Anna Rugis
Wow. I was so blown away by the song she sung. Amazing.
I enjoyed the interview too. I liked her – she seemed quirky, honest, humble and relaxed.
Gin Wigmore
My ears! My ears! Ugh … what an awful, annoying voice, speaking style, and way of thinking … if what she does counts as “thinking”.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally, greeeaaat, yeah. For god’s sake, someone buy this poor girl a thesaurus … and a brain … she sounds like a skanky tramp with two brain cells.
“For somebody who presents herself as, you know, somebody of a, shall we say, low attention span …” (26:11) HAHAHAHA burrrrrrrrrrn. Kim’s polite way of pointing out that she sounds like an idiot.
Surprisingly, her music wasn’t bad. I might even go to her concert if she promised to NEVER speak during songs. If I was giving her career advice, I’d tell her to shut up and sing, and never, ever, give interviews. But then, what do I know.
John Reynolds
The podcast repeated from 17:45 (starting again from 2:45) until 32:45. Annoying … but great interview.
I love how he speaks – he sounds excited and inspired and like he’s loving his life. Great.
“There used to be this fantasy about New Zealand – particularly the sort of southern quality of New Zealand character – of a certain kind of morose, taciturn, guardedness and a reticence verbally. My experience has always been that give New Zealanders a microphone or an opportunity and often you can’t stop them talking. We have a tremendously rich vocabulary.” (5:46)
Interesting.
I learnt this word today: atavistivic
adj. relating to or characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral
Greg Clydesdale
What a FOOL.
“That’s nuts Greg!” (20:13)
Yep. Pretty much sums it up.
Jay Rayner : Great Restaurants
A regular lolathon! Funny guy.
“There are people who love opera who pay equal sums to sit in one of those plush seats and watch the fat lady sing. I would rather stick pins in my eyes. ” (5:44)
“Sensual experiences can come in many forms. There are some chaps who get their sensual experiences wrapped up in PVC by the hour – not my bag. But I’ll happily spend it on dinner. And if that makes me strange and peculiar to other people, well so shoot me. But I feel no guilt over that.” (6:50)
Paul Tobin and Daniel Falconer
Interesting. They seemed nice.
6:34
“I think basically beforehand you would just had to have gone to Hollywood. But since Peter Jackson Hollywood’s kind of come here now.”
That’s cool. Good for them.
Emma Featherstone: big school bands
Inspirational!
What an awesome woman. When I listen to people like this talk I remember there are some amazing people in NZ (after getting all down from reading about all the crime, nonsense and general stupidity on nzherald.com).
She so deserves that award. I can’t even remember what that award was called, but she deserves whatever award people want to give her. If I had kids I’d want to send them to Kings after listening to this. Although I still don’t like the idea of single sex schools as well as gathering all the rich people together. Come to think of it, if I ever have kids I probably could never afford to send them to Kings anyway.
I was nodding along to what she was saying about how in NZ people have low standards of what kids should be taught (musically). I thought this was normal until going overseas and seeing what school kids are taught. I felt a bit embarrassed about the music that gets taught in NZ.
Yay for Emma Featherstone – wouldn’t it be great if all teachers were as passionate and intelligent as her.
Kate’s Klassic: Mrs Dalloway
Blah.
I like this book, but I don’t think Kate said anything interesting about it.
And why the fuck do they spell klassic with a k? Grrr.
Playing Favourites with Michael Hurst
Fantastic. Loved this interview. I love his voice, the way he speaks, what he says.
Very cool guy.
His childhood … omg, a gang! Scary shit. Wouldn’t like to live anywhere near a gang of kids like that.
Stephen Parke
That’s correct. That’s correct. That’s correct. Grrrr…. shut up already. Can’t you just say yes?
I thought this was going to be one of those interviews like the sports ones when she admits she didn’t watch the game and they start talking about politics or something.
But, no. Particles, zzzzzzz.
I gave up after 11 mins. I thought his Kiwi/US hybrid accent was interesting … but not really in a good way.
And his voice reminded me of one of those teachers who almost seem to be talking in a monotone on purpose to torture you by making it that much harder to focus on what they are saying.
Fail.
