Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Still I think of reaching for a stiff Vodka Martini, shaken, not stirred...
does this mean we're Bonding?
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who's got rapier-like wit?
I think Rich meant Tapir-like wit ;-)
as folk are always poking their noses in
and are not averse to probing prose -
wax lyricists
Ew!that triggers this: has anyone else been totally put off Fresh Up© by their new "Thirst is Creepy" ad on the telly...
shudder...
I'm guessing it's the same creatives who do the impenetrable 33 and a third beer ads
I miss the connection they are trying to make
probably I'm too old!
oh to be a fly on the wall at the pitch session... -
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Belle epoch marked... rum spot, rum...
threading a cross-stitchup - have we moved from Beaver to Beauvoir?Saved by the Belle.
in a Bell Jar? on the Plath less taken...
For whom the Belle tolls.
Roaming roads from the Appian way to the Hemingway? a kind of Donne Quixotic quest
You can ring my....
well yes, a ding dong disco-concerting clanger...
:- )Wish I had de nerve to link in Belle de jour as well...
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Conjures the intriguing image of a museum of puke.
an ad museum even...
just thought I'd throw that up in there :- )But for the full enlightening Jean Paul Sartre Experience, flex thyself and add Nausea
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Heady spirits indeed...
Oh yes, all very hilarious until one of us winds up possessed by the spirit of Ayn Rand, Margaret Thatcher or Marie Antoinette....
...I cant for the life of me figure out what you think those 3 women have in common.I know, I know, ask me...
Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
(the architect of objectivism & book of the private I)
Margaret Thatcher - Head of State
(here come the War jets and the surge to privatise)
Marie Antoinette - another Fountain Head!
(from head of state to head-off state
- the guillotine...)too loose?
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Heh, yes the wailing can be deafening.
...not to mention the blubbering!
World's Largest Beaver Dam found in Canada
That is a dam good story!
and no Resource Consents I'll bet...
Clever Rhodents and their Gnaw Willed Order...Spookily, Beaver originates from the Dutch Bever and German Biber (from Indo-Euro root meaning Brown) - and Justin does have those big, strong,
white teeth......OMG!
I see it all now, it all fits together..
Justin... Beaver... Timber... Lake...
Idle youth... idols... idylls......drinking at the dam...
rho rho rho yer boot...I expect the Dalzielian muse could
make something of "err-rhotic"
but I'm not up to the task...oooh, I love the taste of gauntlet in the
crepuscular zone (er, evening)...not so much ear-rhotic
as Rs about aphasia...we can be hear-rhos
Justin one day...**with apologies to David Boooie
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that would be the Chris Matthews who said in 2009:
Um, gosh.
thinking about it further, and to be fair, Chris is only mentioning NZoA in his comment to Vicki, and his funding for RMO project may have come from Creative New Zealand, so I may be comparing
chalk and cheese...
Though, as you point out, ultimately both sources are funded by The Ministry for Culture and Heritage for the National good...Would Dave Dobbyn's career have been more successful if he had government funding in the late 70's, early 80's?
This is where String Theory multiverses would be useful, how to compare and contrast:
the dying decades of the analogue era and its social paradigm - pubs (booze barns) closing at 11, Telly (2 channels) closing soon after, hell, phones may have still had dials, some radio alternatives, cards were the digital diversion...
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the often stressful 24/7, instant gratification, fully digitally interfaced high-tech low-budget DIY lifestyle of today...NZOA is highly accountable for its success or otherwise in funding local broadcast content that is seen and heard by New Zealanders. That's what it does. If it funds content that isn't broadcast, that's a bad outcome.
In terms of what gets funded for broadcast, yeah. Clones of their existing formats are what commercial radio programmers want and will play.
I think we are better served by National Radio for local (and obscure) "played" content... and what is the measure of success?
Are commercial radio programmers driven by actual record/download sales still?
or is success just being heard - perhaps the audience needs to be more vocal and let the funders know we heard and enjoyedWonder if they could find a spot for the Kiwi Hit Disc to be played on National Radio each month (an easy alliance between the 2 govt departments RNZ and NZoA/Min Heritage and Culture, you'd think) and a way for the proles (er, us) to keep an eye on what's being done by us (by proxy), for us and, even better, with a facility for feedback...
Yeah, all that stuff -- although, again, you're getting a long way away from anything in the Broadcasting Act.
true, sorry, more something for The Ministry for Culture and Heritage to mop up...
the depot sounds great, and as Chris says aboveWhy continue giving this money away to the few when it could provide practise rooms, recording spaces, film gear to the many, under the management of councils?
it's the old "give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach him to fish and he can get his own fish for life" ethos, why do we keep reinventing the wheel when communal or cooperative ventures give more people access to tools...
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Seeing as how there was really no "free-for-all-friday" blog I'll slip these in here - especially as they (kinda) relate to what Phillip was saying and because they are so quintessentially British...
enjoy:
Ms Bennett and her horsey...
immortalised:
the need for stable government
Farmer Brown and friends:
ps : don't forget the Monty Python Documentary
on Prime tonight after Doctor Who