Posts by JackElder
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Looking again at the photos: yes, it's definitely Oriental Bay, taken from around the carpark by Freyberg pool. That's really odd.
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Inflation has clearly been at work. When we toilet-trained our firstborn two years ago, the rate was a direct correlation between the activity and the corresponding reward, expressed as jellybeans (which provide a nicely granular reward system). I may have to update the metrics when we get volume 2 towards the glorious milestone, somewhere around this time next year.
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I came to a compromise at the last concert I attended. Rather than dancing in my seat, I moved to the aisle and then sat down there instead.
Of course, this was at The Wiggles. Who - and I'd like this to go on the record here - were EXCELLENT.
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Your quote is missing some ellipses. Here, let me help you.
... Michael Lhaws ... hard... turgid ... soft...
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Seven - there's some twisted shit in that, and the ending is suspense-city.
I saw this on video with a mate who was house-sitting at the time. Just the two of us, alone in a darkened house, with all the doors locked. Right at the end, at maximum tension time, someone opened the door behind us.
Turned out to be a friend of the teenage daughter of the house, who'd borrowed a key so she could use their computer to write an essay on. Scared the stuffing out of us, though.
Ooh.. the Wicker Man (original, not remake). Great horror: plausible(ish), and for most of it really covers that horrible feeling that everyone else knows what's happening and won't tell you.
I also recall The Quiet Earth scaring the stuffing our of me when I saw it as a child.
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Zombies are always cool. Preferably as long as they're actually dead, and not, y'know, running around.
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Unafraid of the link to the Nazi death marches, was he?
And the Bataan death march, the death marches during the Armenian Genocide.... Just think of it as a variation on a road movie.
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I'll see your Tool video and raise you the Aphex Twin's Come to Daddy. I had a hard time watching it all the way through. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Az_7U0-cK0)
I find that the horror movies that scare/unsettle me most are the more "plausible" ones - anything with the breakdown of society, really. So yes, I thought 28 Days Later was bloody terrifying (though I saw it in Cambridge, so the initial sequence in the lab got a big laugh from the audience, who all recognised it as a reference to Huntingdon Life Sciences - kind of like spotting Shortland St actors in Hollywood movies).
Also not a big fan of torture porn (Saw, Hostel, etc). But I do really like zombie flicks, body horror (basically, Cronenbourg et al), and the aforementioned post-apocalyptic stuff. And I do have trouble sleeping afterwards sometimes too.
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Girlfriend in a comma.
(one for the Smiths fans there)
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What's Georgina Beyer up to these days? Could she be persuaded?
And why does everyone keep using the boring old locution "super city", when we could just cut to the chase and start talking about a Mega City?