18/12/2005
Surrealality (?)
Today we played a ten minute japanese drumming gig at Founders Theatre. It was surreal - going from a normal sunday life, waking up, having breakfast, mucking about - then walking in the back of a building and being in front of hundreds of people who proceeded to give us rapturous applause. Then back out of the building and back into life. I’m not complaining, the juxtaposition is great but - surreal.
The events of the previous post have resolved themselves somewhat, and I am pretty happy - or at least content - with the outcome. Hmm - I smell burning, I really hope it isn’t my computer (the hard drives have been running a little hot…). If you’re reading this, chances are it isn’t.
movies:
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
King Kong (the original)
King Kong (Peter Jackson’s remake)
House on Haunted Hill (the original)
reading:
The Giant Book of Fantastic SF
The Best of John Wyndham
Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne
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13/12/2005
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. - Herman Hesse
Today I worked a twelve hour day and just as I was leaving I got a text from the girl that I like and was very much hoping to hang out with a lot. Which turns out isn’t going to be a possibility. Now after drinking some feijoa smoothie, listening to Radiohead and talking to Grant a bit I’m gonna go play my guitar by the river despite the fact that its raining. Goddamn it.
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07/12/2005
December, Month of the Headless Chicken
If there’s something I have learned from having a website (or two) and a blog, it’s that I treat neither with the attention and care I’d like to. I don’t know exactly when or how it happens, but I wake up one morning and realise that I have no spare time for the next few weeks. Not that everything I am doing isn’t fun, or worthwhile, or at least earning me money - but life without time to unwind and relax and sit still is not the best place to be.
A taiko performance in Whangarei last weekend provided some good times and some excellent books. There is a second hand bookstore there called The Piggery I think which is incredible. I came away with some very nice sci fi from the noble 1950s/1960s. Check it out if you’re up there.
The wednesday previous we had our first performance as a band which went pretty good. It was at Hamilton’s wednesday open mic night at Fat Bellies which unfortunately has finished for the year. We might be recording some stuff though so if you missed it you may have the opportunity to check us out later. Oh yeah, and we still don’t have a name. Feel free to suggest some.
Mad deadlines, performances, recording, strange reunions and christmas shopping. This is truly a month to hibernate if at all possible. Maybe next year.
Reading:
The Best of John Wyndham
Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne
1984, George Orwell
Logan’s Run, William F. Nolan & George Clayton Johnson
Movies:
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Serenity
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