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About Me

Background By WhiteNerdyMySpacemostly doccie editor turned learning fascilitator (read 'teach'). Incurable incurable music listener and compulsive proprietor of.

My Interests

scratching in 2nd-hand music store bargain bins in the hope of retrieving rare records + attempting pinpointing just what this indie music phenomenon is all about (or who the influential players are) + and joining mounds of film material into engaging viewing experiences.

I'd like to meet:

That Casino Royale guy's Aston Martin Vantage, Julia Stiles, and Susan Sarandon.

Music:

Ned's Atomic Dustbin's "Intact" (above) takes me way back. And then also The Cure, Linus (the Brittish band), Elbow, Manic Street Preachers, The Orb, Cinematic Orchestra, The Future Sound of London (also "Amorphous Androgenous"?), Interpol, Depeche Mode, The Del Fuegos, The Specials, The Zig Zag People, The Flaming Lips, Mobile Homes, Rancid. Still looking for a copy of the definitive Black Dog album, "Spanners".

Movies:

"Italian for Beginners", Mike Figgis' "Timecode", "Fifth Element" and this delightful film called "CQ: Codename Dragonfly".

Television:

"The Office"

Books:

Bill Bryson's "Down Under", Carl Hiaasen's "Lucky You" and "Salem's Lot" (Stephen King), oh, oh, and also "The Bachman Books".

Heroes:

Robert Smith, and SA poker player Steve Wolf.

My Blog

Value

I was lucky last week, because prior to the petrol price going up by fifty, or thereabouts, cents, I managed to get a full tank. So yesterday was the first time I had to fill up paying the new price t...
Posted by Tink on Thu, 15 May 2008 11:23:00 PST

Numbers

Heard something cool just the other weekend. A friend of a friend reckons that according to numerologists, 2008 is the first year in a nine year cycle. How do they conclude this? Well, 2 + 8 = 10, dis...
Posted by Tink on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:43:00 PST

Saturday

It's been the longest time since I've written anything. It feels like a confession. I know that some 'Spacers have been called to facebook, but I'm not one of them. I'm a bit of a snob. This pal of mi...
Posted by Tink on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 05:07:00 PST

Celebrity sighting

What a do when you've got a little free time? A perplexing question for a lecturer at 'varsity at the end of term. Sure, there are the mandatory retrospective meetings and the planning ahead, but for ...
Posted by Tink on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:19:00 PST

What we have

It's been an age, but here it is. Early Monday I had to make an emergency stop at an Engen in town. It was one of those wrap the scarf around your head cold mornings, and I was scratching in my boot f...
Posted by Tink on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:11:00 PST

Mode of transport

I'm driving through the traffic when I hear this low thunder to the back of me, so I crane my head around. It's this massive Harley with these chromed, elongated handlebars that make it look like the ...
Posted by Tink on Wed, 09 May 2007 11:46:00 PST

Lasse Gjertsen

Search YouTube for Lasse Gjertsen's "Amateur". Masterful.
Posted by Tink on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:44:00 PST

How to graduate

Went to M's graduation ceremony at Tukkies the other night. It's a grand affair held in a large auditorium, and could potentially have been very stiff upper lip. Two things set the mood right. They ha...
Posted by Tink on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:55:00 PST

Matisyahu

Saturday night we descended on the Sandton Convention Centre for the Matisyahu concert. I made sure we leave at 6:15pm so that we could miss the rush, and when we pulled into the parking lot I was qui...
Posted by Tink on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:43:00 PST

Would you eat here?

The "Unlikely First Choice Award" this week goes to an establishment called Crim's Café and Take Away. If I ate here, I'd certainly not complain about the food (they say the 26 gang has ears ever...
Posted by Tink on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:56:00 PST