Posts by Ethan Tucker
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But don't worry, there'll always be handball, real tennis and cheese-rolling to watch on Sommet.
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So impressed that you worked with Graham Linehan! In the spirit of Geoff's post, here's a couple of pics from a visit to the EMP (Experience Music Project) Museum in Seattle last month. Hope the links work.
Jimi Hendrix's hand-decorated guitar from his last London show, 1967
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Was lucky to pick up Westra’s 1976 book with Noel Hilliard, Wellington: City Alive yesterday in a second-hand shop and it’s such a treat. From her photos its easy to see how the mid-70s in the capital and the rest of NZ were closer to D-Day than they are to today’s city life. Also features: a stray Aro Valley pony, plenty of beards.
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Hard News: A Golden Age for the Arts?, in reply to Sacha,
To be fair, the Minister is not endorsing excellence in the arts through a concerted consumption of class A drugs in the mid-1970s.
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Brent Toderian, president of the Council for Canadian Urbanism, in the Seattle Times, 14 April:
Car-dependent transportation models create self-fulfilling prophecies of gridlock by pushing land uses apart and densities down, leading to communities that are unwalkable and not viable for transit.
A car-centric model forces people into their cars for almost everything. And if you try to do high-density planning around the car it also fails. Miserably.
Vancouver illustrates a different and better way. Starting with the refusal of freeways through the city in the late 1960s (which meant we never had to spend the money to bury them) Vancouver continues to design a multimodal city that prioritizes walking, biking and transit and recognizes that the best transportation plan is a great land-use plan.
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For a bit of fun I looked up a recent ZZ Top video, having read an interview with them in Mojo a few weeks back. I steered well clear of them in the 80s but in a way it's kind of refreshing that they're still making exactly the same videos decades later. This track, I Gotsta Get Paid, may not be lyrically complex but it features some pleasingly crunchy guitar-work. Not bad for a bunch of old geezers.
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Only heard this for the first time the other day - straight outta 1982, it's The Waitresses' Christmas Wrapping. Yep, it's a rap:
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The trio of RSC films of stage productions touring the country at the moment are an appealing option too. Caught Much Ado About Nothing at the Lighthouse Pauatahanui over the weekend and enjoyed every moment. It helped that the cast was excellent and it was filmed at the Globe (even if it was raining).
Benedick & Beatrice (clip, 2:46):
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Hard News: Friday Music: Better Bit…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Snap gives me 560GB a month so I basically treat it as an unlimited account.
Five hundred and sixty? By the hammer of Thor!
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Capture: Wellington? Well, I Would., in reply to Islander,
And they end like?
What about this? Admittedly not most nights, and this is Petone rather than Wellington - at the finale of the Winter Carnival a couple of weeks ago.
