We continue the occasional series wherein Winston expounds on things that currently make him happy. Tired of election billboards of people looking like psycho killers? Let Winston put a smiley face by the side of your road.

121) Everything is Awesome!

You better believe it! Everything is great when you're part of a team! If these words leave you baffled and confused then you clearly haven't watched The Lego Movie! And if that's the case you've been missing out! The Lego Movie is a movie so awesome that it requires an exclamation mark every time you write a sentence about it!

I confess that I actually took a bit of convincing about this. Lego? Seriously? Then, in the UK, The Guardian had a vote for 'Best Film of the First 6 Months of 2014” (they're going to need some snappier award titles) and who was top of the heap? Yep, The Lego Movie, beating out the absolutely wonderfully brilliant Grand Hotel Budapest and some other really good films.

And why? Because, as the insanely catchy theme song says... Everything is Awesome! Clearly made by people with severe Ritalin addiction the film is so colourful, so fast, so subversive and so absolutely bonkers that it demands repeated viewing. After which you will need an extensive lie-down.

Trust me. Trust The Lego Movie. Everything is awesome!

122) All We Hear is Radio Ga Ga!

I don't listen to radio from the Bay. It's not that they refuse to play local music. It's not that there is a mere one (1) breakfast show that still bothers to broadcast from Tauranga. It's because I hate ads. And radio is the last bastion where ads are forced upon you. You can fast forward them on telly; you can ignore them in a newspaper; you can even skip them - after 5 seconds - on YouTube. But on radio...

So I listen to National Radio. No ads, intelligent talk and occasionally interesting music. But sometimes National gets a bit... how should I put it... boring (sorry Simon Mercep). And I've finally found the perfect back-up station, right here in Tauranga! I think.
105.4FM probably has a name but I don't know what it is. It's an Indian radio station. It plays music like I've never heard and it is both baffling and inspiring. I would seriously recommend any musician looking for new ideas to tune in immediately. The music is both familiar – I hear great slide guitar, cool grooves, choruses, all instantly recognisable – as well as weird: strange scales, unusual melodies, surprising rhythms and a bunch of musical ideas that I'd never get from more regular music. Seriously, this will open (and possibly blow) your mind.

Of course, it is commercial, so it has ads. But even the ads have a certain hyperactive insanity to them. It's almost impossible to work out what they're advertising or, sometimes, if they are even ads...

123) It's Art and I Like It!

So there. None of this wishy-washy 'I don't know if it's art but...”. The Tauranga Art Gallery has a whole bunch of art right now and you're doing yourself a disservice if you don't haul your tired eyes along for a gander.

Exhibit One: there's a big red piano. We've written about it in the Sun at least twice now. It still looks amazing. Exhibit Two: check out the six 'black” Ralph Hotere paintings on the walls next to the piano. To quote Spinal Tap's Nigel Tufnel: 'It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.” Exhibit Three: the NZ Trio. They're playing on Thursday 7. There'll be a bit of Beethoven and some obscure but very interesting stuff. Tickets are $25.

And Exhibit Four: ART101 – A Beginner's Guide. This current exhibition, a veritable A to Z of art, is simply fantastic! It features work from Rita Angus, Nigel Brown, Albrecht Durer, Marti Friedlander, Dick Frizzell, Frances Hodgkins, Colin McCahon, Pablo Picasso, Toss Woollaston, and many more. This could, possibly, be even better than The Lego Movie. Everything is indeed awesome.

See it today; take your kids tomorrow.