Land of the Long White Cloud

“The brain is a mul­ti-faceted thing that thinks about all sorts of things, most­ly bull­shit. Where­as a fish doesn’t. A fish only thinks about eat­ing, repro­duc­tion, and stay­ing alive. A bit like the kiwi male, prob­a­bly.…” local fish­er­man Neil Moody.

Flo­ri­an Habicht’s lat­est doc­u­men­tary Land of the Long White Cloud is full of fish­ing and phi­los­o­phy and def­i­nite­ly worth a peek. Cur­rent­ly screen­ing at the Film Archive for three weeks it’s a look into the hearts and minds of fish­er­men and women, as they com­pete for $50,000 in the 90 Mile Beach ‘Snap­per Clas­sic’ – the world’s largest snap­per fish­ing con­test. 

“Must be seen” — Nation­al Radio
“An injec­tion of Awe­some” — 95BFM

Wednes­day to Sat­ur­day nights at 7pm until 27 Feb­ru­ary 
at the Film Archive cin­e­ma, cor­ner of Tarana­ki and Ghuznee Sts.

Tick­ets: $14 adult, $12 con­ces­sion, $10 seniors, $9 chil­dren

 

Love to roll?

 Love bikes? Love frocks? Love Welling­ton? How about you mix all those things togeth­er on Valen­tine’s Day by tak­ing part in Frocks on Bikes’ Love to Roll event. 

All you need is your styl­ish self, a bike and a sense of joie de vivre! If you don’t have a bike … nev­er fear! Read on… 

♥ Lovers to Roll will gath­er at on Valentine’s Day at 1.30pm on Ori­en­tal Parade by Frey­berg Pool.
♥ After ensur­ing everyone’s reg­is­tered to be in to win our prizes, we will depart on our cruise!
♥ We will cycle at a leisure­ly pace, on the roads, around the beau­ti­ful Welling­ton bays through Kil­birnie and out to Lyall Bay, with a brief stop out­side the Maranui Life­sav­ing Club around 3pm where any addi­tion­al Lovers to Roll can join the flock.
♥ We’ll arrive at the Island Bay Fes­ti­val in Shorland Park, where we will take to the Fes­ti­val stage in the Pavil­ion to announce the win­ners of our fan­tas­tic prizes!
♥ After it’s all over, you can either return to the city with us or independently.If you’re cur­rent­ly short of a steed, don’t wor­ry — the awe­some Green Bike Trust is bring­ing a fleet of brand-new bikes for Lovers to Roll to hire (only $10!), but book­ings are essen­tial!

Lovers to Roll who reg­is­ter are in to be lucky win­ners! There will be intense com­pe­ti­tion for the cov­et­ed title of Best-Matched Bike & Rid­er Team, the Most Loved-Up Bike award, the Best-Dressed Cou­ple award, and the grand prize – the title of R&R Supreme Frock­er! Up for grabs are superb prizes from our gen­er­ous donors:

A plan for 2012

So imag­ine if the worst thing in the world* hap­pens, and Welling­ton los­es its bid to con­tin­ue host­ing the Sev­ens. What should we do? 

Sim­ple! Just don’t tell any­one. Richard Maclean at the coun­cil is great at com­mu­ni­cat­ing truths so sure­ly he’d be even bet­ter at telling lies. We just pre­tend that the sev­ens are still on. Hire a cou­ple dozen stu­dents to run up and down the field in the sta­di­um, and who’d know the dif­fer­ence?  No one actu­al­ly goes along for the rug­by do they? Peo­ple will still get dressed up, there’ll be glass and vom­it and extra amounts of hate crimes (hey bogans who threw cans at my friends who dared to hold hands in pub­lic: you’re fuck­ing losers) all over the streets as usu­al, and we get to keep that 16 mil­lion dol­lars or so that the games bring to the city. This fly would be well-hap­py, because I do love to live in shit, after all. 

 

*Not real­ly

Boganwatch

AC/DC — the great­est band on the plan­et — are play­ing in Welling­ton tonight and Sat­ur­day on the Black Ice tour, and the city has been over­run by bogans, glo­ri­ous bogans.

Stuff reports on the inva­sion, includ­ing a quote from one fan who reck­ons, “I’d say every bogan from around the coun­try will be there.”

Mean­while, the arrival of our black-T-shirt­ed brethren has not gone unno­ticed on Twit­ter:

@CUSTOMSBREWBAR ghuznee street is crawl­ing with old bogans… so many black jeans and met­al tshirts! “Throw your goats up”

@meganhuddleston There are a ridicu­lous num­ber of bogans in town. THUNDER!

@bnolan Lol at all the bogans out­side. It’s awe­some how you can just tell they’re going to ACDC. Super nice peo­ple so far too! Rock on! #acdc #wlg

@Narelle_NZ Saw at least 15 bogans and 2 mini-bogans on the way to get lunch #acdc #welling­ton

@bradgallen Today welling­ton = So. Many. Bogans…

@missannajane The black holey jumpers and ACDC t‑shirts are out en force on the streets of Welling­ton. Appar­ent­ly, bogans drink Star­bucks.

We wel­come any com­ments or obser­va­tions of the bogan inva­sion. Man, Welling­ton is gonna go off this week­end!

Davis Food Market: an investigation

We noticed Davis Food Mart pop up on the cor­ner of Tarana­ki Street and Karo Dri­ve a lit­tle before Xmas, so we decid­ed it was time to check it out to see if Mt Cook now has a prop­er super­mar­ket to call its own.

It does­n’t.

But, we did find some very inter­est­ing things any­way, and you can read more about them after the break. 

A new dialogue with Julia

So, Julia Deans, singer in the TAWA-nom­i­nat­ed Fur Patrol and all-around pret­ty lady has a solo album com­ing out this year. The first sin­gle off it is called “A new dia­logue” and it has a rather love­ly video. Enjoy!

[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCFHkYYK_4Q]

Ouch My Face & East Brunswick All Girls Choir

Hel­lo! No time no blog. Hope you all had a good break. Just a quick note for those of us who are not attend­ing Cam­pus A Low Hum — there are a hand­ful of great side shows hap­pen­ing but these two Mel­bourne bands are defi­nate­ly my pick of the bunch after catch­ing them at Camp last year. Both are doing shows all over the coun­try, and a few all ages shows as well.

East Brunswick All Girls Choir (Mel­bourne)

Wed 27th Jan, Dux De Lux, Christchurch
Fri 29th Jan, Wun­der Bar, Lit­tle­ton
Sat 30th Jan, Chicks Hotel, Dunedin w/ Ouch My Face
Wed 3rd Feb, Mighty Mighty, Welling­ton w/ Batrid­er
Fri 5th Feb, St Barn­abas Scout Hall, Auck­land, w/ Batrid­er, Ouch My Face and Nevernudes(ALL AGES)

Ouch My Face (Mel­bourne)

Thur 21st Jan, Mighty Mighty, Welling­ton w/ Thought Crea­ture
Thur 28th Jan, Good­bye Blue Mon­day, Christchurch w/ Nev­er­nudes and more
Fri 29th Jan, Franz Torm­ers Art Space, Christchurch w/ Nev­er­nudes and The Body Lyre (ALL AGES)
Sat 30th Jan, Chicks Hotel, Dunedin w/ East Brunswick All Girls Choir and Nev­er­nudes
Thur 4th Feb, Wham­my Bar, Auck­land w/ DHDFD’s and more Fri 5th Feb, St Barn­abys Scout Hall, Auck­land w/ Batrid­er, East Brunswick All Girls Choir and Nev­er­nudes — ALL AGES
Sat 6th Feb, Hap­py, Welling­ton