Kiwi Centric - Our journey to New Zealand

Thursday, July 17, 2008

40th Annual Auckland Film Festival

Well for those that know me, you'll be shocked to hear I am going to see a screening from the festival today. I generally don't "do musuems" and definitely don't do "art". I actually do, but usually in my own way and in accordance with my own style which is usually a lot "less cultured" than what other people consider art.

Any ways, here's the website for those film geeks out there: http://www.enzedff.co.nz/

Some pretty cool stuff playing actually. Today I am seeing "King of Kong" which is a documentary about the world champion of Donkey Kong, which you will probably remember as an old 80s video game.

Recently I have even seen 2 foreign films (and you can't blame Jen as she is still in American Samoa for another week). I saw My Best Enemy (an Italian film and I don't recall the actual Italian name) and Camille Fauque
... aka Hunting and Gathering. I really like the Italian one. Hunting and Gathering was decent but a bit slow for my taste and I didn't feel the motivation of some of the characters.

So who knows maybe I will become an art movie buff, but don't hold your breath :)

Matthew

Coming to America

If its good enough for Eddie Murphy, then I guess its good enough for me.

I sent out an email to most everyone I could think of, but I am sure I forgot someone.

Anyways, I am coming to the US to visit for 2 months. New Zealand is going great, but it will be nice to visit friends and family again.

Here's the rough itinerary (I have my NZ->US tickets bought, but not my interior travel yet, so this may drift by a day or two)

September 8th Fly to San Francisco from Auckland (Mon)
9 - San Francisco (Jet lag)
10 - San Francisco
11 - San Francisco (Thursday: 1984 club night? )
12 - San Francisco (Friday: burritos at Marachis/El toro and drinks at Zeitgeist?)
13 - San Francisco
14 - San Francisco
15 - San Francisco
16 - San Francisco
17 - San Francisco
18 - Fly to Chicago (Thurs)
19 - Chicago
20 - Chicago
21 - Chicago
22 - Chicago
23 - Chicago
24 - Chicago
25 - Chicago
26 - Chicago
27 - Chicago
28 - Chicago
29 - Chicago
30 - Chicago
October 1 - Chicago
2 - Chicago
3 - Ft. Wayne, IN (Ben Folds Concert) (Fri)
4 - Drive to Boston (Sat)
5 - Boston (Sun)
6 - Boston
7 - Boston
8 - Boston
9 - Boston
10 - Boston (Fri)
11 - Boston - Lots of people going to be in Boston for wedding (Sat)
12 - Boston
13 - Boston
14 - Boston
15 - Boston
16 - Boston
17 - Boston (Fri)
18 - Somers, CT
19 - Somers, CT
20 - Somers, CT
21 - New York
22 - New York
23 - New York
24 - Philadelphia (Fri)
25 - Philadelphia
26 - Philadelphia
27 - Drive from East Coast to Chicago
28 - Chicago
29 - Chicago
30 - Chicago
31 - Chicago (Halloween) (Fri)
November 1 - Chicago
2 - Chicago
3 - Drive to MN
4 - MN (Jen's family)
5 - MN (Jen's family)
6 - MN (Jen's family)
7 - MN (Jen's family)
8 - MN (Jen's family)
9 - MN (Jen's family)
10 - Drive to Chicago from MN (spend night there)
11 - Fly to San Francisco (spend night there)
12 - Fly to New Zealand

SF - 9
MN -6
Travel Days - 9
Chicago - 20
Boston - 13
CT - 3
PA - 3
NY - 3