Stories: Love
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Brainrot
It's all that tantric sex
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TracyMac _ I'd agree that '"my life only has meaning through love" but I'd add "and creativity." Of many kinds, from cooking to words.
And steven crawford, I think I've appreciated your Clausthaler pointer in another thread. Nemmind. Still appreciated.
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So many multi-millions spent on creating a thing that signifies nothing, other than a core message of kill or be killed.
I disagree.
Well, not about the multi-millions (although it's worth noting that the War on Terra costs as much as that movie every day apparently).
To me, the core message, which I think was very much worth saying, is about the relationship of living things with their environment, and how there are better ways to live than by digging massive holes in the ground to get at the riches beneath (and destroying everything else in the process) or by blowing shit up.
To be fair to the plot (which is derivative, although that didn't bother me), the Na'vi people really didn't have much choice but to kill or be killed in the final Battle Scene To End All Battle Scenes - and the movie doesn't end there. Not all the bad guys get killed, by any means.
IMNSHO I reckon that if even a tiny bit of the environmental message gets through to people who don't care much about the environment but who love watching movies where tons of shit gets blown up (and they will go and see this movie), then that's a good thing.
Do I think the millions could have been better spent elsewhere? Yes, undoubtedly. That's a heck of a lot of money to spend on making a movie. But it's not as if the studios were going to give the money to Greenpeace or Oxfam or the Red Cross and decided to spend it on making Avatar instead.
I loved it.
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I did love my spaghetti tonight with a sauce consisting of the Smoked Riga Sprats that Islander gave us. mmmmm Thanks Islander, we raised our glass of red to you as we munched away. :)
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A pleasure!
But - you know it was Andris (currently headed to - argh!- the Auckland Islands) who was responsible for the sprats? His book has now been posted, and should be with you before (superstitious fingercross) Te Wa Hakari- (which can be anytime before 24th Dec & Jan 1st.)And - I made a covert sauce which included certain piripiri peppers for my Mum (she says she hates chilli) for our fresh (thanks cuz!) paua fritters- so, many thanks whanau Bribiesca!
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it may not always be so; and i say
e.e. cummings
it may not always be so; and i say
that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch
another's, and your dear strong fingers clutch
his heart, as mine in time not far away;
if on another's face your sweet hair lay
in such a silence as i know, or such
great writhing words as, uttering overmuch,
stand helplessly before the spirit at bay;if this should be, i say if this should be --
you of my heart, send me a little word;
that i may go unto him, and take his hands,
saying, Accept all happiness from me.
Then shall i turn my face, and hear one bird
sing terribly afar in the lost lands.That sums it up for me so far...
I do love my instruments and music and the ocean though. Went to Waikite Valley today, damn nz is beautiful.
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3410,
Ragazzo Solo / Ragazza Sola. Probably the worst song ever recorded.
Come on! It beats the average Oliver Onions single. :)
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I lost it in a iPod failure and I can't find it on iTunes again.
Yeah, it seems to have been pulled, after a scrap with Apple I believe, but here are the same two doing Five years, rather well at Fashion Rocks 2005:
And as added compensation, Life on Mars, with Mike Garson, from the same gig:
I think that's Space Oddity not Life on Mars
Indeed and it's been added to the newly released 40th Anniversary issue of his Space Oddity album (which I'd mark as his weakest aside from the two mid 1980s ones tagged earlier, and is actually really called David Bowie , not SO), so if it's a guilty pleasure for anyone but missing from their collection.....
I imagine he could have asked.
yes but the man was notoriously desperate to be a star I imagine would've done almost anything he was asked to do:
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Love the gnome. As I've covered elsewhere, gnomes are cool ;-)
Also of the Bowie variety, because a sibling has a passion for it, this has become a favourite. -
Bowie's first two albums (confusingly both self-titled) have rather grown on me in recent years - I think there's something about that cocky yet awkward boy-man that makes me come over all motherly.
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I think there's something about that cocky yet awkward boy-man that makes me come over all motherly.
Are you my mother?
Sorry, couldn't resist. Well I could have, but I didn't ;-)
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here are the same two doing Five years
Many thanks, Simon. Anyone who does anything with Arcade Fire displays extraordinary good taste, in my opinion. Incidentally, I have a track by AF called "Lenin" (...when Lenin was little...), from a rather good compilation "Dark Is The Night". Do you know anything about this?
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I always thought this was such a beautiful love song.
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yes but the man was notoriously desperate to be a star I imagine would've done almost anything he was asked to do:
Ouch!
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Are you my mother?
Sorry, couldn't resist. Well I could have, but I didn't ;-)
lol
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Think this has to be here, right?
Also found Arcade Fire doing this with U2, but I want to pretend I didn't, so won't mention it.
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Call me shallow but I love my new Phone I just can't help touching it, well you just have to, it's a touch phone. Let's talk about text baby.
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I love nana naps. I just had a four hour one. There are people here who could benefit from nana naps. Russell, are you listening?
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Bowie's first two albums
That first one, the Deram one, has it's moments, most especially the lovely London Boys, but his Newley training wheels show a bit too much for me. Incidently, it also gave him his first hit anywhere in the world when Love You Till Tuesday was a big NZ radio hit (unsure about charts but NZ's charts are not worth the paper or airwaves they were broadcast on in reliability until the 1970s).
Do you know anything about this?
This one? Nothing more than this I'm afraid.
I always thought this was such a beautiful love song.
There used to be a video jukebox down at Blondies, a late night coffee joint in Victoria St E., and we, before John Reynolds opened John's Diner at the top of Swanson Street, used to go there many weekend nights after 11pm when A Certain Bar tossed us out, if there was nothing on elsewhere, in 1981.
I was obsessed with that video and used to pay the money to put that it on repeat until eventually someone threw their Irish coffee at the screen and I thought better of it.
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Love the gnome
My ex-husband loved that song. His first birthday after we started shagging I spent weeks looking for it, and I can still remember the massive swoop of joy I felt when I finally found it. For years it was compulsary playing at KAOS parties - at least, ones at our house.
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Love the gnome.
He was, famously, furious when it was rerelased and became a hit in the UK six years after he'd released it to obscurity in '67, and had his manager, the notorious Tony de Fries, try to kill it. It put a huge dent in the cool factor he'd nurtured by hanging and working with Lou, Mott and Iggy.
It still floors me that in an 12 month period he turned out Ziggy, Aladdin Sane, Transformer, Raw Power and All The Young Dudes.
When he toured in the early 1990s he was going to have the UK setlist decided by public vote. NME tried to fix it so he'd have to do Gnome. Bowie killed the vote.
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I love nana naps. I just had a four hour one. There are people here who could benefit from nana naps. Russell, are you listening?
Yes Mum.
Had a 90 min nap earlier, reading the New Yorker now. I'm sort of unwinding all the accumulated tiredness and discovering how much of it there actually is.
Although, the heroic party conclusion to my working year probably has a wee bit to do with it too.
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I'm sort of unwinding all the accumulated tiredness and discovering how much of it there actually is.
I hear ya!
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This one? Nothing more than this I'm afraid.
Yes, it is that compilation--and a remarkably enjoyable set of music. For a good cause too!
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For Isabel:
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