by JAK | Dec 9, 2022 | culture, News
Like many of the long term twits I am watching with some mixed emotions at what is going on over at Twitter right now. I joined quite early in 2008? That time after only a few days I deleted my account because there were very few other users and the idea of writing a...
by JAK | Aug 30, 2020 | culture
As unprecedented as Covid-19 is we have all been here before. This is not the first time the human population has faced off against a pandemic. The Great Plague of Marseille in 1720 was started because some local merchants wanted shiny new cloth. They broke the...
by JAK | Apr 29, 2020 | culture
In New Zealand we have have had a 4.5 week lockdown and now we are 2 days into a still restricted time period to help manage the health risks from covid-19. There are many responses to this kind of enforced stay at home but one of my first thoughts was finally I can...
by JAK | Apr 25, 2020 | culture, music
This week in lockdown viewing I wanted to take in some music films and I had another shot at watching the Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019) I had started watching it when it showed up on my Netflix recommendations list but given up...
by JAK | Jul 11, 2019 | culture, music
I was listening to some live music last night* and one of the performers said something like here is a song about some of the monkeys in my circus. Your circus will be different but we all have monkeys. He had me at monkeys. That is a great way to make a connection...
by JAK | Jan 11, 2019 | culture, development, music
Ever had that feeling that when times are challenging you learn more. No one actively likes having a tough time but if everything was easy / peasy I suspect we’d be in cruise mode and oblivious. Many years ago a wise friend referred to some of this as the...
