Posts by Dan Slevin
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Blocked at work as "pornography". That must be some graphic graffiti.
Really? Can you get to the rest of Miracle Pictures?
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I wasn't at home last night so MySky'd the game to watch this morning.
I thought it wouldn't be too hard to keep the result out of my eyeline until 9am but didn't reckon with this excellent piece of graffiti on Wallace St. Must have been done in a fit of late night enthusiasm and, fittingly, sits beside the famous "Walk in Silence" Ian Curtis graffiti.
I hope no one ever paints over it.
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When I think of a McVicar and the justice system, this is what comes to my mind:
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I think there are a lot of people who miss the bad old days of one-dayers at the Basin (I couldn't sit on the bank then as the crowd were too disgusting) and are trying to recreate some mis-spent youth.
Some days there really is no wisdom to be found in crowds and people take advantage of the relative anonymity to slip the leash. The Sevens is the same. Ghastly.
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And I really wish I was in Wellington to see the play.
It did play a season at The Edge in Auckland just a month ago. Without the publicity benefit of Blair's presence.
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I was lucky enough to see the show on Tuesday night in the presence of Bob Blair himself. It was a very moving occasion and I blogged my response here (scroll down for a picture of Blair with writer/actor Jonny Brugh).
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Really, Geoff? My understanding is that RNZ has consistently declined to participate in those "highly dubious radio surveys", but far be it from me to disturb the vast right wing/corporate conspiracy narrative.
They don't participate because it costs serious money to subscribe to the results - money they are supposed to be saving right now.
The survey results are vital for ad selling radio stations as they are tied to a simultaneous brand survey about washing powder, toothpaste and the like.
RNZ are definitely counted and their competitors know how strong they are, but AFAIK they don't subscribe to the figures themselves.
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My memory of the AB's 1995 final failure is that they were undone by too much reliance on Lomu and by internal divisions over the impending professional rugby circus.
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Paul Kelly, Wellington, mid 1990s, with great dignity, to a heckler who kept yelling for 'Darling It Hurts' -
"A man is not a juke box."A few years earlier a pal and I would have annoyed everyone around us calling for Bradman throughout a James Cabaret PK concert. The following year I interviewed the man for Active and mentioned it. "Oh, that was you" he said.
That night, also at James Cabaret, he walked out into the spotlight to start the show, leaned into the mic, said "This is for Dan" and played Bradman for me, then called the band out. So that man is a jukebox, in fact.
Billy Bragg played Scholarship is the Enemy of Romance for me at the Town Hall in 1989, after I'd mentioned it in an interview.
Ok, that's weird because 'Cruel to be Kind' and Cooder's cover of 'Little Sister' are exactly the kind of song you should be dancing (or drunkenly shuffling) to in a dive of a bar with the jukebox cranked up to eleven.
Except Nick Lowe didn't play Cruel to Be Kind in Welly - no room for Ry in that song maybe? the only disappointment last night was that Lowe's showcases weren't (what I think of as) his best work.
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and that time they went to the gold jerseys shall be forgotten about and never mentioned ever again, thank you
Anyone remember the Wellington Lions jersey with the stripes on the shoulders that were (I think) supposed to look like claw marks?