Wanderer, scribe, street photog & music obsessive. Photos: https://teapaw.org/t.co/aLzFULaKkm Founder: https://teapaw.org/t.co/Nd0DPt57Id
Bangkok, Auckland & Aquitaine.
Joined May 2008
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Places that would be absolutely rammed anywhere else on the planet. Carito's is mindblowingly great food at decent prices but in influencer driven BKK... incredible maps.app.goo.gl/3Qgf7hDuccEk… – at Khlong Toei, Thailand
The 50th anniversary release of a record we made, ahhh, 48 years ago.
First time on 7 inch, from Germany's S P U Sirene Records. – at Bang Kapi, Thailand
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An important historical document from 1952, about how a multinational cultural monopoly sought to suppress local music recordings in New Zealand
audioculture.co.nz/articles/…
An odd world: 800,000 French march because they want to fix their country and are abused on socials by countless Americans who can't be arsed getting off theirs to save their democracy.
I've bought B three power banks but the inevitable 'can I borrow your power bank' question was followed by an annoyed 'mine are at home!' when I suggested she use hers.
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These with socials, people overthink everything. But France has a long history of riots.
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Watching journalists cover a BS flying Tesla car instead of the deaths of women and children in Ukraine because Starlink was slowed down is disgusting.
It's absolutely disgusting.
This is how it crumbles, in baby steps. I'm not sure the Land of the free ever comes back from things like this theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
I wrote a 3-parter for @audioculturenz on the early history of the company that once owned 90% of NZ's music industry and did so ruthlessly. More words about that on Substack: opdiner.substack.com/p/elect…
B: "GRRR. How does this new bloody washing machine work?"
Me: "Have you read the instructions?"
B: "Who has the time?"
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This is how I cross the road in Hanoi and always worked. Would I be this brave in Bangkok? Hell no, I'd be dead.
Where so much began - the very Empire-ish opening of NZ’s first pressing plant in 1949. 400 local HMV singles flowed from this.
Pt. 3 of my history of HMV NZ: the 50s, intrigues and rock 'n’ roll: audioculture.co.nz/articles/…
The second part of my HMV NZ history: early retail, the war years (where they made more radios for the military than anyone) and the postwar move into pressing and then, reluctantly, local music audioculture.co.nz/articles/…
Part one of a three-part AudioCulture story that's taken me a looong time: an early history of His Master's Voice in NZ, when it was the only record company in the country. The only game in town.
audioculture.co.nz/articles/…
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It's always strange how the US uses its unparalleled military and economic power to strangle and suffocate the economies of small nations it dislikes, then points to the intended devastation as proof that those countries are bad and don't work, with no reference to the US role.
You get over confident in France: you teach yourself a phrase and cautiously use it, only to hear a French person use it and realise that you are speaking gibberish and people are just being polite.
