Finally, I can wear my mullet that I bought with you on that unplanned Newtown shopping trip.
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Your Older Sister's Rock Music
that you fell in love with, though you did not have a rockmusic household. Because I can find no trace of White Cross on the internet, this is the song i most remember falling in love with. It throws me back into childhood with rockstar abandon and also speaks of the wild horses my older sister's neighbours have been capturing for her from the mountains. And I just found out that it is U2. I just came across it on my hardrive while researching for an 80's Jam Night birthday party this weekend.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
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.
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