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buzzfeed: Chris Christie is the dad from Dinosaurs. It cannot...

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:23:30 +1300

Chris Christie is the dad from Dinosaurs. It cannot be unseen.

OMFG. Taylor Swift long haul trucking....

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:20:22 +1300

OMFG. Taylor Swift long haul trucking.

shortformblog:

entertainmentweekly:

candobetterthanthat:

perfuqed:

candobetterthanthat:

iamtheisabella:

I HAVE BEEN WAITING SO LONG FOR THIS.

ALL THE ROAD TRIPS I WAS WAITING

Savour the moment. They’re never ever ever getting back together.

OH MY GOD ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I can’t even.

Congratulations, Internet!

Because sometimes a joke is so good that you just have to reblog it.

Wow, yeah, this is too incredible not to reblog. This is important.

The King of Earthquake Rock ... Is Back!

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 09:21:00 +1300

The King of Earthquake Rock ... Is Back!:

I don’t really know what that means, I’ve just been wanting to say that for ages. Well, at least since I thought it up, which was about 2 weeks ago. Anyway, STILL HATES IT is the follow up to Ed Muzik’s 2011 ep HATES IT, with more #eqnz-inspired tunes. It starts off with CERA, a remix of the Fleetwood Mac classic, guns turned on the powers that be. Then Ed’s cover of the Strokes’ gem, dedicated to the people of CHCH for the moment that the quake hit. Next up is the Stone Roses’s sampling FEEL THE PLACE, with both the original and vocal (read: BAD RAP) version featured on the EP. Topping the EP off is Sara, an extended, dancier version of CERA, dedicated to a girl of the same name who briefly crossed my path, before heading back to Sweden. Le Sigh.

All proceeds from the sale of the EP go to an earthquake victim (me)

Album artwork by THE LOSS ADJUSTERS

disgusted-musicians: this is beyond the most fucked up thing...

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:30:52 +1300

disgusted-musicians:

this is beyond the most fucked up thing I’ve ever seen in Nirvana merchandise

Kurt Cobain suicide note as a tank top for hipsters *pukes*

Earthquakes, ECan and the Extinguishing of Democracy in Canterbury

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 15:00:26 +1300

On April the 20th, 2010, I organised a protest on the steps of ECan. Around 500 people met, and marched a short distance down to the Copthorne Hotel on Durham St, where Jenny Shipley was giving a lecture to National Party MPs and supporters called “Canterbury Water - The Collaborative Response”. We gathered outside, closing down the one-way system, chanting “We can’t drink money, we can’t drink shit, you can’t steal our votes and get away with it”.

Here we are, just over 2 and a half years later, and unfortunately, they did. They have got away with it. They’ve stolen our votes. Not only did they sack the existing ECan council, but now they want to deny us the vote at the next election in less than a year as well. They say that it’s because of the earthquakes, but we know that isn’t true.

We’ve been told, at times rather patronizingly, that the people of Canterbury are resilient. Resilient enough to withstand thousands of quakes. Stoic enough to deal with portaloos and broken roads and two snowy winters in our damaged homes. Patient enough to deal with the obfuscation and bureaucracy of EQC and insurance companies. Strong enough to cope with our streets, our communities, our city being shaken to pieces. But yet, we aren’t resilient enough to tick a box. We aren’t strong enough to think about what we might want for our communities. We aren’t to be trusted with a basic human right.

I know that’s not right. You know that’s not right. You’re here today because you know that it’s not right and you want to do something about it. Scrapping ECan wasn’t about a dysfunctional council and it certainly wasn’t about earthquakes. It was about the government ensuring that a small group of industrial farmers could get the consents they needed to exploit Canterbury’s water - OUR WATER - for their own gain. These interests knew they would lose at the ballot box, and so they had the ballot box eradicated.

Prime Minister John Key - the leader who has presided over the government that has taken these unprecedented steps - was recently in Burma, where he met with Aang San Suu Kyi, the leader of the Burmese movement for democracy. Key said - and I’m not drunk enough to do an impersonation - “we see her as a person who was a beacon of democracy, freedom and hope for this country.” Noble words, from a man who is ultimately responsible for removing democracy, freedom and hope from the people of Canterbury.

Less than a month ago, most of the world breathed a huge sigh of relief as President Obama was re-elected to the White House. He gave a brilliant victory speech, but it was these words that stuck with me most: “We can never forget that as we speak, people in distant nations are risking their lives just for a chance to argue about the issues that matter, the chance to cast their ballots like we did today”. We shouldn’t have to risk our lives. But we do need to keep up the fight.

kebabette: IMG_0359 on Flickr. ok, this 8-bit MED station is...

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:40:07 +1300

kebabette:

IMG_0359 on Flickr.

ok, this 8-bit MED station is GREAT

SO HUNGRY

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:11:24 +1300

SO HUNGRY

Party council and theoretical physicists united in praise for Labour's Annual Conference

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:36:00 +1300

The president of the Labour Party Moira Coatsworth received praise from an unusual quarter today, with the NZ Association of Theoretical Physicists enthusing about the weekend’s gathering. While it was notable for being the biggest conference since the 1988 conference, the real success was in providing all 622 delegates an entirely unique experience. “Through the various media reports and posts in social media over the weekend, it was clear that while our delegates may have appeared to be in the same room, they all experiencing an entirely different conference from each other” said Coatsworth. “We had hoped to provide a personally-tailored experience, but this has exceeded even our most optimistic expectations. Upon receiving their conference packs, delegates were then randomly assigned to one of a series of alternate dimensions for the remainder of the weekend.”

Coatsworth suggested looking at the media reports as a case in point: “John Armstrong saw a coup, Bomber was able to find the conspiracy he craves, and Laura McQuillan was able to coordinate her purple media pass with her pants. Though these people were seated within about 5 metres of each other, they all had an entirely unique, totally contradictory, personalised conference experience. That’s the power of a mass multi-dimensional reality shift.”

It didn’t all go off without a hitch though - there appeared to be a problem with the dimension provided for Patrick Gower, which resulted in him asking David Cunliffe the same question all weekend long. “There was some sort of glitch, and we would like to apologise to Patrick and David for that. It was unpleasant for everyone and we’ve got people looking into it.”

Those people are likely to be researchers from the Dansing-on Callaghan Sgrave Nano-Reality Research Facility. While no-one from the facility would go on record to speak about their discoveries, a source did describe how they stumbled upon dimensional micro-reality shifting. “We were following Parliament, and noticed that there was a lot of talk about ‘Planet Key’, ‘Planet Labour’ or ‘Planet Green’. We had been searching for these planets for months without success. Then, one of our post-docs realised that they weren’t actually planets, but a series of alternate dimensions.”

Suspicions were aroused in the scientists by the apparent cognitive disconnect between John Key and John Banks. “It looks as though Key has been lying and hissing through his teeth, but when you consider that he and Banks exist in entirely different dimensions from one another, it starts to make more sense.”

The Labour Party conference was the first time in which the technology had been rolled out in a large scale public setting, and Coatsworth was beaming about its success. “This has been a fantastic conference and if you talk to delegates, they’re all buzzing - and all for different reasons. A personal highlight for me was Grant Robertson’s one-man performance of the Mikado on Saturday night, and I did enjoy watching Chris Hipkins try and get the correct change out of a coke machine on the Sunday morning too (which was caught on security camera here). We’ll be looking to do the same thing at Labour’s conference in Christchurch next year.”

CCC Predicts the future

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:30:08 +1300

CCC Media Release - NZ Cup and Show Week wraps up today
Saturday 17 November 2012

Canterbury’s favourite spring festival, New Zealand Cup and Show Week wraps up today (Saturday 17 November).

Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker is delighted that so many Cantabrians have joined family and friends at New Zealand Cup and Show Week festival events.

“There were so many festival highlights this year.For many, the attendance of The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall at the 150th Canterbury A&P Show on Friday 16 November, will be a treasured memory. I was proud to see so many people at the show giving the royal couple a very special Christchurch welcome,” he says.

The Evolution Of Divinity: Everything Ryan Gosling Has Ever Been...

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:34:00 +1300

The Evolution Of Divinity: Everything Ryan Gosling Has Ever Been In
buzzfeed.com

In honor of Ryan Gosling’s 32nd birthday, here’s a timeline of every television show or movie he’s ever appeared in. FYI, he is legal from “Remember The Titans” on, so you don’t have to feel weird or creepy.
1993-1995
“The Mickey Mouse…

Hey girl, here’s every tv show or movie that Ryan Gosling has been in since the Mickey Mouse Club http://flpbd.it/iFLIJ

I have just learnt that there is an all-girl Soundgarden tribute...

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:58:05 +1300

I have just learnt that there is an all-girl Soundgarden tribute band called “Bleed Together”, I don’t really know how to respond to that. So many confusing emotions.

grungebook:

Turns out there’s an all-female Soundgarden tribute band called Bleed Together (eww), and they’re playing the listening party for the real Soundgarden’s King Animal at Seattle’s Feedback Lounge on Monday. They totally need to tour with Allison Chains!

(Note: There’s a MySpace page for an all-female Nirvana tribute called Hervana, a band that doesn’t appear to exist in real life, and a Facebook page for a supposedly forthcoming all-female PJ cover act called Pearl Clam—eww, again.)

johnkeylooksatthings: John Key looks at Ian McKellen

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 09:20:21 +1300

johnkeylooksatthings:

John Key looks at Ian McKellen

Self-portrait (The Artist As Josh Romney)

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 09:01:00 +1300

Self-portrait (The Artist As Josh Romney)

nerdshed: A restoration I could stand behind! Fresco Jesus...

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:10:48 +1200

nerdshed:

A restoration I could stand behind!

Fresco Jesus meets the Criterion Collection

thelolnats: Cuts to welfare?

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:00:55 +1200

thelolnats:

Cuts to welfare?

Dear Lady Gaga, we left a present for you, at your hotel in...

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:59:03 +1200

Dear Lady Gaga, we left a present for you, at your hotel in Auckland. I hope you get it, and enjoy it. If you wanna go out for a drink later, just hit me up on twitter, @edmuzik

So, we’re gonna make it after all. Despite all the...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 15:02:57 +1200

So, we’re gonna make it after all. Despite all the problems with flights etc etc, we are going to get to Auckland in time for tomorrow night’s (Sunday) Lady Gaga show. Because we are just so relieved to get there … we thought we’d celebrate. If you wanted.

We made these t-shirts a year or so ago. Maybe two. Inspired by our love of Gaga. I’ve got a few of them left - around 10. If you are going to the Gaga show tomorrow night, are in Auckland, and would like to wear / have / keep one of these shirts, then you can have one. Free. If you are a small girl, they may be quite large (all the remaining sizes are men’s L, XL and XXL) but you could kind of wear them like a dress. So really, if you want one, LET ME KNOW. Send an email to me - edmuzik {{AT}} me {{dot}} com and I will get one to you. Free. If you want.

johnkeylooksatthings: John Key looks at caged children.

Wed, 16 May 2012 11:24:44 +1200

johnkeylooksatthings:

John Key looks at caged children.

I finally found what I was looking for...

Wed, 02 May 2012 12:17:06 +1200

I finally found what I was looking for...:

Rob ably the best piece of writing on the Internet. Took me ages to find it again. Note: will make almost no sense unless you are an obsessive Robyn fan

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jpmoore/snl-cast-members-recreate-robyn-music-video-at-43

Wed, 02 May 2012 12:02:46 +1200

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jpmoore/snl-cast-members-recreate-robyn-music-video-at-43:

Only just found this, in my search for something else “call your girlfriend” related. Also good. He really knows his moves