Colin Jackson

Time to unleash Billy Taylor with I wish I Knew If you lived in the UK in the late 20th you might recognise this as the theme to a long running movie review TV show called Film , eg Film 85, hosted for a long time by the witty and acerbic Barry Norman. Billy Taylor wrote the song as an instrumental as it is played here, but later words were added to make it about civil rights, memorably sung by Nina Simone under the title I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlH_XFuf3wU #PianoMusic#JukeboxFridayNight

I go checking out the reports, digging up the dirt You get to meet all sorts in this line of work Treachery and treason, there's always an excuse for it And when I find the reason, I still can't get used to it Dire Straits with their atmospheric song Private Investigations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9K27HvhDxA #Dirty#JukeboxFridayNight

This one’s just plain #Dirty Content warnings, easily offended etc. Frank Zappa with Bobby Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUq_T_Bhau8 #JukeboxFridayNight

Remember the one hit wonder Mud with Tiger Feet? Here they are on Top of the Pops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQfidTOTsLo #Dirty#JukeboxFridayNight

So @jeridansky@sfba.social has already posted one by Steely Dan - thanks Jeri - here’s another favourite of theirs, Do It Again When you know she's no high climber Then you find your only friend In a room with your two timer And you're sure you're near the end Then you love a little wild one And she brings you only sorrow All the time you know she's smiling You'll be on your knees tomorrow, yeah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Yuu7RC2n0 #Dirty #JukeboxFridayNight

A change in mood for me (I don’t normally post country. Or Western.) Red Dirt Girl by Emmylou Harris. This is the version with Mark Knopfler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE_sUN_M7p0&list=RDJE_sUN_M7p0&start_radio=1 #Dirty#JukeboxFridayNight

One from David Bowie - the Bewlay Brothers from his album Hunky Dory. Hard to understand even by Bowie’s standards, it’s possible that it was about the artist’s relationship with his brother, who suffered from schizophrenia. And my brother lays upon the rocks He could be dead, he could be not, he could be you He's chameleon, comedian, Corinthian and caricature … Oh, and we were gone Kings of oblivion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO9JBM1ufA8 #Royalty#JukeboxFridayNight

@futzle@old.mermaid.town kiwi. Same as pavlova. You can have Russell Crowe though.

Hawkwind want to make you royalty Kings of speed, kings of speed We're gonna make you kings of speed The song title is Kings Of Speed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saHImVyouGQ #royalty #JukeboxFridayNight

#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

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

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!

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 people to win you should rank them accordingly, i.e. 1 or 2.

If there are candidates that you do NOT wish to see elected you should not rank them at all. This is better than just giving them a low ranking because it avoids the possibility of your vote getting transferred to them during the STV count process.

• The count process is explained in tedious detail here https://internetnz.nz/governance-and-reports/our-board/board-elections/internetnz-electoral-system-explanation/

@exlibrarykris@cloudisland.nz @davemosk@mastodon.nz @paulh@cloudisland.nz me too!

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

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.

@puck@mastodon.nz @georgepenney@sunny.garden are you sure it wasn’t the cathedral?

@rmi@cloudisland.nz Awww, has The Peripheral been canned? Grr. @jwz@mastodon.social

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?

@artnacrea@mastodon.ie @rmi@cloudisland.nz my girlfriend at university, a well brought-up young woman who was studying Old Irish as part of her degree, told me in tones of faint horror about what Cú Chulainn got up to with various girls. She was somewhat shocked. Reader, I married her.

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

@paulh@cloudisland.nz The last time he stood for Parliament it was for National in a rural seat, where he was beaten by a transsexual.

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

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

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

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

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

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

@rmi@cloudisland.nz try referring to the “Microsoft Social Network” when you mean LinkedIn

@NunavutBirder@mas.to any bears awake yet?

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

Seems like no-one has posted this yet: Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky? He got an ice pick That made his ears burn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbV16XOk404 The Stranglers with No More Heroes. Check out Dave Greenfield's amazing keyboard solo, another good 'un we lost to Covid. #History#JukeboxFridayNight

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

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 #JukeboxFridayNight#MarketsAndFairs

Then there’s Herman’s Hermits with I’m Henery The Eighth I Am - a witty premise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1GS6gu1FgY #royalty #JukeboxFridayNight

Freddie and the boys (ie Queen) playing Bohemian Rhapsody at Live Aid in Wembley, 1985. I love the way he crosses his hands when playing the main piano theme, just as we were all taught never to do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbvyNnw8Qjg #PianoMusic#JukeboxFridayNight

#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

@xrobau@mastodon.au Kia ora for that!

#JukeboxFridayNight #PianoMusic David Bowie with his cover of the Rolling Stones’ Let’s Spend The Night Together. It’s got so much more energy than the original, and also stunning piano by the incomparable Mike Garson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXo7wMwDJA8

What’s this sculpture, really?

One from David Bowie - the Bewlay Brothers from his album Hunky Dory. Hard to understand even by Bowie’s standards, it’s possible that it was about the artist’s relationship with his brother, who suffered from schizophrenia. And my brother lays upon the rocks He could be dead, he could be not, he could be you He's chameleon, comedian, Corinthian and caricature … Oh, and we were gone Kings of oblivion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuDp6UhkUaI #Royalty#JukeboxFridayNight

#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

The King of Pop with Dirty Diana https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUi_S6YWjZw #JukeboxFridayNight#Dirty

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

I go checking out the reports, digging up the dirt You get to meet all sorts in this line of work Treachery and treason, there's always an excuse for it And when I find the reason, I still can't get used to it Dire Straits with thir atmospheric song Private Investigations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9K27HvhDxA #Dirty#JukeboxFridayNight

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. Getting in and out through the film set was a bear :) #Waiting#JukeboxFridayNight

#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

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

You, you have your own special way, Of turning the world so it's facing The way that I'm going. Don't ever Don't ever stop. Your Own Special Way by Genesis Part of my personal soundtrack, for reasons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykaEysI4KYA #PersonalPlaylist#JukeboxFridayNight