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April 2005
28 April
That Chuppa Chup cremosa ad is worse than the "AHOY MISTER BEAVER!" ad. Worse in a good way. I dearly love badly dubbed ads. Remember the singing dancing family who used the triple action toothpaste? They seemed Nordic. I loved them too. Sigh. I wish I lived in a badly dubbed world...
27 April
I nearly got caught by the big boss tinkering with the treasure chest. I think we're getting better. I don't think this one is finished though...
26 April
In the wee small hours, I like to pretend I'm a journalist instead of just a government employee.
Behold the glory that is the finished product of our interview with Fur Patrol's Andrew Bain!
Part one
Part two
25 April
How about that crazy Wellington and it's whacky weather hey?
It's such a cop out to discuss the weather but I have nerdy photos to share!
You see... I have a nervous dog. She should be brave like a farm dog... but instead she's reduced to a quivering mess at the sight of a jack russell terrier. So when there's thunder and lightning crashing in the sky you'll be able to find Finn wrapped around your ankles (which is no mean feat for a largeish dog) or hiding on or under a bed.
I just found it so amusing that I had finally found someone more of a pussy than me that I took a couple of photos of her to embarrass her with at her 21st.
Here we have the look where she's sensing danger in the air
Here we have the look where she's not going to do a goddamn thing about it. Her ears don't pin back any further. Uneven eyebrowed little freak.
Er... well I thought it was cute enough to share... She is my little gentleman. I will take her to foggy London town. Etc.
24 April
I don't have much to say... ever... I know. You should all buy the Accelerants album (click the link click the link click the link) because it's making me smile and even wiggle excitedly. Just like they make you do live! Only you can do it in your pyjamas on a Sunday morning. Like me!
Last night we went down to buy some oniony burgers from Burger Wisconsin in Brooklyn and joined the crowd of goggle-eyed freaks pointing at the sky, staring, gawking, marvelling... at the gloooory that is a big ass bright rainbow! Rainbows are always exciting but when they're as bright and huge as this one... coupled with the Accelerants album coming out (click the link click the link click the link) the day before... well it's almost too much for most little black ducks to take.
I whipped out my cellphone and took photos. I should have taken photos of the crowd spilling out of the video store, fish and chip shop and dirty old dairy just to prove to myself that it was interesting enough to take photos of and then upload onto the old internet.
If I had a brain in my head I would have changed the resolution on the camera, but alas, it seems I don't have a brain in my head so low quality, cheap nasty looking photos that look kinda like faint rainbows in a dull sky it is!
In case you missed it... CLICK THE LINK CLICK THE LINK
19 April
We went to see Ken Stringfellow play at the Matterhorn on Sunday night. I've gotta say, he was really awesome, but I dunno how well the music would go down outside of an atmospheric venue like that. Points for living in France and for being nice and offering to buy us drinks and kissing us on the cheeks (both face cheeks I mean...).
Today at work we worked hard.
Even though I didn't think it was possible, this one is even MORE random than the earlier one..
17 April
Whoever was in charge of the dry ice (I think... that stinky foggy stuff at concerts is dry ice isn't it?) last night at Indigo needs a smack on the wrist. You know when the room is completely white and you can no longer see the person directly infront of you or next to you that you've overdone it. And if anything was a deterrent to smoking you'd think it would be the way the surly crazy smokers act outside on the balconey now that they can't go inside and disguise the smell of farts. What a bunch of jackasses.
12 April
Today at work this was created. Myself and a colleague added elements to it in turns... while the boss wasn't looking, though I'm pretty sure he was behind me when I was giving the sun a smirk...
I know it makes me a total fucking nerd to post it on the internet, but hello! I pay for webspace!
(Click it to view it in all it's glory!!!!!)
You know you're impressed. It encorporates some darkness amongst the happy Polyphonic vibes. Though I'm told my little green robed man at the beginning of the conga line looks like he's about to break his tailbone.
10 April
Pluto played last night at Indigo. Ray Nugget was the support. He was just fabulous... with his little waistcoat and cheeky grin. Makes you wanna run out and buy a Goodshirt CD, it really does.
Unfortunately, I was tired. Really tired. As was my companion. So tired that before Pluto even came on, I wanted it to be over so I could go home and sleep.
Once Pluto actually DID come onstage, it was damn good and wonderful and they rock and all that, but I wasn't sad to see them walk off after the encore as the background music turned up. Oh well. I'm turning into a NANA.
I wanna know why though... why... why I always manage to have the single most annoying people directly infront of me. Maybe everyone infront of everyone is annoying, but I find that hard to believe. No. I have a 5 foot nothing girl with incredibly large frizzy red hair doing that ugly annoying shoulder wiggling dance that the kids do when they're trying to be sexy. She was bouncing up and down whenever she recognized a song, and with each bounce, banged into me a little. She had like a METRE infront of her! I moved back about a metre throughout the set just to get the fuck away from her, her frizzy afro and the odour escaping her armpits whenever she raised her arms to point in time to the music... yet she somehow managed to bounce backwards into me each step I took.
She ended up with gum in her hair. I can't say how it happened. It wasn't me who did it, but I did start laughing which actually woke me up... I delighted in her friend... also with gum in her hair (again, not me) discovering said gum. Ahh. It's the small pleasures in life, it really is.
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