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August 26, 2013 1:00pm by David Farrar

David Shearer’s Resignation – The Opera

David Shearer’s resignation speech sung as an opera. Very well done.

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Keeping Stock

You’re becoming like the Herald DPF; I blogged that video on Friday 😀

But you’re right; it’s brilliant stuff.
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August 26, 2013 1:02pm
Pete George

If you want a bout of oneupmanship I posted a link to that on Thursday night, the day Shearer resigned: http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2013/08/shearer_resigns.html#comment-1190816

All the thumbs down can’t have been for the Opera.

But…I got it from a Ryan Sproull tweet so the credit goes back to him. They must have put the video together quickly.
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August 26, 2013 1:09pm
Redbaiter

Seen Cunliffe’s latest slogan?

“new hope, new vision, new beginning”

FFS, and these idiots are unhappy that they are so often held in such utter contempt.
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August 26, 2013 1:10pm
Pete George

The slogan has a signifciant omission – there’s no “new caucus”.
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August 26, 2013 1:15pm
Don the Kiwi

Great parody.
Les Miserables piss take. The guy singing has a great voice.
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August 26, 2013 1:31pm
wikiriwhis business

Let the sun shine in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4740nZKERw
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August 26, 2013 1:47pm
Redbaiter

Lyrics to Let The Sunshine, from the musical Hair, late 1960s.

We starve, look at one another, short of breath
Walking proudly in our winter coats
Wearing smells from laboratories
Facing a dying nation of moving paper fantasy
Listening for the new told lies
With supreme visions of lonely tunes
Somewhere, inside something there is a rush of
Greatness, who knows what stands in front of
Our lives, I fashion my future on films in space
Silence tells me secretly
Everything
Everything
Manchester, England, England
Manchester, England, England
Across the Atlantic Sea
And I’m a genius, genius
I believe in God
And I believe that God believes in Claude
That’s me, that’s me, that’s me
We starve, look at one another, short of breath
Walking proudly in our winter coats
Wearing smells from laboratories
Facing a dying nation of moving paper fantasy
Listening for the new told lies
With supreme visions of lonely tunes
Singing our space songs on a spider web sitar
Life is around you and in you
Answer for Timothy Leary, dearie
Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in
The sunshine in

Those hippie morons sure made one massive damn fuck up of everything. And the line of mostly drooling idiots we have as our political leaders today is the legacy.
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August 26, 2013 2:27pm
David Farrar

I get sent a huge number of unsolicited story ideas and links (all appreciated). They go into a large folder and I get to them when I can, unless they are particularly time sensitive.
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August 26, 2013 2:29pm
ByterNZ

The singer is Andrew Grenon of NZ Opera. He recently played Acis in NZ Opera’s production of Acis and Galatea.
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August 26, 2013 8:34pm

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