Flight of the Conchords: Foux de Fa Fa

Lyrics? Oui! Après l’interruption!

Flight of the Conchords: Inner City Pressure

Bret and Jemaine channel the Pet Shop Boys circa “West End Boys”

Flight of the Conchords – The Most Beautiful Girl in the Room

Okay, so there’s enough Flight of the Conchords material from their HBO series making its way onto Youtube now for us to resurrect FotC Wednesday, so, without further ado, here’s “The Most Beautiful Girl in the Room”…

(Lyrics after the break…)

Daddy Doo

vacuum cleaner mishap

Male Parenting – it’s not all soft toys, breast feeding and Mexican wrestling.

More great entertainment from the New Zealand Film Archive mediagallery, with Wellington artist Bryce Galloway’s new show – “Daddy Doo” – a video installation inspired by the world of male parenting, starting today (July 20th), and running through to the 4th of August.

You may already be aware of Bryce’s through his ‘zine Incredibly Hot Sex with Hideous People which has chronicled his life as a parent over the past four years. If so, you’d know you’ll be in for hilarious, surreal entertaiment. As the publicity blurb says…

More info over at the NZFA site.

Wanted: great T-shirt designs

wanted - great t-shirt designers

All you budding young clothes designers out there should be getting whatever it is you use to design clothes ready for The Hinitiative and Wellington City Mission T-Shirt design contest that kicked off this week.

Open to all Wellington high school students, entries will be judged by a panel that includes Wellington fashion designer, Robyn Mathieson, clothing stores Fusion Surf & Skate and Rex Royale, and The Church design company. The first place winner takes home $300 in store vouchers. Second, third also get store vouchers, but not quite so many. In addition, all four finalists will have their winning designs produced into t-shirts by The Hinitiative and sold by selected stores in Wellington to help benefit Wellington City Mission.

Do good, and look good doing it.

More info at the Hinitiative website, and here’s a direct link to the design brief. Contest deadline is Saturday 11 August.

P pipes seized from dairies

Anyone else find it amusing that every single dairy in Wellington today had the Dominion Post‘s “P pipes seized from dairies!” story on proud display out in front of their respective shops.

(And is there a technical term for those wire-frame things that hold the big one-page headline banner for the day?)

Kids’ Film Festival

transformers in disguise!One of the more excellent things we’ve seen land in the Wellingtonista’s intray that allows harried parents to entertain their kids for FREE these holidays, is the Film Festival taking place down at the Film Archive. So if you’ve got a loved one at home looking after some housebound kiddy-winkles, give ’em a call and tell them to head along…

Classic Cartoons for Kids includes the world’s first Mickey Mouse cartoon Steamboat Willie (1928), Walt Disney classics To Itch His Own (1958) and Ferdinand the Bull (1938), plus a 1933 puppet animation by New Zealand’s own Len Lye. Also on the programme is Maurice Sendak’s classic childrens tale Where The Wild Things Are (1973). This programme is for children aged 5-12.

Animation Nation – New Zealand Animation 1936-2006 collects New Zealand animations from the past 70 years for an audience of kids aged 10-13+. The programme takes in classic stop-motion, claymation and 3D animation. One of the highlights of Animation Nation is Mr Stinky’s World of Trash (2006), a 3D film made by local animator Mike Heynes. Visitors to the screening will be given a special pair of glasses to enhance the effect of characters leaping out from the screen and moving in space! Also on the entirely New Zealand bill are two films by Len Lye including The Birth of the Robot (1936), and James Cunningham’s award winning digital animation Delf (1997). This programme is for children aged 10-13+.

Both programmes run for approximately 45 minutes are guaranteed to entertain kids and their parents. The Archive will selling it’s usual range of coffee, tea and refreshments to hungry Kids Film Festival goers.

Location: New Zealand Film Archive Mediatheatre
Time: 11am

  • Wednesday 4th July
    Classic Cartoons for Kids (Ages 5-12)
  • Monday 9th July
    Stop Motion, Claymation & 3D (Ages 10-13+)
  • Tuesday 10th July
    Classic Cartoons for Kids (Ages 5-12)
  • Wednesday 11th July
    Stop Motion, Claymation & 3D (Ages 10-13+)

[photo: frame enlargement from The Birth of the Robot (1936) by Len Lye. courtesy of the Len Lye Foundation Collection; New Zealand Film Archive / Ngä Kaitiaki O Ngä Taonga Whitiähua]

When Typos Attack

pubic forum tonightThe Wellington News Feed (an aggregated collection of local RSS feeds kindly supplied by our friends over at wellington.gen.nz, which we display in the right hand sidebar on the Wellingtonista homepage), is not only a rich source of grass-roots info about what’s going on in this lovely city of ours, it also offers the occasional good ol’ fashioned laugh.

From the indecipherable news events conveyed by the local shortwave enthusiasts, to the breathless match reports of Karori Slapperz AFC (“Wellington’s finest social football [team]”), there’s always something popping up that makes you think, ‘you’re in ma feed, mirthin’ up ma blogz‘. Or something.

Anyway, today’s laugh came from an inadvertant typo (at least, we hope it’s a typo): “pubic forum tonight“. The mind boggles…

Flight of the Conchords: HBO Premiere

A little late today, still recovering from last night’s bowling…

But worth the wait! The first episode of the Flight of the Conchords’ HBO show is now online for your viewing pleasure.



(Hat-tips to the various people who were kind enough to point this out to us. Tobin, Jessie, and someone else who’s name eludes me now.)

Wellington music month 3: getting noizy

Skallander – The Camels
Take the welly dub ethic, mix it up with some guitar and ambient noise, and you end up with this brilliant slab of aural inventiveness. One of the many projects to come from the musical mind of the very talented and massively under-rated Bevan Smith.

Shihad – Killjoy
Best NZ rock album. Ever. Nuff said.

The Bilge Festival – Cape Goat
The good side of Wellington wacky rock. Two mad singer/songwriters and a super-tight rhythm section, create an opus of bizarre yet funky songs. Wildebeest a go-go!!

Over the Atlantic – Junica
Another Bevan Smith collaboration – this is like a Wellingtonian take on what the definitive New Order album might sound like. The noise wig-out on the last track ‘Fly to the States’ is the best bit of distortion you’ll ever hear. (Video below is the track ’35 Black & White’)…

Debris – She’s the Bomb
Yeah, I played on it. And technically we’re all from Christchurch. But we were living here at the time, it was recorded at the infamous Church on Frederick St., and it’s f**kin’ awesome.