Finally! A cool and comprehensive men's style guide.

Including cool stuff like '10 Movie Posters inspired by men's style'

BZ Community Class - Marissa Osato - Solo

Sir Ian McKellen

Banksy Simpsons Intro - behind the scenes of Simpsons

Firefox

Home Brew Underneath The Shade

Upcoming NZ rap..fresh :D

Some young blood...yay! NZ hip-hop building own unique flavour.

Tommy Ill - 7/10. You half think he's joking, Ben Folds style. Robot singing is cute, catchy chorus. Best album cover I've seen in a while



Home Brew - 8/10/ Love the sample and the fresshh New Zealand accent. Weekdays will never be the same, with Monday and Underneath the shade being favourites

Real people too??

Crazy to think these guys had real lives

Sniff...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbGAyYdeQ5c&feature=player_embedded

Sometimes sad is more beautiful than happy... p.s. notice her half shaved head - this is was in 2008.

Favourite image of the day - semi naked inky sisters

Gone for long!!!

Sorry guys...

I've been rehearsing for my show!

It was amazing, everyone was crying at the end because this is our last show as Triple8Funk company.

Until I started dancing I had no idea there was a dance shaped hold in my life, as it were.

Still bathing in the afterglow (and afterhangover) of it all...good thing we have collabo coming up!!

Yummmyyyy

I think this is the next evolution of the rats tail - Rats tail in context.

In the eye of the Behomer

TheLifeCritic on MTV?!?

Hello this is my video for pickmemtv, watch, laugh and vote!! www.pickmemtv.co.nz, think im on like the 10th page at the moment haha

Inspiring! Feel the bite of the travel bug

Just read this....amazing! Imagine 3 years with nothing but a backpack, definitely a life changing event.

Imagine all the food ...

Delicious voedsel!

Thats delicious food! in Dutch.

What: Saturday just gone I ventured with my chummy Tegan to the Auckland Museum for their special exhibition 'Kai to Pie', something like a United Nations of food. i.e. more food, less American veto.

Which country: As you my o so clever people may have guessed, this week was Dutch food.

Not that I had any idea what that may have been, since we ahem missed out on the actual eating part of the exhibition. Tears.

However the exhibition itself was tasty, for the sense that is.

Highlights include a giant wall of paper plates

A fashion catwalk of food appliance...how vougel..

And some Dutch people

It's free for Aucklanders, on every next couple of Saturdays and a good way to "educate" your tongue.

O and there were some dudes from the Korean Navy marching that day...strange but alluring in their uniforms.
Outta10: without food 6, with, who knows?

Widening thine horizon

Ok so I had a little think, and I can't write forever and ever about food.

Cue gasp.

I have an inkling you, my 3 blog followers all of whom I directly beseeched to follow my blog, would get bored.

So I'm gonna write about some other shit, after all this is the LIFE critic, not the food critic.

So some stuff to come (hopefully)

- cool stuff i see on the net e.g. pictures, videos
- some home made videos yay
- other tidbits of my life of which you will be totally interested.

Sweet!

How not to make a toasted sandwhich, courtesy of Slurp Cafe

Some traditions should be done away with e.g. anti-semitism. Others, like the craft of making a good toasted sandwich, should not.

A good toastie is like a left lung - you don't really pay attention until its gone.

Thus I contemplated the culinary education of the person who made the disaster I was chewing. Notice - chewing, not eating.

What: Ham and pineapple toasted sandwich

Where: Slurp Cafe, level 0, Kate Edgar commons, UOA.

Ok, I get it, UOA is a 'business' now and thus is under regulation to squeeze every last penny from us. But does this policy have to extend to food as well?

When I ordered ham and pineapple, I did not for one second think they would include just that. Not a morsel of cheese to combine these two ingredients. Cheese is a given, like bread.

Ham - can't really remember. O that's right, because there was like, 1.45 pieces in the sandwich

Pineapple - another tradition that shouldn't be broken - pineapple should be in nice little digestible cubes. NOT A RING A LA CANNED WHOLE PINEAPPLE.

Bread - don't get me started. You know the shape that a toastie is supposed to resemble, edges tight, middle bread part puffing out with the filling almost bursting.

This? Looks (and tastes) like the chef used spit to glue the bread together, then fire-torched it for a couple of seconds.

Outta10: a dismal 2 if I ever saw one, I highly recommend it in place of metamucil.

The $4 Japan experience

Life is funny. Sometimes you can go for months without eating anything interesting, other times, you find a place like Happy Bear whilst waiting for a friend to shower.

What: Happy Bear

Where: Queen street, opposite the movies

What is it:

Courtesy of Wiki

Taiyaki (たい焼き, , literally "baked sea bream") is a Japanese fish-shaped cake.

You may think fish+cake=vomit, to which I reply, you otta be ashamed of yourself.

For $4, you can have a drink (Hot chocolate in my case) and a fish-shaped waffle with (chocolate/custard/red bean/cheese) filling, hailing from 1909 Japan.

This is the real thing, complete with good service from a cute little lady who doesn't speak English.

Read: gesturing.

For a rainy day snack, whale-meat free, check it out. Let Happy Bear make you Happy.

Outta10: 7.5

S U S H I

After that horrendous butter chicken affair, I thought I would eat something...less shit.

What:Uni Sushi. Like my mammary glands, the sushi here at UOA is small, but perfectly formed.

Accompanied by miso soup (made from the powder unfortu, but still retains the 'im drinking something hot and exotic' factor for all you anglos)

I thought I would give everyone a run down of the less visited areas of Uni sushidom, becaues really, what the hell does that pumpkin one taste like?

...actually it tastes pretty damn good. Erase your eurocentric notions of this vegetable, because this is the pumpking of the 21st Century. Kinda tastes like some sort of pickled vegetable, except 10000 times better. Challenge your bland tastebuds people.

On a related note, the cream cheese is also surprisingly delicious. Combination of cheese and pineapple traditionally belongs on some fastfood item beginning with 'Hawaiian...' but wrapped up in seaweed is just as good.

Lastly, this is not for the faint hearted or those that don't like fish (they're in the sea, they can breathe in water, what's not to like) try the eel sushi. If you're skint do the $1 ones, otherwise splurge on the $2 big pieces. Salty, teriyaki goodness.

Outta10: defo a 8.5, can end up a little more expensive than some other options but filling and uh...healthy.

Tip: if you're getting more than 6 pieces, ask for extra soy. You won't regret it when your companion runs out and is forced to consume soy-less, and therefore soul-less sushi.

P.s. Gran Torino is damn good. "What are you going to put your tools in, a rice bag?" Never has blatant racist comments sounded so charming. Clint Eastwood is a Grandpa who likes to kiss you on the cheek, but also wouldn't mind shooting you in the face.

Sayonarrrgghha!

You know what food I really don't like?

What: Exam

Where: Designated examination rooms located around UOA

Outta10: -12. Simply put, exams whether fried, blanched, boiled, simmered or baked, can kiss my ass

Hey KF, whats up with my C

SpiCy, that is.

Am disappointed with the Hot and Spicy range at colonel Sander's, dinner for 2 did not even tickle my tastebud. Not a single bud was tickled.

Mayhaps there was some mistake in the secret mixing of the 11 original herbs and spices, like they forgot to add 10 of them.




Sigh.

For all you coke zero lovers..

Read this before your next 'Full taste, Zero sugar' bottle.

http://www.thezeromovement.org/coke_zero_ingredients.html

I for one loathe all products which do not contain the full amount of fat/carbs/calories as per the original.

"I can't believe it's not butter!" - That's because it's soy lecithin and vegetable mono/diglycerides, stupid.

Rainy Day Snack

You're cold, wet, miserable and alone. You've just handed in a big fuck-off assignment and you have a few more till you're through. Time to stuff the mandible.

Who: Ausa Quad Cafe

Where: ...The Quad

Critique:

This big, greasy piece of fried chicken is just what you need. Wash it down with a 440ml limited edition coke can from quad vending machine (NOT COKE ZERO). Or cold tap water, if you're poor or extra guilty.

You need to have several paper napkins to soak up the excess oil, as well as keep the wrapper attached to the chicken at all times. Grease stains on clothing may indicate one's ability to self-nutrionalise, but rarely attract the opposite sex.

Grease test: paper bag containing chicken MUST be see-through before completion of chicken.

Don't let the workers short-change you. Choose the piece of chicken that's calling out your name. Own your fowl destiny.

Outta10: 7. For $3, this little heart-failure inducing snack is a gem.

Why do you like food?

Karen Nguyen: "did you want a quote or do you want an essay?"

Appetiser

Hello World!

I didn't know what on Earth could be interesting to write about, so I'm going to write about the things I love and the things I don't love (hate is such a strong word, as my PC friends say)

I think I will start with food (an obvious love). Whenever I think about people writing on food, my mind wanders to unbearably high-nose cuisine magazines. So.

I would like to share with you all my take on the food around me, from an average Y-generation, overdraft facilitated, scared-of-the-future point of view.

Let's start with my love-hate for the "cuisines" available at UOA, The University of Auckland. (New Zealand)

Who: Jewel of India (Indian takeaway)
Where: Main student quad, Level 2

Critique: As with most Indian food targeted toward European/non-Indian appetites, Jewel of India over-does the food colouring and under-does (can you believe I'm an English major) the flavour. I'm not sure if you knew this, but Butter Chicken is not supposed to be bright Umpa-Lumpa orange.

Take note: colour should be something like this

Not this.

The actual Chicken was also disappointing - charred in places, I felt like I was eating the flesh of a very old, very weary Chicken who'd had a hard life.

Lastly, drinkbottle-lip contact is strictly forbidden after this meal, as the after-taste is foul. Your stomach doesn't feel good after the meal, and you can't help feeling your ass isn't going to feel good either.

Outta10: 4 (Eat it for experience, don't eat it for enjoyment)

Till Next Time :3