It’s where I do my raindance / Just to weather the crop
Maybe it’s me, but it’s an odd-ish year musically. I’ve gone through dull spots when I’ve convinced myself that 2012 mostly sucked or was very average at best — and then *bam* something comes along and...
View ArticleSomeday you will find me / Caught beneath the landslide
Mostly this blog — The Opinionated Diner, not this post — is me thinking aloud. Sometimes it has obvious shape and form, other times I perhaps post before I should, and the substance is thin. I’m not...
View ArticleThere’s a stack of shellac and vinyl / Which is yours now and which is mine?...
Since we’re celebrating record stores and all things vinyl, I thought I’d repost this, originally from August April last year — posted again for record store day (late) and NZ Music month (1 day...
View ArticleThen I wake up / And your name is on my tongue
I need to excise stuff. Firstly I need to excise the the fact I’ve not posted here for 5 months. A block? I guess so, mostly created and driven by the fact that my life since mid-2012 has been one of...
View ArticleJames Brown 1933–2006
A guest post from Murray Cammick. Mo’ says: This is the version of the James Brown story (that was published in the February 2007 RipItUp magazine) before I axed 300 or so words and a bit of the colour...
View ArticleNoisy? I guess so…
I feel like I’m slowly coming out of a dark hole. Of my own making of course. I blog mostly because I enjoy it - and because it provides a place where I can harmlessly vent and enthuse to my heart’s...
View ArticleJust Whistlin’
I spent three or four hours taking photos of the protests last Sunday. There have been all sorts of absurd claims of millions of protesters but logic and the eyeball would indicate a crowd in the low...
View ArticleChippy
Just a few pictures of our very much loved little dog, Chippy, who passed away on the 25th of May, 2014 aged just nine.
View ArticleHow Bizarre and more
What a funny old year this has been. Good, I mean. Very good. I turned sixty. Who turns sixty? Only other people surely. I’ve travelled with Brigid – at last tally 2015 has seen us in Thailand, New...
View ArticleNobody did it better
Let’s make this perfectly clear from the start: I’m a Sean Connery man. Nothing in Bondism matches that holy quartet of Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger and Thunderball. And only McCartney’s...
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