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Unfortunate Animal of the Month Club

Something interesting to subscribe to: A mutant plush toy in the mail every month.

"It has come to my attention that more often than you would think, folks are opening a box to find a hairy or furry bundle and assuming it’s their creature. Unwrap it, fellas!! When I say the wrappings are odd, I mean sometimes you have to cut the bear right out of the clutches of odd things sometimes… if it’s not DEFINITELY an animal, keep looking. And always examine those rabbits etc for hidden features, sometimes they will mutter or sing when pressed, and leave no safety pin pinned. If anyone sees this and liberates a beast, please email your tale to me—it’s happened twice that I personally know of, and for all I know a dozen of you have been silently fuming and cursing my name."

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Customised iPod Shuffles

A gellery of customised (and photoshopped) Japanese iPod Shuffles.

Music I'm Hating - Adam Green

Featuring Leonard Cohen style dork-in-the-bedroom guitar and singing, but instead of Leonard's poetry for lyrics you have idiotic make em up as you go along shite.  Leonard Cohen was already a pretty hard pill to swallow, but this just makes me barf instantly.  Perhaps Adam Green fans take him as a suppository? I can't decide whether to delete the whole lot or waste even more time trying to "get into it".  Thanks Adam Green.

Update - DELETED

Intelligent MIDI Sequencing with Hamster Control

Reknowned Hamsterologist Levy Lorenzo has found a better use for Hamsters than sandwiches.  He's incarcerated them in a hygenic plexiglass unit and taught them to play Aphex Twin.  The big surprise here is that the Hamsters are actually better than Richard D. James.

Link to Hamsters mp3

Link to Levy's Hamsterology paper - Intelligent MIDI Sequencing with Hamster Control

iPod Camera Connector

"The new iPod Camera Connector is an optional accessory that enables customers to connect their digital camera to iPod photo and import their photos into the iPod. By simply connecting the iPod Camera Connector and a digital camera*, customers can easily transfer digital images to their iPod photo, providing tremendous storage space so they can take more pictures. Imported photos are immediately viewable on iPod photo's crisp color screen, and can also be brought back to iPhoto(R) on the Mac or various photo applications on the PC. The iPod Camera Connector is expected to be available in late March for $29."

Oh yeah, there's new iPods.  Nothing amazing, just a 6 gig mini and a 30 gig iPod photo.  There is however a firmware update that adds a new feature - Shuffle Play - to the top level menu in older iPods.  Worth a download.

iPod firmware update

Berlin Rocks

For those of you who have not been convinced to go to Berlin by my last photo album there is help - a new album from the last few days in a snowy Berlin is up. Honestly, the place rocks.... best shopping, best food, best clubbing and lounging, best site seeing, dense graffiti scene, loads of young people and a whole lot of other funky sh*t. The coolest of it all is that all this, compared to elsewhere in Germany and Europe is not really expensive. A fun place you should definitely put on your travel plans for 2005!

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Straitjacket Fits 2005 shows

The Straitjacket Fits have reformed!  If you live in New Zealand you probably knew that.  Anyway, here are the dates for you lucky people back in Aotearoa:

22ND & 23RD April - THE STUDIO, AUCKLAND

(tickets available from Real Groovy & Ticketek)

29TH & 30TH April - BAR BODEGA, WELLINGTON

(tickets available from Real Groovy & Ticketek)

6TH May - THE CIVIC, CHRISTCHURCH

(tickets available from Real Groovy & Ticketek)

7TH May - SAMMY'S, DUNEDIN

(Radio One Birthday Party)

Tall Dwarfs - Nothing's Going To Happen Video

OK now I hope you buggers are going to appreciate this.  I just uploaded a 32 meg quicktime I ripped of a Tall Dwarfs song from 1981.  For you.  Featuring manic stop motion and lots of vintage Dunedin student flats.  It's from a DVD called Very Short Films, which has 41 music videos of Flying Nun bands all the way from The Clean to Stephen Malkmus (Yes, the lead singer from Pavement is signed to Flying Nun, just cause he thinks The Clean rock)

Nothing's Going to Happen video (32 megabytes)

Flying Nun Records

 

Delhi

This gallery is dedicated to the enduring crappiness of the Windows PC.  Notice the pictures all look they were taken on a phonecam? Well they weren't.. It's just because they looked so lame on my work craptop I tried to spruce them up a bit on Picasa - think sharpening filter.  And some other stuff.  What was I thinking?  Of course when I got home to Macland I could see the true awfulness of the images.  So, I apologise.  Let this be a warning for us all.

Link to gallery of shitty images from Delhi last week that I will try to replace with less shitty ones when I get around to it

 

Algae & Egg Flower Soup

If you happen to live close to the sea this is a perfect recipe - if not just buy dried algae!

1. Cook a half-liter of water with 2 teaspoons of good salt.
2. Add A thumb sized diced piece of ginger .
3. Add Algae (dried or fresh)  - amount depending on taste. Generally, 3 - 4 leaves.
4. Stir 1 egg foamy and then slowly add into the simmering water while you stir steadily.
5. Leave cooking for 2 min before adding one tablespoon of sesame oil and freshly cut spring onions.

Bon Appetite!