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Foo Fighters – Vector Arena 06 May 2008
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I went along to Vector Area on Tuesday night to see the Foos. I’d kind of drifted away in recent years, thinking they’d gone too ‘we are SERIOUS rock band’ – case in point: compare this to this. Rock snob that I am, it puts me off that too many people that buy NickelBack records…
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A cynical experiment – LOL!
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I’m fascinated by people that make money from nothing on auction sites – like this guy flogging a Casio Vl-1 ‘possessed by Satan’. So… a weekend tidy up yielded an innocuous cheese grater – and I decided to write a ‘hard case’ ad on TradeMe, taking full advantage of current hoo-hah over rising food prices.…
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Via B3ta
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Katz cartoons
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Katz is my pub quiz team’s logo (blogger-wordpress poorly formatted backstory here).
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Get serious about lunch
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Like eating? Like eating in Auckland? Like eating stuff that’s not crap? Like paying feck-all for it? If you answered ‘yes’to all the above, you need to check out Auckland Cheap Eats Reviews – fine lunching for the tight of fist. My mate is reviewing Auckland’s out of the way eateries, dish by dish. My…
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What’s your top Auckland song?
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Cross-posted from the New-Look Aucklandista When I type ‘Auckland’ into my itunes I get exactly, ah, no results. Alright, there’s the Muttonbird’s ‘Dominion Road‘, a great song ruined by homesick ex-pats, and that punk-AK’79 affair about jumping off Grafton Bridge. Dublin must be shitting itself. We live in a very pretty city, team, so how…
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You look nice today
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You Look Nice Today is my new fav podcast – it’s 43 Folders‘ Merlin Mann with two other hip-ass Silicon Valley types talking uniforms, odour clouds, and Snare! These guys were described on Digg! as ‘Twitter superstars’. How the HELL does one become a ‘Twitter superstar’? I still don’t think I’m using it right.
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Stop Making Movies About My Books!
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Brilliance from The Onion – a poem written as Dr Suess protesting recent tsunami of crap-like Jim Carrey / Mike Myers / Dreamworks adaptations of his books. The Onion – sometimes it makes me want to be a top comedy blogger, sometimes it makes me want to chuck it all away, they’re so good.
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