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Archive for May 2008

Dress you up in my love

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 [...]

Fishing was awesome


1001 books and films you must see before you die

Inspired by Jason Kottke, I’ve been through 1001 books and films you must see before you die and ticked off my reading (28) and viewing (215). It’s fair to say I’ve seen more of the films than read the books on these lists- I tend to read more contemporary lit, and the list focuses [...]

Foo Fighters - Vector Arena 06 May 2008

I went along to Vector Area on Tuesday night to see the Foos. I’d kind of drifted away in recent years, thinking they’d gone too ‘we are SERIOUS rock band’ - case in point: compare this to this.
Rock snob that I am, it puts me off that too many people that buy NickelBack records [...]

A cynical experiment - LOL!

I’m fascinated by people that make money from nothing on auction sites - like this guy flogging a Casio Vl-1 ‘possessed by Satan’.
So… a weekend tidy up yielded an innocuous cheese grater - and I decided to write a ‘hard case’ ad on TradeMe, taking full advantage of current hoo-hah over rising food prices. Oh [...]

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