Hard News: Revival
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I don' care what anyone else does. i was just saying I don't use it. I don't understand it. Call as ya want really. oh never mind... :).
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One of the best docos I've ever seen, Jeremy. You should check out The Mayfair Set by the same director, as well. Enlightening...and deeply troubling.
Thanks, I will.
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Petra - cool.
How can any of us tell any story from all perspectives?
Dyan - I neglected to say "thank you." I am sensitive to compliments: I am sensitive to criticisms - and your compliment was truly appreciated.OK, we all know poets are sensitive wee flowers, so I'll desist from doing that again-
hey! Wanna see me gut a fish?
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we all know poets are sensitive wee flowers
That's why we love 'em.
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Wanna see me gut a fish?
Yup! :D
I had to laugh at some kids on one of those weekend fishing shows. When the reporter asked one sweet little girl what she liked most about fishing, she replied "the guts". lol
Islander, I'm a huge poetry lover, and I'm getting the gist that you are published?
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Jeremy, the last time I mentioned the CotC docos, 3410 provided me with this handy little link to Adam Curtis documentaries. Tuck it into your favourites folder, it's a keeper. :)
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=Adam%20Curtis%20AND%20mediatype:movies
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Edited gushing, so as not to embarrass.
I'm sure Russell can edit out all the rest. :)
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Sorry, I'll go to my user options and enable my email.
I need a cuppa tea and a lie down!
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O shit o dear - so it cant be removed/Sacha?
Petra - thank you very much indeed for your comments.
I am truly appreciative. And for your distributions...and WTF! We're ANZers arnt we? So, we talk on the level of being thus-
so, please, I'm Islander-
(which is the literal translation of my last name)
-from now in, again.
(Sacha - what has gone wrong?) -
I promise. I just got knocked off my chair for a bit there. I'll go have a cigarette under the moonlight and gather myself.
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Dyan ages ago.
Are you kidding??
Yes I was.
The funny thing is, like most children of any generation, the majority usually turn out like their parents.
For good or bad.
If a child/adult has a sense of entitlement it usually (imo) got it from the upbringing.
And I do know some of my generation who holiday every year in the winter, from money made from property speculation.
A lot of that went on at some stagein NZ, and people were making a lot of money.
But if I offended you "Sorry" -
Is this still the thread where one gets to gush on how great Leonard Cohen was? That was... brilliant. And a masterclass (not just by Cohen himself, it should be said) on how to age gracefully, nay, gloriously.
That said: did somebody really disrespect Dino Soldo on my Internet?
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Giovanni, great concert wasn't it? But last year's concert was almost perfect, so probably shouldn't have gone again. And optional weta wasn't fun.
But I want to threadjack to mention the fascinating contradictions between Communications Shutdown Day that autism parent groups internationally promoted yesterday (1 November) and the reclaiming of it by people on the spectrum as Autistics Speaking Day. (ASD.)
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Is this still the thread where one gets to gush on how great Leonard Cohen was? That was... brilliant. And a masterclass (not just by Cohen himself, it should be said) on how to age gracefully, nay, gloriously.
All I could think of to tweet when I got home from Thursday's show was:
"I want some of what Leonard Cohen's on."
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did somebody really disrespect Dino Soldo on my Internet?
He was, some intoned "un ragazzaccio". But I believe that has more than one meaning.
I dont know, I just read it here -
I thought he was great, and the tenor sax was used what, three times in the whole set? I would have much sooner lost 12 String Javier.
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All I could think of to tweet when I got home from Thursday's show was:
"I want some of what Leonard Cohen's on."
I suspect its more about being at a time and place in your life where you've got nothing left to prove to anyone whose regard you care about.
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Yes, what impressed me wasn't that he looked younger than 76 - he doesn't. It's that he managed to mature as a performer even in the years of physical decline.
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Is this still the thread where one gets to gush on how great Leonard Cohen was?
I think any thread ,one should be able to gush about Leonard Cohen. The man is so many kinds of cool aid.Would be a pleasure that I could aim so high. The man's got skillz.
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String theory... plus one dimension
...the tenor sax was used what, three times in the whole set? I would have much sooner lost 12 String Javier.
They had an air guitarist?
It's good to know one can graduate from playing the tennis axe, in front of the wardrobe mirror, to the world stage... -
Nah, I don't think I could even mime what he did without the actual instrument. He appeared to have eight fingers in each hand to go with the 12 strings on the damn thing. However, all that virtuosism was not to my taste, and I would have much rather heard more of Mr Metzger.
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I thought he was great
It wasn't that he wasn't *talented*. He played lots of instruments superbly, and if I hadn't had to *look* at him cheesily mugging for the audience, it probably would have been OK. As it was, I just wanted to hurt him. With big hulk fists.
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He might have been more restrained last night, but I didn't notice any of that. And he had a very tender moment with the drummer at the end when they walked off which I thought was actually quite unguarded.
Also, it probably didn't help that he was standing next to one of the five coolest persons on the planet in Bob Freaking Metzger.
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As much as I loved the graciousness -- and the stamina, and the self-effacing sense of humour (the skipping, the jokes about the keyboard) -- of the revived Cohen, as seen in Wellington last year, I'm not sure I prefer him in the end to the lugubrious Cohen, as in this best-version-ever of The Partisan from French TV, 1969:
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"I want some of what Leonard Cohen's on."
Watch him make this serious journalist simper in 1966.
http://fliiby.com/file/375673/9gsqhs5bdr.html
From This Hour has Seven Days (CBC TV Canada)
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