Posts by Geoff Lealand
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My experiences with the Press Council is that they are weak as shit when it comes to inflammatory material eg when I registered a complaint about ACT acolyte Garry Mallet running a series of columns fostering race hatred under the guise of a 'Paid Advertisement' in a local community newspaper. The PC acknowledged that the columns were unfair and unethical but declined to do anything about them.
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Feed: My Life in Curry, in reply to Russell Brown,
It wasn't No. 58 by chance? Our friends Deb and Andrew live there.
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Feed: My Life in Curry, in reply to Ben Chapman,
Two good South India restaurants in Hamilton: RR South India (out near the university) and Bananaa Leaf (not sure why the extra 'a') in Hamilton East. A long tradition of Indian restaurants here--might be something to do with the tradition of Indian dairy farming in the Waikato.
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Feed: My Life in Curry, in reply to Peter Darlington,
Rick Stein, eh? By chance late last night we watched a repeat of his food tour through Louisiana. I went to bed so, so hungry and dreamed of spare ribs and steak and pound cake!
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Good on you, Jimmy. I didn’t like American Hustle either–and have never watched Mary Poppins. ‘Tonally inconsistent’–very sharp.
Must link this to my http://cinemasofnz.info site
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Feed: My Life in Curry, in reply to Ben Chapman,
Big fat sultanas, with sliced banana and dessicated coconut on the side.
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Being a week by week sort of guy, I have lodged an AP every Tuesday to the PA account.
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Regarding another medium; just putting together a lecture on the state of the global film industry and it is remarkable how much American film depends on non-domestic income, with around about 70% of the box office for your average US coming from foreign territories eg Frozen has earned $US1.032billion, with 32 million units on DVD/Blu-Ray sold in one day!
One reason why big, family-friendly animated features are dominating releases as they can easily cross language barriers, with dubbing, -
Hard News: Friday Music: Changing Times, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
I weeded out my CDs last year but substituted even older technology--a wind-up gramophone, to play the wonderful collection of 78s I found at a Save The Children fund-raiser. Working my way through a meticulously-catalogued collection of 1930/1940s jazz; obviously the life-work of some old bloke. As David Hepworth recently declared, when asked "What is the future of music?' .... "The future of music is its past".
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Another example of the much-too-cosy relationship between the current government and vested interests ?