plus the best news - one of my favourite songs by one of my favourite bands is getting released on 7".

ahoy

best present EVER. from my brother...

"it's blue...

...how wonderful. it is amazing"

- yuri gagarin to ground control, 12/04/61


being summer now the blue lake is, uhhhhhh, blue. and it is pretty amazing. so on sunday afternoon, after a huge subway and several glasses of egg nog, i got my fat arse on my bike and went for a ride. here's some photos















if you want to see decent photos of really really decent bikes, go here or here. i know mine suck. but if you look closely at that last photo, you can see my tomatoes, corn, zucchini and squash are kind of ruling at the moment.

have a safe happy xmas etc.

don't know about best releases of 2009, but this is my favourite song of the year



a jam that makes everything seem ok

chili fried mango

mmmmmmmmm...............

lol

saw this just now on a lunch break, had to post it

my hot french bike, by the sea

hey, wha' happened?

been watching a mighty wind purely for the fred willard moments



genius

rad dudes

rad dudes is a slowly becoming a favourite, up there with awkward family photos. search for the halloween post.

here's some rad dudes we all recognise...



and some dudes saluting rad dudes...



rad.

Octogenarian hero – Peter Cundall

"Did you hear the direction before?" an officer asked him.
"I did hear it," he replied.
"Are you refusing to leave now?"
"I'm afraid so, I do respect the law but I'm so sorry but I will be refusing to leave," Mr Cundall said.
"Then you realise that if you refuse to leave you can be arrested," the officer said.
"I understand that," he replied.
"OK, I'm now arresting you," the officer told him.

full story

fassbinder t-shirt

we had a skull castle when we were kids. and i like a bit of bike porn. consequently, i think this is genius.

hot, homesick and haunted

well not really homesick, but away from home. spent a week supervising drilling in the riverland. nice spot. their limestone aquifer is confined. nice coarse sands at ~15-25m. shame the about the super high salinities.

how often can you say ‘dry as a nun’ before it stops being funny? not enough. my arms are even a little browner. and haunted! the homestead that is. enough to make me believe in things i never believed in before, and go stay in the pub. i got to drive a car with a flashing light though. swings and roundabouts.

how resilient are broad beans? resilient as fuck! these went in last summer, and while nothing grew in winter, and all that was there was blown over and washed out, broad beans survived to give me a couple of tasty bowls of mock bbc. tuff!

this post needs a video too. this came on my ipod flying home this morning.

so did this, but the embedding is disabled. its the better of the two songs though. click on it.

stayed with my parents last weekend. how funny is my dad? they were watching a bbc bio-drama thing about jane austen. i was in the other room reading old peanuts comics. dad came in and had a look through the world book encyclopedia, then went back and told mum “she dies pretty soon, so it won’t go for much longer.” !

water, water everywhere

spent two days wading around wetlands in the USE sampling surface water and groundwater for isotope analysis. amazing to see parts of the world underwater that haven’t been underwater for five years or more. trekking to rarely spotted granite outcrops and spotting even rarelier spotted native flowers.

like i say, amazing.



panoma-rama!

and what better to come home to than a po box full of wonderful stuff like mississippi records and kan mikami goods mail-ordered from the best music shop in australia, sunshine and grease.

not to mention the fkn fantastic native cats album mailordered from karl. thanks karl.

music of transparent means was always a live favourite in adelaide. sadly i now live in mount gambier. even sadlier, alex carpenter now lives in new york. but thanks to the wonders of the internet, we can all watch/listen to his amazing audio visual work no matter where we are.



fuck i miss motm though. more here.

from the archives of hot rock axion, pt. 2

birthday gospel special, been listening to this over and over for weeks now...





peace

listen to the native cats

J'taime moi non plus

i have to say, today was a good day...

a bunch of old duke ellington and django reinhardt lps, bike parts for a repair job back home, new camelback, and a sunny afternoon ride to hallett cove conservation park = happy me.

oh, and my mind was blown first thing this morning by watching this...



something else was done to my mind by another warp video recently...

1784

It takes 1784 days to age 4.9 years. That's approximate, and not taking into account leap years. Which the year 1784 was coincidentally. It was also the year in which King Ferdinand VII of Spain was born, and Samuel Johnson died.





1784 was also the number I wore in a 12km fun run on Sunday. Surprisingly it was fun. And despite my lack of training I did it in 1:08:31. Personal best. Next year? Under an hour. Easy.