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  • Hard News: Friday Music: Staying Okay, in reply to Ian Dalziel,

    The Chills film update (Monday 16th):
    3 days to go and only $3,326 to find!!!

    Come on folks – tell your friends and clients.

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  • Hard News: Friday Music: Staying Okay,

    Chills doco - and it’s almost there to its $60,000 target.

    5 days to go and only $8,500 to find...

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1900240317/the-chills-film-a-theatrical-documentary?ref=345063&token=95b1d112

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  • Legal Beagle: Election 2017: the Special…, in reply to izogi,

    I struggle to imagine him announcing it jointly.

    I had a vision…

    Live on the telly…
    spotlit against encroaching darkness
    Winston Peters flanked
    by Jacinda/James (a sinister duo)
    and Bill (life with dexter )…

    a drum roll
    <pin drop silence- 5 beats>

    …aaaand the winnner is:
    <pin drop silence – 2 beats>

    Winston high-fives Jacinda
    spins and and low-fives James
    <raise audio of the start of a horse race
    - (a tribute to Winston’s years of service)>

    “They’re off and running freely,
    with Labour on the inside track!”

    Bill scowls, offscreen Bennett howls,
    Joyce scurries 0n – drapes a cape
    over Bill’s slumped shoulders –
    they try, but don’t succeed,
    to look ‘pretty sanguine’…

    The crowd is on its feet
    the lights comes up
    it pours out of everyone…
    outside the silver space ships fly
    In the yellow haze of the sun.

    <cut to exterior shot:
    a hunched hoodied figure
    smears face and hands against
    the Epsom Electrical Emporium’s
    pristine panes.>

    A choked snort and low giggle
    escapes Seymour’s non-event horizon
    followed by a muttering:
    “Ha ha ha! Fools they spurned me,
    when only I know what Winston thinks. Me!
    What an opposition we will be - Misery loves company”
    He wipes his nose on his sleeve and
    dissolves into the gathering obscurity
    - albeit well paid – for the next 3 years.

    and that chiluns is how the mighty dynasty of JacWinJim began.
    Putting the ‘trip’ into tripartite since 2017!
    …and what a long strange trip it’s been.

    Let’s do this!

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  • Hard News: Music: Places to Play,

    Only eight (8) days left on The Chills documentary Kickstarter
    - they only need another $16,000
    (with $44,000 pledged thus far)

    Let's do this!
    ...he said belabouring an obvious pun or cultural meme...

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  • Hard News: Music: Places to Play,

    Attachment Attachment

    Sneaky Feelings
    Progress Junction LP Tour dates:

    Thursday 12th October, Blue Smoke, Christchurch
    w/ Changing Same
    (Tomorrow night!!)

    Saturday 14th October, Captain Cook, Dunedin
    w/ Changing Same

    Thursday 16th November, Meow, Wellington
    w/ Changing Same and Terror of the Deep

    Tickets from UTR, Relics Music, RPM, Slow Boat

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  • Hard News: The next four years, in reply to WH,

    May and the writing on the wall...
    ...she was literally told to 'eff' off!

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  • Hard News: The next four years,

    ...or even an irrational explanation - sometimes weird stuff happens...

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  • Hard News: The next four years, in reply to WH,

    Stanislaw Lem has a great book 'The Chain of Chance'

    Written in the style of a detective novel, The Chain of Chance is classic Lem: a combination of action, hard science, and philosophical investigation.
    An ex-astronaut is hired to look into the death of several wealthy businessmen. The authorities suspect a pattern, but neither the police nor a supercomputer enlisted for the investigation can crack the case.

    ---and from Good Reads

    An aging American astronaut is investigating a cluster of unexplained deaths (usually suicides that follow periods of depression and severe hallucinations) of late-middle-age men in and around Naples, Italy. The novel might be called a scientific and philosophical mystery as it deals with detailed analysis of various factors, which are common for all unexplained cases, with statistics and probability theory.

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  • Hard News: Music: God Save the Clean,

    it's not The Clean - but viral strands of it exist in their DNA, I'm sure...

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  • Hard News: The next four years, in reply to WH,

    More questions than answers

    Damn!

    A perfectly good theory with no situation to validate...
    ...casual causality going begging.

    This sounds like a job for ResoNancy Drew!

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