Posts by Damian Christie
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Damian Christie heads to the Silver Scrolls and interviews the nominees for the presitigious songwriting award.
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David Slack talks to Michael Rubin, from the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research about the threat of Iran.
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Damian Christie talks to Sophie Dingeman, whose new play 'Grace' is based on a fascinating true story from her own family.
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Craig Ranapia lays down some New Rules
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Yep but matched equally by a journo(?) who uses their position to vent their spleen.
As a blogger, to be fair. Which I also use to talk about my cat dying and how to tell male from female sparrows. It's kinda a lucky dip ove here. I certainly never pulled the TVNZ card on anyone I spoke to, it shouldn't be necessary. And I reckon losing about $10k worth of my shite is a bit worse than not having slippers :)
But totally agree about people trying to puff themselves up in such situations. Having worked in bars I don't know how many times I've heard the "don't you know who I am line" uttered to doormen. Which always seems so utterly useless, because clearly, they don't.
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I haven't heard the phrase "danger to shipping" before, but I'm guessing it means I was tanked?
Can I just say, in my defence, that unlike the rest of you media and music elite, I didn't get to eat dinner last night - I merely got to watch you eat dinner from the cheap seats.
Which of course wasn't much fun, so I spent three hours at the Classic drinking and waiting for the after drinks.
In hindsight, I could've used that time to eat too, I suppose :)
It was a very fun night, even though the last thing I remember is trying to convince Jason from Opshop to steal the Silver Scroll Award from the Media Room. He kindly pointed out that they'd won it, and it probably wasn't a good idea in case it went missing. I think I then tried to convince someone else to do the same thing.
My nameless Classic-drinking colleague, also a dinner-watcher, left after throwing up in the town hall. So I reckon I did okay.
Standard apologies to anyone I insulted. It's not how we're drinking, it's the shit we say when we are.
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Lucky for you tho' you're in the media so someone will be assessing your complaint, delivered via PAS. The rest of us are never so lucky.
Yeah, I appreciate that fact, although I kinda justify it by saying to myself that I'm doing it for the little people ;) figuring that at least if I complain loudly something might get fixed that means someone else who isn't in the media mightn't get screwed over next time. And if it just so happens that Air NZ, I don't know, decide to renew my recently expired Koru membership and give me a bunch of airpoints so I can relax somewhere sunny where I don't need any luggage, then that's good too, for the um, little people.
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Damian Christie heads along to the NZ Music Awards finalist announcement and speaks to the winners of the three technical awards also presented, for Best Engineer, Best Producer, and Best Album Cover.
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Russell Brown & Damian Christie talk to brand strategist Brian Richards about his presentation to this week's 'Better By Design' conference, on why Green is the new Black.
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David Slack talks to actor Ian Hughes about his latest project, 'Ship Songs'.