Posts by Robbie Siataga
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I like what they did with poplar lane and sol square ? Rather that than the strip or the 'axis of evil' that was shooters, the grumpy mole and the loaded hog.
though i tended when out to just float between double happy and the concrete club.
I 'd always thought Christchurch would be a great place to shoot a devil worshipping, serial killing, dark TV series maybe with vampires, just cos it's got that 'behind closed doors' underbelly of who knows what and also cos most of the filmy types down there are twisted as :)
Theres a shitload of talent there and you could really tap into the broadcasting school and ilam uni film students. I reckon all it needs is a Peter Jackson type svengali/patron type to build a TV industry around cos fuck knows Janine Morell and Jason Gunn aren't in it for anyone but themsleves.
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I just found rather refreshing to see a film full of Maori who aren't patched wife beaters and victims of colonialist/neo-liberal opression.
I too have a dream of fighting the power while riding the whale...
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Talk about revolting pieces of shit. Check out these gems.
Deceptikonz, formerly the darlings of the kiwi hiphop set have increasingly found the market has moved on from aping mindless american gangterism towards house and inflected stuff with the likes of Akon and Kid Cudi teaming up with David Guetta or Flo-rida revisiting classic italo house riffs and Lil wayne collaborating with Kevin Rudolf. So D*konz thought they'd give it a crack.
Alphrisk now known as Frisko was first, with a lame attempt that more than anything, in combination with P moneys latest effort, may have nailed the coffin shut on Aaradhnas brief career.
and then we have Devolo following up 'too shy', his initial foray into cheesy post hardcore hiphop, submitting us to some next level wackness in the form of pining for bogan white chicks over a shitty guitar riff.
Now you gotta ask yourself. WHAT THE FUCK are those clowns at NZoA funding this shit for ?...especially at the expense of 'homebrew' who couldn't get a grant.
Do the judging panel not have any idea of whos good or who's relevent in the hiphop world and deserving of some shine or do they just not know a shit song when they hear it and fund the label based on past track record ?
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Im keen, but i tend not to do comedies at the big screen, preferring to get blazed at home and watch them at leisure on DVD.
if i'm gonna spend 30 odd bucks at the movies there better be hot bodies, blood, carnage and some epic special effects.
incidentally what previous comedy did Boy just surpass to be more successful than ?
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More and more in Churtown i found the racism tended to be directed at Asians. I went to a x-mass do and was shocked to hear both maori and whitey going off on how the asians are ruining Christchurch by having to expand sewerage treatment into the ocean to cater for all their shit.
and i dunno bout lots of white workers doing the hard yards cos most of them out our way weren't, unless they vetted specific ethnicites for specific suburbs. Then again we were in Coon hay :)
i have seen the 'christchurch old boy' network in full effect shutting out competition for jobs in the entertainment industry though. Maybe cos their wasnt enough work for the specialist industry providers as is and it was always easier to hire in outside expertise and just farm out the minor stuff to local businesses.
What i found was, Christchurch suffered from a big fish in a little pond syndrome but not realising that really they were just small fish in a big pond.
in stereotyping, i 'd say its got a small town attitude hiding behind big city bluster with the high arts and culture thing being very much a joke.
a few of us thought we could make a difference in creating some infrastructure that would keep musical artists in churtown without having to go to aux or welli to promote themselves but gave up in the end...we were basically pissing in the wind.
i dont know that christchurch wll ever change much and maybe i don't want it too. I got soo many great memories of growing up surrounded by my extended Samoan family, knowing we had each others back and feeling safe, secure and insulated because of it.
Sad to see arts funding get cut for Pasifikan initiatives down there but then again most of it went to the usual suspects year after year. I dont think thats a specifically Pasifikan problem though.
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I'd happily settle for broadband and just 20 gig a month. TVNZ sux balls.
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Theres not much love lost between the Smith brothers.
I've worked for 2 of them constructing tower cranes and they were snarking and backstabbing, undercutting on anything to get one over on the other.
Imagine the childhood playing round the sandpit ? poor wee Nick in trying to be all diplomatic proabably would have just got poked in the eye for his troubles... hey maybe that explains
...oh never mind
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Drugs, funk and soul...yup thats what my older cousins brought me up on :)
Some of the stories they could tell of Christchurch in the 70's you'd barely think it was the same boring ass place it is now.
I caught the tail end of sneaking into clubs before the base shut down and even then the DJ's would always try and draw for the black servicemen in showing how down they were with the up front tunes.
Those smooth black bastards always got the pick of the nesian queens too leading to the inevitable odd but good natured fight :)
The end result for Christchurch music was that it translated into alot of rare groove floating about the second handshops and the later influence on DJ's producers like the Solaa guys. Even Boh Runga started out singin funky covers and then there's the parents of scribe and ladisix who passed on their love for the music and were kickin it in the same crowd as my older cousins.
They had some legendary parties to the bestest black music ever !!!Yup Christchurch was funk central more so i reckon than any other NZ city. Maybe the funk factor even influenced the creation of the jazz school there and flowed on its effects to the lot that came out of there like Redford from Shapeshifter and Oakley 'OG' Grenell in choosing not to follow their Dads country roots but opt for the funk. Or even the inherent soulfulness of Devin, also from Shapeshiter's Pacific Heights incarnation or Rhian Sheehans sublime noodlings.
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Never should have shut down the american base out at the airport. Just ask Ray Columbus where Churtown got its funkaliciousness from ?
All them black americans forcing the clubs to play funky shit back in the day....ahhhh yeah, now thats what i'm talkin about.
See the think about the funk is , you can't fake it. Christchurch used to be wayyyy cool when it was chocolate city.
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I think there is more interesting music consumed around the edge (maybe not in the centre so much anymore) in NZ than anywhere else
...and i'd venture to say, produced around the edge as well. If only NZoA recognized that beyond its narrow video/recording funding scope towards commercially viable stuff for radio.
The amount of extraordinary tunes and songs worthy of complementary visual artistic representation now consigned to just aural history at the expense of fly by night one hit popstar wannabes really shits me.