Black Seeds

Saturday night I saw a band, a New Zealand reggae band called Black Seeds. The gig had something to do with Auckland's University, which is why it was cheap and I learned about it from two students. The band were pretty good, considering it's not the usual thing I'd listen to...

The Black Seeds, increasing weed sales across NZ

All pretty chilled and they recorded it for some reason which meant they (apparently) played everything properly and didn't do anything different, according to Tom, the guy from work who told me about the gig.

The Black Seeds were supporting another Kiwi artist called Kimbra, who was the girl singing in that song were she's somebody that some Australian guy used to know. Honestly, we didn't expect much and we were not disappointed. Sure she could sing but the songs just seemed a bit 'hipster', you know the kind of thing that certain people like because they think it's something new and different that 'you don't understand' but actually it's just the same thing Kate Bush did. I still videoed a bit because, well, Youtube hits make me feel popular...

Now tell me she almost sort of just like Kate Bush.

We left 3 songs in to go for a few beers or whatever because the tickets were cheap and we saw the band we wanted to see. We went to K'Road to a cafe that had beer and those shishka things (apple was selected but mint was delivered). With minty fresh breath we then went on to some other bar on K'road, a really dark corridor with a bar and a few seats,

and a painting of a horse, of course.

Then on to the University bar, which was closed. It's been a while since I've been on a Uni campus, but that familiar feeling of student election was in the air,

and on every inch of wall space.

So after we found a new nominee,

I went back to the hostel and the other two went back to their flat. I did wonder why a university bar would be closed, then I remembered all the students were at the Vectra Arena for that gig.

Earlier in the day I looked at a potential room in a potential house that I might potentially live in, but I'm not sure it's worth moving out of the hostel yet because the part time sandwich job isn't giving me much money to play with after rent and food. The low wages has lead me to apply for a couple of part time evening jobs, one at Star City and one at some sort of call centre, but I haven't heard back from either yet.

And that's the news. I'm still working at the sandwich place, because like everywhere I've worked, I'm the best thing to happen to that company and it would only fail without me.
Peace and love, y'all!

The traffic cones didn't stand a chance.