I’m not a big fan of direct sunlight. Last week at work we had an hour-long meeting outside, which most people seemed to like, but there I was squinting in the afternoon sun and wondering if my nose was going to burn. See, I’m pale. I’m of Anglo-Saxon ethnic heritage. I ought to be living [...]
I just was listening to Dr Dre’s 1992 gangsta rap masterpiece, “The Chronic”. Now, I’ve listened to it a number of times and thought I knew it pretty well. Heh. So along came track four, “The Day the Niggaz Took Over”. There’s a line in it that goes, “Got myself an Uzi, and my brother [...]
I’m been getting over a bad-arse cold. It struck last Sunday, which was good, because it means I didn’t have to use sick leave on that day, but also sucked because it meant half my weekend consisted of feeling awful. Being sick on a Sunday also posed another problem – the two local pharmacies were [...]
Gazza has a new book out. It’s called “Making Music In New Zealand“. This is not a euphemism for anything. It is, in fact, a guide to making a music for budding musos (Yuck. I hate the word “muso”). It covers basics like picking a band name (Hint: Brand names are not a good idea) [...]
On my 30th birthday last year, a friend of mine gave me a bottle of Bollinger (Bolly, sweetie, darling) and it had been sitting in my fridge ever since. See, I’m not much of a boozer, but not only that, I have a thing about champagne. It’s not so much champagne itself, but champagne bottles. [...]