On Sat­urday, the big front page head­line on the Domin­ion Post was “Cheers! We’re killing ourselves” about how alco­hol is respons­ible for injur­ies, health prob­lems and crime.

Today it’s “Week­end of Drunk­en May­hem – 1000 calls to police”.

Think maybe they lost a big advert­ising account?

Full dis­clos­ure: the TAWAs have some spon­sor­ship from Epic Beer and we’re very happy about that.

There I was tak­ing a leis­urely stroll along Lamb­ton Quay when I happened to glance down Stout Street and sud­denly noticed that the street was com­pletely blocked by a giant pile of rub­bish!

Good­ness crikey me! What enviroter­ror has spewed on Stout? All is explained after the jump.

Only one more week to go! Thanks to the lovely Miss Fur for cap­tur­ing our excited­ness so awe­somely:

Come down to the Film Archive this eve for the last exhib­i­tion open­ing of the year.

Hot damn – it’s a good­ie! Tessa Laird, whose name you may recog­nise from her bril­liant art writ­ing over the years, has cur­ated an exhib­i­tion from the Film Archive’s Home Movie Col­lec­tion.

With such a wealth of mater­i­al (over 30,000 titles) she cre­ated an arbit­rary selec­tion pro­cess based on the col­ours of the rain­bow. The res­ult­ant Rain­bow Reels are fant­ast­ic. There’s every­one from Opo to Chair­man Mau.…

Plus, per­form­ing tonight by spe­cial request are Alpha­bet Bomber – a band of 13 year olds who must be seen to be believed. They’re influ­enced by the Cramps and sheesh – it’s going to be a party!

See you tonight!

Image from 1982 Sweet­waters Fest­iv­al from the Yel­low sec­tion.

And you should too … pro­ceeds from the show will be donated to the Roy­al NZ Found­a­tion for the Blind Talk­ing Books Pro­ject.

It runs from Tues 9th – 13th Decem­ber and the tick­et includes a beer ($20/13) 

He’ll be spin­ning yarns from his book Two Little Boys, and hav­ing been an audi­ence mem­ber at his shows over the years, I’d highly recom­mend it!!

book@bats.co.nz or phone 04.8024175

And there’s free entry for mem­bers of the Roy­al NZ Found­a­tion for the Blind (these seats are lim­ited so book early to secure them)

Stink Mag­net­ic Tapes, the dog­gedly inde­pend­ant record com­pany that has released music by the likes of the Mys­ter­i­ous Tape­man, Voo­doo Sav­age and His Sav­ages, Delaney Dav­id­son, The Chan­deliers and the Damned Evan­gel­ist, cel­eb­rates ten whole years of exist­ence this Decem­ber. Recently relo­cated from Wel­ling­ton to that op-shop­pers para­dise of Wan­ganui, Stink Mag­net­ic is hold­ing one heck of a knees up next Thursday, Fri­day and Sat­urday (11, 12 and 13 Dec) at the com­pany HQ, cnr Drews Ave and Rut­land St, Wan­ganui. At only ten bucks a night for some sweet bands (mostly of Wel­ling­ton ori­gins) – at least 5 bands a night – you’d be loco to miss it, cam­padres. Rumour has it there’s a spe­cial ‘Were­wolf’ com­pil­a­tion LP on hot black vinyl com­ing out too. 

[edit: This time with the fly­er!]

Any­one know what’s going on at the moment? There seems to be (for­give me my scorn) bad 80s cov­ers (Rhythm of the Night as I type this) being blas­ted accross the road so loud we can hardly hear ourselves think. Owooo Owooo.

If we needed this, we’d have Mamma Mia (the sing along ver­sion natch) blast­ing from the Wel­ling­tonista Home Theatre. Owoo owoo

But we don’t. Because we don’t. Owoo.