// Show of hands here - do you love rugby? Yay or nay.
A double nay for me - one for the game, and one for those folks who love it but hurl abuse at those who do not: not cool at all. My lack of interest in rugby has me in a bind: a wee friend of mine wants me to go watch the Heineken Cuo final with her this weekend, and while there's a big yay for her, there's a compellingly big nay for the game. I think I may have to go out of town, watch the Renderers or something.
I have seen 2046: Wong Kar-Wai's previous movie, In the Mood for Love is one of my favourites. I can't say that I'd rate 2046 so highly, but then I did manage to spend an early part of the movie asleep, so I owe it to the movie to see it again. I do think that the people who got most out of 2046 are those who have a general familiarity with the film-maker's work.
I do see one major change - Karyn mentions getting NZ On Air funding for shows, so I'd imagine they'd move to have more of an appointment listening style, a bit like on C4 or all the B-Net stations with the specialist music shows rather than an all over the place compilation ("Jack") style.
While you were at it, why did you not go for a further frequency, for Dunedin? That's my only problem with this deal that has been done - that only those in the main centres get to benefit from it, whereas for a minor additional cost, we could have much more of the country covered.
Maybe, but there is a kernel of truth in what he says: we are a country of a mere four million people sitting at the bottom of the Pacific, desperate to put it about that we're a "first world" nation, when maybe it really is a bit of an overstatement.
Thanks for confirming my niggle - even though I spelt the name wrong. I haven't thought of the Bulldogs Allstar Goodtime Band (I'm sure it used to be the ... Fun Band) in such a long time - one of the Form one (year something or other) teachers from my school played in it, back when I was in Form one myself.
Is 22 a trick question? Do we count the Bedingfield siblings as kiwis? They both went to No 1, and you can't go any higher than that.
15 - is this the Mockers? Most of the others obviously moved to Oz, but Andrew and Karyn buggered off to the UK, maybe without a move to Oz in the process.
Sweetwaters was just west of Ngaurawahia, which is just north of Hamilton: I never went the first year it was run, because I thought Ngaurawahia was over near Opotiki, which was far too far to drive in a Morris 1300 from the far North. Wrong on both counts! But Nambassa and Sweetwaters were pretty much neck and neck for a couple of years in terms of desirability.
I have this strange niggling feeling that neither was the first, however.
That is hardly surpising, as presumably you chose your own tunes whereas with any radio, whether automated or hosted, you're at the mercy of someone else's taste.
The new GM of Kiwi FM (Karyn Hay) has quite a different take on what is happening. She is quoted in today's ODT - I don't know what other newspapers are carrying the story. Sure, there is a one year period during which Can west is running these frequencies without having to pay for them, but then at the end of the year, there is to be a divorce between Canwest and the frequencies - the whole set up is to be transferred to a charitable trust (in much the same way as many of the iwi frquencies are structured around the countryside). On her way of seeing tings, it is more of a situation of the govt borrowing whatever expertise Canwest might have to get this running (and you really have to wonder what that might be, given the failure of Kiwi), and then Canwest bows out.
To me, that's not a completely stupid way of doing things - apart from the reservation about Canwes's ability to pull this off. It is not at all clear what the format of the station will be after a year - whether it will be NZ music or aimed at "youth", but I have to say, I can see no reason for a 100% kiwi music station being a spoiler for a YRN, in that kiwi hardly appealed to the youth market, a market which is not limited in its tastes to kiwi music. The various b-net stations are far more of a spoiler to a YRN than anything else - but in fact, where they exist, you could say they are already doing the job we'd expect any YRN to do and more - how many of our "youth" actually get a leg into the industry by being able to volunteer at a b-net station? Would they be able to do the same on a govt established YRN?
Emo starts with good old punk stylings and strivings for authenticity, but with a dash of the emotionlism of a folk singer or poet - imagine the Sex Pistols channeling Sylvia Plath, if you can.
I don't know who I felt like. I was on the bus, and he wasn't slowing down for any old puddle of water, even if it was two feet deep. So we had huge geysers erupting, sending innocent pedestrians flying, torrents of water were being flung into the houses of whoever was unfortunate enough to live along the road, and we were just sitting cosy and enjoying the show.
Poor Oamaru, but.
I think its great the way that Anita just decided on the night of the first audition while she was working as crew, to just haveago - she seemed from the get go to have some sort of energy that the others didn't (even if she lacks the cool name thing). I haven't actually seen any of the programme since then, and although I swear I was watching last night, didn't see her do any dancing. I think the right decision was made, even with the public voting, even with the ability for the public to vote as often as they wanted. Mind you, there's a nice little conspiracy theory to be started - we never did see how many votes the finalists got, did we? Even if we had, who says they'd have been accurate?
I've had trouble logging in from the various net cafes I've been inhabiting, so have been prevented from adding my two cents. I was there with a mate: he came out raving about them, about their techhnical expertise, the complexity of the music and the perfectionist ethos they have. I came out with reservations: I could acknowledge everything he said but the whole sebang left me unmoved. When I'd seem them in Brisbane I'd had a similar reaction, but blamed it on the lengthy travel arrangements involved in getting there cheaply from Dunedin. I think the basic problem for me is that they work so hard on the aesthetics of the music that it becomes lacking in any kind of emotional impact - except for a couple of rare occasions. Even when they cranked everything up, right at the end, there was something missing, a connection between them and me. So - very beautiful, in a cold sort of way: it turns out I need other things in my music.
Hmm - unless I've missed a show and they're already recycling storylines, this is a story yet to show in New Zealand - I took a sneak peak at TWOP and it is about 7 or 8 episodes to go until a fellow comes into hospital with a live bazzoka shell in his chest. But somehow the lack of talking about stuff that happened during the day doesn't surprise me - it tends to take a while for these two to do that, although they eventually do.
Oooh -and I see Christina Ricca makes an appearance - which is funny, because it was just yesterday I was wondering what she's doing these days.
They speak too fast? I've never found it too be a problem, and find it to be consistent with my own experiences of speaking with people, particularly those who also watch Gilmore Girls.
//I love that the grandfather was the head vampire in The Lost Boys
I just learnt the other day that she was also the mother in Dirty Dancing.
I know - when Luke told Rory that he and Lorelai were engaged, I could so feel the hurt that Rory did so well to button up - like her grandmother. Particularly as Rory had made the first move, to go over to Lukes and get things starting again - after she found herself bored in her digs, I just knew we'd see her next in Stars Hollow. And its hurting Lorela, and she's finally making a move as well.
But we do know they'll be talking again, and pretty soon. There is that consolation. Plus, it was funny to see Grandma telling Rory how to behave with her fellow prisoners, and then to see Rory of all people being told her "fight face" was trouble.
Then there's George. I like George, he's solid, an extremely high flyer when you look at his family background, a good guy. He went off at Meredith for going for all the one night stands, told her she deserved better, she was better than that. Of course, George wants Meredith, so he'd have said it anyway, but he was genuine and it made its impact. Question is: is Meredith good enough for George? Apart from perrenially being in love with Derek, is there anything at all to Meredith? When the show started, there were hopes that she might be the Dr Green of this show, especially as her name is in the title. But the other characters have come forward, and she's looking outclassed and average.
First, Alex and Izzie. They nearly got it together but he can't perferom, yet he can with his ex. Washe starting to say that he's so into Izzie, that he might actually love her, that that tenderness gets in the way of being able to get it up? There was certainly an interesting look he gave her as he was saying this.
There's thousands who do it on TWOP but they have their programmes on a very different schedule from us, so I'm always out of step there. I want to talk about Gray's Anatomy, I'll start two seperate comments.
Cheers - I've just read somewhere that she regards herself as being in exile, presumably because we lack the taste necessary to appreciate her art, which sounds so modernist. In many of my visits to modern art galleries, I've noticed that there is a particular school of modern art in which there is a fine line between the work of a modern artist and that of your average pre-schooler: this artist sounds like she might be one of them.
I watch Frontseat when I happen to be home and remember, but I can't say its compulsory viewing, mainly because it simply tries to do too much and leaves everything feeling rushed and compromised. We really should have better and more regular arts programmes on TV - somewhere we can expect to see a sensible discussion of books & interviews with authors, the same with painters, theatre types, crafty types, musical types. Each deserves its own programme, not just when it can be fited in to Frontseat.
//Waste your time. It seems you have nothing better to do anyways.
hehe: you do realise that no-one has said anything in the 48May forum for six months and that the peeps who were here raising all this aggro have long since moved away, don't you?