i hear the same old talk talk talk

ten most memorable moments from henry rollins at the paramount last night:

1. attempting to be less cynical
2. cat stevens
3. sons of anarchy
4. appearing as a guest judge on rupaul's drag race
5. the reasons for sara and todd palin doing it
6. 'over the top' face
7. learning to appreciate airport security pat downs
8. biologic on the tree
9. barack hussein obama
10. your ass

i want your ugly, i want your disease

ten things about michael:

1. he was the quickest, wittiest and sharpest of us all
2. he was the only one brave enough to tell me that my eyeliner was all wrong
3. he had gorgeous cheekbones
4. he explained to me the difference between emporio and georgio when i was very young
5. he made perfect gin and tonics
6. he taught me how to vogue
7. he loved the pet shop boys remix of liza minnelli doing sondheim's 'losing my mind'
8. he always gave me a cigarette, even when he was broke and i was well off
9. he loved his friends and his cat
10. his wake is tomorrow

love don't play any games with me anymore

my ten favourite reasons jerry gave for dumping his girlfriends:


1. For refusing to taste his pie at the coffee shop ("The Pie").
2. For eating her peas one at a time ("The Engagement").
3. Because she had "man hands" ("The Bizarro Jerry").
4. Because she had once dated Newman, who had ended the relationship ("The Big Salad").
5. Because she wouldn't give him a massage ("The Masseuse").
6. Because she wouldn't let him play with her collection of antique toys ("The Merv Griffin Show")
7. Because he kept spitting out the mutton she cooked for him and hiding it in her napkins. ("The Wink")
8. Because she acted in the same manner as him: "I can't be with somebody like me! I hate myself!". ("The Invitations")
9. Because he admitted to changing the size 32 to size 31 of all his jeans because he "doesn't want to be a 32." ("The Sponge")
10. Because she liked a commercial that he hated ("The Phone Message")

sometimes you bend, sometimes you stand

ten favourite non-blogging / social media websites:

1. www.afterellen.com
2. www.gaynz.com
3. www.ffffound.com
4. www.trademe.co.nz
5. www.wikipedia.com
6. www.sweetboots.com
7. www.jumptheshark.com
8. www.televisionwithoutpity.com
9. www.imdb.com
10. www.radionz.co.nz

you're my favourite waste of time

ten wii games that i waste both my time and money on in an attempt to recapture my lost youth:

1. house of the dead: overkill
2. band hero
3. guitar hero 5
4. acdc rockband
5. the simpsons
6. beatles rockband
7. scarface
8. indiana jones
9. lego rockband
10. mario kart racing

i spend half my life in airports doing crosswords and attempting to sleep

ten reasons that spending the day in the rotorua office makes life okay again:

1. we go to yamamoto for lunch and i gorge myself on fresh sashimi
2. i get 32 airpoints
3. the staff always make me feel really good
4. one of the staff members in particular always gives me really good insightful advice about what i should do with my life
5. i am temporarily removed from the insanity of the wellington office
6. the water tastes better up here
7. i get better perspective from a distance
8. free magazines to take home from the koru lounge!
9. the administrator loads up my hard drive with new movies
10. no pointless huis sucking my will to live

wasted days and wasted nights

ten guitar hero games that if they brought out i'd probably have to quit my day job:

1. Guitar Hero: The Smiths
2. Guitar Hero: Legends of Chick Rock
3. Guitar Hero: The Who
4. Guitar Hero: The Rolling Stones
5. Guitar Hero: The Pixies
6. Guitar Hero: Melissa Etheridge
7. Guitar Hero: Kiwi Classics
8. Guitar Hero: Glee
9. Guitar Hero: Flying Nun
10. Guitar Hero: The Ramones

36-24-36, give me lots of pretty chicks

ten chicks i like, but my missuss just doesn't get. a companion piece:

1. detective olivia benson
2. drew barrymore
3. ellen degeneres
4. oprah
5. kat von d
6. jillian michaels
7. rachel maddow
8. sam ronson
9. tracy chapman
10. nigella

she's got girls, girls all over the world

ten chicks my girl likes, but that i just don't get:

1. tabatha coffey
2. kate walsh
3. marie osmond. MARIE OSMOND!
4. callie from grey's anatomy
5. the chick from bones
6. the other chick from bones
7. lily allen
8. baby spice
9. the blonde chick with the big bug eyes from america's next top model
10. me

before they put a record out, before they went gold

ten best live acts I’ve seen:
1. pixies
2. violent femmes
3. rolling stones
4. pulp
5. fleetwood mac
6. melissa etheridge
7. kd lang
8. portishead
9. leonard cohen
10. pearl jam

she holds the hand that holds her down

ten good things about my father:

1. he was born in belfast
2. he was a catholic and a staunch irish republican
3. i learnt how to deal with people from him.
4. he was incredibly practical and could build and fix things really well
5. he taught my sister how to drive (but not me) and that's why she's a much better driver than i am
6. he liked guinness
7. if he was interetsed in something, he got REALLY interested in it, but usually only for a really short time
8. he liked to read big blockbuster novels (like james clavell) over and over again
9. his favourite food was chicken vindaloo
10. he would've been 66 today

working for yourself sometimes ain't all that it's cracked up to be

ten domestic airports i've been to in the past year:

1. whangarei
2. bay of islands
3. auckland
4. hamilton
5. tauranga
6. rotorua
7. napier
8. gisborne
9. nelson
10. christchurch

i know a girl who reminds me of cher

The ten cookbooks I use most often:
1. Amrita Vegetarian
2. Madhur Jaffrey’s Curry Bible
3. Nigel Slater: Real Cooking
4. Edmonds Cook Book
5. Digby Law’s Pickles and Preserves
6. The Black Dog Cafe Cookbook
7. Scent of the Monsoon Winds
8. Country Women’s Institute Cookbook
9. Nigel Slater's Kitchen Diaries
10. The New World Encyclopedia of Cooking

i'm a drama queen if that's your thing, baby

my last ten status updates on facebook:

1. has cleaned out her laundry. whilst i cannot yet confirm that the process has gotten rid of the mouse infestation, i can confirm that the process has made me lose my lunch.
2. burgers pasta pizza curry fries toast noodles. Sigh.
3. iz in yr internetz, dwnloadin yr stuffz fr free.
4. had steak and coffee for breakfast. nothing else. just steak and coffee.
5. 4 days off and i'm not even a christian. how do you like them apples, Jebus?
6. it's 11.15pm. i have just finished work. kids - let this be a warning. i was once young, with hopes and dreams like you have.
7. no more facebook for me for a bit.
8. is communing with her bad self
9. went to the pixies last night. it was like being 18 again, except with a lot more white people in their mid thirties.
10. my girl would leave me for tabatha in a heartbeat. fine with me, means detective benson and i can stop with all the sneaking around.

i just got me a brand new box of matches, yeah

my ten favourite pairs of boots:

1. my brown high heeled cowboy boots with woven toes that were hand made in italy ad i can wear everywhere.
2. my blood red vintage cowboy boots with fantastic detailing and perfectly balanced heels that i picked up in some fabulous second hand shop in melbourne which had hundreds of cowboy boots to choose from, and i nearly wet myself in excitement
3. my vintage 90s new rock boots with skull buckles that i found online brand new which were last made in spain in 1994
4. my black new rock boots with silver flames that while aren't as awesome as the new rock boots with red flames, are subtle enough to be worn to work. sort of.
5. my old school new rock boots without any extraneous detailing which i've had to have reheeled twice and new zips put in, but that i can't bearto part with because i've worn them in perfectly
6. my custom docs that are shiny silver leather with long black pieces of ribbon instead of laces that need to wrap around my legs so they look like a corset and have black beads on them
7. my zebra print docs that are hairy like zebras and people want to touch all the time
8. my vintage 80s stiletto boots that have leopard print lining, but can only be worn when i am being ferried between location to location because whilst they are fabulous, they cripple my feet.
9. my high top black leather chucks, with two straps of velcro at the highest point, that make me officially down with the kids.
10. my bright orange vinyl go go boots that come to just below my knee that go with nothing, and therefore go with everything.

I wear my leather jacket like a great big hug

my ten favourite items of clothing
1. orange suede jacket
2. green floral shirt
3. pink and black swirly skirt
4. green bullseye skirt
5. white stripey country road shirt
6. olive green top with the bondage chicks on it
7. cherry red leather jacket
8. little black dress
9. leopard print jacket
10. dead wreckoning t-shrt