I love British food. Britain is Nirvana cuisine-wise to me. To me, traditional British fare is Indian, followed by Chinese, chased by scruptous breakfast (full cooked English Breakfast with bangers and hash browns as well as my all-time favourite Porridge), meat and three veggie dinners, and of course fish’n'chips (or fush’n'chups, as we Kiwis say). Yum-my! Can’t wait to move there to significantly increase my intake of Indian food.
Good thing for me then that apparantly 26% of Britons know how to make a curry by heart, without consulting a recipe book or nana. Roast dinner also ranks real high, with 54% of people knowing how to assemble that from scratch without help. I will be moving in a few weeks, so my British friends (and friends and family to be): stock up on groceries, get out your best china, and make me dinner! I will bring the Austrian (and New Zealand) wine.
is another fun song by Fatboy Slim. I am not from Brighton either, but I will be living there from May! Yay! Sun, beaches, palmtrees, cafes, Wellington feel – but all within 52 minute reach of London. Far out!
Not that I won’t be coming to Vienna any more, we have a business there, and I also hold lectures at a couple of universities. But there is heaps to do for me in the UK, so it makes perfect sense to be there. Also, I get to speak English most of the time, eat heaps of local fare (Indian food) and enjoy the company of new and beautiful people. Also, I’ll have lots of visitors by the looks of it.
February 23, 2009 – 9:33 am
So this whole blackout thing seems to have had a positive effect. Apparantly the law has been delayed… and if there is no resolution until 27 March, it will not take effect at all.
Cheers to everybody who supported this!
February 21, 2009 – 4:23 pm
Read this. And you’ll know why I’ll be blacking out this site on Monday as well.
This legislation is – frankly spoken – major BS! Join in the protest!
January 26, 2009 – 11:36 am
Finally… the fruit of our labour can be seen on www.filmtiki.com! We just went live today. I am very humbled and grateful for this.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about: the last 9 months I have been working pretty much day and night on the development of my brainchild FilmTiki – a platform for filmmakers to give them strategic advice on how to best market and promote their films. It has been an intense time, and I am very much looking forward to the weeks ahead when we get to talk to people and work with feedback and get it out there. My favourite part!
We are giving away free 1-year-subscriptions for a year – so go on and check it out, and tell me what you think!
January 6, 2009 – 3:53 am
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 other belongings… ready to be shipped wherever that new place might be).
Anywho, I just came back from lovely Edinburgh where I spent Hogmanay – such a brilliant party week! Lots of dancing, lots of whisky, lots of fun. I bought this awesome Banksy book (if you don’t know Banksy, tststs… check out his stuff at www.banksy.co.uk) and it had a good quote. Now, I don’t do new years resolutions, but this quote inspired me to my new routine of not getting up at 5.45 am every day: “People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine”. Now, I’m sure that late risers aren’t automatically better people, but I feel more comfortable now in every way sleeping till at least 7.30 am, which is really late to me.
December 15, 2008 – 7:52 pm
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 financial crisis, protesters, from a variety of activist groups, denounced the capitalist system, Wall Street and the administration of US President George W, Bush.”
I am a huuuuuuge fan of the likes of Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky and many of them intellectual folks who are rallying against the capitalist madness in our societies. And while I would never wish death upon anyone, a drastic statement like this image make my left ventricle swell!
Jump! You fuckers!
Oh, and on a similar note: go buy War, Inc. and show it to all your friends and family!
November 3, 2008 – 1:13 pm
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 most offended over… but what’s your guess? I’ll let you know my idea shortly.
Disclaimer: New Zealand is one of the places I call home and love dearly. Just in case anyone wants to know…
UPDATE: my guess: Sir Edmund Hilary. Obviously.
October 28, 2008 – 12:47 am
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?)
October 2, 2008 – 6:55 pm
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 rights, all three of them
Number 1
You have the right not to be killed
Murder is a crime!
Unless it was done by a
Policeman or aristocrat
Know your rights
And number 2
You have the right to food money
Providing of course you
Dont mind a little
Investigation, humiliation
And if you cross your fingers
Rehabilitation
Know your rights
These are your rights
Wang
Know these rights
Number 3
You have the right to free
Speech as long as youre not
Dumb enough to actually try it.
Know your rights
These are your rights
All three of em
It has been suggested
In some quarters that this is not enough!
Well…………………………
Get off the streets
Get off the streets
Run
You dont have a home to go to
Smush
Finally then I will read you your rights
You have the right to remain silent
You are warned that anything you say
Can and will be taken down
And used as evidence against you
Listen to this
Run
