#Christchurch New Zealand

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Waves look like ripples from above

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Both Eliza Taylor and Bob Morley will be attending Armageddonexpo in Christchurch, New Zealand this year during April 29-30!

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♫ Peace Train ♫ (Redux)

This is one of those songs that I play every couple of years and each time I play it, it seems even more relevant than the last time.  It makes me think its message is one that will always be relevant, always be needed.   From March 29, 2019 … A National Remembrance Service for the victims of the Christchurch mosques terrorist attack, and all those affected by it, was held this morning.  Yusuf…

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G.U.S. the robot at Hornby Mall in Christchurch, New Zealand, 1980s.

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Christchurch Town Hall. Miles Warren and Maurice Mahoney. Post-earthquake restoration by Hawkins.

Second photo from Christchurch City Council.

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jesus was seen

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꧁★꧂

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Today is the fifth anniversary of the mass murder of Muslims at prayer in mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand by a white supremacist terrorist. It would be a really nice day to donate to a Muslim cause in their memory.

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Street scene in Christchurch, New Zealand

British vintage postcard

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A bush cricket sits on a sunflower petal in a garden in Christchurch, New Zealand. The insect is also known as a katydid, named after the sound it makes by rubbing its wings together.

Photograph: Sanka Vidanagama/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

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A Visit To The Last DVD Store While packing for a trip to Auckland, I saw that one of the latest episodes of Conan Needs a Friend podcast was with a caller working in ‘The Last DVD Store’.

The aforementioned store is Alice in Videoland and it's based in Christchurch, where I was staying with relatives for a month. So I HAD TO give it a listen and, eventually, a visit. Luckily, I had friends in town who were down to accompany me on this admittedly geeky excursion.

Didn’t meet the caller, James, but we did get to talk to one of his co-workers who told us that we—at least to his knowledge—are the first people to visit the store because of the podcast. He also had interesting news to share…

Conan recently dropped by himself as part of his HBO travel show, Conan Must Go. That’s James with him on a framed photo that sits proudly on the store’s wall. It’s for the second season, which hasn’t aired yet—so I guess that’s a spoiler?

Team Coco connection aside, as a film geek who grew up in the era of video rentals, but had no access to a shop with a selection this massive, I was truly in a wonderland. I could have spent my entire day there.

I mean, this is just a small section of the store but it already offers an array of standout films: The Holdovers, Anatomy of a Fall, Perfect Days, Civil War, Barbie, Past Lives, Furiosa, Challengers, Pearl, May December, Decision to Leave, Tár, Monkey Man, Dune, Monster, and The Banshees of Inisherin.

The international section was also impressive. Scanned it for Daniel Brühl films and was not disappointed.

It also has an accompanying theatre. I didn't get to watch a movie there, but I did catch the 70th anniversary screening of Seven Samurai in Lumière Cinema. I've been meaning to check out the works of Akira Kurosawa for a while now and to also watch a movie in a boutique cinema so I figured - why not hit two birds with one stone? Never mind that it was 3.5 hour black and white Japanese movie from the 1950s and that I woke up at an ungodly hour that day to catch a 6AM flight back to Christchurch. They served my coffee in a ceramic mug and all the seats had a tray attached—I was chuffed.

Also, not me stifling a squeal in an art gallery when I saw Goodbye, Lenin! in the Canterbury Film Society brochure... and the disappointment when I realized the month it was scheduled for had already passed.

Oh well, you can't have it all. Did get to explore Hobbiton as well—because New Zealand—but perhaps I'll save that post for a different time.

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Robotnik Three, built by Johnathan Mackenzie [sic] from Palmerston North Secondary School, at a science fair in Christchurch, New Zealand, 1983.

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The Yellowlees family relaxes in the sun on Woodend Beach.

Christchurch, NZ

1964

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The Tannery, Christchurch

This place was so pretty and I loved the vibe! Definitely one of the highlights of my trip to Christchurch.

What's the prettiest place that y'all have been to?