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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Fake plastic sushi
One of the best sushi spots* in town, a little place in Brandon Street, also has the best Fake Plastic Sushi:

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* Unverified.
What did they do to chill the joy away?
Apparently there is a "love field deviation" on the corner of Normanby and Riddiford Street, in Newtown:

Thank you to the person who posted this sticker and performed this valuable public service. I'll keep well away from this tree-protector cage thingummy, cos god knows I can do without a deviation in my love field.
I'm enchanted with the possibility that the sticker is is somehow a reference to the form of the tree-protector cage thingummy, which is more than a little reminiscent of classic diagrams of di-polar (electro)magnetic field-lines in (for example) geo-physics:
But I expect that it is more likely a promotional tool for an exhibition of the same name by Wellington painter REMO (Roger Morris), held earlier this year.
Thank you to the person who posted this sticker and performed this valuable public service. I'll keep well away from this tree-protector cage thingummy, cos god knows I can do without a deviation in my love field.
I'm enchanted with the possibility that the sticker is is somehow a reference to the form of the tree-protector cage thingummy, which is more than a little reminiscent of classic diagrams of di-polar (electro)magnetic field-lines in (for example) geo-physics:
(click on the diagrams to read lots more)
But I expect that it is more likely a promotional tool for an exhibition of the same name by Wellington painter REMO (Roger Morris), held earlier this year.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour
Down at the local, the arm-wrestling competition begins tonight:

I'm hoping to get along to have a bit of a perve.
I'm hoping to get along to have a bit of a perve.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Champagne and misery where are you?
On and off, over the years, a good number of people have asked me why I don't have any work from my Spaceships Of The Mind series available in my online-portfolio.

So over the weekend I pulled finger, and uploaded some.
Are ''Friends'' Electric?, 2002
Oil on canvas, 64x99 cm
(private collection)
So over the weekend I pulled finger, and uploaded some.
Thursday, May 01, 2008
That's me in the background, losing my hearing
Evidence of the first Stumps excursion into the northern lands (aka Auckland, NZ). People seemed to like the show. Girls danced. It was certainly the most intense 50 min of furious noise-rock carnage that we have yet exacted upon a paying audience. Later on, that monitor at front stage right started smoking and we had to stop. Gig: Saturday night.. hearing returned to normal: Tuesday arvo.
Picture by Robyn. There's a WHOLE bunch more here.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
The sun never sets on this world I have found
A song for Wednesday:

... from Dub Housing (wikipedia).
edit
jeez, last night's effort was pretty lame huh. So, let's try again.
Some words about Pere Ubu: insular, fractured, volatile, bleak, whimsical, eerie, tense, anxious, paranoid, confrontational, harsh, gloomy, cerebral, detached, quirky, absurdist warble, rapturous, demented, self-destructing melodies, scattershot rhythms, industrial-strength dissonance, manic intensity, dark impenetrability
Pere Ubu - I Will Wait (2.47 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download; play using the handy little embedded player below)
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jeez, last night's effort was pretty lame huh. So, let's try again.
If you're interested in rock music; if you're interested in the fringes of rock music, where the madman hold court and the wild things are, then you really need look no further than Pere Ubu. Their late-70s "art-punk" albums capture the angst and chaos of their times -- and ours -- with both apocalyptic fervor and surprising humanity.
Some words about Pere Ubu: insular, fractured, volatile, bleak, whimsical, eerie, tense, anxious, paranoid, confrontational, harsh, gloomy, cerebral, detached, quirky, absurdist warble, rapturous, demented, self-destructing melodies, scattershot rhythms, industrial-strength dissonance, manic intensity, dark impenetrability
Friday, April 18, 2008
Stumps live
Also, if you're in Auckland next weekend, we're playing at the Whammy Bar on Saturday night, 26 April. More details here.....
The Stumps and White Saucer
Saturday, 26 April 2008
at Whammy Bar, 183 Karangahape Road (St. Kevins Arcade), Newton
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Dead bees
On the PseudoArcana site, the label-boss Antony wrote:
Campbell Kneale once explained that to describe Wellington's seht as drone music is much the same as describing Antarctica as white. Where as many of us utilise the drone as an ingredient, a point of departure, Stephen Clover's seht project distills drones to craft something very like a fine liquor.
One Moment, the 35-minute first track on dead bees is Clover's somnambulist ambient drone masterpiece, a famous insomniac's grand fantasy of sleep. Setting sail with the gentle sound of submerged bells one sinks deeper as lush rich tones gradually merge into a swell of dream-scape waves. Deeper still and one finds oneself glowing in a deep warm golden molasses that shimmers and sways until time somehow folds in upon itself and loses all meaning as ones consciousness shifts into angel gear for the lonnnng coast out.
But Clover is also agent provocateur -- a wry and acerbic wit. To say that there are surprises to follow is an understatement...
That was nice, wasn't it! In time, this page is where you'll be able to read other stuff about the album. And, you can hear a sample from the album here.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Friday, April 11, 2008
Der Hund liegt auf dem Beton
Der Hund, lethargic though he may be, looks like he would take your arm off as soon as look at you.

It's some kind of husky/Samoyed dog, possibly a cross. Doesn't he have bewdiful eyes!?
It's some kind of husky/Samoyed dog, possibly a cross. Doesn't he have bewdiful eyes!?
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Buckle up, we're wayward bound
Breakfast in cemetery, boy tastin wild cherry.. touch girl, apple blossom, just a boy playin possum.
Beat Happening - Indian Summer (5.66 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download; play using the handy little embedded player below)
Luna - Indian Summer (Beat Happening cover) (5.29 MB mp3)
Sonic Boom (Pete Kember) - Indian Summer (Beat Happening cover) (5.05 MB mp3)
We'll come back for Indian Summer
We'll come back for Indian Summer
We'll come back for Indian Summer
And go our separate ways.....................
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
what the man said when his wife came home and he thought she was looking a bit sour and then the first thing she said to him was
"so whose is that new motorcycle parked outside the house?"
Monday, April 07, 2008
The Black Wood reviewed
In a dream, you've gotten yourself lost in an endless cavern... you've been curiously wandering in the darkness, down down into the earth, for a long long time. When you stop to rest, you realize that the silence that had surrounded you is different now. You think you can hear music... drifting from someplace deeper in the darkness. Drifting, droning, dark, dark, dark... that's this music, the reverberant, cavernous, quiet sounds of The Stumps. Sleepy and creepy at the same time. You move closer, and The Stumps get louder. Troglodytic thud and rumble begins to build. That's the beauty of this album, these tracks are part whale call mystery, part trashy crashy garage rock clangor. Ambient eeriness flows into plodding free rock chaos, with heavy distortion blanketing all. The twelve and a half minute untitled track number 5 (none have titles, as far as we can tell) is all about that drone-drift, whilst track 7, for instance, rouses itself to a spaced-out, slow-motion spasm of psychedelic guitar grind-gunk and percussive splatter-clatter.
The Stumps trio of drummer James Kirk (Sandoz Lab Technicians, Gate, With Throats As Fine As Needles), bassist Stephen Clover (Seht), and guitarist Antony Milton (Mrtyu, AM, Nether Dawn, etc.) is a New Zealand underground supergroup, by the way. No wonder they're so easily so shambolic, somnolent, and sinister sounding... Outside of their own cd-r littered island realm, we couldn't compare this to much else besides, maybe, Fushitsusha.
Welcome to the cavern, welcome to the dream.
Friday, April 04, 2008
i don't care how much i gotta spend, i gotta get back to my baby again
The Arbors - The Letter (5.26 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download; play using the handy little embedded player below)
OMFG... OMFG... OMFG... did you hear that?
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Saturday, March 29, 2008
If it be your will
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man is a mediocre documentary about Leonard Cohen which I watched the other night. In amongst the dullness, though, was this:

That's Antony, out of Antony and the Johnsons, singing the Leonard Cohen classic from Various Positions. God he's good.
For K.
Antony - If It Be Your Will (live) (4.12 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download; play using the handy little embedded player below)
That's Antony, out of Antony and the Johnsons, singing the Leonard Cohen classic from Various Positions. God he's good.
For K.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Mould
Mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould mould.. and a little bit of dusty lichen.
Vangelis - Bladerunner theme (end titles) (3.26 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download; play using the handy little embedded player below)
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Monday, March 03, 2008
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