.. because of my familiarity with the PC format. I shouldn’t have bothered. The Windows 8 platform in my Notebook bears little resemblance to my XP or Windows 7 equipped PCs and the hardware is relatively heavy and it’s onerous to lug around. I hate throwing still-functioning things away so I continue to lug it…
..he was as funny as another stand-up comedian he despised. I can see how that might be considered as fundamentally shallow, but if Seinfeld the stand-up comedian is actually Seinfeld the man’s complementary personality, you can see how it can become a very personal issue. Then there’s the (locally) celebrated example of The Vines’ singer,…
.. past the aged beef of the veldt. Whilst I follow in descending order of hope the All Blacks and the Wallabies at the end of the day I would rather see a good game and my team beaten than otherwise. So I don’t really think that New Zealand deserved to win the final of…
Anyway, the moment I shed a tear in Ricki and the Flash happened to be a line from Rick Springfield’s character (Greg) when he was putting the word on Meryl Streep’s character, (Ricki aka Linda) which, coincidentally is one of the lines featured in the trailer (that I fortunately didn’t see beforehand) so it must…
.. environment. I suppose that means they’ve dated. Beatles’ songs not only define an era, (‘60s and early ‘70s), but they are in turn defined by that era, as well as by their geographical and cultural location. As a schoolboy I can remember practising Beatles’ songs at Compton Tothill’s place and Compton’s father querying why…
1) Spectrum at Cathedral Hall presenting the Misere concert 2) Near Gisborne in 1972 or ’73 – all Spectrum’s gear fitted in the Transit – I still don’t believe it! 3) My son Chris fingers Spectrum’s roadie, Nicky Campbell 4) Spectrum with Tribe at Cathedral Hall 5) Another shot of Tribe with Spectrum at the…