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Rob Stowell

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 20:19:30 +1200

Thanks Joe. That did me good – I think!

Joe Wylie

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 14:50:02 +1200

Courtesy of the youngers,listening to a fair bit of contemporary music – from pop to anti-folk. There seems to be a deep vein of sadness, wistfulness, and irony gentle or savage, running through most of it. Feels in striking contrast to the optimism (and anger) of 60s music, for example.…

Rob Stowell

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 10:20:37 +1200

Great interview, Russell. Thanks!
Does anyone else get a sense there's something about western culture in this 21st century world that's seriously askew? Courtesy of the youngers,listening to a fair bit of contemporary music – from pop to anti-folk. There seems to be a deep vein of sadness, wistfulness, and…

Roger M

Tue, 12 Jun 2018 08:17:51 +1200

"At the moment, many people’s vulnerability is exacerbated by the unkindness manifest in each day’s headlines. We feel both our own anguish and the world’s. There is a dearth of empathy, even of kindness, in the national conversation, and those deficits turn ordinary neurosis into actionable despair."

Exactly!

Jason Kemp

Mon, 11 Jun 2018 14:32:52 +1200

A great interview Russell. Thanks for that. It is clear that Bourdain had great lodes of shared experience and empathy with many of the people and situations he wrote about. From what I've seen he captured the wider context in a way that illuminated and respected all of the players.…

Roger M

Mon, 11 Jun 2018 09:19:02 +1200

Thank you Russell, I too was shocked when I woke up and read that. I was also shocked to read some of the nastiness and vindictiveness in some of the on-line commentary.

Tim Michie

Sun, 10 Jun 2018 20:00:29 +1200

Snap https://twitter.com/publicaddress/status/1005720066342543362

Also https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/04/19/dont-eat-before-reading-this/amp?__twitter_impression=true

nzlemming

Sun, 10 Jun 2018 16:18:14 +1200

https://observer.com/2018/06/anthony-bourdain-suicide-and-grace/

nzlemming

Sun, 10 Jun 2018 03:06:59 +1200

The world is just a little bit darker today.

EliotBlennerhassett

Sat, 09 Jun 2018 15:58:57 +1200

I have very vivid memories of driving towards Blenheim with A Cooks Tour audiobook read by Bourdain playing. On reaching the part about killing the pig I had to pull over because my blood pressure dropped so much I was in danger of blacking out. Talk about evocative writing!

Zach Bagnall

Sat, 09 Jun 2018 15:36:30 +1200

CNN is doing a long live show remembering Bourdain at the moment. Bill Buford was just on, speaking candidly. It's rather sweet.

Che Tibby

Sat, 09 Jun 2018 14:20:51 +1200

Same. I read kitchen confidential when I was working two jobs, one being dish pig. It validated what I was doing and resonated incredibly loudly off the lunatics I was working with.

Miche Campbell

Sat, 09 Jun 2018 12:45:24 +1200

His death has hit me hard, like David Bowie's and Joe Strummer's did.

Thank you for this.

Jim Cathcart

Sat, 09 Jun 2018 12:34:43 +1200

Drank with Bourdain in the stand-up bar, working-class district of Nishinari, Osaka where various animal parts and offal are grilled and served on the streets. He mentioned about the authenticity of culture is always found in these places, despite the bemusement of his local Japanese support team about wanting to…

SHG

Sat, 09 Jun 2018 12:04:23 +1200

nice. cheers.

Carol Stewart

Sat, 09 Jun 2018 11:58:08 +1200

What a great interview.
And how very sad.

Soon Lee

Sat, 09 Jun 2018 10:40:19 +1200

Thank you Russell.

Francisco Blaha

Sat, 09 Jun 2018 10:33:53 +1200

>They come from a culture where they’re predisposed to enjoy food, where food is an intimate and important event. They have good character and a sense of humour and a good work ethic. I think that’s really all that’s required.
>You talk a lot about Mexicans in the first two…

simon g

Sat, 09 Jun 2018 10:19:10 +1200

Thanks for that, Russell.

I’ve always loved the respect he showed to the people he met on his travels

This, very much. Not "me, me", but "them, them". Many people on television today could learn from him.

Desperately sad news this morning.

Grant McDougall

Sat, 09 Jun 2018 10:16:41 +1200

A very good tribute, Russell.

One of the best stories I've heard about him was that when he was just starting his career in NYC in the late '70s he'd often go to CBGBs after work, which at that point in time would've been mind-blowing just about every evening.

He…

Public Address

Sat, 09 Jun 2018 10:16:41 +1200

Discussion from blog post.