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Tunes for a Tuesday – 17 January 2012
Back In The USSR – The Beach Boys – Recorded 4 July 1984 in Washington DC [Listen] Big Boom – Windmill [Listen] Creature Makers – Solarsolar – BIRP! December 2010 [Listen] Cup of Blood – The Dudes – Brain Heart … Continue reading
Posted in Mixtape, Music, Tunes for a Tuesday
Tagged 01/31/74, Back In The USSR, Big Boom, BIRP! December 2010, BIRP! June 2011, Brain Heart Guitar, Buffalo Springfield, Chris Smither, Creature Makers, Cup of Blood, For What It's Worth, Glowbug, London, Madame Geneva's (Mark Knopfler Cover), Mary Wants to Be a Superstar (Live), Nickelback, Peasant, Recorded 4 July 1984 in Washington DC, Retrospective: the Best of Buffalo Springfield, Solarsolar, Stevie Wonder, The Beach Boys, The Dudes, The Shows, This Is How You Remind Me, We're Good, Windmill
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Underhand? Or underarm?
How to beat the sideshow hucksters. How to cheat at cricket. Legally. Richie Benaud gets it right at 8:20
Truly Indian Finished Pig
With a Conformité Européenne (CE) seal of approval, no less. (Not to be confused with Bratherings, of course….)
Letter to my younger self
Found in The Big Issue, a weekly newspaper with good journalism by significant writers and sold by homeless people who buy it for £1.25 and sell it for £2.50. A hand up, not a hand out, as they say
The Nelson Mail is confused….
Shurely shum mishtake?
Posted in It must be me, This is Nelson
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Tunes for a Tuesday – 10 January 2012
Bi Biancu E Di Moru – I Muvrini – Terra Corsa [Listen] Crazy Crazy Nights – Kiss – The Best Rock Album in the World … Ever! [Listen] Excellent Birds – Laurie Anderson – Mister Heartbreak [Listen] From The Masks … Continue reading
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Tagged Bi Biancu E Di Moru, Chad and Jeremy, CK Stead, Classic New Zealand Poets In Performance, Crazy Crazy Nights, Excellent Birds (Peter Gabriel Cover), From The Masks Of Catullus, God Only Knows, Hotcakes & Outtakes, I Muvrini, Kiss, Kissin Cousins, Laurie Anderson, Little Feat, Miracle, Mister Heartbreak, Rehearsal 1967, Roll Um Easy, Shape I'm In, Southern Politician, Terra Corsa, the band, The Beach Boys, The Best Rock Album in the World ... Ever!, The British Invasion, The History Of British Rock Vol. 01, The Last Waltz [Disc 2], Trinklied, Willy DeVille, Yesterday's Gone
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They just paid $4million more for it
My mate Houghton is the proud owner of “Raindance“, a delightful 1928 30′ cabin cruiser that he’s renovated to near-perfection. He writes of the floating gin palace to his starboard: “Same bay, same beach, same view – they just paid … Continue reading

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