Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: My Year in Culture, in reply to Stupid,
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 ...
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Hard News: My Year in Culture, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
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.
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Hard News: My Year in Culture, in reply to andrew r,
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 seen. And that's six -- or seven if you count the ballet production of I Am Kurious Oranj (which I actually quite liked).
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Hard News: My Year in Culture, in reply to Kebabette,
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.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Manakura,
Here’s a link that IMHO conclusively supports Neil’s work here of late.
It's not trolling if it's uttered in good faith, just an argument considered faulty by others.
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Hard News: My Year in Culture, in reply to Rich Lock,
Fucking. Awesome. RAMMSTEIN! RAMMSTEIN! RAMMSTEIN!
(um, that’s probably not what you meant, is it?)
No, but if you're happy, I'm happy.
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Hard News: My Year in Culture, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
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 the sea of rubbish that is most current British television.
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Hi all. Coming back to the topic …
I gather Nicky Hager had some interesting discussions with the Star Times about what was a good story from the cables. He didn’t think the “International Visitor” cable was a big deal, but the newspaper really wanted it.
Of course. It had celebrities in it.
Apparently there’s another round this coming Sunday.
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An encouraging report about the quality of New Zealand aid spending.
NB: Kiwiblog link -- contents may contain random bitterness.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Che Tibby,
i have a vague suspicion Rb would like to be taken on that trip.
Come to think of it, I was once invited to make a Fulbright funding application after I’d done some presentation at Parliament, but I never got around to thinking of a good purpose for it.