Posts by Rob Stowell
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Yeah. Anyone else find it *odd* (a mis-use of the term) to talk of 'privacy' at a meeting taking place a cafe(?) open to the public, to which one has invited media galore, with the express purpose of getting publicity?
I gather the press were ushered behind glass for the actual conversation, presumably so they were still able to record the nice pictures. That's not a level of 'privacy' I'd describe as being private. -
The asset sales proposed are simply another transfer of public to private wealth, and the benefits will go almost entirely to the wealthy. I presume that's the idea. It looks like most NZers realise this, and most don't like it. This will hurt Key's popularity in the long run. Just doesn't look like hurting it enough, now.
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Hard News: Walking upright again, in reply to rene_p,
No dvd or other release in the immediate future. I'd guess things might change after the 'anniversary' in Feb 2012.
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I’m sure it does. According to your quote, it also shares some of the same lyrics.
I ’spect it started out as the same song :) Seem to remember scorched earth playing it, way back when. After a couple of decades of sonic abuse at that level, its own mum* wouldn’t know it.
* or dad. No idea who wrote it. -
Sounds dreadful, Hebe. Hope you get resolution fast. Living with pain is horrible- and sometimes only marginally less horrible when it's not you, but someone you love.
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Up Front: Absence in the Arcades, in reply to Lilith __,
Yeah. Before that, it was in the museum- I think with the same seats. Horrible seats, and often the movies would be very long, and sometimes tedious. And I found (I'd like to develop this into a general theory, but maybe it's just me :)) that the slow pace, and some moments of boredom, often led me deeper into a strange territory where suddenly emotional or aesthetic pleasure could descend in a wave- or more accurately, rise up my spine, oddly, since the stimulus was via eyes and ears. And then the hard seat and cold room vanished completely.
Afterwards people would chat, or run off to avoid being seconded onto the committee, and everyone, it seemed, came and left on bikes. -
My girlfriend Kate said she’d like to see a documentary that explained more about the geology of the quakes. That I’d watch.
@Isaac- not exactly riveting, but this is the first of a series of UC lectures on aspects of the quake, mostly dealing with the goelogy.
More here: http://www.communityed.canterbury.ac.nz/earthquake_lectures.php -
I was looking forward to Gerard Smyth’s promised doco about NZ’s own eugenic history after his film about Templeton. Haven’t heard anything for the past half-decade though. (Yes, that Gerard)
After a heap of work, I don't think he could find a broadcaster. Not a ratings winner, they said. Ratings: the road to television most people don't mind :)
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Know where you're coming from, Lillith. It's a pretty good film, from what I've seen, but when I talked to my wife about going, she said, Nah. Too raw. Too soon.
And I feel a bit like that myself.
Working at the university, while there are many fine people doing good things, too many people feel stretched, and slightly doomed. We have, y'know, budget crises, managers who regard moral and collegiality as self-indulgent, and what seem like inevitable job and programme cuts to look forward to.
I gather adverse health effects are forecast to hit hardest 13-18 months later. Hovering around the gloom is a slight air of guilt, too: I feel moderately crappy, despite home and family and job all, so far at least, intact. So how do people in far far worse situations feel?
Not ready to go back there in the cinema yet. Glad the film is there, though, as a testament. -
We have some of the best rates of literacy and numeracy in the world, at 15. There are problems, but there's also a big chunk of people who don't want to go on to tertiary (and end up with a massive debt) but can't find other training alternatives. Poor productivity seems like a problem everyone wants to talk about, but noone wants to own.
Specially not employers...