Those who speak to me will know that something I have been quietly working on over the last many years, is musical comedy. However, I think the only time I mentioned this on the site was way back when it all began in 2007 (link here). Since then, I had been looking to diversify a little bit, and see if what I do can work outside of an english-speaking-audience-in-Japan.

In Holland I did several singer-songwriter open-mic nights with English songs that were really quite inappropriate, and although it seemed to go well, I really longed for a comedy audience instead of anrgy/depressed/pretending-to-be-artsy musician crowds. I had been ignored by the Tokyo Comedy Club as well as the Gong Show at the Chicago Comedy Club in Amsterdam. In Christchurch there were no real comedy clubs, and if there were, they sure as hell don't exist anymore. So coming up to Wellington was a great opportunity.

There is one true comedy club here (although most of the time it is a Karaoke bar), however the open mic night was postponed the last month due to, ironically, the Wellington Comedy Festival. Luckily, I got my chance to shine last night. I was so excited about it that I set about photoshopping together some posters to advertise the event. The were on facebook, but not everyone can be lucky enough to be my facebook friend. So, here they are below.

Yes, I am parodying comedy advertisements. The formula is basically to take an embarrassing photo and add a lame or inappropriate pun.

Anyway, although my posters failed to bring in any of my facebook friends, it seeemed to go very well. It's a beautiful thing when you hear laughter at exactly the right moments. I can perform there again next week, and hopefully after then I can finally start to make things happen. It might sound like it's a sudden thing, but it has been a long-time coming, and I'm not finished yet.

The Uninformant, May 25th

Here is an extremely silly piece (no pun intended) I wrote about the Earthquake Refugee experience from the perspective of my pubes.

Enjoy!

Bonus:

Below is a photo of my computer. I decided, instead of throwing away all the pieces of paper where I write my day's to-do list, to fold them into origami Kiwis. It serves as a daily reminder that I have been achieving a lot during my time here, and is a nice form of procrastination. It would make the people over at M-thru-F very proud. I think I am already quite suited to corporate life.

Note, this photo was taken more than a week ago, so already they seem to have multiplied. On completion of the internship, I will show the final result.

The Home Stretch

I woke up this morning, opened the curtains and the sunlight poured into the living room. This was the view that greeted me.
It was a reminder of how great a city Wellington is, and also how lucky I was to get this flat. Until now I had been staying with the kindness of strangers, but now I have a little 2-room flat. It's sweet - it's a perfect bachelorette-pad. See, I'm house-sitting for a colleague who is overseas, and so after 6 weeks of couch-surfing/refugeeing, after 7 different houses and 11 different beds, I have my own space and can finally relax.

Unfortunately, my immune system also decided to relax. It's like how so many students get sick after exams, meaning you can't enjoy the holidays. However, I think I could use a quiet weekend, even if it is filled with phlegm. So, for example, today I have taken a walk to the waterfront to a free-wifi area to catch up on the internet.

Behind is Te Papa, where I'm interning, and you can see that it is a great day to be doing nothing. It's odd though how "nothing" has taken on a new meaning, now that I'm not living in a city that is destroyed. Because, ever single week, it's a whole new nothing. Just walking to work is exciting. One week I'm walking along the waterfront, the next week I'm walking through Central park, and then another week I'm commuting directly through The Basin Reserve, the cricket grounds.

Below is a small 'shop of the above photo with the locations I have surfed.

I do think in the last month-and-a-half I have made up for the extreme-boredom post-earthquake. I am going back home to Christchurch in a few weeks, but until then, I'm staying home in Wellington.

Small Update: Interning

While the living situation is going well (i.e. I'm still alive), I have gone down a notch from being at a place with dial-up internet to a place without any internet at all.

So, there isn't much time for a thorough update, however, luckily the media has done that for me. Check out this video from the news last week. That's my boss speaking, and I was the Personal Assistant for the guy in charge of the entire ceremony. I make an appearance in the video at about the 55-second mark. So yeah, it hasn't just been a regular internship where you're basically a glorified coffee-machine who has to wear a tie and kiss ass. No, I have actually proved to be slightly useful, which is a phrase I never imagined myself writing.

Happy watching!

The Uninformant Term II

Sorry the last few weeks have been quiet from my end. It turns out the place I'm staying in at the moment has a dail-up connection. Although, it is quite appropriate as the house was also built in 1890 when nobody knew about broadband.

Also, exciting news, the Uninformant has gone live on the new Canta site. This means that not only do you get to read it, but so do I as Canta does not deliver to Wellington. I'll keep linking my pieces on here though.

This about my move up to Wellington after the first week.

Also, an unusually serious bit from the last week of term 1.