Posts by Ian Dalziel
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From Ray Davies to Roman Polanski in one bound...
And what's wrong with a cul de sac? Eh? Oh, hang on. I just live in a dead end street. As you were. I was getting above myself.
Ray:
Roman:
Poles apart? There does seem to be a correlation between death in one and gunplay in the other...
as I recall the dark comedy Cul de Sac was always shown in a double feature with the still scary Repulsion so ya got both Deneuve sisters - Françoise Dorléac (RIP) in Cul de Sac and Catherine Deneuve in Repulsion
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Rhode Sines
Dislodged Masonry Ahead -
Going, Going, Gong! and other Frippery...
Sheesh, ya step out for a few minutes star gazing...I guess I'm just becoming a...
(that's a mere taste...)
This is the real thing...
a delicacy in some circles - and let's not forget Hawkwind and Deep Fix and yes I'll own up to having owned Holy Magick by Graham Bond (NO not the Australian one! - but the one who should've stayed out of Tube stations at midnight...) with songs (or possibly invocations!) in yer actual Atlantean !!
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A-Lister Crawley
999 - the Inverted Beats_ -
Astronomical Legacy...
I see both the Matariki Festival and Te Papa have "mythed" out on getting any Subaru sponsorship...I'd have thought it a given as it is an integral part of the continuum: down from the Greek Pleiades, to that "sophisticated tool for orientation" the Japanese Subaru
(even if they have lost a daughter somewhere in the logo!) and on to the Maori Matariki...Maybe next year...?
Stars in their Eyes - well tonight Simon I'm going to be...
Awe Struck!yrs
Drew Id
& Miss L Toe
Sickle riding fools -
Wham! Bam! - Whimsy will kill ya...
Vivian Stanshall RIP
21 March 1943 – 5 March 1995
(do have a field day in the Bonzos'
other tracks on YouTube)and Reggae gives ya cancer...
... but what can a poor boy to do?
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Amon Doole
Vertigo Rekkids fan club -
Marketing by osmosis...?
One wonders if part of the lack of ticket sales for the less than inspiring All BLacks ©®TM / Italy "match" could be a lack of advertising - no posters, no specific ads in the Press that I could see - an ad for brand All BLacks ©®TM in last week's Press that mentioned in 14pt type near the bottom an upcoming Italy game and a website - not exactly an exhortation to arms - and the usual cyber-elitism...*This was the game the CRFU and NZRFU needed to throw to the masses - cheap seats or even some free ones to create some enthusiasm and good will amongst the fans...
AMI Stadium is viewed by the locals as having everything to do with money and nothing to do with friends
- time to get real.yrs
Matty "I'll drink you sur la table" Bastard
...Now where did we bury the zodiacs?*PS: No ad in today's paper either - maybe they blew it all on Telly ads - which I don't watch very often...
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We are dominated by Journalism...
Fourth Estate? i watched it religiously. before that he had a shorter programme of a similar format, the first media criticism programme NZBC had on TV, i think. can't remember the name, though.
That earlier programme was called News Stand
and it may have even sprung from a smaller spot on The South Tonight or similar (though my memory is hazy there,, maybe it was just on after that...) when Priestley was also Head of the Department of Journalism at the Uni of Canterbury.From whence will rise the Fifth Estate ?
and what power shall it wield...yrs Eddie "Whiggy" Burke
The Gall of the GalleryPS: Meanwhile, as the Michael Jackson cortege winds its way around the world's collective consciousness, the Israeli Army amasses troops and military hardware along the Lebanese border... and Obama continues, and strengthens, the outrages of Empire... nothing to see here folks...
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one ... two... one two one two ... is this mike on?
it seems to me that a large part of the outpouring of loss is the lamenting our own loss of youth and innocence...
of which Michael Jackson seemed to be the universal avatar...
also he was the the soundtrack of our cultural imprinting
(and quite a few Rip It Up deadlines as I recall)the sound goes on forever...
yrs Billie Jean
Glove's labours lost
Final Fantasy... -
Farrah from the madding crowd...
You're just jealous because there are no Farrah Fawcett is dead jokes.
Sadly, Ms Fawcett is now part of life's rich tap history...
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Piper Paid
plumbing new depths... -
Big Wednesday...
Cowabunga - Surfs up! - Yes, the great surf movie from 1978 - that one made sense...
(what did happen to Jan-Michael Vincent anyway?)Serfs up! - the LOTTO version makes no sense to me, I watched the queues at the supermarket the other day - money is a drug!
Why couldn't the LOTTO powers-that-be either have made it 35 prizes of a million dollars each
or a pot of say $10 million for the big prize
and spread the rest proportionally over the lower prizes for a change - that would've given everyone a bigger bite of the apple - otherwise it's just robbery by manipulation... (naif that I am...)
and I would've thought the goodwill gesture would've been worth a 100 glitzy ads...maybe the theme song should be:
We gotta get out of this place....- Friday Juke Box starts here : )
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Eric & the Boys
Beats of Burdon -
A spectre is haunting Thorndon...
While I've never been 'gifted' with a Piggy dream, they weren't uncommon.
When living in Wellington in the early'80s, I had a flat in Hawkestone Street, a great old house that Muldoon and cronies had lived in while in opposition (in his Young Turk days - our kitchen was in the book!).
Even before he died (in '84) the house possessed a malevolent force that would sit on people's chests and lower ambient temperatures - just the one room mostly...
I'm sure he had imprinted on the place...
The hair on my arms still rises just thinking about it, and just has - shudder...
Russell will remember it, just, he picked me up from there to drive me to Auckland in the Rip It Up van...A coupla years back while staying in the hotel that is now opposite, I was waiting outside for a cab and spotted some people coming from the house, so I asked them if the place was still haunted. They said they didn't think so - but that night when I looked out the hotel room window, I saw them hurriedly moving stuff out of the property...
...Toad away perhaps?
Ashley W. Smith's famously vandalised 1981 portrait of Muldoon Man of Mite, portraying the Rob applying gobs of marmite to his slick hair, will be on display at the Little River Gallery, Banks Peninsula from this saturday for 2 weeks - that and his other twisted visions of Godzone are well worth a drive in the country.
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Remi Niscence
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be...