Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hard News: Friday Music: Christchurch,…, in reply to Mike O'Connell,
Wade Churton
has probably done the definitive take on that side of the Chchch scene – a shame his books are hard to find, some of it surfaced in Mysterex and some of it surfaced (uncreditted or referenced) in other peoples’s books – I forget which book, but one of the many lightweight ‘NZ music histories’ had mentions of the Androidss that could only have come virtually verbatim from Wade Churton’s efforts…*
others I have seen never mention John Dix’s fine Stranded in Paradise – which for a while was the only book available and even now is one of the better ones… (well up to early ’80s any way)
I recently unearthed (well, de-boxed) a letterhead I did for John when he was originally trying to get the book off the ground – though I’ll never forgive him for stupidly leaving all his notes and photos in a car outside a gig in Wellington – which unsurprisingly was broken into – many of the photos that disappeared were ones I had arranged to loan to John from various Chchch people who had no other copies – and they never were found – historymaking is a bitch!Just so long as The Basket Cases (and The Gresham Hotel) get their due credit (friends for whom I was a faux-roadie, and which is where I came in… mid to late ’70s) – immortality is mine! (though I think at the time there wasn’t a ‘t’ in that word…)
*Here’s Wade in his own words about it all on Public Address a while back…
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Speaker: Women, science and superheroes, in reply to Ross Mason,
ring runner...
Canned that one….
big cans (or rubbish bins) are good for making smoke ring generating vortex cannons
PS: I've always been a very 'knotty boy'...
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Hard News: When the fast track seems a…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
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Christchurch Library has a Chchch music timeline.
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Speaker: Women, science and superheroes, in reply to ,
string theory...
Science communication
ain't no communication going on with those 'slacker' kids!
Science dictates that they need to be taught that that string needs to be taut, too... -
Speaker: Women, science and superheroes, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
the curse of the recursive recluse...
JD Salinger-grade photo-shy...
I think I meant 'Thomas Pynchon-grade photo-shy'...
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Irene Gardiner collects a handful of Chchch Earthquake related film works for The Herald – including Blair Parkes' excellent Chimney Book
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Hard News: Friday Music: Christchurch,…, in reply to Hebe,
ID...will know all that there is to know
Nice of you to say such a thing, but chance would be a fine thing,
I was away from Chchch for a lot of that time, in Auck, Aust then Wgton & Auckland again - also shy, and/or drinking heavily...
Though I do have to exhume some of those similar period braincells for an interview about early Flying Nun later this week...
History, eh...
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the world is a feast of ideas...
This thread seems an excellent place for a link to one of Australia's JD Salinger-grade photo-shy science fiction writer, Greg Egan's stories:
In the RuinsThe waitress placed two plates of chocolate cake in front of them, then sensed the tension and withdrew without a word.
Emma broke the silence. “It’s a circle,” she said. “The velocities form a circle. I figured that out.”
“Good.”
She was still angry, but her curiosity got the better of her. “Does that really have something to do with energy levels in atoms? Or were you just bluffing?”
Ghada took a sheet of paper from her clipboard and made a quick sketch.He writes great books - big ideas - dip in
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Slangs and arrows...
...watch as language changes, as words are subducted and diminished or diverted.
one wonders what tongues of earth
will lap against alien ears and shores
pan-galactic gabble & gobbledegook
a meat slanguage,...