Archives for "January, 2009"
Billy Corgan at the Basin Reserve, WTF?
Today I was thinking, ‘I wonder what Billy Corgan is up to these days?’
On his wikipedia page someone has added this somewhat arbitrary detail to the Personal Life section:
“In March 2008, Billy was spotted in the crowd at the final day of the cricket test match between New Zealand and England in Wellington.”
Hardly a key [...]
When mind mapping, steer clear of Hitler & Fascism
A couple of years ago I attended an email marketing conference for work. As you know, all conferences are a complete waste of time and exist only to make people think they are doing something exciting and new with their deadend careers.
Like hepatitis, conferences are to be avoided, unless work is paying that is. And [...]
It’s the juice that makes it juicy
One bad thing about going to the gym is that I get molested by dance music the entire time I’m there. Though not my preferred style of music by a long, long way, I’ve been surprised to find that I quite like a few of the songs.
Here’s an example of one that has grown on [...]
Cynical New Zealand media exploits national insecurity
Dear fellow kiwis, for the love of God, please stop getting drawn into the whole ‘Aussies are trying to claim NZ stuff as their own’ nonsense. This is nothing more than a cheap media trick to keep you interested in their shitty newspaper/TV show.
If you are alert, you’ll notice these pieces come out as regular [...]
Startling predictions for Lost Season 5 – part one
WARNING: The following article contains completely fictitious yet unquestionably true spoilers for Season 5 of Lost (and lots of geeky Lost in-jokes, this will be quite boring if you haven’t seen it).
I noticed that Season 5 of Lost is due to return to screens in the States tomorrow, January 21, 2009. I don’t think we’ll [...]
Scorpions Wind of Change lyrics
I can remember one lunchtime on the school tennis courts when I was in Form 1 (11yrs) overhearing two Form 2 boys discussing how cool the song Wind of Change was.
I remember feeling a little sorry for them, not because it wasn’t a rocking song, but because they’d actually been sincere and had foolishly left [...]
Sharon Osbourne, Earth’s only hope during comet strike
You have probably seen it before: Minor Celebrity X gets into a cat fight with minor Celebrity Y – usually on a reality TV show – and then X insults Y’s family (spouse, stepdaughter, disabled pet, all of the above) and then it’s oooon baby and glorious gloves-off mayhem ensues. Once breached, the sacred ‘don’t [...]
The finest parody of Mormon Cinema I have ever seen
If you haven’t seen the television series John Safran vs God then you won’t have seen possibly the first and definitely the greatest parody of Mormon cinema ever, Xtreme Mormons. Good parody is pretty hard work, but when it fully delivers, I don’t think there is any thing I’d rather be watching.