Posts by Ian Dalziel

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  • Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime,

    are we not Zimmer men?
    Did Devo have the conveyor belts this time round?

    truth is Strangler than fiction...
    Nice to see Charlie Burchill still going strong...
    I have a vivid memory (from waaay back) of a brief conversation with him at a Virgin (or was it still RTC) preconcert promotion do - when he said, in his wonderful accent, that I "...kinda looked like his mate Hugh Cornwall" - great opening line, of course I've been a big fan ever since!

    ps : thanks for a great year in pictures
    and for the card plug ...

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  • Hard News: Music: In before Christmas, in reply to Russell Brown,

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    We are the Billievers

    Monkee see, Can do…
    Now I’m a Billiever,
    you made a Billiever out of me…

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  • Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Megan Wegan,

    I don’t understand why people seem to think that everything has to be explained by one theory, or one experiment, or one belief structure.

    +1
    Megan, thank you for giving us another chance, and for being clear about it.
    I find the net and twitter (which I know only a little about) make tone very hard to gauge, a veritable minefield at times, as people can respond far too quickly, to small pieces, not always in context, and then make sweeping generalisations, beyond their experience (I am guilty of that) - I strongly urge people to always use a Preview facility, where available, or at least read and reread before posting, to see what modifiers and clarifiers need to be present for objectivity, and empathy.

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  • Hard News: Music: In before Christmas, in reply to Russell Brown,

    Bill Direen playing

    Great pic, indeed...
    It looks like Bill is becoming
    our Leonard Cohen,
    and deservedly so!

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  • Hard News: Music: In before Christmas, in reply to Russell Brown,

    Look at the size of that effing stage…

    …well sometimes they had to set up for the band,
    the dancing girls, the DJ and the Housie caller,
    all at once!
    :- )

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  • Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Lilith __,

    Anna Notherthing...

    But girls DO do math.
    Lots of girls excel at math!

    ..and lotsa other stuff as well
    - that's why they're called Pollymaths...
    ;- )

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  • Hard News: Fact and fantasy,

    Cocky aren't they?
    Some recent links from The Press that may be of interest:
    Canterbury's dairy era...

    statistics showed that in 2007 Canterbury had 13 per cent (518,000) of the country's milking cows.
    By 2011-12, that had risen to 16 per cent (753,000 cows), producing 17.7 per cent of New Zealand's milk.

    and
    Dame Margaret Bazley, who chairs Environment Canterbury's commissioners, takes stock at the end of 2012 to outline the organisation's approach to its work.

    Canterbury needs to make the best possible use of water to grow the regional economy and create jobs. Commissioners believe water can be used sustainably so both the environment and the economy benefit. We need this to create a secure future for our children and future generations.

    The work being done through the collaborative Canterbury Water Management Strategy builds on years of community engagement on what we need to achieve. The strategy was developed by the region's Mayoral Forum before the commissioners' appointment.

    Shouldn't that say: "The strategy was developed by the region's Mayoral Forum before they conspired to have Ecan replaced by commissioners" ?

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  • Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Lilith __,

    Ship of fools....

    Imagine if Ministers had to take a pay cut every time they refused to front for interviews, or refused to listen to their own experts.

    That is a damn fine idea - And what about Hekia Parata not fronting while her portfolio and ministry is in major crisis, I'd have thought being on holiday wouldn't be an excuse, when you are paid (with a wee raise as well) to do the hard jobs... None of the Associate Ministers seem to have put their heads above the parapet recently either - is John Banks an Albatross,? He seems to curse everything he is associated with!

    How does this Government arrive at these decisions - they say they don't have money and need to save money by making cuts, and then they effectively fire someone who will cost them a million dollars at least in severance because the only recently blooded Minister is hard to work with - can we be shown the logic in this, step-by-step?

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  • Hard News: Music: In before Christmas, in reply to Hebe,

    good old Chchch…
    While waiting for the brain I’ve been trawling, I remembered Kevin Hill’s Flickr thread of ‘70s & ’80s Chchch bands (thanks Mysterex ) which only has a coupla interior shots of the Hillsborough
    but a wealth of other heady nostalgia:
    - – Outdoor gig at old uni / arts centre
    and Butler at the same place

    – – Santana, Town Hall ’73

    – – The Grenadier Hotel

    - – an ad for Vapour & the Trails with the Vauxhalls at the Gladstone

    - – Porkchops at The Gresham – The Basket Cases played there for a while, and maybe you didn’t know but Jane Walker played drums for the Basket Cases (with Paul Kean on Bass) before she was keyboardist for Toy Love.

    - – Beech rockin’ out at Cashmere high school – taken the year before I took over running the Hall and stage in my 5th form year – or thereabouts…

    and here’s one for Geoff Lealand – the Masters Theatres Star ad from 1979

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  • Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Lilith __,

    unfathomable...

    Variability is high.

    and that is the problem, way too many variables..
    there is no one answer or reason, too much we don't know,
    too may random factors, too many seeds sown with
    strange random triggers
    - the ebon flow of dark tides and emotional rips.
    When the perpetrators of these violent events
    ends up dead, we can never know what really happened,
    and as with most things, I find there
    may be perceived or attributed 'Good reasons'
    and buried under it all the 'Real reasons'
    even if it is just a momentary lack of reason
    or a pearl of accreted reasons

    I don't know if it's specifically
    a gender thing
    maybe an agenda thing...

    It's a complex world and we/they
    keep adding layers of complexity

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