Posts by Damian Christie
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Damian Christie heads to the media preview of the Phantom of the Opera, which started at Auckland's Civic theatre this week, and talks to the cast and crew.
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Russell Brown talks to Asia Downunder's Bharat Jamnadas about the Diwali Festival.
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"I hope he doesn't remember MY saying that… I wonder if I should apologise."
But I thought it was me what said it? Is you saying it ain't?
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Drink is so nice, but it makes me want to smoke cigarettes
Yeah, I gave up smoking (mostly 'social') at the same time I gave up the booze. It was simple without the liquor. So simple I didn't even bother mentioning it in the blog above.
(Also, keen readers will remember me banging on about giving up smoking a while back, so it didn't seem much to brag about, giving up again again again)
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I'm a friendly drunk, I rarely offend people
See, I don't get angry when I drink - and I know plenty of people who do - I just get more offensive than my fairly offensive sober self. If I turned into one of those angry, nasty, argumentative, or God forbid Violent types, I'd give it up totally. No question.
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I find I don't lose a huge amount of weight when I'm off the booze, as I suddenly get really, really massive sugar cravings in the evenings.
Has everyone else found this too? Late night ice cream or chocolate cravings? I've definitely noticed it.
I think however a single magnum or chocky bar every other day is probably still preferable to three or four dozen beers over a weekend...
Annoyingly, as I'm a freelancer, this year I've been able to write off most of my drinking - the more I drink, the less tax I pay. So I haven't really noticed the fiscal benefits. But it does leave me feeling less guilty when I go on record or clothes buying binges...
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The word I had from someone in the Green Room was that Hooton was wound up even before Peters arrived, saying "when is that little &%$# going to turn up" or words to that effect. The same someone said it seemed like he was "on something", but I'm sure that wasn't the case, he was just clearly agitated or excited about the upcoming spat - interesting observation though.
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Damian Christie takes his microphone along to the NZ Music Awards interviewing various winners and passersby, including Michael Franti, as well as members of Shihad, Shapeshifter and Straitjacket Fits.
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David Slack talks to Julian McCarthy about his fly-on-the-wall documentary following the fortunes of various young hip bands from the North Shore suburb of Devonport - 'Guitars from the Leafy Suburbs".
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Damian Christie talks to choreograher Michael Parmenter about TENT, his first full-length production since 'Jerusalem', and just-announced PhD scholarship to La Sorbonne...