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Technologies throughout my home are failing and breaking and generally causing me irritation, but for once my computer and the internet are robust, so what's my usual cure for woe?

Picspams!

You could argue that the smoking picspam is already a picspam of oral fixation, but I'm fine with any excuse for yet another theme or subcategory of picspammage. Any excuse at all!

So, here's a picspam that ended up becoming mainly a James McAvoy and Tom Hardy picspam, with some other lovely people sandwiched in between, and a rather lovely preponderance of toothpicks and bottles. (Warning: over 100 pieces of yumminess in this post, many of them gifs.) Enjoy!





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I'm working my way through the picspams you want to see, so next up will be "Sexy People Who Are Wearing Leather Gloves In a Sexy Manner." Feel free to comment spam me with any of your faves for that or any other themed picspam!

Saw Flight of the Conchords live about a month ago (almost exactly a month ago in fact) and for some reason it's taken me this long to post about it properly. I fail at prompt internet-usage. Anyway. It was, unsurprisingly, a hilarious and highly entertaining evening. The boys were looking particularly yummy, and the songs sounded fantastic. Many more instruments on stage than I had expected (and some that didn't get used - they don't follow their own set list much from what I can tell. I'm pretty sure we got an unplanned rendition of Albi, and Jemaine was constantly mouthing song titles at Bret, who either would nod or look at him like he was a madman.)

Highlights of the gig:

• Heckler: “Where’s Mel?” Jermaine: “She’s fictional. So she’s hanging out with Bart Simpson and... Taggart." (cue huge cheer from the crowd as Scottish crowds do when you mention anything remotely Scottish.)
• Three new songs. Three! (Fave moment: "I said, 'I don't have any I.D. on me / Who even carries I.D. in 1353?!' / 'I maketh not the rules,' quoth he.")
• Jenny! Woo! I love that song.
• Sparkly jumpsuits.
• Tiny piano!
• The New Zealand orchestra. His name is Matt. He does odd jobs (but not strange tasks).
• Three part audience singalong to Epileptic Dogs.
• Many other things that have fallen out of my brain at this moment in time.

Ever-so-slight disappointments of the evening:

• No Bus Driver's Song. Denied yet again.
• No keytar. (But there were instruments up there I could not identify for the life of me.)

My cheeks hurt from laughing by the end of the night. And the crowd was on fine form. Not too much random heckling. Found a few good youtube clips of the show - so here's kilt towels and a very different version of Sugalumps.

And of course I had to go in a homemade Conchords t-shirt. Who would I be if I didn't? This was my first attempt at a two-tone print. It required two stencils, which didn't end up matching as precisely as required, so it was a slightly aggravating process. I think I ended up making t-shirt!Jemaine look far grumpier than he did in the original photo. But it's something I'm going to keep experimenting with.



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And even more pics here if you're interested.

So it's been a very Flight of the Conchords-y few weeks for me. (This is never a bad thing.)

Last week I got tickets to see them on their European tour (fourth row -woot!). This means I have until mid May to make a Mel-style homemade Conchords t-shirt. I have too many ideas! Must narrow down the choices.....

And then I finished this housewarming gift for some friends:

Beige is evil and it must be stopped. And when you're hunting around to put in one beige stitch every 20 or 30 rows in the midst of various pale and medium pinks (I'm still very angry at pink, not least because of its suspiciously close relationship to beige) then a new level of evil must be named. Super-evil? Uber evil? Evil Max? Evil V: The Final Frontier? Beige isn't even an actual colour. It's an absence of colour. Pah.

Anyway. Isn't it interesting that I manage to update more regularly when I shouldn't be internetting but instead finishing an essay? Hmmm. Funny that.



And, specially for Roofer, here's some Flight of the Conchords, giving good corporate.