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Tunes for a Tuesday – 5 March 2013

Posted on 5 March, 2013 by jb

Adieu, mein kleiner Gardeoffizier – Richard Tauber – Hits aus Deutschland 1930-1937 [Listen]
Freak Radio Edit – Glint [Listen]
I Still Miss Someone [Live at New River Ranch, Rising Sun, MD, 1962] – Johnny Cash – Bootleg 3: Live Around the World [Listen]
Infinity – The Xx [Listen]
It’s Oh so Quiet (Bjork Cover) – No Age – The Covers Mixtape Xii [Listen]
Most Of All – The Moonglows – The Chess Story 1947-1975 (1952-1954) [Listen]
Rude Girl (Prototype Remix) – Baitercell & Schumacher – Homegrown Mix – Katchafire Remixed [Listen]
Take Me Home – Germany Germany – BIRP! May 2011 [Listen]
Teddy Bear – G-Wiz [Listen]
You’ve Made Me So Very Happy – Hearts Of Stone – Stop The World – We Wanna Get On [Listen]

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Oh, bloody hell…..

Posted on 4 March, 2013 by jb

Cousin Ruth’s not taking her pills again….

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A poem

Posted on 3 March, 2013 by jb

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Tectonically speaking

Posted on 3 March, 2013 by jb

A Redittor posted an image of divers swimming between chasms separating tectonic plates.
A geologist responds seriously, the next with a pun, the string continues a steady slide into groan territory…

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Lunch at The Suter

Posted on 2 March, 2013 by jb

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Tunes for a Tuesday – 26 February 2013

Posted on 26 February, 2013 by jb

Close Remix (Beat Connection) – Sun Airway – BIRP! September 2012 [Listen]
Glowing Mouth – Milagres – BIRP! October 2011 [Listen]
Goes Out – Play People [Listen]
I Love Your Army – Chadwick Stokes – Simmerkane II [Listen]
Lovestruck – Hush [Listen]
Quarter to Three – Gary ‘U.S.’ Bonds – Billboard Top 100 – 1961 [Listen]
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter – The Search [Listen]
The Letter – The Box Tops – The Letter [Listen]
Tubthumping – Chucklebutt [Listen]
Won’t Come Home – Bad Breaks – BIRP! December 2012 [Listen]

Posted in Mixtape, Music, Tunes for a Tuesday | Tagged 1961, Bad Breaks, Billboard Top 100, BIRP! December 2012, BIRP! October 2011, BIRP! September 2012, Chadwick Stokes, Chucklebutt, Close Remix (Beat Connection), Gary 'U.S.' Bonds, Glowing Mouth, Goes Out, Hush, I Love Your Army, Lovestruck, Milagres, Play People, Quarter to Three, Simmerkane II, Sun Airway, The Box Tops, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Letter, The Search, Tubthumping, Won't Come Home | Leave a comment

Tunes for a Tuesday – 19 February 2013

Posted on 19 February, 2013 by jb

Had Me a Real Good Time – The Faces – Long Player [Listen]
Heartbeats – José González – Veneer [Listen]
Hush Hush – Airliner – BIRP! February 2011 [Listen]
I Wanna Destroy You – Uncle Tupelo – Still Feel Gone [Listen]
Jenny Lee – Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac – Live at the BBC [Listen]
Jo – Les Paul [Listen]
Love Jones – J Dilla [Listen]
Rock Love – Utopia – Adventures in Utopia [Listen]
Thriller – Ben Gibbard [Listen]
True Colors – Phil Collins – Greatest Hits [Listen]

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An iPhone 4 goes to dinner @ The Oriental, BKK

Posted on 17 February, 2013 by jb

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It’s not normal.

Posted on 16 February, 2013 by jb

“It’s not normal to feel your pelvis break. It’s not normal to be crushed smaller, smaller, smaller, until you can shrink no smaller. It’s not normal to feel kilo after kilo, tonne after tonne land on your left hip and to wonder when the weight might stop falling. It’s not normal to be dug out from under a collapsed building by strangers and taken to hospital in the back of another stranger’s truck. It’s not normal to plead with those strangers who are risking their lives to save yours to please get the others first, only to find out that there are no others. It’s not normal to discover you’re the only one left.”

What a stunning first sentence.

What a stunning opening paragraph.

What a well-argued essay.

And what a fine piece of analytical writing

Posted in This is New Zealand, Too good to miss | 1 Comment

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