well, i'm back in Auckland again, or, more precisely, i'm back in Warkworth, even though i've never lived in Warkworth before, but it is officially outside the greater Auckland area, in fact, in the district of Rodney, which is quite cool 'cos it always makes me think of that line from the Stranglers song 'Duchess' - "and the Rodneys are queueing ( Read more... )

"well, here i am in the big city - i got no heart and i got no pity ( Read more... )

if you go to that address to look at the c.h. photos then just click on the first one that comes up and it'll open them all up. okily dickily dokily.

and i actually don't know when and if i'll be back again. oh, well, dunedin has it's charms but i'm a big city boy at heart: every time i see the sky tower on the telly i get homesick. so, i'm going back to auckland this sunday. pretty scary. it's been a while. i'm not sure i'm fully prepared ( Read more... )

i was gonna post some pictures from the children's hour gig in chch recently but i'm fucked if i can figure out how to do it. i've put them in photobucket but now i don't know what to do next. if anyone can help me i'd be grateful...

well, it was great to catch up with grant and bevan last monday and start practising for the gig. bevan was looking a whole lot better than when i last saw him a few years ago, when he was attempting to singlehandedly consume the entire auckland city supply of class A drugs, and has been 'clean' now for some 3 years. i must confess i was a little ( Read more... )

wow - i looked up clint mansell on the internet cos i really like his film music (PI, requiem for a dream, etc) and i just found out that he was born on exactly the same day and in the same year as me (november 7th, 1963). which may not be really so amazing but it's just that when i was in the headless chickens we toured all thru the u.k. and ( Read more... )

10 reasons why heavy drinking is cool ( Read more... )

goddamn it all to fucking hell - i got shafted once again by nz on air, 4th time in a row. the thing that pisses me off is not so much that i got passed over but that a fucking low-rent bunch of ac/dc, mc5 wannabe muthafuckers like the rock 'n' roll machine got some money. i mean, seriously, doesn't the world already have enough pissant fucking ( Read more... )

i just got some more live children's hour discs off rob in chch - for those who don't know, rob's been running failsafe records for about 25 fucking years. go and check out his website, i'm sure you'll find it with google - anyway, one of the things that i've been talking about with rob for months is releasing a compilation cd of live children's ( Read more... )