Hey team, sorry about my absence there. We’ve just been wrapping up a major rebuild of our website at work, and meanwhile a month sneaked by between posts here. I actually have been writing. Writing chunks of prose is the fun bit. Editing/finishing is the hard work bit that you have to find time for. Man, those people who post to their blogs every day? Superhuman.

Big Day Out

So, they’ve just announced some of the acts for the Big Day Out, and damn, always such an impressive list. Check this out. (Key: yeah!, meh/who?, nooo!)

• Tool
• Muse (hot damn)
• Violent Femmes (I always feel like I should be a fan, though)
• The Killers
• Peaches (who?)
• My Chemical Romance (I’m sure they’ll be popular with the kids.)
• Spank Rock (who?)
• Jet (uncertain)
• Eskimo Joe
• Scribe (uncertain. Did you see Dave’s review on Newclear? He panned him.)
• Evermore (uncertain. Their new stuff kindof sucks.)
• The Veils (who?)
• Shapeshifter (who?)
• The Mint Chicks (but I don’t really know)
• The Tutts (I say this having heard one song by them)
• Minuit (woo!. Did you know they are currently touring Europe? Oh yeah, and check out their music videos on YouTube.)
• Opensouls (who?)

$110 bucks, which is pricey but come now, it represents an excellent value for money. There will be more to come, so keep an eye out.

YouTube

We all know how wicked YouTube is, especially seeing as we are not the ones paying for it. (Who is, exactly?). Well, rumours abound that Google is considering buying YouTube for $1.6 billion, which is quite a lot - did you know YouTube is less than one year old? Anyway, I hope they don’t fold it into Google Video or something. Make the most of it while you can!

• Disk Drop
• Guiness World Record for most T-Shirts worn at one time.
• singing on the beach
• Gnarls Barkley - Crazy EXCLUSIVE Slow Version LIVE!!
• Portal Demonstration from Valve’s EA Summer Media Event

Also, the secret to happiness in life is to go to YouTube Top Rated and check out all the Daily Show and Colbert Report clips there. The stuff on Foley was awesome, as was this. By the way, The Daily Show is screening in NZ on C4 @ 10pm Tuesday nights at the moment.

Folk-Comedy Duos

So, Kiwi comics net big US TV series, and indeed, Comic duo put Kiwi accent on US TV. And, I just discovered you can buy an album of theirs, too - Folk The World Tour. Incidentally, we are talking about Flight of the Conchords. You knew that, right? There will apparently be a doco about their US tour on Channel 3 on Thursday the 19th.

I also came across an article on Stuff titled Katie Holmes to star as Posh Spice. Remember when Katie Holmes and Posh Spice were hot? They should have made the movie then.