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Wallace on bFM‘s breakfast show is running a competition to name your top 5 NZ songs ever. As everyone knows, New Zealand music beings and ends with my personal collection of Flying Nun vinyl, but that aside, here’s mine. 5. Scorpio Girls – Supergroove. You can’t hear the opening guitar riff without flinging a jug…

A few Calvin and Hobbes cartoons, because it’s Friday. Here’s Slate’s version, and an appreciation from Progressive Boink with some quite heart rending commentary. link

You have received a Telecom Photo/Video Message Originally uploaded by richirvine73. This award goes to the guy in this Rover spotted on Contstellation Drive. Yep, that says ‘HO BA1T’. Disturbingly, the use of a ‘1’ instead of an I means there’s someone else cruising around with “HO BAIT’. The mind boggles.

Omaha Originally uploaded by richirvine73.

I really like loud electric guitars and all the dirty-as noises they make. I used to spend hours with distortion pedals trying to make sounds as f**cked up as possible, and the opening chords of Mudhoney’s ‘Sweet young thing ain’t sweet no more’, one of the dirtiest, shittiest sounding bits of distortion ever recorded… well,…

Katz FB is the logo of the mighty Katz FB, the pub quiz team I’ve played for in the last couple of years. Katz FB came about on the first night I played – I’d had a couple of pints already, and thought “we need a logo” – and lo – Katz FB was born.…

One of the upsides of Mount Maunganui’s transformation from bach-y getway into a kind of little Auckland complete with property price obsession is that there’s now a fine array of eateries – a far cry from what used to be there. Anyway, just quickly, if you havn’t been to Astrolabe lately, a restaurant / bar…

I’m not really sure what Chartered Trips is going to be yet – at the moment it’s just a place where I can write some stuff, show some photos, and keep the ol’ brain active. Right now, I’m trying to keep up a post every week day – we’ll see how long that lasts. I…

triathalon 070106 001 Originally uploaded by richirvine73. I’m almost never up early. So when I did, I got it on film.

So it tipped down last night in Auckland. Nothing unusual there, but for cycle commuters, it’s game on, in the shit hour. When it’s sunny, and the pavement is dry, biking home is great fun. You’ve got the sun on your back, and you’re ripping in and out of the traffic like no-ones’ business, youc…