Blue Man Group - Drumbone (Last Call Vegas)

just saw these guys in vegas...I need a new word for amazing

Laurie Anderson - O Superman

Showing my age, but what the hell. This is great.

This kills me

The only time in my life I wished I spoke Dutch, or Flemish.

And maybe Phys Ed

I had a great time

A couple of weeks ago I had my fifth trip to California, and had a few days to myself in the wonderfulliest city in the world, San Francisco, trying desperately to not look like a tourist, guzzling espresso in Caffe Greco (sitting INSIDE, looking unimpressed, like a local), and spending a whole day in SFMOMA. God I would move there in a second, if only I had a squillion dollars to buy a cool apartment with a view of the Coit Tower. I would eat Cannoli every day, just in honor of Pete Clemenza.

Anyhoo, we then drove up the coast to Mendocino where we saw the 4th of July parade and gorged ourselves on bbq and amazing organic delicacies. Mendo is a beautiful town by the sea, full of beautiful wooden buildings and ex-hippies who've gotten older and respectable. I would live there too (see above proviso). Road trips in the US are kind of surreal to a Kiwi, like being inside a movie. Breakfast joints, tired waitresses and buckets of filtered coffee. Just brilliant.

One of my terrible afflictions is that everywhere I travel to, I want to live there. In September we're going back to France. Uh oh.

Let's Talk About Crocs

They terrify me, and I'll tell you why. In a sane world, this terrible scourge has overtaken the earth. Crocs are found everywhere, not only in dayglo colours, but also in supposedly more 'stylish', shades like beige. Make no mistake, they are BLOBS of FOAM.

Crocs make short people look shorter, fat people fatter, and cause the wearers to perform the 'walk of shame' - the uniquely flat-footed trudge only a croc can produce.

If these fugly creations can take over the world, brainwashing millions of people into thinking they look good, what else might we all be persuaded to believe?????????

Crocs are an abomination, some sort of punishment handed down to us by a higher being. When will people get the idea, that by all means mow the lawn in them, but do NOT - EVER leave the house in them.

We live in a wonderful world where we have so many rich choices in affordable footwear. Why would anyone choose to shorten their leg, broaden their foot, and reduce an elegant, willowy gait to that of a duck, when we can all afford the simplest sandal, made of environmentally friendly materials like leather, or cotton?

And the Crocs with SOCKS issue - what is this, Dr Seuss?......why, why why can't people understand a simple rule of dressing??? Socks are to be worn inside SHOES...they are not meant to be visible. They are a barrier to stop ones feet from sweating into ones shoes. They are not a shoe in themselves, and there is no point in wearing them as a sweat barrier if they are in holey footwear like Crocs.

Crocs in general offend me, simply because they were designed to be beach or garden wear. They are NOT in any way, shape or form, a shoe for public wear. It is simply laziness and sloppiness to wear crocs out of the yard, or further than 50 yards from the water. Same goes for speedos. More than 50 metres from the water, and they're just briefs. So, so wrong.

There are simple, basic rules for dressing. Follow them, and you can't go wrong. Dare to rock the boat, and you'll always wind up looking like a vegetarian budget tourist, on the lookout for the next campsite.

That is all.

Nina Simone - Garoovey

I was lucky enough to see this lady play a concert about 15 years ago - she was getting on in age by then, the voice was just the same, but this video shows just how beautiful she was in her prime. Love the earrings too.