once the old bastards die…
an interesting thing happened while we were watching the finals of the rugby world cup on marsden wharf earlier this year. this was the third wharf set up with large screens, but there was still a massive crowd, and this about an hour before the game started. we thought we were lucky to get to [...]
ta’fxkz+auckland playback theatre
auckland playback theatre acting out the story of how arul and i gatecrashed a wedding the first (second?) time we met in person. a few weeks ago, arul died. i refuse to mourn. i miss him, and there is much i wish we could have talked about, and maybe i could have been less ‘tough’ [...]
pottle broke?
dee and i went for some pottery classes recently, and these are my results. the ones i like, anyway. awesome experience, and something i am considering continuing. there is something primal about the whole thing that i find very attractive. i love that most pottery is functional, that it takes hard(ish) physical work, that it takes years [...]
onehunga library cosplay/perspective
some days work is a chore to get through. it *can get tiring to be constantly nice to people, specially when so many of those people seem to think it is somehow your privilege to be nice to them and clean up after them and answer a million questions because they can’t be arsed reading [...]
while away,
travelling is nice. while away, i learned that kissing is prohibited on kuala lumpur trains. maharashtrians sometimes burn tobacco and use it to clean their teeth. in telugu, the the honorofic ‘garu‘ can be used for both men and women. water is boiled with cardamom in kerala, giving the water a subtle flavour like green [...]
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taking a bit of a break. in the meantime, you might read the sly company of people who care, go the fuck to sleep, yellow face or kenji; listen to b-side beats, found sounds, or ta’fxkz; watch theo jansen or two cars, one night; see you in six(ish) weeks!
more broken bottles
i can’t really think of a better metaphor for what i’d like my life’s work to be than ‘breaking bottles’. “what do you do?” “oh i break bottles.” nice, lol.
