Posts by Graham Reid

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  • Random Play: Don’t Fall off The Mountain,

    Yes Grace and other folks, that is how you subscribe through the lin provided. Just fill in a few details and that be it. Done.
    Just about to do the competition/giveaway for subscribers: concert tickets, a pack of CD and DVDs etc etc.
    If you ain't in you can't win.
    G

    auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 45 posts Report Reply

  • Random Play: “Thank you, you’ve been a…,

    At a Sweetwaters, the second I think, I saw a guy asleep in one of the speaker cabinets at the side of the stage.

    Anyone know who that profoundly stupid and possibly deaf guy might have been?

    I worked in a t-shirt stall at the Tom Petty-Bob Dylan gig at Mt Smart back in the day. I was with a young girl and we were taking $20 notes hand over fist while Mongrel Mob and Highway 61 guys glowered at us and said, "Gizzus a t-shirt bro'."

    When I made light of it and said "Oh mate, the boss'd kill me" they just stood around glowering and wathcing me shove literally hundreds of dollars into the front pouch of a toolbelt. (A sporran?)

    It was terrfiying -- but mercifully most were so out of it they crashed right there.

    I was watching the gate and people were guzzling their bottles of Jack, then coming in and falling over immediately. The police were simply lining up the bodies along the fence.

    I'm too Scottish to pay for a ticket then miss the show. Although when the Powerstation had to start closing early I twice went at the appropriate rock'n'roll hour of around 11pm in time to hear "Thank you . . . and good night".

    auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 45 posts Report Reply

  • Busytown: A turn-up for the books,

    I concede I have yet to read the book, but this explanation after the fact seems like one of those "bullshit baffles brains" exercises. We are not to know and will never know what that first draft was, but the apology seemed disingenuous and this account even more so.

    He is inviting us to think he is being pilloried for being courageous enough to be trying a new kind of historical fiction.

    I am still thinking of that lovely scene in I'm Alan Partridge where Alan goes to see his autobiography being pulped.

    Will Witi be "Bouncing Back" like Alan?

    Will he, like Alan, be able to write, "needless to say, I had the last laugh".

    Ah-ha!

    auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 45 posts Report Reply

  • Random Play: “Thank you, you’ve been a…,

    I meant to mention Evan Dando at the Dogs Bollix having to face down some hooting drunk who bellowed his way through Dando's set: "I remember what it was like the first time I had a drink," said Dando. Sarcasm doesn't work on yobs.
    (I'm told he got off the stage and belted someone in Wellington. Anyone confirm that?)

    He was well out of it when he came with the remnants of MC5.

    Out of it or what? Bob Dylan at the Supertop being so far gone at one point he looked at the hat in his hand and you could see the cogs turning: "uh hat . . . head?"

    By the way I have tinnitus and it isn't pleasant. I blame (and thank) Cheap Trick at the Auckland Town Hall. Brilliant!

    Oh, and a table of middle-aged women at Shona Laing's gig about two years ago in the Town Hall Concert Chamber. One of them kept calling out for her favourite Shona song, "1927, 1927".
    (When Shona did sing 1905 the woman didn't appear to recognise it until Shona was halfway through.)

    That's what the second glass of chardonnay can do to you, folks.

    auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 45 posts Report Reply

  • Random Play: Stop! In the Name of Love!!,

    UMMMMMMMM . . . . Sydney?
    You have never heard about the "Opera House"?
    The last great 20th century work of genuinely iconic [ and i don't mean in that mundane NZ use of the word "iconic": aka Dave Dobbyn, Marc Ellis] national symboliism.
    I'm thinking public architecture which might just be a rather more amorphous and longterm-thinking concept/conceit.
    New York??
    (Hmm "The Statue of Liberty said 'come' " -- John Lennon)
    Liverpools's revelopmment.
    Leith ??????

    Sorry pal and with all due respect, but you you might need to get into a bigger world than the one you live in.
    A wharf is only a wharf .. . if that all you think it is.
    By the way. I welcome the input here of "the Lesser Spotted Architect Bird".
    But is that too rare and precious a breed to feed at this pecking ground?
    G

    auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 45 posts Report Reply

  • Random Play: Howard's way,

    The best scene in Don't Let It Get You is where the very black fly crawls around in Lew Pryme's pure white hair while they are driving along singing. Oh and the young Kiri of course!

    William Clauson touring again? He'd be at least in his late 70s because he looks about 30 on the cover of the EP recorded in 1959/60.

    I think a recognition of Maori music and culture was much more common in certain parts of New Zealand at that time than we might think, and/or have been led to believe. But then again because I knew a lot of Jewish people I called auntie and uncle I thought everyone in Auckland knew Jewish people . . . until I went into the real world!

    auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 45 posts Report Reply

  • Random Play: Let me take you down . . .,

    " . . .the new Ironbank Building on K Rd - best bit of new city design I've seen here for ages. We can do good contemporary architecture . . ."

    Hmm, I saw that the other day and with it's block lettering, menacing and impenetrable facade etc i could only think "neo-fascist bank" of the kind you might have seen/see in Mussolini's EUR outside of Rome.
    Not my kind of architecture, but let's hear what others have to say.

    Over to you architects/designers . . .

    auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 45 posts Report Reply

  • Random Play: For what it's worth,

    thanks for the comments . . . and the correction, stewart. duly made. (great song, as you say, another weird one from them)

    auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 45 posts Report Reply

  • Random Play: Reality Bites,

    Sorry Evan, put you crook: I meant to write 648 NOT 698. I counted ONE word more than their count of 647.
    Everyone wants to know whether hyphenates count as one or two words: one I guess.

    "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" also carries the same pay weight as "dole" or "poor". If you get my drift.

    auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 45 posts Report Reply

  • Random Play: Ring out the old, ring in…,

    just waking up from xmas/new year and shaking the sleep out of my brain so thought i'd respond to a couple of points.
    cheers stephen for your insight: yes i was painting with a brooooaaad brush for the purposes of making a point. fully understand the complexity of what happened in japan (actually in truth i don't understand global economics at all!) and that things deflated rather more slowly -- and stayed down -- than i suggested.
    i did love how so many japanese could say as if it were one word "whentheeconomicbubbleburst".
    and certainly don't panic is maybe better than don't worry: but my point was about "worry". in one of those 'it won't happen overnight but it will happen' scenarios we must of course remember to be cautious etc etc but to worry endlessly just feeds the problem (as i see the negative mainstream media in nz enjoying doing, the herald started a thing about 'how many jobs lost today' before xmas but that seems to have sensibly been sidelined)
    i can't speak for liam but take your point (although the iceland joike is just that, a joke) and he too was just going for the broad sweep. nice final paragraph of his though.
    and me getting back to japan?
    Ha! i wish. certainly not on the horizon though am aiming for korea again this year so you never know.
    And to greg: nope i know buffalo daughter and it wasn't them although i'd love to see them live, i play their pshychic album a lot (when megan is out!)
    my favourite japanese "band" was two guys busking near yoyoji park called paper knife: just two guitars and a beat box and they were beatles-meets-bacharach with a DIY twist. i bought their cassettes (hand drawn covers, like daniel johnston) and play them all the time.
    thanks for responding.
    and happpy new year to you all

    auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 45 posts Report Reply

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