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Hard News: Review: Lana Del Rey, 'Born…, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Just for you, Jackie!
This track is from Volume One; Volume Two is even better. Zooey writes most of the music herself. It’s very jaunty, which isn’t to everyone’s taste, but I’ve got a lot of enjoyment from their albums.
And thanks for the heads-up, Sacha. I don’t habitually watch tv so I rely on other people to tell me if there’s something worth watching! :-)
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Just thinking,
Newcastle guys came over and campaiged for open access to the City Centre, as their fenched off city died due to cordons.
If we’d had open access people would have died on June 13.
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Just BTW: how live vocal performance is done!!
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Joe Wylie,
the 1989 Newcastle quake
Thanks for the reminder. Surprisingly damaging for a 5.6! VIII on the Modified Mercalli scale!! And so far from a faultline?
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Islander,
Vicki Buck?
Vicki Buck was mayor for 9 years, and she was fantastic. I’m sure we’d have her back in an instant if she wanted to stand. She was offered a Damehood and turned it down because she thinks such things are elitist. She was instrumental in setting up the Discovery and Unlimited schools, among other things.
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If it's not OT to talk about earthquakes ;-) I was looking at the figures here on the Chch Quake Map, specifically the numbers of quakes-per-day in the drop-down menu (next to "all days"). When I see that on the bad days we've had 200-odd (or more) shakes, I feel less crazy for being a bit crazy. And so many other days we've had 50-100.
Looks like the record still goes to the 6/09/10 with 324 !
It's fascinating to compare with the Japanese and Turkish quakes. Can it really be true that Turkey's only had 100-odd quakes in total since their 7.1 in October?? And although the Japanese quakes have been very large in magnitude, and the tsunamis so horrifically damaging, they've only had 1700 shakes since the 11/03/11?
Perhaps this is what the geologists mean when they talk about our "particularly rich aftershock sequence"!
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I’m sorry to read that Jim Anderton’s not interested. I think he’d be just what we need! He's got nothing to prove, and I think he'd be dedicated to helping everybody get through.
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This one is OK, even if her voice lacks accuracy in places:
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Capture: The Robots Are Here!, in reply to JacksonP,
Having just watched the official Chronicle trailer though, it seems a whole lot more sinister.
Oh. A great stunt in support of a crappy movie? :-s
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I love Video Games, and I was deeply disappointed with LDR’s performances of it both on Later and on SNL but I can appreciate that the song on the video is a crafted artefact as much as it’s a performance.
Likewise, I love this song, with it’s dynamic and vocal range:
But listen to Peter von Poehl live, arrgh!! Ok it’s probably a poor recording, but still.