Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hard News: Haphazardly to war, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
speaking frankly...
an apostate
I think an 'apostdate' is one of the three days per week that mail will be delivered... anything else would be a miracle!
but it's no way to stamp out terrorism... -
Strange Days…
Strangely enough, the last Chchch / NZ Music poster exhibition that the late John Greenfield organised was upstairs in Strange’s Building – now rebuilt and a jumping joint by all accounts… -
Hard News: Haphazardly to war, in reply to bob daktari,
Ground Control to Major Offensive...
nz-troops-the-least-of-iss-problems/
We are being sent to come between the Russians and the Yanks on the International Space Station??? !!! ???
That is close combat!That Max Key, he must be conscription age by now...
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throwing in the towel…
It’s an accident Kuwaiting to happen –
the Battle of the Century- Part II!
The Mighty Abrams vs
The Aberrant Abrahamics
No sleep till Tel Meggidio!Armour against ideas?
Haven’t we been here before?
Rinse and repeat…<edit> add: This story seems highly relevant geopolitically, as well.
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Hard News: Haphazardly to war, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Hap Hazard…
any relation to Johnny Hazard?
Another of Mr Key’s ’Hats’ perhaps?I’ve always thought that accountants are better weapons against ISIS than soldiers. But potential trading partners might be at stake.
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Hard News: Sunday in the City, in reply to Myles Thomas,
Space…
rents really are cheap and the buildings are massive.
I have fond memories from last century (early ‘80s) of flat-sitting Bryan Staff’s second inner-city Wellington domicile (the first – after the tiny cottages we were neighbours in, up Thompson Street – was upstairs behind the Dixon Street Deli) – number two was a huuuge upper floor of an open warehouse on Wakefield street – one could bike around it – there were little oases of domesticity in a desert of tongue and groove with areas for soccer or tennis – and the lift worked!
Largely furnished from the wonderful Government Stores (tucked away on the other side of the harbour – a fun trip) – old MOW draughting tables and map drawers, an operating theatre light centrepiece – plenty of room for an Irish wolf hound!
and it was just around the corner from ’work’ in Blair Street… literally staggering distance! (Blair Street was virtually all market garden produce clearing houses then.) -
Speaker: Women, science and superheroes, in reply to Joe Wylie,
that godawful Scott McKenzie song,
people in motion, people in motion…That is a strange vibration...
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Speaker: Women, science and superheroes, in reply to ,
silent raindrop...
Art, meet Sience
The prophet Paul Simon introduces his partner to the neon sounds of his old friend, Darkness...
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Speaker: Women, science and superheroes, in reply to ,
Gilbert & George the Horse - Mk I
Sience, say hello to Art
that sapient is astride a neigh-sayer, if ever I saw one!
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Hard News: Friday Music: Christchurch,…, in reply to Mike O'Connell,
Disc located memories…
: Music World Records… Sydenham…. (Chchch)
…tucked away in Hawdon Street (parallel to Buchan and Colombo)
up the Byron Street end, as it were…The Sydenham of my yoof was rich in cultural pickings, Coca-Cola, Lane Walker Rudkin, Aulsebrooks, the railways – and all their marshalling yards, stations, tunnels and bridges, Movie Theatre, Tip-Top Icecream, Haberdashers, Wool stores, Grain stores, a Foundry, Coal yards, Pool hall, Boxing gym, The Austin assembly plant, tailors, Monumental Masons, 33rd degree Masons, Library, school, parks, were all within walking (or biking) distance…
World Records was close to the Hallmark Card warehouse, round the corner from Ballins, across from Crothall’s Laundry which was positively Dickensian when I first saw (and smelt) it – it slowly modernised as the Gas Works fell away and then the spin dryer forced them to diversify – there may have been churches and hotels dotted around for the older folk…Not sure if they recorded in there, I always thought of it as a warehouse – Tandem had a studio upstairs in Colombo Street near St Asaph St
Music World either brought in or brought the rights, or bootlegged many (one at least!) early Krautrock compilation records – if my memory serves me even passably… (not a given) – unless of course they were ‘sound-alikes’ by local prog rockers!
