Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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remember Jay Laga'aia much later on
I think Jay Laga'aia hosted a later (early '90s?) clip request show called "Your Choice". What I remember the most is him singing (in a soulful falsetto) "Your choice, your choice - on channel 2!"
And my favourite memory of "I Like That One 2" were the petitions and giant envelopes* requesting that specific music videos be played. It usually seemed to be some Duran Duran clip. And it's a reminder of how few music vids were screened on NZ television back then - just RTR and RWP = 90 mins a week?
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Oh, oh, oh! At last year's book fair I picked up a travel guide to the South Pacific. In the Wellington section, it had a photo of Cambridge/Kent Terrace, with a caption saying it was a "typical wide Wellington boulevard". Lolz!
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Michael's voice sounds simply weak and pathetic. For that matter, he wrote very few of his songs.
Hilarious! This reminds me of some punk kid on NZmusic.com who declared that he'd just realised that the NZ Symphony Orchestra were actually a covers band (and therefore shit) because they didn't write their own music.
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So the chaotic shop on Abel Smith Street, near Real Groovy, proved a considerable diversion to me.
I've only been there once. I spent so much time trying not to fall over or crash into stuff that I realised I couldn't actually browse and left feeling all annoyed.
But, really, the clutter obstacles are what makes that shop what it is, so I will don one of those cat burglar suits and make a return visit.
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In a news story, the reporter might make a comment, then you get 30 seconds of footage before they pipe up again.
Much of that style was a result of the available technology. Digital editing didn't exist. It was all tape and non-linear, so longer chunks of story were quicker and easier to create.
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Does this mean we are heading towards the corner of the tens/teens?
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This series is a great idea, especially keeping the segments whole.
It's the little details - those old 1.5l drink bottles in the dog poo story, with the black stabiliser cuff on the bottom. Those bottles were second most useful to egg cartons in the world of craft for kids.
And somehow watching that dog poo story has made my childhood feel like it was centuries ago. The past is indeed a foreign country.
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Voicemail is the biggest pain in the arse ever. I'm almost at the point of changing my voicemail message to say that I don't use voicemail, so please don't leave a message.
I'd rather get a text or an email or a tweet or a Facebook message. Anything but voicemail.
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Out on the main road, I could see streams of families: thirtysomethings and their families; the parents just of the age to have been captured by the legend of Kashin the elephant as small children themselves.
This reminds me of the last time I went to the Easter Show. There were all these parents dragging bored-looking children around, saying, "When I was a boy, I used to love having a hotdog at the Easter Show. Do you want a hotdog?"
If there was a public memorial service for Georgie Pie, we'd probably see a similar crowd.
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In your *face*, Adric!
Well, that was sort of the problem in the first place...