Ems and I had dinner with our friends Alyson and Jeff this evening and were relaxing in their living room afterwards, chatting, with Beck's Guero playing on the stereo. None of us are all that familiar with that particular album yet, and when it got to a part where all of us gradually noticed that there was a single continuous monotone going ( Read more... )

Honda UK commercial using a variety of interesting vocal techniques to recreate vehicle sounds.

aussie_annie asked me these questions a while back, and I haven't got around to answering them yet....

1. When did you move from N.Z. to the U.S. and why?Quite a while ago now.... nearly 10 years. Why? For a girl! (And also because-I realise now-I was in a job/career that really wasn't moving in any way and if I'd stayed I really have no idea what I'd currently ( Read more... )

An unexpected televisual surprise this morning, flipping through channels to see if anything worth watching was on.... Since Fox Sports World seems to now have changed to Fox Sports Soccer, I haven't seen any cricket for ages, but there up on channel 500 I found AZN Television running their weekly ICC Cricket Roundup and showing highlights of Sri ( Read more... )

The Anthem
If famous poets had written "The Star-Spangled Banner"
By Garrison Keillor
From The Atlantic, January/February 2006
( Long, quite funny post here )

OK, I've been tagged, and the tagger is sitting beside me so I have to do this one....

"List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now."
I'm not going to do the rest of the meme as I don't know seven people here.

• Skeleton Key ( Read more... )

One o' them crazy-but-brilliant Canadians had an idea about swapping one thing for another until he had swapped himself into a house. He started with one red paperclip and after 4 months is up to a snowmobile. I think this is a fantastically ingenious idea but it's kind of depressing to think that some of these people are probably doing these ( Read more... )

New Zealand will host the World Cup in 2011!

Crossposted to found_objects:


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Went to see quite a poor production of Medea last night. The best performances were by people who weren't able to follow the director's vision ( Read more... )