Archive for 2010
December 16 2010
Julian Assange’s Online Dating Profile and Other Choice Links
posted by Spare Room admin at 7:59 am
Slow News Day via Arbroath.
Wikileaks: Julian Assange describes himself in an online dating profile as “Passionate, and often pig headed activist intellectual” who is looking for “women from countries that have sustained political turmoil. Western culture seems to forge women that are valueless and inane..” Righto…
More Choice Links after the jump…
December 16 2010
Kyuss Lives!
posted by Steven Shaw at 7:51 am
Kyuss Lives!, playing two NZ shows in 2011
Cult stoner rock band Kyuss has reformed and will play in NZ next year. It’s a classic-era lineup with singer John Garcia, bassist Nick Oliveri and drummer Brant Bjork. Original guitarist Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) won’t be joining them but three out of four original members still ain’t bad…
December 13 2010
Fringe Photoshop Disaster and Other Choice Links
posted by Spare Room admin at 8:51 am
Media: These local celebrity lasses appeared in this New Idea spread, horsing around for some Christmas charity — but poor Noelle McCarthy’s fringe was savaged by a designer at the mag.
More Choice Links after the jump…
December 10 2010
Gig Guide 10 — 16 December 2010
posted by Steven Shaw at 4:01 pm
the Fall, playing the Powerstation on Monday
Click through for listings…
December 10 2010
Lager Giveaway and Other Choice Links
posted by Spare Room admin at 8:10 am
Lager Giveaway: Monteith’s are offering Spare Room readers a chance to sample their Single Source lager — a new brew which can trace its hops and barley back to a single source. The idea is to create a beer that’s traceable and true to the land it came from — in this case the barley is from Rakaia and the hops are from Motueka. What? A new beer with no macho-marketing?
We have a dozen Monteith’s Single Source lager to give away to five lucky readers…