Wow, it was a day of purely autobiographical links. I feel like I should make it up to you. For starters, check out Ebert’s review of The Matrix: Revolutions. He didn’t hate it!
In case any other Australians are wondering, the version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” that plays during the Dulux paint commercial is by a Hawaiian guy called Israel Kamakawiwo’ole. Rodd and I both love the song so he tracked it down. It’s actually a medley with “What a Wonderful World.” I love it. If you can find it, download it.
Trivia Update: The Snook and I headed back to Kelly’s, our old regular trivia pub, and managed to score second place all by ourselves! (Our celebrations were curtailed by the fact that the winning team was captained by an overweight geek in an “All Your Base Are Belong to Us” t-shirt. It was like losing to the Comic Book Guy. Very mortifying.) Your questions for the night:
As you might imagine, I rocked the Jane Austen one. (I’m working my way through her complete works right now.)
Congratulations to my friend Nat, who has become the first of my college friends to have a baby. He and his wife Staci welcomed little Marianne Elizabeth Cunningham into the world two weeks ago. Isn’t she cute? The last time I saw Nat we were drinking our faces off at a tailgater… and now he’s a Dad. It’s a weird feeling.
Snookums sent me a link to this story about a huge iceberg that just broke in half. He especially liked this quote from the end: “The Ross Sea is on the northern Antarctic coast, 3,832 kilometers (2,395 miles) south of New Zealand.” As he put it: The northern coast of Antarctica, eh? Where exactly are the other coasts?
Edited 08/05/2025: Link is dead and not archived.
The Herald published my letter… and the bastards gutted it! That’s literally less than half, and they cut the whole bit about crusty old curmudgeons who pooh-pooh everybody else’s fun. That was the whole damn point!
Edited 08/05/2025: Link is dead and not archived.
The Herald is reporting that Ten will refund the cost of votes for Cosima that came in after they closed the voting. Apparently you have to show them your phone bill to get the cash. That sucks for all the folks (like me) who have pay-as-you-go phones and thus don’t get any friggin’ bill. Not that I voted for her, of course, but it’s still a pretty crappy maneuver.
The Guardian lists the 40 Greatest US Bands Today. REM’s in there at #22 and the Flaming Lips top the list at #1. Sounds good to me.
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