Mulholland Heft Meer Mmmmmmmm...

8 for 2008

I've been asked by Whaleoil to list my wishes for the new year.  Here they are:

1.  The complete and utter defeat of the Labour government.  I want them wiped to thirty seats, and I want them to take a generation to come back;

2.  Led Zeppelin to play in this part of the world.  I'm thinking 100,000 tickets on sale for the MCG :oP

3.  National to select some liberal candidates.  Someone needs to convince Graham Watson to stand in Auckland Central, for example;

4.  Peter Dunne to lose Ohariu and NZ First to get booted out of parliament;

5.  I manage to last the whole year without moving, being unemployed, or burning off any friends;

6.  John Key metamorphosises into a genuine liberal free-market reformer;

7.  I hook up with my soulmate, preferrably blonde, leggy, busty and Russian; and

8.  Rodney Hide wakes the f*ck up, campaigns properly and brings at least half a dozen people into parliament, including Lindsay Mitchell.

I'll pass this on to... hmmmm, everybody's done it but me, I think.  How about Lita from Bits on the Side?

Happy New Year everybody!

Merry Xmas to All from Mulholland Drive

Here's David Bowie and Bing Crosby to warm your holiday cockles :oP

Facebook - Bah Humbug!

Okay, so I have finally bitten the bullet and signed up to Facebook.  I now have 21 "friends".  I even know some of them!

But I must admit that, when I signed up, I longed to have a category for my enemies as well as my friends.  The whole thing seemed just a bit too cheesy and childrens-daytime-televisionish.

Joy of joys!  Someone has made my Christmas by creating Enemybook!  Now I can list all the people I loathe and despise as well as those I love!  And I find people's enemies far more interesting to peruse than their friends...

Homosexual Panic?

This case is going to be fascinating.  All sorts of questions and issues are raised.

Firstly, why did a tourist go back to the house of a man twice his age after a night on the turps?  That's just a no-no in a foreign country.  Unless you think you might get laid of course.

Then there's the issue of whether he was drugged.  Is this even provable?

Did Ambach even wish to kill Brown?  Or was it just self-defence from the fear of being raped?

And what the hell was he doing with the double bed?

I'm breaking out the popcorn, this should be fun to watch...

Now THAT's What I Call a Gig!

Fuck the Big Day Out!  I'm going to THIS festival!  It's going to be O for oresum.

The BDO lineup this year is just appalling.  It's a gallery of aging, irrelevant, retreaded acts.  Come on, Billy Bragg ffs?!  And didn't RATM already headline a few years back?  You would think, with the low US dollar, that they would be able to pull something out of the hat that was better than this.  The only interesting band on the bill is Arcade Fire, and I wouldn't pay $110 to see them.

I prefer my ageing has-beens to be fun, entertaining and Republican.  So bring on Alice Cooper and Kiss and Ozzy!  I can't wait!

Great YouTube Moments

Radiohead play one of my favourite Smiths songs:  The Headmaster Ritual.

Whenever I sing along to this one I always end up changing the words to "Belligerent ghouls run Cantabrian schools".

Irrefutable Facts of Which We All Need to Remind Ourselves

Kiwiblog commentators, I'm lookin' at you guys here...

Lick and a Promise

Before Aerosmith started singing horrible Diane Warren songs and did that awful song for the Armageddon soundtrack, they were an amazing '70s hard rock band.  This is their finest moment.

You can probably pick up Rocks in a bargain bin for ten bucks.  Do it though.  It's one of the best musical investments you'll make.

Narnia Returns

I am ecstatic with glee at the thought of the second Narnia movie - Prince Caspian:

Jay-Z's Rhymes Graphically Explained

Courtesy of luscious Lita from Bits on the Side.  There are other explanatory graphs there too.