Posts by Danielle
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OMG. Kyle. Please tell me they still exist in the parental home somewhere, and that you are able to sell them to me.
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Well, I have a lot of practice at feeling and thinking two or more things at the same time (feminist hip-hop fan!), so during the opening ceremony I was all 'holy SHIT! This is incredibly awesome! How can anyone ever top this spectacle?'... but I also kept making jokes about how much Leni Riefenstahl would have loved it.
(I suppose I just Godwinned myself there. Sorry.)
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If ever the Antichrist were loose upon the land, it would look -- and sound -- like Brooke Fraser.
Oh, I forgot to say: she's got *something* nefarious on her side, because at that David Bowie show in Wellington a few years back, the only clear skies of the entire night were during her set. As soon as the Dame arrived? Pissing down for hours. Meh.
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the last night of The Elvis & The Attractions, Hammersmith Palais circa 84/85..1 1/2 hours of encores.
Simon, you know I say this with love and admiration, but: I hate you. :)
Best gig. If not the ultimate, certainly very close: Super Furry Animals, Rings Around the World tour, Austin, Texas, 2000ish. Tiny club! Giant screens! Wacky animations! Celery-throwing! Mind-destroying loudness!
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Chris Cornell produced by Timbaland
Ehhh. Yeah, it really sucks, but it's sort of generically shitty. I was expecting something a lot more egregious, somehow.
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And then with Jennifer I suddenly did, and I just somehow wanted to formally declare: "I think you're the one for me, and by the way, I'll be sticking around you until I'm dead."
Yes. This. 'You! You're my person!'
Of course, it helps if the other person has the same thought. Otherwise you end hanging around outside their house with a ghetto blaster playing Peter Gabriel. No one wants that. (Unless they're Ione Skye and you're John Cusack.)
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I never got all girly about weddings. In fact, I never thought I would get married, and then... I'm not sure what happened. The appropriate person came along, obviously! But the big traditional thing was never, never me. I would feel totally ridiculous and self-conscious trying to be all Princessy.
I got married in Las Vegas, in a chapel which has historic building protection. It is about 70 years old, which just shows what 'historic' means in Vegas-ian terms. (Mickey Rooney got married there eight times!)
The ceremony lasted 10 minutes. I met the 'minister' shortly beforehand and told him 'no religion, no obey, as brief as possible'. He was wearing a blue suit and had poofy white hair. He looked suspiciously like a televangelist. There were 20 guests in attendance. We walked down the aisle to Santo and Johnny's 'Sleepwalk' and left the chapel to the strains of the theme from 'The Love Boat'.
During the ceremony, which was, as requested, brief and non-religious, I remember thinking: 'wow, this dude is still being kinda flowery for a non-religious ceremony. I think I might laugh out loud!' Then, about 30 seconds later: 'wow, this making-a-vow-to-be-with-you-forever thing is actually affecting me way more than I thought. I think I might cry.' I did neither.
As the faux-televangelist introduced us as newly married to our guests, I remembered with horror that I had forgotten to tell him that I was not to be announced as 'Mrs Husband's Entire Name'. Dammit. Our wedding photos were supplied by the chapel and took 30 seconds post-ceremony. 'Look at the gentleman! Look at the lady! Look towards me!'
Then everyone went back to our hotel suite with a view of the fake Eiffel Tower and got drunk. And we sang karaoke in the hotel bar. My husband did a particularly stellar version of Dolly Parton's 'Jolene' (even that falsetto bit at the end), while I chose Cher's 'Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves'.
Oh, and I wore black.
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Makes the anti Obesity drive look like the way to go eh?
But you can be thin and still eat unhealthy food. In fact, I'd argue that the non-obese run the risk of complacency if they assume that their thinness protects them against cholesterol and heart disease and all that other fun diet-related stuff. Kyle's Special Preventative Plan of Non-Shame should primarily be about the right foods in the proper amounts, and general fitness and exercise, not weight.
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Of course, the entire point of my argument was that the monetary cost, whatever it may be, has very little to do with the *value*: of the people involved, and their need for care (whether they smoke or drink or run red lights or eat great whacking cakes of butter for breakfast); of the public health system as a Good Thing, ethically and philosophically. You can cost this down to the last ten cent piece, Matthew, but you're arguing the narrowest of moot points as far as I'm concerned.
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Tell that to a workmate who, on giving up smoking, said "I have all this time, now that I'm not always going outside to smoke."
Those of us in sedentary jobs in offices are actually *meant* to be taking breaks every hour. It's in the OSH guidelines and everything.
(Also, I'm not quite sure what 'an anecdote about this dude I know' proves about the general productivity of smokers in New Zealand.)