Here’s what I’ve been up to while neglecting this here blog.
I thundered in on the recent truck protest, and the Auckland International Film Festival on the Aucklandista
Graeme from Sportsfreak kindly published my nostalgic wallowing on the day we beat the Aussies in 1999
I did a couple of awesome (ahem) cartoons on sportreview.net.nz: Calling 101 and Martin Johnson phones it in
Twittering, veeeeeery sporadically
Click for bigger pic @ Flickr
The grammar correction unit strikes again. I was tempted to add four or five exclaimation marks just to mess with them, but walked away.
I’ve been fully blog lite lately, what with the boy being born and that. He’s amazing.
I’m expecting to be a more regular contributor to teh internets soon.
In the meantime, here’s The Muppets’ three greatest singers together at last.
As you were.
You know, sometimes you read an article so paper-cut irritating you have to carry it to your computer and type it out. Today, it’s the Sunday Star-Times’ ‘Bedside Table’ spot, that interviews well-known New Zealanders on their reading. Today it’s The Edge FM’s Vaughan Smith.
The most overrated book you’ve read?
The Babysitter Club series. My sister went on and on about them and although I admired the characters for setting up a young enterprise like they did, I felt the story were a little predictable, and the protagonists were very similar in all situations.Is there a classic or several that you feel guilty that you’ve never read?
Nah. If I like the sound of it, I will read it. Catcher In The Rye sounds boring.What sways you the most when choosing your next book?
If I’ve heard about it. If it’s doing good on the Whitcoulls’ best seller list. Go Whitcoulls! And the cover. I believe you can tell a book by its’ cover.
Jaysus. Parking for the moment the fact this ‘madcap’ ‘DJ’ seems to be a fuck-knuckle ass-clown of the highest order, I just want to ask, is this the best the SST can come up with for their books section? That’s right, the books section in NZ’s largest Sunday Paper. Books. This guy can’t doesn’t even read. Could you imagine this in The Observer? What’s next? Interviewing a hunger-striker about their favourite Sunday roasts? 20 questions for a nudist on the fashions of the day?
Here’s a great article on fans who dress up like their idols from Chuck Klosterman.
It is perfectly normal to love the music of Rod Stewart, and not unnatural to feel that appreciating Never A Dull Moment says something essential about who you are; it is, however, pretty goddamn weird to try physically to resemble Rod Stewart while watching him perform in concert.
My own awkward attempts to look like a pop star may or may not include the following:
- Cardigans - perfect for showing off the latest band t-shirt at the gig, these
- A chain and padlock - single outing, EXTREMELY uncomfortable. Sid Vicious must have suffered terribly from rashes
- Leather jacket, natch. Urban rumours said you’d be beaten up for them randomly in the street, though
- Floppy fringes were huge, and got slightly out of control. High school rules stipulated hair must be above the collar - there’s no collar at the FRONT, though is there?
- Paisley shirt - I resisted the other signature ‘Gurus look of waistcoat over bare chest, luckily
- A fawn corduroy Levi’s jacket
Quite a few of these items had to be rescued from Mum’s attempts to ‘disappear’ them in the wash. I’d be greatly interested in comparing notes with Keith Richards on this.
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