Politics and music, go together like men and emotions
The Costanza is my blog for school. The name of the blog and the ‘catchphrase’ are incorporating my favourite Seinfeld character (George Costanza) aswell as the general idea of what my blog will be about.
I’m told I have the mannerisms of Mr Costanza at times so adding that to my blog seemed important.
Our school blogs have to be on a certain topic chosen by our tutors. The topics are something along the lines of business, economics, politics etc but we’ve been told that we can fit any topic of our choice into that topic. Confused? Yea, so was I.
So here’s the story about this blog. I will always use correct spelling and grammar (or as much as humanly possible) and I won’t say anything which is politically incorrect or offends anyone.
If you want to see my usual style of writing, you should probably see my blog TORYS sTORYS which is very different to what will be here.
I will update this once a day, once a week or whatever the tutors decide is appropriate.
I’m pretty sure my blog will be about politics and it’s relation to music. This may be hard although in one interview I did, a tutor of a music course told me that Labour did a very good job providing funding for New Zealand music and that he hoped National would do the same, if not better.
So that is just one example of what I could blog about.
I feel a little hesitant about writing about government related issues because I have a strong bias towards one side. I 
think I would like to make it clear in this blog what my bias is. I prefer Labour and left wing parties in general because they seem to agree with the same things I do. Both parties in New Zealand lean towards the centre, ie: Centre right and centre left which means neither is fully left wing or right wing.
Since the latest election we have experienced the National government which hasn’t been all that different to Labour, proving that both parties are leaning so much towards the centre that they’ve lost any left wing or right wing style they once had. As one of my colleagues said, Norman Kirk would be turning in his grave about how ‘centre’ Labour has become.
As a journalist, all stories have to be balanced and fair which means putting all my prejudices and beliefs aside, which is what I will do with this blog. Despite the fact I’ve admitted my bias towards Labour, I’m willing to write as if I don’t have a bias and don’t favour either side or either leader.
Music is my main passion here anyway. Sure, I enjoy politics and find it all very interesting but there’s just something about the way music speaks to me.
Music can make me feel a way that nothing else can whether it’s the instruments or the lyrics.
I love that it doesn’t take a ‘muso’ to be able to enjoy music. Even though I can’t play music, I still understand it and enjoy it in many forms.
So joining my liking for politics aswell as my love for music does make sense. It just seems difficult at this early stage. The idea of the blog could completely change as it goes on.
Tory.
Pictures: Top left
Top right
Bottom left: Taken by myself at Whitireia music school in Porirua.