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Because I’m currently being a starving artist, I’m considering going on the dole. I’ve heard that ever since Income Support Services and New Zealand Employment Service were combined into one and became WINZ, things have vastly improved. I do hope so, especially after finding this unmailed letter in a box of my old stuff (the year [...] One of the choice things about New Zealand is the fact that for the last ten years the government has been giving money to bands to make music videos. Pre-1991, if a band wanted to make a music video it was up to them or their record company to fund it. As things were back then, [...] I was sitting in a cafe in Hamilton. While I was waiting for my order I glanced over at the fridge chilling the cafe’s selection of alcoholic beverages. On the couple of shelves of beer I spotted Waikato, Steinlager, Lion Red, Heineken, DB Export and Lion Ice. Then I realised that I didn’t even have [...] This was part of a float in the Melbourne Fringe Festival parade. I saw it and I ran after it with my camera because I thought it was so apt. Yes, I went to Melbourne and I had many stupid adventures. Sometimes my digital camera went along for the ride. Here are some of the adventures I [...] Despite the fact that the sign at the Qantas check-in counter at Melbourne Airport proclaimed that knives, scissors and sharp instruments could not be carried in cabin baggage, I passed through the metal detector and x-ray scanner with a Swiss Army Knife in my bag. As I walked towards the departure gate, I felt like [...] I was in Newcastle for the National Young Writers Festival, part of the This Is Not Art festival. Most of the time I spent doing festival-related things with all the very talented, very good-looking festival attendees. But the festival did not exist in a vacuum. It was in Newcastle and Newcastle was undeniably part of the [...] In an effort to get 500 North Islanders down to Invercargill to live and work, a supplement advertising the wonders of Southland was inserted into every North Island newspaper on October 31. The Waikato Times got really excited and took up half the front page of that day’s edition with articles and analysis of the promotion. Part [...] |
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