Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to Martin Brown,
Commercial Circulon is great, hard anodised, solid as – I have one huge pan and a smaller one. Jan’s Dad ( ex-panel beater ) picked up the big pan one day and was so impressed by the quality of the build and the rivets we had to find one for him.
Actually, if you mean the really wide frypan, I have one of those too, picked up in the same Farmers clearance sale. It is indeed bloody awesome.
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to Emma Hart,
Enormous stock-pots are essential. They’re for boiling water after earthquakes. You’re welcome.
And that's why I bought it. My darling will thank me when the Auckland Volcanic Field kicks off, you mark my words.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Summer Time, in reply to Simon Grigg,
That Summer! was probably bigger (the album anyway) in NZ primarily because large parts of it were not available anywhere else because the record companies hadn’t bothered to release it here.
My old mate Andy Fyfe, who writes for Record Collector, says it's crazy rare in Britain -- even many new wave collectors haven't heard of it. And, of course, it was never released as a CD.
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Notes & Queries: The Rejected Selfie, in reply to David Herkt,
Yes.
The Rolling Stone image is a great one, because of the response to it. The response sort of requires that we loathe the magazine for publishing it instead of publishing an image of him as a crazed mullah.
When I saw the title of your post, I thought it must be about that. The fact that the controversial cover picture is a selfie posted to Instagram -- like a hundred million others -- adds to its depth of meaning. It's a brave, relevant cover.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Summer Time, in reply to Ethan Tucker,
I’m imagining living in a country in which the national TV broadcaster commissions and broadcasts documentaries about popular music that both celebrate and grow our understanding of what it is to be New Zealand music fans. Until that happens, there’s always the VHS-sending auntie.
What's awesome about the Imagine strand is that they're all individual films: apart from a little scene-setting at the top, there's no time wasted teasing and recapping. Just a story told over as long at 90 minutes.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Summer Time, in reply to Peter Darlington,
Maybe we should all throw up our copies of That Summer in a salute?
Ooh! Alternative sleeve!
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Oh, and one more video. Chic’s whole set from Glastonbury 2013. Look for the man in the cap giving it heaps to the side of the stage during ‘Good Times’. That’s NZer John Baker.
Whole set:
And just Good Times -- John Baker at 2.40. and again thereafter:
Dancing on stage at Glastonbury while Chic played Good Times would, I think, be a Major Life Experience.
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Muse: NZIFF 2013: Lights, Camera,…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
A sacrifice is being made to Tech Support as we speak...
Your prayer to the dark lords has been answered and the issue is now resolved.
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Hard News: Who else forgot to get married?, in reply to JessicaRose,
JessicaRose, please contact the mothership! You won a prize in the Kitchen hacks thread.
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Hard News: A different kind of country, in reply to Sacha,
Farrar’s line about SkyCity getting ‘a quarter’ of what they sought is an outright lie that only works if people focus on the headline pokie numbers and not the extra spots at automated gambling tables in the deal.
Yeah, it's 100% made of spin.