• 2008 shall be the year I learn a bunch of stuff, such as a language, a new city/country, new knitting techniques, and screen printing.
• I'm attempting to knit a pair of fingerless gloves. I wasn't ready to start knitting in the round yet (in part, because I didn't have the right needles), so I decided to try a regular straight pattern. Then I decided ( Read more... )

Everyone should go watch The Phoenix Foundation's new video a few times every hour. All the cool kids are doing it! Even my cat is watching!

The Phoenix Foundation: Bright Grey, from their upcoming album Happy Endings. Pre-order now!

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Best Aotearoa Roots Album
Age Pryor - Shanks’ Pony
Hollie Smith - Long Player
The Black Seeds - Into the Dojo

Seems to be award-season time in NZ and while I don't quite understand the category (at least in terms of how it differs from other categories), I do like who has been nominated. I've got two of the three and do plan on getting the third ( Read more... )

The internet is a handy thing; you can find all sorts of interesting stuff. Like this:

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Farfalina, you might be particularly interested, as it's Ms. Moa and a certain other NZ musician you're familiar with performing together at one of her recent shows. You can read more about the show here.

It's like Christmas in July!

Shoot. I was going to friends- ( Read more... )

That move to Italy is looking more and more like it could happen. I get overwhelmed thinking about it sometimes, but I don't have any real reasons not to do it. In fact, I think I'd enjoy it quite a bit. It's a beautiful area of Northern Italy. We'd basically be in the Canazei area. I really did like it when I went with G back in 2002.

I'm not a ( Read more... )