The good: it looks pretty likely there's going to be an Arrested Development movie, just like Ron Howard said in the last episode...

The bad: three visits and two crews down, there's still no solution to fixing our kitchen sink - the water just doesn't go down properly.

The grrr: people who complain about how great it is in Australia but stay here in New Zealand. Seriously, go! If money is that important to you, you'll be doing the rest of us a huge favour by fucking off.

I was going to write more on the 'grrr' but that about sums it up.

Lost was back on tonight, must download for the morning!

I keep seeing people who look vaguely familiar on my facebook 'People You May Know' bar, but I can't place them. I think it's just showing me people from Camp A Low Hum, so something triggers but I've no idea who they are.

Here's a couple of interesting stories I came across and uploaded at work today: smoking bans have had the secondary, bonus effect of lowering teen smoking rates, it would seem (so who's going to argue against them now?) and if Kiwis decided the American elections, Obama would win in a landslide.

And just to make this the most random post I've ever posted, here's a reminder I'm still doing Fighting Dantasy, yay, it's not going to die this time it seems! Probably because I've incorporated it into my Saturday night cold ones semi-tradition. The latest entry is book #11, Talisman Of Death.


TOP 6 ALBUMS OF THE PAST FORTNIGHT!

1. Portishead - Third
2. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
3.  R.E.M - Accelerate
4. Andrew WK - I Get Wet
5.  Anika Moa - In Swings the Tide
6. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

Okay, so I stole that headline straight from fark.com, a site where the headlines are usually humorous in nature; it's a cruel irony I suppose this one is no joke. How many times do we have to tell people it's not about smacking, it's about stopping people who beat their children senseless using the "I'm the parent, I can do what I want" defence in court?

That's right, it doesn't really matter how many times we say it, because papers like the Herald are never going admit Labour did something right.

Grrr!

I've been proofing all week at Groove (look out for an article tangentially about MC Stormtroopa), was planning to spend this week working on demos for a potential new band Marty and I gonna try and form, but money is good too. I had a job interview at TV3 on Monday and was told I'd most likely be called back for a second interview, so that'd be awesome.

Anyway, this potential new band needs a name. We're hoping to find something along the lines of a cool 1980s computer game, and have whittled it down to two. One is better, and probably would suit the idea we have more, but is quite well-known and no doubt taken a million times over already - Paradroid. The other is cool, and would make a good Pitchfork/late-2000s-indie band name, but that's not the kind of band we're gonna be, but it's cool regardless - Raid Over Moscow. Any suggestions? The songs I have in mind are a mix of some of what we used to play in SAM/Slow Learner/Vetox, and mroe recent ones, obviously. Start with three of us, keep it loose and simple, then develop from there. Starting a band is the hardest part, and I don't want to start dealing with extra guitarists and keyboardists and triangulators till we've proved to ourselves the band is worth pursuing. I've no idea how good a bassist Marty is, but he's an okay guitarist so yeah. Grunge-pop for the win.

I'm going to re-kickoff my Fighting Fantasy blog, Fighting Dantasy (get it? lol). I'll start with pretty much the same two posts I did back when I tried it the first time (April or May last year) then get stuck in further this time, honest! It's empty at the time of writing though. Will get on it tonight perhaps. I'll consider switching to Joomla (anyone used it?) or Wordpress or something later on, if it's worthwhile, will stay at budget ol' blogspot till then.

So how about that cricket the other day? 300 deliveries apiece, seven hours of cricket, and both NZ and England manage to score a massive 340 runs. Insane. By far the highest scoring draw in ODI history, and if NZ had managed to score two off the last ball, instead of one, it would've been the third highest run chase of all time, and meant they 4 of the top 5 chases, while they currently only have a meager 3 :p


Top Albums of the Last Fortnight!

1. The Replacements - Tim
2. Liam Finn - I'll Be Lightning
3. Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
4. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
5. Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
6. Radiohead - In Rainbows

I am looking for the following Fighting Fantasy gamebooks - must be with all the pages intact, otherwise condition not a concern.

23: Masks of Mayhem
29: Midnight Rogue
46: Tower of Desruction
48: Moonrunner
53: Spellbreaker
54: Legend of Zagor
55: Deathmoor
56: Knights of Doom
57: Magehunter
58: Revenge of the Vampire
59: Curse of the Mummy

Wizard/reissue equivalents (same book, different cat number) fine.