Yesterday I was in the bathroom when I heard my neighbours come outside for a smoke. The husband was telling the wife about his exciting plans. He wanted to organise a gig in a park. He wanted to get a bunch of bands playing, as well as a reasonably well-known and successful pop band. There’d [...]
I came up with this in one of the NZmusic.com discussion forums. It’s about how we tend to look back at the bad old and good old days. Stuff goes in and out of fashion, then comes back in again. And really, how many decades “that taste forgot” can we get away with having? Here’s [...]
I don’t normally put stuff in the pockets of my jeans, but yesterday I put a tube of lipstick in a pocket. Then today, when I was gathering up my clothes to put in the laundry basket, I was distracted and just put the jeans in the basket without checking the pockets. When I picked [...]
When I was in London I was walking down Fleet Street on a Sunday afternoon and I was amazed at how quiet it was. There was hardly anyone around. It was liked Hamilton on a Sunday, back in the ’80s before Sunday trading started. I remember thinking that New Zealand was so much cooler because [...]
I saw “Intolerable Cruelty” today. Instead of writing a review of it, I will rank the cinematic oeuvre of the Coen Brothers to give an idea of where it fits in for me. 1. O Brother, Where Art Thou I love this movie so much. I think I saw it about six times at the [...]
The one thing I don’t like about long weekends is before and after all the non-conversation I have with various people in shops or other situations is either, “So, are you going anywhere for Labour weekend?” or “So, did you go anywhere for Labour weekend?” I don’t have a beach house or even a tent, [...]
I was walking across Grafton Bridge today and saw the saddest piece of graffiti: Go home Aisasns. Fuck off And further down was another failed attempt at spelling “Asians”. I’d be really embarrassed if that were me. I mean, if you’re going to go to the trouble of spraying graffiti about something that you (apparently) [...]
Oh, it’s so hard being a woman in the music industry. I just saw an interview on C4 with Julia Deans and another guy from Fur Patrol. Ms Deans was wearing a really horrible, boxy jacket that made her look like a grey square with a fluffy red head. The interviewer moved onto asking about [...]
Ah… much better I needed some non-writing time. I was overcome with a strong urge to not write anything, so I just rode it out, and here I am. I just saw three old members of Supergroove being interviewed on C4. I was never a huge fan of Supergroove, mainly because the band’s average age [...]
Drip III: Fixed My landlord arranged for a roofing guy to come today. He showed up, I showed him where the leak was, he climbed up on the roof, found a couple of broken tiles, fixed them, and now when it rains I don’t hear water dripping in. Hooray! I’m still not sure about what [...]