Posts by philipmatthews
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Hard News: Three months after, in reply to Lilith __,
I was thinking last night that Chch is like an alcoholic spouse who keeps promising to go straight. I don’t want to give up on it, but I’m losing faith.
Time for a cover version: "Christchurch I love you but you're bringing me down."
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Wuthering Heights? Within this Alan Partridge Kate Bush medley:
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Was going to come back and say "but what about these two?" But sadly YouTube has neither "Burn it up" (SJ Fits) or "Scrapbook" (Dimmer). Two very, very good songs.
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Why no clips?
Yes, Randolph is a truly beautiful song. The Doublehappys one apparently shot at Chris Knox's place. Dialling a Prayer: said by, I think Andrew Mueller, to have the only sarcastic finger clicks in rock history. Or something like that. I prefer it to She Speeds too.
Looking forward to Shayne bringing this south. Love this too:
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to wendyf,
And *I* thought trolls were very unpleasant people that lived under bridges.
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Also from that chillblue YouTube channel:
Shayne in a time of mullets.
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Busytown: A new (old) sensation, in reply to Jackie Clark,
As a matter of fact, at the moment I have Martin Amis’ newest – The Pregnant Widow – sitting by my bed and I am avoiding it completely.
I'd continue avoiding it if I were you.
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Up Front: Where You From?, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Whilst I was at UoC I was recruited to help with filming GPP in Christchurch. I found the bloke who was willing to take out his teeth and eat an pie, and organise a string quartet to play in the Arts Centre. I think those scenes are still in the film.
They are. The geezer with the pie was very good casting. (The DVD I watched the other day was a North American release rather than the two-disc NZ one I saw a few years ago; it may be a longer cut?)
Actually, the most widely seen appearance of Chch on film was probably the Star's bit part in Oliver Stone's JFK conspiracy theory.
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Does anyone know what has happened to the Mysterex blogspot ?
it seems to have disappeared – which would be a crime against the frailty of human memory – well mine anyway…That was Andrew Schmidt, wasn't it? He has a new popular culture blog -- http://cautionweirdlode.wordpress.com/ -- but I don't know if he has archived Mysterex anywhere. Hope he has: it was a brilliant resource.
A few weeks ago, on Mysterex, he posted the clip for Suzanne Said by the Shallows, some of which pans around Cathedral Square -- another for the list. Wasn't there a Clean video in the Square too (Anything Can Happen)? Also, Ronnie van Hout directed a clip for Getting Older that looks like it's shot in pre-gentrified (pre-Henderson) brick warehouses, but I could be wrong.
One of these days I'll write up my notes for a long blog entry on Chch on film -- the lost city. Heavenly Creatures, the Henderson "biopic"/fantasy We're Here to Help, even the 5 minutes of old railway Chch in Goodbye Pork Pie. Are there others?
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Good on Jennifer Ward Lealand for reading the book twice – but couldn’t someone have edited out that spoiler?
Ending also given away in tonight's review of Franzen's Freedom. Everyone's already read it by now, but still ...