Posts by Russell Brown
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What happened to the Timaru woman who, earlier this year, was on the second charge of assault which this time was against her teenage son on the roadside in Canterbury?
It doesn't seem to have come to trial yet, which is probably why there's a name suppression order in place with respect to her latest behaviour.
It would be nice to hear one of those very many people who championed this woman actually admit they were wrong, rather than just trying to forget it ever happened.
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Gee, that's a wee bit Freudian Russell. :) Then again, I can't be the only one wondering if The Standard chaps and Mr Farrar should get a room, because the mutual obsession is getting a little freaky and clammy for my taste.
Must agree. It tends to overwhelm any issue either blog is ostensibly discussing.
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How is the prevention of collusion in a campaign not a block on any of the million New Zealanders who are AA members supporting the AAs message?
I'm an AA member, and much of the time I don't support their message. Like Rich, I just want them to fix my car when it breaks down. And I actually get quite pissed off when they use my money to campaign for policies I don't support.
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__I never met a Randroid that would pass the Turing Test.__
Doesn't mean they're not smart though! Just not Human Smart.
LOL.
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the best bits of the story undoubtedly include the one about the 0900 Trivia Quiz scam we ran so successfully that Big Ross was able to give up his day job and use the cash to set up Globule Records...kept our recording studio and young family going through many a shaky week too ;-)
Oh man. Big Ross and 0900 trivia quizzes deserves its own thread. A movie, even.
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Ihug:
And they were often a price leader and they were big on flat rate when it was a new idea here in NZ.
They invented flat rate here, and forced the rest of the market to follow them. The other big commercial ISPs in 1996 all wanted to charge $5 an hour, but they had to fold.
I had the odd run-in with Nick Wood back in the day (on one occasion receiving from him the most abusive email I've ever had) but he'll always have my respect for what he did.
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The Dec of Human Rights ought to have something about the right to blog, and maybe a prohibition on murdering idioms.
As I understand it, you're allowed to kill idioms, but only in a humane way that does not inflict unnecessary suffering on the idiom itself.
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I don't think there was any band more personally special to me in the early 1980s than Bird Nest Roys.
They were a bunch of oddballs from West Auckland who just moved into town one day, playing this gorgeous, billowing pop with guitars and vocal harmonies.
I think I first saw them on the same bill as Goblin Mix at the Windsor Castle one night, and the two bands, and their wider social circles, were closely associated from then on. Me too, for that matter. We all weathered the Great Wine Glut of 1985 together, supporting each other in our efforts to consume the $7.50 casks of rough red that crowded the shelves that summer.
The group developed its own patois, revolving largely around the word "beast". An entire sentence could consist of the word" beast" in different intonations. "Empty animals" meant "lust", as captured in the lyric "I've got empty animals for you".
Alongside their own songs, they played a couple of notable cover versions: The Hollies' 'Bus Stop' and Golden Harvest's 'I Need Your Love'.
Like Goblin Mix, they bristled a little at the suggestion, frequently made, that they sounded a bit like a Dunedin band. But all that was sorted out after both bands travelled sound to play in Dunedin for the first time. Indeed, there was a sense of homecoming. Roy Colbert wrote to me marvelling that he had never heard this band before, and that such a great group could come from Auckland.
Their sole eponymous album sounds pretty terrible now: the recording, that is, not the songs. The songs were strong enough to establish a Bird Nest Roys cult that persists to this day.
When Pavement came here, someone I know was talking to a member of the band and mentioned the Roys: "You know Bird Nest Roys?" came the incredulous reply.
Indie nerds like this guy and this guy still rave about them.
The album is out of print now, but Failsafe has one Roys song, 'Love Your Alien' on a compilation via Amplifier; you can see a video on Amplifier too. 'Bus Stop' and 'Jaffa Boy' are on a site of dubious legal status, so I guess you'd have to promise to buy drinks for any members you meet in future if you went there.
In 2005, the band got back together to play Big Ross's wedding. It was solid-gold wonderful and my heart sang for joy.
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Interesting to see what years evoke memories ...for me a couple ... The Builders - beating hearts late at night or early in the m orning it is always a pleasure.
In which case, you absolutely need to get your ass to Mighty Mighty next week. I can wholeheartedly recommend Bill Direen's new Builders lineup. It might never happen again, so go, just go ...
Dates
Arc Cafe, Dunedin. Friday 23rd November 2007.
The Penguin Club, Oamaru, Saturday 24th November 2007.
Al's Bar, Christchurch. Sunday 25th November 2007.
Mussell Inn, Takaka. Monday 26th November 2007.
Mighty Mighty, Wellington. Wednesday 28th November2007.
Ward Lane, Hamilton, Thursday 29th November2007.
The Masonic, Devonport, Auckland. Friday 30th November 2007.
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I guess I don't have the required social skills - not least, the ability to hold a glass of wine and a plate whilst imbibing from either - how do you do that elegantly?
Actually, being able to have a good talk to someone over a drink is often the most useful thing. But that would be Foo Camp.
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