Posts by philipmatthews
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A dissenting view, from those who care about the visual arts:
http://overthenet.blogspot.com/2009/05/creative.html
In the spirit of the directly above, I should say that they won't have a Barr of it. Er, as you were ...
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Reminds me. The first two, surprisingly prescient, pars of one of Steve Braunias's morning-after election stories from the SST, last November:
AND THE winner of last night's election coverage was Duncan Garner. TV3's political editor scored a fabulous scoop when he roamed the National Party campaign headquarters, and ran into Christine Rankin.
As one of New Zealand's leading harridans, Rankin was the ideal person to give voice to the wave of euphoria, fantasy, and delusion that swept the country. "John Key," she said, with yet another set of massive ear-rings swinging like chandeliers from her ears, "is a decent, really great man. He will be a much-loved prime minister". -
Yikes. I hate all things Star Trek but you might have talked me into it.
Despite what most critics thought, Abrams didn't do a bad Mission:Impossible either.
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Craig, I'd say that the cultural nationalism, or inverted cultural cringe, you talk about is a thing of the past, if it ever existed at all. Apart from the example of Oliver Driver terrorising theatre reviewers when he was at the ATC, or an apocryphal story about Stephen Stratford saying that debut NZ novels shouldn't be scrutinised too closely by reviewers (my paraphrase), examples would be hard to find. In the years I spent as an arts page editor and film reviewer I never heard anyone -- either at an institutional level or a reviewer -- say that we should tread softly around NZ stuff.
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What a dreary, humourless post from Sweetman. It reads like he's terminally bored, and he never met a generalisation he didn't like, eg this classic:
"TVNZ makes generally terrible television."
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Laws: "sexual revolution ... preserve virgins ... modern Sodom ... San Franciscan bath-houses ... surf internet porn ... you need relief ... other bodily fluids ... unnatural desire ... dirty, dirty country ..."
Someone needs a cold shower.
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Gareth Morgan also had his views on global warming aired on TV1's Sunday and in the Herald on Sunday. Yesterday must have been the book's embargo date. On Sunday, the premise was dodgy -- no one anywhere has made clear sense of this climate change business so we needed straight-talking Morgan to step in and sort it out -- but at least he came down on the side of "the alarmists" (his term) not the sceptics.
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Not ashamed to say that the first record I ever bought was The Best of Abba, c1976, Riccarton Mall, Chch. Not ashamed because Wikipedia tells me that at 24X Platinum it's tied with Dire Straits's Brothers in Arms as the best-selling album ever in New Zealand. And I know which of the two I'd rather listen to in 2009. A clue: not the one that has Knopfler on it.
Don upthread said the great battle was Abba v the Beatles. Lucky him: the two camps (no pun intended) at my primary school were Abba v the Bay City Rollers. A no-brainer, that.
Anyway, that Best of Abba was an NZ/Aust only compilation. And you can see from the Wikipedia page that RCA managed to source the least attractive Abba photo in existence for the cover:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_ABBA
But from memory, the blonde one looked much better in the photo on the back.
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Sofie -- But he has returned to TVNZ, bringing his drivel to Q + A on Sunday morning. And his feeble sign-off line, "Those were the questions and those were the answers", is obviously meant to be this decade's sequel to his classic, "Those were our people today ..." line. Prepare to go ballistic, or just vomit, as you say.
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He means that you might be reading too much into this.