Hard News by Russell Brown

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Hard News: How I love the ladies ...

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  • Islander, in reply to Jackie Clark,

    Damnty - as my unca Bill used to say, but that is one beeyootiful little bitch-

    sigh.

    Axolotls dont quite do it for the response factor eh?

    May you have many many happy years with a lovely - part Staffie? Anywise, great wee bitch-

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report Reply

  • Jackie Clark, in reply to Islander,

    Oh, thanks Islander. She's pretty cute, dirty old dog blankie and all. Actually, I like axolotls......

    Mt Eden, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 3136 posts Report Reply

  • Islander, in reply to Jackie Clark,

    *they're not high maintenance creatures, but every so often they cruise to the front of their tank (well, Jaws does) and - look at you...
    I prefer to think the gaze is benign rather than, Fooood?

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report Reply

  • Islander,

    How can I call you
    southern lovers
    of a small bach
    on a southern beach?
    It is nearly dead-
    and I can, with unsteady arthritic eroded arms
    not provide the ressurrection
    necessary

    I will fail
    the bach will die
    and in the larger shine of life
    a sustaining thing will slide
    into the dark

    more dies
    less than lives
    what lives
    is less
    than could be-

    and what we hope
    is only a might be-

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report Reply

  • Islander, in reply to Islander,

    O-
    this is because one of the heart deeps of me, the Black Bach at Moeraki, has been whacked & pretty well totalled by a storm surge. I know I shouldnt be but i am devastated-
    you try and see that kind kind of destruction as natural/inevitable but there goes a lot of my childhood, and for my kind of chilly asexual person, a lot of me.

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report Reply

  • Islander, in reply to Islander,

    o, please excuse the goopy emotionalism. I am devastated but in the arena of human pain, this is sooo tiny. And sooo important - to me.
    Love to every one.
    May not hear from me for a while.

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown, in reply to Islander,

    this is because one of the heart deeps of me, the Black Bach at Moeraki, has been whacked & pretty well totalled by a storm surge. I know I shouldnt be but i am devastated-

    Oh hell. We'll be thinking of you while you're away and here for you when you come back. You have our love in this.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia, in reply to Islander,

    I know I shouldnt be but i am devastated-

    Pish-posh, tosh. Of course you should, and take good care of yourself.

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report Reply

  • Lisa Black, in reply to Simon Grigg,

    Thanks for that Blue Smoke link, Simon. It's reminded me of one of our family heirlooms. When my dad was a youngish teenager (sometime in 1950s Christchurch) one of his six million older sisters* 'went around' with a young chap who had a recording studio. Because Dad played the guitar, this chap, wanting to impress the sister, got Dad in & made a record. Everyone was impressed, not just the sister. Dad still has a copy, and it's lovely.

    *Dad is from a Catholic-sized family. Nana despised all religions but reserved a special loathing for Catholics, so naturally she married one. I'm unclear as to exactly how many aunts I have. Really.

    Wellington • Since Jul 2010 • 71 posts Report Reply

  • 3410,

    Pixie Williams

    The lovely CD* is streaming at http://www.bluesmokerecords.com/ (Player is halfway down the first column).

    * "For The Record (The Pixie Williams Collection 1949-1951)" [2011]

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report Reply

  • Samuel Scott,

    Daphne Oram is a golden god.

    Lately I have been re-immersing myself in The Skylarks who I first discovered a years ago on a comp. of South Africa township jazz. The Skylarks track struck me as something special but it took me many years to realise the singer was one Miriam Makeba.

    ..it has such a smooth swing. Like Blue Moon or Mr Sandman but with that African edge to the groove that is entirely impossible to replicate outside of that mysterious continent.

    Makeba's later stuff is much more widely known of course. But no less essential. This track has some Al Green super groove going on;

    South Wellington • Since Feb 2008 • 315 posts Report Reply

  • Kerry Annett,

    Where have all the good men gone?

    Another song i have planned to have played at my funeral...

    wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 4 posts Report Reply

  • recordari,

    I tried not to, but how could I resist? Lets have a shindig.

    Grew up with this record. That and Minnie Riperton.

    Another song i have planned to have played at my funeral…

    I’ll pick this one.

    It seems to get played about once a week round here, and all our girls like trying to sing it. Lucky we haven’t got a lot of crystal.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report Reply

  • Danielle, in reply to recordari,

    all our girls like trying to sing it

    My husband actually does a pretty good job on that one. Falsetto FTW!

    (We also like singing the theme from Mahogany to the boy when he's crying about something ridiculous. It never *stops* him crying, mind, but it makes us feel better.)

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report Reply

  • recordari, in reply to Danielle,

    My husband actually does a pretty good job on that one. Falsetto FTW!

    Wow! You see, sometimes you just have to put it out there.
    Where do we go from here?
    Oh what the hell…

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report Reply

  • Jackie Clark, in reply to recordari,

    I was so going to post Donna Summer! Oh, how I love her. Love to love you, baby. Ooooo.

    Mt Eden, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 3136 posts Report Reply

  • Rich Lock,

    back in the mother countr… • Since Feb 2007 • 2728 posts Report Reply

  • Rich Lock,

    back in the mother countr… • Since Feb 2007 • 2728 posts Report Reply

  • Rich Lock,

    And staying on the Joan Jett theme. Vid NSFW.

    back in the mother countr… • Since Feb 2007 • 2728 posts Report Reply

  • Rich Lock,

    How I do love an early '90's house piano riff...

    back in the mother countr… • Since Feb 2007 • 2728 posts Report Reply

  • Ian Dalziel,

    and following in Daphne Oram's footsteps

    - Delia Derbyshire


    a Norma McLaren, or Lena Lye maybe...
    all this talk of Norman M and Stan Brakhage et al makes me think back to the Chchch film Soc in the 70s, when I first saw all these guys, nice to see the ladies get a mention now, at last...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report Reply

  • Steve Barnes,

    Had to post this. It was on TV the other night and just had me spellbound.

    Peria • Since Dec 2006 • 5521 posts Report Reply

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