Posts by Geoff Lealand
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Hard News: Friday Music: Summer Live, in reply to Richard Stewart,
Don't know anything about Pretty Lights but, like Richard, I have my ticket for The Pretty Things. Partly in the interest of historical symmetry, having been at their infamous New Plymouth concert some time last century.
But Elvis Costello in a vineyard? Just doesn't seem right.
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Hard News: This is your public broadcasting, in reply to Sacha,
I realise that Maori Television has been argued for as a proxy PSB but, like the SBS, it has a a more specific cultural brief than a PSB which is funded to provide broad and diverse audiences.
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There are some interesting programmes around at present–including good ol’ Shortland Street, which has been dealing with storylines about sexual assault and trauma in a brave way.
But I recently contributed to a gathering of Australian media academics in Wollongong and had to declare, a little shamefaced, that were don’t really have anything you could describe as public service television in New Zealand anymore. It was made even crueler by seeing the interesting thing SBS and the ABC were doing in respect of Australian content.
I avoided all the gushing over The Hobbit yesterday and feel all the better for it. -
Hmm, Nico. I have a version of her doing Bowie's Heroes and it is comical and really, really bad.
But I did catch a late Sunday night concert with Jack Black and an all-female backing band last night. It was great. It was on MTV, where good things can occasionally be found.
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Not So Great Music News: Marbecks in Queens Arcade, arguable the best music store in Auckland, will be closing in early 2013.
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David; Drove through Dunsandel twice today and thought of you. A trip to Timaru, to record the memories of Shirley Piddington about her role in the Christchurch and Auckland Shirley Temple 'double' competitions in 1935. A great old lady. Visiting Betty,who won the Christchurch competition , tomorrow,
Nary a mention of nailguns!
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
The top photo is club moss ; the second, blechnum (hard fern)?
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Now that we have joined the deck-owning fraternity, I would be happy to host a PAS picnic this summer--if folk are willing to travel to picturesque Hamilton East. Late January, perhaps?
Hmm--not so much a 'rich' lecturer but well-paid for what I do....
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And PAS folk have such a huge range of interests--just witness the Capture conversation about spring and things,
I second Jackie's sentiments. . I certainly encounter more enlightened and interesting conversations here than in the academic circles I move in,
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If there were a way of making regular contributions (say, $20 or 30 each month), I would like that--better than paying the rates or the gas bill.
Any thoughts of a picnic or such this summer, where we could raise an actual glass of some beverage in honour of this anniversary?