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Tacitus

The Jug

The Sampler with Nick Bollinger on RNZ Nights with Brian Krump
Good programme last night with Nick featuring  Roger Knox, the Black Elvis and other folk singers.
Knox has a hot country band that sounds like vintage American Heartland circa 1950's and he can write to the point ballads about the history of Aborigines in Australia. Pretty wracking some of it.
Hope he broadens his horizons.
a night of that would be extremely painful to the psyche and he has the skill to take on other themes with important ramifications.
Anyway I hauled up the 6-string and played along.
Great music.

and Chris Prowses 'There Goes The Shiner' is good listening too.
another 5* effort.
love those finger pickers.
they supply the harmony and I can pick a single note line to go along.
yes sirree its getting better all the time.

Shane Jones:
yang yong ning, yang yong ning, yang yong ning
yingtong yiddle I po
yiddle I po

Founda copy of the 'night before' at the Baptists Produce Market (Saturday mornings, Belvedere Road) last Saturday.
I read the script before it was made and recommended it.
How about that for a dummy?
anyway they were throwing it out cheap at the Warehouse about three years ago and I used to buy them and give them away and I gave the last copy to my cuzz for his teenager and then he wouldn't give it back!
wah wah wah.
but Its a 5* kids movie with lots of action and good story and kids who saw it on its first release still remember the punchline;"your ass is grass".
hehehehehe.

felt very Simon Morris type pretentious last night and listened to 'in search of the lost chord".
it still does it.
legend of a mind and all that stuff........
hehehehehehehehe...

looking for something last night and my copy of Tacitus fell out of the box.
It is a penguin edition with G.B.A. Cowie inscribed on the cover in black ink in nice hand written copperplate.
I wonder how many of the medical profession in Masterton read Tacitus these days?
too busy wondering when the ski season is coming around so they can swan around being doctors in Queenstown!
That's why I used the pictures of the Jug. The p47 was still fighting the same battle in Germany that Tacitus was fighting 2,000 years ago!

Still thinking about the constachewshun.
will there be a guarantee that when I weigh over 20 stone I can buy a Hardly Davison, cut the exhaust pipe off and make as much noise as I like?

I have to agree with Kathryn Ryan that 'learnings' is a fake word.
in fact its a necrologism. i.e. born to die when its current users have burned out and faded away.
It seems to be a New Zealand peculiarity that sportsmen or other media types take words and mangle them to fit.
but its just like Stalin who said that the purpose of propaganda is not change peoples mind but to check up on who is toeing the party line.
hmmmmmmmmmm

so last but not least its time for the press to exercise its responsibilities to the public and publish a copy of the United States Constituion so New Zealanders can all read it and see what it actually means and how it was made.
and part of that was it was not behind closed doors as seems to be the peculiar new zealand want at the moment.
if it is not inspected by all the people then it is not worth the paper it is written on
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