Quite possibly the greatest lightbulb commercial ever, if not the greatest ad ever.

This seems to have been a good week of catching up with people I’ve not seen in a really long time. Or at least heard of in a long time. Even briefly chatted to old friend Malcolm who’ll be getting married in a couple of weeks over in Germany. Wish I was there for it, best of luck to the both of them.

Meanwhile it looks like I’ve kicked off the most of this flu, which is good and there’s now less than 24 hours to go till the 48 finals are played and the winners are announced. How am I feeling? Relaxed for now, like many others I’m just putting it in the back of my mind for now and trying not to think about it. Might be harder tomorrow evening, but that’s where liquor comes and saves the day. Thanks booze. I’d marry you if it weren’t illegal.

I even got brief word from a friend in Auckland who had coffee recently with the Auckland winners. If I remember correctly, they were also quite surprised at their win, trying not to think much about it and generally feeling pretty much the same as me. I wonder if that’s what it’s like for all the regional finalists.

Anyway, today has been a day of cleaning and organising, though not very well having already watched all of the first season of Entourage today, which is very good fun. It’s amazing how much crap I had piled up in my desk drawer, but the more daunting task is my computer which is almost full again and will require hours of sorting and burning just to clear up over 1 terabyte of music, movies, film projects and other random junk I keep accumulating without sorting. Can’t wait.

Wow, I just spent a whole paragraph describing the act of cleaning. Were you excited? I was on the edge of my seat. Here a Tom Waits press conference to make up for it.

Mammoth magazine interview with me regarding our 48 Hour film and the finals is now out. Did the interview late last night, or early this morning via the sensual Matt Scheurich, where we had a general gander on the film and general stuff and he pretty much printed it as I said, which made for a more ‘personal’ interview and hopefully one not too offensive or weird. Pick up a local copy now or check it online here.

Meanwhile, I’m still recovering from this annoying as fuck flu that just wont go away. It’s not crippling and I’m not bed ridden, but it’s dropped my energy levels and everytime I think it’s going away, it comes back, throws up a banner, blows some really annoying loud whistles and then kicks me in the nuts for good measure. Doesn’t help I haven’t actually been resting much or drinking over the weekend, but hey… I got nothing. Almost nothing. Bought several seasons of Arrested Development, the Neverwhere TV series (score!) and the Tarkovsky box set which is pure awesome and will provide lots of good viewing when I get the time to.

Several film projects coming up, and quite a few that need finishing as well, but that’s for a later post. In the meantime, here’s Michel Gondry following up solving a rubiks cube with his feet, with solving it with his nose.

God I love him. Oh, and just to end on a hilariously gross note… Clitter!

Forgot to mention the other day that on Wednesday night there was the most insane of thunderstorms happening overnight. About 1500 lighting strikes over the Waikato and 20000 all together around New Zealand over a 24 hour period. Total madness and pure awesome.

That night I just opened my curtains, sat with a whiskey listening to some Phillip Glass and watching some of the most intense rain and lighting I’ve seen in a long time. Really amazing time to be had.

Anyway, several videos to post and that’s about it…

Amazing video of these people doing something called the pikapika project or something. It’s in Japanese so I’m not too sure, but this video is awesome (if you don’t pay too much attention to the music).

Hilarity in the form of some guy doing 500 impressions in 2 minutes. Must watch to get the greatness of the gag.

And finally, the awesomeness of Hellboy 2 continues in this brief clip full of slapstick fun and no giant red guy is above sweet slapstick fun. Can’t wait. Video here.

So it turns out I’ve been generally sick most of this week, which would explain why I’ve been sleeping ridiculously long hours all week, the headaches, the sore throats and not doing most of the things I thought I’d be up and able to do. Strange I didn’t really put two and two together properly like that. It’s also part of the reason I’ve not blogged as often as usual recently, so here’s a beach whale to make up for it…

Playing tomorrow nights, the Trons. Self automated playing robots. I’m seriously thinking of going even though there are drinks and general partying going on at mine tomorrow night. Oh what to do.

Some guy’s cover of Nude from In Rainbows by old computer technology. Awesome.

Y’s Guys Film’s Action short, “An Eye For An Eye”. Chuck Norris reference no?

Turns out the flu wasn’t as bad as I planned it to be. Was only a light one that lasted about two days total, at it’s worst. Still a little sniffly, raspy, but not as bad. Probably cause I jammed a lot of pills, herbal teas, soups and other voodoo magic remedies down my throat the moment I realised I was getting sick. That… or I just lifted some weights and the flu got scared and decided to lead a life as my bitch instead. Take that.

But still in the middle of one quite busy period. Teaching, working. Dropped flatmate off in Auckland this afternoon cause he needed a lift up there for his work and me? I crave Fatimas like no other can crave. Seriously, that place, it’s pita meals, so… freaking… amazing. Just blogging about it makes me want to go back up and get some more.

Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to stick around and catch up with some people I’ve been meaning to catch up with, but all in good time. If all goes to plan, I should be back up next weekend. Hooray!

But filming stuff for freelance tonight and plan to film more stuff for fun this weekend. My body clock is so out of whack right now, I can’t even remember how much sleep I’ve been getting. Ah well. Tough like the ukelele.

Man, this post has been sparatic. Going the hell to bed.

Oh wait… heh… ninjas.

Turns out we can all literally see into the future and now know how optical illusions work. Sorta.

And magnetic movie is a totally awesome freaky cool vid. Article. Website. Sweet. This video isn’t the full one though, but hell, it’s still cool.

Hilarious comedy from the MTV movie awards. Another pointless ceremony, but there’s the occasional awesome moments like Robert Downey Jr kicking Jack Black in the nuts. link.

Bo Diddley has died. That sucks. But his sweet music lives on and I must familiarize myself more with it.

And finally, The Stripper Candle. “It’s a candle and an alibi all in one! You don’t smell like a stripper. You smell like a candle.” Genius.

Okay, I think its time to leave the internet alone for a while now.