban almost everything we would consider kool to watch! I'm not as partial towards porn as much anymore, so go right ahead and ban shit eating porn, bestiality, incest and necrophilia. As long as we can call you sissy Kangs! At least give us that right!
Now I not going to call this 'the greatest game of all time', because (1) I've have not yet played it and (2) Playstation 3s and Xbox 360s are still around the $600 mark here in New Zealand.
Besides the last GTA was hard as piss because I couldn't past that one task, in which you had to learn how to fly a plane in order to progress! Fuck flying planes man, have we not learned anything from 9/11?
Yes folks there are no pixel pussies here no more! Its all polygon rendering country in this century, which is why there is a reason behind the entry title of this blog. Is Hollywood dead?
This game is set to project sales of up to $400 million dollars! 400 MILLION DOLLARS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow that is epic. And bearing in mind this is coming from a video game in which you control the protagonist, the storylines, the overall plot, everything!! No bad actors or actresses, no kraft food services, no trailers (the vehicles not the movie trailers), no onset tantrums, no nothing. In fact the only humans who are behind the scenes of this video game are the same people who are working CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) in Hollywood, that's right the geeks!
Hey jocks remember how you used to beat those guys up because you were intimidated by their book smarts? Well they're fucking rich now, while you pump their gas into their environmentally friendly Hybrid cars, you assholes!
Better start reading yourself a copy of war and peace!
Disclammer We at Frames endorse the killing, maiming and consumption of Jocks, Bullies, Cheerleaders, The Popular girls, the stupid and aspiring actors and actresses! these fuckers are useless and they should die!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway back to the point I was making. Yes Hollywood should be on their toes when a geek comprises an industry like the Film industry. I mean lets look at it shall we? Hollywood has lost alot of money from pirates who sell DVDs of films that are still playing at your local theater.
I for one support the bootlegging of Hollywood Blockbusters because with all that money at their disposal, they still come up with a mediocre end product!
Come on! How long can you, the very masses that want to be entertained stand time after time of re-makes and bad movie plotlines from Hollywood? Its a good thing I don't go to the movies anymore because I don't want to part my hard earned cash to have a Hollywood actor or actress to live another moment in the lap of luxury! HELL TO THE NO!!! As far as I'm concerned "Burn Hollywood Burn!"
And for those who are looking for a good Omen to curse Hollywood, there has been a report that the motion picture release of "Iron Man" will be damped by the successful sales of Gran Theft Auto, which means that GTA 4 will still be a success when the "Iron Man" movie hits the theaters even eclipsing its success!
So Tony Stark can "suck it" as far as I'm concerned
GTA 4 and the overall GTA franchise will forever belong in the annuls of pop culture history as one of the most talked about games and subject matters since the North American Atari video game crash of 83. Yes every media outlet you can think of is talking about this game....You want youtube footage?........Look for it yourselves assholes!
Alright we do have this. Its a CNN current affairs show featuring Douche bag Jack Thompson (attorney at law)! Watch part 2. These old hags!
CNN Headline News - Grand Theft Morality Pt.1
CNN Headline News - Grand Theft Morality Pt.2
And for those who want purchase the game here in New Zealand, its as simple as going to a local EBs. Just remember to have some common sense and not let your toddler play this title okay dumb parents?
I had to write this entry urgently for the Nerdy Frames blog as a reaction piece after viewing the news story that broke on nightline about New Zealand fashion designer, Kate Sylvester who had to make a formal apology to returning servicemen after her models in her latest fashion show were draped with medals in the most inappropriate places. One model had the " New Zealand Operational Service" medal pinned around his bare thighs.
National secretary of Australia's Returned and Services League (RSL), Derek Robson, described the use of medals as "appalling and sickening".
Which leads to me to one question. Are we insensitive clods who have no respect for National memorial holidays like Anzac day? The irony of what was said about Kate Sylvester was while she was in Sydney, her 3 boys went to the dawn services in Auckland so she could inject some history to her impressionable boys about the true heroes who died in Gallipoli.
And speaking of insensitivities, a party named "Floorplay" went so far as to advertise that it was "Auckland's answer to Anzac"! This party was on ANZAC day (or night). Those fucking Gen-Y assholes! Look at this!
Photos by NZrave.com
Photos by Cityvibes.co.nz
Now I've only chosen the pictures that would breech a form of insensitivity towards Anzac Day as stated in the earlier paragraphs. If it were up to me I would have posted the entire photoset of all these assholes!
In fact it was declared a public holiday on Friday in which this party took place, so why did the promoters went ahead with it? They should have booked Space in advance on Thursday (the night before ANZAC) to have their shit party, but nooooo this is the insensitive Gen-Y folks who never care about anyone but themselves! You clods!
Personally people nowdays don't give a fuck as far as Anzac is concerned. Now I'm not going on some Jesus freak bent, but as a Citizen of this fair land I believe that national holidays should be recognized and respected, and not to be demoralized by non Anzac Celebrations like 'Floorplay'
Same could have been said about "Groove in the park" which took place on Waitangi day! The last Groove in the park was marred with controversy when a Ticker tape which was scrolling at the bottom of the screen had racist epithets displayed while it was not being monitored by Alt TV.
So I would like to part some words from a famous Reverend
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(1) All music must be your own and must not breech any copyright whatsoever. We still however want bootlegs, mash-up's and remixes, but as a measure we want to cover ourselves in case of an impending lawsuit from big fatcat record companies.
(2) We will not re-distribute or re-sell your music. We simply want to play and promote your music here in New Zealand.
Nerdy Frames is a non profit blog, which means that we won't profit anything from re-selling your music.
We are just providing a channel for you to be promoted here in New Zealand and garner some interest on your behalf!
(3) We will also provide a playlist with the artist name, title track and year. So you better make sure that you fill in those ID3 tags if you want props!
(4) We are always deluged with mp3 submissions,so there maybe a likely chance that we might not play your submission on our next podcast right away or our radio show. But hey who knows right, just be patience!
(5) All submissions must be at 320Kbps for MP3s, or a raw WAV. file. We do not take any other formats (Because we're all PC users, and Macs are for the rich) or accept any Variable Bitrate submissions! Yes we do check all submissions for audio quality and bitrates. We will also take 192kbps Mp3s
(6) Upload all files to Zshare, Media fire or any free sever, or provide a direct link from your band site.
Genres:
The following are some genres that we play out
Ghetto tech Techno French touch Electro Clash Hip Hop Pop (we'll be monitoring this particular one) Indie Rock Alternative pop Post Punk Disco Re-edits Nu Rave Disco Punk Grindcore Minimal house Micro House Breaks (we'll be monitoring this particular one) Screamo Acid house Electro Pop Indie Pop
We will not take in the following
Drum n Bass Gangsta rap R&B Hardhouse Trance anything that goes 300 Bpms Crap remixes Some forms of house Mediocre pop Some New Zealand music Nu Metal New Zealand Hip Hop