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Taika Waititi (born 16 August 1975), also known as Taika Cohen, is a New Zealand film director, writer, painter, comedian, and actor.
He was nominated for an Academy Award for his 2004 short film Two Cars, One Night.
His 2010 film Boy became the top grossing film in New Zealand, and was released internationally in 2012.
Waititi hails from the Raukokore area of the East Coast region of the northern island of New Zealand. His father is Māori of Te Whānau-ā-Apanui and his mother is Jewish. Waititi used his mother's surname, "Cohen", for some of his work in film and writing.
While a drama student at Victoria University of Wellington, Waititi was part of the five-member ensemble, So You're a Man, which toured New Zealand and Australia with some success.
He was one half of the comedy duo The Humourbeasts alongside Jemaine Clement – recipients of New Zealand's highest comedy accolade, the Billy T Award, in 1999.
His 2003 short film Two Cars, One Night earned him an Academy Award nomination. At the awards ceremony, he famously feigned falling asleep as the nominations were being read out.
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Jemaine Clement (born 10 January 1974) is a New Zealand comedian, actor and multi-instrumentalist, known as one half of the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords along with Bret McKenzie and the voice of Nigel the Cockatoo in the Rio film series.
Jemaine Clement was born in Masterton, New Zealand on 10 January 1974 and was raised by his Māori mother, in the Wairarapa region. He attended Makoura College in Masterton. After graduation, he moved to New Zealand's capital Wellington, where he studied drama and film at Victoria University of Wellington. There he met Taika Waititi (a.k.a. Taika Cohen) with whom he went on to form So You're a Man and The Humourbeasts. In 2004, the Humourbeasts toured New Zealand in a stage show titled The Untold Tales of Maui, a rework of the traditional Maori legends of Māui. The duo received New Zealand's highest comedy honour, the Billy T Award.
I walk along these tired
streets
That I walked the night before
I cleared my head a thousand times
Whilst staring at your door
I tore up your photograph
And found myself taping it back together again
Can we start again?
'Cause the road is cold
And the sun's too bright
And the sunglasses on my face
I can't hide behind
I can't hide behind
Chorus:
This is my wake-up calling
This is my way of falling
Back into love with you
I'm a 6 in the morning fool
My feet are tired of walkin'
my words are tired of talkin'
I'm back in love with you
I'm a 6 in the morning fool
Days are nights and nights are days
And what are afternoons?
My only company is staring at the evening news
My friends try to take me out
To talk to me out of you and me getting together again
Yeah, they call themselves friends
All the lights are out
And the stores are closed
But the day is coming
And I'm the only one that knows
I'm the only one that knows
Chorus
Baby could you come outside
We can watch the rest arrive
Even if you say goodbye
I know that I have tried
I've tried to tell you
Got to tell you
Chorus
Yeah, yeah