Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Friday Recommends

Steve Parks

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:06:22 +1300

Alastair, not sure if you're aware, but there are some reactions to the Scoop editorial over on another thread.

Ethan Tucker

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 00:08:04 +1300

Not musicky but still cool: Scott Kelly shows us around his workplace – the viewing cupola of the International Space Station. The station is much bigger than I expected, and the views are superb. (Audio starts 0:24)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U54RMrBK9vU

Jackie Clark

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 22:29:50 +1300

Thank you Lilith for the gift of half naked young men in my computer. They're so......nubile.

Cecelia

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 21:52:29 +1300

Have enjoyed the You Tubes.

The below put a smile on my face. Burly boys doing Bad Romance. It's a facebook video and I've no idea how to incorporate it or a You Tube into my response ...

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1275931796972

Geoff Lealand

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:08:10 +1300

Friday brought another reminder of how arbitrary luck is. Went down to the local Postshop, to mail a parcel, and was persuaded to have a go at their Guess the number of jellybeans in a jar competion. Picked a random number without even looking at the jar, and won the…

Craig Ranapia

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:50:49 +1300

Kiki and Herb are the missing link between Bonnie Tyler and William Butler Yeats:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVpIZ-Chta8

And since there's no such thing as excessive Friday fabulosity, Justin Bond and the Hungry March Band share a great truth of the universe. 'We All Get It In The End' —

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDfer2J-Vpk&feature=related

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:43:31 +1300

Lilith, those are the two finest videos I have seen today. Kia ora.

Russell Brown

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:09:59 +1300

Thanks Lilith. That is quite awesome.

Lilith __

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:07:49 +1300

And since it's Friday, perhaps we need a novelty song as well?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eELH0ivexKA

For all the tea aficionados. I think it might be steampunk hip-hop. Or something.

Lilith __

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:56:07 +1300

I rather liked this, which is available for free download for a limited time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nwm6frRyfE

I particularly dig the dancing. :-)

Kumara Republic

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:15:10 +1300

"You "mileage may vary." "

Blame it on TVTropes. ;D

Surgeon-General's Warning: may be hazardous to your productivity.

Craig Ranapia

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:06:10 +1300

Yes I bloody well can. What a horrible abandonment of basic decency and fairness that was. Grrrrrr.

Oh, me two. Three News should be getting pimp-slapped by the BSA right about now, but I'm pretty damn sure Joseph Dunbar's whanau and friends have more important things to do.

Russell Brown

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:44:17 +1300

But when the media got it wrong (the violations of privacy and good taste, the distasteful keyboard Rambos etc.) they really really screwed the pooch.

Can I register my disgust at 3 News' lead story with the Dunbar father yet another time?

Yes I bloody well can. What a horrible…

recordari

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:59:42 +1300

Unknown Mortal Orchestra
COIL

For some reason all week I've wanted to listen to this, as it seems to capture the pervading feelings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mUmdR69nbM
Also having just discovered Sufjan Stevens, thanks, as is common, to Troy Ferguson's Rock 'n' Roll Wire, (here in Feb next year), I've become a bit…

Alastair Thompson

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:36:28 +1300

@craig

If feeding them fresh copy helps keep everything on an even keel then it is part of the crisis management objective. And if not feeding them fresh copy leads – as it did – to everybody getting upset with each other it detracts from that objective. I think we…

Alastair Thompson

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:32:19 +1300

@jackie

I have a pic of Russell in his abode on the day of the site relaunch. Perhaps I can share.....

3410

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:12:26 +1300

Thanks, Sacha, but, alas, no broadband at present.

(Comma overload!)

Graeme Edgeler

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:03:56 +1300

Oxford (the dictionary) has announced its word of the year is refudiate.

Sacha

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:16:55 +1300

One for 3410 – Jay-Z does Empire State of Mind last night

Jackie Clark

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:14:59 +1300

Russell, will you be giving guided tours of said home office anytime in the future? Because I'm fairly certain that you could make money from it.

Sacha

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:45:05 +1300

call it Auckland intuition :)

Craig Ranapia

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:19:21 +1300

What is a YMMV?

You "mileage may vary." Quite frankly, I think some sections of the media needed to get their egos out of the room, and get a grip on on the idea that feeding them fresh copy weren't really the number one priority. But, hell, that's an old…

JP Hansen

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:14:50 +1300

Ha, good call!

Sacha

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:12:16 +1300

it was an amazing emotional moment last night

Beautiful serendipity.

Nobody knew that the song would be dedicated to the miners

Ahem

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:54:44 +1300

Where I come from, it's Your Mum Munches Valium, but your mileage may vary.

JP Hansen

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:49:11 +1300

I'm not Craig, but it's "your mileage may vary".

Alastair Thompson

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:43:51 +1300

Hi Russell

Inspired in part by your Media 7 panel and partly by a general feeling of misgiving around the way we collectively dealt with this disaster at the media police interface level Scoop posted an editorial on the subject this morning.

In the circumstances we think that Garry Knowles…

JP Hansen

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:41:28 +1300

Did you get to U2 last night Russell? Once again, some absolutely sublime moments (though only being 4 years since the last show, it didn't surprise as much as the Vertigo tour show – Bono doing The Pav's parts in Miss Sarajevo, for example). We got $40 tickets, and at…

tarlen

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:39:35 +1300

Yes, it was two people creating the "first comment" at the same time. We've updated the site so it shouldn't happen any more.

Russell Brown

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:30:11 +1300

Thanks for the heads-up Robyn. We know what the issue is, and Karl's doing a software update right now.

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:28:07 +1300

Oh, we've got a duplicate: http://publicaddress.net/system/topic/2826/

I think this happens when two people make the first comment at around the same time. They both fill in the box at the bottom of the main page, which always creates a new discussion thread.

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:24:45 +1300

My pick of the day, from Scott Kara's review of last night's U2 concert:

Earlier, support act Jay-Z also paid his respects to the Pike River miners, putting them alongside late hip-hop greats Tupac and Notorious BIG.

Would it be appropriate to pour malt liquor down the mine shaft?

bob daktari

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:20:11 +1300

RIP Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson

Throbbing Gristle founder Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson died “peacefully” in his sleep on Nov 24 at the age of 55 in his Bangkok home.
Born in Leeds, England, the industrial music pioneer was also a founding member of Coil and Psychic TV after Throbbing Gristle disbanded in…

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:17:49 +1300

PS: The Public Address Word of the Year 2010 will launch on Monday.

I can't wait! I've been keeping a list of gnarly words.

Craig Ranapia

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:16:55 +1300

I think this week's Media7 emerged pretty well in the circumstances.

You did better than that – didn't really agree with Denis Welch's rather rosy view of the media's treatment of Pike River, but he made his case well and it's something I think honest and honourable people can have…

Public Address

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:16:28 +1300

Discussion from blog post.