http://www.additiverich.com/sturants/ Oh the fury! en-us 2008-07-08T23:00:17+13:00 http://www.additiverich.com/sturants/archives/002530.html So, that soap with people shooting lightning and shit, Devil's Disciples, was really good. Well, the effects were pretty rubbish, actually, somewhat reminscent of the Commodore 64 effects they used to do on 3:45: Live! when I were an early... Sino Cinema stuart 2008-07-08T23:00:17+13:00 http://www.additiverich.com/sturants/archives/002508.html We've had a busy time of late with our HK soap operas, which is just as well as now is New Zealand's winter of discontent, apparently. What a fucking awful country. Anyway, the first of our soaps was 'The Seventh... Sino Cinema stuart 2008-06-24T22:16:21+13:00 http://www.additiverich.com/sturants/archives/002495.html This climate change bizzo is really starting to irk me. Not that I don't accept the rationality of the IPCC's arguments (although I still reserve a small amount of scepticism, just in case). But the zeal with which climate missionaries... Miscellaneous ranting stuart 2008-06-15T21:56:04+13:00 http://www.additiverich.com/sturants/archives/002484.html Just belatedly (I've been busy) I wanted to say of 'Hoodie Day', why would we want to show we care about our youth when we think they're a pack of filthy, unlovable snots? Oh, and has anyone seen the new... Miscellaneous ranting stuart 2008-06-08T23:07:58+13:00 http://www.additiverich.com/sturants/archives/002468.html Here's the latest stuff from the Phoenix Polar Lander on Mars. It's like a Flickr page, but more intriguingly obtuse. Freaking robot can't frame a photo properly...... stuart 2008-05-27T22:29:08+13:00 http://www.additiverich.com/sturants/archives/002467.html Now with viewable comments! When I was a lad, my grandfather told me he had no truck with fiction. The real world was much more interesting, he said. Though I didn't agree with him at the time, as I got... Miscellaneous ranting stuart 2008-05-27T21:41:05+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