Would be fabulous but...

"The song was inspired by an episode in which Iggy Pop, during a drug-fuelled period at Bowie?s LA home, hallucinated and believed that the television set was swallowing his girlfriend." via wikipedia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DbIou2I5XI

where should I take my mum for lunch in Wellington tomorrow? I'm thinking: special without being overbearingly flash.

I'll be taking my Dad to Sweet Mother's Kitchen for lunch tomorrow for those reasons. He also wants me to take him to Watusi (he found their MySpace page, bless him), so?

If David Bowie comes to the BDO there's going to be one pretty damn pregnant person at it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAerMCzc9os

Noisy Friday!

But while I have your hardy attention: where should I take my mum for lunch in Wellington tomorrow? I'm thinking: special without being overbearingly flash.

My go to Mum restaurant is Floriditas.

I'll be taking my Dad to Sweet Mother's Kitchen for lunch tomorrow for those reasons.

Please have some curly fries on my behalf.

Also:

My darling and I take off?

Also +1 Floriditas – nice crockery too.

(Oh my lord, the train and car songs. I think if you started doing all kinds of transport technology you'd be here for?

http://www.thepeptides.com/pg_musik.php?demo=5

YouTube

("Embedding disabled by request"... Thanks, Sony)

Will he be singing the Concords' ?Bowie'?

That would be quite an incentive to get along.

And Nikau cafe in the city gallery has apparently just reopened.

If you can ever get in. I thought the service at Floriditas was marvellous and it wasn't that noisy for me. Maranui (sob) was crazy bustling loud, moreso that L'Affare which seemed a bit busy and dark for a?

I think we can assume Lily Allen will not be performing. Well, not musically anyway.

From the article: "I finish up my dates in March..." BDO is in January, so an on-stage appearance from Lily is entirely on the cards even with her announced departure from music.

another +1 for floriditas. Or, slightly less flash but also awesome, and my regular brunch haunt, Roxy (which is opposite logan brown).

I'm clearly going to have to check out Floriditas. Roxy is pretty good.If you go to Scopa, try the hot chocolate.

Or maybe metropole.

Yoshimi Battles the Pink robots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aPLC8-ylhI

The new awesomeness in Wellington has to be Meow on Willis St – but probably not so Mum-friendly, and gets a bit?

I finish up my dates in March

Ooops. Thanks Matthew.

Shurely they didn't forget Mi Sex?

Some shady 'related videos' on this one.

And, not trying to rain on anyone's parade, but I think this year's WOW is a little bit weaker than in the past. Personally, I never really got in to the costumes,?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b3VzcK2xqM

Does your Mum like Bailter Space?

That's a ridiculous question, quite frankly.

:-)

I fully expected John Key to announce the opening of NewZealandTown at the end, it was that bad.

I was just saying, I didn't think it was as bad as it could have been. But I was expecting something *monumentally terrible* as opposed to just sort of 'awww, douchebag'.

ETA?

If you go to Scopa, try the hot chocolate.

someone in there told me to, so i did, it was freakin awesome.

Speaking on hot choc, in case there's anyone in akl who hasn't tried it, make sure you check out the choc boutique in parnell road. You melt choc?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtdWHFwmd2o

No-one's mentioned Fidel's yet? I haven't been for a while, but it used to be worth it just for the hash browns. Floriditas is also good, but I'm afraid I can't recommend Duke Carvells.

I?

I was just saying, I didn't think it was as bad as it could have been

i didn't think it was too bad. gooberish, yes.

but could you imagine someone really dignified doing that ...? like, ooh, i don't know, helen clark?

No-one's mentioned Fidel's yet?

Last time I was back in WN Fidels was a disappointment. Maybe it's just my rose-tinted nostalgia, but when I used to go there in my school lunchtime the coffee was consistently amongst the best around... now, not so much. I think Havana beans are still?

i didn't think it was too bad. gooberish, yes

I thought in his non-scripted bits he sounded a little bit like he was begging/desperate to have tourists to come over. Anyone else get this vibe?

Whatever you do, wherever you decide to go in Wellington, bring a coat. Brrr-loody cold!

Wellington is actually quite a good town to live in. If you own a good reasonably warm windproof coat. Then you're fine.

I'd rather Key had declined to be honest :)

Wellington is actually quite a good town to live in

I know, I live here. I'm just saying that it's cold today.

I thought in his non-scripted bits he sounded a little bit like he was begging/desperate to have tourists to come over

Don't they call this "keeping on message"?

I really despise Letterman. It's just not a funny show. Not even close.

I hear from reliable sources that his old show on NBC was very funny. And at least he's not Leno, who is a reliable Sucker of Funny from any room. Blah.

I wish we got Conan. I?

Re food in Wellington – Roxy up Cuba St (where the old Purple Onion was) does an awwwesome brunch. The coffee is also most respectable.

No longer a fan of Fidels. I've?

Don't they call this "keeping on message" in politics?

i get the continuous mentioning of it and the point of it, it was the vibe of his delivery, made us sound sort of a bit pathetic?

Just saying a bit of polish and it could have been much better.

I'd rather Key had declined to be honest

He's a politician. Declining to be honest goes with the territory.
Oh, you meant... Right ;)

Sorry, comma pedant needed to be exercised. Maybe that should be exorcised?

songs about technology

How about anything by:

Die Krupps
Einstürzende Neubauten
Laibach
Throbbing Gristle
Genesis P-Orridge
Coil
Foetus
Killing Joke
Swans
Big Black

They're all from the 'Industrial' genre, y'see.

I'll get me coat.

Apart from Muse of course.

Apart from Muse of course.

Yeah, nah. I don't get them at all.

High Contrast party with Kanye

Hot Club Sandwich's glorious 'Poddy Understands Me':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBDS8Mzsw0k
and it's Kiwi!

No-one's mentioned Fidel's yet?

Fidel's is for students and visitors from Auckland.

Ok, Friday YewChoobage funz. The Washington Post are doing dramatic readings of celebrity tweets.

Episode 1 – P. Diddy, Lindsay Lohan and Brooke Hogan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1mKb0txaE8

Episode 2 – Tila Tequila, Courtney Love and Jessica Simpson:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f96TuvxuBRY

11.34am: Of all the people to post first, Trevor Mallard on Red Alert

11.50am approx: Stuff (their timestamp appears to be the story before?

I hear from reliable sources that his old show on NBC was very funny. And at least he's not Leno, who is a reliable Sucker of Funny from any room. Blah.

If I was in the audience, I think I'd have to be physically restrained from strangling Paul Schaffer. The?

"Scientists for Better PCR" a Bsio-Rad Music Video for the all new 1000-Series Thermal Cyclers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5yPkxCLads

11.34am: Of all the people to post first, Trevor Mallard on Red Alert

11.50am approx: Stuff (their timestamp appears to be the story before the video went up)

The video on Stuff was up earlier than 11.50. I got an email from a workmate at 11.31 linking to it, so?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xgaVbOjwUE

If it was a sunny Sunday I would recommend the Southern Cross

Wearable Arts?

Keeping on the German theme

Pocket calculator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eI3gCWL-sY

Robots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeXTZOSWIUU

trans europe express (marginal but I like it)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlgbAc3bbM

(Bonus points for an excellent Beatles steal on the bridge.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB4R6oMkrsw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lceOrRb2zn8

Or _Still Alive_?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI

And since the topic is Bowie, I have to suggest Space Oddity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67kmFzSh_o&feature=fvw

David Bowie at BDO? Yes please please please please please please!

It may happen but it would surprise a lot of people as he's been technically retired for about 4 years due to his ongoing health issues, apart from the odd guest appearance on record and screen. Last album was?

Restaurants with pre-WoW dinner specials

If I was in the audience, I think I'd have to be physically restrained from strangling Paul Schaffer. The interplay they have where he keeps talking behind the host? Turns me green and makes me start ripping my shirt off.

I've always viewed Schaffer as Letterman's trained monkey, and yes?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfyP1dZlrDk&feature=related

He looks less than stellar here

I?ll be happy if I look like that at his age.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8utgYJw_Es

No one willing to go OT and mention Sue Bradford's resignation and implications for the removal of the steel in the backbone of the Opposition?

I can't bear to talk about that. My anger at New Zealand (not towards Sue, a personal hero) is pretty immense. The bile on one?

Daft Punk, Robot Rock.

I?ll be happy if I look like that at his age.

yeah, but he's never, in some 40 odd years, looked puffy. The shots that did the rounds after that première fuelled quite some speculation at the time that he was on medication for what has been an ongoing problem?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr0KkzbbqPI

Yeah, but he's never, in some 40 odd years, looked puffy.

On the two occasions I saw him perform, he looked like a fucker who wouldn't come out for encores.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fbiO5N_NNc

On the two occasions I saw him perform, he looked like a fucker who wouldn't come out for encores.

Really? When and where?

Really? When and where?

The glass spider tour and the one after that. Milan stadium the first time and I'd say a smaller venue (Palatrussardi) the one after. On both occasions he made us wait for it too – our cheering was probably not grovelling enough in the end.

On the two occasions I saw him perform, he looked like a fucker who wouldn't come out for encores.

78 at Western Springs he did a mean Stay & Hang on to Yourself as encores if memory is correct. Mind you, the state I, and pretty much anyone else I knew,?

I know?

78 at Western Springs . . .

Along with the weather, Bowie's manner that night lent a special warmth to a great show. The lowered lighting and sound-tower speaker-jumping during the intro to Station to Station confounded the sense of scale, setting up a kind of intimacy that lasted through?

sound-tower speaker-jumping during the intro to Station to Station

I love that song *so much*, like a crazy embarrassing gushy amount, so if I expressed truthfully how much I loved it you would probably back away from me nodding and smiling and hoping I didn't go for your jugular. I?

I love that song *so much*, like a crazy embarrassing gushy amount . . .

Know what you mean. Best experienced in the dark, in case one happens to dribble.

Unfortunately I was three for most of 1978, so my concert-going was fairly limited...

Thanks for reminding me that there's?

I expressed truthfully how much I loved it you would probably back away from me nodding and smiling and hoping I didn't go for your jugular.

Or possibly embrace you like a sister? He did perform STS at some dates on the Reality tour so I had hopes but we?

Or possibly embrace you like a sister?

:) Hell, I'll just indulgently quote my own blog post from 2004: 'Obviously this is the kind of dorky thing you freak out about while wearing headphones, but six minutes and ten seconds into 'Station to Station', after the first 'it's not the?

My God it just wasn't funny. And with Key grinning like a buffoon it was embarrassing and painful.

And could someone please stuff a microphone down the throat of that annoying twat Shaffer.

The lowered lighting and sound-tower speaker-jumping during the intro to Station to Station confounded the sense of scale

Yeah it seemed to go on forever..that wonderful intro, then, as he came on the sun set behind him and those neon strips behind him lit up. Ohhhh....

At least I think?

When is someone going to invent that concert-going time machine I've always wanted, dammit? I have such plans!

The next best thing:

(Tokyo, '78)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEWgIzm7F2U

Am I late to suggest Maria Pia's? It really is quite fabulous

As good as in Milan? By the way are you there yet and did you get held up by the red dust over Oz?

Phwew--Waikato just scrapped home against Taranaki (14-14)

As good as in Milan? By the way are you there yet and did you get held up by the red dust over Oz?

Maria Pia's is a fabulous restaurant, and yes it would more than hold its own over here as well, in the mould of the Ambasciatori in?

I've always like where it goes

Once there were mountains on mountains
And once there were sunbirds to soar with
And once I could never be down
Got to keep searching and searching
Oh, what will I be?

I fully expected John Key to announce the opening of NewZealandTown at the end, it was that bad. Four was funny though.

jeebus... we're talking about fraking Letterman — where the only qualification for joining the writing staff is being about as funny as a battery acid douche. Anyone who?

Yes, it was the Sound+Vision tour btw.

There's a quote somewhere where he says he basically got through that tour by counting the days until he never had to sing Space Oddity ever again.

The next best thing

Nice to have one's great memories confirmed. Brill, ta...

jeebus... we're talking about fraking Letterman

Yep, I'm with Craig. He came across as a complete knob, but it was only Letterman

We are the syncronizers
Send messages through time code
Midi clock rings in my mind
Machines gave me some freedom
Synthesizers gave me some wings
They drop me through twelve bit samplers
We are electronic performers
We are electronics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwspgqXoFZc

...as funny as a battery acid douche. Anyone who comes out of that black hole with a micron of dignity is a big ball of win in my book.

I also concur. Not sure whose idea it was to do the show, but what did they really expect? Key's personality?

Order of stories: Sue Bradford resigns from the Green?

seems to be fizzling out

To be fair, most fans of such music are probably occupied listening to it right now. Or old and asleep.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU0IeXsadRw

I Want to be a Machine

Good stuff, and, coincidentally (or maybe not), rather Space Oddity-esque.

The Nerves, Hanging On The Telephone (L.A., '76)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emy5mA8Ixtc

Maria Pia's is a fabulous restaurant

Agreed. Maria Pia's gets my vote for one of the best restaurants in Wellington. If only I could afford to go more often!

girl, i slip into your bedroom
the light from your mac cuts through the gloom, like moonlight
it's so f***ing grim out there, let's hibernate

or feel like catching a bus or train

Not an Aucklander, then. :)

That was brilliant. A very young Peter Case in that band.

Of course if we're talking machines then pretty much all of Neil's Trans was about the human interface with machines.

Transfomer man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eblFQppJfyg&feature=PlayList&p=973209A37BB48B5F&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=50

Am I late to suggest Maria Pia's? It really is quite fabulous. Although I have yet to try Sweet Mama's Kitchen and it's probably better located.

I beat you to it by several hours. It's one of my favourites, and completely different to Sweet Mama's, which is good fun for?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N1lRV_zO3A

Marilyn Mansons' dad and also not very good...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19QszJ08DnU

Radiohead – Airbag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo3ZnHJ0KTQ&fmt=18

I love Transformer Man, good pick. A song about technology and embracing technology at the same time. Possibly in my top 5 Neil Young songs (and I'm not being sarcastic, people who don't allow themselves to dig Trans are missing out!).

Exactly. Trans was Neil's response to the personal tragedy?

We went to Floridita's, but it was way too noisy and crowded, and it turned out Mum had never been to the Matterhorn (at least not in it modern guise), so we back down Cuba St and went there. That worked very well.

(Also:?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lceOrRb2zn8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flVEoNuEYgE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yan77UKYcg4

That was brilliant. A very young Peter Case in that band.

Tony,
Here's my favourite Peter Case moment; a blistering slice of power pop.

The Plimsouls – A Million Miles Away [Live At The Whisky A Go Go, 1981]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkAHbZlwviU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL9-esIM2CY

Here's my favourite Peter Case moment; a blistering slice of power pop.
The Plimsouls – A Million Miles Away [Live At The Whisky A Go Go, 1981]

3410-If we're talking Power Pop I'll see your Plimsouls and raise you some Let's Active

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4U63B92_iY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Mm6ycEz2A8

http://torrentfreak.com/lily-allen-pirates-music-is-clueless-about-copyright-090923/

Let's Active

Cool. I've got to check out the Sneakers sometime.

To this day I have wonderful feet! And no susceptability for?

Playing littlies rugby on frosted grounds was kind of memorable too.

Discouraged a kicking game, for sure.

Here in Dundee it was 13C

Heh – Peter, I grew up in CHCH and Oamaru/Moeraki/Dunedin.

Actually, I grew up largely in the South Island. If you forgot your PE gear at school, they'd still make you run on the frozen grass.

Peter, Islander, Rustle... I have to pull rank?

*I had an uncle who lived in Alberta for 35 years of his working life.
He explained about car-engine heaters. He took me to Lake Louise in dead winter.
*I began to understand meateaters(I knew about fat-relishers.) And people deeply in love with?

Ooo fuck Dyan – you emphatically win!

Heh, well to be honest I grew up on the west coast which is the "banana belt" of Canada. The temperatures are pretty mild. But can rain for 40 days, 50 days at a time during the winter. It's awful.

I had an?

"The Later Collected Robert Service" was the first book my uncle sent me from Canada!(You bet I still have it.) Hey, they're ballads and they're OK!
And one of my Big O neighbours – since escaped to parts even further south- had this as his party piece! I kid you?

People do bounce back from heart attacks.

His occured during the A Reality Tour about four of five months after he left New Zealand. The remaining legs of the tour was cancelled

By all accounts C J MacDonald is a great guy. And being compared to Castro by Bill O'Reilly has to be a ringing endorsement.

Canada is blessed with true balladeers (may I suggest that Gordon Lightfoot & Leonard Cohen truly are?) Oz has them – 'Banjo" Patterson
and John Williams.?

interesting comments from Bowie looking back at himself.

He does look very thin in some parts ......

Muse to headline, Mars Volta, Calvin Harris, Dizzee Rascal, Lilly Allen ...

So I was right about most of the others.

Muse don't work for me ...

Interesting comment from Aussie BDO spokesperson yesterday:

"That's not the official line-up," said event spokesperson Patti Revson. "We'll be releasing the official line-up tomorrow.

"It is good to see that talk?

(self-interest as camping holiday may coincide)

But do we have a confirmed date yet for Auckland BDO?

January 15.

"It is good to see that talk is talk is being generated already particularly with David Bowie I mean, wouldn't we all love it if Bowie did come."

Translation:
We've been plugging that Bowie story like mad on all the boardz, and it's working!

Muse don't work for me ...

Hum... the only thing of theirs I've heard is the tune used in the Watchmen trailers, and even then I thought "I really hope Philip Glass sues". :)