Not particularly inspired piccies, but it gives you some idea….
Jess
Tash – Ben – Craig
These guys were cool too, but I can’t remember their name…
OG on stage (who I met once in London…)
Great weekend!
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Kaikoura Roots
Awesome weekend – brilliant weather and good vibes all around. It was a small festival – there were apparently less than 1800 tickets available, but that was excellent as during the day the beach side venue didn’t feel over-crowded. Stand out performances from Trinity Roots and Kora, and OG on Sunday was also wicked.
Unfortunately I missed Shapeshifter who by all accounts were amazing. We did briefly meet their MC – he is one cool dude.
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Kaikoura Roots Festival
Off to Kaikoura Roots Festival this weekend. It is held on the weekend that statistically has the best weather of the year. Touch wood.
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New flat
The view from the new place this morning, looking north:
And looking west-ish:
I love this town….
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Groan….
Watching a film called Roger Dodger. I can see why some people liked this, but it’s risky making a film with a main character that is a twat/arse. Roger is supposed to have a type of charm but it is lost on me. He is less annoying than at the start of the film. The film is completely absurd. Swingers covers the similar ground of ‘picking up girls’ but it is funny and charismatic. This was described as a ‘black comedy’, but this is just sad….
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I’m hungry, can you feed me?
The RSS feed is back – it doesn’t validate and it’s a bit crap but it works for the Firefox live bookmark. It works much better in FeedReader than in FeedDemon so I’m happy. I will get the issues sorted in the near future….
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The best and worst of 04
My people/things of 2004:
- Ben Goodger, lead developer of Firefox
- Firefox, the browser
- Space Ship One
- Wigan, Maida Vale’s celebrity cat
- Wireless Broadband at home
- Best film of the year? Well, maybe not the best but I really liked it: Elephant, by Gus Van Sant.
- Quote of the year: “If they don’t have the guts, I call them girlie men.” – Arnie (sarcasm here)
The worst of 2004:
- The Lone Ranger, George Dubya and his nutcase extremist partners in war and hatred, regardless of their religious persuasion, race or nationality.
- Brian Tamaki, evil overlord of get rich quick scheme Destiny Church
- The proposed corporate logo for the flag of NZ
- Worst film of the year? Hmm, I’ll go for “Lost in Translation”. People who like this film, I call them girlie men.
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Person of the year
I had to buy TIME magazine when I saw that they had made George W Bush their ‘Person of the year’. Not at all surprising seeing that 2003’s person of the year was The American Soldier. 2004 is Bush’s second time, he is in the company of Hitler (1938), Stalin (also named twice, in 1939 and 1942), Nixon (1971 and the following year with Kissinger), along with a number of US Presidents, saints, innovators and groups of people (the twenty-five and unders of ’66 for example).
TIME regularly name bad guys, this selection includes two commies, an Ayatollah and Adolf. No bad guys from the US of course, they probably don’t exist.
You can find a complete list here at About.com .
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Rainy day in Wellington
Have watched three vids – “Une pure formalit? (A pure formality)” in which Gerard Depardieu is held in purgatory for his suicide. Reclusive writer Onoff (Depardieu) gets a lesson in the dangers of what happens when you shave your majestic beard.
“Waco – the rules of engagement” a doco showing the shocking incompetence and brutality of the ATF and FBI in Waco. An eye opener as I really knew so little about the Branch Davidians other than the one-sided sound bites of the time.
And we’re half way through a picture about Tammy Faye Bakker (the ex-wife of Jim Bakker the tele-evangelist) called “The eyes of Tammy Faye” . Once again, I knew nothing about her but this doco outlines her positive characteristics, and she seems quite likable although I’m sure that she’s no saint.
