Posts by David Ritchie
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Jackie -- The Bridge can't be in NZ outside of a festival or academic context. I imagine it's for the obvious reasons but I can't seem to find any decisions on the Chief Censor's website. It is on DVD in Australia and Google video (of course).
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I was getting a weird deja vu feeling about this situation and I just remembered who I was reminded of: L** S*.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this. Crash and burn, indeed.
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I saw "Man On Wire" at the Wellington FF opening.
Snap! Weird film for a big law firm like Russell McVeagh to sponsor but (free drinks + free food) > odd film choice.
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If there's anything which annoys me about Morning Report it's a/ Sean's occasional sniping after the interviewee has gone off-air or the pre-record has finished (his recent mocking of somebody's accent recently had me feeling uncomfortable), and b/ Geoff's slightly-less-occasional grumpy-old-man-esque harrumphing when intro-ing or outro-ing anything slightly celebrity-based or other trivial items.
I remember about 3 years ago Geoff introduced an item about the Michael Jackson verdict with bared-concealed disdain: "Has the world gone mad? I rather think so!". It's a phrase one expects to come from him all-too-frequently nowadays.
That said, MR beats commercial radio breakfast shows hands-down any day of the week.
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If you (heart) Matinee Idle as much as I do, come and join the Facebook group. It's got, um, 11 members. I'd be happy for it to hit 15.
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What confuses the Telecom matter more is the previous campaign(s) they've had featuring real people -- the families etc on the couch, talking about how they use telco services. (I believe) those were unscripted, improvised, real conversations (which Telecom still use on big hoardings up at Wellington Airport).
Not so sure about the Clever Toys campaign. The lion seems pretty laid back but surely the rabbit is talent? It's tough to tell nowadays.
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Saatchi and Saatchi need to cast better talent. Some of those screen performances are abysmal.
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If we're relying on whois records to indicate chicken/egg first-ness:
domain_name: ebay.co.nz
query_status: 200 Active
domain_dateregistered: 1998-12-07T00:00:00+13:00then arguably ebay.co.nz predates trademe.co.nz. The Wayback Machine is down at the moment otherwise it might be worth seeing whether ebay.co.nz had a page up at the time (not that it's particularly canonical).
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JINX
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Maybe Sam Morgan specifically meant in New Zealand, where eBay launched in 2001.