Dunedin: Classic or Dud?

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I was there last year. They call it the Edinburgh of the Southern Hemisphere. I got chatted up in a club that was whipped up with Blink 182 tour hysteria. I made nothing of it. They wouldn't let us into the student night. Apparently there's a lot of cheap sex. It seemed OK.

― Nick, Saturday, 13 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was wondering, which ILE posters live in Dunedin?

― james, Saturday, 13 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Never been but any small town that can produce The Chills, The Clean, Flying Nun records in gen., and misty eyes in every kewl kiwi ex-pat I meet must have something going for it. Classic

― stevo, Saturday, 13 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There is a chocolate factory in Dunedin therefore Dunedin = Classic

― toraneko, Saturday, 13 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am from Dunedin. There, I said it. So where was this cheap sex anyway? Did you go to KCs? Shame on you if you did, it'd be like visiting a casino, all those slot machines.

Anyway, I'm off to the crown now, a place I know I will not find a shag, but the bar tender wears yellow sunglasses so I can spread rumours that he has conjunctivitis. In the end I think it is more rewarding, as indeed a good shit would be too, anyone care to comment?

― Menelaus Darcy, Saturday, 13 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No - I went somewhere that was like a big shed-themed club. It may have been called 'the outback' or something.

― Nick, Saturday, 13 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh no, the outback, another place along the lines of KCs where in general one finds rugger buggers. Known for especially bad music and decor. I've been there, but only to watch the tacky bachelor of the year contest under duress, but then again I am probably just bitter because my striped thermal under contrasting striped shirt and mens suit trouser look was not pulling like I thought it should.

I think the NZ tourism board should issue a warning to all visitors entering our primitive country that they are liable to be mobbed in a frenzy arising from their accent. What did you think of the NZ accent while here? better or worse than the australian?

― Menelaus Darcy, Saturday, 13 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

nick lives in new zealand? what a sham

― Mike Hanle y, Saturday, 13 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I live in Dunedin. I guess it must be classic cos I'm in no hurry to move. But it's full of rotten fucking junkies.

Oh my God, Menelaus, you've actually BEEN to KC's? Sucker! I've been to the Outback, it's fucking awful. I got called a ho by w bunch of wiggers there, cos I was dancing sugggestively, so I challenged them to a fight and they declined. The Captain Cook is a hoot, that dancepodium with the coloured lights in the floor thats so sodden in RTDs that your shoes stick to it.

― di, Saturday, 13 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dunedin is classic for the Emerson's range of beer.

― di, Saturday, 13 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I live in Dunedin. I love Dunedin and Dunedin loves me, but soon we shall be separated and we'll agree to still be friends but we'll hold petty grudges and cry over each other in secret and try to make each other jealous with new loves.

― rainy, Saturday, 13 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

wtf, imho, ... !! Me and Duane. There is no cheap sex, only 10 people live here, everyone else is a ghost.

― maryann, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

why were you HERE?

there's a guy from Denmark here. Every time I see him I have to ask, why are you here?

― maryann, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But Manny, what about the library, and art school? What about that stupid dairy on the corner of George and Albany? What about the twinkly lights on those trees in the octagon? What about that crazy man who sings the songs on the street? Oh god, I'm nearly crying.

― rainy, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hi! i just got back! did i miss anything?

― duane, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, I've been to KCs, I ran out of there screaming uncontrollably and rushed into a computer lab to send heart wrenching drunken e- mails to anyone and everyone. Then I went home and spent the next day in bed i was so distressed.

as for the Danish guy; I can answer that- he's here for the nuts.

I think dunedin is entertaining because it is the one place where the goddess of supplementary accomodation always smiles upon us. That makes for my entertainment quota anyway.

― Menelaus Darcy, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

People from Dunydin have a nice organ

― Mike Hanle y, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There was a band in Dunedin called Big Organ, and of course there was ...................................................................... ...................................................................... ...........................SONGBONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― maryann, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I live here....the student culture sucks you guys don't want to know about "KCs" or the "outback"its not likeyou can't find cheap sex these kinda places anywhere else in the world for christs sake -is that all the fuck you can think ofMiscellaneousDarsey?

Song for Dunedin:Cheers theme

― , Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I went to the Outback by accident on Saturday, as soon as I got there I knew it wasnt a very nice place because the bouncer grabbed my wrist very hard and hurt me when he entry-stamped my hand.

Once inside I was gripped with fear that the DJ would play Hootie and the Blowfish, so I had to quickly leave.

There are so many other *nice* places to go to in Dunedin, though. I dont think the student culture sucks at all.

― rainy, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

student culcher = houses with signs that say things like "Greasy Beaver Lodge" w/ a burnt couch & a shopping trolley full of beer bottles in the front yard.

― duane, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Cheap sex, my arse. Sex costs in Dunedin, one pays with chlamydia.

― cheezwhizz, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like Dunedin. I associate it with my freedom, as I left home to come here. All my best friends are here, all my enemies are here, how could I want to leave such an entangled social world? Living here has been the best years of my life.

― di, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There is no such thing as anonymous sex in Dunedin. you always run into the person, again...and again...and again. There is no escaping. I wish that when i moved here i had joined a nunnery. Now its too late.

― cheezwhizz, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

keg cricket!

― satan's donkey, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

scull! scull! scull!!!1

― satan's donkey, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I accidentally joined a nunnery yesterday, but then I realised.

― rainy, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

a whorehouse or a convent ?

― anthony, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

-- from Dunedin, You hurt my feeling and I am going to have to sob into my orange paisley ra ra skirt which I wear because I want to be an alternative and radical student.

If you think I have a one track mind it is rather self defeating to call me miscellaneous, also that was an unfortunate usage of the word 'fuck'. I think sex, like those other two chestnuts religion(it even crept in ["christ"] to your post) and politics are inevitable in any discussion, particularly one which was (as far as I can tell) inspired by a post about sex anyway. c.f. Cheezwhizz's offering.

No-one is suggesting that Dunedin is the only place one can get cheap sex, and I am not suggesting that is a bad thing. But that does not mean that I must bless the existence of such venues as KC's which play hideous music mixed by a deplorable DJ.

For the record I quite like some sub cultures within the student community, but as with any large-ish group of people it is fallacious to impose one overriding principle or culture which all endorse. What exactly do you mean by student culture?

Oh my god all that typing has diverted some of the blood which usually pumps to my clit to my brain. excuse me while I rush off to the bath room to take remedial action.

― Menelaus Darcy, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am much looking forward to the mass of the students leaving town SOON. Why do so many female students wear tight clothes and pony-tails?
I would like to take this opportunity to encourage my fellow dunedin residents to take books to the book exchange on campus: if you take two books in to the counter at clubs & societies, you can exchange it for one from their shelves (or get a voucher if there's none you want at the time). They don't have many...please please someone help me 'cause I want to redeem my voucher and swap some other books. Any old Raymond Chandlers or Dashiell Hammetts?????

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

M. Darcy - who are you and what were you responding to there?

― maryann, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was responding to a message way way way up the page which said I had a one track mind from a person signed --. But its ok, I have recovered from the tantrum. I am now just bemused at my frame of mind a couple of hours ago and think I need a hobby. Study of the use of the phrase "our Lord" in 14th century scottish monastic devotional texts perhaps? or macrame, anything but leaving messages after spending a harrowing 10 minutes trying to find the correct entrance to the new library.

― Menelaus Darcy, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think ILx should colonize Dunedin and make it the New Utopia. Or the New Babylon.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What about the two glorious days when "The Greasy Beaver Lodge" was surreptitiously changed to "The Gay Bar and Lounge"? God, that was great!

― rainy, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

dunedin is ace...Roddy and i both moved down there to get away from broken hearts and bad reputations and Constant Pain probably enjoyed its most productive period down there...i like the sombre lighting in the Countdown supermarket and the pies from the Palmyra Store on Carroll St and Signal Hill and Murdering Beach and Roy's record shop (where the town's junkies offload all their great records to support their habits) and the peninsula and Aramoana and walkin' round City Rise on autumn evenings drinking port, looking out at the Pacific, (tho' it feels more like the Southern Ocean with that distant chill and washed-out opalescent light...i like the fact that it has a semblance of a proper winter, i.e. snow.....i went to Edinburgh for the 1st time in summer; the two cities (i use that term loosely in Dunedin's case) don't seem that similiar, but they do ghost each other in some way that i can't put my finger on...

― cameron bain, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"i like the sombre lighting in the Countdown supermarket"
???? I'm sure Countdown now has the usual blaring stupermarket illumination (not as bad as New World though).

"it has a semblance of a proper winter, i.e. snow....."
it snowed about a week after I moved here - in NOVEMBER.

Some things I like about Dunedin are...the spectacular natural light; the cheap rent of course; the many quiet areas (it took me a long time to get used to the wonderful feeling of being able to walk all over the roads in most residential areas because of the lack of cars - especially in the glorious summer when most of the students are gone); quarantine island in the harbour with it's tiny sandfloored chapel and it's composting toilets; the frog pond in the gardens; um the person I became heavily and firmly in love with by moving here lives here; the 24 hour book sale; free beer (monteiths) once every 2 weeks at blue oyster gallery openings (though the exhibitions almost always really suck); the occasionally lavish dunedin public art gallery openings (hopefully allowed back there); the lack (relative to auckland) of trendy cliques based around particular thing eg. "riot grrl" punk; the town belt; pipe bands; the pipe band practices where they walk in the town belt by serpentine ave; how clear the air felt after living in Auckland (maryann wrote aout breathing in Dunedin soon after she moved here, I think, but I can't find it on her web pages anymore); there're quite a lot of thrift stores (but I wish there were more)...okay I'm starting to get clogged with my complaints about Dunedin so I'll end.
(does anyone know if there's anywhere to get cheapish dolma in Dunedin???).

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

in the OCTAGON in Dunedin last Saturday night I saw a heavy metal band play songs called "Fuck Off". They were really rude and cruel to the one person trying to dance to them. You could hear them right up all along City Rise.

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hey di! is your sister ever gonna move back here? (or visit)??
can some more people move here PLEASE, just a few more; you might get to see alastair galbraith play.

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah, I forgot about that Dunedin thing. Yeah this is what I talk like all the time, 'cut open a dog, vertical distance to God' bla bla bla.

― maryann, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Palmyra store has been closed for about the past year did you know?

― what cars, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My sister has never lived in Dunedin Elizabeth. If you mean Emma, we are not related. Actually, Emma and I can't stand each other.

― di, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If you did mean Emma, don't worry, I'm not offended.

― di, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm going to Christchurch, does anyone wanna come?

― duane, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No thank you Duane, I hate Christchurch very much. But will you bring me back a present?

― rainy, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dunedin surely is better than Christchurch... I don't know if this exactly "puts a finger" on Cameron's poetic intuition about the mutual haunting of Edinburgh and Dunedin, but it is true that all the streets in Dunedin were named from the map of Edinburgh. Instead of simply transposing the names in their original relations to one another, though, the town planners stirred them up like so many Scabble pieces before reallocating them. I know a pschotherapist who lived in Edinburgh for years before moving to the South Island. Whenever he goes to Dunedin, and doesn't keep his mind on the problem, he gets lost, expecting such and such a street to turn into this or that road when it doesn't.

― jon bywater, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dunedin shines today, like theres nuthin' wrong.

― rainy, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but everything is wrong

― di, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

or is it?

― maryann, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

duane isn't allowed on this thread now cos HE'S in CHRISTCHURCH.

i am poking my tongue out at you. i am not a very nice person.

― di, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hi Jon

― cameron bain, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Skipping 15 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Yes, that is true, I did not think I made much of an impression though. :)

― Menelaus Darcy, Sunday, 21 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

duane, sure that sounds good. You tell me who to kill and I'll do it, goddamn. Just speak clearly, because I dont have my ear trumpets.

― rainy, Sunday, 21 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Duane, can I borrow your van?

― Menelaus Darcy, Sunday, 21 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Why don't you just use your Mark IV Cortina, Oamaru girl?

― di, Sunday, 21 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I suppose there is less need for chasing in the smaller back seat.

― Menelaus Darcy, Sunday, 21 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah duane and rainy, get pissed, destroy! i'll cheer you on from my distant, northern hemisphere sideline.

― cameron bain, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.angelfire.com/va/darksensation/images/party.jpg

hey dunediners, if you haven't already been invited to my party I'm doing it now, I would like you to come...maryann, duane, di, menelaus, steve, rainy, beth, clayton, folina, ina, etc...and that young woman who I might have started fancying who is a stranger (but everyone is only one person away, at the most, from knowing everyone else in dunedin, right?)
there's no special entertainment though. in fact I can't think of anything to entice you into attending.

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

count me in.

― di, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sha la la, I'll be there with bells on. so who is this young woman anyway?

― Menelaus Darcy, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ahh it's nothin much. just someone i have only seen twice (dancing at powder, and at arc last night, talking to nigel bunn and wearing a grey suit - amongst other things) she's got short black hair. it's easy to like people you don't know, right? well that's what hamish always says.

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i'd like to come but i'm in christchurch.

― , Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

well the pic of the invite isn't reliably working, you can see it here

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

f**Kit don't seem to be working
oh well
what party games should i provide?

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Elizabeth didn't mention the address (for those that can't get to the graphic) and she can't be bothered typing anymore. Its 47 Brown Street on Saturday night. okay? we'll see you there then.

― hamish, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm sick of dunedin, where can i live next?

― duane, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm thinking Lyttelton.

― duane, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

elizabeth anne marjorie, thank you for the invitation, I will be most pleased to attend.

― rainy, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

throws head back and laughs maniacally.