Saturday, October 16, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Day 10 #30daysofme
Ok, my happy songs are
Faith - George Michael
Shiny Happy People - REM
Line Em Up - James Taylor
Sad songs are:
Dreaming my Dreams - The Cranberries (actually pretty much anything on their second album)
How Soon is Now - The Smiths
Secrets - Fiat Lux
Hyped songs are
Strangelove - Depeche Mode
Stigmata Martyr - Bauhaus
Panic - The Smiths
Anything by the Bloodhound Gang
Mad songs are
You Outta Know - Alanis Morressette
Fuck You - Lily Allen
Arsehole - Denis Leary
Day 9 #30daysofme
What am I proud of in the last few days? Well let me see????
Sad but true, probably the fact that I went out yesterday and bought a new barrel for the top lock on out front door and whole new lock for the bottom handle, and fitted them. Both our locks have gone to the pack in the last month and so it was getting frustrating. Fitting them involved a fair bit of chiseling etc, so I was feeling like Mr Handyman, which is something I don't do often.
What next? Well the bathroom needs sorting.....
Day 8 #30daysofme
Short term goals for this month? Ok here we go
1) Ensure that the MyCard Online Project delivers on time, on target and with a minimal amount of fuss. This is the way I like projects to run and frankly I have no interest in stress!
2) Tidy my study. It is a freaken mess. I have added things and added things. I need to sort it out, I need to throw things out.
3) Finish one of the 3 songs I am writing at the moment on the Piano. I need to close one and I need to practice more and getting better.
I think 3 for a month is ok don't you?
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Day 7 #30daysofme
Someone or something that has had a huge influence on me. Well George Michael actually. A bit ironic, since the silly git has got himself behind bars for 4 weeks, but his drug issues aside, he has influenced me musically more than anyone else. I don't care what you say about his music or his issues, the guy has got a great voice and that is his first and foremost influence on me. As a singer, I aspire to sound as good as him, aspire to be as comfortable as him on stage, aspire to write half as well as him. He has consistently changed and adapted muscially over several decades now and I always like his stuff. It was a total highlight for me to see him live at the start of this year, a lifetime ambition come true.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Day 6 #30daysofme
Ok, so my favourite superhero.... Well I really do think it has to be Batman. I am talking 1960's TV Batman here by the way. Camp to the mostest, the show was brilliant, and I remember spending many an hour as a child watching it when I cam home from school. I like the fact that he had no special power, just lots of money and things he invented. Who doesn't love the Batmobile and the associated toys? Cheesy oneliners peppered the show and the Bam, Kapow, Wham, sound effects bubbles just made it so cool.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Day 5 #30daysofme
The view from the top of the Empire State Building. I loved New York, I adored New York. Such a great great place. To be standing on top of the Empire State Building, looking down on that beautiful city a night was truly amazing........
Day 4 #30daysofme
Ok so I am behind here. So gotta do a few days tonight :-)
Probably my bad habit I wish I didn't have would be my tendency to move from one thing to another quite quickly and be fickle. This is especially irritating to me when it comes to music. I have so many songs half written it is not funny. To finish one would be nice..... But of course it is not just music, I get all enthusiastic about something, spend a good amount of money on it, 3 months later I have moved on to something else. So yeah, there you have it.....
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Day 3 #30daysofme
A picture of me and my friends? There can't possibly just be one. So.....
Me, Hannah, Kat, Wayne and Iris. Happy families
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Day 2 # 30daysofme
What's in a blog name. Well I actually technically have 2. They often mirror each other and they are all very predictable. This one, Corin's Posterous is about as vanilla as it gets. I also have my "main site" corinhaines.com. Currently that site is my post things that interest me/fascinate me,wish to blog about site. This may all change in the future, but corinhaines.com will always be around. In the past I have had blogs with supposedly clever titles like Musings from Left Field etc. But I never really wanted to listen to myself that much.
So not much to say on that one really......
Friday, September 10, 2010
Day 1 #30daysofme
1) I left school half way through 7th form to become a writer. I am not a writer......
2) My first ever real grown up job was working for a clothes place called Galvins in ChCh. I lasted 1 day, I hated it.
3) I am the last of 6 boys, my oldest brother is 19 years older than me. I have no sisters.
4) I have four tattoos. Two on each arm. I got my first tatttoo in Geelong after I had travelled there to consumate an internet romance. I left Australia with the tattoo and no relationship.
5) I never took singing lessons or sang solo in public until 5 years ago. Since then I have sang at weddings, civil unions and on TV
6) My first ever band obession was Duran Duran. I was obsessed with Nick Rhodes. My parents thought I was gay.
7) I am quite self concious and shy. I hide this.
8) Personally, I am happier now than I have ever been in my life.
9) I was confirmed in the Catholic Church at age 11. Soon afterwards I stopped going to church and believing in God
10) I had never seen a dead body until I saw my mother in her coffin 3 years ago. My father passed away last year. I am not sure I truly understand that they are dead.
11) I become obsessed with things, the obsession never lasts. I can be fickle.
12) I have keloid scars on my shoulders which I hate.
13) My first crush was at age 10. I told her, and she never talked to me again.
14) For years I thought the line in the Carbury Creme Egg song that goes "such a devious boy, heavens above" was "such a devious boy have a spud"
15) Age 14 I read Midsummer Nights Dream for the first time, in one go. I finished about 3 am and burst out crying. I have no idea to this day why it made me so upset. I have never read it again.
30 Days of Me
Ok, I am going to give this 30 Days of Me lark a go. Even though, I should point out, I am not a woman. But if Bob can do it, so can I? And hey I did the 365Day Photo challenge, so I am already a bit all about the sharing......
Day 01- A recent picture of you and 15 interesting facts about yourself
Day 02- The meaning behind your Blog name
Day 03- A picture of you and your friends
Day 04- A habit that you wish you didn’t have
Day 05- A picture of somewhere you’ve been to
Day 06- Favorite super hero and why
Day 07- A picture of someone/something that has the biggest impact on you
Day 08- Short term goals for this month and why
Day 09- Something you’re proud of in the past few days
Day 10- Songs you listen to when you are Happy, Sad, Bored, Hyped, Mad
Day 11- Another picture of you and your friends
Day 12- How you found out about Blogger and why you made one
Day 13- A letter to someone who has hurt you recently
Day 14- A picture of you and your family
Day 15- Put your iPod on shuffle: First 10 songs that play
Day 16- Another picture of yourself
Day 17- Someone you would want to switch lives with for one day and why
Day 18- Plans/dreams/goals you have
Day 19- Nicknames you have; why do you have them
Day 20- Someone you see yourself marrying/being with in the future
Day 21- A picture of something that makes you happy
Day 22- What makes you different from everyone else
Day 23- Something you crave for a lot
Day 24- A letter to your parents
Day 25- What I would find in your bag
Day 26- What you think about your friends
Day 27- Why are you doing this 30 day challenge
Day 28- A picture of you last year and now, how have you changed since then?
Day 29- In this past month, what have you learned
Day 30- Your favorite song.
Monday, September 6, 2010
Canterbury Earthquake
I like many people heaved a huge sigh of relief on Saturday when it became apparent that no one has been killed by the earthquake which struck the Canterbury region and wrecked such havoc in Christchurch. However, as the news continues to come in about how devastated parts of Christchurch are, it is slowly sinking in how torn apart the lives of some people down there have been and how long it will take for the city to return to some semblance of normality. As someone who grew up in Christchurch and lived there until I was 30, it is scary to think of the place which seemed so stable being torn apart. Please spare a thought for the people who have been badly affected by this quake, and try to remember them in the coming months when the media attention turns elsewhere and most people will have moved on with their lives. The damage and destruction wrought there does not disappear overnight and for many people they are beginning a long period of rebuilding. This earthquake could have struck anywhere in New Zealand and those of us not living in Christchurch when it occurred are can count ourselves lucky it wasn't us this time. Many people have been through hard times recently and were probably going without insurance, these people will be badly affected. There have been conversations about how to deal with these people and what message it sends to bail them out when others have been paying for their insurance. Surely, this is a time for compassion and sympathy. This is a time when New Zealanders should stand up and help our people who have found themselves caught out by this disaster. It could happen to anyone of us, if the circumstances fell that way. Please give financially if you can, and give of your thoughts no matter what.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
The Wilderness Downtown
We live in an amazing time web development wise and the following link is pretty freaken cool. An interactive music video, that lets you specify the address of the place in the video and draws on a mixture of Google products to deliver it. The link below is to the house I grew up in.
Check it out!
http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/#192+Bower+Ave,+New+Brighton,+Christchurch+8083,+New+Zealand
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Are you ready?
The lovely Caravan of Love by the Housemartins. Great 80's band. Spot the young Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim
3D Pavement Art
I do love good 3D Pavement art and this is a great video about a lovely one being made.
Friday, August 27, 2010
The Smiths Project
I have been getting quite inspired lately but some brilliant people and concepts I am coming across online. The PostSecret project is one and then.....
This morning I woke and flicked on Twitter and found a message from someone called Janice who I did not know. She was pointing me to a project she is doing. I am a The Smiths fan and so is she. Well, all I can say is it is one of the best Twitter links I have EVER followed. Quite simply Janice is working through the entire catalogue of songs by The Smiths, recording them all just with voice. She uses her voice in a variety of ways to cover all aspects of the the instrumentation of the songs. Most impressively, she is not trying to build direct covers, she is actually effectively remixing the songs as well. What she is building is a marvelous collection of lushly layered and multitracked covers of these beautiful songs. What she is, quite obviously, is bloody brilliant and clever! I am listening to some of the tracks as I write this, each one new to my ears. The problem I am having is everyone becomes my favourite after listening to it, they are all seriously good arrangements. Well done Janice and thank you for the link to your lovely work.
Here is one of her tracks, The Boy With The Thorn In His Side.....
Check the rest of her work out at http://thesmithsproject.blogspot.com
Sunday, August 22, 2010
If you like Pina Coladas and getting caught in the rain....
Escape by Rupert Holmes..... it doesn't get better than this....
Paul Davis - I Go Crazy
I love this song. My brother had the 45rpm single, which I now have in my collection.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Potato Perfection
So I have to share that I just made the best roast potatoes ever, after years of crap ones.. So here is the technique:
1) Quarter medium size potatoes
2) Par boil (5 mins)
3) Drain and return to the pot, shake vigorously for 10 seconds
4) Place in an oiled oven tray which has been left to heat up in a 200 C oven for 5 mins
5) Turn Potatoes in the oil and place in the oven
6) Cook for 1 hour, turning every 20 mins
Voila, crispy on the outside, fluffy and light on the inside......
Pogoplug
Check out http://www.pogoplug.com/home-en.html?
I saw these nifty devices on http://www.geekbeat.tv
Access your external hard drive from anywhere in the world! I am going to get me one of these.Tuesday, August 17, 2010
If your dad doesn't have a beard you've got two mums....
Thanks to my friend Hannah for the pointer to this fantastic song :-)
PostSecret
I just discovered this amazing piece of art..... What a great project :-) This is the kind of thing that makes my heart feel alive.....
Eco Positive Periods?
It makes perfect sense, but I never really thought about reusable menstrual pads apart from hippies using Sphagnum Moss on the West Coast of the South Island. We do it for babies, why not adults? They look kind of cute too. That said, I can imagine they would not be to everyone's taste.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Geekbeat.tv
I have discovered Geekbeat,tv. It's a cool videocast and I may be developing a small crush on Cali Lewis... :-)
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Baking
Currently baking a Banana and Pecan Loaf, although I fear I may have overcooked the Banana quotient, it seems rather oily...... Stand by for photos.......
Pulling a sickie
Oh my lord, how good to be an M.P. eh? 14 sick days away from Parliament without loss of pay and no notification to the speaker, and then they can stay away for much longer than that if they like, with a maximum loss of $10 a sitting day. Not bad in a climate where senior members of the new Auckland Council are being offer 5 days sick leave a year. Where is Rodney Hide on this one? Apparently he wants to save the ratepayer and tax payer money wherever he can? Is he keen to do it at his own expense as well???? Just saying.......
Watching the wheels
Watching The Wheels by Corin Haines
Download now or listen on posterous
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