Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Very sad to hear of ChrisW's death - his pictures (and comments) here always conveyed a love of, and engagement with, his surroundings, the land, its occupants and the environment.
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to Alfie,
the implications of a Fairfax/APN merger
Oh I am sure the quality will improve and headlines like this:
'Disrepsectful pigs' caught abusing disabled man on train
will be a thing of the past - dreams are free I suppose.... -
it appears that even saying the words “tax haven” was legally perilous four years ago.
I wonder if 'Niue World Order' would work instead?
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naming names...
Kiwi businesses trade on being the honest Johns of the world
Andrea Vance might've found another phrase - Key benefits from piggybacking on that 'Honest John' usage, as he does from the use of 'key' in many stories - kind of background reinforcement of an idea or ideal.
'Vital' or 'prime' or even 'pivotal' or 'central' could be used instead of 'key' in most contexts...
I guess 'Honest John' is now slightly coloured by car salesmen and the other idea that 'Honest Johns' are easily duped due to their innocence - so it may be entering that etymological twilight zone occupied by words like 'fulsome' which are seemingly self-antonymous.Language is a virus!
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Hard News: Friday Music: Good News, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
RIU, in the last throes of its published life.
and then there's this:
http://ripitup.com.au/
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Hard News: Friday Music: Good News, in reply to Russell Brown,
a copy of Abba
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Hard News: Friday Music: Good News, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Stones shoe store
Of course it was - with a name like that how could I have forgotten, working at a music mag and all...
here's your prize above - a piece of your past as well
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Hard News: Friday Music: Good News, in reply to Mike O'Connell,
Just had to do it.
Me too, I’ll see your ‘Others Way’ and double your Doublehappiness with the ever fun ‘Needles and Plastic’ – that ’sickening sideshow’ over sway lighting effect is me waving a floodlight around – looks like a gig, but the armchairs give it away – filmed in one take – in the lounge I am sorting in at the moment…
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Hard News: Friday Music: Good News, in reply to Russell Brown,
what became of Cha Cha? Who owns that archive, which must also include some significant photographic work?
I’m presuming Shake!, Murray’s pop mag (which I think I can claim credit for naming), is considered part of Rip It Up’s IPMax Thomson would still be part owner of the Cha Cha archive though wouldn't he?
and Shake! was possibly a missed opportunity for Murray to have sold at the time - c'est la vie - with twenty twenty hindsight - those were turbulent times in many ways, lots going on ...
We threw a waste-taker full of stuff out when the exodus from Darby occurred, including the mechanical paste-ups, I know I cut out a bunch of stuff from those that I thought might be worth hanging onto for future generations - like all the original 'wax-ups' Flying Nun and Looney Tours ads and similar, mostly by Chris Knox - which I am in the throes of sorting out now while I'm up here...
It's great that Simon has taken that RIU resource under his wing - only good can come of it.
I still reckon there is room for Audioculture publications (magazines or books) collecting certain symbiotic scenes or artists, etc and creating future artefacts for people to find and engage with - anything can happen with cyberspace, nothing is real or forever there to my way of thinking - great that it is there now though.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Good News, in reply to Russell Brown,
And of course there was Denis Cohn gallery just up a few steps.
For the life of me I can't remember what any of the shops at groundfloor in that building were - apart from the Dickensian cobblers / shoe repair place in the alley that went under us...
