Pearl, dogg

Buried deep in this week's Wellingtonian is a press-release puff-up on Wellington mature girly pop-duo Pearl. You may remember them from having supported uh.. Elton John and uh.. Eric Clapton. Anyway they've just launched a new video clip on Youtube and are justifiably pleased with racking up over 80,000 views inside a month (100,000+ by now).

While the tune is by no means to my taste, I enjoyed the clip with its irreverent take on the modern relationship, and subtle nods (and no doubt winks) to less widespread sub-cultural sexual practices such as fetishism, sex toys, "dogging" and "seagulling" (right).

Dogging (Wikipedia; sex disease risks) is a relatively well known phenomenon, due in part to column inches and tabloid outrage, but its mutant evil bastard spawn seagulling is perhaps less so. I can't find anything definitive to link to but the UrbanDictionary is a help; you'll get the idea through a combination of defn's 2 and 8.

And no one ever actually believed Eddie Vedder when he said that his band name Pearl Jam was a reference to the preserves his grandmother made. Did they?

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NP: Alice Coltrane -- Radha - Krsna Nama Sankirtana (BBC Jazz Review)

If a burglar stole the first four tracks from this cd in the night, I doubt whether I'd mind, but take that fifth track and I'll be calling the cops....