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HARD FACTS: WHAT IS UP WITH KIWI'S?

First of all, this is NOT a racist rant against all NZ people, NOR is it an attack on their independence, egalitarian attitudes or manhood - just an observation of one who has come across a very real and reoccurring theme in the attitude and mentality of the average Kiwi (New Zealand) male and all I can say is WTF?

To this date, I have NOT met a single Kiwi male who wasn't:

Overly nice to me at first...
A 1ooo question man (which you had better answer correctly!)
Dissatisfied with my answers...
Flippy (Jekyll and Hyde)
Directly insulting in a variety of ways and finally...
Overtly aggressive and 1 step away from trying to kill you, themselves, or both!

Wikipedia explains part of the reason for this here:

The hard man: New Zealand men have often been stereotyped as strong, unemotional and prone to violence. For many years this was seen as a good thing... in recent decades the macho attitude has been criticised as dangerous both to men who embody it and those around them. It has been blamed for New Zealand's culture of heavy drinking and its high male suicide rate.

All I can say for sure is, I'm NOT looking forward to my next Kiwi male encounter, and I hope that I survive it with all my limbs (and areas of brain) intact!

TO RESEARCH THIS HARD FACT CLICK HERE NOW!

TO AGREE OR DISAGREE, HAVE YOUR SAY!

MRA WINS GRAND PRIZE AWARD!

Some good news people...

We are now 'award winning filmmakers' - so watch out!

Watch the MRA TRAILER here

View some photos from THE MAKING OF MRA here.

The short film, Monster Removal Agency (MRA) which was my first ever main acting role (I played the lead, Paul), just won the Grand Prize Award at the 2008 Yubari International Student Film Festival.

We (the team) put a lot of effort and months of training into this action/ comedy film, and we are stoked to finally have some reward for our sweat - yipee! I was the lead actor and fight choreographer for the film, not to mention photographer and self-appointed publicist ;) We had a ball making this film and JR (John Lipartito) the director and Rob Moreno (DP and editor) did an amazing job of wrapping it all up and getting it out there - ONYA!

*Side note: If you are wondering what is happening with me and why this is my FIRST BLOG POST IN MORE THAN A YEAR, well check out my all in one website here: www.shfocus.info. To cut all my stories short, I am busy editing my first feature independent film: Night Walker, which I wrote, produced and directed.

Japanese information follows

夕張国際学生映画祭2008国際学生映画AWARD、グランプリは、ジョン・リパーテイト監督の「MRA The Monster Removal Agency」（アメリカ代表作品）、準グランプリは小栗はるひ監督の「少年少女」（夕張国際学生映画祭2008代表作品）、審査員特別賞は長崎愛監督の「家」（東京学生映画祭招待作品）に決定しました！また今回準グランプリを受賞された小栗はるひさんには、JCF（Japan Creators Fund）スカラシップ制度として、 300万円の製作資金で新作映画を製作・監督する権利を授与します。なお、新作映画は夕張をテーマとし、2008年春から夏にかけて夕張をロケ地として撮影を開始します。またこの映画は10月に開催が予定されているYUBARIWOOD FILM AWARD 2008にて特別上映される予定です。

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Trojan Games

FOR THE MAC GEEK IN ALL OF US...

This is good for a laugh and some nice eye candy as well ;) Oh yeah by the way, if you get conflicting music sounds then thats bc i have an automatic song generator on this blog so scroll down the links and turn off the music player first!

Labels: MAC

SPEED UP SAFARI (TRY THESE GOODIES!)

Try this guide first:

http://guides.macrumors.com/Speed_up_Safari

Have you done these other basics, as well?

1. Empty your cache & History settings via the Safari menu

2. Trash your Icons Folder:
HD>Users>Home>YourName>Library>Safari -->Icons
Restart Safari and a new folder will be automatically regenerated.
(This folder saves favicons of all the sites you visit. Needs cleaning periodically -- or you can change that file's preferences to "Read Only"
rather than "Read & Write." This will keep it from growing in size.)

3. Launch Font Book and check all fonts for duplicates. A duplicated font will have a bullet beside the font family and you can resolve duplicates by selecting the font and at the menu bar, go to Edit > Resolve Duplicates.
Do this for each font with a bullet next to it.

Question: Do you have internet apps SpeedDownload, iGetter, PithHelmet, Acid Search, Safari Enhancer ? Or Norton or Virex? Sometimes non-apple internet apps need updating or uninstalling.

IF THIS DOES NOT WORK THEN GO FOR THE COMPLETE SAFARI OVERHAUL HERE @
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107657

BAND OF THE WEEK!

Time and time again Australia produces some of the BEST rock bands in the world and shows the world how to ROCK FOR REAL and this band is no exception to the rule - WE ROCK!

Jet, although not exactly new (their debut album came out in 2003), is a class example of ROCK MUSIC in the heart of the greatest ROCK BAND of all time - AC/DC (or us fans say, aka daka). These guys not only know how to ROCK but the lead singers voice has a vocal range that other ROCK SINGERS simply, don't!

These guys who hail from Melbourne, Australia are also well managed and their website is SUPER. Click on the picture of the website NOW and do yourself a BIG FAVOR.

Jet ROX!