More music!!! HORRAY!!!

Ok.  So as you can tell I’ve been posting a lot of YouTube links.  Oh well!  DEAL WITH IT!!!! AND WATCH THEM! lol.  So the following links are just a couple random songs I’ve heard lately from Yusuf Islam (who you may know of as the former Cat Stevens, who also is Greek but converted to the Islamic Faith, hence why he changed his name to Yusuf).  Despite him not being Greek Orthodox anymore, lol, here’s a couple good songs you might remember.  The first one is actually a newer song of his where he does a duet with Ronan Keating (who I have no clue who he is.  I think he was from some Irish boy band, but apparently most people here have heard of him.  Probably since he’s a judge on the UK X-factor show and a lot of the shows we get here are from the UK).  Anyways, they are random videos, and old, but they don’t make music like they did in the 70’s lol.  Enjoy all your old people and all you wanna be retro’s.  Also the last video clip is amazing, it was during the U.S election rally and is peace train, crazy train and love train duet (or tri-et i guess) featuring Yusuf Islam, Ozzy Osborne, and the O’Jay’s.  It’s old school but funny, haha.  Enjoy people!

Lindsay Lohan on Skycouch?

What ever happened to Lindsay Lohan? Oh wait, she did drugs, got drunk, stole some stuff and is under house arrest.  But she is still able to make ads for Air New Zealand.  Here’s a video link of her being interviewed by that weird Rico creature while under house arrest.  By the way, in case you didn’t know, the skycouch is basically when you buy 3 seats on the plane so that they can fold down in a special way giving you the ability to have a bed on the plane and sleep.  Its kind of cool, slightly expensive, and from what I’ve seen nobody really uses it.  But here’s the video, enjoy. (p.s. listen for the comment at the end of the video when Rico gives Lindsay some jewels and says “It’s no problem.  And don’t worry, they’re all paid for”)

Auckland Updates

Hey everyone! So here’s a few of the pics I took during my weekend in Auckland.  Fun times.  Not that many pics though since most of the time I didn’t have my camera, or had possibly had a few too many drinks to know how to use it.  Enjoy! (P.S. You should be able to click on the pictures to enlarge them I think)

 

Ok.  This is a picture of my face after I was dared to eat one of the soft shell shrimp that was ordered.  They’re basically baby shrimp deep-fried and salted, and you eat the whole shrimp including the eyeballs, tail, shell, and antenna.  It wasn’t that bad, but my face says otherwise.

This is a picture of my flatmate Justine.  I got her to pose with a shrimp in her mouth.  The funny thing is she didn’t realise that there was a fat creepy beaver statue right behind her where she was sitting.  It scared her a bit once she actually saw it.

STOP!!! Don’t shoot!!! It’s only Justine.  P.S. She was actually just tired and wanted to nap, but the bartender thought she was drunk and gave her water (even though she only had one drink all night) lol

GROUP SHOT!!!

Horray! Another group shot of my flatmates at the bar.  Fun times

This was a funny picture.  We thought there were weird people posing on their balcony, but if you zoom in close enough on the picture you will see that someone has just set up some manikins on their balcony.  They even dressed them up and posed them to look real.  Funny thing is that after I took this picture and we were all staring up at the manikins, all the tourists around us decided to stop and look up and take pictures too.  Hahaha

Rico and Snoop

Ok guys.  I have no clue who Rico is, but he was on the airplane safety videos when I came to New Zealand.  Its like some weird squirrel creature of some sorts.  Here’s a video of Rico with Snoop Dogg.  Enjoy

Richard Simmonds???

What ever happened to Richard Simmonds?  He’s doing safety videos for Air New Zealand now.  Watch below to find out, and in case you guys didn’t know, Air New Zealand is known for the funny safety videos they show before taking off.  It makes the flight less scary, lol.

Ice Hockey in New Zealand???

Ok.  I also figured I would let everyone back in Canada know that Canada and USA played some hockey games here in New Zealand recently.  Tickets were over $100 to go see the games.  From what I heard, it seemed to be rigged and that they didn’t play a good game, almost like they only came here for the money and possibly a free trip to New Zealand.  That being said, Canada won 2 of the 3 games they played here.  Go Canada!

New Zealand Music

Hey everyone.  I have been so busy with school lately that I haven’t had much of a chance to blog.  I figured I would post some videos of New Zealand singers and bands you guys can all check out.  The music is a bit different here, mainly because most of the concerts they do here are from New Zealand singers.  Have a listen to the videos and stay tuned, I will be posting pictures soon from my weekend adventure in Auckland with my flatmates (including my reaction to eating a soft shelled shrimp – you end up eating the tail, eyeballs, and antenna things and everything).  Hope you enjoy.

This is a video of Tiki Taane (a very popular Maori singer that sings sort of rap styled music) doing a performance and an award show in New Zealand

 

This is a video of Brooke Fraser, a New Zealand singer that has even performed in Toronto recently. The whistling part of this song is used in commercials for the television channels here

 

This is another New Zealand band whose song has been used in television commercials here

 

This is a New Zealand rock band. Never heard of them, but they are doing a show in my town here next week. I might consider going

 

This is a strange electro-techno singer from New Zealand. Its somewhat clubby