Month: June 2004

  • Time ran out a long time ago

    Listening to: Hungry Heart – Bruce Springsteen – Greatest Hits My formal/work watch  I find it a bit sad, just thinking about how a friend is about to end a relationship with her boyfriend because time has run out for him to make some sort of commitment that matters to her. She’s thirty three and…

  • Jellybeans and foreign born men stealing our women

    Listening to: Good Lovin’ Ain’t Easy To Come By (with Tammi Terrell) – Marvin Gaye – The Very Best of Marvin Gaye R.I.P. Ronald Reagan. Though what I remember of the Reagan years are sketchy and informed mostly through this funny British show featuring puppet caricatures of various political figures and celebrities called “Spitting Image“,…

  • Saturday Reviewed

    Listening to: Hot Stuff – ROLLING STONES – Jump Back- The Best Of The Rolling Stones A brief entry before I crash, exhausted. At work today at the school which was formerly the SCGS, three things: 1. The road outside was chockers with star-struck fans, who were lining up to obtain Jolin Tsai’s autograph. Who…

  • The Game They Play In Heaven

    Listening to: Foolish Games – Jewel – Pieces of You Ka mate, Ka mate! Ka ora, Ka ora! Ka mate, Ka mate! Ka ora, Ka ora! Tenei te tangata puhuruhuru Nana i tiki mai whakawhiti te ra! A hupane, kaupane A hupane, kaupane whiti te ra! Hi! Wonder what Bucky Katt’s haka sounds like. I…

  • Regale us with tales bold but true

    Listening to: Crazy Ones – John Mellencamp – Whenever We Wanted Tonight me and the boys met up with another uni mate of ours who’s back on a short visit from Hong Kong, where he works as a top-notch high-flying award-winning chick-pulling copywriter. We envy his life and his boldness and his impossible sense of…