Wairarapa Annual Plans...

first.
Masterton Music Works have a nice new selection of reasonably priced harmonicas.
grab them now while stocks last and start tooting!
yes sirree.

MY apologies to Mayor Lyn Patterson of Masterton.
I told her I would be at the hearings but I had another matter to attend to.
However I am sure that there were enough concerned people to keep the Council on the straight and narrow.
Most councils are usually fiscally responsible except when they get delusions of grandeur and go overboard with borrowed money to put the ratepayers into a massive debt.

My interest is in the future of Masterton and the region.
When I was boy Masterton had 4 plastics factories. A large whitewear durable goods factory . A Freezing Works and sundry other medium size employers.
All that is gone now.
The problem is how to stop rural areas from emptying out.
Like the housing crisis this a universal phenomenon.
It is happening everywhere in the first world and country's like France offer sizeable premiums to people to relocate to the countryside.
(more than a measly $5,000!)
The thing is now how to create something from scratch and answer is obvious to me.
It involves a commitment to following something through from go to whoa and that something is a media industry.
First item is a radio station.
Radio in the Wairarapa is too small to figure in the ratings and not only that they are all franchises wired in from HQ in Auckland with local ads chucked in!
nice.
how local is that.
Yep.
And the Access Radio is part of a model that no one listens to and you have to pay to use.
A small micropulse station is what is needed that is truly local and staffed with people who know other people who want to deliver recipes gardening etc without having to go out and finance their own hours.
Think Fannie Flagg.
Access Radio can be  there to be used a s a training facility and a revenue earner not dependent on advertising.
Step two is to get UCOL on board and set up a:
1: Radio School
2: wardrobe, and makeup schools
3: train camera operators, sound engineers and other necessary people.

4: a drama school
5: re establish the music school. And most importantly make the students perform live for the locals  instead of gaining skills and pushing off like everyone else.


All these things must be done concerted and not piecemeal.
And not dispersed.

After year one then UCOL can set up a producers school and teach people how to finance independent productions.

John Stuart Mill appears to argue on "Utilitarianism" that because people are interested in their own happiness then they are also interested in the happiness of all.
This is a fallacy of composition and until we have some concerted action then nothing is ever going to happen.

IN 1984  I read all the newspapers printed in the Wairarapa from 1891 onwards and believe you me there is enough stuff here for any number of dramas and docummentary's.
Forget ART until people have acquired skills.

This is the last opportunity because in 2 years time the unitary plan will be imposed  by fiat on the Wairarapa and the elected local body members  will be spending their time swanning round Wellington  and pretending to be doing something for the regions after they have lost touch with their electorate.
Dig
Time to act now before it is too late

HURRICANES...

Hurricanes shot down more axis aircraft than any other type on the inventory!

Ginger Lacey got 28.

how to stop smoking and stay stopped for good...

this is how to do it but it involves headwork.
Dig?

I just cant understand why this book has received so little support and promotion.

oh I know.
It is a process of self reliance and cant be forced down your throat by someone else who knows whats best for YOU!

hehehehehehehe. 

let the little girl dance...

senior moment.
cant remember Manuels surname.
He was the singer for Melvin and the Signatures.
hehehehehehe.
They were good.
Their two big numbers were Billy Blands Let the LIttle Girl Dance and Ben E. Kings Ecstasy.
Made the girls swoon and they used to go Manuel labour tee hee.
Found both of them the other day on some obscure cd's I picked up for a song and sure went into ecstasy.
Great Stuff.
good chords and rhythm.
There are no old Cartertonians in the Library these days so no one could tell me his name!
Thats why the big emphasis on the Stanley Brothers who did a mighty song called Rank Strangers.
definiteley the music of our time.
Way way back in the 40's 50;s and 60's every song was different and now they all sound the same!
wtf?

and way way way back when I was over 30 with no ears I decided to learn to play the guitar.
dum dum dum.
I started learning out of a book and as JOhn LeeHooker said you cant learn this stuff out of a book.
he was right but I did pick up a few picks that I discarded when my ears came right and I could hear the music and found the time to think on my feet.
I broke out this Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee cd last night and there was a nifty tune in the key of G and somehow my fingers started playing this pick I learned nearly 30 years ago and it went gangbusters.
cool!

democracy under threat...

According to Mathew HOoton the press in New Zealand is a coven of lefties and the Auckland City Council is dysfunctional.
Hooton is a right wing operative and he he is continually doing down anybody who does not conform to his narrow view of the world and tug their forelocks to the their betters. i.e him and david seymour and other manques, parvenus and nouveau riche who need losers for their self esteem.
He cloaks it all undera torrent of devious, spurious, invalid  philosophy that sounds good but is nothing but a manifesto for grabbing as much as you can.

Suicide in New Zealand
Suicide is not self harm or destructive behaviour. It is a symptom of a persons desire to harm someone else turned in on themselves.
Until this issue is addressed properly then the matter is open to endless emotional tirades form the very people that the suicidee was trying to escape from.
Dig.
But here in New Zealand we do things differently.
Its the only country in the world where the CEO of a major rotary wing aircraft manufacturer has to come to tell people to stop doing things that his aeroplanes were not designed to do.
Everybody in New Zealand wants to make everything up to suit themselves.

e.g the medical nitwit on RNZ claiming a genomic cause for all cancers and especailly bowel cancers!!!!!!!!!!
He kept saying "I guess" so I guess it was all just a guess.
Does the medical school at Otago give these projects to people who are not much good at anything else to keep them out of everyone elses hair.
Well they should make sure to keep these nitwits off the air and spreading their nonsense to credulous people who dont want to face the reality of poor diet and lack of exercise and will grasp at any straw.

Secret Service: 33 centuries of espionage.
One chapter entitled firebrands, fossils and fools.
hahahahahahahahahahahaha
a good read for people who want to see how this world is basically run by graspers and idiots.

Cathy Casey...

Great to see Cathy Casey getting on the backs of the noo noo head weed sprayers who think being a gardener is walking around with a spray pack killing anything they don't like.
Trees are dying all over the country in public spaces and verges where efficiency minded fuck heads spray horrible rings around trees  so the lawnmower guy can get it all done faster.
This country is off its fucking head and if the devil is in the details then this detail is loathsome and nauseous.

once were worriers...

The Auckland Warriors are my team.
I have been a fan since day one and often wondered why they cant get up and win.
All the other teams in the comp are stacked with P.I. and Maori strongmen but the Warriors dont seem to be able to pull it off.

Aussie footballers are brash, loudmouthed, pugnacious and possessed of a sly racism that seems to affect our boys.
It is all psychological and our boys are susceptible to the crap dished out to them that takes enough edge off their game to stop them winning unless the aussie team has a night on the piss before going up against the easybeats.
I am sure that most of the team are fine individuals but as a team they are nothing but a powder puff rabble of P.I. mummies boys.
They dont know seem to know how to take the aussies on at their own game even when they have the talent and the skills.
They have to harden up mentally and stick it to them.

mother macrees uptown jug champions...

the faster we go the rounder we get?

noodling the other day and found to my surprise that Uncle Johns Band is in the key of G and not C and it is pretty easy to slip in behind Jerry and soar.

the finest of the few...

this was was the finest hour.

the budget...

cruised up and down Masterton this am looking for a complimentary copy of the Dompost but everywhere someone else was reading it.
Eventually found one at Food For Thought and a nice coffee to go with it.
Read all the comments on the budget with the standout being the observation from the ACT's jackanapes David Seymour who said there was no tax relief.
He didn't say who for.
the poor who would do better with a raise in wages or the people who have enough money already but can never have enough disposable income to buy crap or services where they get their arses licked or to monster their bank manager.
Seymour is the member for Epsom where I suspect he is in close contact with Hooton (the angry ant) and other parvenus and manques where  they dream up endless screeds of blather to justify stealing off the working class.
They all believe in Milton Friedman ( another horrible little squib)who never worked a day in his life but pretended to know how poor people should spend their money and what was good for them by his  prescription.
ugggggh.

Wot! Me Angry?