Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Up Front: Absence in the Arcades, in reply to Hebe,
last orders...
and that pub in Oxford Terrace where the med students drank..
The Grenadier, (next to the Artists Quarter/Victorian) I think the Med Students (Doctor material and lawyers) drank in the Bearskin Room, I'd gravitate to the public bar, out the back, with the pooltables or the other big room with the central bar (and the nurses)...
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Up Front: Absence in the Arcades, in reply to Lilith __,
reel life...
you, me, and Sacha...
...and me too, occasionally - Museum (Bunuel and Len Lye, etc), Clocktower (vivid memories of a neat bacon slicer / plasticine ball animation - mesmerising) and some Cloisters showings - didn't they also have some out at Ilam?
I used to be cowed by all the 'cool people' there and never spoke to anyone much (still don't really, not strangers anyway...)I enjoyed the Temple Grandin minipic on SoHo tonight and The Hour looks like it could be interesting (once I get rid of my Absolute Beginners flashbacks) But am NOT enjoying all the bloody fireworks outside, Shirley is like a war zone and the cats are flinching at every new salvo...
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OnPoint: Fiscal Responsibility is the…, in reply to Simon Grigg,
magnum popping
and other calibrations...You make my day. Often.
shucks, Simon, I'm happy to 'be a punk
to your Eastwood' any time...
;- )and humble appreciations to Islander, too...
compared to whom
I am but an ossicle,
lost in midden-life,
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to Richard Aston,
putty...
Nice line Ian .
Thanks, but I confess I was channelling Plato
The teardrop explodes...You'll probably find the lightbulb was in Joyce's
head many days earlier.How long till Key tries to take the credit for Coronation Street
returning to prime time... I reckon 48 hrs max...
well I'll be daubed in woad...In black fatty smoke
the drawings grow...a richly shamanic offering
from a wordsmith extraordinaire
impressive neolithography
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Just found another nice piece on the Regent at Lost Christchurch site.
Sadly I can't find any interior shots of the cinema itself - some one must have some, here's hoping... -
Up Front: Absence in the Arcades, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Flicking heck...
...a list of what cinemas are still operating in Canterbury
You'll have to hurry, they are falling like flies...
Movieland in Hornby is closing soon (Nov 18).
Academy and The Cloisters will be out as long as the Arts Centre - and who knows how long that will be - and who knows if the cinemas will survive whatever changes take place there (and I shudder to think if the current director and board are kept on...).
The Metro Gold, which was behind The Press, where Creation used to be, has been demolished as well, I think.
The Odeon's roof has caved in and had been left to rot for some time any way, so I doubt that that will ever rise again.
There's a small cinema in Methven Cinema Paradiso and that Flicks site lists others...
As to the 'Chch cinema which had little balconies with cafe chairs and sun umbrellas' - I'm thinking that was probably the old Regent Theatre which was decorated as mock Spanish townscape it even used to have a faux night sky and everything, but was burnt out in '79 and an Aquarium ended up downstairs with a coupla screens upstairs in the shell - I think it is coming down as well, they have already removed the building's distinctive corner dome tower...
Really only the Hoyts at Riccarton and Northlands and the Hollywood in Sumner and the soon to close Movieland are operating - the hideous Reading complex near me at the Palms is gonna reopen on Nov 17 .
Alice inVideoland is open on line and uses The Drawing Room (cnr Manchester and St Asaph st) as a pick up and drop off depot...
Gap Filler (as seen on Media 7) runs the odd outdoor screening, with cycle-powered cycle movies on a cycleshop site planned for the future...
and the Canterbury Film Soc has done as well as they can in the face of adversity, with screenings mostly at CPIT lately.
So the illusion of life flickers on in Chchch,
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to Stewart,
The Scion of Elders…
Champagne lifestyles on XXXX (ForEx) budgets
the young Key in his natural environment
Note to National Radio even then he was inferred to be an’addict’!
…and I love the Hockneyesque goggles.I think that John Key’s “Show me the money” quote just indicates how far out of touch with ‘ordinary’ NZers he is.
You could see the lightbulb go off in Key’s head when he said that
and then he repeated it, like he was mining comedy gold
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Archimedes says 'we're screwed'...
You mean like history as a valuable science :).
Hell yes, it is reducible to pure truths
and burns with a steady clear light
when exposed to air...and even when it is pure bullshit
it can be gathered in pats to burn and
fuel the shadows on the cave wall... -
OnPoint: Fiscal Responsibility is the…, in reply to Simon Grigg,
live long and prosper...
places like Shanghai where the average person
lives longer than New Zealand.OMG! This is huge!
New Zealand is how old now?
European discovery / settlement - roughly a coupla hundred years
Maori - 800 years to a millennia..
and people in Shanghai live this long?
;- )
ok just ribbin' ya - obviously no room for the in
an immaculate misconception, if you will...the whole current Torchwood premise raises
valid concerns about longevity and society
but hey, solar maximum is a coming...Food for thought...
This no GST on Fresh Fruit & Vege is gonna be great
it'll free all the radicals
and supermarkets will have to have two aisles
one for the really truly fresh produce.
and one for the stuff that's been on a ship for a month
or been in a cool store since last season - yay real choice at last.maybe it was a typo and they really meant
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Hard News: Walking upright again, in reply to Louise Hall,
small world test #178...
My family and I have relocated from ChCh to Dunedin for work, with the added benefit of escaping the quakes and continuing struggles.
Louise, after some random penny-dropping I'm thinking we've met and I'm your mum's neighbour in Petrie St, I hope you are enjoying Dunedin, it's a different vibe to Chchch, huh?