After spending Christmas in Raglan, it’s nice to return to the relative calm of Mt Eden. This seems wrong, but indeed my parents’ place has a neighbour who likes listening to rubbish R&B at a very loud volume with all her windows open. It’s so loud that it’s not just the bass that can be [...]
It’s been a hectic week of Christmas parties, but thankfully they’re all over. Today the seasonal frivolity was topped off when I and one of my workplace homeboys started busting out some old school gangsta rhymes on the bus on the way back to work. I was doing a bit from NWA’s “Fuck Tha Police” [...]
Oh, look. It’s the itunes so-called meme, where the victim mucks around with their iTunes and writes some stuff down and then goes to bed. How many songs? 2771 A few are living on borrowed time. I’m making a list of songs I’m going to remove from my iPod because whenever they come up on [...]
A few weeks ago I noticed some photocopies of a poem had been pasted up on the usual places along Symonds Street and K Road. I don’t know who wrote the poem or why they pasted many copy of it up in public. Having read it a few times, it seems clunkily written, awkward to [...]
I recently pulled a muscle in my leg and then it got better and then I pulled it again. Both times the injury took place as I was jaywalking in an effort to catch the bus (which I dislike), and both times the injury has meant I’ve had to take the bus more while I [...]