Author Archives: loudhail

I tried to say NO to stencils but they were bigger than me

I love stencils. I have a stencil by a Wellington stencil artist working under the cloak of “YEAH… NAH” in my parents basement (orange spray paint on brown coloured wood). It’s sitting there until such a time when I decide to move into a place for longer than 2 months again (along with all my [...]

Jump! You fuckers!

My dad told me about this story weeks ago. It went on while I was in Vancouver. This is what happened: “Demonstrators protest the proposed 700 billion USD Wall Street bail-out in front of the New Yoprk Stock Exchange in the Financial District in New York on September 25, 2008. In response to the global [...]

Only in Aotearoa

Well, probably not. Still, this is freakin hilarious! Apparently, everybody’s favourite New Zealand pizza chain Hell’s Pizza had an ad going that had Sir Edmund Hilary, Heath Ledger and the Queen Mother dancing to Michael Jackson’s thriller. They caused offense, so the pulled the ad off the air.
I have a theory on who they were [...]

What type are you?

I found this in my RSS feed - in one of my favourite silly but not silly blogs yesbutnobutyes. What type are you? (And if you worked at Telus in advertising, what would you do?)

Know your rights

This is one of my favourite songs by The Clash. I have been listening to it quite a bit, and I wanted to post the lyrics because they unfortunately still have validity, also in the countries I move about. Read them, listen to the song, and do something!
This is a public service announcement
With guitars
Know your [...]

Californication Season 2 - starting this Sunday in the US

And I am around! Well, almost. I am in Canada. And quite frankly, the way things are building up here, I doubt I will be able to catch it…
However, if you’re in the states - watch it! And don’t say a word to me, as I will be avoiding all coverage about the show until [...]

In NYC

So, I am in New York for the next few days. It is hot and steamy here, and I can’t wait to actually get into a museum, where it’s nice and airconditioned. I think I will do the Metropolitan Museum of Art today. And then go and read in the park. Because yesterday, as I [...]

My BlogDay08 blog recommendations…

… can be found over on FilmTiki! Check them out.

Hilarious movies from the 80ies with now great actors

who were teen, or at least early-20ies stars back then.
I have been wanting to share this for a while, and I am working on organising an evening with my best buddies to watch these 3 back to back, probably in this order:
1. Bachelor Party, with Tom Hanks. A classic. Tom Hanks in one of my [...]

New way

My faithful readers will have noticed: my professional activities have shifted to the all-encompassing FilmTiki. Which is great. No, it is fabulous, amazing, mind-blowingly awesome! Which is also, why there is more blogging activity out of my professional mind flowing there, than here.
Hence, I decided to re-do this page, and keep it as a more [...]