Posts by Rob Hosking
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"Throw Your Arms Around Me" is the "Ke Sahn" for a generation of Aussies. Hearing every person in a packed, drunken train trip from the races at Flemington singing it word perfect, strangers singing the harmonies together - made me a bit (for a moment) jealous that Australians have such a perfect song for that type of sing-a-long.
Paul Kelly's recent book mentions going to a Hunnas gig sometime in the mid-1980s and the crowd singing along to 'Say Goodbye'. He marvels at a room of 1500 out-of-it Aussie blokes roaring out 'You don't make me feeel....like I'm a woman anymore'.
And here's a gem of a song from both Paul Kelly and Mark Seymour. Great theme from a very bad fillum:
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There had been the 1993 WTC attack, various attacks in the middle east, Sudan – the first Iraq war had happened under Bush 1 (with hundreds of thousands of us marching in the street against it!) – if you listened to NPR, watched public television you knew that AQ existed and had the US in its sights..
Or Time Magazine, who had bin Laden on the cover in 1998, I seem to recall. I think they even had an interview with him. (I'm going on memory here). I know Time doesn't have the circulation it once did, but it still gets a bit wider than a few pointy heads.
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..b.y a group called the Men of Harlech. Its chorus went:
Charlie's getting married at last
To a pretty girl without a pastModified, at my school, to 'Charlie's got his end away at last...'
Which showed a certain crude naievete, I suppose.
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What is depressing is that most of his friends seem to like '80s power ballads (Bon Jovi, Poison etc...) and ACDC. WTF is up with that?
Blame Radio Hauraki and the average NZ work place for that I reckon.
They were playing ACDC in Unity Books yesterday arvo. I thought, this is umm, unusual.
Thing is, I'd just come from an acupuncture session where, I swear, the binkly bonkly music they play while you lie there like a petrified hedgehog was a binkly bonkly version of this:
It was an afternoon of considerable musical dissonance.
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Corgis need better pr; they suffer from association with their most famous owners.
Had one on the farm - my sister's (it was a pet).
We'd come back from doing something down the farm, kicked our boots off and my brother decides to de-flea the corgi before we go in for afternoon tea.
Grabs the flea powder and the rag and rubs it all over the corgi, who stands there with his ears down & a pissed off expression.
As soon as my brother has finished, corgi goes over to the row of kicked-off boots, heads straight for my brother's, picks up one of the boots and shakes it in his teeth, growling.
Then he flounces off with his nose in the air.
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I don't believe that awful site is genuine. The language is all wrong, and they're trying too hard - the baby seal clubbing is a dead giveaway.
It reads like something cooked up by a bunch of 19 year olds in a university Athiests Society.
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Matthew 7:26
"And every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand; and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell; and great was the fall of it."
Spooky.
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Little media coverage of the outlying areas – thinking particularly of Sumner where some houses were said to have been buried.
That is bugging the crap out of me. Got friends in Lyttleton and I'd have expected the odd camera shot from a helipopeter - at least - of the suburb closest to the earthquake epicentre.
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Thanks for that Alex. We're not far from the airport, we've offered a couple of places
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Someone from the Consumers Institute was interviewed on NatRad this evening and said basically if you've got Whitcoulls vouchers, take the 50%.
Technically you're an unsecured creditor and with everything legally frozen they don't legally have to honour them at all right now.
Any new owner won't be obliged to honour them either: they buy the assets but not the liablities.
You can register as an unsecured creditor but you'd probably get better odds buying a lotto ticket.