2.20.2012
2.16.2012
honey
our show honey opens tonight.
i think it's a bloody good show.
you should come to it if you are in wellington.
bring koha.
starts at 8:30.
we are extremely lucky to have been provided some real real nice tshirts by 'tshirt geniuses', AS COLOUR.
they look great on stage. like real tshirts.
please come. it will be incredibly embarrassing if no-one comes.
please come. we took an 11 hour busride to get here.
please come. there are lights and music and everything.
please come. bring koha.
8:30 at freds on frederick street (off taranaki street).
i think it's a bloody good show.
you should come to it if you are in wellington.
bring koha.
starts at 8:30.
we are extremely lucky to have been provided some real real nice tshirts by 'tshirt geniuses', AS COLOUR.
they look great on stage. like real tshirts.
please come. it will be incredibly embarrassing if no-one comes.
please come. we took an 11 hour busride to get here.
please come. there are lights and music and everything.
please come. bring koha.
8:30 at freds on frederick street (off taranaki street).
2.13.2012
top 5 things (grandfather tribute list)
- euphonium
- golf
- beethoven
- 10% management fees
- cream
- potatoes w/butter
- the same jokes
- the west coast
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top5
2.12.2012
2.11.2012
virginia and joseph's new zealand fringe festival picks
here are virginia and my picks for the 2012 wellington fringe festival. most shows are pretty cheap. lots are just koha. obviously you can only go if yr in wellington. we decided this while preparing to eat some cornflakes. the 'hot picks' have been chosen mostly based on their titles and pictures. or knowing people in them.
- honey - obviously this is gonna be a killer show. great cast. great direction. nice title. this is sort of a show about a couple who decide to turn into honey. and sort of a show about mice. hot sound design by darian woods.
- dark stars - "sounds like and interesting story. arthur meek is..." - virginia.
- should we stay or should we go - virginia went to clown college with these two people. i think the central conceit is a great gimmick (that they're using the audience to decide whether or not to stay in new zealand).
- puppet fiction - this is pulp fiction done with puppets. seems chill. "i wonder if they'll do the big kahuna scene." says virginia. "i think they're doing every scene." replies joseph.
- confessions - this is a show by our friend ben henson. pretty much an 'all-star cast'. i went to the preview last night. there were plenty of laughs and grimaces. also a real good aesthetic.
- babylon - i don't know anything about this but the poster is cool.
- space bitches - written by handsome lad, hamish parkinson and featuring something like art direction by chris stratton and ruby reihana wilson. also i think jonathan and tobias and richard have something to do with it do. if they've formed some kind of glitched out space band then this should be good.
- songs from the bottom of a hilltop - this seems like it's a conceptual music project by a band called sven olsen's brutal canadian love saga. i remember my teacher gary told me it was great. i'd like to see it.
bonus feature for aucklanders only - virginia's sister is an artist named alicia and has an exhibition on at starkwhite in auckland at the moment. it's potentially the pick of the fringe without even being part of the fringe or even in wellington.
2.10.2012
Ant story
i turned into the ant because there was nobody looking. it wasn't even that hard. i just focussed on each little part of my body- one at a time- and made them as small as they could be. then when everything was smaller, but in proportion, i did the same thing. i did it again and again and again. until i was the right size for an ant. then i crawled up onto the bench and rolled around in vegemite so i was the right colour. that was all i did.
when i was the ant, i had a pretty easy life. it was quite boring. i just kind of walked around. sometimes i licked crumbs. i walked through all of the cracks in the concrete and inside of the walls of houses and other buildings. i went inside a computer and sat in front of the little fan in there. that was the most exciting thing. there were a lot of little lights in there that were flashing.
when you came home i wanted you to see that i turned into an ant so i crawled all over your legs and your tummy and your neck. when you didn't know i was there it was funny. then you saw me and didn't realise it was me and put me between your thumb and finger and squeezed. then you put your finger under your nose and sniffed. *sniff* *sniff*, "vegemite?" you said.
when i was the ant, i had a pretty easy life. it was quite boring. i just kind of walked around. sometimes i licked crumbs. i walked through all of the cracks in the concrete and inside of the walls of houses and other buildings. i went inside a computer and sat in front of the little fan in there. that was the most exciting thing. there were a lot of little lights in there that were flashing.
when you came home i wanted you to see that i turned into an ant so i crawled all over your legs and your tummy and your neck. when you didn't know i was there it was funny. then you saw me and didn't realise it was me and put me between your thumb and finger and squeezed. then you put your finger under your nose and sniffed. *sniff* *sniff*, "vegemite?" you said.
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story
2.01.2012
1.28.2012
things i'd like to do
- drink more water
- drink less caffeine
- have less 'treats'
- throw out clothes less
- buy clothes less
- be more 'socially active'
- play more cricket
- play more tennis
- try watching baseball
- try playing baseball
- attempt to 'make something of myself'
- walk more
- jog more
- run more
- swim more
- 'hit the open road'
- write something good
- buy fewer books
- learn maori
- learn japanese
- learn leg-spin
- learn carpentry
- learn to make hummus
- learn computer hacking
- learn bicycle maintenance
- learn bird names
- learn constellations
- learn sign language
- learn interesting historical facts
- learn one real stellar card trick
- be in a band
- darn more socks
- eat healthy
- buy less food
- use my poofy scrubber thing every day
- smell better
- maintain my nails better
- become a fixture of my community
- become a pillar of my community
- rear a pet
- think of jokes
- win more contests
- be slightly more likable
- climb ~3 mountains
- call my parents more often
- be less flakey
- be more handy
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list
1.20.2012
Honey
Honey as a metaphor for love and mild case for optimism.
Honey never goes off. They found honey in egypt, in the pyramids, in a pot or something, and they tried it and it was still really delicious and good. This play is about love and is about the universe and the mouse/cheese dynamic and will contain earnestness and stories and singing and flesh and shitty lyricism and honesty and almost certainly some kissing. It's about love.
Honey is written by Joseph Harper (numerous bicycle related shows) and has been made my Joseph and Virginia Frankovich and Chris Stratton and hopefully Ruby Reihana Wilson.
Freds on Frederick Street
Entry by koha
Thursday 16th February 8:30pm
Friday 17th February 8:30pm
Saturday 18th February 8:30pm
Labels:
honey,
live,
love love love,
such a mean show
1.16.2012
top 5 things (bands that i listen to when writing lately)
- neutral milk hotel (obviously)
- elliott smith
- cass mccombs
- batrider
- mount eerie/microphones
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top5
1.08.2012
top 5 things (potential style icons)
woody allen
pete townshend
elvis costello
harvey pekar
larry david
bob dylan
the cast of the squid and the whale
the collective japanese
darian
tom
pete townshend
elvis costello
harvey pekar
larry david
bob dylan
the cast of the squid and the whale
the collective japanese
darian
tom
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top5
1.06.2012
predictions for 2012
- i will get into a serious bike accident. i think i will break my wrist. i also imagine i will need c. 24 stitches in my face. i think my left cheek will be kind of grated along the concrete after i fall from the bike. my cyst will rupture and it will need stitches. i'll have a big pirate scar on my face. the accident will happen on ponsonby road and will be the kind of accident that happens when drivers open their door. i imagine it will be either oliver driver or michael hurst who i get nailed by. i will be on my way to return dvds.
- i will begin balding, severely. i will start wearing hats.
- i will win a significant amount of money (<$200) on an instant kiwi.
- i will become a massive christian.
- people will stop being able to laugh. something really funny will happen on a global scale, and for some reason noone will find if funny. it will just wash by and everyone will realise they should have laughed at it. from that point, laughter just stops being a thing that happens. people are still happy and enjoy the feeling of finding something funny (that squirmy thing) but noone will actually laugh at anything. after that, talking will decrease. to the point where people just acknowledge one another with a tiny eye movement. our mouths will actually get smaller and smaller.
- one of these people will die: toby brockie, jonathan phillips, richard marks, jon lemmon.
- one of my male cousins will experience a phantom pregnancy.
- alien war.
1.05.2012
top 5 things (2011 in review)
best movies (i mean ones i saw last year)
- rise of the planet of the apes
- tree of life
- fire in babylon
- norwegian wood
- tron 2: tron legacy (imax 3d)
- bridget jones's diary
- bridget jones's diary 2 (the edge of reason)
- the turin horse
- tony takitani
- greenberg
- the future
best bands
- phil elverum
- arthur russell
- scoutt niblett
- jeff mangum
best books
- 1q84
- great gatsby (every year)
- joan didion
- in watermelon sugar
- zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
- walden
- the little prince
- kurt vonnegut
- impossible vacation
funniest person
- jeremy randerson
- guy williams
- luke bower
best shows (i performed)
- true stories told live
- opening night of bikes vs girls in wellington
- fundraising night at old folks ass
- the night of bikes vs girls that tom and sam came to
- boy and bicycle in wellington where i smashed the lightbulb on a girl's feet
- bombing real hard on drew and shannon live
- fan fiction night where i just kind of left halfway through
best shows (i saw)
- are you scared of me?
- anna bate's so fake it's real
- wet wings and watercolours at the wine cellar
- artaud at rodez
- wailing chamber in cuba mall
best food
- la porchetta on ponsonby road
- sweet mother's kitchen
- veggie delite
- bluebird delicio sweet chilli relish
- this cheese from nosh that is blimmin expensive but worth it
- dimitris souvlakis
best bike
- white avanti supersprint (rip)
- pink avanti supersprint
- red jumbo bmx thing (rip)
best baby
- oliver
best sibling
- tom harper
best cousin
- anthony davidson
best animal
- cat
- frog
- mynah bird
- guinea pig
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top5
top 5 things
- cricketers without tattoos
- duncan fearnley
- new tent
- cricket jersey (so many comments)
- house sitting
- new bike
- chris lilley
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top5
12.23.2011
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