There’s been loads of these cut up trailers going around lately. Most of them are Brokeback Mountain ones (someone should do Leathal Weapon), but this Jaws one is the best of the lot, I reckon.

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Speaking of Sky, what about the problems they’re having with the satellite? It’s all very well missing a Thursday night’s telly, but the question on everyone’s lips is of course, WHAT IF IT GOES DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ALL BLACKS TEST? EH? I think we should be told.

Sunset on Waitaks
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This photo is actually a year old – but we’re getting some lovely Autumn weather at the moment.

Over on my other blog there’s a new rugby cartoon for your viewing / laughing pleasure.

I wonder sometimes where I’m going with this blogging thing, and I think these rugby cartoons might be that place.

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Here’s another article I’m posting just ‘cos of one great quote, from Alex James, Blur’s bass player :

“And that’s what pop music is, really, a big relentless grin. That your brain just finds irresistible.”

Yep, Pop music is great, as anyone who’s ever listened to a song 12 times in a row can attest to. See also:
– Crash by the Primitives
– Heavenly Pop Hit by The Chills
– Don’t Call Me Baby by Voice Of The Beehive
– Alimony by the Hummingbirds
– Heironymous by The Clouds
– That Ain’t Bad by Ratcat (What IS it with Aussies, eh?)
– Just What I Needed by The Cars
– Atomic by Blondie

I could go on and on… Go! Team do a nice line in this kind of thing, also.

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I held the last BBQ of the summer at me flat on Saturday night. I reckon it’s a safe bet it’ll be the last because a) no-one else would be foolish enough to hold a BBQ in the dark and b) summer is bloody over, as yesterday’s monsoon / hurricane in Auckland proved.

Anyway, where’s what I learned:
1. If you invite 30 people, and spend the day panicking about feeding everyone and rushing about spending all your cash getting enough food, only half will actually turn up
2. And the vast majority that food won’t be eaten anyway
3. Putting ALL the steaks and sausages on the BBQ at once will ensuring mediocre BBQing all round
4. There is definitely a man shortage, if the number of single females (quite a few) to single males (none) is anything to go by
5. Putting a sign on the door telling people to go around to the back door is a bad idea when there’s no lights out the back
6. If you think you’re running out of beer, and get latecomers to bring you more, you won’t drink any of the new stuff
7. Sing Star is a lot more fun when you’ve had a few
8. It’s one thing to learn a whole lot of songs on the guitar people can sing along to. YOU have to be able to remember WHAT THEY ARE when you’re drunk
9. Getting up early to clean up then going back to bed is a great idea

I really enjoyed myself,and I think everyone else did, too. It’s a good feeling to put a whole bunch of your mates in a room and see if they get on.

3. Young Mums in baseball hats pushing prams at 25 kms per hour. Where are they going so fast? Where?

2. People that work at Real Groovy. You can imagine the interview:
Any tattoos? Nope.
Any facial piercings? Nah.
Freaky-ass down with the kids haircut? No.
Get Out Of Here You FREAK!

1. The Warriors ‘faithful’. I mean, COME ON. There’s got to be something going on there. I wouldn’t eat or drink anything at Ericsson stadium if I were you.

We WON.

We haven’t done that for ages. A cool(ish) $50 to the good.

Katz_ET
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That’s #1 as in ‘number one Katz cartoon published on this blog’, that is. We haven’t won for ages.

We’d probably win the drinking, though.

Who’s Katz, then?

If you’ve never checked out the Observer Music Monthly, you’re shit. I really miss my London Sunday morning coffee / panadol / Observer mission, there was just so MUCH to read once you’d lugged it home.

Thankfully, the Guardian unlimited website is excellent, and you can get all the magazines online. This month I was excited to see Douglas Coupland interviewing Morrissey – one of my teenage heroes. Seeing him at the Logan Campbell Centre just after his first solo album was memorable for a) NO Smiths songs, b) his refusal to speak to the audience, despite pleas from the crowd, and c) the kids in the line beforehand singing “Morrissey, Morrissey, Morrissey” to the tune of “Here we go, Here we go, Here we go”. You’ve never heard anything so pathetic as a bunch of indie kids wearing cardigans over band T-shirts trying to do terrace chants.

Anyway. The Chinned Wonder is a notoriously difficult interview, and this is an entertaining piece alright, but Coupland’s wussed out here, making up the word count with the same old quotes we’ve read a thousand times. Surely, having gone all that way, he could have got some new ones.

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