The Bats "Horizon": download from you send it here {10.7MB, 320kb/s, 4.42 mins}
from the 2005 album At the National Grid


( Read more... )

I just saw Pip Proud's first live show since 1969 and it was freaking amazingly great ( Read more... )

hey me,
stop wasting time doing these:

- online boggle
- reading Buffy slash

I've got a book out, Art Now vol. 2 by Taschen... it runs through 136 artists and is full of big colour reproductions, nicely laid out, as you expect in these books for rich people, anyway there's a short quote from each artist at the end of their four-page spread and I've been enjoying them and decided to type them up so I could look at them all ( Read more... )

but first, one of my favourite art quotes:

"Being an artist is like being awake when the rest of the world is asleep. It is also like being asleep when the rest of the world is awake."
- Gregory O'Brien's opening from his book Welcome to the South Seas: Contemporary New Zealand Art for Young Peoplecomplete "artist statements"* from the book ( Read more... )

Ooo! Dame Darcy has illustrated Jane Eyre! Maybe she'll do Wuthering Heights next ( Read more... )

Bob Dylan, Karl, and the boy from wombtown singing In My Time of Dyin' together in achingly beautiful harmony

SAVE ME

has anyone heard this TRIPPED OUT recording that's up on WFMU's excellent beware of the blogplease at least somebody go there and listen, I don't want to be the only one, I may be abducted in the night or something. I've just crazed myself by transcribing side one ( Read more... )

Grant McLennan died.
amazing 1983 song of his:
Cattle and Cane mp3 [192kbps, 6mb]

Go-betweens.net

+
C and C video on you tube

Typed up this wee piece by George D. Henderson from Real Groove, mid 90s sometime I guess. Not sure what to do with it so I'm just bunging it on here for now:

Just What Were They On?
The Puddle's George Henderson tracks the pharmacology of Dunedin music
( ..:.o.o.:.. )