Separating The Singer From The Song
BACK IN THE DAYS when I boasted much more hair and carried far fewer kilos, I was right into (as we said back then) writing songs. One of those songs, The Other Side of Town, opened like this:
Well, the street has been my teacher
And poverty my nurse
Oh dear, how my family and friends chortled. “You wouldn’t know how to live out on the street if your life depended on it!”, snorted one.
Read More →The curse and blessings of being an attractive young white female
…the hyper response to attractive young white females, whether they be victim or criminal, seems terribly disproportionate either way and invasively unhealthy.
Read More →The Liberal Agenda: Upper Hutt Posse finally make Vodaphone Music Awards relevant again
The brutal and illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine should be denounced every possible chance we are given, and in a NZ music scene devoid of politics and focused on the vapid, Upper Hutt Posse reminded us, as Lorde did, that music can be far more powerful when its critical.
Read More →Rating Reality Television
HAVE YOU EVER wondered what the enormous popularity of reality television reveals about contemporary New Zealand culture? Understandably, the nation’s cultural elites do not consider this to be an important question. What the lower orders choose to pollute their minds with is hardly worthy of serious consideration. The only social significance attachable to reality television is the extent to which it uses up space and resources that could, much more profitably, be devoted to genuine cultural production.
Read More →GUEST BLOG: Hone Harawira – Here you go my brothers.
Something to read. Something to ponder. Something to understand. Something to believe. Something to accept. Something to act on.
Read More →I’m no Daddy Blogger, but…
I’m no Daddy Blogger because I don’t write much about my personal life (this is a political blog after all) and because I find Mummy Bloggers to be terribly self righteous and I’d never want to sound like that over a human experience like parenting that has so many variations, interpretations and pathways, so I can only speak humbly for myself and my experience of Fatherhood.
Read More →GUEST BLOG: Hone Harawira – AMAZON and THOR!!
Went out last night … and got jumped by AMAZON and THOR!!
Read More →GUEST BLOG: Vee Hoy – New Zealand Suicide, The Whispered Killer
She won’t be right mate, unless we start making it right, open up to one another, ask questions to our government about what they are doing, ask questions of ourselves as to what we can be doing.
Read More →GUEST BLOG: Hone Harawira – Pine Ridge & Wounded Knee
Hone Harawira is the leader of the MANA movement and is currently on tour of Native American hui.
Read More →Seven Days In Dhaka: Dying for Fast Fashion
The world has forgotten the survivors and the victims. The children being raised without parents have receded in our collective consciousness in the stampede to get to the next shop sale or mega mall opening.
Read More →For every sanctimonious clown claiming North Korea are human rights violators – just consider why that is?
I’m not suggesting for one second that North Korea aren’t human rights abusers, but the West’s role in causing the damage that empowered this regime always gets lost, especially when so much of the American Left are now wanting to paint Kim as a ruthless dictator.
Read More →The pale stale male revolt, Laurel/Yanni, the crucial ingredient for Trumpism, why Jordan Peterson is winning and maybe, just maybe we should get Roseanne her show back
Resentment and backlash from men barley coping with their own amputated emotional range is why he has surged in online popularity. Peterson is not winning because of any universal truth revelations, he’s winning because broken men are so desperate for a way to feel good about themselves that being told to stand tall, clean their rooms and the intricacies of Lobster DNA look palatable.
Read More →Was Israel Folau a missed opportunity?
Maybe it’s me getting old and seeing looming economic crashes and environmental meltdowns that will demand a level of co-operation amongst our squabbling tribes that is making me so reflective but the entire Israel Folau issue just seemed like a terrible missed opportunity.
Read More →GUEST VLOG: Hadley Grace Robinson-Lewis – How to become a Registered Nurse
I’m highly passionate about advocating for the mentally ill. My passion for assisting the underprivileged and those experiencing hardships in relation to mental illness has led me to charity work.
Read More →Darren Watson – National Guy (from Too Many Millionaires)
Darren Watson – National Guy (from Too Many Millionaires)
Read More →Calm down, I performed on stage when nearly nine months pregnant – this is what women do, women have babies and they do stuff
As we all get used to the pregnancy, and the child that follows, can we please refrain from falling into a state of total tabloid adoration, but allow the inferences to unfold in a way that changes infrastructure at a level that really benefits women who are otherwise not given as many options, or who are vulnerable to having their options taken from them on account of their being women who have children.
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