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Gareth

@trying2makeitwork.bsky.social
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Deep into midlife; still trying to figure it out and make it work. In Japan for 30 years and counting.

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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sometimes it’s not even about a complete cut-off. In some cases, “on the other side of the world” turns out to be the Goldilocks distance for maintaining a connection.
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For God’s sake don’t let @dieworkwear.bsky.social see this!
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Feminize a band name: T-Regina
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Feminize a band name: The Venus Volta
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
OTOH, I would gladly pay $20 to see a show by a band called the Hallucinogenic Horrors from Beyond Spacetime.
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This post reminded me of the time I saw her open for the Eagles in Auckland, 1995. Between songs, she told a story of how she’d visited the local aquarium and how someone had “recognized” her as a totally different singer. But now I can’t remember who the mistaken identity was and it’s bugging me.
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“AutoStreisand” That’s brilliant. Well done.
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
And for everyone else it's, "this is my first train on time!" AMIRITE?! [Hook appears from off stage]
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I’m really hoping that Bluesky will get its own version of the TUNGI (Threads users not getting it) account one of these days.
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Meanwhile, here in Japan: “WTF is Rodan?”
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Here's one from a New Zealander who's never been to the USA.
A map of the USA indicating which region's dialect a person's spoken English is closest to. It's showing New York as the strongest possibility.
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Whoa! Careful, dude! “What should a coat cost” is like a magic spell that summons @dieworkwear.bsky.social
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Downgrade a movie: A Bridge Quite Far
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I switched to @proton.me a few months ago. It's excellent.
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Make a band bigger: Katrina and the Tides
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
So *that’s* what that graffitied fire engine was about, which I saw on a recent trip to NZ. Mystery solved, thanks.
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
One of those is the lead sheet; the other is the fully notated score; both are good.
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
In Australia, apparently. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejor...
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Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning
YouTube video by MidnightOilVEVO
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I assume it included a jigger or two of “Cameron Green FILTH!”?
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Hello from Osaka. Can I butt in with a question? Do they actually serve what's written on the chochin? If so, that's impressive. Momo and hotate, sure, but I'm pretty sure there weren't any places serving sunagimo back when I was still living in NZ (which is, admittedly, 30+ years ago now).
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Would it be inappropriate to ask what's in the cocktail?
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Come on, voters of Clacton. Don’t let us down!
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Only then will New Zealand be a true demochrisy.
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"Well, y'know, Chrises come and Chrises go. Whadaya gonna do about it? That's what I'd like to know." www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-AQ...
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Paul Simon - Gumboots (Official Audio) ft. Boyoyo Boys
YouTube video by PaulSimonVEVO
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Bonus! ボーナス
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
[Winces] Right in the feels.
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Ba-dum tsh!
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Maybe it's just me, but I thought this juxtaposition of posts by @jonbois.bsky.social and @atrupar.com (via @missingthept.bsky.social) was pretty funny.
A screenshot showing a post by Jon Bois saying, "reply to a post with a time you tried to use a button and it didn't work" immediately followed by a post from Missing The Point quoting Aaron Rupar quoting Trump having a tantrum because his hand-picked US Attorney for the District of Columbia didn't do his bidding.
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Guffaw!
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Instant follow.
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Learning basic music theory renders you unable to hate a whole genre of music. Even if you hear a song and it's of a genre that you don't enjoy, you just start noticing things WITHIN the song ("Picardy 3rd!" "Oh, they resolved to iv-minor instead of the root!") and you never get around to hating it.
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Downplay a book or movie: All Meh on the Western Front
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Ba-dum tsh!
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Berry Your Dead?
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
She comes back to tell me she’s gone, as if I didn’t know that! As if I didn’t know my own bed!
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
“…creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time”?
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I would gladly pay $20 to see a show by a band called The Ponderous Flukes.
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Ba-dum tish!
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I'm listening to Randy Newman (the I Love LA album) and... is it just me or does he sound like Tom Hanks?
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Currently test driving @zen-browser.app. First impressions positive.
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
You’ve smashed your last DD.
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
You’ve looked your last blue and gone your last purple.
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I’m surprised to learn that the previous best against England wasn’t Hadlee but Dion Nash.
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Mupbeth
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Spotted in Osaka today. Yeah… I think I’ll just have the chicken if it’s all the same to you.
A sign for a yakiniku barbecue restaurant in Osaka, Japan has a spelling mistake; the sign is inadvertently advertising “glass-fed beef.”
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
fucking tautology?
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Last one, I promise. Merge two movies: Chariots of Firestarter
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Merge two movies: The Long Goodbye Pork Pie
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Merge two movies: Get Out of Africa
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Gareth @trying2makeitwork.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Surely half that goes to the Balinese maidens who carved your wooden leg?
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