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  • Elliot Smith – Needle In The Hay

  • DangerHorse

    Dark Night Of The Soul, the collaboration between DangerMouse and Sparklehorse is available on teh torrents (it’s a *very* quick download).

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    The album will be released as a blank CD-R to Stick It To The Man – The Guardian has more.

  • Get out on the highway

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    A series of portraits taken from moving cars.

    via Matt Buchanan

  • Zero hour

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    I *did* get there in the end. Slept like a baby.

  • New Yorker Hotel

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    I think I have a new favorite building.

  • This ipod needs more Wes

    My ‘Wes Anderson Soundtracks’ itunes playlist gets its’ fair share of air time, lending an effortlessly sophisticated aural sheen to any bbq or family get-together.

    If, like me, you’d like More Of This Kind Of Thing, soundtrack orientated film blog The Playlist has three downloadable Wes-style playlists for getting quirky to.

  • How to make your blog suck less

    Merlin Mann and John Gruber on Turbocharging your blogs with credibility.

    When two of the smartest internet guys around talk, you should listen, really.

  • Bressa Creeting Cake appreciation day

    Bressa Creeting Cake recorded my fav NZ album ever – here’s my entry to Public Address System’s Soundtrack competition. It’s a fuck of an album.Bressa Creeting Cake for the most part went on to become vineyard and
    orchstra salwarts Goldenhorse, after releasing my favorite NZ album, the eponymous Bressa Creeting Cake. Dodgy name (and cover) aside, BCC is choka with fine tunes, great playing and cheerful bizarreness. Track four ‘Superstation’ is an ode to buying petrol station pies, while ‘A Chip That Sells Millions’ tells the tale of a boy taking his food scientist Dad’s new chip flavor sachets to school to ‘blow his friends out with flavors they don’t know about’.It’s a rilly summery album, complete with cicadas running throughout ‘Zenax’, and the perfect pop opening of track one ‘Palm Singing’. The band took over a studio in Devonport to record it – having recently moved to the Shore I love that this ace album was recorded here (hey, Frank Sargeson lived on the shore too, hey? And Warwick Roger). Rocky Mountain is a fantastic laid back pop song, and was chosen for Flying Nun’s 25th Anniversary Box.

    This is one of my most-listened to albums ever, and I’m still discovering little noises and lyrical phases. I love that this is BCC’s only recorded output, giving it the same ‘we made one perfect album and that’s it-ness’ of say, The Stone Roses (IF you don’t count Second Coming, which I don’t). I love its’ intelligence, sly humor, unabashed pop – I only wish I’d got to seen them live, and enjoy catching little BCC moments in Goldenhorse songs.

    Further BCC resources here.

  • New Cloverfield trailer

    Empire has the latest trailer for Cloverfield, the mysterious monster mashup movie that ‘s got interweb nerds ordering an extra case of Mountain Dew and towelettes for extra long nights’ online debate. It’s bought to you by Lost’s JJ Abrahams, and has loads of hand held camera stuff, plus shit blowing up – The Blair Godzilla Project, if you will.
    Fill yer big monster fighting boots here
    Bonus link: Is this the monster?

  • It lives!

    Aaaaand… I’m back. Since January, I’ve been mostly blogging at sportreviewnz.sportreviewnz started with links to sports stories I found interesting, and reviewing my old sports books. Then I started doing my sporting ‘cartoons’ (I always put that in quotes. It doesn’t seem right to include my farking around with photoshop, powerpoint and swearing in the same genre as what Tom Scott, Bill Watterson and Charles Shulz do/did).

    There were two World Cups this year, Cricket and Rugby, and I started writing satire – I really enjoy this, NZ sport takes itself very, very seriously indeed and needs more stupidity, I say. Here’s one of my favs. And another. And another. And another. One more. Some of them got pretty random and got no reaction, like the All Black body parts and ‘Tagotown. I thought they were funny. Heh.

    Right now, I’m a little burned out on it. Real life work keeps getting busier also. I’ve dipped me toe in the water here, and it’s OK, but I’ll stick to the ‘keeping up with me mates’ angle rather than the ‘OMGZERS, I got BIG MOTORBIKE, Come RAce ME and BUY me a DRINK’ stuff.

    What about all the other stuff in life, like my new imac, my tightfisted approach to buying movies and music, and the sad fact I’ve spent much of my free time in the last week re-genre-ing my itunes library? Where does that fit on a shoddy sports parody blog? It doesn’t, so I’m getting the band back together here on Chartered Trips. I’ve missed it, and it’ll hopefully kickstart more writing on the other channel too.

    Update : I’ve just looked through the archives, and this blog has only ever had one comment! What a beauty.