Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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Watership Down = Hands Down most traumatising film ever experienced by kids of our generation. That beating exposed heart in the drain pipe. Holy Sheeat. WTF were my parents thinking.
They were probably thinking, "Oh, a cute cartoon with bunnies in it!!!!" without realising the horrible reality.
A friend of mine was so traumatised by Watership Down that he actually had to get councilling as a child :(
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Valentine's do a special giant birthday drink with sparklers 'n' shit. Imagine Whale Oil's eye's lighting up with joy!
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I didn't think 13-year olds were allowed in licensed bars, unless he could persuade a parent to attend.
Perhaps we could change the venue to Valentines or Cobb & Co.
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There will be optional name-tags on which you may write your screen-name
Make sure there's also space for people's Twitter name. Damian Christie can use the space to express his lack of excitement.
And Wellingtonians: stay tuned. We're working on a similar meet-up in the capital too.
Hurry up, ehoa!
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I read the LiveJournal of Dave White, a Los Angeles-based movie reviewer who just happens to be gay. A few years ago he published his hilarious memoir, Exile In Guyville. It's just a funny book. It's not porn.
Yet he's now on Amazon's list, and he writes about it here.
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Christian rock sucks when it's a band aping the style of a secular group. But when the group is good on their own terms and just happens to be writing songs about religious themes, then it doesn't suck.
Evidence:
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I suspected it might be more popular elsewhere.
It seriously makes me think that Adidas/Super 14 is going after the not insignificant "pink dollar".
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I was going to comment that I'd never had any religious education in school, but I realised I did. It's just that it was so rubbish that none of the religious lessons stuck, and instead I just remembered the crazy-ass tutors.
In primary school, a stocky old woman would come in (once a week?) and tell us stories from the Bible. If we asked questions ("Why did people live to such an old age?") she'd get annoyed.
She got us to sing Christian songs as she played along on her autoharp and thumped her foot heavily on the floor to the beat. We weren't allowed to thump along.
This included a song that was accompanied by a book with different coloured pages. We all got a little version, which was cool as one of the pages was gold and shiny.
My heart was black with sin until the Savior came in.
His precious blood I know has washed me white as snow.
And in His book I'm told I'll walk the streets of gold.
Oh wonderful, wonderful day! He's washed my sins away!Trouble was, my white page got dirty after a while.
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At intermediate school, we were visited about once a month by Gus from Youth For Christ. He was VERY ENTHUSIASTIC and walked up and down the stage, gesticulating wildly. See, when you buy a lawn mower, you get an instruction manual that tell you how to use the lawn mower. But where's the instruction manual for life? That's the Bible.
But all I got from Gus was the knowledge that 11-year-olds can do really good, funny impressions of Christian youth workers.
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I feel both my vocabulary and indeed life has been enhance by the new word "dickpot".
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The cat with the bag on its head is gold. I like that after a while the cat seems to have decided that since the bag isn't coming off, he's just going to enjoy having on for a while.
Hey, here's something fun and new to watch! Charlie Brooker, of Screenwipe and general awesomeness fame, has a new series, Newswipe. It's like Screenwipe but focuses on news media.
Episode 2 had a brilliant look at the Jade Goody cancer debacle, reckoning that the media had turned her into Schroedinger's cat - both dead and alive; neither dead nor alive.
Start with episode one, part one here:
And there's a playlist for the series here with the rest so far.