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Okay but very shaken. Don't know about the others.
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Yes, last night's brought it all back. My wife, who is very staunch, says she's sick of it now. I stopped being staunch about 4.35am on Saturday.
In other earthquake news, the Christchurch Writers Festival, which was to feature David Haywood, Alan Bollard (the real one), recent Media 7 star Marilyn Waring and many other luminaries, has just been cancelled. It was to run this weekend. It doesn't help that one key venue -- the lovely Repertory Theatre on Kilmore St -- closely resembles a scene from the Blitz.
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But I heard SBW was arrested for looting!
No, SBW apparently said on Friday it would take an earthquake for the All Blacks to win the Rugby World Cup in 2011. I think that's right.
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Us: no cash, just one charged mobile phone, bottled water in a garage that has an electric door so is useless, no radio. We did, however, have a torch. Seriously need to get our Civil Defence planning sorted.
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Friuli, 1976: 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills 978 people. Irpinia, 1980: 6.8 magnitude earthquake kills 2,980 people. Last year at L'Aquila: 6.3 magnitude kills 308. 7.1 in Christchurch and two seriously injured. So, yeah.
I think we're just bloody lucky it was 4.30 in the morning and not a weekday afternoon. Imagine it hitting a city full of working people. I wouldn't liked to have been in the old half of the Press building -- where I work -- when that bad boy hit.
And a bad boy it was. We were woken up simultaneously by the quake itself and the 6 year old and 3 year old crying in their room. The older one later said it was like someone was trying to break the house apart. Then went to check on the 7-year-old -- the Aspie one -- and after a bit of silence, she said: "My room was shaking. It was very annoying."
Just broken glasses and jars etc -- second time this year a big glass bottle of olive oil has smashed on the kitchen floor, this time mixed in with marmalade -- and power was out till after 12 (we're in Beckenham/St Martins). Until I turned on the computer 20 minutes ago and looked at Stuff, I didn't know how bad it was. I think we're all very lucky.
Still haven't seen the cat, of course ...
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Is there any significance in the digital clock reading 3.33am when he got the phone call in the middle of the night?
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Given that Michael Morley's been a lecturer at Dunedin Art School for several years, I think he'd be able to provide something without too much trouble.
A heck of a painter, eg these examples
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Was always very keen on Peter Jefferies' lyrics for "The Fate of the Human Carbine", since covered by Cat Power.
Excerpt:
He likes to take the long way home
It's another fine decision
From six to seven he'll be all alone
So he turns on televison
Doesn't even notice as the hour rolls by
Gets lost inside the screen
Watches a film about the evening sky
It was someone else's dream"Watches a film about the evening sky" is a great sentence ...
When you say an artist to interpret, I don't know if you mean musical or visual so I'll hedge my bet with someone who does both: Maryrose Crook.
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Speaking of things Southern, I'm recommending this very good analysis of "the Dunedin sound and the myth of isolation" from the excellent Mysterex site.
Loosely related song below. Actually, with this title, it could have worked over at David Haywood's.
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Why? I knew a rent boy one of whose regulars (and a perfect gentleman) was an elderly man who only came to terms with his homosexuality very late in life, and to be brutally frank found "the scene" ageist, scary and unsatisfying? Do you think hanging around public toilets or beats (with the very real dangers involved) or being treated like shit by youth-obsessed scene queens would have "reflected" better on him?
There is also a history of sex workers catering to those with intellectual and physical disabilities who don't get much otherwise (UK example). Which is why IHC supported prostitution law reform in NZ. Those scenarios are not demeaning to either client or worker.