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@Mokey said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@aucklandwarlord He's a total dickwad. What pisses me off the most is that there are probably hundreds of talented, hardworking musicians in Auckland who will never get the opportunities this little turd takes for granted. Because seriously, if he wasn't Daddy's little star, no one would give him the time of day.
That was a great article. Poor woman, can only imagine how suckful that evening would have been. Lucky she had her mate with her to help ease the pain a little.
That kind of sums up the music industry as a whole. Basically every "star" is someone that had a huge amount of money behind them with loads of marketing (I.E. shoved down everyone's throats all the time). A lot of the media coverage of musicians is paid for, without a doubt. There's just so much musical talent going around in the world that without the right financial backing you're going to struggle to compete.
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@MN5 I'm not sure if you saw the kiwi women of rock doco last year but the contrast between her and the other women made her look even worse. There was early 80s Sharon ONeill looking impossibly hot and explaining how right when she was on the verge of international success a strike meant her records couldn't get printed , Jenny Morris with a hit album and her career taking off when she was struck down with paralaysis of her vocal cords. Then there was Anika , sent over to the states and touted as the next Jewel who spat the dummy when she was asked to drop a few pounds and came home to tell NZ in her first interview that Americans are stupid.
Shona Laing was on it too, she wrote some songs for Manfred Mann . She knew the singer because he grew up in NZ and his accent has added to the online debate over if he is saying " wrapped up like a douche " in blinded by the light.
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@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@MN5 I'm not sure if you saw the kiwi women of rock doco last year but the contrast between her and the other women made her look even worse. There was early 80s Sharon ONeill looking impossibly hot and explaining how right when she was on the verge of international success a strike meant her records couldn't get printed , Jenny Morris with a hit album and her career taking off when she was struck down with paralaysis of her vocal cords. Then there was Anika , sent over to the states and touted as the next Jewel who spat the dummy when she was asked to drop a few pounds and came home to tell NZ in her first interview that Americans are stupid.
Shona Laing was on it too, she wrote some songs for Manfred Mann . She knew the singer because he grew up in NZ and his accent has added to the online debate over if he is saying " wrapped up like a douche " in blinded by the light.
Jewel was always quite appealing for some reason.....
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@MN5 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@MN5 I'm not sure if you saw the kiwi women of rock doco last year but the contrast between her and the other women made her look even worse. There was early 80s Sharon ONeill looking impossibly hot and explaining how right when she was on the verge of international success a strike meant her records couldn't get printed , Jenny Morris with a hit album and her career taking off when she was struck down with paralaysis of her vocal cords. Then there was Anika , sent over to the states and touted as the next Jewel who spat the dummy when she was asked to drop a few pounds and came home to tell NZ in her first interview that Americans are stupid.
Shona Laing was on it too, she wrote some songs for Manfred Mann . She knew the singer because he grew up in NZ and his accent has added to the online debate over if he is saying " wrapped up like a douche " in blinded by the light.
Jewel was always quite appealing for some reason.....
Great voice, cracking body.......and a face.
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If you're talking kiwi pop women that still have it you have to add to the MILF list alongside Shazza the names of Dianne Swann and Kim Willoughby.
I spent quite a few drunken nights at Auckland pubs in the 80s staring at Kim's rear end. It was quite spectacular. -
@Crucial said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
If you're talking kiwi pop women that still have it you have to add to the MILF list alongside Shazza the names of Dianne Swann and Kim Willoughby.
I spent quite a few drunken nights at Auckland pubs in the 80s staring at Kim's rear end. It was quite spectacular.Kim was hawt
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@Bovidae said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
I always thought Margaret Urlich was the best from When the Cat's Away.
Funny you mention Mags. A mate of mine had the biggest crush ever on her for a while and was like a puppy dog following her around (his band used to play support for Peking Man quite often). One day setting up a summer outdoor gig on a half arsed stage in a garden bar he decided to make a move and casually walked toward her timed a cool leap onto the stage in her direction only for the pallets it was constructed with to collapse and sent him flat on his back covered in spilt beer.
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@MN5 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@MN5 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Spinoff has some interesting stuff on it now that it's been around a little while .
Since we are on the subject of obnoxious over hyped people in the music business Anika Moa was interviewed last year by them , I actually managed to loathe her more after reading it .As you and I discussed last year it's impossible to believe she used to be a long haired hottie in the late 90s before discovering she didn't like dick and changing her look to fat, short haired tattoed, smelly looking minga accordingly....
Holy fuck Zac Guildford has stacked on the weight!
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@Mokey said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@Crucial All media should listen to his security friends and leave him alone forever.
He'd be begging them to come back in 5 minutes, once he realized exactly how little people actually cared about his activities.
It said it all when John Key was contemplating resigning and his wife and daughter were 100% behind him but Max wanted him to stay on and keep being the prime minister. Mainly, I presume, because he realised that without his Dad being PM he'd be even less significant than he already is
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@Bovidae said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
I always thought Margaret Urlich was the best from When the Cat's Away.
I'll throw in the name Jan Hellriegel.
Unfortunately neither one of them was on the show and yes Jan Hellreigel was damn fine back in the early 90s.
Back to Jewel
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A sub editor for the Sydney Morning Herald website has been sacked after a headline on its homepage accidentally told readers what the rest of the article was going to be about.
“We apologise for allowing the headline Bank Teller Shot In Robbery On Parramatta Road to appear in our digital edition and totally confusing our five remaining subscribers,” said SMH editor Callum Ayte. “As soon as we found the error we immediately took it down and replaced it with the much more straightforward The Day Andy’s Job At The Bank Took An Unexpected Turn For The Worse, because we all know our readers have nothing better to do with their day than to spend half an hour clicking on every headline in the hope of eventually finding the story they’re interested in.”
“I was called into the office and lectured about how good headline writing isn’t about clarity and brevity but mainly about generating as many bogus clicks as possible,” said newly out of work sub editor Ariel Kurner. “They gave my job to one of the clue writers for the cryptic crossword who set to work making the headline as puzzling as possible.”
The headline caused much grief to readers of the Sydney Morning Herald who enjoy the many hours it takes to work out the meaning of the day’s headlines.
“The original headline totally bored me as I solved what it meant in no time at all,” said confused Herald reader Angus Broadsheet. “The new headline was much more intriguing. Did a giant python jump out of the bank vault and swallow him whole? Was he strangled with a pen chain by a crazed customer who’d just been refused a mortgage. Was this another bloody story about real estate to suck me into the Domain section? I had to find out.”
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@jegga Yeah I watched that Prime TV show as well. Margaret Urlich was on another music doco that was on TV recently as she's now a music teacher/vocal coach in Aust and they interviewed her over there.
I guess all you Jewel fanboys will be going to see her later this month (opening for Don Henley).
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@Bovidae said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga Yeah I watched that Prime TV show as well. Margaret Urlich was on another music doco that was on TV recently as she's now a music teacher/vocal coach in Aust and they interviewed her over there.
I guess all you Jewel fanboys will be going to see her later this month (opening for Don Henley).
If you're not a Jewel fanboy you have no penis
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@mariner4life said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Holy fuck Zac Guildford has stacked on the weight!