I'm a bit annoyed I got so grumpy in my last post, since I was intending to extol the virtues of YouTube (or YouGoogle, as it is now). Nonetheless, I have even more to share.
It's nice to be able to quote people rather than say nasty things yourself. This from Bill Drummond:
Jimmy and I don't think that all contemporary art is rubbish. If anything, we were thinking it's not contemporary enough! If it's meant to be contemporary art, push it, push it! Not that we think we're so great, but this stuff is so twee and nice and pleasant, fucking do something that excites and screams at us and all these things - but it doesn't and it continues not to. Maybe that's the way it's been and that's the way it always will be, but...
Replace 'contemporary art' with 'New Zealand popular music', and that's pretty much how I feel.
Unbelievably crudely, Bill Hicks concurs.
Meanwhile, the Edge have not so wittily contrived a fake boy band, which has gone to number 1 in the charts, in order to suggest that NZ music shouldn't be so serious. I don't think that commerical music in NZ has to lighten up at all, I just think it could be more interesting, and BoyBand are just as boring as the rest of them.
GARRRRGHGHGH!!
Second meanwhile, Theodore Dalrymple, arch we-all-need-to-go-back-to-traditional-values-and-socialism-has-ruined-everything guy turned up last night on Campbell Live sitting next to criminals-can-do-no-wrong Peter Williams "QC". (I don't know who deserved the other more.)
Actually, I think Dalrymple's right that we need more values, respect, and, courtesy in our society. 'Cos frankly, it's all got out of hand.
Sadly, I haven't seen any actual suggested policy from Dalrymple that didn't strike me as mad.
And he's got a fucking toffy upper class accent...
For a much more insightful critique, see this commentary on Dalrymple. You can also read the Russell Brown blog I pinched this link from.
Posted by stuart at October 10, 2006 10:07 PM