Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: My Year in Culture https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=196104#post196104 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=196104#post196104 I'm pretty sure I shared this beauty when it came out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHgbzNHVg0c


especially given that it's such a blatant rip-off of the Thin Lizzy tv ad :)

]]> Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:16:39 +1300 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=196096#post196096 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=196096#post196096 The ArchAndroid last week? ]]> Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:35:52 +1300 Sam F https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=196085#post196085 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=196085#post196085 Hey, have the associated competitions with this post been drawn?

Heh, that's right – never did find out who scored the beer!

]]> Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:45:47 +1300 Robyn Gallagher https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=196077#post196077 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=196077#post196077 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:18:27 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195649#post195649 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195649#post195649

above a horizon near you from 8.36pm (ish)
tomorrow night – Tuesday Dec 21.

Ian — moonrise varies with location quite a lot:

"Some times of moon rise in New Zealand are:
N. Is. Auckland 8.35pm, Hastings 8.35pm, New Plymouth 8.45pm, Wellington 8.49pm.
S. Is. Nelson 8.56pm, Christchurch 9.07pm, Dunedin…

]]> Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:50:24 +1300 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195614#post195614 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195614#post195614 no more Charles Mesure with the sexy running....

I'm hoping that V will continue its sharp de-sucking curve, and Mesure will get more to do than stand around, scowling in a vaguely constipated manner.

]]> Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:51:08 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195606#post195606 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195606#post195606 Aue!
Rain will prevent any insights
but the summer solstice should be
danced to, enhanced with a good dram
and celebrated by all good wights-

]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:52:02 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195603#post195603 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195603#post195603 Lunar see... obscured by clods!
in a dry run for 2012's
big alignment
Solar System Services
(an arm of Galactic Spiral Inc)
present a Total Lunar Eclipse
above a horizon near you from 8.36pm (ish)
tomorrow night – Tuesday Dec 21
full (mid) eclipse should be around 9.17pm…

]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:35:10 +1300 HORansome https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195580#post195580 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195580#post195580 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:28:21 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195531#post195531 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195531#post195531 Life ]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:38:27 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195519#post195519 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195519#post195519 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:40:13 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195508#post195508 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195508#post195508 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:57:23 +1300 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195501#post195501 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195501#post195501 This Is Not My Life. Sadly, just heard Rachel Lang on Nine to Noon (with James Griffin) who let drop we're not getting a second series. Bugger. ]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:37:32 +1300 3410 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195500#post195500 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195500#post195500 the Don is gone…
so long Don van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart
died December 17 – thanks for all the great music!

Yep.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_nDCG1PchY

now maybe he’ll get some acknowledgement for his contributions to modern music…

Hmm... That may take another 50 years.

]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:35:11 +1300 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195491#post195491 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195491#post195491 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:40:25 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195490#post195490 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195490#post195490 Islander — I like the thought of a ghost bird singing throatily at dawn.

and Joe, thanks for that, I'm glad to hear that Park's account of her life in Sydney resonates with someone who knows the area intimately.

Thanks for the conversation, both of you. And thanks everybody here…

]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:35:47 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195482#post195482 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195482#post195482 the Don is gone…
so long Don van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart
died December 17 – thanks for all the great music!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCSPf5Viwd0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMerOUzHpYc&feature=related

now maybe he’ll get some acknowledgement for his contributions to modern music…

]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2010 07:37:15 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195475#post195475 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195475#post195475 Joe & Lilith – I was listening at dawn today to a bird that is supposed to be extinct (part of it's charm is that it seems to hate modern recording equipment and the calls arnt easily captured)- it's a bit like hearing a ghost-

and I rather think that a…

]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:34:57 +1300 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195474#post195474 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195474#post195474 A Fence Around the Cuckoo first appeared. Not that anything she said wasn't strictly factual, but that it was unlikely that she was quite as close to the centre of so many events… ]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:23:02 +1300 Pete https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195473#post195473 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195473#post195473 Recommended websites-

http://www.google.com/reader/shared/14569541748422553908

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/

and for the local crazy angle
http://weirdinwellington.tumblr.com/page/1

Dunno about the year but currently I've got this in the ute stereo
http://mashupbreakdown.com/
worming its insidious way into my brain

and agree with the person who liked Hurts. Wonderful Life kicks bottom.
Did anyone else love the…

]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:09:25 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195472#post195472 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195472#post195472 Joe, I love that you didn't bother disputing her ghost story but you fact-checked the view from her window. :-)
I think her memoirs are likely an honest account of what she believed to be the case. Eyewitness accounts can be highly divergent, and not necessarily because anyone is intentionally…

]]> Sun, 19 Dec 2010 23:28:08 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195467#post195467 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195467#post195467 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:29:46 +1300 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195466#post195466 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195466#post195466 One of the anecdotes in Fishing in the Styx that lingers in my mind is when they move into a large and tumbledown house and D’Arcy selects a room for his study which Ruth and the children believe is haunted –
Ben Boyd Road, Neutral Bay. Where the Nilands lived…

]]> Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:12:53 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195465#post195465 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195465#post195465 Oh Islander, I am sorry to hear of your loss. I have 5 siblings, and the thought of losing any of them is unimaginable.

For anyone who doesn’t know Ruth Park’s story, there are some details here in the SMH. That article might whet your appetite for __Fence Around the…

]]> Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:39:20 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195461#post195461 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195461#post195461 I still revere "Fence Around The Cuckoo" – this will come as heresy, but I think her a superior memorist to Janet Frame (whom I knew peripherally, and enjoyed a lot of her writing, very much.)

My mother Mary said, after the death of one of my sisters* in 2007,…

]]> Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:55:52 +1300 Matthew Littlewood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195458#post195458 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195458#post195458 Great thread, guys. It’s been a bit of a messy year for me culturally speaking in that I haven’t been able to see as many new films or listen to as much new music as I’d like but I’ll pick stuff from both that would stick out.

Music.

Joanna Newsom-…

]]> Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:29:28 +1300 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195426#post195426 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195426#post195426 On the subject of Air New Zealand and “Culture” Has anybody else seen the Rico series of adds they are pushing out.
Funny thing is, if you read the Youtube comments it’s the kind of people that habitually refer to anyone they don’t like as muppets who are cacking themselves…

]]> Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:33:41 +1300 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195424#post195424 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195424#post195424 Wellington City Gallery. ]]> Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:12:51 +1300 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195410#post195410 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195410#post195410 On the subject of Air New Zealand and “Culture” Has anybody else seen the Rico series of adds they are pushing out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoB-fP2Nx4Y
I, for one am appalled at the smutty innuendo. Should our national airline be making dubious sexual references as a way of selling airline tickets, or have…

]]> Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:56:12 +1300 Gerard Martin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195401#post195401 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195401#post195401 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 10:01:51 +1300 Ross McA. https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195400#post195400 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195400#post195400 Best gig would have to be The Phoenix at the Bedford. They take music somewhere else. And the best drummer award!
Ron Meuck was surprisingly good. I wasn't expecting to react so strongly to it. Someone said there is a lot more space than the Melbourne show, which probably helped.

]]> Sun, 19 Dec 2010 08:55:28 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195381#post195381 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195381#post195381 The Frost and the Fire – such a vivid story of the Otago gold rush, fascinating. My all-time fave of hers is Swords and Crowns and Rings. And her 2 vols of autobiography are pretty much unsurpassed, in my reading experience anyway! I'm glad… ]]> Sat, 18 Dec 2010 22:59:38 +1300 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195376#post195376 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195376#post195376 Oh, and they were playing Buffalo on the AirNZ flight from Chch today. #royalties



Talking of which, does anyone want to put a figure on how much Jordan Luck is making from each sector flown on AirNZ? A cent every time they play T.F.S. must be making him enough to… ]]> Sat, 18 Dec 2010 21:09:09 +1300 lloydois https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195374#post195374 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195374#post195374 Can't believe no one has mentioned Kanye. Definitely album of the year for me. The one two knockout closing punch of Bon Iver and Gil Scott Heron the most audacious musical moment of 2010 for sure!

Arcade Fire a joy as well, High Violet rounding out my top 3.

]]> Sat, 18 Dec 2010 20:28:43 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195370#post195370 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195370#post195370 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:51:23 +1300 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195367#post195367 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195367#post195367

Not a celebration, but there was another death yesterday – Ruth Park

Oh NO! Ruth Park is one of my writing heroines!

A pity she's not more widely read in NZ, I think she suffered from being an "Australian" author when the books promoted in NZ are mostly from the…

]]> Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:26:19 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195361#post195361 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195361#post195361 As inclusion of the scent world would make more scents to dogs* – but to all 3 of you, ka mihi aku mihi mo tenei Wa Hakari – me tenei ropu katoa – arohanui n/n Islander

*sorry: irresistable...

]]> Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:33:38 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195359#post195359 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195359#post195359 RIP Tom Newnham

Geoff Chapple on Newnham's life from a 2004 Listener book review.

Let’s take the leap and say that Tom Newnham was to New Zealand’s anti-Vietnam war, anti-nuclear and anti-apartheid years what Tom Paine was to the American Declaration of Independence – its letter-writer, pamphleteer, chronicler, analyst, activist…

]]> Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:30:23 +1300 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195358#post195358 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195358#post195358 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:24:02 +1300 Simon Grigg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195356#post195356 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195356#post195356 A wow type Gil Scott-Heron video of recent, remixed from one of the album's I've loved this year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YABO2MMvsCo

Music: I swore I'd not do this again but it's habit.

TV: Mad Men still, Steve Buscemi (but not the show itself) in Boardwalk Empire and watching the whole five seasons…

]]> Sat, 18 Dec 2010 16:57:20 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195355#post195355 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195355#post195355 humans and dogs :)
Merry xmas to you Islander.

]]> Sat, 18 Dec 2010 16:46:45 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195353#post195353 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195353#post195353 Do I love the sound of love spoken out loud over teh intertubes? O yes, I do-

"dreams, memories, and right now" Steve B?
There is a 4th component for perceptive literate &/or hearing humans – the encapsulated creative wisdom of our species WHICH WE CAN STORE & HAND ON TO THE…

]]> Sat, 18 Dec 2010 16:27:13 +1300 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195347#post195347 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195347#post195347 I heard a faint tune in the distance that tweeked my interest. I could not believe my ears. Here, in lil' ol' 3 Kings was Jerry Garcia singing "You Are My Shining Star"I don't know why but that bought tears to my eyes. Love you hun, see you at christmas...XX… ]]> Sat, 18 Dec 2010 15:16:49 +1300 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195346#post195346 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195346#post195346

What do you mean, without the chemicals & preservatives? If it doesn't have C2H6O (a chemical and a preservative) in it, you can barely call it beer.

And that distinctive thwack of Di-hydrogen monoxide...

]]> Sat, 18 Dec 2010 15:04:28 +1300 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195344#post195344 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195344#post195344

Whoa-Barkers has combined with Flying Nun to produce new F Nun T Shirts. They come with a download code for the EP that's the shirt design.

Yes, take that "Music Industry". Marketing is practically the only commercial activity left in the Music biz, aside from performing on stage and sometimes…

]]> Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:51:14 +1300 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195342#post195342 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195342#post195342 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:38:49 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195341#post195341 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195341#post195341 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:00:42 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195340#post195340 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195340#post195340 After reading all these comments about personal highlights (and tardy I am to say the least) , I have tried to think about what did it for me this year and what I realised was pretty boring really but thought what the hey, I'll mention it anyway.
It's every living…

]]> Sat, 18 Dec 2010 13:58:46 +1300 philipmatthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195338#post195338 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195338#post195338 While I'm in RIP mode, Captain Beefheart too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M5YE_a4B1U

]]> Sat, 18 Dec 2010 13:29:56 +1300 andrew r https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195336#post195336 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195336#post195336 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 12:43:02 +1300 recordari https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195335#post195335 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195335#post195335 My musical finds of the year Sufjan Stevens (coming here in February, fascinated to see what of his diverse range he plays)

Me too. Amazing stuff, and would love to see him in concert.

The song Chicago was like 'I know this song. No I don't. Maybe? Wow! Where have…

]]> Sat, 18 Dec 2010 12:33:54 +1300 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195330#post195330 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195330#post195330 While we're talking television — and this might be a question for Fiona — any news on when Mad Men season 4 plays here?

On my laptop, starting two nights ago. (2011: the year I finally gave up on actual TV).

Local musical acts that I’d recommend to anyone are…

]]> Sat, 18 Dec 2010 11:03:55 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195321#post195321 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195321#post195321 Black Francis coming out to the bar for wine afterwards took said blown mind and turned it into an awkward mush monster.

Did you talk to him? #royalty
Oh, and they were playing Buffalo on the AirNZ flight from Chch today. #royalties

]]> Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:03:16 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195318#post195318 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195318#post195318 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:02:47 +1300 Simon Bennett https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195317#post195317 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195317#post195317 Ha! But of course, James. But you can''t include your own work in a thread like this. Too much like blowing your own trumpet or spamming!

And OF 6/6 was bad touching!

]]> Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:58:39 +1300 philipmatthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195316#post195316 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195316#post195316 RIP Tom Newnham also

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/anti-apartheid-fighter-tom-newnham-dies-3978124

]]> Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:58:07 +1300 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195315#post195315 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195315#post195315 Along with the cultural highlights, maybe noting the deaths of artists is also a good thing?
Ruth Park is certainly someone to celebrate. Apart from her novels and children's books she produced two great volumes of autobiography, and was an active writer until very late in her long life. Sadly…

]]> Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:54:31 +1300 James Griffin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195313#post195313 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195313#post195313 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:42:48 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195312#post195312 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195312#post195312 ":the death of Paul Reynolds."
Yes.
Not a celebration, but there was another death yesterday – Ruth Park, Her novel, "One-a-pecka, Two-a-pecka" was the first ANZ novel I remember reading. And it alerted me to our English-based folksongs ("Wanapeka, Tuapeka, Bright Fine Gold") and that there *were* ANZ writers...aue, gone…

]]> Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:09:27 +1300 nzlemming https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195310#post195310 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195310#post195310 Rotten thing of the year: the death of Paul Reynolds.

Absolutely. That still hasn't really sunk in.

]]> Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:50:15 +1300 Pete Sime https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195300#post195300 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195300#post195300 Awesome thing of the year: The BBC's History of the World in 100 Objects
Rotten thing of the year: the death of Paul Reynolds.

]]> Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:30:08 +1300 Rich Lock https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195289#post195289 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195289#post195289 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:00:18 +1300 Simon Bennett https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195288#post195288 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195288#post195288 Music: 2010's been a good year, I reckon. Still loving Arcade Fire's The Suburbs, The XX, The National's High Violet, Phoenix Foundation's Buffalo, Julia Deans' Modern Fables, Gorillaz' Plastic Beach and Ray la Montagne and the Pariah Dogs' God Willin' and the Creek Don't Rise.

Live gigs: was blown away…

]]> Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:48:00 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195271#post195271 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195271#post195271

Mind you, the funniest one was May last year, when he had a broken hip....

guess there were a few Hip Priest jokes then...

]]> Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:17:25 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195264#post195264 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195264#post195264 Maybe you weren’t close enough? :-P

Quite possibly. I was near the sound desk, and some people around me gradually stopped applauding between songs ...

]]> Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:03:46 +1300 Samuel Scott https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195262#post195262 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195262#post195262 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:01:07 +1300 Stupid https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195259#post195259 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195259#post195259

Gary Sullivan – dimmer/ solid gold hell/ jpse ,on the fall at the power station the other night – “best gig I’ve seen in years, a very long time since I’ve felt that from a band”

Fair enough. It really seemed to me like the worst Fall gig I’ve ever…

]]> Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:50:53 +1300 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195257#post195257 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195257#post195257 I know. I like beer and I love Hashigo Zake.

My point was the way DB and Lion have made "pure" their latest buzzword for sub-Heineken tasteless lager. I wondered if they were targetting the crackhead market.

]]> Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:27:51 +1300 Andrew G https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195249#post195249 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195249#post195249 My albums of the year would be Lisbon by The Walkmen and Edge of the world by Andrew Mckenzie (you can get this one for free at Arch Hill)
Best gigs: Pixies in Auckland, the Veils in Napier and Flaming Lips in Sydney
Low light: the passing of Ian Morris…

]]> Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:06:38 +1300 Keir Leslie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195234#post195234 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195234#post195234 And best thing of all, without the chemicals and preservatives, you can avoid the worst of the hangover just by staying hydrated.

What do you mean, without the chemicals & preservatives? If it doesn't have C2H6O (a chemical and a preservative) in it, you can barely call it beer.

]]> Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:46:26 +1300 Bruce Wurr https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195233#post195233 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195233#post195233 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:24:39 +1300 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195232#post195232 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195232#post195232 Gosh, this reminds me I forgot to nominate Lhaws for word of the year.

Hush. Laws is like the Erinýes or Voldemort — a bearer of such dreadful misfortune and malevolence, just speaking his name will bring his pestilential wrath down on us all.

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:36:54 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195230#post195230 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195230#post195230 I forgot to nominate Lhaws for word of the year.

Bugger – me too

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:54:47 +1300 recordari https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195229#post195229 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195229#post195229 Julia Deans was definitely a highlight. Saw her twice, and both were brilliant, and different. Also, thanks to suggesting New Dialogue for a T-shirt, I won a very cool Dick Frizzell & Don MacGlashan T from Damian, so she rocks my world.

Other music that I discovered this year includes Warpaint…

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:34:38 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195227#post195227 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195227#post195227 Tautoko, Scott A – there's even some 'light' beers worth the drinking.
I think we will see ANZ beers traverse the path of some of the wines, – and coffee.
Excellence will prevail.

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:28:01 +1300 Scott A https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195224#post195224 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195224#post195224 Why this sudden obsession with "purity" of beer. It doesn't make it taste nice and it won't stop you getting a hangover.

GASP

Ok. Ok. I guess I understand this if your experience with beer has been the awful, chemical, continuous fermentation 'light lager' commercial beer that's dominated the brewing…

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:21:43 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195218#post195218 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195218#post195218 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:50:39 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195212#post195212 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195212#post195212 I see that it's still Murray Crane driving it, so much the same as what he did with the Little Brother range a few years back, then...
though, the download is a nice new twist...
hope the artists are getting their cut...

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:21:00 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195211#post195211 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195211#post195211 take me to your Lydia...

What, the tattooed lady?

bloody Marxists!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4zRe_wvJw8&feature=related

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:12:22 +1300 Tony Parker https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195209#post195209 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195209#post195209 Barkers has combined with Flying Nun to produce new F Nun T Shirts. They come with a download code for the EP that's the shirt design. ]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:15:10 +1300 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195208#post195208 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195208#post195208 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:12:16 +1300 Robyn Gallagher https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195207#post195207 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195207#post195207 I hate the fact the front row of every ceremony is just a row of aunties squinting at LCD screens.

Totally. Filming an event removes you from it. You're taking yourself out of it for the purpose of creating a bad film that you'll probably watch a couple of times…

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:10:21 +1300 Thomas Watts https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195206#post195206 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195206#post195206 Musicwise: 'High Violet' by The National. Closely followed by Modern Fables. Julia Deans sings pretty.
TV-Wise: 'Treme'. Quite comfortably. I'd also wager this was the year that most people started getting around to watching 'The Wire'?
Movie-Wise: Four Lions. Social Network. Animal Kingdom was similarly choice.

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:10:20 +1300 giovanni tiso https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195205#post195205 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195205#post195205 Lhaws opinion of them just increases his twatcockness

Gosh, this reminds me I forgot to nominate Lhaws for word of the year. And it was my word! This is terrible.

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:09:02 +1300 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195204#post195204 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195204#post195204 Best cultural event I was involved with: The Orcon Great Blend 2010. It was pleasant but it wasn’t my big cultural event of the year. (If it’s any consolation, I think it may have been the highlight of quite a few peoples’ years. If oohing and aahing and gasping with… ]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:08:17 +1300 Tony Parker https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195203#post195203 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195203#post195203 Living outside the main centres limits one's options but it hasn't been to bad a year.

Culture: Saw the NZSO for the first time this year. (Lhaws opinion of them just increases his twatcockness). Also made the trip to Welly for the Masters and Brian Brake exhibitions at Te Papa…

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:02:17 +1300 Samuel Scott https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195202#post195202 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195202#post195202 but it’s hard to find much evidence that Leibowitz has ever taken a photo for its own sake.

you might be right, but her commercial stuff in the 70s was pretty bloody good (the nude Lennon clinging to Yoko shot...slightly iconic). I do not like the stage managed Vanity Fair…

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:59:23 +1300 binary.heart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195198#post195198 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195198#post195198 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:06:48 +1300 Lyndon Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195191#post195191 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195191#post195191 The Arrival, I reckon. Here's what I said at the Arts festival, and I gather some people share my enthusiasm. ]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:04:05 +1300 Jacob Powell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195190#post195190 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195190#post195190 Music: I been lovin Brothers by The Black Keys and the Mos Dub remix album by Max Tannone. Phoenix Foundation's Buffalo has really grown on me over the last few months too and is getting a lot of play at ours at the mo (including regular requests from our resident… ]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:51:58 +1300 Glenn Pearce https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195182#post195182 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195182#post195182

I hate the fact the front row of every ceremony is just a row of aunties squinting at LCD screens

Couldn't agree more. You think weddings are bad, you should see the parents at a school performance or dance recital.

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:09:53 +1300 Joanna https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195181#post195181 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195181#post195181

I went to the Leibowitz show at the Wellington gallery several years ago. Couldn’t find the soul in it anywhere.

Was that the one in 1997? I remember reviewing it for Art History class.

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:52:40 +1300 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195177#post195177 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195177#post195177 I went to the Leibowitz show at the Wellington gallery several years ago. Couldn't find the soul in it anywhere.

Perhaps because you'd pretty much seen it all in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and American Express adverts? I don't mean to sound like I'm sneering at commercial work, but it's…

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:49:29 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195176#post195176 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195176#post195176 Saw the Annie Leibovitz photo thing in Sydney but was a bit unmoved by it–except for the enormous photos of Monument Valley.

I went to the Leibowitz show at the Wellington gallery several years ago. Couldn't find the soul in it anywhere.

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:31:33 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195175#post195175 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195175#post195175 Gary Sullivan – dimmer/ solid gold hell/ jpse ,on the fall at the power station the other night – "best gig I've seen in years, a very long time since I've felt that from a band"

Fair enough. It really seemed to me like the worst Fall gig I've ever…

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:30:14 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195173#post195173 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195173#post195173 The year started off thrillingly with Al Green at The Civic. Haven't seen or heard anything to surpass this yet. The Great Blend was a bunch of fun.

On TV, Prime's 50 Years of Television was damn good as was Mad Men, Media 7 and lots of other shows beginning…

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:26:34 +1300 giovanni tiso https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195170#post195170 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195170#post195170 And, congratulations, sir!

Thank you!

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:03:41 +1300 Tamara https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195169#post195169 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195169#post195169 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:03:24 +1300 giovanni tiso https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195168#post195168 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195168#post195168 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:02:41 +1300 Tamara https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195167#post195167 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195167#post195167 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:59:45 +1300 Kebabette https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195166#post195166 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195166#post195166 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:58:38 +1300 Kebabette https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195165#post195165 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195165#post195165 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:57:08 +1300 Jacqui Dunn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195164#post195164 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195164#post195164 no need to capture your own

Felt that way through a world trip. Couldn't be bothered getting my own shots of views/buildings/what-have-yous, when there was all that atmosphere to soak up.

Go for it, Damian.

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:56:06 +1300 giovanni tiso https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195163#post195163 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195163#post195163 Exhibitions, concerts, weddings, parties... life.... I can't understand people who essentially miss a gig because they decide to capture all two hours on a 1"x1" Nokia screen. Which presumably no-one ever sees, because it is shaky, distorted and to all intents unviewable.

When I took my son to Italy with…

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:54:35 +1300 Damian Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195162#post195162 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195162#post195162 The only downside of the exhibition? The people who spent more time pointing their damn camera phones at the works than simply looking and contemplating what they had to say.

Substitute the word "exhibition" for "21st Century"...

Exhibitions, concerts, weddings, parties... life.... I can't understand people who essentially miss a…

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:51:51 +1300 Jacqui Dunn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195161#post195161 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195161#post195161 Chardonnay is “best served not at all”

Phtthhhttt! You just haven't had any good stuff, Gio.

And, congratulations, sir!

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:51:21 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195160#post195160 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195160#post195160 Misfits – show of the year ... I’ve seen the first two episodes of the new series and gosh darn it, it’s getting even better.

Ep 4 is dazzling. It does things I've never seen a TV show do before.

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:51:10 +1300 giovanni tiso https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195158#post195158 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195158#post195158 chilled bottle of chardonnay

Serving temperature is 9-10 degrees I believe, so pretty lukewarm for a white. (Although my slightly curmudgeonly take on Chardonnay is "best served not at all").

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:44:44 +1300 Kebabette https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195156#post195156 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195156#post195156 Misfits – show of the year. Some smart person on twitter said Misfits was the best, and Warney the worst. Can't argue with that.

I've seen the first two episodes of the new series and gosh darn it, it's getting even better. Smartarse curly boy Nathan is probably the best…

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:43:10 +1300 Jacqui Dunn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195152#post195152 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195152#post195152 Serving up drinks icy cold is an excellent way of avoiding immediate comment. I'd be rather suspicious at a tasting....

I was once brought an extremely chilled bottle of chardonnay in the restaurant of a well-known Hawkes Bay winery. It was sent back. Puzzled looks all round – staff obviously…

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:23:52 +1300 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195151#post195151 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195151#post195151 The irony there being that all the above are treasures in the sea of rubbish that is most current British television.

Um, yes. Anyone else remember when Sunday evenings on One used to be a showcase for 'quality' British drama? Now if you want to see the good stuff, looks…

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:22:56 +1300 Hadyn Green https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195144#post195144 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195144#post195144 I was given the XX in January this year and have listened to it (checks iTunes) roughly 50 times since then (not including plays on my iPod). So I'm happy to call it my album of the year.

On a beer note: I call 2011 the year when every brewery…

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:59:00 +1300 Dale Griffiths https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195140#post195140 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195140#post195140 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:55:54 +1300 Marcus Turner https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195137#post195137 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195137#post195137 Among my joys this year have been “Never Mind the Buzzcocks” and “Have I Got News For You”. I don’t know if these are available on any New Zealand TV channels, but they’re certainly available on YouTube.

Local musical acts that I’d recommend to anyone are Beyondsemble and Hot Club…

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:48:51 +1300 giovanni tiso https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195136#post195136 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195136#post195136 And she played "Lydia" for an encore

What, the tattooed lady?

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:45:41 +1300 Josh Addison https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195134#post195134 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195134#post195134 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:43:21 +1300 andrew r https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195133#post195133 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195133#post195133 Gary Sullivan – dimmer/ solid gold hell/ jpse ,on the fall at the power station the other night – "best gig I've seen in years, a very long time since I've felt that from a band"

ps – you missed best movie – exit through the gift shop – genius

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:41:47 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195132#post195132 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195132#post195132 Fucking. Awesome. RAMMSTEIN! RAMMSTEIN! RAMMSTEIN!

(um, that’s probably not what you meant, is it?)

No, but if you're happy, I'm happy.

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:41:18 +1300 Paul Campbell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195131#post195131 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195131#post195131 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:39:33 +1300 Rich Lock https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195130#post195130 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195130#post195130 Rammstein are playing here?

Assuming this is a serious question, yes. As part of the BDO lineup.

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:39:10 +1300 Lucy Stewart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195129#post195129 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195129#post195129 I feel so culturally left behind – I've spent this year catching up on things I didn't have the time/income/opportunity to see when they were actually new. Sherlock's the only one I can vouch for.

(OTOH, Iooking very much forward to trying all these things once I get through the…

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:38:20 +1300 giovanni tiso https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195127#post195127 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195127#post195127 Why this sudden obsession with "purity" of beer. It doesn't make it taste nice and it won't stop you getting a hangover.

Word. I've finally found a beer that is worse than Birra Peroni: the NZ Pure lager. It tastes 100% as bad as the bottle looks.

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:34:34 +1300 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195126#post195126 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195126#post195126 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:34:15 +1300 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195124#post195124 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195124#post195124 Why this sudden obsession with "purity" of beer. It doesn't make it taste nice and it won't stop you getting a hangover.

I remember when Gales were rumoured to throw a dead rat in the vat of HSB (available in replica form from some New Worlds) to start the fermentation…

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:27:42 +1300 Raymond A Francis https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195121#post195121 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195121#post195121 Not a lot of culture this year but best film was "Boy"
Funniest/strangest TV show was something seen in Italy that seemed to be about the sexiest Grandmother,unbelievable
And if you think free to air TV in NZ is crap (and that is a fair call in my opinion) wait…

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:20:37 +1300 Rich Lock https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195118#post195118 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195118#post195118 Modern Fables is my favourite album of 2010.

+1

hey, but next year — how good is that looking?

Fucking. Awesome. RAMMSTEIN! RAMMSTEIN! RAMMSTEIN!

(um, that's probably not what you meant, is it?)

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:14:07 +1300 philipmatthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195117#post195117 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195117#post195117 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:13:27 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195115#post195115 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195115#post195115 On the geek front, Misfits — along with Being Human, Sherlock and Steven Moffat's simply glorious debut season as showrunner of Doctor Who — has taught the Yanks that a good actors with great material trump glossy production values.

The irony there being that all the above are treasures in…

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:09:07 +1300 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195114#post195114 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195114#post195114 . . . bust through the viewer’s intellectual fourth wall and let us feel what the characters feel.
Those sticks could really get on your tits.

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:08:10 +1300 Robyn Gallagher https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195111#post195111 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195111#post195111 My cultural thing of the year(-ish) is the Discourse Weekly Podcast.

Ben Gracewood and Morgan Nichol have joined forces to produce a smart, lively and funny weekly podcast (but don't call it a comedy podcast. Or a tech podcast.)

With a fine line-up of weekly guests (one of whom may…

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:55:33 +1300 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195110#post195110 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195110#post195110 You probably haven't seen it yet, but the second series of Misfits is even better than the first. It's stylish, funny and constantly surprising.

I've got to say Misfits narrowly edges out The Good Wife as the most pleasant surprise of the television year — because let's face it, "…

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:46:40 +1300 Ana Simkiss https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195108#post195108 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195108#post195108 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:42:22 +1300 Samuel Scott https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195107#post195107 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195107#post195107 Parks & Recreation might be my fave tv show of the year. Aziz Ansari!!!!

Hey thanks for the David Dallas link. I freakin love that tune, it's been rattling around in my head since seeing it 5 times in a row at the Teletext Music Awards soundcheck.

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:38:11 +1300 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195105#post195105 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195105#post195105 OK, please listen to the last Public Address Radio of the year where I do my own cultural top three:

Yes, Outrageous Fortune was there. And so was Boy, for the pleasurably embarrasing flashbacks to my own misbegotten yoof.

But my big cultural winner of the year has to be…

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:36:08 +1300 Joanna https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195103#post195103 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195103#post195103 Music: The Suburbs by the Arcade Fire. So great! And the videos are like woah!
TV: Community. Boardwalk Empire was pretty, but not nearly as awesome.

Anything else? Umm, I don't go to the movies anymore. Or gigs, really. The Wellingtonista Awards were fun, but I would say that.

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:35:16 +1300 Samuel Scott https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195102#post195102 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195102#post195102 Kind of a funny year for music. All your picks are great (especially your choice of dinner time reverie!). But as I am a list addict I will hijak the comments with my own top 5.

1. Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti – Before Today
Round & Round; snob rock single of…

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:32:58 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195101#post195101 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-my-year-in-culture/?p=195101#post195101 Discussion from blog post.

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