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Posted at 4:17pm Friday 09th Mar, 2012 | By Winston Watusi
We continue the occasional series wherein Winston expounds on things that currently make him happy.
43: It’s time for passionfruit! Passionfruit are cool. Now in season and black and increasingly wrinkly. I like to eat them by the bucketload while watching television, and the glistening orange pulp and sexy little seeds are a thing of beauty spooned...
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Posted at 4:08pm Friday 24th Feb, 2012 | By Winston Watusi
It’s Oscar time again! And all I can say this year is that the Oscars are rubbish.
I dunno what it is about the Academy. Every year they try and retool the event to attract bigger viewing numbers for the ceremony, and every year they make it worse and worse.
A couple of years ago they increased the number of films nominated. That came after a...
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Posted at 3:00pm Friday 17th Feb, 2012 | By Winston Watusi
 The other day during a rambling conversation I realised that this week marks the 450th column I’ve written at The Weekend Sun. I tend not to dwell on the past too much; or even remember it too well.
I wrote my first column here back in 2003 and I have no idea what it was about; probably some declaration of principles and a quick joke.
It’s...
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Posted at 11:47am Friday 10th Feb, 2012 | By Winston Watusi
 “I love to speak with Leonard, He’s a sportsman and a shepherd, He’s a lazy bastard living in a suit.”
So starts Leonard Cohen’s new album, one of the most perfect opening (half) stanzas one can imagine. Now in his mid-70s, Cohen provides a new pencil sketch of himself that manages at the same time to be witty and self-deprecating...
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Posted at 4:17pm Friday 03rd Feb, 2012 | By Winston Watusi
 February already, and I hope for many musicians and gig organisers that it’s less wet than January.
The Credence boys had a clear time of it with their two concerts at Mills Reef last weekend and for Waitangi weekend the organisers of Summerfest will be hoping for the same. I’ve written quite a lot about Summerfest over the past few weeks...
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Posted at 4:31pm Friday 27th Jan, 2012 | By Winston Watusi
 I get continually more confused by this issue of piracy on the old interweb, especially now that New Zealand has hit the international news.
That the media jumped on the police side after the arrest of Kim Dotcom was hardly a surprise.
Now we have Winston Peters leaping aboard the bandwagon, which should be a warning to everyone.
It reminds me of a...
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Posted at 11:12am Monday 23rd Jan, 2012 | By Winston Watusi
 News that this weekend’s Big Day Out will be the last one must be a worry for festival promoters throughout New Zealand. The 18-year-old event has given up the race for purely financial reasons – it just doesn’t make enough money to continue.
The big question is whether this is specific to the Big Day Out, whether their structure was...
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Posted at 3:04pm Friday 13th Jan, 2012 | By Winston Watusi
One of the most exciting new events this year, the Summer Fest, is already gearing up in preparation for its celebration of local sounds.
In case you missed it, Summer Fest will take place on February 5 at Blake Park and includes music from Stan Walker, Midnight Youth, The Deeds, Nine Mile Stone, Swamp Thing and more. And you gotta hope that by February...
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Posted at 3:56pm Friday 06th Jan, 2012 | By Winston Watusi
 Perhaps it was because New Year’s Eve was so damp, but it didn’t really seem like the expected party, and I didn’t have the all-terrain vehicle needed to make it to the Exodus Festival in Papamoa.
But I’ve had reports and it sounds like the event was a fantastic end to one year and start to another. I take my hat off to Tim Cooper...
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Posted at 4:43pm Thursday 22nd Dec, 2011 | By Winston Watusi
 It’s Christmas, no point in trying to deny it now. I know how busy everyone is – thank you for taking the time to join me for this year’s final column.
And since it’s Christmas I thought I’d share some of the various snippets of trivia that have burrowed their way into my brain in the past week or so.
Frankly, given how...
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