Day SixtySix of being Aflickionless...

After not rolling in the door till about 4.30am Maz never got to bed till almost 5.30am. So she slept all day...well till around 2pm.

Hell must of froze over this morning because Tina, Matt and the kids went to church. WTF? They never go to church, but somehow they were talked into go by Matt's dad.

Other than that nothing much to report on today.

With swine flu cases soaring in New Zealand and schools resuming tomorrow, health officials are advising teachers and students to stay home if they are sick. In New Zealand there are now 2255 confirmed cases of swine flu (Influenza A H1N1) and the virus has led to the deaths of 10 people.

An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale shook Hawke's Bay about noon today. The quake was centred 40km south of Hastings, at a depth of 50km at 12.03pm, GNS science reported. It was felt in the Hawke's Bay.

Blue Chip co-founder Mark Bryers has racked up another debt - this time $11.2 million to Westpac. The High Court last week awarded summary judgment to Westpac NZ Ltd against Bryers after he guaranteed a company debt.

A man who was fatally hit by a car outside a hospital emergency department lay injured for nearly 24 minutes before an ambulance transported him inside. Ross Stuart Andrew, 54, was hit outside Waitakere Hospital in Henderson, West Auckland, just before 8.15am on July 9. He died in North Shore Hospital two days later. Police said Andrew was walking across the hospital's access road when he was hit by a car turning into the site. A witness called 111 and an ambulance was dispatched from central Auckland.

Celebrated Kiwi painter Frances Hodgkins has joined Beethoven, Hemingway and Rembrandt - by having a crater on Mercury named after her. The Hodgkins crater is among 16 discovered by Nasa's Messenger spacecraft last October. All such landforms on the closest planet to the sun are named after dead artists, authors and musicians. The names are suggested by members of the Messenger team, the public and the International Astronomical Union.

A Kiwi flight attendant has been at the centre of an internet controversy while competing for a spot on the New York Knicks cheerleading squad. Melissa Rodriguez, 27, auditioned to become the 18th member of the Knicks City Dancers and made it to the final two. Fans were then asked to vote for their favourite. The winner is due to be announced by the end of tomorrow. However organisers wiped all the votes for both contestants after allegations were made that Rodriguez was cheating, according to a fan site run by her brother. She was alleged to have told people how to set up an automatic vote for her on the site.

THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO AWW...
The long-lost love who stole Hank Hartel's heart has been found. The 69-year-old Australian was searching for New Zealander Jan Grace, whom he met on a ship from England in 1965.
Hank was thrilled to learn Jan contacted the Herald on Sunday after his story appeared last week. "It's beautiful," he said. "It'll be nice just to be able to send her an email." Jan, who has been happily married for 40 years and has two adult children and four grandchildren, said she remembered Hartel well. "A lovely, sincere, handsome young man with a good sense of humour,"she said. "We shared a lot of fun and good times until he left the ship in Melbourne to start his new life in Australia."

SLIGHTLY TWISTED
How do you know that your gf is really hot?

When you stick your hands down her pants and it feels like youre feeding a horse

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 13 °C
Min: 9°C (overnight)
Humidity: 79%
Passing showers. Fresh westerlies. (Translation: wind, showers, bit chilly)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Just over 5days till Body Art Awards and Maz isn't stressed!

DAILY FOF MOMENT
No fail, besides Maz still having a plague and not putting two & two together. FAIL just for having a lame/no fail!!!

Day SixtyFive of being Aflickionless...

This is being written on Sunday evening as we weren't around last night.

Russell worked at Ginger Minx (Yay), so Maz spent the night hanging out there. There was an All Blacks game on at Eden Park, so it was a whole different crowd to normal...lots of rugby heads. And you know what time we rolled in the door from there.
Maz was highly productive while there though, worked on her concept designs (shading & drawing the designs for the arms) and got a shoe order. YAY!

Tonight also marked 4months open for Ginger Minx!!!

Uber-cool New York band MGMT will DJ a fundraising night in Auckland for recovering Kiwi musician Chris Knox. The 56-year-old, known as the godfather of left-field New Zealand rock, had a major stroke last month and was admitted to Auckland City Hospital. He was discharged about two weeks ago and has since been undergoing speech therapy and work on relearning motor skills.

A convicted Rotorua policeman is still a sworn officer receiving full pay, despite being found guilty of choking his wife unconscious.

An 11-year-old boy has been shot dead while he and a cousin played with an unsecured high-powered rifle.

SLIGHTLY TWISTED
What do you call a dead baby, a rat, 6 week old bread and a gherkin?

A Big Mac

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 14 °C
Min: 10°C (overnight)
Humidity: 63%
A few showers and fine breaks. Strong southwest. (Translation: some rain, some cloud, some sun...a mixed up day really)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
That Maz used her brain before going out and saved the forecast.

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Forgetting how bad traffic and parking would be around the Minx last night, and having to park two streets up. FAIL!!!

Day SixtyThree of being Aflickionless...

Maz has been a busy beaver today. She had an interview for the North Shore Times this afternoon, had a wardrobe fitting for Legend of the Seeker, then it was off to look at washing machines (Tina's one is broken) and then FINALLY at long last it was back home to start working on stuff for the Body Art Awards. 9 days to go now and she is still laxed about the whole thing.

JayJay had a customer today called No Moon Soon. For real and that spelling isn't made up either. She has also been served at the post office all week by the same person, Cartia, like the asprin tablet. What's with the weird names?
JayJay also had somebody ask her if she got a new tattoo and what it meant, because of the placement of the JadedSphnix logo on her Facebook profile picture.

Lots happening in the news today so lets get to it...

Officials are today checking for damage after a huge earthquake rocked parts of the South Island last night. People ran from restaurants in Queenstown as buildings shook and lights went out. Phone lines went down as people overloaded the lines. GNS recorded the quake as 7.8 magnitude at 9.22pm followed 20 minutes later by a 6.1 magnitude. The quake was followed by violent aftershocks felt as far north as Wellington. GNS seismologist Bill Fry said the aftershocks would last for the next few weeks.

The effects of the 7.8 earthquake and aftershocks that struck Fiordland last night were felt as far away as Australia. The quake, which was centred 100km northwest of Tuatapere and 12km deep, struck at 9.22pm and triggered an alert from the Pacific tsunami warning centre in Hawaii. In Sydney, a performance at Bondi Pavilion was cancelled and the theatregoers were evacuated, while other Sydney residents were warned to keep away from the water's edge. However, there was only a small surge of water, about 17cm high, and the tsunami warning was cancelled after its size was confirmed on arrival at Bluff at about 10.30pm.

A 10th person has died of swine flu, the Ministry of Health says. The latest death was a Gisborne man in his 40s with serious underlying medical conditions. (seems that everybody who has died from swine flu in NZ have all had underlying medical conditions)

A sharp-eyed prison officer foiled an attempt to have cannabis delivered to an inmate at Tongariro/Rangipo prison on the weekend. "One of our guys was on his way into work when he spotted what looked like a tupperware container tucked into the grass by the prison entrance," acting assistant regional manager Diane Brophy said. "The way the container was placed aroused suspicion so the Corrections officer stopped to investigate further. "Inside he found approximately an ounce of cannabis leaf - enough for several tinnies and considered a valuable commodity by some prisoners." While there was no indication of who the drugs were for it was likely somebody planted it for a prisoner on an outside work party to pick up later, Ms Brophy said.

A Queenstown schoolboy is facing possible suspension after creating an "abusive and derogatory" online quiz about his teachers on the social networking website Facebook. The quiz, littered with profanities, referred to one teacher as a drug user, while others were described as circus freaks, The Southland Times reported. The 15-year-old invited friends to compare themselves to staff members at Wakatipu High School by answering five questions.

A New Zealand man spent a "wretched" night in a Fiji prison cell after frightened residents and police raided his Freemasons meeting, suspecting witchcraft and sorcery. The man, who didn't want to be named, blamed "dopey village people" for the raid in which 14 members of the Freemasons Lodge of Lautoka were herded into police cars and jailed for the night. Police also seized lodge paraphernalia, including wands, compasses and a skull.

and if you haven't seen it already, the footage of the pepsi ad that Michael Jackson did in 1984 (the one where his hair caught fire) is below...

SIDESWIPPING IT
A reader writes: "A friend of ours thought he was pretty clever for finally finishing fencing the backyard so the new dog couldn't get out. A full day of hammering and sawing, doing 'man stuff' ... After the job was finished, his wife returned home to view the final product. She was overjoyed, but then asked, 'So you're not going fishing any more?' A confused hubby didn't get it, until his wife pointed out he had not only fenced in the dog, but the family boat and trailer as well. Nice one, Dave."

New Zealand actor Sam Neill has been fronting a pro-meat television ad saying red meat is a vital contributor to brain health and featuring lines such as, "Meat - you'd be silly not to eat it". This has angered Jason Baker, director of PETA Asia-Pacific, an animal ethics group, who sent him a letter suggesting alternatives, such as, "Meat: it's what's rotting in your colon". In a letter to Neill he says: "Seeing you pimp for an industry that is linked to the main killers of human beings as well as of animals is, well, sad ... Human beings don't have to die of meat-related causes, such as cancer of the bowel and colon, and hardened arteries."

SLIGHTLY TWISTED
How long does it take for a black woman to shit?

9 Months

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 15 °C
Min: 9°C (overnight)
Humidity: 93%
Fine. Westerlies turning northeast. (Translation: Sunny enough that there was a sunset...oOo...photo below)

taken from Maz's house in Bayview

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
There was a sunset *gasp*

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Maz & Russell stopped in at Gull this afternoon, Maz went in and paid and was in her own world walking back to the car. She didn't notice that Russell had pulled up near the entrance so she didn't have to walk as far and in her own little world walked towards the pump. Till Russell tooted. FAIL!!! and I'm sorry that's as good as we can do today for a fail.

Day SixtyTwo of being Aflickionless...

Lets see...it's July 15th which means that today is JayJay's birthday!!! Maz sent her a somewha annoying text this morning...basicially the Happy Birthday song but sent as it is sung (line by line).

CHECK IT OUT...LOVIN IT RIGHT NOW...


Amber made a complete dick of herself while at Denny's having breakfast with Hannah. She (Hannah) was telling Amber something about elk, and Amber was like "whats an elk?". Hannah was like "really? its a reindeer!". And then Amber looked like a dick by saying "whoa I thought reindeer were made up!!"

Maz was up at the crack of dawn (not even dawn) to boot Russell out of bed to drop Matt off at work. Then helped Tina get Jamie & Joelle ready to go on set for the first time, they were super excited. Domestic morning, washed dishes, cleaned windows (how thrilling). Took photos of Biccie & Doughnut pendants, they are now available to buy...YAY!!!

TVNZ has apologised for a swear word being repeatedly broadcast on One News last night. The F word featured in court footage from the Clayton Weatherston murder trial in Christchurch.

A man who watched his bus burn in front of him is unimpressed the fire communications centre did not know where Southland was. Greg Sayers was outside his family's partly converted small bus in Edendale, 39km northeast of Invercargill, when he noticed it was on fire and called 111, the Southland Times reported. The operator put him through to fire communications, but told him no one was answering, Mr Sayers said. The operator then tried a different number, but the new operator was unsure of where he was in the country, he said. "I said Edendale and she said 'where's that?' and I said Southland and she said 'where's that?"'Police have confirmed that as part of a review of equipment used by frontline officers some speed radars will be taken out of patrol cars and not all will necessarily be replaced. Frontline officers say they had been advised 400 Stalker detection units, which are leased, are to be removed from police vehicles as part of efforts to cut $21 million from the police operating budget. There are 1000 Stalker units in patrol cars around the country. Officers said they feared many speeding motorists would now escape without penalty.

SIDESWIPPING IT
A reader writes: "While heading north at the weekend I spotted a hitchhiker with a sense of humour hoping for a ride in the other direction. To up his chances of success he held a sign reading 'Won't kill you'. I have no doubt he would have been picked up in no time at all by a passerby or, if not, a marketing agency with a little foresight."

An American toddler did such a good job of hiding during a game of hide-and-seek that the family had to call police to help find her. Emergency crews and friends frantically searched the neighbourhood for an hour before the family dog found Natalie, 2. She had fallen asleep in a drawer underneath the washing machine.

SLIGHTLY TWISTED
How do you get a leper out of a bath tub?

With a sieve

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 15 °C
Min: 11°C (overnight)
Humidity: 89%
Cloudy spells. Late rain. Dying westerly. (Translation: Auckland weather being well...Auckland weather)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
10pm and Maz is thinking about bed...

DAILY FOF MOMENT
A couple of Tina's friends came over and failed when turning around in the drive. Mushy clay + car front left wheel = FAIL!!!

Day SixtyOne of being Aflickionless...

hmmmm...it's raining again and blogger is being a bit of an arse. Surprised? No. Well I'm not either.

Maz was meant to get some clear nail polish tonight, but ended up with two new t-shirts, two pairs of heels and a New Moon poster (as well as nail polish), she thinks she might have a wee problem.
In more productive news, Maz finished the cookie & doughnut pendants today and has also going to be getting interviewed for the North Shore Times about body art. Awesome huh?

An Auckland Prison visitor has been arrested after trying to smuggle in drugs and a cellphone in his shoes. The man was visiting the prison with a woman yesterday when a search revealed the contraband, prison manager Kelly Puohotaua said. "On the female visitor we found a cellphone, brand new, that she had no idea how to use ," he said. "The male visitor was picked up by the metal detector on his way to being searched, indicating an object possibly concealed in his shoes. "Staff began the rub down search and could strongly smell glue. The inner sole and outer heel of each of his shoes had been removed and cannabis and a cellphone packed inside them, before they were glued back together." The man was detained by staff until police arrived, arresting him and cautioning the woman.

Healthcare lobbyists have criticised the Government's funding cuts in the face of a report showing New Zealand is the third fattest nation in the developed world. They fear disease and complications caused by obesity will lead to higher healthcare costs in the future. The Health Care Data 2009 report, by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, focused on 30 nations. Of those that reported on weight issues, all showed they were getting fatter. The obesity rate among adults in New Zealand in 2007 was 26.5 per cent. This compared with figures reported the previous year by the United States at 34.3 per cent and Mexico at 30 per cent.

Giving Maori title over the seabed and foreshore could result in charges for commercial recreational activities, such as surfing or surfcasting competitions, says a controversial legal academic. David Round, a law lecturer at the University of Canterbury, said that if any form of title was given to Maori - or anyone other than the Crown - it was likely iwi could charge for any commercial use of that area.

Television and film producer John Barnett supports the concept of a super city but doesn't want the film industry to be its first casualty. He fears that might happen if diversity or suburban identities disappear under a bland, single-brand Auckland Council. Barnett says he is concerned the "holistic" environment in Waitakere city for the film industry, where his company South Pacific Pictures is based, might be affected by local government reorganisation.

SLIGHTLY TWISTED
Did you hear Vaseline is coming out with new labels for its petroleum jelly?

They're going to have a picture of missing gerbils on it.

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 13 °C
Min: 9°C (overnight)
Humidity: 84%
Rain with gusty northwesterlies. (Translation: and the rain came AGAIN!!!)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
How much shopping Maz has been doing...

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Tina was about to post a letter off. Thing is she hadn't written the address on it or who the sender was, but at least it had a stamp right? FAIL!!!

Day Sixty of being Aflickionless...

MY SQUIREL IS CUTER

(well I'd like to think so)

NO NOT THAT SQUIREL...the one below

Maz slept like a retard monkey last night, so has felt like that she should be wearing a neckbrace all day. But it did stop her from painting the doughnuts or going shopping...a fine form corset top for herself and a couple of dvd's (Edward Scissorhands & Nightwatch)...AND two hoodies & a t-shirt for Russell. One of the hoodies reads "SINGLE...ish". Naughty Maz!

JayJay is still finding blue paint on her...surprise, surprise. Today it was blue snot...how I have no idea, especially since she wasn't airbrushed. She must of been snotting smurfs or something.

The winning tender for Auckland's $406 million Victoria Park tunnel project has been announced. It has been won by the consortium 'V Formation, made up of Fletcher Construction, Beca Engineering, Higgins Contractors and Australian consultancy Parsons and Brinckerhoff. Building of the "cut and cover" tunnel will start no later than March 2010 and Fletcher Construction said the whole plan could be completed in time for the 2011 Rugby World Cup.

Bewildered passengers found the platforms unusually green and springy at Britomart Station in Auckland yesterday, after the concrete floor was temporarily transformed into a "meadow". A milk company spent all night laying 1250sq m of grass - ready to greet the first train of travellers that arrived just after 7am. The station remained open throughout the day of filming for eight Meadow Fresh commercials. One train driver spent all day driving in and out of the station amid the actors, buttercups, bushes and grass needed for the advertisements. Northcote Intermediate students will be next to walk on the grass. It will be laid between new classrooms being built at the school.

A 50-year-old Mt Maunganui woman died after lying for hours in a roadside ditch between Tauranga and Te Maunga during heavy rain early yesterday. The woman was a passenger in a car travelling along State Highway 2 towards Te Maunga - or 'The Mount' - when about one kilometre past the Maungatapu bridge from Tauranga she asked to make a toilet stop. She got out, climbed over the metal crash barrier on the roadside and is thought to have fallen, ending up lying in the ditch. It is believed she had been drinking.

Next Magazine announced the winner of the fiction section of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards - before the judges have even made their decision! The magazine published who it believed had won the fiction category in the August edition of its magazine.

The number of people claiming the unemployment benefit has topped 50,000 - almost three times the 17,710 at the same time last year. Aucklanders account for almost half of the increase. About 15,000 more are on the dole than in June last year.

SIDESWIPPING IT
The Most Memorable Kiwi One-Liners: Get a perm (Instant Kiwi ad); Bugger (Toyota ad); You're not in Guatemala now, Dr Ropata (early Shortland Street); Beached as, bro (Australian web animation making fun of the Kiwi accent); That is a moustache on a lady (Paul Henry, Breakfast); Start a group (Paul Henry, Breakfast); That's how John Rowles (Dancing with the Stars); O for awesome (David Tua); Jeez Wayne! (McPhail and Gadsby); Front bums (what John Tamihere calls the ladies).

A reader who went to Moyes in Panmure with his 67-year-old mother wasn't impressed with the service. "She was looking at a Suzuki Swift. I test-drove a car and said I would go away and think about it and the salesman told me and my mother to 'f*** off' and go and waste someone else's time. I complained but heard nothing back. Great service from a so-called reputable car yard. Mother bought a new Suzuki Swift, but not from Moyes."

About 200 pre-teens in London were given pedometers to count how many steps they walked, as part of a study into obesity. The study required 11- and 12-year-olds to clip a pedometer to their waists, with researchers at the Mile End Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine collecting the readings by satellite. Researchers were surprised by the activity levels recorded in some obese children; further investigation revealed some had attached their pedometer to their family pets.

SLIGHTLY TWISTED
Me not silly, me not dumb. Me stick cork up dogs bum!

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 13 °C
Min: 3°C (overnight)
Humidity: 78%
Fine. Southwesterlies dying away. (Translation: cold, but sunny. So really a nice winters day...)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
That Maz now has Russell & Tina both doing little bits and pieces in her bid to take over the world...

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Maz slept like a retard monkey, so has a sore neck and back...FAIL!!!

Day FiftyNine of being Aflickionless...

We've hit it...can you believe it, we are at the...

HALFWAY POINT!

It seems like you have been gone a lot longer that 59days. Although now that you are halfway it is going to go alot quicker...that's how it normally works. Maz worked on making some cookie pendants today, they will be super cute like the doughnut pendants. Fun times.

Amber is currently working on a new track for Codeine Like Candy, it's the one with the weird male voice in the background. However since Amber doesn't believe in ghosts "it's some weird frequency thing that i cant explain right now".
It's all very weird. But what's weirder still is that she heard the voices when her headphones were off and the song wasnt even playing. She thought it was someone outside, then thought i was going skitso...but then Lauren heard it too. Amber didn't tell anyone about it and when they were having band practice and Lauren was like "who sings those male vocals in there?"

JayJay learnt (well tv taught her) today that when milk carton's die, they go to heaven. I don't know what she was watching but I think she could of been watching Blue - Coffee & TV...

A New Zealand taekwondo athlete has opened a brothel to help fund his bid to compete at the 2012 London Olympics, local media reported Sunday. Logan Campbell, 23, told the Sunday Star-Times newspaper he hoped his Auckland "gentleman's club," which provided escort services, would help him raise about $300,000 toward his London Games campaign.

A morbidly obese man so big he had to be cut out of his home for hospital treatment could have been lying there for days. Eight firefighters and three ambulance officers were called on to get the man, who is believed to be in his 50s, out of the second storey of his Rotorua home. The team lowered the man - estimated by one firefighter to weigh 400kg - to the ground with a forklift after cutting a hole in the wall. They manoeuvred him to the forklift by dragging him across the ground on a sheet. "We got him on to the back of a truck, which a member of the public kindly offered to drive, because he wouldn't fit in the ambulance," said firefighter Derryn Davidson. Senior Station Officer Jim Prescott said the man could have been lying on the ground for days after falling and being unable to get up or help himself. Because he had made his home in a workshop in an industrial area, it was likely no one knew he was there.

Scott Dixon has a little girl racer in his life - although she did make a slightly premature start. New Zealand's Indy Car champion and wife Emma are the proud, first-time parents of Poppy Davies Dixon, born in Indianapolis this week at a healthy 6lb 8oz (2.95kg).

The number of deaths involving swine flu has risen to seven, after a Taranaki man who died earlier this week was confirmed as having the illness.

Highly skilled military pilots are flying Air New Zealand-owned passenger aircraft to boost their training. Air Force pilots Jonathan Pound and Rudyard Andrew, both in their early 20s, are working as first officers on Air Nelson flights, flying 50-seat Q300 Bombardiers between Blenheim, Wellington and Nelson. The loan is part of a trial between Air New Zealand, which owns Air Nelson, and the RNZAF to help train pilots on "glass cockpit" aircraft.

Prince William may visit New Zealand next year after he let slip a planned Down Under tour that was meant to be top secret. The Daily Mail reported the 27-year-old prince accidentally told a teenage tourist he planned to visit Australia next year.

A bargain hunter has struck artistic gold after buying a $5 oil painting in a "nasty old frame" from a Whangarei charity shop. Swedish artist Edward Fristrom's A Breezy Day at Seatoun, Wellington was bought for $5 at the Whangarei Allsortz Hospice Shop and is now set to fetch more than $7000 in an online auction. The shop raises money for North Haven Hospice, which is now reviewing its art assessment policy after the valuable painting slipped under its radar.

and surprise, surprise Tony Veitch's former partner, Kristin Dunne-Powell, is now "speaking out" about the events that happened. First with the Herald today and next with television. YEAH...MILK IT!!!

SLIGHTLY TWISTED
How do you make a 5 year old cry twice?
Wipe your bloody dick on its favourite teddy bear

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 12 °C
Min: 5°C (overnight)
Humidity: 62%
Cloudy. Strong southeasterlies. (Translation: cold, wet...seems to be the norm)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Why was Lenny dressed up at 7 of 9 on the Simpsons tonight? mmmmm 7 of 9...

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Nick not remembering his phone call with JayJay last night about being stuck on K Road. Nick not texting through a number and JayJay waking up Corey when getting back to the house cause the dog decided to go nuts. Oh and JayJay having to wash the body paint off herself...
UBER FAIL!

Day FiftySix of being Aflickionless...

What a productive day it was today for Maz. She handed in the physical copy of her NZ Body Art Award concepts (& payment), posted off her Style Pasifika designs (& payment), PLUS she has sculpted two Om Nom Nom's today as well (possibly may make more tonight). Maz also went to Spotlight again and spent a further $20 on lace, ribbon, string of pearls and gold 'rope' (stuff for the Kinky Slinkybody paint & Body Art Awards). She even picked up a 'stick' at Mitre 10, so she can make the weapon for Body Art Awards. FUN TIMES!!!

Check out The Rapping Flight Attendant as well. Wouldn't that be frickin awesome!?!


The weather was warm enough for some girls today to be out in shorts and singlets. It was a wonderful sight driving along Wairau Road, but you must remember...it's the school holidays, it could be wrong to be looking at them.

Oh and the kids spotted Maz in the 2Degree advert. Orange shirt, white scarf! woot!

The swine flu death toll has officially reached six with a seventh case unconfirmed.

One of Auckland's most popular summer events is at risk after its major sponsor yesterday pulled hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding. The SkyCity Starlight Symphony - which has been running for the past 17 years - is in limbo as its promoters look for a new sponsor. SkyCity - the naming-rights sponsor for 11 years - has announced it will no longer fund the show.

While some females would argue this has long been the case, British fertility researchers are on track to proving it, having created sperm using stem cells from an embryo. Scientists at the Northeast England Stem Cell Institute say that with some minor adjustments, the technique could theoretically be used to fertilise an egg to create a child - taking real men out of the equation.

John Key says the "door is wide open" for former All Black Michael Jones to stand for National if he decides he wants to be an MP. Mr Jones is on the Prime Minister's trip to the Pacific, as is Va'iga Tuigamala. Mr Key said he had tried to encourage Mr Jones to stand in 2008, but he had chosen not to for family reasons. He said if Mr Jones changed his mind, "the door is wide open".

The bodies of a man and a woman have been found outside a Rotorua address after a fatal shooting this afternoon. The incident took place in Rotorua's Sunset Rd. A police spokesperson said the two victims were not shot by police. Traffic is being diverted from the area.

A Maori cloak and a diamond-studded silver fern are among some of the Queen's most treasured gifts to be displayed in London this month.

The Queen and Commonwealth: The Royal Tour exhibition will run in Buckingham Palace from July 26 to September 30, displaying gifts given to the Queen on her various trips around the world. They include a cloak presented to her by Maori chiefs in 1953 when she visited Arawa Park in Rotorua. The Queen was invested as a Maori chieftain and given the brown kiwi-feather cloak as well as a korowai - a flax cape covered in tassles. A diamond-studded fern brooch gifted to her by the Women of Auckland group on Christmas Day 1953 will also be displayed, as will the intricately patterned dress she wore for the state opening of Parliament on a 1963 visit to New Zealand. Other gifts from the Pacific in the exhibition will include traditional handheld fans from Tuvalu, a Fijian whale tooth necklace and an Aboriginal carving from Australia.

And to international news...

John "Junior" Gotti has lost another attempt to be freed on bail before his New York trial on racketeering charges. Judge Kevin Castel rejected his latest bid during a hearing on Wednesday afternoon in federal court in Manhattan. Gotti's defence lawyers had asked Castel to free him on bail while he awaits a trial in September.Prosecutors have accused Gotti of being involved in three slayings in the late 1980s and early 1990s and possessing and trafficking more than 5 kilograms of cocaine. His three previous trials have ended with hung juries and mistrials.

Police say a 22-year-old worker died after falling into a vat of boiling chocolate in New Jersey. The accident happened at a plant owned by Lyons and Sons in Camden.Police tell WPVI-TV in Philadelphia that the chocolate was being mixed

It is Australia's national gemstone, mined in the deserts of the Outback and prized worldwide for its brilliant plays of light and colour. But the opal industry is struggling, with the market flooded with synthetic stones and demand plunging thanks to the global recession. The situation is so dire that the world's only tertiary-level course in opal cutting, in the South Australian mining town of Coober Pedy, has just been scrapped. Stuart Jackson, who founded the course 20 years ago, said yesterday: "Opal is a luxury item and times are tough. You can't eat it, you don't need it, so people aren't buying it." Coober Pedy calls itself the "Opal Capital of the World", but even there, shops in the dusty main street are selling synthetic stones, made from plastic and silica and imported into Australia, mainly from Japan.

U2 and Bono's long-held commitment to "save the planet" has been questioned after it emerged they have a combined carbon footprint big enough to fly the band the distance from the Earth to Mars. The Irish rockers have campaigned to fight poverty and Aids in Africa and Bono called on the world's population to take better care of their planet. Speaking in Tokyo last year he said: "My prayer is that we become better in looking after our planet." However, according to an environmentalists' website, the band's 100-date 18-month world tour will see the multi-millionaires clock up 70,000 air miles (113,000km) in their private jet.

One's a rising soccer star. The other's a self-described jealous boyfriend. One had no physical evidence linking him to a rape. The other had matched DNA and teeth marks. One's black. The other's white. One was convicted. The other was never a suspect.
Please check out the story here and Digg it or Twitter a link to it #FreeEric. It hasn't had much publicity at all, just a single story on ESPN.

HAWT RIGHT NOW
Beyonce has a new track out and it is HAWT. Awesome, awesome hook! Check out the video clip below.


SLIGHTLY TWISTED (BY MISS CADAVER)
A dyslexic kid sold his soul to Santa

SIDESWIPPING IT
An empty billboard is an ugly thing in a recession and a tempting canvas for taggers, but a group of street artists from Cut Collective have come up with a great idea to brighten up unbooked billboard space. Together with billboard company OGGI, the Cut Collective will add its street art on empty billboard spaces around Auckland. The first artwork, measuring a massive 6m x 3m, will be auctioned on Trade Me, with the proceeds going to Kenzies Gift, a charity supporting families of children with cancer. Come on, corporate Auckland with large dull foyers, dig deep!

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 13 °C
Min: 2°C (overnight)
Humidity: 84 %
Fine, with light southeasterly winds. (Translation: It was a beautiful day, the sunset even had colour *gasp*)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Maz had a productive day for once *gasp*

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Maz shaking her ass at Russell while opening the door and Tina opening the door at the sametime to snap her. FAIL!

Day FiftyFive of being Aflickionless...

(Adam) Freeland...check that shit out!!! Click here!!! So hawt today.
now there is a reason behind knowing about Freeland, PEREZ! But anywho apparently Black Eyed Peas have stolen a sample of the song "Mancry" by Freeland. According to reports, B.E.P. member and producer Will.I.Am was at an event last year where Freeland performed this song in question. The B.E.P "version" is called "Party All The Time" and is to be on their new album The E.N.D. We will have to see what happens.

Let's see...Maz was up at the crack of dawn (it wasn't even dawn, it was still dark outside) to watch the Michael Jackson Memorial on TV, and she was surprised that it wasn't the circus that she was expecting it would be. It was like a normal funeral service, but with a few thousand more people. Beautifully done.
Maz has finished all of her designing now (both NZ Body Art and Style Pasifika are down). This afternoon she went and picked up the fabric needed (SPOTLIGHT)...one of the fabrics was $26.99 per meter, Maz is rather shocked that she paid it and all up spent close to $80 on fabric for what is basicially a skirt. While in Spotlight though Maz found these things called Face Paint Sticks...and began to think. They are basicially like a crayon but paint. Could possibly make life a lot easier and very interesting. Bring on the competition!!!

Nine Wellington bus drivers have been sacked for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars in fares, but they won't face charges if they repay the money, bus company Go Wellington says. The drivers were fired over the past three months for stealing at least $20,000 between May and June, the Dominion Post reported.

More New Zealanders are cutting their spending because of the recession but the dollars they do spend are going on food, fashion and fun, a survey shows.

The cost of living in Auckland is cheap compared with major cities measured in a global survey. Out of the 143 cities measured by consultancy firm Mercer, Auckland placed 138th, down from 78th in 2008. Mercer's 2009 Worldwide Cost of Living survey compares the cost of housing, transport, food and other goods, and is used an indicator for compensation for companies who send their employees abroad.

SIDESWIPPING IT
One way to keep those Swine Flu carriers away: "You wash your coffee mug and leave it to dry in the office kitchen. Next thing you know, Nasty Joe from three cubes down is using your coffee mug. Our Dirty Mug is sure to fend off other people. Even when it's clean it looks ... well, dirty. No one will ever steal your mug again." (PerpetualKid.com)

Megan writes: "It's nice to know that Post Haste Drivers sign for your parcels themselves. But rather than asking your name or letting you sign it yourself, they use nicknames. A driver I encountered signed me as 'Old Lady'. I am 24. Maybe he shouldn't be driving if he thought I looked that old."

SLIGHTLY TWISTED (BY MISS CADAVER)
Whats the difference between a baby and a sandwich?

You dont fuck a sandwich before you eat it

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 14 °C
Min: 4°C (overnight)
Humidity: 89 %
Few showers possible. Westerly breezes. (Translation: It was cloudy, I don't remember seeing any rain.)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Tina doing a little dance at Pizza Hut, Wairau Road to some song on Futurama..."Jimmy got something and I don't care..."

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Maz got her hair caught on a nail this morning. Russell had to un-hook her, or though Tina thought it would be funny to leave Maz there for a bit justtofuck with her. FAIL!

Day FiftyFour of being Aflickionless...

Let's see...hmmm...Tina went and signed up for Fresh Talent today (same agent that Maz & Dee are with). Now I realise that you haven't met Tina yet, but I'm sure you will at some point.
When Maz & Tina went to the supermarket they were being dicks while waiting in the line...Maz was doing the "You know you want me" dance, but what Tina didn't tell her is that the lady infront of them was looking at Maz like she was on crack or something. Then while being served the checkout girl was looking at Maz & Tina like they were a couple and smiling to herself. Was a classic moment.

Topics of this evening: flaps, tits and ass!!!

And lookie, lookie what Maz got off TradeMe this evening. Hopefully she will have it very, very soon...and no the blonde doesn't come with it

JayJay called in sick to work today, which means that JayJay's mum thinks she must be dying and should move home for a week. I think she might have the swine...haha...or maybe its the crack *gasp*.
JayJay's set from National Anthems is FINALLY up on CityVibes and she also has a set up on the UPFM site.

Amber has discovered The Gossip, so is currently looking up remixes of their stuff. And she has yet MORE ink!!! This time...bats on her back.

Leading oil companies have dropped the price of petrol and diesel from this afternoon. The price of petrol has been cut by four cents making 91-octane $1.63.9 a litre, and 95-octane $1.69.9 a litre.

A young woman was groped by a flasher while walking to a city backpackers in Christchurch last night, police say. The 20-year-old woman was walking down Gloucester Street between Stanmore Road and Fitzgerald Ave about 10pm when she noticed a man outside a property near where she was headed. As she passed him, he undid the zip on his pants and exposed himself, before groping her from behind as she tried to open the backpackers' door. He ran off when she screamed. (not the right way to pick up chicks huh?)

Police are trying to work out the identity of a human jawbone found on a Christchurch beach. Dental records had confirmed the jawbone was not that of missing woman Tisha Lowry, Christchurch police Detective Senior Sergeant Virginia Le Bas said. Ms Lowry was last seen on September 25 after waving goodbye to her grandfather at the Bower Tavern in suburban New Brighton.

Three of Auckland Zoo's Bornean orang utans are moving to a Florida zoo this month, where they will take part in their captive breeding programme. Indra and Horst have been at the zoo for over 25 years, along with their 20-year-old daughter Intan. The Bornean orang utan only breeds once every 6-10 years and generally only produce one offspring. A public day to farewell the orang utans will be held at the zoo on 19 July.

They're known as Generation Y - today's older teens and 20-somethings, regarded as a self-obsessed lot who blow their pay packets as quickly as they text their friends. But two Waikato researchers say Generation Y is no more self-centred and fickle in the workplace than the generations before them.

Twelve people are now in New Zealand intensive care wards with swine flu. The number of people in hospital with the virus, influenza A (H1N1) was 47, and 12 of those were in intensive care, the Ministry of Health confirmed today. The number of confirmed cases of swine flu was now 1195, up from 1059 yesterday, she said.

Reverend Al Sharpton is using his Sunday appearance at The First A.M.E. Church in South Los Angeles to call for a U.S. Postage stamp honoring Michael Jackson, as well as national day of mourning. Sharpton faces a steep challenge in getting the stamp approved, as commemorative stamps cannot even be considered until 5 years after the subject's death, according to the U.S. Postal Service. The only exception to the rule is for deceased U.S. Presidents, who have traditionally been honored with a stamp released on their birthdays, following date of death. (so maybe little boys will be able to lick him even after death)

Little people are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to ban the use of the word "midget" on broadcast TV. The group Little People of America said Sunday the word is just as offensive as racial slurs. The request was prompted by an April episode of NBC's Celebrity Apprentice that the group said was demeaning. In the episode, contestants created a detergent ad called "Jesse James and the Midgets." The contestants, including Joan Rivers, suggested bathing little people in the detergent and hanging them to dry.

BECAUSE IT MADE ME LAUGH
I don't lknow if you have seen this or not, but I saw it for the first time last night and it made me crack up laughing...



LINE OF THE DAY
"Fuck my ass...hurts" - Tina, talking about her sore butt (for unknown reasons) on the way back from the supermarket
(please take note of the pause, which is what made it so effective)

SLIGHTLY TWISTED (BY MISS CADAVER)
Whats the difference between a dead baby and a trampoline?

You take your boots off to jump on a trampoline

TALKING WITH MOTHERS (BY MISS CADAVER)
Amber Cadaver says: got a review in a music magazine
Amber Cadaver says: 8/10
jan says: is that the name of the magazine
Amber Cadaver says: no mum
Amber Cadaver says: the name of the magazine is Nocturne

Awww bless 'em...

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 15 °C
Min: 8°C (overnight)
Humidity: 81 %
Cloud increasing and northwesterlies developing. (Translation: cloud...but nice day otherwise, didn't notice any rain)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Maz still has sore cheeks and a sore jaw...

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Maz lost her eyebrow jewerly somewhere between the bedroom and the Spartacus set yesterday and totally forgot until she went to bed last night, and then didn't remember again till just now. FAIL!

Day FiftyThree of being Aflickionless...

Maz spent the day on the set of Spartacus today, being bloody, wet, dirty and cold. It rainned inside even. Other than that very much in her own world.

The man at the centre of a three hour-long stand-off with police in Hamilton this morning has given himself up after police flew an officer from Auckland, armed with a taser. Acting Hamilton Area Commander Karen Henrikson said because Hamilton officers have not been issued with tasers, police officers were flown to Hamilton in the police helicopter from Auckland. Once the tasers were pointed at the man, he gave himself up.

A global "mega-colony" of Argentine ants is spreading through New Zealand, with evidence the pests are forming inter-nest alliances to dominate native species. The ants, which have invaded all continents except Antarctica thanks to human movements, are so closely related that nests refuse to attack each other, co-operating instead to overrun native species. Infestations of the 3mm, honey-brown pests were first reported in New Zealand in 1990. Now researchers say colonies from Northland to Christchurch come from such a small genetic pool that they treat each other as long-lost relatives.

Sorry short blog cause I'm a slack ass and have a sore head. You have to give me at least one night to be slack

SLIGHTLY TWISTED (BY MISS CADAVER)
Whats the difference between a bucket of sand and a bucket of menstral blood?

You can't gargle a bucket of sand

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 15 °C
Min: 8°C (overnight)
Humidity: 82 %
Passing showers, some thundery at first. Southwest winds. (Translation: Maz got wet but it wasn't the heavens opening up, however there were showers & Russell reported hail.)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
It was raining inside...how weird

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Maz has a sore head, jaw and throat from all the yelling and screaming she did on set today. FAIL!

Day FiftyTwo of being Aflickionless...

After the bank card phail last night Maz had to go into the bank this morning to get out cash and replace her bank card. She was totally surprised that they could replace it right then, rather than waiting, so that was super awesome.
After the trip to the bank Maz & Russell went up to In Hair to see Sally & Gene. They were doing head shaves in support of Dylan Ward to raise money for the cancer socity. Dylan has recently been diagnosed with Leukemia, his sister has started up a fanbook page too. Check it out here.
On the spur of the moment Maz decided that Russell was to shave his head...and that he did, thanks to Gene. So the goldy locks have gone, no more looking like a chick from behind now...haha.

Maz was also working on set as an extra today. She played a hooker...haha...was working hard for her money. No surprise it wasn't hard for her to dress like one. Red & Black lace dress, black coat, knee high boots, hoop earrings and some red lippy.
Oh yeah and the advert that Maz worked on the other week (for 2Degrees) and its up on YouTube, so check it out (Maz hasn't spoted herself in the crowd yet). Spartacus tomorrow (5.30am start).



JayJay's photos STILL aren't up. Hopefully they will be soon, it's been a week now (well just over).

Oh interesting video Maz found today. It's about the animatronics for the Hall of Presidents at Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort. Quite amazing how life like they look.



New Zealand Michael Jackson fans in three of the main centres have gathered to remember the king of pop. The memorial services were held yesterday in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Organiser Rose Van Wylich says New Zealanders needed a place to say goodbye. She says living so far away from Los Angeles, it was important people could gather together to support one another.

Some eastern areas of the South Island are experiencing heavy snowfall. Gerard Barry from MetService says around 15-20 centimetres of snow is forecast for the Canterbury foothills and south of the Rakaia River this morning. The Mt Hutt ski field has had to close for the day after around 20 centimetres of snowfall overnight and it is still snowing hard, with the access road closed because of the risk of avalanche. Mr Barry says snowfall is expected to continue until around midday.

Fair Go presenter Kevin Milne is battling a brain tumour which has taken him off air and left him fighting a "dreadful" lack of energy and enthusiasm. Although the tumour in the pituitary gland is benign, Milne may need surgery to protect his eyes and other parts of his brain.

Most people would shudder at the thought of seeing photos of their mother in lacy underwear and suspenders. Not Auckland student Michael - who twice tried to auction such saucy shots on Trade Me. The first time was to annoy his mother Jennifer after an argument. Her instruction to clear out the garage and sell unwanted items on Trade Me backfired when Michael started an auction titled "5 naked photos of my mum".It was removed by Trade Me the day after, but the 18-year-old posted a second series of "glamour photos" last Sunday - with Jennifer's approval. Although she was wearing more clothing, one was an underwear shot. The auction had more than 11,000 views before Trade Me removed it on Friday.

A Westport couple celebrated selling a queensize bed for $302,600 last night with a free historic six-bedroom guesthouse attached. Kathy Wahrlich and Wayne Saggers listed the bed and free house with a $1 reserve on online auction site Trade Me.

Twenty homes and a hospital were damaged when a tornado ripped through the Far North yesterday afternoon. Residents were evacuated as the twister made landfall at Ninety Mile Beach and left a trail of destruction as it headed south east through Kaitaia.

Next time you're enjoying a classic Kiwi dinner of fish and chips, think twice about what you're eating. New rules allow the import of frozen fillets of Vietnamese catfish or basa, a super-cheap species farmed in the polluted Mekong Delta. The move has raised concerns about health and the impact on the New Zealand fishing industry, and renewed debate on the need for compulsory country-of-origin labelling on food.

A Hamilton teenager with swine flu died at home without being diagnosed with the illness. He was one three New Zealanders to have died in the past week with swine flu more than likely to have been the cause, the Ministry of Health confirmed today. Zachary Wilson, 19, had been ill for three or four days but had not been to hospital before he died last Sunday

SLIGHTLY TWISTED (BY MISS CADAVER)
Whats the definition of disgusting?

Shoving 7 oysters up your grandma and sucking out 8

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 15 °C
Min: 8°C (overnight)
Humidity: 86 %
Showers, fine breaks. Fresh westerlies. (Translation: Fresh, indeed it was...but yet again, where the hell was that thundery weather?)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Russell has short hair and Maz is planning on going to bed early...

DAILY FOF MOMENT
We had hot dogs for dinner. Tina ate her first one and it was "mean", but on the last bite of it she thought she could smell perfume. She smelt the mustard and thought it smelt like perfume so was put off eating her second hot dog. Funny thing is, it didn't smell like perfume to the rest of us. FAIL!

Day FiftyOne of being Aflickionless...

Hmmmm Cirque du Soleil is back in town and the school holidays have come around again. Okay is it just me or does it seem like they are always on holiday?

Maz is off to see Transformers tonight (will either update after the movie, or it will be in tomorrows blog). UPDATED: Okay so Maz WAS meant to go see Transformers tonight, BUT after getting there and putting in the order her card decided it wouldn't read. Even tried the ATM and it wouldn't read...FUCKIN RAAAA!!! Russell had her card in his jacket, so Maz is thinking his keys scratched it to fuck (even though they were in the pocket infront). So now she has to manually withdraw money till she gets her new card.
Maz is also regreting have such big flippers after looking at shoes on TradeMe, why are all the cute or cool ones for little feet? She is in love with the two pairs of shoe below, BUT they are both size 7

However, she also kinda wishes her feet were bigger (see shoes below)

Besides drooling over shoes, Maz has also been working on a new painting. Below is the first look at it, titled "Opps, I threw up custard"

Michael Jackson stuff for sale on EBay...
Moonwalkingmichael.com (just the domain name). Buy now is $21,000,000.00
Michael Jackson autographed Moonwalk shoes...buy now $20,000,000.00
Heaps more stuff on there, its just nuts. And before we get into the daily news and keeping with the Michael Jackson theme, below is a tour of the Neverland Ranch.



New Zealand appears to have had its first swine flu deaths following confirmation today that three people who have died in the past week had the virus.

Up to 15 houses were left with missing roofing iron and tiling, along with broken windows, after what appeared to be a tornado ripped through Kaitaia this afternoon.

Health officials are working to contain a measles outbreak in Christchurch. Four teenagers at Christchurch Boys' High School have caught the potentially lethal infection, with a fifth case suspected.

How many Unilodge employees does it take to change a lightbulb? One, provided you pay them $12. This is the joke told by Canadian student Graeme Clarke who was not forced to pay only $6 to replace the blown lightbulb in his former bedroom but also a $12 "installation fee" after leaving his $275-a-week room at Unilodge, in Auckland's inner city.

A couple of infrequent visitors to New Zealand waters were spotted off Auckland's Milford Beach this week. Steve Barham photographed this southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) and her calf on their way to Whangaparaoa.

Massey University marine ecology lecturer Karen Stockin told the Weekend Herald the whales - considered an endangered species in New Zealand waters - were probably spending time in warmer, safer, coastal waters before the youngster made his first journey to sub-Antarctic feeding grounds. When fully grown, it could measure up to 18m and tip the scales at 117 tonnes. The calf could live up to 70 years.

The owner of a hotel in small west coast town has died after being punched in the face by a woman patron. David White, the owner of the Little Wanganui Hotel, which is 20kms south of Karamea, was fatally assaulted after trying to intervene in an argument between to females early on Friday morning.

Lockwood Smith has become the first Speaker of the House to be married at Parliament. Thirty-nine years after meeting his sweetheart, the pair finally tied the knot in a ceremony Mr Smith described as a fairytale.

MICHAEL JACKSON HUMOR
Michael Jackson's ashes with be made into a violin. they are going to call it the the kiddy fiddler.

Micheal Jackson did not die in hospital after a heart attack, really he was found in the childrens ward having a stroke.

The family of Michael Jackson is sewing the paramedics,they said he would have been just fine if they had brought him to a Children's Hospital.

Did you hear that Michael Jackson wanted to be cremated and put into an Etch A Sketch so that little boys could still play with him.

SLIGHTLY TWISTED (BY MISS CADAVER)
What do 9 out of 10 people enjoy?

Gang rape

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 16 °C
Min: 10°C (overnight)
Humidity: 92 %
Rain, some thundery with hail. Fresh northeast. (Translation: Bit colder than it has been lately, don't believe them about the thunder though...not after the other night.)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Maz is actually going to the movies tonight (rather than DHnF), she hasn't been since Christmas Day *gasp*

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Bejeweled has been broke on Facebook all day. FAIL!

and the BIGGEST FAIL of the day goes to Maz's bank card, for not working, even though it was working fine yesterday. BIG PHAT PHAIL!!!

Day Fifty of being Aflickionless...

Where to start for today's blog...oh I KNOW!!!

69 DAYS TO GO!!!
"69 days till Haydn gets back, 69 days till he returns, wake up one day and fuck around, 68 days till Haydn returns"

Now that is out of the way...on with the blog. FIRST for the masses ("masses" being eveybody but Haydn), time to get in the loop and find out about some more music that you may not know.
Today we would like to introduce you to GoldieRocks. That's Sam Hall; DJ, presenter and party planner du-jour. Now most renowned for her energised DJ appearances, invading parties and aftershows all over the land - at some point in time, Sam's probably hijacked your fave indie/electro haunt. But she's much more than London's latest party-person, skilled DJing aside, Goldierocks is also growing her reputation as a respected producer, remixer, presenter and music journalist…just some of the highlights are outlined below.
In my opinion, BLOODY FANTASTIC. Goldierocks truely does ROCK! You need to check them out and well thank the geeks for websites huh? Visit either the Myspace page or the official website to find out more and check out some the music.

JayJay is pissed off that her photos from National Anthems are STILL not up! Even though she re-downloaded them, .zip'ed them and re-uploaded them so that they could go up today. RAGE!!!

Maz started a new painting today, she also went out looking for that magazine at Glenfield mall but phailed, so brought herself a new beanie (YAY!) and a Wendy's Mega Choc Shake instead. She also picked up a pair of shoes for a comission. However she wasn't thinking of only herself while looking in shops...she picked up something for you too. Not quite a "hand sculpted nut sack" but it is a nut and was sculpted by somebody at some point (photo below).

She will try to find the magazine again tomorrow.
Besides shoping and painting Maz has also been working on a new JadedSphnix page, something a lot more simple, mainly because she can't be bothered with designing a new website. You can check it out here.
In other news on Sunday Maz is playing a HOOKER!!! And on Monday it's off to be almost nudie on Spartacus. FUN TIMES!

Nothing better to do on a Friday night? Stand around, kick a coke bottle and plot about the seeing if somebody will drink it. And then later on stand around and talk about nuts & jiggling them ("You better be careful Maz, If you shake the nut too hard you'll get peanut butter" - Dee, talking about the photographer nut)

Flights at Christchurch Airport have been disrupted after a communications cable was cut during development work. The incident, which happened at 8.35am, has affected check-in facilities and electronic flight information.

A transformer fire sent a shower of sparks into the air, cutting power to 77 North Shore homes overnight. Eyewitness Kevin Hind said the noise "sounded a bit like thunder". The incident looked like a fireworks display, said Mr Hind. "Sparks were flying as high as the power pole."
Three appliances manned by 12 firefighters arrived at the Killarney Ave, Torbay, scene after receiving a callout at 7.20pm yesterday.

Thousands of Air New Zealand passengers are this week getting their flight safety instructions from staff wearing nothing but body paint. The airline has decided to expand its use of body-painted staff from advertisements to the in-flight safety video used on 737 domestic flights.

Nelson and Marlborough were shaken by a pair of earthquakes this morning. The first was at 4.25am with a magnitude of 4.2. The second was at 5.16am and measured 4.6. Both were at a depth of 90km and centred around 40km south-west of Nelson.

If you're the kind of person who types tipsy and regrets it in the morning, Google's 'Mail Goggles', a new test-phase feature in the free Gmail service, might save you some angst. The feature requires you to solve a few easy maths problems in short order before hitting "send." If your logical thinking skills are intact, Google is betting you're sober enough to work out the repercussions of sending that screed you just drafted.

The extraordinary amount of news coverage the mainstream media has recently devoted to Twitter has led some to think the press is in love with the 3-year-old microblogging service. Twitter's constantly updating record of up-to-the-minute reaction has in some instances threatened to usurp media coverage of breaking news. It has also helped many celebrities, athletes and politicians bypass the media to get their message directly to their audience.

SLIGHTLY TWISTED (BY MISS CADAVER)
How do you stop two black men from raping a white girl?

Throw them a basketball

SIDESWIPPING IT
Leonie bought a bottle of Nature's Own Men's Multi for her husband. "The label says they are 'designed to meet the specific physiological needs of men'. Then 'if you are pregnant, or considering becoming pregnant, do not take vitamin supplements without consulting your doctor'."

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 16 °C
Min: 9°C (overnight)
Humidity: 85 %
Mainly fine, chance shower. Light winds. (Translation: I didn't see any showers and speaking of not seeing things, what the hell happened to the thunder and lighting we were meant to have last night?!?!)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Maz has a sore wrist and doesn't know why...hmmm

DAILY FOF MOMENT
JayJay had an epic fail with the vantage order - but it wasn't her fault. Bruce (the boss) forgot to tell her that everything had to be ordered in 6 or more. JayJay did a normal order, lucky she asked him to check it before she sent it, so he picked it up. FAIL!

Day FourtyNine of being Aflickionless...

In ten days to go till you hit the halfway point. Does it seem to be going fast? I would write out the "How many days till Haydn gets back song", BUT I am saving it till tomorrow...you will see when we get to tomorrow...haha!

Some exciting things in the works at the moment in Maz's world. Some to do with photography, some to do with videos...fun times!Spartacus isn't happening tomorrow, it's been moved to Monday.
Singing bitches, wonder the possibility of Maz actually doing karaoke one night. Maz is did a UV doodle on one of Tina's daughters tonight (photo below) she thinks she is the shiz nizzle now. They (the girls) have a school disco happening. Funny thing is that it's a Black & White disco and this was organised before Michael Jackson kicked the bucket.

so she kinda sorta blinked...oops FLASH!

Still can't find any photos from National Anthems...geez. Other than that you know the happenings.

And because it is cool, you SO need to check this computer tower out. IT IS HOT! Click Here.

Oh yeah...CLUNGE!!! *gasp* CLUNGE FACE WHORE BAG!!! (or crack whore..thats CRACK not krank) Charming aren't I?

Popular swimming spots in lakes and rivers have high levels of bacteria that cause diarrhoea or infection, a new report shows. Of 300 popular swimming spots tested regularly by councils over the past two summers, just 58 per cent were suitable for swimming almost all of the time. The rest had too much faecal matter in the water at least 5 per cent of the time - and one spot never met the guidelines for safe swimming.

Temperatures were well below average during June, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) climate summary says. Extremely low temperatures were recorded in the Waikato, Taumarunui, Taupo, southern Hawke's Bay, Central Otago, the Kaikoura Coast, and some alpine areas of the South Island. All other areas experienced below average temperatures and the national average temperature of 7.5degC was 0.7degC below the long-term average for June.

Two men are in custody after an armed offenders squad seized 15 guns from a house south of Tauranga today. (The headline said "Mass weapons haul founf in Tauranga house" thought it would be more than 15 guns...geez)

A Nelson man has been arrested after allegedly setting off fireworks around sleeping huts at an air force base near Nelson. The incident happened about 9pm yesterday at Dip Flat where the Royal New Zealand Air Force were completing an exercise, police said.

A woman who went overseas to meet her long-lost father is now on trial accused of incest. The man is also on trial, but denies being her biological father. The pair allegedly had a sexual relationship for more than 10 years. They met when she was almost 30 and he was in his late 40s, living in Britain.

The auction on TradeMe to win Dinner with Tariana Turia & Brendon Pongia has closed. The winning bid was $2,530.00. The proceeds will go toward helping three Wellington-based brothers, who are outstanding sports players in both basketball and rugby, whose family are finding it extremely difficult to meet their high sporting expenses.

MAZ'S TRACK OF THE DAY
Nothing new, but cranking today...


SLIGHTLY TWISTED (BY MISS CADAVER)
What do spinach and anal sex have in common?

If you were forced to have them as a kid, chances are you wont like them as an adult

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 14 °C
Min: 9°C (overnight)
Humidity: 70 %
Becoming cloudy, thundery rain tonight. Northeasterly. (Translation: so much for the beautiful day, look like it's going to turn to shit now! Fuckin retarded Auckland weather)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
That all the blue sky is gone and it's just all grey now...get ready for the THUNDER!

DAILY FOF MOMENT
JayJay dropped 6 packs of Robitussin cough mixture on the ground at work today. Two bottles smashed and the other four packets have to be written off because they got drenched in it and are ruined. FAIL!

And a water pipe burst at Maz's place, meant they were without water for a few hours. FAIL!