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  • Up Front: The Classics Are Rubbish Too,

    If you wanna quote Craig, I can recommend his comment from a few pages back...

    ...I like Dick more than Che does...

    Well, it made me smile.

    I have taken against 'classics' to some extent, probably put off by school set-texts (Dickens, Austen) but have browsed a number of more modern highly-regarded authors. However, reading for pleasure is my style and I have enjoyed the afore-mentioned Iain (M) Banks.
    I'd also like to plug Len Deighton's writing - not yer usual spy-stories.

    But I have so little time I can spend reading these days that I want something I can enjoy with very little effort.

    Te Ika A Maui - Whakatane… • Since Oct 2008 • 577 posts Report Reply

  • Up Front: The Classics Are Rubbish Too,

    What the Dickens?

    Couldn't get on with his stories at all. Turgid crap for the most part. Yes, young Twist, I'm talking about you!

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  • Island Life: A 'music buff' is a stereo type,

    That, sir, is a vile slander! I have never met you.

    ;-P

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  • Busytown: Age cannot wither me,

    It has always been a 1-day-at-a-time thing for me so I haven't had this ten-year birthday angst. Just put a brave face on, accept the age and remember that getting older is generally better than the only alternative.

    If it makes you feel better, when divulging your age I recommend adding the phrase earth years.

    But age, and I have plenty of it, is a bugger because you don't feel awfully different from how you felt when you were oh so much younger. In my 6th decade I still feel, deep inside, much as I did 20 or more years ago. And I find it really difficult to imagine how others see me sometimes. There is the shock of being taken seriously by someone who is obviously 'grown up' which makes me realise that I am less easy to dismiss than I was when I was young(er).

    Fifty-three (earth years) since you were wondering...

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  • Field Theory: Sunday Bloody Sunday Newspaper,

    Hadyn,

    I am even less interested in baseball than I am in cricket. So it approximates negative interest levels and I couldn't name you any current players (Barry Bonds & Babe Ruth are probably the only 2 I could name from any era.)

    That said, I once read an interesting book about/by a baseballer. The book was called Ball Four but I have no idea who wrote it.

    Despite having an almost addictive relationship with golf I can appreciate that others don't like it - and I don't get much enjoyment from watching it on tv. It is a total immersion thing for me...about 4 hours of thinking about golf & nothing else; gets rid of office-stress, domestic stress, etc and you get to drink beers together afterwards - a sign of a true sport.

    Te Ika A Maui - Whakatane… • Since Oct 2008 • 577 posts Report Reply

  • Field Theory: Sunday Bloody Sunday Newspaper,

    "Simplay" - how very Siggi of me.

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  • Field Theory: Sunday Bloody Sunday Newspaper,

    Hadyn,

    I had failed to realise that John Daly was a benchmark figure in your parallel universe. Does this also mean that other pastimes such as snooker and darts are also "not sports" because men with a neck-girth larger than your thigh take part?

    Or is it not to do with his size & physique but some other attribute that we should implicitly understand simplay at the uttering of his name?

    Yes, I do play golf - how did you guess?

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  • Field Theory: Sunday Bloody Sunday Newspaper,

    Why is golf "not a sport"?

    Admittedly it doesn't take a high degree of fitness, but it is a competitive outdoor pastime requiring a high degree of physical coordination.

    Or is it because it can truly fuck with your mind?

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  • Up Front: A Word From the Ministry for…,

    Re Iain Banks / Iain M Banks...

    I'd say that Song of Stone was where he lost me as an ardent fan. Up till then he was engaging and the characters were believable but Song of Stone just seemed as flat as the proverbial pancake.

    His sci-fi ouevre has become rather odd...I got to the point where I wasn't 100% sure WTF was going on but still enjoying reading it. And when I got to the end (of The Algebraist I think it was) I wasn't confident I knew what had been happening but I knew I had had a good read.

    But I did my schooling long before such books were written so no chance of blathering on about them in exams.

    got a decent grade for a zoology terms exam I sat when a wee bit stoned once upon a time...

    Te Ika A Maui - Whakatane… • Since Oct 2008 • 577 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Real Gone,

    It is the association with teh National Parteh that I object to.

    As for the demise of RG, I'm not a natural-born Aucklander so I didn't have a close relationship with the place. Sure, I'd been in once or twice but I'm not too much of a city boy so I was seldom in that part of town, but I have availed myself of their online services quite a bit in the last few years.

    Someone mentioned that NZ's size is a factor against lots of 2nd-hand music stores - does it also affect the main record stores? I think that, 'out west', we don't have a recognised music shop anymore & that the likes of the Warehouse (that shutter-down of many smaller local businesses) have prevailed. Even Sounds & ECM have gone...

    Gonna have to learn to download music one of these days.

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