The chaos has consistency.

[drcuriosity]

February 7th: Call in the morning from the dental centre, after around four hours' sleep. They want to confirm some details. They're looking for my file. Second call just as I'm getting back to sleep. They've finally found my file. It may take a couple of weeks to get an appointment. Given that the oral surgeons were away over Christmas, there's a backlog. It may be a month before I can get an initial consultation from one. I ask if I can get a copy of the initial x-rays to see if I can get something done by going private. They can't do that because they are working on hard-copy X-rays and the main hospital has gone to computers. There's apparently nothing for it but to wait, and it may be a couple of months. Sorry.

*sigh* I'm getting sick of this.

On the other hand, the concert I went to on Sunday was great: Nacoa & Switch, Funk'n'SloCuts & The Kurnel MC with Minuit headlining. It started slow, with the live music only starting around 6pm or so, but built up quite nicely to the main event. Playing in an outside courtyard strikes me a difficult place to get the mix right for, though I guess the people at the venue are likely used to it by now.

Minuit live are definitely a different experience to their studio albums, but the magic was all there. Lots of energy, very tight performance musically, a few little playful changes to the content (a lyric that usually goes "and today's not a Sunday" was reversed, for example) that gave it less of the "set piece performance" feel you get from some bands. They did quite a bit of newer material as well as a few of the older songs, and as a result I'm quite looking forward to their new album being released.

Three hours of world class live music here in Christchurch, for the price of a twenty buck ticket. We're well blessed with local talent.

Comments

[lucilu.livejournal.com]

wanthtenewalbumwantthenewalbum.

I'm such a groupie.

[faintly-gothic.livejournal.com]

you should consider coming down to dunedin, to my knowledge the dental school is A) dirt cheap B) not as bad as it sounds (ie you won't get new students at this time of year and C) the way it works is you cue up and the first in is pretty much the first served ie if you cue at 11am you can generally expect to get looked at by 2pm the same day...

Plus you could visit me.