My three favourite Lemonheads albums. 1. It’s a shame about Ray. 2. Lovey. 3. Come on feel the Lemonheads. My three least favourite NZ Idol contestants. 1. Filipo. 2. Ian from the top 60. 3. Emily from the top 24. My three favourite carbonated beverages. 1. Vanilla Diet Coke. 2. Fanta. 3. Bundaberg ginger beer. [...]
I’m still liking my new job, but something happened this morning that made me glad that I have the next four days off. Today is rubbish collection day. Because I live on a main road, the rubbish is collected very early in the morning, to beat the morning rush hour traffic. The rubbish truck usually [...]
I captioned an entire episode of you-know-what Street. It took me about 18 hours to do one commercial half hour. I’m told it gets quicker. Much, much quicker. I saw the WBC at the King’s Arse tonight. They hadn’t played in a couple of months and had a new drummer, so it would cool to [...]
I’ve just done two days of training for my new job. It’s actually been really fun. The company is pretty big, and it seems really well run. My last job was for a big corporation, so there are things like health insurance deals, gym membership rebates and 10% off at a local liquor outlet. There [...]
I briefly – oh so briefly – appeared on an item on the late news tonight. They did a piece on the popularity of Idolblog.com, and the massive NZ Idol online community. Rachel, who runs the site, invited me over to be there for the interview. It was mostly about her, but the reporter asked [...]
If I drink the water at my parents’ house I throw up. There’s something in the air that makes me sneeze all the time. And as a special Easter treat, this year I got hives or similar from an as yet unknown allergy. I saw Mamma Mia tonight for my mother’s birthday. Despite its surface [...]
I’ve finally figured out my ethnic background. I’m seven-sixteenths English, a quarter Irish, a quarter Scottish and one-sixteenth parts unknown. I’ve constructed this diagram to show the details: On average, I’m a fourth generation New Zealander. That is, most of the time my great-grandparents were the first generation to be born in New Zealand after [...]
ITEM: Last night I went to the recording of tomorrow’s NZ Idol show. It was really fun. As I expected, much of the audience behaviour is directed. There’s a floor manager waving her arms around to cue people to clap and not clap, and people are encouraged to applaud bits in the middle of a [...]