Surf Spots 080806

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- 14 Classic Tom Petty opening lines I'm a big fan of Tom and his nuggety, honest songs that always use the same three chords - they take me back to road trips from The Mount to Tairua and back again listening to Full Moon Fever over and over and over. Or maybe just Silence Of The Lambs.

- Ari Gold I've read a bit about this highly stressed, profane, nihilistic, mobile phone addict Ari Gold from Entourage. This is very popular in the US, and thanks to YouTube, we can have a look now, too. Looks like fun, not to mention the lamented Action.

- Delia's Half Time Snacks For the recent football World Cup, Guardian unlimited optimistically provided these recipes for UK footy fans to whip up at half time. Now I've experienced Brit 'cuisine' and if it's not fried, battered, in pita bread or Chips, you're struggling, really. Plus many of these require preparation pre-match, so she's cheated there, but still, there's some nice looking recipes.

Surf Spots 170506

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- Every week, since about oh, 1998, The Onion has made me laugh. That's a lot of laughter, and this warning that people's drunkenness does not impair the Alligators' ability to inflict enormous physical harm made me spray the screen.
- Here's a fairly comprehensive list of the 50 worst songs ever recorded. Was compiled before 'My Humps', obviously, and being American, they'd never heard Fat Freddy's Drop.
- At this years' Oscars, the Wilson brothers talked about the Wes Anderson short that became Bottle Rocket that started it all. Now, thanks to YouTube, you can see the original version. I'll say it again - God bless the internets.

Surf spots 090506

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- Rob Manuel, co-founder of B3TA is an inspirational kind of guy, as you can see. I've been thinking about creativity and burnout a lot recently, you will find all the answers you need here. Possibly.

- I'm a WICKED procrastinator. I sat down to write this blog post and... and... Hey that was COOL, I wonder what happening over on the internet? You see? It's as easy as that. Lifehacker's got all the answers, though, this post reminds me of being at Uni and couldn't possibly THINK about studying until my bed was made, my room was tidy, and that pesky box full of old Rip It Ups under the bed was all cleared out.

- Sesame Street pinball video, the one that goes "One, two, three, FOUR FIVE, six, seven, eight, NINE, TEN, etc etc. I use to hum this for ages as a child, usually while kicking shit out of something. Happy days.