Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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Season two of the IT Crowd is currently screening in the UK, as those of us with friends in England will know.
The most recent episode started with this dead-on parody of that overly serious "Piracy is stealing!" ad that is inflicted upon us both at the movies and on DVDs.
May this whet your appetite for the series screening in Aotearoa. It's even better than the first, my friends in England tell me.
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and as for robyn starting this meme, sheila, take a bow.
Aw, thanks. Looks like I started something I couldn't finish.
I guess Justin is just nostalgic for the days when he was the boy with the Thorne in his side ...
That was coffee-out-the-nose funny, ow! Who would have thought that Smiths song title and rugby would make such a great pairing?
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Well, I don't know anything about rugby, but I do know that there are ex-All Blacks out there that people love - dudes like Sean Fitzpatrick, Zinzan Brooke and Colin Meads, yes.
I think people haven't moved into full-on "Justin is awesome!!!" hero worship yet because a) he's still young and still playing, and b) he's moved away from New Zealand so he's not here any more.
In other words, you just haven't earned it yet, baby.
(Holy shit. I just wrote a comment about rugby.)
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did you every think it might have been because your company weren't pushing their hold music hard enough
"Thank you for waiting. Your call is important to us. If you've enjoyed listening to our hold music - "Night of the Beast" by Prime Devastation - and you wish to purchase their new CD "Night of the Beast II: Rock 'n' Roll Terrorist", then press 1."
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as a vibrant and energetic world-class nation
Wait, how can a nation be world class? This sort of suggests that there are some nations that haven't met world-class standards, and will therefore be banished from the world. (Awesome!)
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1. I'm a bit scared of the whole "share what you listen to" thing. Like, I love LastFM and its ability to track what I've been listening to on iTunes and my iPod and make graphs, but at the same time, it's also ruining my musical reputation because of the time I listened to Van Halen's "Panama" about 20 times in a row.
2. Forget about Starbucks being the retailer used in the Wifi/iPod example. Eventually it'll be happening in other shops that play meaningful music. I like the idea of going into a cool shop, hearing some music playing in the store, and being able to to buy it on my iPod right away.
3. The last time I listened to radio regularly was back in 2004 before I crashed my car. Back then I listened to Mai FM, which was quite good for keeping up with pop, hip hop and R&B. But now about 90% of the new music that comes into my life does so via some internet pathway.
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We are in Montmartre in an apartment three floors up old wooden stairs with a wrought-iron balustrade.
If the entire post had only consisted of that sentence, I would have been just as gleefully envious as I was after reading the whole thing.
It sounds brilliant. More la Vie d'Île tales, please.
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Hey, I'm with you on the World Cup pain, especially with wanting the damn team to win the damn thing so that we don't have to put up with moaning and analysis for however many more years.
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Oh, yay! I just listenened to that and now I'm really excited about the Give It A Girl radio series.
I've always had this interest in the way that women and men have some different approaches to popular music. From the sound of it, the Give It A Whirl series perhaps took a more serious, nerd-boy music approach, overlooking the more fun, entertaining side of music that tends to be more female dominated.
It'll be interesting to hear the tales told in Debbie Harwood's series.
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Meanwhile, Sydney goes into lockdown for the visit of an American president.
Compare and contrast the APEC security procedures in Sydney with what happened in Auckland in 1999.
Yeah, the world has become a different place in those eight years, but I really enjoyed all the Secret Service guys, the out-of-town cops shipped in, the roadblocks and other organised chaos in Auckland' CBD. I could walk from my flat on K Road to work on Federal Street without fear.
But perhaps as the Australian goverment hasn't yet managed to suffer a terrorism attack on Australian soil, it is settling for second best and trying to at least look like a viable terrorist target.