Tunes for a Tuesday – 17 January 2012

Posted on 17 January, 2012 by jb

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 Guitar [Listen]
For What It’s Worth – Buffalo Springfield – Retrospective: the Best of Buffalo Springfield [Listen]
Madame Geneva’s (Mark Knopfler Cover) – Chris Smither [Listen]
Mary Wants to Be a Superstar (Live) – Stevie Wonder – London, 01/31/74 [Listen]
The Shows – Glowbug – BIRP! June 2011 [Listen]
This Is How You Remind Me – Nickelback [Listen]
We’re Good – Peasant [Listen]

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Underhand? Or underarm?

Posted on 14 January, 2012 by jb

How to beat the sideshow hucksters.

How to cheat at cricket. Legally.

Richie Benaud gets it right at 8:20

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Truly Indian Finished Pig

Posted on 14 January, 2012 by jb

With a Conformité Européenne (CE) seal of approval, no less.

(Not to be confused with Bratherings, of course….)

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Letter to my younger self

Posted on 14 January, 2012 by jb

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

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The Nelson Mail is confused….

Posted on 12 January, 2012 by jb

Shurely shum mishtake?

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y = 6

Posted on 11 January, 2012 by jb

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Fenton!!!!!!!!

Posted on 10 January, 2012 by jb

The original

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The joy of books

Posted on 10 January, 2012 by jb

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Tunes for a Tuesday – 10 January 2012

Posted on 10 January, 2012 by jb

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 Of Catullus – CK Stead – Classic New Zealand Poets In Performance [Listen]
God Only Knows – The Beach Boys – Rehearsal 1967 [Listen]
Roll Um Easy – Little Feat – Hotcakes & Outtakes [Listen]
Shape I’m In – The Band – The Last Waltz [Listen]
Southern Politician – Willy DeVille – Miracle [Listen]
Trinklied – Kissin Cousins [Listen]
Yesterday’s Gone – Chad and Jeremy – The British Invasion – The History Of British Rock [Listen]

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They just paid $4million more for it

Posted on 7 January, 2012 by jb

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 $4million more for it”

Off Pakatoa Island.

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