Posts by bronwyn
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I think we've found a new bfm host everyone! someone who can spin some tunes and really ask the hard questions of politicians:
(from the Beat Goes On site)
Politics can be boring but not with Tony Amos. Tony chuckles to himself at least 10 times a day as his very active mind comtemplates the goings on of our top politicians. After the chuckles Tony jots it all down and arrives at the studio to present The "Weekly Political Roundup" Somehow through the laughter Tony delivers with his wonderful and booming Solid Gold voice a funny and thought provoking look at the crazy world of politics.
Usually people who chuckle to themselves so much don't get to leave a secure room, let alone be invited onto a TV show.
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Running OS X10.6, Firefox, with adblocker and noscript- but all the scripts on tvnz website are allowed. Youtube runs fine. The adobe player initialises - then just sits there loading. Forever.
Tim - I found I have to disable adblocker completely on TVNZ and TV3 to get anything to play, not just allow some items. But I know almost nothing how these things work so there's no doubt a more elegant solution out there.
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What Deborah said.
Plus: this hasn't been the only thread that's been filled with posturing recently. Doesn't make for particularly interesting discussions.
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Murray McCully made the decision I presume.
I imagine he was a huge Jesus Jones fan back in the day.
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The fact that hiphop audiences are so desensitised to violence and ugly art means they can view it objectively so...
Umm, no, there's quite a few of us hiphop audiences who can't view it objectively. But meh, it all seems like a ridulous publicity stunt and I've already given it too much time by writing this.
Anyone read the Canvas article on the weekend about feminism? Sandra Coney had some interesting points I think - about people blaming feminism for the promise that "women can everything"; her point was more that it wasn't feminism's fault that society still makes it much harder for women than men to have a family and a career (I know that's a very limited view of what everything is).
Edit: although she then went on to talk about people dressing as "tarts", a point I suspect lost some context in the re-telling.
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I was pretty surprised when I started my brief but glittering career as a guide at a significant tourist attraction to find our training manual included directions about how to "deal with Chinese tour groups". I can't remember these were exactly but it was awful enough that I did that thing that instantly annoys your new workmates, and took it to the boss, pointing out that if i happened to be Chinese I'd be deeply offended and possibly not want to work with the sort of people that thought that was ok to assume that everyone from China spoke loudly, tried to touch the precious things of the shop, and basically were obnoxious. Luckily the boss was new as well and removed the offending passages immediately.
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Oh, you city slickers! My parents had bought me a car before I was 15, so keen were they to avoid having to make the hour-return trip to school and back.
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As someone who can't receive any sort of television (despite co-habitating with almost one of the largest TVs in the world, go figure), I thought it was amazingly easy to watch the Olympics through Prime's streaming of them. Eric Young seemed to hold things together pretty well, and didn't even make too many inane presenter-puns. Anytime I watched they seemed to have something fairly interesting on, and were good about cutting to NZ competitors as well.
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But the argument for Concert FM is something along the lines of: 'it doesn't cost much, I want it and fuck you.'
Arrggh! I think there is some very selective reading going on here. I'd go onto to make a list of what other people have already said, but I suspect you wouldn't read that either.
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I think that in a small, poor country like ours the government should direct it's money and energy into areas like education, welfare and healthcare, not paying ballet dancers to stage productions nobody watches or composers to write symphonies nobody listens to.
And here we get to what I think is really underlying lots of this discussion of the Concert Programme (notice there hasn't been much discussion on Nat Rad, or Radio NZ International...) the strong perception by lots and lots of people that "classical" music and its ilk are for pointy-headed wankers.
I'll give you that the pointy-headed wankers often don't do themselves any favours, but I wonder if this is also a symptom of an education system that for a long time has not really taken the arts seriously, which means that most people grow up not knowing how great Benjamin Britten can be, (thanks for the reminder Craig) or how Radiohead follow in his path, not necessarily musically but in their themes.
(For anyone who'd like to see a pretty amazing example of why the arts should be funded, even in poor countries, I recommend going to see El Sistema at the Documentary Film Festival in a few weeks - about the free music programme in Venezuela that the Inter-American Development Bank has calculated provides $1.68 in social dividends for every $1 of funding the Government provides).