sunshine and rock music

soundtrack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONkiLR5Ehys&feature=related

wellington is only this windy for two months of the year

and yet it has become it's permanent reputation

i dont have to run as far to get the same exercise

and the ground is covered with racing shadows of the clouds

there were sweeping over the hillsides as i was swinging down the ngauranga gorge on the way home yesterday and U2 was on the radio. then i hooked round onto the harbour as a neeroplane

was rising straight up from the eerport because it was heading straight for me. the water was blindingly cyan through my sunglasses.

It is rockmusic season in the secondary acoustic cortices of my brain and Radio Hauraki is cooperating. i got two Linkin Parks yesterday on the way to the cook strait: i was cruising down the island bay straights, keeping just behind the shadowedges of clouds which were travelling in front of me. i drove all along the entire waterfront to the wrong cafe, and then had the luck to keep going in the wrong direction, so I got the pleasure of going all the way to the nature sanctuary, then retracing my path, getting the view in the other direction.

the wind had snapped the tops off every single wave.

i spotted the huge white block of the old surf lifesaving headquarters cafe instantly. mike was leaning against the far window in a tshirt the same colour as the water, enjoying the sand trails and whorls that the wind was making along the mighty stretch of visible beach. i sat facing the opposite direction and observed the neeroplanes arranging themselves in the sky over the eerport.

and i got magic on the way down the ngauranga gorge again today, which happened to be a new single from my favourite band.

magic, i tell you.