Lee Scratch Perry Roots Rock Reggae !!

OMG! OMG! OMFG!!!

Fat Freddy's Drop - Wandering Eye

Ahh, the drop! jammin' goodness from nz!

Salmonella Dub - Love Your Ways

more kiwi goodness, dub stylee!!

Reggae, reggae, reggae....

Links:
Burning Spear a.k.a Winston Rodney
Desmond Dekker (R.I.P)



Toots and the Maytals Their 'Do the Reggay' credited with giving it's name to the genre!
Prince Far I

Pressure Sounds bringing us the best of the best from the past (and the future!)

On-U Sounds always ten years ahead.

Mix your own dub Yay! coooool (flash required).

Another dub mixer Fade in...Fade out..

Leroy 'Horsemouth' Wallace looking well Irie in the movie Rockers, well worth a watch if only for the Burning Spear accapella.....

Gustav Dore

More here, 19th Century engraver/artist, stunning stuff especially his illo's for dante's Divine Comedy.

Dubstep

Courtesy kode9 , altogether now...

Disinformation

Thank Eris for disinformation...

Dysfunctional Xmas's

1. I'm working late shift until 11.00pm.
2. The partner rings in tears brought on by her #$%^&* sister making nasty comments at the family dinner.
3. Charlie Drake is dead, now his boomerang definitely won't come back....
4. Still, there's Nothing on TV is there!. Thank Eris I'm not a Xstian :o)

Mark Stewart - Hypontised

see below

Mark Stewart - Hypontised

ahhh, Mark...I took part in a chaotic magic ritual as an opener for a gig in Bristol, 1983 or thereabouts...the ritual worked 'cos it ended with the 'wizard' leaping off the stage to attack another wizard who'd been heckling him...that was to promote the release of Learning To Cope with Cowardice, his first album

The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist

Aussie mix'n'match craziness

Hey Ya Outkast

why not!!!

Che-Fu - Chains Reloaded

NZ hip hop goodness, mmmmm

CGI

Cool CGI goodness here, won't put a picture up, but by gar it's great stuff...

XTC-GRASS

from skylarking, produced by Todd Rundgren!

XTC- Burning With Optimism's Flames

oh xtc, how great thou wert/art...

Todd Rundgren - An elpee's worth of tunes

Todd goodness

Sir Frank Dicksee

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Dawn


Chivalry

I declare a soft spot for this guy......

Hundertwasser in New Zealand

There's toilets and there's toilets! Quite apt considering his name translates as Hundred Waters (Wikipedia).

zak!

Came across ZAK by chance, but stayed for a while. Architecture and design by Gar!

(picture: nOulipo (after Georges Perec) REDCAT Los Angeles)

occult or not to occult

If you have a hankering for the occult, here's an excellent site with lots of material and this is a christian site to balance it out (check out 'A biblical view of dungeons and dragons' section) plus this section courtesy of bibliodyssey , scroll down to La Très Sainte Trinosophie, gorgeous pictures from the Count de Saint Germain. (thanks to boingboing for the last tip!)

Auckland, gotta love it!

It's a nice place here in Auckland, despite the local council! See here and here (courtesy New Zealand Herald ). May not seem much but let's put it in context. First the heritage building is a tragic story because there just is not that much left of Auckland history to see, to the extent now that there are very little signs that Auckland has existed for more than 20 years! Of course, it's good that areas refresh themselves and reflect current practice in architecture, but there is a limit to the utter vandalism carried out in the name of progress. Secondly, the billboard thing is splitting me. It's pretty ugly in a lot of places, but on the other hand it does bring a lot of colour to somewhat drab concrete grey streets, and don't get me started on the current mania for apartment block buildings!!!! They look a lot like the picture to the left, but most have a floor area the size of a rabbit hutch....

links of interest

mesopotamia for info on Mesopotamia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fp5hbwdW3E nice animation (via neatorama)
the knife for some knife goodness (love electro, love life!)
http://www.huski.org/ for huski goodness!
Yeah, I do love electro pop with girly vocals (aaaahhhh, Goldfrapp! )

Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends....

Ahhh, another day another attempt at a blog.
So, random thoughts are the order of the day, occasional days off, links to interest and amuse...