Archive for January, 2012

Here’s the movie trailer of ze film everyone is talking about. The Three Musketeers has never quite looked like this before. In this film – the pantomime of hero complexes is masterfully set against a period film action fx 3D drama. All the movie critics are saying, ‘the acting is so obviously bad, it makes [...]

RICK ROSS UNDER SEIZURE

Posted: October 15, 2011 in Rick Ross

Rick Ross Suffers Another Seizure On Private Jet TMZ has learned … Rick Ross‘ private jet made an emergency landing in Birmingham, Alabama, 2 hours ago, en route to his concert in Memphis … and we found out he suffered another seizure. It’s the second time today where a plane in which the rapper was [...]

Yesterday, an elderly Maori lady called me. A man had flown in a plane over her home. He had taken a photo of her home. He then had knocked on her door and tried to sell her the map (photo) of her own home. She said “no, thank you.” Once he saw she wasn’t going [...]

From South Auckland to Mt Albert – here’s Young Sid‘s anthem, Hood Like Me. This man would be a big hit in L.A. Atlanta. Bombay. Amazin. The brotha know how to flow. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 15.10.11~

On the TV show Think Tank, host John Tamihere had a chat about our materialistic culture in New Zealand – and how this affects our environment’s sustainability. My favorite commentator, was poet-lawyer artist and entertainment artists’ manager, Tracey Tawhiao talking about Kiwis returning to a more Maori perspective of seeing the world. In particular realizing [...]

Cup Talk is a TV3 news show, that provides rugby football commentary of football teams, coaches, refs around Rugby World Cup. It stars James Gemmell as speaker of the house on the show, and ex NZ All Blacks player, Andrew Mehrtens mainly providing rugby commentary. On any episode, two other guest panelists are interchanged on any new [...]

Couldn’t help but notice, that Oscar nominated Keisha Castle Hughes agreed to do a sketch on the Jono Project comedy TV show last night. in the sketch, Jono was trying to illegally film Keisha, without her consent, in a home made movie idea, called Whalerider 2 that was based on a direct rip-off script of [...]

Garth George is a columnist that writes about Russian victimization sometimes. The last time, Garth wrote about “Maori” – although his column read like he’d never met one, let alone had ever journeyed with one along New Zealand’s long road of culture we’re proud of. Anyway, this week Garth is writing about Russians. He knows [...]

All right, it appears half the USA are peeping New Zealand’s rugby football players today. The most downloaded image on Horiwood.Com is this photo. This one’s going up for our All Blacks then. No favorites. T.E.A.M Together Everyone Achieves More. Give the Wannabe Pirates Heaps then! Kia Kaha. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com. Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. [...]

[Brown Bruthaz is too cool to be on YouTube. Instead, here's some reggae, with a backdrop of cgi people, painted like smurfs] I was kicking back on the couch, after cooking my own damn eggs, in the greasiest black frying pan I could highjack after the X Factor show’s (foreign TV ‘reality’ programming) pre-election polling [...]

She is the single parent with two children, who sings and wants to get rich. Her talent deserves to be listened to. Her sound is old school American, of people who rose up above political regimes of their day, broke the mould of oppression and obtained more equitable civil and human rights. Here’s Stacey Francis [...]

We like to be happy in Aotearoa New Zealand, because we’re darn funny people.  For example, we can create our own bitumen, without even realizing  – during a national disaster of titanic proportions to our peoples livelihood and our coastal wildlife. We then bounce from ‘burying bitumen’ news safely to lads whose lives revolve around throwing [...]

DANIELLE CHIESI

Posted: October 14, 2011 in Danielle Chiesi, Insider Trading, Spying

  She was the spy who shagged the inside trader -Wall Street Journal reports: “Danielle Chiesi—a former beauty queen and a brassy hedge-fund manager who swapped insider tips with Mr. Raj Rajaratnam—allegedly slept with some of the individuals with whom she is alleged to have swapped inside information, according to court filings in the case.” [...]

SENSITIVE TO A SMILE by HERBS

Posted: October 14, 2011 in Herbs, Ruatoria

Here’s a blast from Ruatoria, New Zealand’s past, with the beautiful song, Sensitive to a Smile by Herbs. Chur! ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 14.10.11~

  The Kermadecs Polynesian Discoverers & Early History. As legend has it throughout the South Pacific, in the 14th Century, Polynesian navigators discovered and settled the Kermadec Islands. Some even say, Polynesian peoples discovered the Kermadecs as early as the 10th century. In 1788, Europeans in ships, say, they found no inhabitants. As part of [...]

Seeing a Maori pop princess explore far away locations has always been what Maori audiences like to see. Here’s footage of singer Maisey Rika doing just that, before she returned home. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand. Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 14.10.11~

Top Gear host silenced by BBC – The BBC has made a humiliating U-turn after breaking its own editorial guidelines in the marketing of a satnav system. Let’s face it. Top Gear is really a TV show, enticing Saudi blokes to drive faster. Who else can afford the fuel these days? The cost to the [...]

I was going to do a blog post about how September farm sales in New Zealand have doubled with established famers selling up – but then I got caught up in Hollywood gossip news via the UK, instead. Harry Potter actor faces bomb charge – Maybe this young actor should take up farm management of [...]

You know you live in a small nation when news is “Broadband use soars to 1.5m” ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 14.10.11~

A tee shirt as a Polynesian hat? Trends that cotton on. Rugby League footballer turned rugby football player and part time charity boxer, Sonny Bill Williams; an American who became a nuclear weapons disarmament advocate, Queen Noor of Jordan – and weird topics like Sir Richard Branson‘s Liberty Tree are all topics driving internet traffic [...]

Both James Cameron, the filmmaker and Richard Branson, the airline guy are fans of owning their own fleets of submarines.   iBTimes goes as far to even suggest that the latest hobbies of billionaires is to build their very own personal submarines.   Or, in other words – there’s a huge degree of wealth creation [...]

To be pirated in Hollywood, or parodied is one of the greatest compliments in show biz. But for many filmmakers, pirating is not cool for their true success being recognized financially in garnering a return for the studios who back them. According to TorrentFreak.Com, the most pirated film on the planet (perhaps displaying an honest [...]

Rena oil cleanup moves to Whakatane   One boat, can cause collosal amounts of damage to New Zealanders livelihood. Ngati Awa, is the latest Maori Iwi to have a kaitiakitanga coastal issue, on their hands. Kia kaha. “Updated Maritime New Zealand today admitted it should have acted quicker in organising volunteers to help with the cleanup [...]

Myanmar Responds to Critics  - Myanmar’s government responded to activists who said its latest prison amnesty didn’t include enough political dissidents, asking critics to be patient—and look for ways to encourage the government to do more. News source – Wall Street Journal, today. [New Zealand's leading Maori Hollywood actor, Cliff Curtis' wife is from Myanmar. [...]

[Photo - Cape Reinga - Te Rerenga Wairua (The Underworld) - ancestral tribal beach of Te Aupouri and Ngati Kahu Maori Tribes. Moana of my nanny's peoples. Photo via wikipedia] From the Album: New Light Through Old Windows, here’s Chris Rea‘s classic hit, On The Beach. It’s all about the groovy guitaring, really and the [...]

  Insider Trading is that fine line that tempts people to break the rules in order to grow wealth illegally, through soliciting information from others unfairly, in order to get a competitive economic advantage, that’s illegal. The temptation to just see $ signs above all else, is a sickness that’s plaguing Wall Street. In the [...]

  We’re in All Blacks rugby football prime time season, as well as a political campaign heading towards elections in New Zealand. That means, if you’re Kiwi, you’re trying to do two things at once, at this moment: A) reference the political playing field – in order to keep democracy flowing and more evenly distributed - [...]

Bill Clinton Reacts To ‘Occupy’ Protests http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/12/bill-clinton-in-chicago-o_n_1007184.html Comments (960) | Occupy Wall Street ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 13.10.11~

At the 4.1 million benchmark on Horiwood.Com today, here are the top ten most voted posts today. For rugby players Hosea Gear and Stephen Donald – a late recall into the All Blacks rugby team, keeps their World Cup playing dreams alive. The most voted posts are: 1. Homepage – From Hollywood – 10 Rugby [...]