Roadtrips and other such journeys

Tomorrow I’m going on a roadtrip! I have almost decided that I am going to stay in Wellington for good now.  I say almost… I have decided really – well, my heart has decided.  I’m just trying to convince the rest of myself that it doesn’t matter what other people think of me.  Which has [...]

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Mad Season

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. ~Senecca What an amazing, amazing summer I have had in wonderful Wellington with wonderful people.  I have had the best time of my life with the best friends I’ve ever had.  I’ve felt carefree and cared for.  It makes you realise what is really important in [...]

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Sheba Williams Album Release Gig – SFBH, Wellington, 22 November 2008

[Update 1 Dec 08: published here] Having been promised an ‘electrifying stage show’ from ‘a performer unlike anyone else in Godzone’ by practically every events website in town, Sheba Williams had a lot to live up to when she took to the San Francisco Bathhouse stage on Saturday night (November 22nd, 2008) to support the [...]

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Body Corporate ‘Howlaround’ Release Gig (Wgtn)

[update 19 Nov 08: this review has now been published here] My first thought, on hearing that Auckland band Body Corporate would be playing their Wellington release gig for debut album Howlaround at The Adelaide, was: ‘well, that’s a little random’. The Adelaide is what I would tend to describe as a ‘seedy old man [...]

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Day of Art and Fun in Welly!

Wow, what a brilliant day I had today! Went and investigated some options up at the Vic campus, which was nice because Vic is such a great Uni and it reminded me of the great time I had there doing my BA   Sat in the little graveyard perched on a stone overlooking Wellington city [...]

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Circus As Art – Seriously Sophisitcated

Hear the word circus and what connotations immediately spring to mind?  If you’re anything like me, images of pathetic clowns pulling off tired slapstick jokes on a floor of sawdust spring to mind.  Sad, neglected animals being bossed about by rotund ringleaders under a red and white tent and children in spandex flying from rooftops. [...]

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Finding Myself in Wellington

The biggest surprise on the soulful journey to authenticity, whether as a philosophy or a spiritual path, is that the path is a spiral. We go up, but we go in circles. Eash time around, the view gets a little bit wider. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach Being back in Wellington is wonderful! There is something about [...]

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Wellington-Self

Given my current circumstances, this seems like an appropriate public debut of my poetry.  I wrote it last time I came home to Wellington for a holiday in July, before having to head back to my then-life in Auckland.  I will resist the urge to provide a commentary on it just now… although it will [...]

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