Posts by Hebe
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When A City Falls is rather good. I was a reluctant attendee tonight but I left feeling up rather than down. Beautifully shot and the editing was excellent (no little achievement given the hundreds of hours of tape to wade through in a short time). Gerard captured some poetic moments amid the trauma. Well done Mr Smyth and friends.
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Hard News: Walking upright again, in reply to Just thinking,
A word to the wise on Swimming
I'll be putting all swimming waters to the sniff test this summe., And if it looks foul it probably is; sewage overflows take a few hours to be reported and filed as reports usually.
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The best news today: Christchurch beaches are open in time for summer. A big shout-out to the council workers who got the sewage overflows fixed; the thought of summer without beaches had made me and my boys wonder if we really could be happy here again.
And thanks to all for the moral support for my partner's ACC woes.
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Hard News: Walking upright again, in reply to Just thinking,
I’ve been looking at Google Maps Street View with misty eyes of recent.
And me.
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Up Front: Absence in the Arcades, in reply to Russell Brown,
We were fortunate to see a great band. Did you realise Toy Love were only together for about 18 months?
Only18 months? Seemed like they played every other week in my memory; maybe that's because they were the most vivid nights. I know I went to nearly all of their gigs in Christchurch and when I went to Welly in 1981 converted my friends there to the true religion. (Though some of them just couldn't get past Beat Rhythm Fashion.) From following the links, I figure I must have seen Tony Peake playing in his Vandals days. I seem to remeber the Cure playing in 1979 at the Town Hall in Christchurch: did it really happen?
Roy Montgomery (in one of the TP links) and I had a mutual friend who died after one of the University band nights; he fell and hit his head on the floor, so I think of those days as a loss of innocence time, exciting but interwoven with sadness.
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Up Front: Absence in the Arcades, in reply to Russell Brown,
It's also quite awesome that you've asked Ian if he was at a Toy Love gig ;-)
Made another foot in mouth have I? I never knew who anyone was because I was too shy to ask. Nodded and tried to look like I wasn't 17.
re Peake: Never even thought about him in THAT way until I met him again in early 1990s Sydney with my best friend in the world who is gay. Like your linkee Roy says cool but no snob -- I knew him as someone with a sweet nature.
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Hard News: Walking upright again, in reply to Just thinking,
Does anyone have stats on injuries from the quake?
I saw some stats of hospital treatment a while ago and basically it was miraculous there were not more. Your question though has prodded me into commenting on a related untold quake issue that affects my family, so much so that we’re on the point of engaging the help of the media. Here goes:
My beloved shredded a major ligament in his leg on February 22 sometime in the scramble out of the multi-storey office block in a deadly corner of Manchester St and his run through town as buildings came down around him. As a result of running on adrenaline and working two and a bit jobs in the two months after the quake he noticed a sore leg, figured it was torn muscles, and pushed on. By May the pain was worse and, not being one for painkillers, he went to the doc, then a specialist under ACC. The a scan booked (cancelled due to June shake an hour before), next scan canned by big snow. Finally scanned, in August specialist says surgery needed and sends file to ACC.
And there the file sits. We are unable to access our ruinous health insurance policy cover because ACC are involved, ACC will not reply in any meaningful way to our “what’s happening” questions other than to say the case in the system being processed. Meanwhile beloved is in increasing and constant pain, unable to do his usual activities, and understandably in very short temper .
How many others are caught in similar circumstances?
(Apologies for the tedious medical notes but it’s a context thing – and I need to vent. A grizzly bear and two teenage boys are getting to me in a little house.)
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Up Front: Absence in the Arcades, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
You were one one the cool people that I was overawed by. Hung out, danced, substanced, but didn't talk to anyone until a year or two later. I met Tony in mid 1978 at the University record shop: he was out-there punk to me and I was a nice middle-class girl who had never recovered from seeing Dylan Taite's visit to the Sex Pistols on TV the year before and looking for a set of rails to go off. Then I went to university, found the record shop and life got interesting. So when I met a man with green hair sitting on the steps of the War Memorial (is it still standing?) in the Square, what was there to be done but marry him? Tony was one of those who helped shape my life.
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Up Front: Absence in the Arcades, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
The Grenadier
Yes, yes. And the Gladstone of course; did you ever see
Toy Love there? And Tony Peake's rowdy lot?One of the best things about the earthquakes is that it's permissible to do this nostalgia stuff sometimes without being a silly old sod.
And usually after the Grenadier there would be a party, often at those big two-storey wooden houses on teh corner of Chester St East and Madras St.
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Up Front: Absence in the Arcades, in reply to Rob Stowell,
and everyone, it seemed, came and left on bikes
Oh that's so evocative. They did, everywhere. Now I feel sad as I suddenly remember blowing out cold 'puffs" of frosty air as we decanted from the Victorian, the Arts Centre, the Dux-when it was a restaurant and had bands in the corner on a little stage, the pictures in the Square, the Mykonos, and that pub in Oxford Terrace where the med students drank..