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I fairly refuse to watch TV1’s ‘news’ or ‘current affairs’ (Susan Wood?!? I’d rather watch a wheelie bin for half an hour weeknights) because it’s a load of patronising braindead shit. Still, I’m really happy to see the back of the ‘Mummy of the nation’. Sure, we all loved her and John Hawkesby on ‘Top…

This is genius. God bless the internet for bringing us stuff like this. (Link is a ten MB quicktime movie, pinched from waxy. link

I see The Warehouse has a new logo (on the left). I really liked the old one (on the right), because it looked like a last minute job by a twelve year old. I can just see it – the day before Stephen opened the first Warehouse he thought “Shit! We need a logo! Here,…

What is up with this guy? ‘KR’ is one of my most loathed people in the world, and now he’s chipping in on fighting terrorism? I’m going to write my own ‘motivational’ business book one of these days and make squillions off it too. It can’t be that hard if fucktards like this can do…

Been busy, so here’s a quick ‘n’ easy post. 1. The Specialist. This film is shit soup, but JW’s ‘bomb’ speech is his finest moment. 2. Virgin Suicides. From the ridiculous to the sublime. He can do understated.3. Vampires. The opening scene is one of my favorites also.4. Cop. I love 80’s cop movies set…

I loved this article. Gotta say, my own taste is getting less about what’s new as ‘What have I missed?’. And it’s pretty MOR for the most part. Eagles. Springsteen. Stones. Teenage Fanclub. Beach Boys. Cash. Especially Cash. I could never tell you who’s number one, nor do I care. The new NZ bands for…

I’ve been bookmarking some cool (well, cool for me. Shut up.) pages lately, and been slack about blogging them, so I’m clearing them up. I know, you’ll just have to bear with me. First up – Zombie mob. These hipsters terrorised downtown San Francisco, George A. Romero style one Saturday morning, just in time for…

Some of my fondest memories are within the M25. Like a picnic with me mates on Hampstead Heath one grey Saturday afternoon, Tequila Sunrises in the Adelaide’s garden bar in Swiss Cottage, drinking six bottles of cheap French red wine with Aidan then going to a party all night before waking up on the Piccadilly…

If you’re lucky enough to live in Auckland, then you can go to one of the world’s great record shops. The slog up Queen St to Real Groovy is one of my favourite Auckland rituals. When I was growing up in Hamilton, no trip to the big smoke was complete without stocking up on vinyl…