Posts by Hadyn Green
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Actually despite winning 5 games Aucklands points diff was atrocious (-44). So when they lost, they lost big.
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Get rid of the bonus points system because it didn't work for Auckland? Way to go on a rugby version of Bushite hubris
Well if I may: Auckland won more games! Hence it played better rugby than three of the teams above it on the table.
Believe me, I'm no fan of Auckland and I take great delight that they aren't in the finals. But what kind of system allows a 4-6 team into the post-season ahead of a 5-5 team?
Perhaps Auckland ought to learn from the mighty Magpies, with their thriving academy, overflowing stadia and a team with a fan base that is grateful for every victory and accepting of every reverse.
Hawke's Bay's development is incredibly good. I have a feeling that a lot of the young guys playing for Auckland this season would rather be playing league. I'm basing this solely on their style of play. I got the feeling they could do with a grizzled old rugby-lifer to come in and smack the kids and say "hold the damn ball with two hands!" Ooo, maybe Brian Lachore could do it.
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Oh and remember that they shave you beforehand, but don't wax! The hair needs to have the sharp edge to poke up through the resulting scab, otherwise you'll get in ingrown hair in your tattoo.
And to juxtapose the literary tattoos, Science Tattoos
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another great bit of advice from years ago was someone telling me that you can't have booze or drugs for 24hours before and after getting tatts.
"badly effects the look of the ink".
I asked my tattooist if it was alright to drink after and she said it was fine. But before is a huge no-no. She wouldn't even let me drink Red Bull because it thinned the blood too much.
Which makes the drunk tattoo an even wrose idea, plus the kind of tattooist who'll let you get a tattoo when your drunk probably isn't the best.
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take your time between tatts and make them mark a moment, an event, or a watershed, not a whimsy. all of my tatts are deeply personal.
My technique is totally different. I want something pretty on me. I pick a place, I carefully consider the image, then I get it. I really couldn't stand waiting around for a life event.
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Here's one of the more inventive tattoos I've seen recently, by Dan Hazleton.
That's really nice (apart from the ripped skin which I'm not keen on)
I suppose I should also mention local tattoo zine: the Tattooed Heart. I like the Top Ten Worst Celebrity Tattoos
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For all that it's only about two inches high, the top of it pretty much hurt not at all, but the very bottom - on the 'fleshier' part of my chest, was a bit stingy. I have a friend who has a pentacle in much the same place and she had the same experience. I've no idea if that's different for men, but it does seem to contradict that 'over the bone hurts more' thing.
The "a" in "amy" on my chest is almost on my sternum, and that was painful.
Not as painful as the inside of my elbow, which was not as painful as my collarbone, which was not as painful as the outside of my elbow (which seriously felt like she had set my arm on fire*).
*tattoos are cool, get them, don't mind the pain.
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Much to my surprise, the actual tattooing experience was a delight, and one I recommend enthusiastically to other people.
Which is interesting considering where you got it.
My first tattoo (it was just the outline, the stars and colour came later) was an awful experience.
I was being filmed for a media-school end of year project. So big hot lights and about six people in the room with me, my partner, and the tattooist. Said Tattooist was a bit of an arsehole and was incredibly rough (something I only realised when I got other tattoos later). He had only done the flames when I passed out. Everyone in the room freaked out (except the tattooist who caught me). I woke up, threw up, skulled a can of coke, took a breather and then...carried on.
It took me three years to get the courage to get the colour and shading done in the rocket. That was easy, and I spoke to the tattooist (a girl this time) who knew my first guy and she confirmed that he was a bit of a dick.
A year later I got the stars. They were done by Liesje at Illicit (here's the post I wrote about her for the Aucklandista). She was brilliant at it so in 2007 I got her to do this. Not shown are the flowers on my back, shoulder and chest and the "Amy" on my chest. That pic is after my third session (18hours). I've got six hours left and it'll be done.
Liesje is awesome go see her. I definitely recommend her (and the other Adam Sacred crew).
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It would be cool to set up a PAS group on Last.FM so all this playlist playing could be shared and seeing a Top 20 for PAS would be kind of interesting as well.
So you're saying I need to sign up to Last.fm? I used to listen to Pandora at a previous place of work, until they were all like "would you mind not eating up all of our internet with your streaming music?"
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but when I'm out walking in public I like to be aware of what's around me rather than shut off in my own world
I love walking with music because I harbor fantasies that everyone will suddenly burst into song and dance (Fou de Fa Fa!).
those crazy Scandinavians
Sorry, who?
the pirate bay