I'm getting dicked around by WINZ - could make a blog entry but seems unimportant next to some of the other stuff happening around me. My job is WINZ-subsidised and my contract says I’m entitled to a $250 clothing allowance, which I’m trying to claim to replace my workboots which have fallen apart from too many hours up on the steep rocky hillside. Needless to say they’re making me jump through extra bureaucratic hoops and being generally unhelpful. This is very niggling and small, worst case scenario is that I have to buy some boots myself. My life’s pretty sweet at the moment, new flat in Newtown seems good, past half way on the book chapter. The Winter reunion jam in the weekend got cancelled due to drummer Simon’s leg injury. Not making much progress on new music yet this year but have been plenty busy with other stuff. Yada yada.
In other news I just heard from a friend I went to polytech with six years ago and haven’t seen for a while. In the intervening time he’s gotten married and had a son… and his wife’s got cancer. Another guy I knew from around town drowned over new year’s. My ex-flatmate’s pregnant & has been into the pysch ward. A family friend of Fi's killed himself. There’s been a disgusting diesel spill in Milford Sound… I’m fine, & dodged a bullet not picking up a deadly STD earlier on. I certainly don’t deserve the luxury of getting depressed again this year…
Ah, you got into the Newtown flat. Good job. And it's the 'every second flat in Newtown with a band' flat! Jubbly :)
Posted by: Tahnda at February 10, 2004 08:13 AMI'm on Rintoul St, which flat were you thinking of? There's a sculptor, a photographer, and a childrens' writer here so seems like a good environment. Pity the Space isn't still around the corner, I got here a couple of years late...
Posted by: Dave at February 10, 2004 08:22 AMIt sounds good. :) Oh, the tagline they're advertising the new blackseeds album goes along the lines of: "Straight out of the dark depths of Newtown comes the new blackseeds album (but doesn't every second flat in newtown produce an album by another new up and coming band?)"
Something like that. Didn't the space move and rename itself Happy? We went and watched the scribes of ra there last year. It's a lovely little venue.
See I'm way too out of touch with popular culture to have picked up something like that. Did two albums last year living in Mt Cook just along from Newtown and one the year before in Mt Victoria. The first two were made in New Plymouth...
Yep the Space has moved & is now called Happy.
Posted by: Dave at February 11, 2004 10:16 AMSounds to me like you're down with the kids if you've made...crikey, three albums in two years. Anything I would have heard of and should look out for in the stores? :)
Posted by: Tahnda at February 11, 2004 03:16 PMNo kids yet & maybe not ever. Feels like slow progress actually, songs written in 1999-2001 then recorded in 2002-2003. I think Beautiful Music in Auckland has a couple gathering dust. Best place to look is my website http://fiffdimension.tripod.com
Posted by: Dave at February 11, 2004 06:46 PM