Sorry, ages

Things what have happened:

EXTREMELY successful theatre seasons, a double bill of Measure for Measure and Romeo and Juliet, followed by Toi Whakaari premier of new Eli Kent play, Bedlam

Started writing top secret/not so top secret play for Theatre Militia

Plays plays plays plays

Things what are about to happen:

Aforementioned secret/not secret Theatre Militia play

Minge Culture murmurings...

Chapman Tripp awards in December. I wonder who will be nominated...


Oh, and I've finally become obsessed with The Sandman comics. Took long enough.

I'm obsessed with my taste in music, or something

Someone, anyone, deeply analyse my personality via the magic of the top 25 songs I listen to on iTunes at work...

On: the 'Road'

I've just typed the word 'road' into the little search box on my itunes.

Here's what I got:

The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders - Sufjan Stevens
Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
Road to Joy - Bright Eyes
We Are The Road Crew - Motōrhead
Road to Banyon - Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
Roadrunner - The Modern Lovers

I have impeccable taste!

Merle Oberon's grave rolling*

Talentless bonebag Gemma Arterton has been cast as Cathy in a new film of Wuthering Heights.

Unfortunately, I will be unable to resist seeing the film, since Heathcliffe is being played by Ed Westwick.

I am full of pop culture rage.

*ok, Emily Bronte is probaby rolling in her grave too, but have you SEEN Merle Oberon?

And, for good measure, purr

I die

So, I'm obsessed with a tv programme I have only seen youtube clips of. And by "a tv programme" I of course mean one specific character. Chuck Bass from Gossip Girl.
And I am not alone. Blogs about Chuck Bass abound, include the fabulous What Chuck Wore by What Claudia Wore blog babe Kim Hutt.

If Kim updated What Chuck Wore more often, I would break the internet with my gawping and guffawing.

If someone had ever told me what the fuck Tumblr is, then maybs I'd not be so surprised to also find the delectable I'm Chuck Bass. Wake up. Drink coffee. Hit the shuffle button for hours. Bed.

This is the photo of my choice: SO HOT I DIE

Just in case you want to be like me, here are some youtubes that I have hand picked for your satiation:
So Makey Outy
Silver Bowtie Apocalypse
I went to Tuscany alone
Red tights and black onesie RAGE

Ok, so it's all Chuck and Blair making out. But that's pretty much the point of the whole thing.

Anyway, so, i was thinking, if you ahve any of it on dvd, hook a sister up!

What has become of me?....

What a good day to be Jean!!!

Soz, it has been a while...

Yesterday I won Bob Dylan's new album. Excellent. I did it by entering a competition on Simon Sweetman's blog after Jonny said "enter this competition!"
Winner.

Here is the blog post

But here is the Ultimate Bob Dylan Concert Setlist that I came up with which won me the prize:

1 'Changing of the Guards' – the slow build of sound would be epically awesome to hear recreated loud.

2 'Idiot Wind' - Lets get our anger on.

3 'If Not For You' - Too cute. All fights started during 'Idiot Wind' would now be reconciled. Israel and Palestine, possibly…

4 'Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine' - Harmonica chaos. Fantastic.

5 'Workingman's Blues' - There are many reasons to love this song, but I pick "I sleep in the kitchen with my feet in the hall" as the best reason

6 'Journey Through Dark Heat (Where Are You Tonight?)' - I adore the epic lost-love songs. Hopefully he has bought his Street Legal era backing singers along to do the hey-hey-hey-hey bits

7 'Visions of Johanna' - any girl in the audience called Louise probably won't appreciate it, but...

8 'Talkin John Birch Paranoid Blues' - it'd be so weird.

9 'Romance in Durango' - I know, I know, he did it on the Rolling Thunder Revue and it was amazing. Maybe if I was lucky he’d say "Remember Durango, Larry?"

10 'Quinn the Eskimo' - Woah! Remember this song? Everybody now! "Come all without, come all within…"

11 'Mississippi' - This song has such a sturdy beat, I imagine an entire stadium of sweating bodies exhausted from dancing would all fall into a steady march. But not in a fascist way, you guys

12 'Love Minus Zero/No Limit' Some serious making out would go down when this started playing. We'd be making an old man very happy, I presume.

13 'Jokerman' - Shock and awe. I know I would have a minor fit of the somethings.

Encore 1 'The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll' – Imagine that!!!! He comes out all buy himself with a rackety old acoustic and his penchant for no audience eye contact, and suddenly you’re getting "William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll, with a cane that he twirled round his diamond ring finger…" Nostalgia-rama.

Encore 2 'I Shall Be Released' - Just cos it’d be outstanding. And his backing vocalists would be Robbie Robertson, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Nick Cave, Bruce Springsteen and Joan Baez

I know I haven't put Like A Rolling Stone on the list, or Knocking On Heaven's Door, but I'm fine with that.. For now...

Yeh-yuh! I'm the bomb!

What a babe

"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Blood sport

Disgusting.

But all in the name of art!

This is Hannah, practising with fake blood for our fringe festival show, A Most Outrageous Humbug
Come see! It'll be spectacular. There will be fake blood, and fighting, and love, and literature, and hilarity and scariness

Power

I have two new flatmates, Nga and Tom.
Tom is Irish.
One of the first things that Tom did when he moved in was offer me a cup of tea.
I said - like a fool - "I don't think we have any tea"
To wit: "I've got some. Barry's. Me mam sent it over"

Barry's is the best tea I have ever tasted.

It costs $12.50 for a box of 80 bags at Cool Britannia. That, in my book, is spensies.
But! The Deliciousness!
I'll have some for my birthday if you're stuck for an idea...