Just so you know, Real Groovy is having the best sale at the moment. Here’s the results of my lunchtime stroll (21 degrees today in Auckland BTW). fIREHOSE – Mr Machinery Operator. A very underrated band from the SST label (eg Husker Du, Sonic Youth, Black Flag, etc etc), I got into these guys after…

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I bought my iPod (plain vanilla – 20gig, 4G) a few months ago, and frankly, I don’t know how I lived without it. Its just fitted right in to the way I do stuff, and now I’m going to become the 1,000,000,000th person on the internet to say OH MY GOD IT TOTALLY TOTALLY RULES.…

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I fairly refuse to watch TV1’s ‘news’ or ‘current affairs’ (Susan Wood?!? I’d rather watch a wheelie bin for half an hour weeknights) because it’s a load of patronising braindead shit. Still, I’m really happy to see the back of the ‘Mummy of the nation’. Sure, we all loved her and John Hawkesby on ‘Top…

This is genius. God bless the internet for bringing us stuff like this. (Link is a ten MB quicktime movie, pinched from waxy. link

I see The Warehouse has a new logo (on the left). I really liked the old one (on the right), because it looked like a last minute job by a twelve year old. I can just see it – the day before Stephen opened the first Warehouse he thought “Shit! We need a logo! Here,…

What is up with this guy? ‘KR’ is one of my most loathed people in the world, and now he’s chipping in on fighting terrorism? I’m going to write my own ‘motivational’ business book one of these days and make squillions off it too. It can’t be that hard if fucktards like this can do…