Undulating Ungulate

Realisations for today:

1) It really has been over a dozen years since I set up a web page, and no, I really don’t know anything anymore.

2) Somewhere in the past year’s random noodling, my guitaring has gotten significantly better.

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(Thought I had blogged this already, but maybe it got lost in the shuffle when the server changed?)

Have been on the road working 6 days a week for most of this month. It has been a serious blur, with not much time for most other stuff. Though it has been a fascinating learning process in lots of ways, and I have been thinking a lot in the background.

As far as I know my contract ends at the end of this week. No idea what next, but am open to most things, so if anyone hears of anything, do let me know

Today I got my first ever passport.

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3 minute video extract of an interview. Interesting.

http://www.realitysandwich.com/video/maestro_aliens

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Fringe Recommendation: Aphelion at Bats. Last night is tonight.

Francesca Mountford on cello, with a puppet show and live video etc. A beautiful and strange sliver of world-class wonder. Saw it last night and it was fantastic.

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A wider view on the illuminati fire ritual at kiwiburn

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Regarding comments, I think that the spam filter isn’t playing well with the page theme … hopefully will figure something out soon.

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The Companies Office is… an internet kiosk. With a printer. Just a Future Here Now moment.

Possibly another one: multiple homeless people begging on Lambton Quay. Is this normal now?

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Heading off to Kiwiburn for setup. After the burn I will probably take my time drifting back down country. Aiming to be back Waitangi Day. Will be mostly offline until then, but txtable (though unlikely to reply during the burn.)

Somehow I think I got pretty much everything on my epic January list done, or more or less done. Some of them mutated on examination.

And the future, who the hell knows. Surfing the chaos again.

(Egad. Just finished packing the car. Uberstuff.)

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Just realised that it has been over two years since I wrote any fiction. (At least, according to the date on the draft of The United States of Dave that was just returned, it is.)

Earlier tonight I rewrote the introduction to the non-fiction book, and got all excited. It feels awesome. The introduction was always the very last thing to be done.

And among the options for the mythical next project, a surprising one has raised its hand. It often feels like there is a window in which a specific book can be written. The requisite passion and obsession and headspace can’t be faked. Fascinating projects can fall by the wayside if the alchemic lightning doesn’t strike. We shall see.

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I am in a show this weekend. A sort of improvised dance / play / video collage.

13 Love Songs.

$13/$10. Bookings 0210 291 3924

It is my first time doing anything like this. Most random. Some amazing dancers involved though. So yeah, if you feel like something different…

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As an update to the last post, things are actually worse than embarassing.

NZ has announced to the world that our emissions cuts of 10-20% are conditional on developing nations cutting emissions by 30-40%. And that we aren’t planning on making any real changes, only meeting those targets by carbon offsetting.

The mind boggles at how shite this is.

John Key. Worst. Leader. Ever.

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