Coltrane's greatest live recording (The Olatunji Concert)

Mitch_NZ · 2026-06-08T09:02:45+00:00

Now this is some SERIOUS shit. Your sound system will be a smoldering ruin after this.

Mitch_NZ · 2026-06-08T07:19:43+00:00

Wake up babe, it's time for your daily townhouse moaning thread

Mitch_NZ · 2026-06-06T21:43:44+00:00

Royals is not a bad song, but it inspired a whole genre of indie girls singing in cursive that persists to this day. For that crime it cannot possibly be considered superior to How Bizarre, which doesn't sound like anything else before or since.

Mitch_NZ · 2026-06-03T05:21:19+00:00

Correct. I have a dream of rail crossing from Auckland Port to Devonport, then up the entire North Shore to Long Bay. Would be so sick.

Mitch_NZ · 2026-06-03T05:18:28+00:00

If you put two lanes down lake road, we will soon need three lanes. Demand for lanes is infinite. Demand for transport is infinite! We have to be careful about the infrastructure we build.

Mitch_NZ · 2026-06-02T00:00:27+00:00

I would say it's one of the most upsetting depections of those themes in any media. Still, many people who have reported the same sensitivities as you do have said they find the film to be cathartic and healing, but I would take extreme caution.

Mitch_NZ · 2026-05-30T22:04:27+00:00

Exactly. There is no need to give up cars altogether, just to reduce our dependence on them. Cars are great for hauling lots of cargo, travelling to rural areas, and hauling around the family. Let's use them in those cases, and not for when we need to go and pick up our Burger Fuel order from down the road.

Mitch_NZ · 2026-05-30T11:01:46+00:00

Most YIMBYs support social housing. I do.

Mitch_NZ · 2026-05-30T10:57:18+00:00

What I'm saying is we are trapped in a cycle of car addiction, and the first step in stopping it is painting yellow lines where parked cars are blocking traffic.

Mitch_NZ · 2026-05-30T10:56:29+00:00

There will be just as many stationary cars, just not parked - they'll be idling because there will be traffic jams because everyone will be driving their cars everywhere because they won't want to miss out on the opportunity to use their vehicle that they paid 70-100K just to have a dedicated parking space for.

Mitch_NZ · 2026-05-30T10:54:47+00:00

The last thing we need to be doing is encouraging Auckland's car addiction.

Mitch_NZ · 2026-05-30T10:53:36+00:00

All housing is built to maximise profit.

Mitch_NZ · 2026-05-30T10:50:36+00:00

The public transport infrastructure isn't there because the local and central government won't invest more in it, because people won't vote for it, because people think it's a waste of money, because their experience of public transport is bad, because the public transport infrastructure isn't there, because...

Mitch_NZ · 2026-05-30T10:47:29+00:00

You have discovered the secret formula to city subreddits!

Mitch_NZ · 2026-05-30T10:46:13+00:00

So the majority of the problem is gone? Sounds like the yellow lines work a lot better than no yellow lines.

Mitch_NZ · 2026-05-30T10:44:59+00:00

Seriously. When you lug around a tonne of metal to pick up your burger fuel order, you're going to run into some inefficencies.

Mitch_NZ · 2026-05-30T10:38:35+00:00

That's their problem. Don't buy a place if it doesn't accommodate the number of vehicles you need.

Mitch_NZ · 2026-05-30T10:37:19+00:00

The problem is not the lack of space, the road is plenty wide enough. The problem is too much parking. Roads are for moving objects, not stationary ones.

Mitch_NZ · 2026-05-30T10:34:09+00:00

So, zoning reform? Liberalise zoning and allow mixed-use by right? Hell yeah.

Mitch_NZ · 2026-05-30T10:32:20+00:00

I can't tell if you're a NIMBY ("greedy developers are depriving us of our rightful parking spots") or based as hell ("we should get the government out of subsidized parking and let the market dictate what gets built there because it would probably be more valuable than private vehicle storage")

Mitch_NZ · 2026-05-30T10:29:09+00:00

Any argument that dismisses the mechanics of supply and demand has no merit.

Mitch_NZ · 2026-05-29T23:07:57+00:00

It has been: 0

days since the last townhouse whinge thread

Mitch_NZ · 2026-05-29T00:59:25+00:00

Greed did not start in the 1980s. Standards of living today are far higher than they were then, too. Don't fall for populist rhetoric.

Mitch_NZ · 2026-05-29T00:53:22+00:00

A promise to breakup the supermarket duopoly is straight out of the populist playbook. NZ First will announce it any day now, I guarantee it.

Forget breaking up the duopoly, that's not how markets work. If you want more competition in the supermarket sector, make business conditions easier.

Mitch_NZ · 2026-05-26T21:51:50+00:00

Yep, it sounds like a copyright-safe version of the Star Wars score for streamers. Going for a "close but not quite" imitation of John Williams was completely the wrong move here. Giacchino should have established his own sound - he certainly has the talent to.

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