Posts by Sacha
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Welcome back - and thank you for discussing the richness of reasons for returning. You'll sadly notice that the Listener has changed in your absence into a sanitised rag celebrating "the single-minded pursuit of wealth".
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Nope, that's a great new angle - please keep going.
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all the special effects that created stange creatures were real. They were mucking around with genetic engineering out there on those film sets
Steven, for some reason I'm thinking of Trout Farm in Cronenberg's eXistenZ:
If you haven't seen the whole film, please do. I'd be interested in what you make of it, in any case.
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That's because you write in code
Nope. Read it a bit, dream it even less..
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The geek in me wanted that last word to mean "initialise". Innit.
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detrimental to something we see as important. But who's to decide that?
A combination of markets and public governance systems, both of them refecting overall power and hence likely to favour cultural forms liked by rich white folk. Orchestras and opera over pop gigs and music vids, oil paintings over weaving and film, books over magazines.
I was struck by the preponderance of expensively-dressed blue-rinsed matrons out for their fix of heavily-subsidised classics the first time I stepped inside the wandered into Aotea Centre. Of all the social groups who can afford to pay for their own entertainment, I thought..
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k :)
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to project an aura of sensitivity and manly practicality
Clearly from the days when only soft men were supoosed to read books. Hang on, not sure that's changed..
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What Ben said.
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Lucrative that it took enough pages to become a book as opposed to a pamphlet. Not a bad read. Gave me a better understanding of the mythologising of the yankee boomers, the side roads, the wind in the hair, the navel gazing.
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