Double Meat Palace

Tem­per­ance Bar might not be doing quite as well as it hoped, because they’re offer­ing 2‑for‑1 mains on Mondays, Tues­days and Wed­nes­days in their ads in the Cap­it­al Times. You can “Choose any menu item of our menu and receive anoth­er of the same or less­er value for free.” Y’hear that? Any menu item of their menu!

Mean­while The Estab­lish­ment clearly feels threatened because they’ve been run­ning an ad right next to it stat­ing that they offer 2‑for-1s every day but they don’t have any sign of their spe­cial on their annoy­ing music-play­ing site (Ser­i­ously, who still does that? Is it still 1999? Is Flash still cool?). If their 24 hour liquor license was­n’t enough of a threat to soci­ety, they also offer a 1.2kg steak – which if you can fin­ish with­in 40 minutes, you dine for free. Yeesh.

If that’s not yet enough meat for you in the meat-mar­ket-dis­trict, Four Kings offers “All you can eat ribs” for $19.95 on Monday nights. 

Yikes. I think it’s time we did a review of Pran­nah and maybe High­er Taste. 

Halloween: Wrestling and zombies and dress-ups, oh my!

Next Fri­day is, of course, Hal­loween. And if you’re not trick-or-treat­ing, you’ll need some in-town enter­tain­ment. Oh boy do we have ideas for you!

(Awe­some zom­bie pin-up pic­ture stolen from My Zom­bie Pin-up)

First up, there’s the Hal­loween Howl II wrest­ling at Wel­ling­ton High School. You already know how much we love the wrest­ling. Hol­lie, Queen of the Divas, will be there. We’ll be there, dressed up like zom­bies again. Would­n’t you like to come with us?

That’ll be over and done with in time for the Zom­bie Meet-Up at the Para­mount around 10pm. They’ll be screen­ing poo-your­self-scary [REC] at 10.30pm with pro­ceeds going to NZBlood, and then doing a Zom­bie March down Cour­tenay Place at 11.45pm.

There’s no word yet on how to tell the dif­fer­ence between the zom­bies and your aver­age Cour­tenay Place munter, but just in case you need to here’s a help­ful video from the good folks at Com­mon­Craft.

All stitched up

Rose Mar­ie Sal­mon, who makes these weirdly erot­ic and witty “sew­ing machine draw­ings” using a house­hold sew­ing machine, has a solo show open­ing this Thursday 23 Octo­ber at Daf106 in Aro Val­ley at 6pm. 

A self-taught artist, Rose works as a cos­tume assist­ant on films (most recently Second Hand Wed­ding) but ori­gin­ally stud­ied Organ­ic Hor­ti­cul­ture (?!!). She also has a text mes­sage based series of sew­ing machine draw­ings which are very cool and will be included in the exhib­i­tion. 

Least said, soon­est men­ded

Rose Mar­ie Sal­mon 
Daf 109
109 Aro Val­ley
23 Octo­ber – 16 Novem­ber

Flower (political) power

We’ve already seen polit­ic­al signs bring­ing out the worst in people, but check this out: flor­al trib­utes to sup­port signs for good polit­ic­al parties:

More please!

WBL 2008 Round Three Results

I was­n’t drink­ing last week at the bowl­ing, so con­sequently, I for­got to pick up the score sheets. Ridicu­lous, I know.

But I can tell you that while a Dom Post pho­to­graph­er snapped mer­rily away, the Mighty Boost beat the Bow­l­ing­tonista AND got the slow­est bowl, that the Purple Cobras beat Xero, and that Fer­als showed up just to drink and cheer us on, so they got a league point. That means the scores stand as:

Bow­l­ing­tonista: 4
Furry Fer­als: 16
Mighty Boost: 15
Purple Cobras: 15
Xero: 4

Things are look­ing as tight as the holes in a num­ber 8 ball right now, so tonight will no doubt be full of excite­ment and sab­ot­age. But, if you’ll just let me put on my teach­er­’s hat for a minute here, I was made aware of some rather unsports­man­like cri­ti­cism last week, and that is not cool. By all means, talk your­self up, and put down teams as a whole, but repeated call­ing out an indi­vidu­al play­er­’s tech­nique, espe­cially when you don’t actu­ally know them is for chumps. And there aren’t any chumps in our league, right?

Howe About Some Alt-Country?

“If there were only one per­son allowed to con­trib­ute fur­ther to the over-stocked pool of recor­ded music on this plan­et it should be Howe Gelb” – John Par­ish

What else can you say about Howe Gelb after that? Well how about how his band, Giant Sand, spawned a rhythm sec­tion that became Calex­ico? And how about the killer solo shows he played here last time he vis­ited in 2005? And what about the fact that he writes an insight­ful, kooky and straight out sweet tour diary here, and cur­rently a lot of it is about tour­ing with Neko Case, who also guests on the latest Giant Sand album, along with M Ward and Iso­bel Camp­bell, amongst oth­ers (not the Calex­icos, though, they’ve moved on)? And how about the fact that he’s com­ing back, next week – Fri­day 24th – to play for us again?
You know the drill: San Fran Bath­house, Fri­day 24, tick­ets from Slow­boat Records. See you there!

Kingpin: There Can Be Only One

The Wel­ling­tonista sea­son of NZ fea­ture films con­tin­ues this Wed­nes­day with King­pin (1985), the pre­de­cessor to last week’s film Mark II.

Star­ring much the same cast but with the addi­tion of the won­der­ful and greatly-missed Wi Kuki Kaa, King­pin tells the story of a pro­vin­cial bor­stal: a world where only the strong sur­vive and The King­pin is the biggest, the mean­est, the toughest, the boss. And, there can be only one.

Tick­ets $8 or $6 con­ces­sion – which includes a com­pli­ment­ary glass of wine (with ID) unless you can tell us which Hol­ly­wood block­buster pinched its tagline from King­pin, and we’ll give you a double pass. Film com­mences 7pm.

More details on The Film Archive’s web­site…

Some You­Tube clip good­ies after the jump!

Vintage alert!

Now this is the kind of inform­a­tion I’d usu­ally keep close to my chest but it feels too mean to keep secret.

Put these dates in your diary imme­di­ately: 15 and 16 NOVEMBER for the ECLECTIC JUMBLE SALE!!!!

The bril­liant Maria from Eclect­ic in Nel­son (you may remem­ber her from vari­ous Cuba St Car­ni­val stalls, she has excep­tion­ally plaited hair and impec­cable taste) is hav­ing a clear-out.

She has over 3000 items to get rid of:
lin­en, lace, tex­tiles, fab­ric (alert all your crafty friends!!!) shoes, bags, hats, clothes, jew­ellery, scarves and more! And it’s ALL VINTAGE.

Not like a dodgy gar­age sale but a com­plete vin­tage jumble sale!!!! And most things priced between $5-$20! There will also be some fur­niture depend­ing on how much she can load in the truck.

It’s going to be some­where in New­town. Will post the details when I know them (or maybe not so I can guar­an­tee I’m first in line – heh heh).