Posts by Rob Hosking
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Hard News: So long, and thanks for all…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Does either of them have access to an Infinite Improbability Drive?
Well, it was a Thursday. As in, never could get the hang of....
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Hard News: So long, and thanks for all…, in reply to Stephen Judd,
read “geldings” as a reference to male supporters of the quote proposals, equally offensive but in a different way.
Yep, I think that's what he meant.
And I think he wants to be attacked for making comments like this. That's the whole point.
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Hard News: So long, and thanks for all…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Nice to see that Andrea Vance is a Public Address reader…
…or if not flattery by imitation, it must be a resonant cultural meme…Actually, Chris Keall used it on NBR ONLINE, last Thursday afternoon, only an hour or two after the announcement.
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Keeping with the Chills....at the Gluepot. Around the time of Cyclone Bola.
One of my favourites of theirs (I remember singing the chorus atop of Angelus ridge in Nelson Lakes, one tramping summer holidays.....)
And isn't the drumming on this just superb???
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I would love to see those who don't agree with Graeme's post provide some on-point rebuttal, instead of links to films and character assassination.
Anyone ???
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Beatle-tangental cover version: Bettye LaVette turns Ringo's first solo hit "it don't come easy" into a swampy soulful blues....
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Hard News: Friday Music: Summer Time, in reply to Simon Grigg,
I was working in a record store at the time and we sold truckloads of it for that very reason. Things like Richard Hell's Blank Generation were deemed unworthy of local release. The first three Jam albums were not released in NZ until 1980 and then only after extreme retailer pressure.
Really? Didn't know it was that restricted, but it doesn't surprise me.
I remember seeing the 'That's Entertainment' clip on RWP in early 1981 and thinking it was utterly awesome.
And discovering what was then called Radio B - you couldn't usually pick it up in Waiuku, unless the weather conditions were really good.
Was fortunate enough for such conditions to be prevailing when they were playing 'Going Underground' and thinking it was the greatest guitar-ey surge thing I'd ever heard. Next time I managed to get up to Auckland found a copy of the single in the old Record Warehouse in Durham Lane.
As for 'That Summer',,,,I got a cheap version! it was in a bargain bin in Whakatane, sometime in 1983, and I swooped. Cost me $6, which was probably a bit under half price at that stage.
Favourite track has to be 'Another Girl Another Planet' which I wrote about back when I was doing the bloggy thing..... shameless self link.
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"My nose was throbbing like a bad nightclub...."_
Magnificent simile.
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Up Front: Somebody Think of the Young Adults!, in reply to Rich Lock,
‘1984’ was also a set text. The Herald may need reminding that major portions of the plot revolve around the active enjoyment of sex and state suppression thereof.
Yeah, I was thinking of that too. Same at my school...(4th form, I think. Was somewhat surprised, but not unpleasantly, at the time).
Also 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' which led to a spate of jokes about earth-moving in my 5th form class.
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Up Front: Somebody Think of the Young Adults!, in reply to Keir Leslie,
Is it a book that you would even wish your husband, or, even, your servants to read?
Nice Chatterley trial reference there.