Posts by Ethan Tucker
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Thanks for the music post, Russell. I've always been a bit wary of jazz, and chimed with Glen Hansard's throwaway line in The Commitments ('jazz is for tossers'), but I admit that's a shallow view. There's just a lot to explore and some of it can be rather obtuse. But not Miles Davis' first film soundtrack, for Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour l'échafaud / Elevator to the Gallows. Formidable!
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Bound to have been mentioned already, but I vote 'fleg'. Seems like so long ago now...
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Samantha Bee interviews Russian troll-farm mercenaries merrily spreading chaos in the US election:
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Hard News: Cannabis reform is not a…, in reply to andin,
does he just sit in splendid isolation
Depends if you define Masterton as splendid.
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...it would be better to work with him than to have to deal with a political neophyte, or worse, a flaming nutbar.
Flaming nutbar: boom, Whittaker's next chocolate range.
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Hard News: Villainy and engagement, in reply to Russell Brown,
I presume many other people have suggested this, but it doesn't strike me as very likely that the first simile someone born in 1989 would reach for is a 1960 Hitchcock reference. But then thankfully I know nothing about the chap, other than the UK music mag review that said his album was derivative.
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Too. Much. Rugby.
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Hard News: CWC 2015: Contains graphic horror, in reply to Michael Cosgrove,
the usual lineup of ultra partisan commentators
Whose regular refrain, 'from New Zealand's point of view', reminds you that most everything they say is filtered through a one-eyed lens. Listening to skilled overseas commentators, such as some of the English crew, you're reminded that it's possible to appreciate and discuss good play from *both* teams. Not to mention the idea of analysing performance and precedents and making educated predictions, rather than just blokey utterances and pointless banter.
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We are generally very lucky in NZ (and probably Australia too) with the quality of our sports camerawork - they really know their jobs and make it so much easier to enjoy matches, whatever the sport. As you point out, knowing the grounds well must be a factor.
There will be no Danny Morrison.
Swings & roundabouts, then.
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Two Sevens Clashed, in reply to Russell Brown,
I meant 1988, brilliant year that it was for me.
The NZ charts weren't quite so flash - top 10 songs of the year:
1. Holidaymakers - Sweet Lovers
2. U2 - One Tree Hill
3. U2 - Desire
4. MARRS - Pump Up The Volume
5. Billy Ocean - Get Out Of My Dreams
6. Tex Pistol & Rikki Morris - Nobody Else
7. Ardijah - Watching You
8. Times Two - Cecelia
9. Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth
10. Timelords - Doctorin' The Tardis