Comments on: http://mhjb.co.nz/blog/archives/870 bright green Jesus politics Tue, 04 Oct 2011 06:40:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ben Hoyt http://mhjb.co.nz/blog/archives/870/comment-page-1#comment-14930 Ben Hoyt Mon, 02 May 2005 05:50:51 +0000 /?p=870#comment-14930 Fair enough; my zeal without knowledge was uncalled for. :-) I thought "lame" mainly because I imagined rows of long-haired plastic models wearing brown and orange bell-bottoms, but I gather it's not that. But partly for deeper reasons. We have no trouble studying the history of the past fifty or so years, but we forget that history is 6000+ years, and we repeat its mistakes. For example, popular music---and then only its fringes---seems only now to be rediscovering that percussion is an art. "Hey everyone! I've discovered an awesomely earth-shattering drumming technique: I call it artistic restraint!" Thanks for your email about it (and about <a href="http://prismmagazine.co.nz/writing.html">writing for Prism</a>), that helps inspire me. I'll reply to that at some point. Fair enough; my zeal without knowledge was uncalled for. :-) I thought “lame” mainly because I imagined rows of long-haired plastic models wearing brown and orange bell-bottoms, but I gather it’s not that.

But partly for deeper reasons. We have no trouble studying the history of the past fifty or so years, but we forget that history is 6000+ years, and we repeat its mistakes. For example, popular music—and then only its fringes—seems only now to be rediscovering that percussion is an art. “Hey everyone! I’ve discovered an awesomely earth-shattering drumming technique: I call it artistic restraint!”

Thanks for your email about it (and about writing for Prism), that helps inspire me. I’ll reply to that at some point.

]]> By: Matthew Bartlett http://mhjb.co.nz/blog/archives/870/comment-page-1#comment-14928 Matthew Bartlett Mon, 02 May 2005 03:57:37 +0000 /?p=870#comment-14928 Perhaps before seeing the exhibition I would have agreed. I think part of Te Papa's project is to help NZ understand itself, and I feel I have a slightly better understanding of life now here than I did before, in a way that I don't think I would if I'd visited an exhibition about life in the early 1900s or in England in 1700s. Why do you think it's lame? Perhaps before seeing the exhibition I would have agreed. I think part of Te Papa’s project is to help NZ understand itself, and I feel I have a slightly better understanding of life now here than I did before, in a way that I don’t think I would if I’d visited an exhibition about life in the early 1900s or in England in 1700s. Why do you think it’s lame?

]]> By: Ben Hoyt http://mhjb.co.nz/blog/archives/870/comment-page-1#comment-14927 Ben Hoyt Mon, 02 May 2005 03:17:39 +0000 /?p=870#comment-14927 Grain of salt: '70s stuff is fun, but I reckon we've got pretty lame when <em>museums</em> have to start parading stuff that's only half a generation old. Grain of salt: ’70s stuff is fun, but I reckon we’ve got pretty lame when museums have to start parading stuff that’s only half a generation old.

]]> By: david http://mhjb.co.nz/blog/archives/870/comment-page-1#comment-14923 david Mon, 02 May 2005 01:31:48 +0000 /?p=870#comment-14923 yip, been there and it's highly recommended. yip, been there and it’s highly recommended.

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