Here's a wee taste of London's annual Notting Hill Carnival...
Not to be beaten, New Zealand's biggest city Auckland also has its yearly street parade in August, 'Boobs on Bikes'...
Hmmm. Now I'll be the first to admit the music, food and general style and fashion of the Caribbean particularly floats my boat. But that bias aside, it truly disturbs me that the best New Zealand's largest and most multicultural city can muster up for its yearly sojourn is a few Westie strippers riding bareback on the trinkets of the Methamphetamine industry.
That's not a judgement call on my part. Bakers, bankers, lawyers, strippers, journalists, teachers and tilers... there's good eggs and bad eggs throughout all walks of life, and quite frankly that's where any moral panic ends with me. I quite like motorbikes, and as for boobs, well a large part of my brain activity is devoted to them on a regular basis.
It's the event itself I struggle to deal with.
I've been to Carnival in Notting Hill London, I've been to Festival in St Kilda Melbourne, and I've been to Carnival in Cuba Street, Wellington. All involved celebrations of cultural and generational diversity, and inspiring amounts of creativity, unity and love.
Perhaps I've got it all wrong, and these cities need to follow Auckland's example and change the focus of their events. Maybe there is merit in raising the lunch-hour spirits of partition staring, internet-porn addled, tie-wearing office workers worldwide...
That's not a judgement call on my part. Bakers, bankers, lawyers, strippers, journalists, teachers and tilers... there's good eggs and bad eggs throughout all walks of life, and quite frankly that's where any moral panic ends with me. I quite like motorbikes, and as for boobs, well a large part of my brain activity is devoted to them on a regular basis.
It's the event itself I struggle to deal with.
I've been to Carnival in Notting Hill London, I've been to Festival in St Kilda Melbourne, and I've been to Carnival in Cuba Street, Wellington. All involved celebrations of cultural and generational diversity, and inspiring amounts of creativity, unity and love.
Perhaps I've got it all wrong, and these cities need to follow Auckland's example and change the focus of their events. Maybe there is merit in raising the lunch-hour spirits of partition staring, internet-porn addled, tie-wearing office workers worldwide...
4 comments:
yo man you forgot about the santa parade, that sht is the definition of multigenerational as for cultural diversity, come to Christchurch, it's been outlawed.
^^ by dan
Rio has the Carnival.....Berlin the Love Festival...London has Notting Hill Carnival....New Orleans has Mardi Gras......
Auckland....has.....King-Pins of the Auckland methamphetamine industry driving slowly down Queen St on their Harleys with strippers on the back.... Read more
If I want to look at breasts I would prefer to start at home and if not an option then quality internet styles, rather than drive into Auckland to get a tip-toe glimpse across the asphalt.. says more about Auckland's psyche than the subject of the pics. A congealed mass of Beavis and Buttheads cramming for a 3 megapixel capture of some average, bruised stripper's nipple. That's our mainstream Auckland on display, in all their 'everyone-get's-a-bargain', MoreFM-listening glory.
If a huge bunch of Aucklanders are prepared to commute to Auckland CBD to look at this as the highlight of their week, then they deserve this as the biggest event on their calendar apart from the Santa Parade.
However, at least the bloated, Satan-esque pornographer is actually doing something, you have to give him that. Which is way more than the grey, hand-wringing, committee-driven, spectator that is collective Auckland and it's elected representatives will ever achieve. Way more than John Banks - griping about it to the media - will ever come up with.
Sadly though - Crowe has no interest in doing anything remotely stylish or tasteful (i.e. there's something more appealing about tits out in Rio where they girls actually have amazing costumes on and are on mind-blowingly amazing floats) and if you have seen any of the bottom-of-the-barrel turd product Crowe peddles you will understand why it's so depressing that he is the self-appointed arbiter of the defining public cultural event for Auckland.
I'm moving to Queenstown.
What no mention of Freestyle or Scratch? Shameful lewis
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