Posts by giovanni tiso
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yes, appeal to Stephen Fry
Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry.
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I could smell the regret in your breath from here, young man.
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In the Guy Ritchie / RDJ version, Watsons admonishes him for experimenting with something used for "eye surgery" - which was one of the early medical uses of cocaine.
Yes, I honestly thought watching it that it was entirely obvious, but I wonder how much I read into it by virtue of knowing about it - and also, it's RDJ for heaven's sake. Duh. I see it a bit like a return to the Hays code, things have to be said more obliquely but they get said anyway. You just have to learn to read the signs.
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Mate!
I'm also very fond of the Front Lawn song How Are You Doing?, which has to have been a major inspiration for FOTC. In fact they might take a stab at the old Dagg material, too, no? Consider it my entry. I'm running out of tees.
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No, they made quite an explicit choice to not include any references to or depiciton of cocaine use - largely, I understand, as a condition of RDJ taking the part, for obvious reasons.
I understand that, but there is also the implication that he was on something during those times, and I don't recall it being obviously alcohol. Does he even drink much in the film? He gets wine thrown in his face, that much I remember. And drinks some fine spiked wine. But other than that?
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See, I did not notice that cocaine had been replaced in the Guy Ritchie film at all - I just assumed it was implied that it is what he was on when he was holed up in his office experimenting on the dog.
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Favourite NZ lyrics? Easy:
If things get appallingly bad
And we're all under constant attack
Remember, we want to see good clean ball
And for god's sakes, feed your backs -
Graeme may, of course, be making the distinction between history (subsequent to written records) and prehistory (prior to written records) as often used in academia.
"Mountainous New Zealand fell late into the possession of man. Even the oldest proclamation of human tenancy here—perhaps some crude, simple cave-drawing—postdates the rise and fall of the earth's great early civilisations, Egyptian, Greek and Roman; and the founding of the earth's abiding religions, Christian, Muslim and Buddhist. The visitor might be tempted to see this shore as innocent of history; he would be wrong. Wrong, that is, unless he excludes the struggle of a restless land to find shape, within some final skin; wrong unless lie excludes the eccentricities of creation, of flora and fauna, upon these isolated islands; and above all wrong if he imagines the human occupation of the country, relatively so recent, to be a simple story."
Maurice Shadbolt, The Shell Guide to New Zealand, 1968.
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Wow, that sounds... cultish.
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And you haven't made the case that Apple is evilly controlling the internet, at all.
I agree, if for no other reason that you know I'd be all over that bad boy.