THE CRYPTID FACTOR with Rhys Darby and David Farrier (oh, and their producer Buttons). Every Sunday they'll be discussing all things cryptid – from Bigfoot to the Loch Ness monster to the Mongolian Death Worm... not to mention some topics closer to home.
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This show aired 16 August 2009
This Week's Bits
Issues dissected in this edition include: the Government's emissions target; the SAS and Afghanistan and the Corrections Association responds to comments by Bill English that it's refusing to allow double bunking in prisons and are therefore responsible for the need to privatise prisons.
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MP3, 15m22s, 3.5MB
The Weekly Roundup
Features interviews with The Little Bushman; Misery and a in studio performance by The Checks.
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MP3, 12m46s, 2.9MB
The Age Of Stupid
British documentary maker Franny Armstrong has been right on the front lines of social protest for some time now. Her debut film McLibel documented the fight of two environmental activists who had been taken to court by McDonald's over a phamplet they distributed which was critical of the company. That film was made for nothing despite taking ten years to film. Her next film was called Drowned Out where she followed the plight of a family whose home was to be destroyed following the building of a dam in India.
Her latest film is her most ambitious as it took her to seven countries on a tiny budget to film the lives of six people whose lives have either links to or in some way been affected by climate change. It's called The Age Of Stupid and stars Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change while we had the chance?
It has it's joint Australian and New Zealand premiere this week and I spoke to Franny over the phone from London.
Further reading
The film's website including details of the NZ premiere.
Brendan O'Neil's outraged review on Spiked Online.
The 'making of' The Age Of Stupid.
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MP3, 19m55s, 4.6MB
Incredible Hot Sex With Hideous People
On Saturday the 15th of August at the Cross Street Studios the first Auckland Zinefest we've seen in quite some years took place. A number of zine makers and enthusiasts had stalls at the event which included talks by guest speakers.
One of those was Bryce Galloway (you might recall he was in a band called Wendy House), the creator of one of the country's longest running Zines called Incredibly Hot Sex With Hideous People. Since it's first issue in 2002 it's slowly morphed into a detailed auto-biographical diary, documenting everything from the birth of his children to conversations about car insurance.
Here Bryce begins talking about how his zine was born and before long discusses how a MFA project at Massey University nearly drove him to despair and how Zines differ from blogs and why people still make them.
Further reading
Auckland Zinefest website.
The website for the zine collection at the Wellington City Library.
An essay by Jenna Freedman arguing that zines are not blogs.
Incredibly Hot Sex With Hideous People can be ordered via stinkispinkis@yahoo.com
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MP3, 21m10s, 4.8MB
News Rage with James Coe
This week James splashes about in the pit that is the Herald On Sunday and finds Kevin Milne is not well valued on the speaking circuit.
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MP3, 13m31s, 3.1MB
Like Riding A Bike With No Seat
Lovely to be back after a wee while away in Europe (quick run down: Oporto = Bill Murray's brother, Paris = nice but cliché, Berlin = cheap as chips and London = expensive, like NASA expensive.
Big thanks to James Burnett who looked after the show while I was away. Nice work, I totally owe you.
Oh, and if you're into it please check out the blog for the show designed to fill in the wait between Sundays. It's updated everyday so please stop by.
Annnnyway:
"I think this is the very time that we need more PRTs – but at the district level. On the surface, the decision to disengage the PRT for an SAS deployment seems to me to be a poor strategic choice. We need population -centric strategies that separate the people for the insurgents and make the insurgents irrelevant. We need to improve the lives of the people. PRTs can do this. I am not sure the SAS can."
That's US Afghanistan expert Thomas Johnson on the decision of the NZ government to scale back Provincial Reconstruction Teams and, on a request from the White House, send SAS troops back to Afghanistan. It’s part of an interview by the tireless Gordon Campbell. Take it as a counter point to Robert Patman's view as found in This Week's Bits.
At the top of the show I played The Ballad of GI Joe which can be found here. It's BRILLIANT.
And finally the version of Grand Torino Clint Eastwood should have made.