Dub dot dash

Are friends electric?
Congrats to The Electric Confectionaires from Takapuna Grammar School, winners of this year's Smokefree Rockquest. One of the judges, Matt Headland from Warner Music observed that "the New Zealand music scene needs a quirky band." Perhaps someone from FMR can introduce him to the Mint Chicks.


Hats off to the subeditors at the SST... they managed to garble some great photo captions from the Juice TV Awards... "Fast Crew's Kid Debt (Kid Deft), Arachna, (R'n'B singer Aradhna), and King Kapasi (King Kapisi)". Worth the price of admission... Nearly as good as last weekend's goof; in the story on Generation Y talking to Callum Gittins, where he mentioned performing the song Gangs Of Paradise at school, the year it won a Grammy. Took me a minute, but then I got it- some subeditor with a limited knowledge of pop culture had corrected Coolio's big hit Gangsta Paradise. I got two words for you subs - Google it - that's all it takes, if you're unsure...


God, the pictures coming outta New Orleans are overwhelmingly sad ... there's the images of buses finally arriving to take survivors from the New Orleans Superdome off to Houston. Why didn't they evacuate them before the hurricane hit? In 2002 the New Orleans Times Picayune did a series of articles on the possibility of a hurricane hitting New Orleans - they found that 100,000 people in New Orleans didn't have access to private transportation to get out, in the event of such a disaster.

via allhiphop.com...
Kanye West criticized U.S. President George Bush & the government’s reaction to Hurricane Katrina last night during “A Concert for Hurricane Relief,” a live benefit concert on NBC. West deviated from the pre-written script. “It's been five days [waiting for help] because most of the people are black,” West said. NBC quickly cut away from West.

Russell Brown also on that one.. "Kanye West on a fund-raising Telethon: he abandons the autocue and just starts talking: ""I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they are looting if you see a white family it says they are looking for food ... We already realize a lot of the people that could help are at war now fighting another way and they've given them permission to go down and shoot us ... George Bush doesn't care about black people." Mike Myers looks stunned." This is some funny ish...

here's something positive...

Offers by the thousands
MoveOn.org Civic Action, which set up HurricaneHousing.org on Thursday, said its Web site listed offers for 50,950 beds on Friday afternoon, and the number was climbing by more than 1,000 per hour.
Serena Howard's family in Fayetteville, Ark., set up a Web site called OpenYourHome.com on Wednesday with modest expectations. "We just put a Web site together so we could find a few families here in the Arkansas area" to provide homes, just as they have done in the past for
foreign exchange students.
They have been deluged with offers — including 1,300 families offering housing, churches offering their entire buildings, and many other people offering transportation for victims to their temporary housing all over the country.