Life's a beach (er, sorry about the cliche) We had an extraordinarily fine Easter weekend here down under, with warm sunny days througho...

Concert review: Wilco, Auckland, Easter Sunday Ah, Wilco, Wilco, Wilco. If there's a better live American rock band right now I can...

The Easter Bunny's coming to your house 'Tis Easter weekend, and New Zealand pretty much shuts down completely the entire time. Me ...

Yeah, our boy's got the moves Peter: Can we have a dance party? Me: OK, pick out your music. Peter: This! (Grabs Tom Waits ' ana...

The Buffy-a-thon: Season 4 My god, I'm past the halfway point. As some might recall, since 2006 I've been on a project to watch all ...

I blew up the blog Technical difficulties. Somehow accidentally deleted critical bit of coding. Normal service will resume when I figure out...

Concert review: Iron & Wine, Auckland, March 14 March concert madness continued last night with the debut performance of Iron And Wine ...

...In which I get all William S. Burroughs on your arse* (*The cut-up technique , that is.) Surfing randomly I found this nifty book meme w...

"Flight Of The Conchords" vs. "Tenacious D" -- the comedy cage match So it's funny but one question I've been as...

A little of this, a little of that Random notes! I have my 57th cold of the last few months (or at least what feels like that with Peter the...