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Hard News: Christchurch: Square Two, in reply to Hebe,
will going Somewhere Else relieve us all?
I'm afraid that I'll leave in a fit of exasperation and fetch up in another town or city, find myself without all my local family and friends and routines (such as they still are), and think...why did I do that?
If you click on the dot, the info box that comes up says 6.3
Huh. So it does.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Square Two, in reply to Russell Brown,
Meanwhile, GNS has upgraded yesterday's 6.0 to a 6.3.
They have? (your link seems to go to a map only)
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Hard News: Three months after, in reply to BenWilson,
People don’t want to hear about hardship, particularly when they can’t help.
Yes, I get the sense that some people outside Chch have got to the socially-uncomfortable stage. And I totally get that you folk wish you could help. Knowing you care means a lot.
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Hard News: Three months after, in reply to Russell Brown,
Jen has a few bruises – she was cycling when the 6.0 happened and was thrown off her bike. She then had to wade through knee-deep silt to get back to their house in Avonside. Last seen this morning offering to connect other people with a source of springwater.
Heroic!!
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Hard News: Three months after, in reply to BenWilson,
It’s almost like the city is battling with a potentially life threatening illness, with slow progress of therapy and sudden disastrous reversals, as well as the underlying and constant malaise.
I was thinking last night that Chch is like an alcoholic spouse who keeps promising to go straight. I don't want to give up on it, but I'm losing faith.
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Hard News: Three months after, in reply to recordari,
Searching for words that could make a difference, but knowing that there probably aren’t any.
Wishing everyone well, and hoping that the worst is over.
Good wishes are a big help. So kia ora for that. :-)
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Thanks Jackie, thanks webweaver. It’s hard to know how bad it is, certainly not on a par with February, maybe more like September. We’ve got some liquefaction in our street, and a patch neatly under our nice new water main on the front lawn, severing it. And I suspect our sewers are buggered again.
Today’s shakes were scary at the time, but tonight I just feel depressed about everything. I know we’re not actually back to square one, but it feels like it.
At least we’ve got power. And internet!
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Muse: Some Link Crack To Tide You Over..., in reply to Danielle,
I *love* Antonioni. All those big contemplative spaces and ambient noises. Yay.
It's been pointed out to me that when his films have music, it's always because someone's put a record on or is listening to the radio or playing an instrument: it's part of the story. There's no non-diegetic music. Without a musical score burbling along in the background, we pay attention to all the other sounds and silences. And the explosions. :-)
Interestingly, a melodrama is technically a "play with music" where music is blantantly used to induce an emotional reaction from the audience.
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Has anyone else seen Marguerite Duras's India Song ? It's a peculiar film, and after the first 15 minutes of sitting there watching and being unable to make head or tail of it, I thought, "I'll give it another 5 minutes, and then I'm walking out!"
But 5 minutes later I was absolutely spellbound by it, and only emerged dazed and blinking about an hour-and-a-half later. It was almost literally hypnotic.
Looking at the India Song IMDb page, the featured user review says, "I was completely hypnotized and paralyzed while seeing this film. The first time I saw it, I was so deeply moved that I couldn't even move my fingers, let alone any other parts of my body."
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I remember once getting Tarkovsky's Stalker out on video because my sister wanted to watch it. The blurb said something about Tarkovsky's "rigorous denial of plot structure and characterisation". A wonderful phrase that's stuck in my memory. More than the film. :-)