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• Post #4426086

  #JukeboxFridayNight #birds Jeri has already posted Prince’s When Doves Cry - good on you, Jeri. Here’s the version by Quinton Tarver from Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 film Romeo+Juliet, featuring very young Leonardo di Caprio and Claire Danes. (If you’ve never watched it, run not walk. Luhrmann brings the bard alive.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvOCyUbyPS8

• Post #4387936

  What’s this sculpture, really?

• Post #4363977

  Adventures in AV, chapter 1. In which I as a tech who knows nothing about AV have to try to make a video recording set up usable by civilians

• Post #4274500

  Of course, there’s always Africa by Toto Hurry boy, she's waiting there for you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY #JukeboxFridayNight #Waiting

• Post #4273806

  Another song about #waiting for #JukeboxFridayNight Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood. NSFW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yem_iEHiyJ0

• Post #4273603

  Another song about #Waiting, for #JukeboxFridayNight Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood. If you don’t know the link, listen to the lyrics :) R18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yem_iEHiyJ0

• Post #4272209

  There’s a scene in the film Chariots of Fire where runner Eric Liddell, played by Ian Charleson, reads this verse from Isaiah: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Here’s the film theme music by Vangelis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a-HfNE3EIo As a personal link, this was filmed in part at my college on the day we all returned for the start of term. Gett...

• Post #4055905

  #HotOrCold #JukeboxFridayNight Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot I mean, she was steaming The Boys Are Back In Town by Thin Lizzy (CW misogyny) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta3yktdiqqe

• Post #4053758

  Classics friends: if I were going to read one modern translation of Odyssey, as a total classics civilian, should it be Emily Wilson or Stephen Fry?

• Post #4051777

  InternetNZ election - boosts welcome. The voting tokens for the INZ election are out. The list of candidates with their statements is online at https://internetnz.nz/governance-and-reports/our-board/board-elections/2026-board-elections/ The remainder of this post advises how to vote tactically should you so wish. INZ uses a form of STV (*). Voters are asked to rank candidates from 1 to n, where n is the number standing. You do not have to rank all candidates. Clearly, if you want specific pe...

• Post #3929457

  This book is amazing. It’s written by a Scottish prof of literature, who happens to live in NZ, about a prof of literature in Scotland. Well-written and keeps you guessing. Great character development. CW for most things, it’s a crime novel after all.

• Post #3910652

  Back in the early 90s I was the NZ govt’s first ICT advisor, working for the Minister of ICT. A concept in vogue then was the Negroponte Switch, broadly this was the notion that phones shouldn’t be wired and TVs should, which was the opposite of the situation as it was then. Now, many of us don’t have what we have come to call landlines, and all streaming and some live TV is delivered over fibre. (I watched the rugby game tonight over fibre, for instance.) Seems Mr Negroponte was right!

• Post #3895865

  Southern Pinwheel Galaxy aka NGC300 or Caldwell C70. Shot from my garden last night. #Dwarf3 #astrophotography

• Post #3878762

  Lay down your bundles of rags and reminders, And spread your wares on the ground. Lindisfarne with Meet Me On The Corner I have strong memories of my grandfather taking me as a child to the football and to the pictures in Newcastle, England, presumably so my mother and grandmother could go shopping together. Recently I went back to Newcastle and sat in the main square listening to Lindisfarne and The Animals, both fine bands from the city. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch_5dB1FkqY #Jukebox...

• Post #3714149

  Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest: Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers: Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers! The Lord Chancellor’s Nightmare from Iolanthe by Gilbert and Sullivan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71BXaf0x5hA There’s also a version sung by Todd Rundgren https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuWTNLdKSOs #JukeboxFridayNight #CloseToOurHearts

• Post #3664971

  Tamaki Makaurau I’m in you. Not complaining, but I was expecting to be in Nelson

• Post #3552004

  #JukeboxFridayNight #PowerPlay I am the centre of this universe The wind of time is blowing through me And it's all moving relative to me It's all a figment of my mind In a world that I've designed Master of the Universe by Hawkwind from their album In Search of Space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3W7ch0oLeA

• Post #3551587

  #JukeboxFridayNight #PowerPlay I saw Lemmy and the boys perform this in New Plymouth in 2007. True then and true now. Motörhead - Just Cos You Got The Power Don’t Mean You Got The Right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4JzEJq5bhs

• Post #3507314

  So I went to the Pacific on holiday and ended up in a business meeting…

• Post #3507076

  This is a cocoa pod. The white bits within taste sweet and a little slimy, very bitter if you bite into them

• Post #3415663

  I racked my brains for #Stereotypes #JukeBoxFridayNight and eventually came up with this. It has two links to the theme, the title of the band and the content of the lyric. Apologies if someone has already posted it. He’s far and he can’t run too fast But he’s faster than me Steriogram with Walkie Talkie Man - it’s a really fun video from back in 2004 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7UvbwCjXUk

• Post #3350050

  Ian Kilmister of Motörhead, aka Lemmy, lived life according to his values. You know I'm born to lose And gambling's for fools But that's the way I like it, baby I don't want to live forever He didn’t, but he certainly burned brightly Ace of Spades by Motörhead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbvWn1EY6g #LifeWellLived #JukeboxFridayNight

• Post #3298965

  Since we’re doing mashups, here’s a track from American Edit by Dean Gray (geddit?) - Impossible Rebel. The whole album is a lot of fun and chock full of irreverent samples. Of course the music biz tried to sue it off the net with predictable results. Read more about the album on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Edit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FYEqi72b-4&list=PLrpOJGxlgJwIEs9i9a0UjNs6iSS0QomI-&index=7&pp=iAQB8AUB #MusicMusiciansAndMashups #JukeboxFridayNight

• Post #3298904

  I’ve really tried hard to force David Bowie’s Panic in Detroit, from his Aladdin Sane album, into the theme tonight, but I’ll give up trying and post it anyway, entirely because it contains the highly topical line “having scored a trillion dollars” #JukeboxFridayNight #MusicMusiciansAndMashups https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM3fCUmSheY

• Post #2209990

  I do not dream of Sussex downs or quaint old England’s quaint old towns— I think of what may yet be seen  in Johnsonville or Geraldine — Dennis Glover, Home Thoughts

• Post #1893460

  I’m in a pub in Aotearoa with a band playing Irish folk music, but @artnacrea isn’t here. How is that even possible?

• Post #1893458

  Since @Kay is offline, I'll take the liberty of posting on the topic already discussed. (Hope that's OK, Kay) For #JukeboxFridayNight the theme is #UseYourHead School, by Supertramp. I can see you in the morning when you go to school Don't forget your books, you know you've gotta learn the golden rule Teacher tells you stop your playing and get on with your work And be like Johnnie-Too-Good, don't you know he never shirks He's coming along Th...

• Post #1893456

  #JukeboxFridayNight #UseYourHead About someone who uses their head too much: I can't seem to face up to the facts I'm tense and nervous, and I can't relax I can't sleep 'cause my bed's on fire Don't touch me, I'm a real live wire Psycho Killer by Talking Heads. I saw this performed live in thr 1970s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ54eImz88w

• Post #1893452

  NZDF assists Bougainville in destruction of WW2-era bombs https://www.thenational.com.pg/nzdf-assists-bougainville-in-destruction-of-ww2-era-bombs/

• Post #1867840

  Where’s Colin?