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Here’s a feeble attempt to do some Kottke style linkage. – I’ve started hankering after electric guitars again, which is a dangerous, slippery slope. Large parts of my yoof were spent loitering in and near Hamilton’s music shops looking for mythical bargains – but in this age of TradeMe, the ol’ bargains just aren’t around…

Thinking Caps Originally uploaded by richirvine73.

Grand Theft Auto : San Andreas is a pretty sweet game. I don’t have the commitment (or the time) to really charge through it, but at the moment I’m in an ‘interesting bit’, so I’m playing a little more. You get to run around (and create mayhem) in amazing replicas of Los Angeles (which I’ve…

I love Aphex Twin – and here’s a taste of his new compilation kindly provided by MP3 blog music for robots. It’s a typical ‘Twin track, with all kinds of electronic squiggles and weird voices – then just when you think ‘what gives? This thing’s not going anywhere’ it all comes together nicely with strings…

Katz_hitchhikers What’s Katz, then? Originally uploaded by richirvine73.

An ongoing series in which the blogger shares his budget orientated music and / or movie purchases, revealing something of both his refined taste and an unwillingness to shell out any decent cash for it. What The Covers Record by Cat PowerEh? Cat Power is Chan Marshall, who makes quiet records with mainly just her…

Over on my sports site sportreviewnz there’s a new rugby cartoon, all about Richie McCaw, who’s got a lot of coaches bleating about his style of play. I’m going to try and do one of these every week if I can.link

Burnt house2 Originally uploaded by richirvine73.

The Guardian’s not too impressed with Breaks Co-Op: “…their turntable-enhanced, take-it-easy folk-rock is for anyone who wishes Crosby, Stills & Nash had stuck around for trip-hop”. Fair play, Zane has done really (really) well in the UK as a DJ and MTV host, but Breaks Co-Op are still shit. I was at the New Year’s…

Auckland’s weather has been bloody crazy lately. What about this? Friday – it’s OK, just an average cloudy day, then about 9.30, BAM – the rain drums so hard on the roof you have to turn the TV up to hear, and even then you’re struggling. It’s just RELENTLESS, and I had to go to…