Posts by George Darroch
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
There were horses involved?! You must have gone to a far more liberal school than I.
She was raised by actors.
-
It was a standing trans-tasman joke in the record industry as to how few copies of the more interesting things that labels had to offer were sold in Australia....say a Massive Attack record or a reggae disc which would sell in the low hundreds Australia wide and in the tens of thousands in NZ.
My housemate took the radio to East Timor earlier this year, and I can't say I'm missing it. To echo Simon, B-Net is a cultural institution and NZ is vastly richer for it. If you're an emerging band in Australia, and not marketable as a prepackaged product for the majors, there is one man who will make or break you - the programmer of Triple J, Richard Kingsmill. His tastes are rather bland.
Having that music on NZ radio fosters a better live scene. You're much more likely to go see something at the KA if you've heard them on the radio.
-
I've worked in a deep freeze. -20C. Very cold. But still not as cold as Canada.
-
It makes a lot more sense now. Ninety minutes of dribbling and passing around the goal-mouth, before a explosive Goaaaaal!!!!
-
It's pretty fucking disgusting, actually, and more than a little depressing that we've managed to stoop to that level.
If it was just a one off, I'd give them grace. But it has happened so many times it isn't funny. New Zealand's reaction to this similar incident seemed to be "get over it", but it was seen in a particularly bad light in Australia. A good number of people I know have been interrogated and held for the crime of being Middle Eastern, or of being a political activist.
Another person I know had their clearance at Auckland Airport revoked after they converted to Islam. After the mess that was the Zaoui saga, with the Prime Minister trying to throw out a refugee (and changing the law to shut the gate after he entered), I'd say it's systematic.
-
And this seems the best place for a home thought from abroad, but why the hell did I have to go to Melbourne to see an excellent Len Lye show at the ACMI?
It was a huge pleasure to see all that work in a coherent whole. They really should run that show in Wellington sometime in the next few years. (It seems like the best gallery to run it).
-
the "real" New Zealand is out there in the provinces, as if real New Zealanders spend their lives doing bunging jumping hakas onto jetboats that are zooming across the surface of active volcanoes.
Was the jetboat driven by a sheep?
-
Daft Punk, Robot Rock.
-
No one willing to go OT and mention Sue Bradford's resignation and implications for the removal of the steel in the backbone of the Opposition?
I can't bear to talk about that. My anger at New Zealand (not towards Sue, a personal hero) is pretty immense. The bile on one side, the smarmy hypocrites on the other. I got in to the office to the news this morning and I've been upset about it all day.
-
I'd like to suggest that most people whom spent time locked in prisons, will emerge with mental problems to some degree.
And a reasonable percentage who enter, as well, I would wager.