Computers Want Me Dead – We Walk In Circles 4:07

Ended up having a wicked day working out the river, sucked up plenty of sun, and thankfully the aerial span wasn’t too much of a mess.
Tomorrow is my last day for a bit, and Sarah’s already planning on getting me to ferry her off to the Hawkes Bay, Personally I’d like to spend some time sitting in my own space for once this holiday season, maybe hit the beach and visit some more friends – possibly catch up with Steve and Kai properly.

We’ll see who has the larger will (read; we will see how long until Sarah gets her way) I’m fed up with driving, so far in the last few months we’ve done Northland, Auckland, Te Puke and several days ago I drove to Taupo and Back to pick them up, not to mention the excursions down south and around the place on a regular basis… So I rally can’t be farked with tripping this long weekend.

-Tama

Going to Kimberly River to replace the same fifty pair aerial span of cable that we done last week…

Drove to Taupo and back in a day, Have a kidney infection, want to curl up in a ball and sleep.

Deep Dish ft. Stevie Nicks – Dreams 3:47

Wow so many great things to update about, lets begin with Steve Joyce, Here’s a man who has nearly converted me to the dark side of supporting the national party.
In his short time in office he’s managed to do what local government should have done in the 50’s, he’s come in swinging his gigantic nut sack and given Transmission Gully the go ahead, its quit funny that the wench who throws rate payers money around down there has jumped on the bandwagon, now that her rate payers dont have to pay towards it, but i’ll take a $5 shot in the mouth for some fucking progress around here, so a toast to Mr Joyce for seeing some sense, its about time!

Christmas, Jesus is not the bloody reason for the season.
Pagans were celebrating this time of year with light festivals, tree’s etc when Jesus and God where idea’s in some sick schizophrenics head, maybe that’s a little harsh – far be it from me to judge people on there belief’s, seriously though I listen to a fair bit of Newstalk ZB these days and the religious idiocy over this bloody Joseph and Mary in bed billboard has had me in stitches, These people are happy to judge everyone unchristian, and as soon as an arch decon throws up a questionable billboard in the name of making good conversation – may I add getting more people interested in a religion so out of touch with people its not funny – they get violent, start preaching hate and inevitably sin by defacing it and then stealing it, shame on you 90% of ZB’s fanbase (read; the elderly) and a toast to the arch decon, I hope the billboard finds its way back up soon.

Oh and by the way, the reason for the season is family and friends you self serving small minded bible bashers.
We had our’s early so it’s outta the way.

Mike D moving back to Levin – How awesome is that, we can frolic through the long grass once again, plat each others silky hair and have pillow fights!
Seriously though great new’s Levin is great and all but I miss most of my old flatmate’s/ friends, and I could use the cat eyed ones help on the car when I get to my next point.

We’ve found a home to buy, in our price range, with a huge sub dividable back lawn, we’ve done the math and can afford it all, so pending on the bank giving us the go ahead there could be a very excited update in the near future, I’m extra excited because “She Who Must Be Obeyed” has agreed to let me build a decent sized shed for the golf, one step closer to a track toy!

Family – For those not in the know, Riki is back from Australia, its great having him around again, Sadie nearly loves him as much as her Grandad.
Oh and Sadie is standing on her own, dancing and drumming on thing’s, every day I come home from work and she manages to cheer me up, finally someone who loves music as much as me, She and Cia are heading up to the in-laws for Christmas, I’m working through (hence the aforementioned “early Christmas”) So I may pop down to Welly in the evening…

Anyways happy pagan light festival everyone
And a merry Christmas too.

-Tama

Ewww gross, what are you – some sick werewolf freak?

So we opted to take public transport into the gig, this would allow us to drink and be merry… big mistake, the que from Mt Smart to the train station was epic, the footpath was littered with those who could not survive the journey vultures picked at there festering corpses, a fat American man loudly told everyone in a 5k radius about how he was an American, I got less and less excited about the prospect of another night in downtown Auckland. The gig finished at around 11.
We got home close to 2am, ate the worst Burger King of our live’s and decided to call it a night.

Good thing too because we had to be out of the classy hotel before lunch the next day, And I had to drive to Te Puke then onto Levin, all up it was an awesome gig, wicked experience, yes we have it good down the bottom of the North Island (the lack of white sandy beaches and stonking hot weather aside) It was nice to kind of get to know Cheese’s lil sister, who I can’t thank enough for letting me go with them, hooking me up with a place to stay and generally being good company.

-Tama

Whatever you do, don’t you ever bring a roller backpack to school, because douche bag kids will kick them over.
We don’t see why though they’re really convenient!

So the night before the gig (just to confuse things even more) I ran into the lovely Jolene (read; little sister of the ages) and her boss Kent, in on of the many bar’s visited around Queen St/ the Viaduct that night.
Drinks were drunk (including a round of shots) and before I knew it we had talked shit until 3 in the morning, time to go to bed.

The continental breakfast on the top floor made me feel less seedy the next day, which was good because Anna wanted to go shopping at dressmart.
I ended up scoring a couple of hoodies and some mean blue blockers reminiscent of the ones I had in 7th form, we were all ready to hit the concert.

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The headliner was of course Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder had already come out to sing with Ben Harper (Queens “under pressure, see below) and had the crowd fully amped up.

We got a solid set, with All my favourites, Daughter, Do the Evolution, Yellow Led Better, Evenflow, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Black, Given To Fly.
Covers of Neil Youngs “Rocking IN The Freeworld” And the Who’s “Love Reign Over Me” blew our minds, the encore came and went, but th people wanted more, we were about to head out (My idea, as public transport back to Britomart was going to suck) but Cheese persovered and lucky he did.
Eddie Vedder walked out and said “We’re stuffed, but I’ll toast ya” Neil and Liam Finn joined him and they done a cover to Chris Knox’s “Love not given lightly” really fitting as I’d just bought “stroke – songs for chris knox” for the car.

Anyways too many words for a day, Public Transport on th way home next post, and some more pics

-Tama