It was actually really buzzy cause I just watched this really boring youtube video about the difference between analytical philosophy and the continental vibes So it's good to know Tom Scott and his peer-reviewed crew don't think much of the analytical side of things just listen to the lampooning on "What it Is" the sampled geezer clearly conveys how boring and full of crap sanitised philosophy can be!
I mean I was doing an honours course at debt ladened AU and had the misfortune of choosing a $1000 honours paper that studied word for word Ludwig Wittgensteins "Philosophical Investigations" to be honest I enjoyed it in a quirky way but couldn't understand any of the logic and stuff in it. I read it my way as I wasn't 'allowed' to read any secondary texts (books on hard and confusing books) in the end I just canned it.
Anyway all the continental philosophers are god damn Rockstars aka Nietzsche, Zizek, Plato, Marx but some analytical philosophers are cool to like Aristotle and Kant is kind of half of each side and ethics is mainly analytical and I really enjoy that stuff but anything to heavy on the numbers and Im putting that book down. Just like the old skool wise dude Montainge he guy who invented the essay he said 'I aint hurting my head for no book, read read it again but i'd rather throw it away then stress out about it!' (paraphrase). Proustalso a total continental guy believed every book no matter how good it was none of them no book can ever be above being thrown away by us in favour of doing something else ironic as he wrote the longest most windy and slow paced book in the world but apparently its pretty good I mean the title is basically the dopiest ever "In Search of Lost Time"
An emotive and powerful rendition of#AstorPiazzolla#Oblivionby the one and only Murray van Hoorn https://www.filmed by @ruthARTrocksat Mercury Theatre for the Theoradical Hobohemians sell out show#ClassicalMusic #Auckland #NZ it just goes to show success is always the best revenge.
Episode 4 of The Moss Rock Show bringing you all the hottest tunes from around Sunny old NZ and the Rest of the World can't forget that place too :) Stream the show in the player directly below!! it may take a few seconds to load
Thanks for listening to the show Hamish!! :)
Playlist Number 4!!!
Ratatat - Cream on Chrome Silicon - Burning Sugar Rackets - Swan Song War on Drugs - Ocean in Between the Waves Wilco - Magnetized Racing - Stereo Fields Tame Impala - Love and Paranoia Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon Steel Pulse - My House Lee Scratch Perry - Groovy Situation Boh Runga - I Dreamed a Dream Hannah Trigwell - Stay With Me David Kilgour and the Heavy 8's - Comin On Liam Finn - Wrestling with Dad Madyk - Some Kisses (New Artist)
I just found out about the racial controversy surrounding Hulk Hogan. Apparently he was caught on a 'home movie' being very dis-respectful about the ethnicity and colour of other WWE wrestlers. He even took aim at his own daughter for apparently dating someone who wasn't white. The shockingly racist and abhorrent remarks could not have turned up at a worse time for Hogan who is currently in the financial fight for his life. He is in the midst of a serious court litigation trying to prevent Gawk media from releasing a video of a sexual nature that would destroy his reputation and future career opportunities in entertainment. Below are some of the worse statements uttered by Hogan courtesy of the Enquirer: "I don't know if Brooke was f*cking the black guy's son," Hulk said, the sources add.
"I mean, I don't have double standards. I mean, I am a racist, to a point, f*cking n***ers. But then when it comes to nice people and sh*t, and whatever."
According to their sources, Hogan also said: "I mean, I'd rather if she was going to f*ck some n***er, I'd rather have her marry an 8-foot-tall n***er worth a hundred million dollars! Like a basketball player! I guess we're all a little racist. f--king n***er."
To me it really does seem as if Hogan's life is falling apart even though his trying his best to right his wrongs. The American icon issued a formal apology renouncing his hurtful words and disturbing prejudices caught on camera. But, despite his best efforts he has since been stripped of all his his wrestling accolades and white washed from the WWE hall of fame.
The old saying 'there's no smoke without fire seems' applicable to Hogan's life because in the past his credibility has been rocked by controversies and rumours surrounding the man from being unfaithful in his marriage to not looking after the interests of his family before himself especially his daughter. From my outside perspective what I see is an old lost man who lacks a normal level of empathy toward the people he loves. Perhaps fame fried Hogan's head as he even says himself in the attached video he use to party so hard he couldn't even remember peoples names!
With all the dirty laundry spilling out across the pavements perhaps Hogans greatest achievement will finally be coming face to face to with the pain he has caused his fans of all racial backgrounds and socio-ethnic strata. The old saying seems to apply that 'what goes up must go down' but before we are so quick to condemn Hogan a man he is completely in the wrong we must remember he is "human all to human" in the words of Freidreich Nietzsche. The simple theme of human fallibility is re-inforced by his daughter Brooke a person has seemingly endless empathy for him.
If You Knew My Father~ By Brooke Bollea
If you knew the dad I knew, you’d know his tender heart.
He’d never want to hurt his fans, or family from the start.
If you knew my father, you would know how hard he fought…
and the way it brought a smile to people light, medium and dark.
We always fight a battle that people never see,
and sometimes when you’re hurting, you don’t think logically.
Human isn’t perfect, and perfect is not he,
but I can tell you one thing, it’s just not what it seems.
Cause If you knew the dad I knew, you’d know he raised me well.
He taught me folks are so much more than shades could ever tell.
And If you knew my father, you would know he’s down to earth.
He may have slammed the giant, but remembers life’s true worth.
If you knew my father, if you just walked in his shoes…
then you would know that microscope that comes with yellow boots.
If you knew my father, you would see your own in mine.
And if he was your father, you could never find divide.
Cause me- I bet your father or someone that you love
Maybe regrets something they wish they’d never done.
So if you know my father, remember he’s a man,
and you would crave relief if people judged everything you did.
The lord says to forgive them, don’t be the one to stone…
so please remember his strong arms when you were all alone.
The lives he’s changed, the friends he’s made, the people he’s inspired…
It makes me sad to see my dad defeated and so tired.
If you knew my father, you would know just how he’s hurting…
For he loves every one of you, regardless of your story.
And if you met my father, I know he’d give you love!
He’d lift you up, apologize and give you all a hug.
For those who think you know my father, remember who you are.
We all can make mistakes and carry ugly scars.
Because I know my father, I can promise this-
Just like you and I, things we don’t mean can sometimes slip.
We all continue learning. This life can be so rough…
So if you know my father, please try not to be tough.
My father has a daughter, and I have feelings too.
And if I knew your father, I would do the same for you.
A tweet from Hogan what to make of it is up to you.
The Neo-Kalashnikovsplay The Kings Arms Tavern Tomorrow night Fri 24th of July withThe Glocks $10 on the door can't wait to Rock!!! p.s our new single "Drama Queen" is mixed and will be surfing off to the sunny West Coast of the USA to be mastered by none other than Big Bass Brian the man who added the finishing touches to Sublimes first record smile emoticon
This week i stumbled across an elightening documentary about Professional
Arcade players. The doco is called "More than a Game" and narrates the lives of some of the best sportsmen (sic) in their chosen digital field of choice namely
Street Fighter arcade machines. One of the marketing bosses at Capcom who is an ex-street fighter fanatic clearly outlines the serious history of the game in his own words. In his opinion the youthful bespectacled character states how the original Street Fighter
Game was a flop the gameplay proving to rigid, contrived and on the whole uninspiring.
However from their mega failure jumped out with a karate kick the significantly updated and worldwide hit version 2.0 aka Street Fighter 2 kicking off an arcade gaming revolution. Here is the doco if your interested apparently Street Fighter 4 is the most widely played modern arcade game in the world, amazing.
Well its not everyday Amy Schumer jumps into bed with C3PO and R2D2 for
a GQ parody photo shoot. I can only wonder in a slight state of fear how die-hard
Have reacted to seeing there heros in such compromising situations copy-right holders
Disney are all up in arms and hot under the collar. I guess when you pay for
A movie franchise to the tune of $4 billion dollars thats kind of justified.
In Amy and GQ's favour i personally think theyve done a good job of dramatizing
The sex lives of the Star Wars characters that weve known to come and love,
Sorry that came out wrong. Ill keep my eyes peeled to see if a court case
Kicks off inrelation to the saucy snaps below ;)
Artificial Intelligence is a buzz word thrown around a lot lately but its actually something that is very common to us all and utilised in our daily life! If you use the search engine
Google you may not have realised it as an artificial intelligence/search engine that has been set up much like a human mind to help us answer questions, get to places we know or simply find a link to a video we can't find ourselves.
I guess one of the great innovations and strengths of AI is the ability for the technology to do one thing supremely well. Unlike human beings who have to cook, clean and go to sleep artificial intelligences resides in a contained digital world were they only have to think about what we programme them to do, for now!
AI is also evolving into a lucrative business with the company Google buying a Kiwi tech start up
for around a billion dollars, and get this the money rolled in because they start up found a way to make a digital mind play the crude arcade game Pong (yes the tennis style game) and watch it get better and better over time by analysing the experience and learning from its flawed playing skills, much like a human player.
In mainstream media AI is also becoming more prevalent with movies such as the Hollywood thriller Ex Machina wrestling with issues of the increased development of non-human thinking beings and the moral issues surrounding rebooting a computed mind. To be honest if you could download your memory content into a computer would you and should you? Issues surrounding updating hardware aka fake human robotic bodies is also skewed with problems, if you could tweak and tinker with your body to the point of perfection would it be socially acceptable, one could easily draw a parallel to plastic surgery in our society and the associated stigma's and desires associated to it.
Furthermore is that our innate ability to read and show facial expressions, understand and manipulate laws of attraction and gain social power, even make love something that should be replicated by AI programmers and their creations. In the movie Ex Machina the real problem with conscious robots is when they get to the precipice were human beings can no longer distinguish themselves from robots and realise that they are talking and interacting with a robot. It's a strange idea but artificial bodies and intellect of an AI will one day be able to fully mimic human actions and behaviours, imagine talking to someone made up of metal and silicone instead of tissue flesh and blood.
But when we do find ourselves face to face with a being powered by artificial reason will it change our conception of what means to be 'actually' a human being. The ability of a computer android to trick a human into thinking they have true consciousness is the apparently were the 'Turning test' is passed according to Ex Machina and the human race is overcome in the chain of evolution.
Despite AI robots still being dismissed as domestic pipe dreams there are even now scholars and individuals already wrangling with non-human super intelligence.
In the low budget documentary 'Singularity or Bust' a leading expert in the physiology of
Minds and how they work
wants to bring to life a friendly sentinel being (his life work). And despite his appearance as a long haired hippy scientist he does have over
70 publications in scientific journals as well as a PHD in mathematics so I would say the possibility of him and his friends actually achieving AI lift is a real worry.
This is because a period of "Singularity" in modern lifetime will see;
The Singularity is an era in which our intelligence will become increasingly nonbiological and trillions of times more powerful than it is today—the dawning of a new civilization that will enable us to transcend our biological limitations and amplify our creativity.
It's been too many months since we last played. It's time. And so we make our return to Auckland's best live venue. Set aside the evening and be ready to be Glocked! Actually be ready to be machine gunned too. We have our friends The Neo-Kalashnikovs joining us on the bill. Definitely a night where the fuzz pedals and Carl's grunge vocals are gonna get a work out alongside some sweet female vocal harmonies.Tickets $10 at the door. https://www.facebook.com/events/475525709279840/ Facebook Event
The Artists official statement about surviving her ordeal pushing forward and taking full creative control of her life and music career. Congratulations Alice Glass keep the new music rolling in!! :)
A lot of ink has been spilt in the recent 2015 July Racist vs Anti-Racist rallies in Australia over the weekend we are just finishing. Melbourne was the worst affray by far with a worrying sense of lawlessness breaking out in conflicts across the streets. One aerial video supplied in the links below from a hovering drone shows people swinging at each other on a road with complete abandon for consequences.
As I was trying to compile videos and photos from different news stations to compare the cover from the mass media what was obvious is the severe lack of coverage of anti-racist protestors, very few photos of them exist without them being pepper sprayed or seen as the victim of police control.
Check out the photos and videos from this Zizekian "Social Event" and stay informed. NZ media seems to be very slow to post any up to date stories on a fierce riot in very nearly our own backyard.
There have been no reports of fatalities and only minimal arrest but this protest could have certainly turned out differently. A strong sense of violence and anarchy was present in both pro-Islam and anti-Islam protesters with the Police coming out in full forces on both sides.
Most importantly there have been serious allegations and reports of a supposed viral video of a police men high giving a Racist Protestor in the middle of a street battle, what may have been an isolated case, unfortunately seems to point to the Australian Government favouring the Anti-islam racist protestors making the Police's bias against anti-racist protestors not as neutral as one might have hoped!
Is the Brilliant Australian musician Jarryd James gonna win the Kiwi Silver Scroll
So they have wheeled at the latest shortlist of Kiwi hopefuls to get there greasily little mitts on the fabled existence of a NZ Silver Scroll. Which is all fun and good but what kind of excuse can they have nominating an AUSTRALIAN for the New Zealand Silver Scroll did I miss something or did I just forget to take my dumb pills. It clearly states on Jarryd James wikipedia page that they talented artist (Dis-claimer his song "Do You Remember" is phenomenal) that he's born in Melbourne and yes thats in Australia. And don't get me wrong I know the KIWI Joel Little helped write the song making it a KIWI-AUSTRALIA song written penned collab kind of like a peaceful covert ANZAC military operation but are we really ok with this??? Well maybe its time to lay down are metaphorical musical weapons and give and Aussy his just lemon flavoured desserts and roll over and just admit it in front of the whole of Australia that the person who wrote the best Kiwi song was in fact a stone cold Ozzy Battler making us Kiwi muso's all look pretty bloody stupid and useless I just have to think would the Ozzies do the same for us? maybe so please comment below. Anyway thats the 2015 Silver Scroll Question Folks; Can we give the award to an Auzzy do we have it in us? :)
The top 20 songs nominated for this years APRA Silver Scroll have been announced with SJD and LORDE both having two songs each in the list.
• Back Into Your Life by Clap Clap Riot • Call The Days by Nadia Reid • Can’t Keep Checking My Phone by Unknown Mortal Orchestra • Collarbones by Thomston • Cool It by She’s So Rad • Dark Child by Marlon Williams • Do You Remember by Jarryd James AUZZYYYY • Get Out Alive by Mel Parsons • Just In Case Allelujah by Eyreton Hall • L.A.F. by Broods • Little Pieces by SJD • Multi-Love by Unknown Mortal Orchestra • Naomi by Martin Andrews • Perfect Health by Mulholland • Special by Six60 • Touch by Maala • Unplugged by SJD • Water Underground by Anthonie Tonnon • Welcome Back by King Kapisi • Yellow Flicker Beat by Lorde
COMEDY
The WWGrundy crowds are screaming hear tonight folks and everyone wants to know who's gonna win the Grand-BeachBall-Slamin Undie World Champion 2015 TitleBelt
Plain as the eye can see both contestants have under gone a rigourous and gruelling half-naked training regime and personal trainer work outs of what must have been constant couch slams and refrigerator pull ups as well as the dreaded mind training techniques of kung-fu action kicks in mid power nap.
Well a lot of naysayers have been tooting their horns saying age will be a factor in this fine example of human masochistic endurance but I personally believe that this middle aged man-off is as evenly matched as you get. Their overwhelming fluro Pasty posteriors their heredity wrestling techniques and choice of shoes and shoeless feet make this fight so even it could go anyway, even possibly a crowd members if they wish to join the Finn melee.
I'm really hoping, even though our audience ratings would go THROUGH THE ROOF that someone doesn't get downtrousered in our Batle Royale tonight even though it would certainly be a network first the legal implications would make it a disaster!
The bets are coming in at the local Mt Albert TAB and the brutal Freudian battle between father and son for sheer domination will prove one hell of pay day for a gambling dude. Liam finn is two to one favourite with Neil paying out 10 times as much on a side bet long shot if he pulls out his trademark trade of a Don't Dream its Over Wall Removal that has left his past opponents alone and isolated delirous daze
Traversing the oedipus complex at every twist and turn the victor of tonights crunch will be allowed the sweet victor of drowning the loser in the blue ocean behind them while making the loser stomach churningly wear the 3 week old training undies of Timothy Finn, the smelly objects actual existent still being contested at this very moment.
Without further adieu in the left Blue unders corner we have the usurpppperrr and all round El Loco taco mr Liam Undertaker Finnnnn known for his powerful wrestling rugby dump trucks of destruction and in the left corner we hhavvveeee the El Diabolo Red Devil Underpants Capadra himself Mr Neil undisputed king Finn of Calamity Chockhold eye gouge master finger cruncher toe crusher midnight crooner let the Games BeGINNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dis-claimer: No family bonds were hurt during the shooting of the Live title match video replay above. And if anyone has the remotest problem or issue about this post please send myself a friendly email to: theneokalashnikovs@gmail.com and I will communicate with you in all seriousness about easily the greatest NZ music video of 2015 :) and make any fixes or changes that you need done!! This is attended as farce in good humour to promote a genuinely unique piece of visual/musical NZ art and not meant to offend anyone.
Hmm what to make of this well we all know the Royal family are German in heritage so it shouldn't come as such a big surprise. And they do seem like they are horsing around a bit and rough housing and shaking around a lot like wobbly jellow! plus their pet dog is quite cute the way it runs round...but nevertheless the clip for all it's worth shows how non-plussed the royal family was to Nazi take-over an organisation put together and funded by the German aristocrats of which the Royal family would have very close ties, if anything the clip displays a fearless grapple hold on power regardless of which way WW2 ended, thank god we didn't end up with a Nazi Royal Family posing with Hitler perhaps some where over the rainbow in a parallel universe things are a little more fruity!!! On a more serous and sombre note the clip post holocaust does seem to trivialise the atrocities perpetrated by the Third Reich, and on that note I think the Queen herself should apologize to protect the reputation of her family and loved ones. Although she was to young to understand the significance of her actions her parents surely should've known better! shame on you Queen Mother :)
Hey guys here is a podcast Volita and I did for Kikiri Records in Chicago :)
For our 8th podcast, New Zealand band - The Neo Kalashnikovs guides us through a collection of solid Rock and Grunge tunes, revealing the gear used for the recordings and the compelling stories behind their songs. Enjoy!
Lana del rey our favourite dark side popstar/beauty queen has been trending on the Billboard social media charts after leaking her new song "Honeymoon" to the masses. After I stopped trawling the internet news for a second I gave the single I listen this is what I thought!
Instantly I hear influences of Sinatra again but in a more modern sounding context than "Ultraviolence" nostalgia ladened production. There is also certainly a sultry, sexy character to
Del Rey's singing performance with over course an underlining melancholic sadness.
It's hard to really get a wrangle on the song as we all know Lana is undeniable marriage material
and you would think of her jetting off the Bahamas post wedding hopefully happy, but thats not the case as this song is most certainly about her inevitably falling into a bad, destructive relationship.
If your expecting a home run smash hit like 'Summertime Sadness' your paddling the wrong canoe on this one folks but if you feel like the world has kind of let you down even when you should be super happy this could be the song for you :)
Hot off the press people Wilco throw out to the internet cosmic Universe a brand new album called"Star Wars" and its 100% for free so just head over too: wilcoworld.net
I think you may need to sacrifice an email address to get the album but come on its worth it!
Just managed to listen to the album struck gold on track 6 "Taste the Ceiling" it doesn't sound as
low-fi as the other tracks. I would hesitate to say that the bass drum throughout the whole album is kind of non-existent same with the bass its quite a trebly record with mostly guitars ride cymbals and vocals. To my ears the record seems more like a hastily made mixtape that rappers usually rush out in the downtime between albums.
Track 7 "Pickled Ginger" is rockier with a big guitar riff and some serious fuzz pedal action is definitely happening with slight tints off Arcade Fire, come on are the drums gonna drop on this record lets hear them...there they are kind of snappy starchy snare then some tom rolls know both yes theres a ride cymbal in their with a discordant synthesiser Icky Thump White Stripes style keyboard without the tone - oh no wait here are some cool guitar overdubs panned hard stereo left and right yes its about to get their - then it stops arghhh guttered!
Onwards to the next song "Where Do I Begin" ughh some angst singing a minor key depressed cronnier song with a plodding chord twang rhythm getting bored not bad just kind of pedestrain next song!
"Cold Slope" finally something funky this is good then goes into some softy psychedelic stuff yuss we have lift TUNEE out of it those stereo guitars are back again arghh scary this is a really promising song could be Brilliant on a re-listen its got a good building vibe to it but its so trebly threatening rock but are we really rocking
'King of You" easy listening rock think Neil Young as a toddler playing with trainer wheels nice record just falling asleep made it halfway
Now for the final track Magnetized I can't do it not a bad melody oh hold that thought this is getting all John Lennon yes this is happening it's the Wilco I know holy shit do you hear those guitars OMG that drum fill man this song is great except for the really depressed verse that is positively distopian despite the verse being so not as good as the rest of the song it still works because you actually need a break from the goodness thats flooding out this song in other parts Im caught in a bubbling hot mess with a smooth oasis of goo running down the stream and were all slowly drowning in a state of ecstasy oh yes we have indeed become Jedi shotgun Yoda and damn it we get killed by Sith were know in some Jedi Heaven no wait know I'm the only one left in heaven bored but chilling yes this is worthy of the name Star Wars Magnetized you beauty you have saved the day you my friend deserve to be the number one track on the album!!!!!! :) Love you Wilco
Sadly I got a copy emailed to me and thought hell yes a free album from Wilco then a quick
Google search later and yep sure enough its free for everyone so get out there with your broad band
wireless modems or your clunky old dial-up Tarzan style connection and enjoy new music from
a great band that brought you some of the dopiest whizz cheese out like "Handshake Drugs Downtown":
p.s- I have no idea what this song is about probably something lurid sinister but in my naive bliss its just some funky dude who likes to shake peoples hands haha
Hulk Hogan
