CANTA Magazine

Alice Baxter, Annie MacKenzie, Ashlin Raymond and Ella  Sutherland at 69 Cathedral Square, October 2-4.
I’m sure you’re all fucking sick of the future.
That whiny “dude, where’s my  flying car — I was promised”, the sad gits who thought that the world really would look like the set of Star Trek complete with attractive available women [...]

“We are as real as what we fake” Peaches, ‘Dark Horse’
Forget green, I’ve discovered the joy of brown – compost that is. I’m addicted to the ‘dark’ stuff, and A Glorious Gallery of Rot: Compost as Art would suggest I’m not the only one (lighterfootstep.com/2009/08/a-glorious-gallery-of-rot-compost-as-art/). Having clicked the link from the Green Party mail out, [...]

Well, I’m about to hand in my thesis, so this will certainly be the last ever Deborah article. So this is a bit of a farewell. I’ve enjoyed writing this column for the last 18 months and I know you’ve enjoyed reading it even more. It seems Canta is about to change, with the position [...]

Rick Giles is a pretty unassuming fellow. His clothes match his rural origins, a woollen jumper with a simple pattern but there is something about him which just doesn’t gel.
It could be his habit of frowning when he disagrees with something, it could be that slightly nasal accent that sounds just a little bit like [...]

Television is an American rock band formed in New York during 1973. Combining elements of punk, art rock, new-wave, garage rock and post-punk, they released two albums in the 1970s before disbanding and reforming in 1992 to record another album and tour. Today they are regarded to be one of the key influences on punk [...]

Well, well, well. Looks like I made it through to the end of the year. I’m not just talking about this column, but while I’m at it, thanks for coming along for the ride anyways. I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as I. No, actually I was talking about lethal ice, airport grievances, death-cabbage [...]

2009 has been a weird year. Of course, every year is a weird year: it’s hard to keep 6.8 billion people busy doing boring things for 8760 hours. So this week I will be reminiscing about the year that’s been in typical last-issue cop-out style.
Taxes are boring, so let us begin with deaths. Every year [...]

Heard of the terminology “silent killer”? It is typically referred to cancers, heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, or even world hunger. Yet today, I shall introduce another silent killer to you – the University of Canterbury Students’ Anti-association, UCSA-a (with no whatsoever relevance to the real UCSA). To those of you who think that this organisation [...]

I find it rather amusing that the Hon. Sir Roger Douglas resorts to an ad hominem attack on me in his first sentence; it is in fact true that I am on the Young Labour Policy Committee, which anybody capable of using Google can find out. Quite how that affects anything is rather beyond me. [...]

I can’t say I was surprised to read Keir Leslie’s attacks on voluntary student membership – he is, after all, on the Policy Committee for Young Labour. What I was surprised by was how poorly thought out most of his complaints were
Take the first thing Mr Leslie accused me of – he says I want [...]