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There and back again
Maybe my height without heels is a little hobbitish, but I don’t have giant hairy feet. Nevertheless I recently embarked on a grand adventure like the ones famously traveled by Bilbo and more recently Frodo. At the end of last year, as many of you know, I went to Malaysia. Malaysia is very different from [...]
Le Gentil
As you may or may not know, a Transit of Venus is one of the rarest predictable astronomical phenomena. It is when the planet Venus passes directly inline between the earth and the sun, and can be seen silhouetted against the sun as it passes in front of it. This doesn’t happen often, it happened [...]
It has come to my attention, (when I received the automated mailing list message compiled from my RSS feeds (which I thought I had correctly cancelled but I had in fact failed to do so)) that I only blogged ONCE last month. Which was May NZ Music Month and I didn’t even mention any New [...]
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Rock is dead. And we are rock n roll zombie corpses!
I was rambling on something last night about Rock being dead (you should have heard the array of mindnumbing soulless nothings being played on every radio station during the drive home). And so Rock being dead, us Rockers must be some kind of zombies or reanimated corpses. The undead. And then today I remembered this picture EJ Tapnio had drawn last year. Now I get it! Hehehe
RSS feed moved – testing one two…
Heya, ignore this message… Have moved the rss feed for the blog to http://feeds.feedburner.com/TransitOfVenus so just testing to see it all still works and still automatically updates the facebook page and that kinda thing. <3 K xxx
Really short update!
Had a ToV jam on friday. Short a bass player, I played that impossible instrument, and got little electric shocks whenever my lips brushed the microphone. Don’t want to say too much in these early days, I’ll just say things are looking to go well and I’m dying to play some gigs soon! Will keep [...]
Vidblog 8
Helloooo
Here’s another little video blog with another song. Take special note of the water splash bit between the two parts… I’ve been playing with iMovie *cheesy grin*
Sorry to Mr Anthony that I haven’t yet figured out how to flip the image from mirrored to normal so it doesn’t look like I’m left handed. I’m recording in photobooth from built in webcam, if anyone can tell me how to flip it to record the normal way round, please send me blonde-proof step-by-step instructions. Cheers. I’m still new to this whole macbook thing! It’s funny, when I had a desktop pc I refrained from acquiring any kind of wireless keyboard or mouse because I knew it’d frustrate me whenever I misplaced it. Now with a laptop, I just misplace my whole computer! (And lets not mention phones, keys, keycards, handbags, shoes, ukuleles or anything else that is small enough to be overlooked)
Apart from losing stuff and frantically running around looking for it I’ve been up to a few things. Had some overseas friends come and stay with us so it was a good opportunity to do a few touristy bits and pieces. Drove up to Langkawi for a few days, was nice to get out of the city. Had some classic road trip moments, saw some beautiful scenery, accidentally drove over the bridge to Penang, got a flat tyre, had the best thosai ever in Ipoh (which I always want to spell iPoh), completely forgot where the town was we had dropped the tyre off to get fixed at, and then had a right fun time trying to guess when we went to pick it up on the way back haha!
Langkawi was nice. Touristy but fun. I saw ‘Malaysias Largest Replica Guitar’, I saw a wild otter, I saw the scariest cable car ride I’d ever been on. The cable car takes you up a very steep rise to the top of a hill (can I say mountain? Is it a mountain?) mountain and there are platforms with amazing views of the island and there is a tree top forest walk and of course a tree bottom forest walk (this is where you walk on the ground!). We went on a mangrove boatride which I really enjoyed. Now where I grew up (Tauranga New Zealand) the mangroves don’t grow much past knee high. Maybe waist high if you’ve sunk knee deep in the mud next to them. So I was pretty much blown away by the size of the mangroves, and it was cool to see wild eagles because I’ve never seen eagles before. There was a fish farm on this trip but I’m not going to talk about fish.
We caught the ferry from Langkawi to Satun which is in Thailand just across the border from Malaysia (I am in Malaysia just in case you haven’t been keeping up to date…). Oh and Langkawi is an island off the west side of the northern bit of the Malaysia peninsula. We had hilarious times ordering food in Satun. I know enough Malay to order food but I know absolutely no Thai, I don’t even know the Thai word for rice. The place we ate they didn’t speak english or malay, except the english words ‘chicken’ and ‘cow’. I don’t eat chickens or cows so I was trying to order plain rice and making a complete idiot of myself. That’s the last time I cross the border without taking the appropriate phrase book or iPhone app hehe I’m such a dumbass sometimes
I got a text a couple of days ago from Moe saying that the song ‘Bintang’ that Moe and Loco had recorded together has been nominated for an AVIMA award. (I played session guitar for the track so as well as being excited and proud on Moe and Locos behalf, I also thought it was a sign that I didn’t do a bad job of playing the guitar parts Moe wrote). You can hear the song here…
Well, it’s late, the vidblog is taking forever to upload and I’m being eaten alive by mosquitos so I’m gonna call it a night.
We’ll talk more soon! (And I’ll have some ToV news…)
<3 Kristie xxx
Blog on the tracks
Raf writes blogs on the train. Well at least once he has. Following his example (www.Tsuken.co.nz if I remember rightly) I thought perhaps I too could blog on the train. However the train is a very distracting place. To start with, I’m trying to stand up and balance with my guitar case standing on it’s [...]
Amperzahn, Stuff, oh including a vidblog which is really just a song (thank goodness)
If you can’t see the video above, please click through to http://transitofvenusproject.com/vidblog7/ to watch
Have been playing a bit of Amperzahn stuff on the acoustic lately, even video’d a song for you guys. In my pyjamas. Because when you are a grown-up you can do whatever the hell you want. The pyjamas pants with skulls on were a present from my sister Michelle (the other Michelle) to my boyfriend (this does make more sense if I told the whole story, but I won’t) and I STOLE them for myself muh huh huh haaa! And rather irrelevantly, not only do Plum Green and I have THE SAME FAVOURITE MONKEY OMG (cotton top tamarin) but we also BOTH WEAR PYJAMA PANTS WITH SKULLS ON THEM OMG! I think we might be twins separated at birth.
I am right now, this very second, at a place called ‘Meal Station’. Not in my pyjamas, I recorded the video yesterday actually. Meal Station is a place I honestly really dislike eating. They routinely stuff up my order, and not just in the didn’t understand what I ordered kind of way, but in the completely lost the order form I’d filled out kinda way, or they made my dinner then left it sitting in the kitchen for half an hour till it went cold and I started nagging for it kinda way. The only reason I come here is its the cheapest place I know that has wifi. I can get a nasi lemak and coffee for way less than the price of a coffee from star bucks. And added bonus I can spy on the fish people as they walk past and if I’m really lucky, maybe even have lunch with my own pet fish person Matt. So here I am, with my nasi lemak, my coffee ais and Mr Macbook, redownloading the bits I’d missed from Nosferatu so that I can finish putting it together for the special people on the mailing list. I’m sorry it’s taking so long. Really it’s not my fault. I blame the government. And aliens.
I made an amazing discovery this week. Sambal (some kind of malaysian food of the chilli paste variety) is very good on toast. Much better than vegimite, marmite, peanut butter, nuttella, jam, or any of the other toast topping I usually avoid like the plague. For years I’ve been eating plain marge on my toast because I hate most spreads, but now my life is complete.
In other news about me and my life and such important things, I have band practice tonight with Moe’s band The Velvet Aces. Gosh, Auckland peoples, do you remember how hard I was on people without transport or good gear who wanted to be in my band? Now I’m one of those persons myself. With no car, and no amp, begging for rides and catching the train and stuff.
And and and Amperzahn. If you don’t know Amperzahn, check out www.myspace.com/amperzahn I think the site is still up. I’m thinking re-union show next time I visit NZ. When sorting out junk on computer I’ve been watching the vids from our last reunion show and it looks like so much fun *squeee!* If you run into Michelle Klaessens, Tory Staples, Joshua Smyth and or Josh’s stunt double Anthony Corban, tell them to start practicing the Amperzahn tunes!
Well, now my download is finished, I can get on with stuff yeah? Yeah. Yes. Yeah.
Bye bye!
