http://www.additiverich.com/sturants/ Oh the fury! en-us 2008-05-15T12:01:05+13:00 http://www.additiverich.com/sturants/archives/002446.html Here's a quote from author Hanif Kureishi in a recent Listener article: Artists are the people chosen by the society to be reckless and say things that are not normally said. This isn't the first time I've come across this... Miscellaneous ranting stuart 2008-05-15T12:01:05+13:00 http://www.additiverich.com/sturants/archives/002445.html So a while back the DomPost gave linguists at VUW their own column, which was kind of cool. Got to read Laurie "ZZZZZZZJST" Bauer on the op-ed papers. Nice. However, Janet Holmes' boring feminist language rants (eg http://www.stuff.co.nz/4526373a1861.html) are really... Miscellaneous ranting stuart 2008-05-14T19:24:52+13:00 http://www.additiverich.com/sturants/archives/002385.html Have had something of a physics binge lately. Started out reading Lee Smolin's Three Roads to Quantum gravity. While this is earlier than his Trouble With Physics, some of his gripes about String Theory are on display, if muted in... Astronomy domine stuart 2008-03-31T21:41:01+13:00 http://www.additiverich.com/sturants/archives/002383.html Prompted by a colleague bemoaning the fact that she would be 30 soon and would need to go to 'Carousel', I got out Logan's Run, and, for good measure, Soylent Green. I haven't seen Soylent Green before, though after all... Miscellaneous ranting stuart 2008-03-30T11:38:34+13:00 http://www.additiverich.com/sturants/archives/002382.html The idea of Roger Douglas making a comeback seems both all wrong and delicious at the same time. I mean, who asked for that, and yet, here he is. My main objection to letting market forces run the country is... Miscellaneous ranting stuart 2008-03-29T16:01:48+13:00 http://www.additiverich.com/sturants/archives/002364.html ... other than Aguirre: Der Zorn Gottes and Fitzcarraldo, may I heartily recommend Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht. When the opening credits feature (apropos of nothing) mummified corpses from Mexico, complete with Popul Vuh's usual brooding mellotron choirs, you know you're... Miscellaneous ranting stuart 2008-03-16T22:27:52+13:00 http://www.additiverich.com/sturants/archives/002363.html Sally and I have finished watching Beautiful Cooking (Mei Leui Chufong lit. Beautiful Women Cook), a game show in which various HK ingenues cook for a variety of HK male celebs, who pass judgement on them. So far, so sexist,... Sino Cinema stuart 2008-03-16T21:49:06+13:00 http://www.additiverich.com/sturants/archives/002304.html This from Michael Laws: ... Kiwis are a negative lot. We are conditioned as such by our poor and insular media, by the Maori grievance industry and by the peculiarly Kiwi tradition of not making a fuss. The combination has... Miscellaneous ranting stuart 2008-02-17T15:58:17+13:00 http://www.additiverich.com/sturants/archives/002303.html I guess the 'hiphop is dead' idea has been around for a while, and aside from Timbaland's work I can't recall liking any hiphop I've heard in the past ten years, but I was kinda 'yeah, well' about it all.... Music in general stuart 2008-02-16T19:01:33+13:00 http://www.additiverich.com/sturants/archives/002287.html In case anyone is googling about how AudioMulch, the sound software I use, runs on Linux under Wine, here's a testimonial. First, hardware declaration: I'm running a Ubuntu Gutsy on a 2.66GHz P4 workstation with 512MB of RAM. It's now... Miscellaneous ranting stuart 2008-02-08T21:50:42+13:00 http://www.additiverich.com/sturants/archives/002272.html Hot on the heels of 'Splore', the 'eco-reggae' festival comes Hayley Westenra and Dave Dobbyn's "In tune with nature" winery tour. Well, I guess that's how you make a buck when no one buys cds. But please, must it be... Music in general stuart 2008-01-27T16:54:00+13:00 http://www.additiverich.com/sturants/archives/002271.html At my new work a bunch of people have music shares via this Linux music software called Amarok. Often I browse through these shares and listen. I've been able to listen to a lot of stuff I would never have... Music in general stuart 2008-01-26T22:52:27+13:00 http://www.additiverich.com/sturants/archives/002262.html The new Radiohead album is really good. They're a funny band really. There are thousands of experimental rock and even electronic outfits the world over who never make a dime, and then Radiohead wander along doing exactly the same thing... Music in general stuart 2008-01-19T18:03:34+13:00 http://www.additiverich.com/sturants/archives/002261.html Today's Dom has a full page article on Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Hong Kong's foremost velvet-voiced, brooding, wacky and height-challenged actor. The article, nicked from Melbourne's The Age, tends to focus on Leung's arthouse antics with (oh noes!) Wong Kar... Sino Cinema stuart 2008-01-19T17:31:52+13:00 http://www.additiverich.com/sturants/archives/002260.html Yeah, you tell us!... Miscellaneous ranting stuart 2008-01-13T22:32:30+13:00