Posts by Ian Dalziel
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we fast forward through the toll booth scene.
ergo - the very child friendly The Phantom Tollbooth
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Hearst takes a Kaning...
Degrees of separation (in which I digress):
Citizen Kane writer Herman Mankiewicz also assisted with the screenplay adaptation of The Wizard of Oz . W R Hearst is an alumnus of the Harvard Lampoon and here is Hearst lampooned as the "Wizard of Ooze" in Harper's Weekly...
..spooky!Don't forget we have Hearst to thank for championing George Herriman's
kaleidoscopic Krazy Katre the cinematography of Citizen Kane
I think Peter Jackson is still using depth of field and scale tricks (in LOTR) pioneered by Welles...We have come a long way from the WELLYWOOD sign haven't we?
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Why all the lineout art? It's not even our strong point. Could we have a statue of stoic defence?
The scrum also rises...
...and noticed that the maquette rotates on a stand. I hope the finished work will do the same.
That's a roundabout way of saying
a Lazy Susan, right?
or was it a more streetwise invitation
to - "sit on it and rotate"?
... in the words of Jean-Luc Picard
"Maquette so!" -
gold meal
pure corn, from the wit fields...?
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...through a glass, darkly...
Although musical glasses today are regarded as a novelty act, they were played as serious music in the 18th and 19th centuries.
and in the 20th Century we had
the spectacle that was Goblet Mix!
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How is this any different from suggesting that a sharp saw is "better saw" than a blunt saw
But does this maxim have teeth?
...and some people do think that Robot Monster is the best movie ever made
- especially one about a Gorilla with a fishbowl
on its head...
as opposed to Peter Jackson's King Kong which is about a Gorilla thrust into the fishbowl of publicity...
while Citizen Kane is about that other publicity seeking monster Hearst... -
Reading for the Modern Masochist: Finnegans Wake!
look out for this forthcoming transport of delights
~ Finnegan's Bike by Steven Joyce... -
Zardoz in Chch...
Take, for example, the Canterbury Heroes...
please do take them...
...and what's worse, I believe the corporate-minded goons who now run the Arts Centre actually think that these "disembodied notables" fulfil their brief to provide "public art" to the community... -
Rising Damp...
To be fair, that could be more to do with where he lives than anything else.
In a leaking apartment in Thorndon according to him on The Panel on RNZ yesterday...
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Worse than a "straw man", it's a smiling ass ass in.
this could sort itself out nicely -
don't asses eat straw?
oh hang on...
I'll bale then...