Posts by samuel walker
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um,,,
i really enjoyed watching ALT when it was being broadcast.....there were some real gems of shows on it, how does one watch it now? the website alttv.co.nz strangely doesnt seem to have any mention of where/how to watch.....
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Hey, good to see you on here Simon/Nick. I think the last time I saw you was at ch*@p s@x up at squid, maybe, hazy dayz.
Deep within my vaults I have a cutout from the back pages of Metro, A guide to how to speak HipHop......currated by by a certain Mr D'Angelo....
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Rob, after my review, I can say they are back to being cool. Snorkel jacket's
Snorkel jackets are very popular within Hip Hop culture being worn by both men and women.
i consider snorkel jackets to be one of the few items that some how manage to transcend the confines of fashionability. they are timeless like the blue spinny box.
heed my words though:
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ever wear one fully zipped up in the same city as Harold from the Picassos. therapy aint cheap my friends. it aint cheap. -
Do some of these people moaning about the lack of NZ Music on the radio forget about Kiwi FM?
I don't think anyone is saying there is a lack of NZ music on the radio.
and even if there was, putting it all together in one place is hardly going get the tunes into new ears. more like putting it in the ghetto.
As an aside, NZmusic month has seemed totally underwhelming ever since NZ music stopped needing the local push in the mid/late nineties. I dont mind it being there though, as long as it doesnt get too self important....
I did get a hit of pride, and a find of a hithero unknown [to me] brilliant kiwi artist last night, The first track on the new[est] Andy Weatherall compilation 'Watch the ride' -Roy Montgomery : London Is Swinging By His Neck, its good in that punky/funky/rockabilly way that Weatherall grooves these days.
almost as cool as The Video Kid being in the rather divine ambient/classical/tech mix by Neil Tennant.
nice
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It seems that to me that to many people of my generation anyone requiring to be addressed with a title (mr, mrs, sir) is exhibiting a lack of respect to the addresser. which is an interesting turnaround. Whereas addressing someone by their first name shows that you are relating to them as a person, rather than a position. which actually shows a more honest kind of respect.
I cant imaging my daughter not calling her teacher mrs richardson though, it just seems cuter.
Im sure it is for a similar reason that starting any written corespondence with Dear..... seems overly familiar.
When I was a fair bit younger, in my first job, which involved serving customers at a photobooth A certain Opera singer type [probably not the first one that springs to mind....not Kiri....] refused to be addressed as mrs XXXXXXX (it was a simple transaction, they pass over their docket or give their name.....we find the prints and pass it back saying that'll be $17.95 mrs smith, no one ever complained), she looked FURIOUS and demanded "thats DAME", the cheeky me said "oh, mrs dame, sorry...." heheh, she insisted on showing me her credit card which had dame xxx xxx printed on it. this was all done in the sort of snooty manner that actually makes you respect the person on the same level as a petty thief, rather than the privilidged level at which they see themselves.....
i have never been able to appreciate opera since.....
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yeah,
those Dan twins sure are clever.
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David+Samuel=Daniel?
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some sort of identifying tag so I can tell in which order the segments were broadcast.
David Ritchie supplied a GreaseMonkey script [for firefox] last week. apart from making the episodes easy to grab, they have all been perfectly tagged with name, date, episode number, and part number.
I dumped three episodes [nine parts] into convertxtodvd last week, and they lined up perfectly in order.
nice.
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A S.
good effort with the response. I could have expected more bite after I baited with the twighlight zone ref.
Wouldn't you agree that from this statement you could indeed draw such a conclusion?
nope. not even when taken out of context like that.
anyway,i think the guts of this matter is that gaining as much of the right kind of publicity is key to any public protest being effective.Unlike you I choose to see a difference between the violent and the passive in these situations. And I also differ with you in that I see the Waihopai action as sitting rather comfortably within the passive set.
And I think we are gonna hafta agree to disagree on this one.
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A S
you got this :
I was also somewhat horrified to read an earlier post (not by you though Kyle) that implied that destroying schools was bad because children might be there, but it was ok to attack a base because those who were there knew what they were doing....
from this?
they are public spaces. big difference.
they also involve the young and the sick. and would include the possible presence of non-involved people. where as everyone inside the Echelon base is involved in the project. Plus they rendered the dish unusable [yes, via vandalism] but they didnt blow it up, or burn it to the ground. It is a much more focused message than that.good call with the Wishart comparison Shep. i can hear the twilight zone music too.....