Although you'll need to view the original post to see those videos at their full span.

I put together this whole list of music, media and memories — and the first comment is about the kitteh video I stuck in at the last moment.

Ah, the internet.

This might add to your Christchurch music nostalgia – 80s band posters on the Christchurch City Libraries website, including quite a few from the Newtones.

Massive nostalgia rush. We still have some of those posters somewhere ...

(In case you were wondering where the car chase was from.)

I put together this whole list of music, media and memories — and the first comment is about the kitteh video I stuck in at the last moment.

Ah, the internet.

But Russell, I looooves cats!

but perhaps the best of them ? and it comes with the Danielle seal of approval ? is the Le Castle Vania remix

Oh man, I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE it. I could not love its big phat-bassed dancey Prince-synthy disco-stringy E'd-up ass more. I owe you! (Again.)

If anyone needs me, I?

But Russell, I looooves cats!

Cats are ambivalent about you.

Moved up from the BBS world to an Actrix unix account in?

Tony also played music ? most notably in the Newtones, with my old schoolmate Mark Brooks, formerly of the Vauxhalls.

Mark has a comment on the thread now which, like others, is full of happy but misty memories of Tony. a man who, for want of a better phrase, changed?

but dammit, beats & cats are an awesome combo ;)

The band also got the thumbs-up from The Guardian this week, although the story's claim that 'Young Blood' "recently became the first song by a Kiwi band to reach No 1 in their home country for 20 years" is hilariously wrong

That's inexcusably wrong. Where on earth would they have?

Matthew: it's the Guardian, "inexcusably wrong" is their USP...

I can just listen to this song on repeat instead;?

...and hey any other Telstra customers out there?

Yes, got my monthly phone/internet bill yesterday. Despite assuring me last month that there'd be no moving fee for those forced from their home by the Christchurch earthquake, I've been hit with a $60 charge. After 3+ years of regularly paying my?

that really sucks.

That does suck. I think its their customer service which lets them down. In terms of what they actually provide I think they are way ahead of any other options in Wellington. I tend to get a bit flustered when dealing with them over the phone, actually?

Yes, got my monthly phone/internet bill yesterday. Despite assuring me last month that there'd be no moving fee for those forced from their home by the Christchurch earthquake, I've been hit with a $60 charge. After 3+ years of regularly paying my bills, that really sucks.

Might be worth calling?

Cats are ambivalent about you.

Of course – that's why I love them!

Thanks for that, Samuel. One of the things that really interests me is that having previously disparaged much contemporary music

I am with you on this, Jackie. There is a (hipster?) tendency to celebrate the obscure and new over the old, which often leads to an exclusion of the past.?

Might be worth calling and escalating (or even making a media fuss). Taking Advantage Of Innocent Earthquake Victims is pretty bad publicity for any company, and it's not like telecomms companies usually need any more bad publicity.

Most of Telstraclear's customer service involves dealing with someone in the Philippines. Despite?

Just so weird that they have never rolled out their cable network in Auckland.

Um, because Saturn overreached themselves and went belly-up before they got around to it? Having endured Telstra's blatant price-gouging of their largely captive Australian market in the years when Optus was on the ropes, I'm very?

Then we talk about how music today is a recycling of the past--not to damn it, but to recognise that popular culture is not about invention, but re-invention.

Illustrated by this brief Nina Paley clip of dancing statuary – can't embed here.

And regarding Holy Fuck, can anyone tell me what all the junk on the table is that they are playing?

...and hey any other Telstra customers out there? They just upped my internet speed to 15mbs and my allowance from 10 to 20 gig without changing the charge. boom.

I'm with Telstra too – great infrastructure, shame about the helpdesk. Not that I've had to call their helpdesk much to?

As you say, great infrastructure, and their relative underdog position here means they generally deliver better than Sphincterlogo.

I always liked Keith Ng's coinages regarding our major telecoms players – Telescum and Testicular.

the hiphop... crap

The tiny Boy George in me asks Jackie plaintively: do you really want to hurt me? Do you really want to make me cry?

Do I get hurt and offended when people slag off Simply Red,....No.

That is lucky as that band gets a pretty tough time from music snobs such as myself (for which I apologise, I can't help it!). Simon Sweetman likes them though....

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mwahahahahaha, nice one Joe

where's the 'like' button?? :)

Simply Red and bands like them seem only to appeal,?

I have to say that I like this one better.

A victory for common sense! ;)

I hope you also like the original version of 'If You Don't Know Me By Now'. It's so beautiful – such sad and desperate vocals. Hucknall has good taste in covers, I'll give him?

No reason to recommend it except to say its got dogs, you know... to balance out the kittehs.

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

I'd heard that techno-meister Derrick May was a bit up himself too. Then he pulled off one of the most masterful gigs I've ever experienced and I thought "fair enough".

I've spent a fair amount of time with Derrick and, yep, he can be a handful, but mostly it's a?

Some unbelievable stories

Your book/doco...

Everyone else around me seems to have great disdain for his music

I'm not a fan, but I really appreciate the fairly large cheques he's put in the pockets of people who I am a fan of. His taste is often impeccable.

The only DJ I've ever dealt with who was a complete dork

On the Zoo TV tour?

the first song by a Kiwi band to reach No 1 in their home country for 20 years

Out of interest, how does that chart stuff work nowadays? I remember the system from the UK when I was a kid, when basically it was the record company that could shift?

The only DJ I've ever dealt with who was a complete dork

He played for free at Burning Man – I'll give anyone respect for doing that.

Out of interest, how does that chart stuff work nowadays?

I would be interested to know too. Like other measurements of media (TV ratings; radio ratings; magazine readership etc), I suspect there is more than a pinch of truthiness or wishful thinking to their claims. Apparently music charts now include?

The Top 40 Album Chart is based on retail sales both physical and digital from music retailers throughout the country.

The Top 40 Singles Chart is compiled based on both physical and digital singles sales from music retailers throughout the country.

The chart not only features?

This Sunday marks the fifth anniversary of the premiere episode of "The Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert's endlessly entertaining sendup of political pundit programs. On that episode, Colbert introduced the word "truthiness," which has proved so popular that it has entered the latest edition of the New?

On the Zoo TV tour?

Twice. On the Zoo TV tour I had him on my radio show and he simply refused to talk and offered up a copy of his remix of U2's Lemon for me to play. I had, over the years, dozens of DJs on the show?

Truthiness, 5 years on.

Not that we get to mark the anniversary on New Zealand television or anything. GRAR.

He played for free at Burning Man – I'll give anyone respect for doing that.

Well it's not like you can charge a cover – for those who don't know Burning Man has a strong non-commercial ethic, there are no concessions – even barter is looked down upon – giving?

And sad, saying goodbye.

Indeed