it's very pleasant

surprise!!

2005-10-27T17:55:00.000+10:00

i thought i'd jump in for some last minute self promotion.

this weekend:

friday, one hour SPOoOoOoOKY DJ set on FBi from midday.
friday night, opulent launch at the mandarin club feat qua, mountains in the sky and chasm. and me. and evet and will.
sunday afternoon. vice halloween party at the abercrombie feat some bands. and me.

WOAH!

MURDER

2005-10-14T18:02:00.000+10:00

i'm not saying life is perfect, but when jon rolls over to the record store with two cubans and some wild turkey, it's pretty damn close.

this blog is gonna die real soon. new things coming soon.

stay close.

I DID IT TODAY

2005-09-19T18:44:00.000+10:00

MANITOBA i've lived on a dirt road all my life
RED RIDERS i think you're blind
DEAD FRENCHMEN tokyo
THE DEVASTATIONS sex & mayhem
ROLL DEEP the avenue
LOW DEEP get set
THE HERD we can't hear you
MACHINE TRANSLATIONS makers i
DEVENDRA BANHART chinese children
KES in the ditch
MOUNT EERIE the moan
WHY? gemini (birthday song)
THE ZILLIONS don't waste your tears on me
NINJA HIGH SCHOOL jam band death cult
THE DODGEMS lord lucan is missing (OLLO remix)
TOM VEK cc you set the fire in me
CRAZY MAD FUNKY DO MORROW (FORM DIPLO) piddle le he he
FELT (SLUG + MURS) employees of the year
THE HERD apocalypta
GIANT PANDA super fly
SIGUR ROS soelipur
PONY UP! shut up and kiss me
BLACK DICE smiling off
--

this week catch me DJing at The Mandarin Club for Purplene's final show ever on Saturday night, and then at Shithouse at Spectrum on Sunday.

things that happened besides bowling

2005-09-15T18:36:00.000+10:00

- my artwork has been used for a cd, FBi's Kill Your Idols compilation. The CD chock full of local rock, electro, indie etc. My picks are the tracks by Snap! Crakk! and Dappled Cities Fly. I did the artwork in minutes on scrap paper. Check it out, it's crap!

- friday night there's gonna be an SMH photo shoot at mandarin club. they're doing a story on great places to party in sydney. Dear Nora is playing, plus Holidays On Ice. It's eight bucks if you wanna see the bands, but if you come afterwards let me know and i'll let you in for free. I want the dancefloor packed for the photo shoot!! PACKED LIKE HAMS!!

- i found an arcade defender the other day! it's handheld and broken. I don't know what's broken exactly, maybe the battery compartment. can anybody fix this? let me know asap!!

- come together was fun. thanks to all who came by the popfrenzy stall. thanks even more to everyone who worked in the popfrenzy stall. and lots of love to everyone who danced to my set at the end of the night. that was awesome.

IT'S TIME TO GET THAI FOOD.

balls to the wall

2005-09-13T14:21:00.000+10:00

this week vs last week

2005-09-12T17:00:00.000+10:00

here's the show i just did:

ISLANDS flesh
THE RHOMBUS lifeguard
KING GEEDORAH fazers
THE DODGEMS lord lucan is still missing (OLLO remix)
CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE toby, take a bow
PRINCESS ONE POINT FIVE inadequate response
THE ROBOT ATE ME tonight
BOARDS OF CANADA chromakey dreamcoat
ALIAS & EHREN netting applause
DECODER RING serac
DECODER RING VS SPOD born 2 luv (alsace y'ass lorraine)
NEED NEW BODY brite th' day
JAYLIB champion sound
NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL king of carrot flowers part one
NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL king of carrot flowers parts two & three
SCISSORS FOR SPARROW top of the hill, bottom of the valley... uh!!
KES in the ditch
AKRON/FAMILY before and again
MOUNTAINS IN THE SKY cells divide
BEAT HAPPENING foggy eyes
THE FREE DESIGN an elegy (KID KOALA and DYNOMITE D remix)
ROLL DEEP the avenue
LALI PUNA small things (SIXTOO remix)
RED RIDERS I think you're blind
THE DEVASTATIONS sex & mayhem
IRON AND WINE/CALEXICO burn that broken bed
MY PAL FOOT FOOT here is very
BOARDS OF CANADA slow this bird down

versus the playlist from last weeks show:

FILE TOTALLY DELETED!!

(i don't know where it went. it was a good show too!)

madame levina

2005-09-06T16:32:00.000+10:00

to the cretin who stole my beck hoodie on sunday night.
i see a dark future for you indeed.
i see you arriving home to an empty house, yet all the lights are left on.
i see you walking into the kitchen, to find a cake. a cake three times more delicious than any pastry you've seen in your life thus far. it probably belongs to one of your housemates, but what do you care? this cake looks amazing! you must eat it immediately!
you head to the drawers, and reach for a knife, only to find not cutlery, but cold wet spaghetti. ordinarily this would make you scream in terror, but your mind can only think of the cake that you must consume as soon as possible. knifeless, you lift the cake up in your hands and start chomping at it furiously. six bites in and you realize it doesn't actually taste like cake. you swallow your last mouthful and glance down at the baked good and see it filled not with flour and eggs, instead beans and cous cous!!
slamming the cake on the floor, your stomach grumbles really heavy. you must relieve yourself. you run to the bathroom, do your business and reach for the toilet paper. pulling a line of the 3 ply tissue, you try to rip, but it isn't tearing as easily as usual. the toilet paper isn't perforated, which freaks you out immensely.
reluctantly, you make do with the solid line of loo roll and stand to wash your hands. you turn the cold tap on, and plunge your hands in. you wail as the water burns your hands. someone has swapped the cold and hot taps over. you turn on the hot tap and plunge your hands in. you wail as the water burns your hands again. both your taps are hot.
clasping your burnt fingers in a damp hand towel, you walk towards the door and turn the handle, however, it doesn't turn. you locked it, and your burnt stubbly fingers cannot turn the lock.
you groan, lower than you ever have before. the groan is in such a low frequency that it causes all the windows and mirrors in the bathroom to shatter. pieces of glass fly through the room and your poor, weak body.
you cry for help, but nobody hears you. you cry louder and louder. so loud that all the tiles in the bathroom shatter. fragments of broken ceramic fly through the room and your already sliced up body.
your phone rings. you answer it. it's your lover. you ask for help, trying to explain your situation, but they'll have none of it. you've been a terrible lover. they're leaving you, and they want all their stuff back. they hang up, leaving you with tears screaming down your face. also, blood.
then, for no reason, you burst into flames.

--

at frigid on sunday night, someone stole my beck hoodie.
i bought it at his hordern pavillion show in 2002, and pretty much wore it everywhere.
at least i didn't lose my records or laptop, but still, i loved that hoodie!

RIP, sweet prince.

easy.

2005-08-31T15:44:00.000+10:00

sometimes people are morons. but good morons.
take frigid for example.
a highly respected weekly electronica night (you can read about their history here) and they ask me to DJ. not only that, but they put me as top billing, this Sunday.
Morons!!

So I'm DJ'ing this Sunday at Frigid. I've no idea what I'm gonna play. But it'll be pretty decent. Also playing are Clark Nova, Prince V and Seb Snarl. And you can get food and beers there. It would mean a lot to me to see a whole bunch of you good folks in the crowd.

Bring your kids if they're over 18.

POW

2005-08-29T18:12:00.000+10:00

today was a pretty decent show, i got a visit from One Self (Dj Vadim, Yarah Bravo and Blu Rum 13). They were nice fellows for sure.

Here's what I played...

NICK DRAKE one of these things first
MACHINE TRANSLATIONS makers i
WOLF & CUB targets (MINOTAUR SHOCK remix)
CRAZY TITCH singalong
SPOONBILL gumtree
TEENAGER liquid cement
LADY SOVERIEGN random (BRUCKER & SINDEN vocal mix)
CALVIN JOHNSON when hearts turn blue
BROKEN SPINDLES burn my body
MC JACK E CHOCOLATE pavaroti
MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUGHTS raised by wolves
THE ZILLIONS don't waste your tears on me
CARIBOU bloody murder
SOUNDS LIKE SUNSET losing sleep
FELT employees of the year
BIT BY BATS all night
WALLSPACE how's your love life?
THE RAKES retreat
KATHLEEN EMERY sometimes I feel like a motherless child
TALIB KWELI get by
THE FBi IDOLS turn up your radio
DANGERDOOM space ho's
DJ VADIM feat BLU RUM 13 it's obvious
LITTLE AIDA all the worlds are gone
ONE SELF sunshine
ONE SELF hollow human beings
BULLFROG reverse psychology
TERRAPIN foolscap
MISSY ELLIOT feat SLICK RICK irresistable delicious
KOUSHIK be with
DIESE TIGRONA injecao
KEITH MANSFIELD morning broadway

Blu Rum 13 was the emcee for Bullfrog, a Canadian group who i thought were the shit in high school. Kid Koala scratched for them.

Bullfrog - Shine

no, you're pathetic

2005-08-23T14:32:00.000+10:00

yo.

it's about time i lifted my game with this blog shit.
i'm buying some space, registering a domain. BIG TIME PIMPIN.
hopefully it'll be settled before next week.

mandarin club has been AMAZING. packed to the walls, justin timberlake style dancefloor, cognac!! this is wazzup this weekend...

Thursday August 25
Sound and Fury Presents "Sonic & Furious"
featuring The Wrong Stuff, The Thaw, Castings, Fast.Mountain.Die
plus DJ Adam D. Mills
8pm, $6
Sound & Furious continues with another night of sonic furiousity. Can they top their previous effort? We think so. The Thaw rule. So do Castings. Oh, and so do The Wrong Stuff. But Fast.Mountain.Die? They rule too! Such a shame about that DJ Adam D. Mills guy, although I hear he’s a looker.

Friday August 26
Silo, The Mean Streaks, The Maladies
plus DJ’s Nicholas Boyakovsky (Rubberstamp on FBi)
9pm, $8
Sometimes you’ve just gotta rock out, right? But rock can be risky these days. Sometimes it’s boring and derivative. Sometimes it’s sleazy and horrible. But sometimes, it’s fantastic. Tonight’s lineup is most definitely the latter. Silo and The Mean Streaks have been doing their classy, well written rock n’ roll for some time now, and they’re joined by newcomers The Maladies on one killer bill.

Saturday August 27
Macromantics, Kiosk, Always, Chasm
plus DJ The Uniforms, Dear Cliché
9pm, $8
Another diverse line up at The Mandarin Club. There’s the intense lyricism of lady emcee Macromantics, the chaotic k-punk of Kiosk, the one man barbershop quartet that is Always and the tight dubby beats of Chasm. Playing records in between and after the bands will be The Uniforms, in their first official appearance since The Unicorns gigs last year, and the damn hot Dear Cliché.

and here's yesterdays playlist:

MOUNTAINS IN THE SKY communications with venus
PIVOT make me love you
GNAWA DIFFUSION match bettikh
DAMIAN JR GONG MARLEY welcome to jamrock
ILL BRAVADOS the hall of annexed records
THE DEVOTED FEW sleep less
CLUE TO KALO as tommy fixes fights
NORTH AMERICAN HALLOWE'EN PREVENTION, INC do they know it's hallowe'en?
HOLIDAYS ON ICE diamond in the mine
TUCKER B'S undisciplined
DJ/RUPTURE feat SINDHU ZAGOREN mole in the ground
JOSEPHINE FOSTER AND THE SUPPOSED well-heeled men
THE BOAT PEOPLE unsettle my heart
KANYE WEST feat CONSEQUENCE & CAM'RON gone
HERMITUDE ruffwon
DEAD PREZ hip hop
SOME WATER AND SON see you next spring
LALI PUNA 40 days
CLUE TO KALO seconds when it's minutes
NEW BUFFALO trigger
MR LEE G & GHISLAIN PORTER they wanna know (whisper edit/refix mix)
FOG the rabbit
HOLIDAYS ON ICE love is a fashion
INGA LILJESTROM stardust (MICHAEL LIRA remix)
MACROMANTICS conspiracy (YOKO SOLO remix)
KIOSK tourist attraction
CHASM feat OZI BATLA icarus
CHASM feat MANTRA cyanide tip
CHASM feat OZI BATLA hard blue
ONE SELF sunshine
OLLO some assault
GHOSTFACE mighty healthy (wild rawk mix)

here's my favourite track from clue to kalo's latest record, one way it's every way, out now on mush.

enjoy your tuesday.

2005-08-15T18:08:00.000+10:00

fresh off the market...

IMPERIAL TEEN ivanka
THE MARES charleston
BARRAGE hour of pink dominoes
FATLIP what's up fatlip?
PRINCESS ONE POINT FIVE inadequate response
LINDA PERHACS paper mountain man
VASHTI BUNYAN where i like to stand
AESOP ROCK facemelter
LITTLE AIDA one thing lost
WHY? sanddollars
CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH let the cool goddess rust away
DEERHOOF siriustar
VINCENT OVER THE SINK something red
ONEIDA run through my hair
AMERICAN ANALOG SET immaculate heart
SUN sleepin' (HRVATSKI remix)
DEATH SET around the world
DISJUNCTION REUNION modernism for newborns
PSAPP leaving in coffins
DIPLO favela strikes back track 2
KANO reload
DJ/RUPTURE feat WAYNE LONESOME dem nuh know me
LOVE CUTS KILL off with her head
DEERHOOF scream team
THE WOODS THEMSELVES beat yr shallow chest
SMOG let me see the colts
MR LIF live from the plantation
BOARDS OF CANADA julie and candy
PYRAMIDIACS take a bow
TEENAGE FANCLUB it's all in my mind
PYRAMIDIACS it's not my time
HER NAME IN LIGHTS headstrong
CLUE TO KALO empty save the oxygen
ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI frenchy, i'm faking
PIVOT make me love you
PIVOT montecore
FLANGER how long is the wrong way?

am what i am

2005-08-10T15:09:00.000+10:00

when i was 16 - 17, in year 11 at high school, i started to get into hip hop. all my friends were in you am i cover bands and i just kinda went in the opposite direction. i started out with dan the automator, jurassic 5, del, all the fairly obvious beatmakers + emcees that were fairly easy to find releases by.
my friends hated it at first, they called it ghetto music! but i just kept searching and buying new records. i had a part time job at the time, in the same shopping centre as borders, who ordered in the same catalogue as their american branches. within a few months i was listening to souls of mischief, kool keith, quannum and a whole squad of great records.
around this same time, triple j, the national radio station in australia, made a huge step and started adding hip hop, particularly local stuff, to their playlist. i was hooked immediately. as lame as the early stuff was, each week i would buy a record by someone like the herd, good buddha or resin dogs.
the australian hip hop that jjj supported was a much more live affair. the acts were normally outfits, a live band that had emcees on stage from time to time. these bands got my friends interested straight away, probably for the live element alone.
there were a bunch of us getting into electronica too, at homebake 2001 i remember being blown away by the baggsmen, at the free tibet concert in 99 the avalanches
were the shit!! but there was one band that i must've seen about 6 times, and they were On Inc.
On Inc were a four piece, bass, drums, turntables and babs, the frontman, who played flute, bongos and rapped. they used to play every all ages festival we went to, and once we trekked out to bondi to see them do a live show for channel v.
i listened to their album, the rhythm flavour, last month and holy moly it has dated like crazy, but it was still fun. i called up my buddy elston and we had a laugh over it. babs rapped the dumbest lines. pearlers include "born in newcastle just like silverchair, i've still got a lot of my family there...".

i recently found out that babs commit suicide. i'm not sure why exactly, and no media, especially liberation, On Inc's record label, have said a peep.

peace to babs, his friends, his fans and a lot of his family in newcastle.

sheesh.

2005-08-08T17:01:00.000+10:00

what a week.

i have a problem with stress. in that i can't do it. something super important will be due. i won't do it. and i won't stress about it. at all. i don't stress.

except for this weekend.

the whole week was spent ensuring the new room at the mandarin club was up to scratch. and it wasn't at all. we thought we could use the existing PA, we couldn't. i blacked out the entire room when i moved a light, and the management were more than hesitant to help out a white boy like myself.

but all these obstacles were overcome. al + tobes - if you ever stumble accross this post, i owe you my goddam life. you two are geniuses of the amazing variety. THANKYOU!!

thursday and friday were wrought with hilarious disaster, but we got by. it was good fun. saturday however was one big pain in my ass. a gross crowd, fashionista jerks doing assloads of drugs in the disabled bathroom, some fuck actually smashed a toilet bowl (with what i don't know? there were no smashing instruments left nearby, just a greating fucking hole in the toilet!!). some crackwhore threatened to sue me after she tripped over the dance floor, everyone was rude as hell, and i was left in charge to go speak to the management afterwards. fucking awesome.

i was a fucking wreck by the end of the night, i probably looked a mess. i passed out on the nightrider home too, which is always dope fun.

the next day benny and i drove up the coast to dead horse bay, this little beach in brooklyn where we used to sail. we bush bashed our way over to sandy beach - this huge cove of sand that stretches back to a forest fo local plants and creeks. shit was beautiful. i took some crappy pictures on my phone, maybe i'll post them up later.

i just finished a radio show too - here's what i played.

PIVOT montecore
QUA watercolour
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM losing my edge
ODD NOSDAM feat MIKE PATTON 11th ave freakout pt 2
SENATOR JIM tycho
AFU-RA god of rap
DIPLO feat PEACE indian thick jawns
AKRON/FAILY running, returning
KIOSK tourist attraction
HOOD the negatives
ALEX JARVIS seconds
VIVA VOCE daylight
SUPERSYSTEM miracle
3RD BASS feat DON NEWKIRK and ZEV LOVE X the gas face
PASO BIONIC hollow bones
AMERIE one thing (SIIK remix)
JOHN CHANTLER autu
HITCHCOCK'S REGRET happiness
THE ALBUM LEAF thule
SCOUT NIBLETT kidnapped by neptune
PIVOT kirsten dunst
MIKE JONES feat BUN B & LIL KEKE know what i'm sayin'
AESOP ROCK 1,000 deaths
LFO nevertheless
SIXTOO a to zero
MOUNTAINS IN THE SKY the snowcapped incident
TRIOSK chronosynclastic infundibula
TUJIKO NORIKO niagara hospital
CITY CITY CITY empty

oh, and i know i'm pathetic. i didn't even make two posts last week!! I WAS BUSY MOPTHERFUCKERS.

i'll hit you up with some mp3's or some shit this week to make up for it.

another day, another dollar

2005-08-01T18:51:00.000+10:00

today's playlist DONE:

PREFUSE 73 radio attack pt 2 re-edit
DAEDELUS dumbfound (EDIT remix)
HERMITUDE ruffwon
APSCI feat TUNDE of TV ON THE RADIO runaway
TV ON THE RADIO staring at the sun
SUPERSYSTEM miracle
NEW RULES FOR BOATS you're out
TEST ICICLES boa vs python
THE MODERN LOVERS roadrunner
GREG DAVIS at my window
PASO BIONIC rusty dawn reprise
DJ TR!P me i disconnect from you
THE WILD FRONTIER lost and broken
SAM SHINAZZI scotty come home
DANGERDOOM sofa king (album version)
DANGERDOOM space ho's
HERMITUDE nightfall's messenger
CURSE OV DIALECT family assorted
DELOREAN shuffle home
THE AGGROVATORS tiger dub
BUSDRIVER avantcore
MUSIC VS PHYSICS 12am @ the physics den
PURDY 3 friends to the stars
THE ROOTS dynamite!

i'm gonna try and update this sucker four times this week

CAN IT BE DONE??

back for good

2005-07-25T17:49:00.000+10:00

how rad are take that?

here's my playlist for today. just finished yo...

PIVOT montecore
SMOG I feel like the mother of the world
HOWLING BELLS velvet girl
BUCK 65 le 65isme
LADY SOVEREIGN random (BRUCKER & SINDEN vocal mix)
SPOONBILL sneaker
DECLAIME let it be known
THE PHARCYDE runnin'
MIELI bystander
HERMITUDE ruffwon
AKRON/FAMILY before and again
THE WILD FRONTIER lost and broken
SUFJAN STEVENS jacksonville
NEW BUFFALO featuring JENS LEKMAN inside
THE FLAMING LIPS bohemian rhapsody
SUPERSYSTEM devour delight
SOULWAX ny excuse (JUSTICE remix)
HERMITUDE galactic cadillac
MACROMANTICS four facets
NEED NEW BODY brite tha day
THE CRAYON FIELDS we're so old we believe it
OF MONTREAL forecast fascist future
MINK JAGUAR red queen
STARS ageless beauty
FOUR TET she moves she
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE leaf house
MISSY ELLIOT feat GRAND PUBA and MARY J BLIGE my struggles
THE GO! TEAM friendship update
TUJIKO NORIKO tablet for memory

wurd has it that fbi will be streaming mad soon. stay tuned!!

tomorrow night, bro!!

2005-07-20T15:50:00.000+10:00

jess made the sweet looking poster. and i wrote a pretty dumb little press release...

This thursday night sees the frequency lab changed from a dingy drum and bass warehouse to a home of exquisite pop.
Witness Melbourne's The Crayon Fields, a now four piece who create Brian Wilson-esque beauty, complete with harmonies and tambourine. And bells.
Also from Melbourne comes Guy Blackman, a songwriter truly unrecognised in Australia. Recently asked by Jens Lekman to join him on tour in Europe, Guy is head of the fantastic Chapter Music label and owns some magnificent sweaters.
The Garbage and The Flowers join this line up, a band who ceased to exist until recently, when they decided the world was again ready for their jangly indie punk, made from broken guitars and junkyard drums.
Completing the line up is new Melbourne band My Boy Companion, a two piece featuring Jess of Sly Hats. I've not heard this band yet, although i can guess that they will sound neither like Chingy, nor ZZ Top.
It's all happening this Thursday 21st July at The Frequency Lab, 342 Elizabeth St, Surry Hills. From 8pm, this'll cost you just $8.

It'd be mighty nice to see your face in the crowd.

Actually, while you’re still here, it’d be mighty nice to see you at Gifted Records on Friday evening too! Y’see, Guy Blackman, he of the already mentioned in this email, will be playing an instore with fellow Melburnians Sly Hats (also briefly mentioned!). It’ll be a swell evening of twee poppy fun, the perfect precursor to a tough night in the city. It kicks off at 5pm. Bring cakes.

--

come along if you want, eh? The new crayon fields songs are great. and guy is great. and the frequency lab is great. yay for great.

i'm djing at purple sneakers on friday at 2am, but beforehand you can catch me at the household of weary d, p-train and tobias. ya'll don't know them motherfuckers? TOO BAD.

action action action

2005-07-15T16:32:00.000+10:00

as you can see, this party was so chaotic that djing off my laptop was necessary.

tonight i'm playing records at pigeon ground public, this clothes cum scond hand record store in newtowndale. the address is 102 Salisbury Rd, Camperdown. it'll be pretty awesome. there are some bands playing and the most of the party will be outside. cheap drinks i guess. i'm on at 10:30. i'm pretty much gonna play dre all night for no good reason.

next week i'm djing at purple sneakers, this indie night in the city that's been going on for a while. it goes till pretty late and is apparently packed out each week. i've not been, but here's the music policy i've been sent:

"Music policy: Basically whatever you want as long as it is mostly upbeat and steers away from house, RnB and current cheesy chart stuff that’d be heard in a typical club. We like to challenge people however we don’t want to alienate them. A good measure is to make sure 1 in every four tracks obscure, 1 in four tracks is new, and 2 in four tracks highly accessible crowd-pleasers. You can also look in the social pics section recent Brag mags to see what previous guest DJs have played. We like people to have fun and dance!!!"

i'm doomed. no ciara, no amerie, no gwen = no fun. it's kinda weird. a year ago when i started djing it'd be all credible, underground stuff. and pretty much noone would dance. so then i got a bit cheeky and started playing a whole bunch of 80's stuff, dumb party shit and TV themes. so that's kinda become my thing. fucked up dancehall, grime, 80's electro, i guess the indiest stuff i play at parties is the go! team. i do the odd downbeat set and play weirder stuff, but now when i play parties all i wanna do is play fucked up remixes of madonna and an assload of r+b. i enjoy myself, and everybody dances!!

actually, at the mandarin club the other night, i was playing after a few rock bands. it was a gig i booked and was totally packed out. so i played bowie or something obvious, followed by a whole bunch of fun, vaguely hip hop and electro tracks. people were dancing, i was having fun. yay for fun. then i dropped a lady sovereign track. "what are you doing" cried a girl in her late teens. "were you even listening to the bands that played earlier? they sounded nothing like this! what is this? what are you doing?" ...and an endless stream of unanswered questions left her chalky, lipsticked lips. "have you got any killers?" was about the point where stopped paying attention.

then, as i played tom tom club's genius of love, this guy came up with a look on his face that i knew meant trouble. he sidled up to me, and the first thing he said, in the lamest accent imaginable, was "hey mate, i write for NME". awesome. he continued. "look, i love what your playing, the 80's stuff and the rock, but you've gotta stop playing r+b mate. just stick to the rock stuff, and i guarantee you this place will be packed every week! what do you say?"

i'm not sure what the point of this story is. maybe that people are dicks?

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MP3 TIME!!

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The Robot Ate Me - Bad Feelings

I'm obsessed with this song at the moment. It's just a nice, simple pop song. Totally lo fi production, naturally. Plus i really like his voice, kinda unicornish, but wussier. Aaaaaaaww.

Count Bass D - Down Easy

Count Bass D is good. Kinda a middle ground between underground depresso hop and upbeat... fuck it. Fuck describing this song. Download it. Leave me alone.

Kelis VS Spod - Milkquake

this song broke my fucking headphones. brent, you owe me 80 dollars.

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PS. should i start posting my radio playlists again? your feedback would be appreciated.

say, tom cruise, what did you think of the OC finale the other night?

2005-07-14T22:54:00.000+10:00

"HOLY BALLS SON THAT SHIT WAS OFF THE WALL!! I WAS STRAIGHT UP SCREAMING AT THE TELEVISION WHEN THAT CRAZY BITCH MARISSA SHOT THAT TREY MOTHERFUCKER!! AND THE INVENTION THEY PULLED ON KIKI'S ASS - CRAAAAAAAAAAZZZY!! I MUSTA ATE LIKE TEN MOTHERFUCKING BOWLS OF CORN CHIPS UP IN THAT MOTHERFUCKER!! THE OC IS COSTING ME MILLIONS!! I'M GETTING FUCKIN' FAT, SON!! TOM CRUISE, MOTHERFUCKER!! HOLLA!!"

to the batcave!

2005-07-03T14:49:00.000+10:00

the only thing better than getting home at 6am is waking up at midday.

last night i dj'd at bing bang bong. it's a monthly night where dj's gotta play a themed one hour set. my theme was heroes and villains, this is what i managed to squeeze into an hour. there were a lot of stupid mixes.

JOHN WILLIAMS - imperial march
GODAIGO - monkey magic theme
MICHAEL JACKSON - bad
INNER CIRCLE - bad boys
ZZ TOP - bad to the bone
P DIDDY feat BLACK ROB - bad boys for life
CAPTAIN PLANET THEME
PHAROAHE MONCH - simon says
PRINCE - batdance
M.I.A - fire fire
DAVID BOWIE - heroes
THE FLAMING LIPS - race for the prize
WONDERWOMAN THEME
BRIAN WILSON - heroes and villains
THE CLASH - i fought the law
INTERPOL - evil
ROY PARKER JR - ghostbusters
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES THEME
VANILLA ICE - go ninja
MC HAMMER - turtle power
MADVILLAIN - all caps
AMERIE - one thing
CIARA feat LUDACRIS - oh
BETTER MIDLER - wind beneath my wings

i'm playing records this friday, first at mandarin, then at frequency lab for sang's birthday. i promise not to play bette midler.

the new certified bananas mix is up and is awesome as usual. maybe the best yet? go get it.

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holy nuts i need this album. this band is called Plus Tech Squeeze Box. they're japanese and party as hell. kinda punky in parts, but then they have this fucked up dance thing going on too. and maybe an old lounge vibe?

these mp3's are just samples (how great is it when a song fades out just when it's getting awesome?), but they'll give you an idea...

Plus Tech Squeeze Box - Early Riser
Plus Tech Squeeze Box - Sneaker Song!
Plus Tech Squeeze Box - Test Room
Plus Tech Squeeze Box - Milk Tea

it's time to put on some pants.

open up your doors

2005-06-25T12:35:00.000+10:00

pride is certainly a weird thing. when i see a local band that i really enjoy, i feel proud, even though i have absolutely nothing to do with said performers existance. i guess it's not too far removed from patriotism. i see these locals perform a couple of good songs and there's no stopping me from putting my arm around the battler's shoulder and shouting them a round of fosters lager. streuth.

tim rogers (in the background of the above pic, taken by handsome dan) is a nice guy. he plays bass in a sydney band called expatriate (recently featured on music for robots) who are doing their new wave thing and doing it well. but let's call expatriate mr rogers' day job. for by night he becomes none other than jack ladder, a guitar totin' folk country genius.

last night jack ladder played at the mandarin club. i'd not seen him before, i added him to the last minute line up just to check him out. and was very thankful i did that. jack ladder is one of the best solo artists i've seen in some time. his songs are well written, even beautiful in parts, his voice unique, and the structure and guitar, although simple, is forever changing, at times subtly, other times dramatically. what i'm trying to say is that after jack ladder's set was over, all i wanted to do was fire up the weber and chargrill him a sausage or two. streuth.

towards the end of the set, mr ladder informed the audience that he was recording an album and wanted many voices on the record. so he set up an audience mic, handed out lyrics to the crowd and taught us how to sing a chorus. then the 70 odd people in the crowd sang the chorus along with him. it was amazing. really special.

jack ladder is currently featured on fat cat's demo page. there are two tracks to download, and while pretty damn good, they're nothing compared to the songs tim is capable of writing and recording in the near future. i can't wait for the album.

bottoms up

2005-06-23T11:58:00.000+10:00

tonight i'm playing records at an advertisement for vodka.
absolut are launching some new drink and are promoting it over two weeks by booking a pub in surry hills and having bands play there. and dj's. so yeah, me and thommy are gonna rep that crunk magic in between van she and expatriate at the "absolut cut bar" (aka the old beresford, 354 bourke st, surry hills) from 6 - 12pm.

then tomorrow night richard in your mind, jack ladder and ned collette are playing at the mandarin club (cnr pitt and goulburn) from 9pm, followed by me and liam djing from midnight till 3am.

oh, and the mandarin club is gonna be ill on saturday night. the sound no sound guys are launching a new compilation they've just released on a new label, spanish magic. the cd has some of the evilest sounds coming out of australia, and a bunch of them are playing on saturday from 7pm til 3am (sheesh!). Hiss, Pimmon (see below for mp3), Castings, Rand and Holland, The Garbage and the Flowers, North Atlantic and Anthony Guerra with Peter Blamey.it'll be a grand night for sure.

Suddenly, mp3s...

Pimmon - Vadrak

Pimmon is one of the dudes playing this saturday night. he has a show a few hours before mine on fbi and knows his shit. totally unrecognised in australia, he's had releases on tigerbeat and mego, and is awesome. a while ago he played a gig with some hardcore bands. he pulled out his laptop and blared out this hard axe loop with huge frequencies in the background. it was like getting kicked in the face. this song is pretty sedate for pimmon, but it was all i could find without hosting a file myself. i should probably do that in the future.

Limited Express (Has Gone?) - Spy

Man, this band...
they sound a little like deerhoof, but are way more insane. live they are the most entertaining a band can be, throwing themselves about with massive smiles and screaming at the top of their lungs. awesome. the bassist is in an all girl band called ni-hao! who are seriously better than everything you've ever done in your pathetic life. find out more at tenzenmen.

oh, and to everyone who liked the rhombus the other day, he's put a few more tunes up on his website.

The Rhombus - Target
The Rhombus - Film

batman begins, raymond ends

2005-06-20T02:41:00.000+10:00

is it wrong that i enjoyed the final episode of everybody loves raymond more than i did batman begins??

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i stumbled across this page tonight. some guy has uploaded mp3's of some my favourite sesame st songs, and they're dope as hell. i'm talking ladybug's picnic and the alligator king by bud luckey and the 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 (i can't really type it the way that it should be sung) song by the pointer sisters that they used in a pinball animation. awesome shit.

all the live long day

2005-06-18T13:09:00.000+10:00

this week has been kinda weird. i worked a lot, but i don't feel like i acheived anything. i did get a cold though, which is awesome fulfilling.
yesterday i hung out with riff, his band gold mice played at mandarin club last night. i was supposed to dj but the mucus had already taken ahold of my body. gross.
anyway, riff has a dr sample. i want one. that's pretty much the point of this post. i'm a little skint, but i'll pay up to 350 bucks for one if you've got one you wanna get rid of. do it son, do it.

because asking for something but not giving anything in return is mad greedy, here are some tunes i've been digging lately...

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Pasobionic - Empty Beat 2

Pasobionic is the producer/DJ in two of melbourne's best hip hop groups - Curse Ov Dialect and TZU. he released a solo record on elefant traks in february, and it's right up there for my top releases of the year. this track is terrific. the guitars, the piano, the horns, the timpanis!! this record should be huge overseas, and it's not even huge in australia. pity.

The Rhombus - Lifeguard

Okay, this guy, The Rhombus, is a fucking genius. Cody is some San Fran backpack wearer who tinkers about at home and has a job somewhere. also he makes great music with shitty old drum machines and acoustic guitars and instruments in general, really. this was the first rhombus song i heard. i wrote to him afterward and he sent me his album, bupkes. which is great. just like the internet. he has a blog too. read it? he probably has some new stuff coming out soon, and he's playing some shows in the US in july. cody, i know you're reading this, when have you got something new coming out?

we'll find out soon i guess.
happy saturday.

this shit is bananas

2005-06-14T22:50:00.000+10:00

hooray for the queen

2005-06-13T23:04:00.000+10:00

SUNDAY.

1100 hours. wake up. give jon a call. he needs to be on a train in 20 minutes. he is in bed.

1120 hours. call jon again. change of plan. he is driving.

1130 hours. make awesome crunk mix on itunes.

1220 hours. jon is outside. drive to elstons place.

1238 hours. arrive at elston central. no one is inside. out of time drumming can be heard from the garage.

1239 hours. enter garage. elston, pete and toby have turned it into a studio. pete is so baked his head appears smaller than usual.

1242 hours. on the road again, narara bound. it's jed's birthday. heads nod to raekwon's 'only built for cuban linx'.

1259 hours. not lost yet.

1312 hours. still not lost. caribou is good.

1324 hours. miss gosford exit.

1330 hours. we've never been to somersby before. but we are here now.

1335 hours. leave somersby forever.

1340 hours. not really lost.

1345 hours. in denial of being lost.

1355 hours. lost.

1356 hours. call jed.

1358 hours. call jed again.

1412 hours. arrive at jed's, narara. his house is made of mud. a spit roast is present. and benny too.

1425 hours. enjoy lukewarm meats and salads.

1435 hours. jed got a synth for his birthday. afternoon beers are good.

1450 hours. yeah, they're good.

1530 hours. watch jed's cousins' debut flash animation: "inappropriate penis".

1531 hours. jed's cousin is a genius.

1620 hours. jed has a lot of cousins. and cheesecake.

1640 hours. commando in jed's backyard. spliffs. trampoline. just like 'nam.

1700 hours. let's play tip!

1715 hours. we are unfit. the trampoline is sturdy enough to fit five.

1800 hours. retire to a freshly lit fire. afternoon beers become evening beers.

1820 hours. jed has this one cousin. she's kinda cute.

1840 hours. no more beer left.

1850 hours. no more us left. we leave jed's abode with lil jon blaring out the car windows. LET'S GO!!

1910 hours. truly, this crunk mix is awesome.

1950 hours. we are back at elston central. pete's head has returned to it's usual size.

1955 hours. the new recording studio is also good for baking.

2010 hours. make earl grey tea, substituting milk with baileys.

2020 hours. jed does shot of baileys, cone and half shot of captain organ.

2030 hours. jed is pale, even for a jed.

2045 hours. sorority girls is pretty much the worst movie ever made.

2055 hours. so we should probably leave for the city now. but jed should probably stay here, apparently.

2056 hours. force jed into the car.

2057 hours. realize jed will probably throw up in car. on me.

2058 hours. jed should probably stay here.

2100 hours. jon drives me, elston and benny to coogee, because of his 'awesome' gene.

2145 hours. the thirsty three bid farewell to jon and arrive in coogee. manage to get into coogee bay hotel. but why are we here?

2150 hours. because erin might serve us cheap jugs of beer is why!

2155 hours. elston buys jug of beer, but can't find erin and pays 13 bucks for it.

2210 hours. benny's round. he finds erin and pays 4 dollars for a jug of beer.

2226 hours. my round. erin charges me $1.10 for a jug of beer.

2240 hours. coogee ain't so bad, eh? although i am kinda hungry...

2250 hours. dudes, let's get the fuck out of coogee.

2300 hours. harry's cafe de wheels for all.

2315 hours. we meet up with benny's sisters at this place in kings cross called deans.

2320 hours. someone pays for our beer, i think.

2340 hours. this deans place is pretty neat. like a bar/cafe in someones' house.

2350 hours. so we should probably go somewhere else now.

0005 hours. wandering aimlessly around kings cross is bad for you.

0010 hours. hey! let's go to the mandarin club!

0020 hours. go to the mandarin club. tonight is a bazooka reunion. heaps of old indie songs i'd feel sentimental about if i was five to ten years older.

0025 hours. the bouncer lets me in, but not the others. i go upstairs to work things out.

*scene missing*

0050 hours. i'm pretty sure everything got worked out. everybody is up here and so are al these people i don't see very often. holy moly it's packed in here.

0105 hours. for real, i'm the youngest person in this club.

0130 hours. pass the dutchie on the left hand side.

0135 hours. make the switch from beers to gin and tonic.

0140 hours. that was the worst idea i had all night.

0145 hours. pass the dutchie on the left hand side.

0150 hours. no, that was the worst idea i had all night.

0200 hours. elston and benny go home.

0220 hours. if they play one more fucking smiths song, i swear i'm gonna...

0225 hours. dance anyway.

0230 hours. kate offers to buy me a beer.

0235 hours. they have run out of beer. kate brings back a vodka + lemonade instead.

0245 hours. why am i still standing up?

0255 hours. things are wrapping up. craig says he's happy to see me so wasted.

0305 hours. me and dan agree to leave in five minutes to get the 3:30AM nightrider.

0326 hours. get on the 3:30AM nightrider.

0342 hours. dan promises to wake me up at wahroonga if i fall asleep.

0355 hours. 15 minutes from wahroonga. still awake.

0400 hours. 10 minutes from wahroonga. still awake.

0405 hours. 5 minutes from wahroonga. still awake.

0408 hours. 2 minutes from wahroonga. still awake.

0409 hours. fall asleep.

0411 hours. dan: "dude! that was wahroonga!"

0412 hours. plead with the driver to let me off on the highway. success.

0420 hours. fumble keys into door.

0422 hours. find bread.

0423 hours. eat bread.

0430 hours. in bed.

the artist formerly known as manitoba

2005-06-09T13:54:00.000+10:00

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i spoke to dan snaith (caribou, manitoba) a little while ago for three d world, i was too busy to cut up all the conversation and write an article with it, so here's us, talking...

It's kinda funny that your first album since some jerk forced you to change your name is called "The Milk of Human Kindness". Did you send Handsome Dick a promo copy?
I like the fact that people can take the album title one of two ways: they either see it as being sarcastic, bitter jab at Dick whatever-his-name is or they see it as a really optimistic, straight ahead title about how affirming the process of starting again as Caribou has been. Truth is that I read it off the back of a milk truck (and only later realised it's a quote from Macbeth).

The whole album sounds a lot less electronic and processed than your previous work. How much of your work is entirely live?
None of it. I've made all the albums in exactly the same way - half samples from records and half me recording loops over top. For example, all of the drums on this album are samples. I guess I've just got better at tricking people! I really love the fact that using samples opens up my palette to any record that I've got in my overcrowded room rather than just being limited to the few instruments that are sitting around my room.

Many have commented that the songs on this album are actual "songs", with pop structure, as opposed to the "psychedelic bliss out jams" that were your earlier work. What is your reaction to hearing comments like this?
I guess it's half true and half false. There are definitely tracks like A Final Warning that's more of a 'blissed out jam' than anything I've made before I reckon but there are also tracks that are far more like conventional songs. I like the fact that this album is really quite varied. I frequently get a journalist telling my one thing about the album in an interview and then in the next I'll be told the exact opposite!

Do you think that the music you are making now is pop?
I'm definitely not scared of the idea of making pop music but I think it's still quite a way from being radio-friendly pop music! I think I slot in more comfortably alongside conceptual rock behemoths like Meatloaf and Yes. A good melody always goes a long way though.

Hello Hammerheads is probably the most stripped back song I've heard from you. It's probably the first song of yours where your vocal is the main feature of the whole song. How long had you been holding back making a track like this?
Yeah... it's kind of amazing to me that I made that track. I usually cram every single space with sound when I'm making music and have a hard time making music with space in it. I wrote/recorded that track in 45 mins and then sat back and thought 'shit... I'm really happy with this. It's the most straight ahead pop song I've ever made and yet it's almost the most difficult thing for me to do well because it's so opposite to my normal way of working.'

What are your thoughts on this glorified "new folk" movement? A lot of your work sounds fairly folk influenced.
I love animal collective. That's about it. I'm not interested in albums of a guy with an acoustic guitar. That may sound funny considering that I was just saying how happy I was with a track that's me and an acoustic guitar but I suppose I like that in the context of an album with more going on and more production surrounding it. I'm more of a production junkie than anything and there are only so many ways of recording someone singing over a wispy folk riff.

When you played in Australia, the encore was you and your band performing the music beneath a hip-hop a capella. Are there any plans to release something like this in the future?
No thanks - no jumping on that train in a recorded context for me. I think people often really expose themselves as amateurs when they try and do hip-hop without having put in enough time figuring out how to make hip-hop that isn't laughable. It's very easy to make shit hip-hop and very difficult to make good stuff. Most people just embarrass themselves.

Do you have any plans to work with other vocalists, be it MCs, folkies or whatever?
I don't really have any plans whatsoever to be honest. I tend to only start planning things when I sit down to make music and we're going to be touring (hopefully we'll get out to Australia in the not too distant future) for the next year or so. I start going crazy if I'm not making music for a while so by the time we get back I'll want to spend all my time recording again. I just finished a PHD so this is the first time I've been able to do music full time. That'll hopefully mean that I make a lot more music but I have no idea what direction (or directions) that's going to take at this point!

What are your thoughts on remixing the work of others? Artists such as yourself, Four Tet and Boom Bip are notorious for making remixes that are often better than the original. Do you prefer to use your better beats yourself?
I've been lucky to work on remixing some music that I really love but sometimes it's actually best to remix a track where you only like a couple of the elements of the song. If the song's perfect to begin with then there's often no point in getting remixes done. Yes - I usually get rid of whatever drums are on the original track... I'm pretty picky about drums and think most people fuck them up!

Oh, and one last generic question - if you could choose a release to be remembered by, which would it be?
It'd have to be this current album. I definitely feel like it's my most focussed and accomplished to date but I'm already having ideas for the next record that I'm really excited about. I'd like to think that my best music is still to come... I've got a couple more killers in me yet before I start wearing waistcoats, singing about fatherhood and generally heading down the shitter like all musicians seem to do.

Caribou's latest album, The Milk Of Human Kindness, is incredible. A lot of folks are wary of his work since the name change thing and aren't giving the record a chance. it's probably his best work yet.

See for yourself though...

Caribou - Hello Hammerheads
Caribou - Barnowl

The Milk Of Human Kindness is album of the week at Gifted this week too!

how useful

2005-06-07T13:22:00.000+10:00

i've been meaning to do this for a while.
ya see, the internet sure is a wonderful resource. golly, you can find just about anything! essays, reviews, movies, music. a buttload of music.
probably the greatest thing on the net at the moment are mp3 blogs. not only are they great for getting into new musics, but they're an excellent source of promotion for upcoming artists who get featured. no doubt major labels are totally against them, but who cares? not gandhi, i'm sure.
in the next few weeks i'll be starting to post mp3's on this blog, plus embarking on an all australian project with some interstatial cohorts.
until then though, here are some of my favourite mp3 blogs...

Razorblade Runner
pretty much the most reliable mp3 blog for mine. dude is hilarious, with a mean taste in music and so damn on the ball (how does he get his shit so fast? rollie reviews hip hop for pitchfork media + stylus mag, but there's a big selection of indie shit here too.

cocaine blunts
neat for rare old, classic hip hop (heiro, wu, kmd etc) plus each mp3 post comes with some cool stories.

sucka pants
this guy is some new york party animal, so not only do get a nice varied mix of mp3s, you also get awesome pics from these dope warehouse shows he goes to.

Lemon - Red
for folks wanting to hear some dancehall etc, this site is pretty roaring...

Swen's Weblog
swen's weblog is a fairly basic idea: mp3's by artists featured in the wire. sometimes there's good stuff up here, other times it's just guitar fuzz and vacuum cleaners.

Boom Selection
this place rules for grime/lektro funk/mash ups whatever. or it would, if they updated it more. go there and get favela on blast and the poj (poj rules – check Pojmasta for evidence) rejig of 10 dollar. the lady sov track up there is good too.

Spoilt Victorian Child
this is a good blog for your indier needs...which you have.

Fat Planet
probably the best australian mp3 blog. (Cred Central comes a close second!)

and then there are the reliable updated dailies:
http://fluxblog.org
http://music.for-robots.com
http://tofuhut.blogspot.com/
http://www.stereogum.com/

now download, my pretties! DOWNLOAD!!

a new venture

2005-05-30T09:37:00.000+10:00

so i've been helping out some friends opening up a new record store in Surry Hills. and let me tell ya, ordering 6000 dollars worth of overseas vinyl is TUFF WORK.
it is with much happiness that i cut and paste the following information:

Gifted Records opens this Wednesday the First of June. Specialising in the finest contemporary indie from Australia, USA, Europe and abroard, plus a healthy amount of hip hop and electronica too. With a focus on vinyl, gifted offers affordable prices on hard to find records. Come crash out on our couches and listen to the latest releases by folks such as The Go! Team, Mirah, 13 & God, Camera Obscura, Daedelus and hundreds more.
This Thursday begins the first of many regular instores, with an opening set by Karl Blau of The Microphones (USA) from 5pm.
Gifted Records - 10 Fitzroy Pl Surry Hills (accross the road from the Medina Hotel on Crown St).
Open 7 Days 11am - 7pm.

ALRIGHT ME

so come and visit. mention this blog and i'll give you a 5% discount in june!! BARGAIN.

live... FROM CHATSWOOD

2005-05-29T13:37:00.000+10:00

so here i am, in the middle of Westfield, Chatswood, playing records.
for real, it's some nokia/FBi cross promotion for supporter drive. a 10am - 5pm DJ slot, right next to the food court.

lucky for me my laptop picked up the telstra store's wireless connection or i'd be bored out of my freakin' mind.

anyway, i'm in the middle of this weird nokia tent, playing records to empty beanbags with copies of tv week and dolly resting on top of them. there's a bunch of full time promo kids trying to pimp these new nokias that are more camera than they are phone. the promo kids are okay, with the exception of this one douche bag. he's the kind of douche bag i meet every time i start a new job, a pasty, stocky late twentysomething with bad facial hair are the dumbest fucking tattoos imaginable (like, a bust that's half tupac, half biggie, on his upper forearm).

this dude has probably been on the second lowest rung of this company, only above the new kids who will no doubt surpass his rank within days. however low his position, he still believes he is the king of his job. i can just see him giving himself a pep rally after being lectured by the boss; "don't worry bro, you're still the shit".

so this prize douche bag has been asserting his suckitude since he got here, telling me to turn it down and to "play SOME REAL HIP HOP" (so far everything from pedestrian to ghostface have not been real enough). and just a second ago, when my back was turned, he turned off diplo because it was "too weird"!!

fuck this guy. i'm not getting stupidly overpaid to sit in a shopping centre and surf the web while itunes does it's magic to have some glorious butthole wearing a NOKIA RULES BIATCH basebell cap boss me around. it's time to revolt!!

*plays lighning bolt*

for evet...

2005-05-25T23:48:00.000+10:00

FOG the rabbit
HAZEY JANE pull the trigger
BEAT HAPPENING foggy eyes
PATRICK WOLF the libertine
COMATONE not for years
DAVE MILLER broken fun, now fixed
COMBAT WOMBAT alternative energy
MADVILLAIN great day (FOUR TET remix)
PSAPP rear moth
ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI frenchy, i'm faking
EDAN (feat MR LIF) making planets
CEE LO closet freak
26 the king must die
BARRAGE hour of pink dominoes
SONS AND DAUGHTERS dance me in
YOUTH GROUP shadowland
MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC COMPANY the dark don't hide
THE CANTS asl
DEEP PUDDLE DYNAMICS deep puddle theme song
JAMMER (feat WILEY, D DOUBLE E, KANO and GOODZ) destruction vip
UNKLE HO feat URTHBOY shoot from the hip
SPOON I turn my camera on
THE FUTUREHEADS decent days and nights
THE CAPTAINS PACKAGE cut 'n' thrust
FOG holy holy holy
HAPPY SUPPLY camera song
MOUNTAINS IN THE SKY noah's arkestra
NANCY SINATRA these boots were made for walking
NARDO no sale
SMUDGE hot potato
MODERN GIANT if I close my eyes
THE CA$INOS city lights
THE DEVOTED FEW counting cars
INTERNATIONAL KARATE walk without touching the ground
CAT POWER he war
THE MORNING AFTER GIRLS chasing us under
WALLSPACE before leaving
ED KUEPPER rue the day
ENDS AND MEANS on the law
DSICO smells like electro

PREFUSE 73 feat THE BOOKS pagina dos
DAVE MILLER people
COCOROSIE beautiful boyz
THE EMERGENCY can't stop
MOUNTAINS IN THE SKY noah's arkestra
MAYDAY lines
PATRICK WOLF tristan
EDAN fumbling over words that rhyme
TOM VEK nothing but green lights
LITTLE BOY FROM THE WOODS whoz that?
THE RECTIFIERS this peace between us (3RD DEK's between these pieces rework)
MADVILLAIN great day (FOUR TET remix)
QUASIMOTO maingirl
VIA TANIA true (new version)
MICAH P HINSON close your eyes
LOS DOMINADOS stop n go
ADAM GREEN the teddy boys
MODERN GIANT keep on movin'
CLUE TO KALO seconds when it's minutes
CLUE TO KALO your palsy to protect you
CHRIS GREENE last goodbye
WHY? sanddollars
SMOOSH massive cure
DARREN HANLON winter takes fall
CALEXICO sunken waltz
THE RHOMBUS night
NICK CAVE good good day
WALRUS evelyne
THE ROGERS SISTERS fantasies are nice
LIMITED EXPRESS (HAS GONE?) donut
TERRAPIN foolscap
CITY CITY CITY empty
DEAD IN TWO WEEKS reworked
THE BIRD 1:00 AM
FOUR TET and then patterns

damn you jill hennessy!

2005-05-24T12:36:00.000+10:00

tuesday mornings are always much more of a struggle than they should be. coming home from fbi i think "tonight i will go to sleep as early as possible, regaining the sleep lost over the weekend". and i get home around 9pm, reheat my dinner in the microwave, eat it and watch the end of desperate housewives with my sister. it ends and nothing has been solved since i watched the end 20 minutes of last weeks episode.
the credits roll and i start to get up to ready myself for my 9:30 bedtime when BAM! channel 7 goes straight from the credits into my latest TV addiction: Crossing Jordan.

help! i love this show!! maybe it's because i'm glad jerry o'connell has found work after sliders, or maybe it's because i'm a loser who likes crime television.
but it's more likely the former. i hated nypd blue, csi, csi: miami, csi: normanhurst, all those shows. Crossing Jordan is different! it is about real people! and jerry o'connell!!
last night's episode was about a kidnapping of a child, and was done quite well, with a pretty awesome twist. and the subplot (which is generally better than the main story) was about a man who suffered from amnesia trying to remember who he was, with the guidance of the lovely lily and the gruff dr garret.
so the episode ends, the ending is a little morbid i guess, but full of hope. my evening in bed is not. for channel 7 has a second trick up their sleeve: "and now, another episode of crossing jordan". killer.
so i stay up and watch the second episode with my faithful labrador tess looking up at me like i was the biggest dork she'd ever met.
finally, at 11:40, i decide to head to bed, but upon getting there, realise i bought a buttload of records in melbourne and should listen to them immediately.
so tuesday morning didn't exist this week. just like last week.

tonight i'm giving a seminar on music or something at the frequency lab in surry hills. come along, it's free from 8:30. as if you've never seen me talk shit for half an hour before.

oh, and diplo has a new mp3 up on his site, haiti on blast. get into it.

melbourne bound

2005-05-19T16:23:00.000+10:00

i got home kinda drunk last week and bought a ticket to melbourne for no real reason. i leave tomorrow at 6am.

give me a call if you wanna hang out.

kim

2005-05-18T23:10:00.000+10:00

i cried today for the first time in ages. pretty much a year or something.
i used to cry all the time when i was a kid. i remember in kindergarten my mum promised me that for every day i didn't cry, she would buy me a micro machine (what happened to micro machines? they were ill! i had a whole bunch, i kept them in this big plastic case that looked like a gas tank on the outside but NO WAY SON on the inside it was a mountain for the cars to drive around. actually, it even had a wind up lift!! woah).

it had been a fairly normal day, i hung out in my boxers all morning, then visited radio stations to hand out some promoes, walking around the city. i was on the corner of regent and cleveland, a busy intersection, when zilbs called me. i was on my way to see him, so i told him to hold on for a bit. standing at the lights, i contemplated whether tying my shoelaces would be a good idea, when my phone rang again and i learnt that a close friend had been in a car accident last night. she was still unconcious and in a fairly critical condition. it was just her in the car when the accident happened.

on the way to meet up with zilbs i felt really odd. i remembered kim, growing up and her role becoming more and more prominent in my life, and what it would be like to not have her around anymore. i didn't really feel anything, i just kept thinking as i walked. i said hey to zilbs and he asked how i was. i burst into tears.

i forgot how unable you are to function when you cry. you try to talk, but you can't. you just cry. and how awkward everyone around you is. do they hug you? slap you? get you a glass of water? nobody knows how to act when the life of someone close to a friend is threatened. even people who experience death often don't know what to say. someone should come up with a saying that can be generally said to relieve awkwardness. so people don't apologise for something they had nothing to do with.

nerdy theories aside, kim is in a stable condition, although she sustained a number of injuries.

i've listened to the new Why? ep 4 times in the last two hours. it's called Sanddollars, and if you want a taste click here. it gets better with every listen. i like records like that.

going cheap

2005-05-17T01:09:00.000+10:00

lamlam faces the facts

2005-05-16T23:33:00.000+10:00

cold lunch says: (11:27:28 PM)
tomo i got buttloads of uni

CRUNK JUICE says: (11:27:38 PM)
i thought you were on holidays?

cold lunch says: (11:27:47 PM)
nah way man

cold lunch says: (11:27:57 PM)
im totally under the biggest loada crap since forever

CRUNK JUICE says: (11:28:00 PM)
man you suck at being 21

cold lunch says: (11:28:07 PM)
hahahHAHAHAAHHAHAHAAA

yawn

2005-05-02T18:41:00.000+10:00

alright, i played these songs today...

BUSDRIVER imaginary places
LITTLE BOY FROM THE WOODS whoz that?
NICK SWEEPAH AND AUX ONE adrenachrome
DIZZEE RASCAL fix up, look sharp (RATATAT remix)
THE STREETS fit but you know it (FUTUREHEADS remix)
THE WHITE STRIPES blue orchid
LUNZ carnickel and pocketboat (MILLENIA NOVA remix)
VIA TANIA true
SUFJAN STEVENS chicago
CAM BUTLER brothers & sisters
SUFJAN STEVENS casimir pulaski day
MONK FLY helium hype
UNKLE HO thriller run
PREFUSE 73 feat THE BOOKS pagina dos
WHY? miss ohio's nameless
JAMES GREHAN code red
PEABODY synaesthesia
STEREO TOTAL hunger!
FDEL get up on ya feet
MADVILLAIN money folder (FOUR TET remix)
INFINITY POST-HOOPLA elisa
A-TRAK feat JR WRITER, HELL REL & 40 CAL don't fool with the dips
EKKO MC feat DJ DAIGO van demons land
THE KILL DEVIL HILLS the people stain
FRENCH TOAST what I see
CARIBOU hello hammerheads
ODD NOSDAM feat JESSICA BAILLIF untitled three
DAPPLED CITIES FLY as I lay dying
ART OF FIGHTING your easy part
PASOBONIC empty beat 5
MEEM wyldflour (feat PHOENIX)

and these were played the week before

MONK FLY the stupids
UNKLE HO hanky panky
CLUE TO KALO empty save the oxygen
LUNZ clue (ALIAS remix)
PATRICK WOLF tristian
FAKER the familiar
I [LOVE] SPACE lions vs christians
STYROFOAM the long wait
FAUST it's a bit of a pain
UNDERLAPPER 3 sides
UNDERLAPPER ampersand
CAN i'm so green
UNDERLAPPER abacus
FOG the rabbit
MISTY DIXON are you lost
PEABODY i don't know
PREFUSE 73 feat THE BOOKS pagina dos
M.I.A 10 dollar
M.I.A superlangalang (cry.on.my.console bootleg mix)
BLASTCORP no one will ever know
65 DAYS OF STATIC the fall of math
BY THE END OF TONIGHT setting sail in april
HOOD the negatives
KIOSK tourist attraction
DIZZEE RASCAL off 2 work
ANTI POP CONSORTIUM ping pong
XIU XIU pox
RENNY FIELD all I've needed
DEEPCHILD two roads
SIR ROBBO meshugganah
FOURPLAY enter sandman
SPARROW HILL the ploughman
THE SPARK up in the air
TERRAPIN foolscap
PASOBIONIC echoes of blue

and then, i slept.

Välkommen till Levinsgruppen - det kompletta elföretaget

2005-04-29T13:10:00.000+10:00

woah.

as of last week, this crappy blog has become the first result when you google levins.
which means that i'm ranked above levins.com (sorry hoag), levins.net (sorry martin) and levinsel.se (sorry levinsgruppen).

seriously, everyone should check out levinsel.se. looks like i'm a hotel in sweden?

maybe i can get free room service when i next go visit.

which is probably never.

oh, i'm djing at the archibald prize tonight. say hi if you're there. maybe request M.I.A or something.

make omelettes, not war

2005-04-27T01:52:00.001+10:00

me and james got egged tonight.

we were postering outside fbi and this car passed us, bearing green p plates. the driver stuck his head out towards us and there was a crack of white on the wall beside me. i realised what had happened.

"did that guy just egg us?"
"yeah, and he missed too."

hahaha. we kept postering, safe. a minute or so later, the car pulls up right beside us and the two within it start pelting us with eggs. i dodge them (they threw about a half dozen) except jim was kinda caught with his hands taping a poster around a pole, and the fuckers got him. kinda. a little bit of white down his front. as they drive off, the kid in the passenger seat throws one last egg at me. however he fucks up and the egg lands on the other side of the car. they drive off.

these lands is ghetto lands.

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the posters we were putting were for a new venue i'm booking, the mandarin club. here's what's going down this week...

Thursday 28th April
Terrapin
Delpino (Brisbane)
Joe Leonard/Family Fuse
DJ Get Well Mary Kate (Me)
$8

Friday 29th April
The Spark
Merle Morris
Tha Crunkadile Huntaz (Me + Jim + Elston)
DJ SPOD
$5

Saturday 30th April
Teenagersintokyo present:
"The Last Minute Party"
High Kicks and Hi Jinks
$5

All at The Mandarin Club (Cnr Pitt and Goulburn St, City)
For info of members and guests
http://www.popfrenzy.com.au

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come along, it's cheap as heck, and the drinks are too! rsl prices!!

at the moment i'm organising a night for next week called "tagteam" - 40 DJs, one ten minute set each. oh man it's gonna be PUMPIN!

please eat your eggs.

rockets

2005-04-18T18:55:00.000+10:00

todays playlist woz:

SPOON I turn my camera on
THE CAPTAINS PACKAGE you better be
SNOWMAN lost in the woods
DE LA SOUL feat MF DOOM rock co.kane flow
JUNIOR BYLES fade away
GHOSTFACE KILLAH mighty healthy
CARIBOU barnowl
LITTLE BOY FROM THE WOODS whoz that?
COMBAT WOMBAT corruption dub
SALMONELLA DUB mercy (MAD PROFESSOR remix)
COMBAT WOMBAT redneck shock jock
ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI cemetery
DAEDELUS feat MIKE LADD welcome home
PSAPP tiger, my friend
DIRTY LITTLE SECRET guns guns guns
PHOENIX everything is everything
HAZEY JANE pull the trigger
GEORGE BYRNE moonshine
BECK farewell ride (SUBTLE remix)
SOLE year of the $exxx $ymbol
KAMIKAZE TRIO rumblefish
CAM BUTLER brothers and sisters
MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO the dark don't hide it
MNEMONIC ASCENT complicate
PIVOT make me love you
OKKERVIL RIVER for real
JENS LEKMAN you are the light
PEDESTRIAN the dead of a day
FOUR TET smile around the face
VASSY cover you in kisses
OUTFIT dead scene
THE SPARK too much to do
MERLE MORRIS where do we go?
WOLF & CUB thousand cuts
THE MORNING AFTER GIRLS chasing us under
DAUGHTERBOY JAO better for you and me
DEAD IN TWO WEEKS trains
ENTROPIC upholstery (MONKFLY's maurices chair remix)
RESIN DOGS gunshot dub (SALMONELLA DUB mix)
INFUSION girls can be cruel
13 & GOD into the trees (WHY? And ALIAS remix)

the studio smells like chips.

the things that were played in the past

2005-04-13T23:48:00.000+10:00

so these songs were played on my show last monday:

DOSH rock it to the next episode (FOG remix)
LADY SOVEREIGN random
ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI the cemetery
PREFUSE 73 feat THE BOOKS pagian dos
TOYDEATH feat FRANK BENNETT the girl
TOYDEATH star flyer
THE EMERGENCY disaster zone
DE LA SOUL feat MF DOOM rock co.kane flow
SOULS OF MISCHIEF cabfare
COMBAT WOMBAT corruption dub
SPARKLEHORSE feat THE FLAMING LIPS go
GEORGE BYRNE moonshine
BIT BY BATS all night
ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS feat DEVENDRA BANHART spiralling
PEDESTRIAN the dead of a day
FANNYPACK seven one eight
DAEDELUS feat MIKE LADD welcome home
UNDERLAPPER dewey decimal
SPOON i turn on my camera
HAZEY JANE amphetamines
CAM BUTLER brothers and sisters
LAURA VEIRS black eyed susan
MIRAH nobody has to stay
DELPINO susie & steve
MARY LOU WILLIAMS credo
CATNIP lullaby
THE BLOW hey boy
M.I.A galang
3RD BASS feat KMD the gas face
TOYDEATH horror horse
GAUCHE take my hand
GERLING deka
THE WOODS THEMSELVES plain old ground
TERRAPIN pixellated
TERRAPIN boychick
TERRAPIN sister
TERRAPIN numbers man
EXPATRIATE the spaces between
LIOR building ships
CARLA WERNER heaven is a word
TOM TOM CLUB genius of love

and these songs were played the monday before that:

UNDERLAPPER 3 sides
KAISER CHIEFS I predict a riot
LOS DOMINADOS stop n go
THE EARLIES 25 easy pieces
BRIAN WILSON heroes and villains
ENON knock that door
ARCSOLO get on back
KIOSK tourist attraction
THE BITES I'm not coming down
SIXTOO noise complaint
DIPLO feat MARTINA TOPLEY BIRD into the sun
M83 don't save us from the flames
THE MORNING AFTER GIRLS chasing us under
LITTLE WINGS sing wide
BARRAGE corridor
OL' DIRTY BASTARD pop shots
KAOS now and forever
UNKLE HO the lost forest
THEMSELVES terror fabulous
THE LUCKSMITHS putting it off and putting it off
BARRAGE cankers in skillets
UNDERLAPPER 2pple
TIM KOCH macrome
II untitled
DODGYWORLD rose controls
LINDA PERHACS paper mountain man
5!NYTK digital love
REQ feat KID ACNE style mentorz
THE NULL SET daily double
THE SUITABLE FEW aeronautical
MEZA reminds me of blue
MONTANA wait
DARTH VEGAS captain terrific
DARTH VEGAS el flamo
THE LADYBUG TRANSISTOR please don't be long
THE PANICS southern
BY THE SEA freedom song
SMOG cold blooded old times

and i'm about to head into the studio once more to record another episode of fourtack, my lo-fi show. check out the playlists here:

hello, mr dj!

2005-04-13T13:33:00.000+10:00

i'm playing records twice this week...

THURSDAY 14th APRIL
FBi BENEFIT GIG

BLUEBOTTLE KISS
NIGHT HOUR
THE NULL SET
EXPATRIATE
THE GLASS AGE

DJ's ANNA BURNS + LEVINS

THE GAELIC CLUB
$12/$8 FBi MEMBERS

aaand...

SATURDAY 16TH APRIL

TERRAPIN
THE THAW
SUNNY DISPOSITION (melb)

DJ LEVINS IN BETWEEN BANDS

THE HOPETOUN HOTEL
$8

come along and request that scatman song from the early nineties.
weeeebopbopbabalop!

turn around...

2005-04-12T10:43:00.000+10:00

a while ago i was asked to write a story for cat magazine on bright eyes, as he was touring. sadly, bright eyes didn't want to do any interviews. but the story had to happen. so i called by friend matt, who's an adelaide songwriter who goes by the name of no through road, and got him to pretend to be bright eyes. bulletproof!

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EMO IMPOSTOR SCANDAL!!
Like most good-music-lovin’ folk, we were excited when REM announced that, for their 2005 national tour, they would be bringing with them a young songwriting prodigy, Conor Oberst, aka Bright Eyes. We became even more excited when we learnt that Mr Oberst (aka Mr Eyes) was going to embark on a solo tour of his own while he was down here, launching his two separate albums Digital Ash in a Digital Urn and I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning. “Fantastic!” we thought to ourselves, never intending to publish such thoughts in a widely distributed magazine, “Now we won’t have to pay hundreds of clams to see a freakin’ REM concert!”
So we were excited. So excited that it seemed a great idea to give Conor a call and get the scoop on his tour. But, like a swift kick to a watermelon, our spirits were flattened when we were told that Lil’ Baby Bright Eyes didn’t want to do any interviews. Aw.
We were fucked. The hottest tour of the year and all we had was a couple-o-months old interview CD his label sent us. But then our Adelaidian news correspondent gave us a call. Apparently this local kid Matt Banham, aka No Through Road had been running around town with a guitar, pretending HE was Bright Eyes!! We’re talking releasing an album on an indie label, writing long dull songs about girls he’s probably never been with, moaning and groaning into a microphone, the whole shebizang! If this guy came and introduced himself as Bright Eyes, you’d believe him, then buy him a milkshake.
So we got thinking. If the real Bright Eyes was too good for us, maybe we could interview No Through Road AS Bright Eyes and no one would know the difference!!

January saw the release of your two new albums Digital Ash in a Digital Urn and I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning, why the decision to release 2 albums?
Wow, straight into the hard hitting questions. Well I guess it all comes down to the fact that I had a lot to say, you know when you are sitting around with not much to do and then someone walks past and makes a face like, ‘hey you can’t talk to me’ and then suddenly you have two albums. I mean I could go into a lot of detail about the duality of life but I don’t think your readers would completely understand.
Have you a split personality disorder? Is that why?
Well you know there are two sides to everyone. Like, you can call a rose by a rose and not have to worry about how it might have a real name, and that the name could be Rhienhold but I mean does anyone really care? It’s still a goddamn flower.
So let us money-savers in. Which album is the better one?
Well now that’s a toughie cause they are both my babies. I mean it’s like Sophie's Choice isn’t it. But you know I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning is much better. But they both have a lot of feeling. And feeling is what we all look for in music, right?
So I hear that you are bringing your parents on tour with you.
They are here to make sure that you damn Australians don’t eat all my babies. Hahaha. No seriously, I bring them along cause its good to be close to your family even when you are on the other side of the world. Am I really bringing my parents over? Cause that’s kinda weird.
You're touring with REM. Are you a fan of their music?
Yeah, I mean they started folk rock didn’t they? Well maybe not, but they sure knew how to turn 3 chords into a 20 year career. Which is inspirational to a lot of us you know.
Are you proud knowing that Seth Cohen of The O.C. is a big fan of yours?
Well at first I was a little miffed about it all, I mean that show seems pretty commercial and you know I have some pretty high soap boxes I like to stand on, but in the end I sat down and watched some of it. And it wasn’t that bad after all. Actually I really got hooked in, I mean Dawson and Joey are so good for each other and they know it but at the same time don’t. In fact my new album Digital Ash in a Digital Urn has a lot of references to that show.
Did you think it was totally shit when Marisa didn't take Ryan back?
I didn’t realise that Ryan Seacreast knew about the Australian Idol hosts. I mean isn’t Marisa only famous because her daughter was in The Rockmelons?
Why did the real Conor diss us by not letting us interview him?
Well you know as he/I am the king of angst, I’m a very busy man, and besides I know that No Through Road kid is damn good, I mean his album Monkey On a Rock is killa. You should all really buy it. And he does such amazing work with fridges.
So what can we expect from your upcoming live tour?
A whole lot of angst and stuff. Sorry im getting sleepy its pretty late here in America, I don’t know if you realise but we have different time zones here, its like, yesterday right now.
What do you expect Australia will be like?
Full of fish that you somehow mess up with fries. Fish and fries? I mean, c’mon! For real?!
Will you cry?
I think that’s up to how long im stuck in Melbourne for. I hear that place is a pile of ugly people, who the hell can I sleep with if they are all ugly? Sounds very depressing.

The real Bright Eyes can be seen performing at the Metro Theatre in Sydney on the 2nd of April and at the Prince Of Wales in Melbourne on the 5th of April, as well as on tour with REM. His new albums ‘Digital Ash in a Digital Urn’ and ‘I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning’ are available though Stomp.
No Through Road can be seen filing papers in an Adelaide office near you. His latest album ‘Monkey On a Rock’ is available through Unstable Ape/MGM.
CAT apologises to Conor Oberst and wishes him (and his parents) all the best on his first visit to Australia. Please sue No Through Road, not us!

how you like me now, sucka?

2005-04-12T00:00:00.000+10:00

thanks to franith for making this site look so crunk.

woah.

2005-04-05T22:58:00.000+10:00

so i'm gonna leave my cute teenage years and turn twenty in one hour.

wish me luck.

Cheap Entertainment

2005-03-31T11:24:00.000+10:00

I interviewed Sole last week too, for 3D World again. Sole is part of the amazing Anticon collective, and he just released his best album to date (in my opinion at least...). It's called Live From Rome. Hit up Anticon for mp3's, 'Sin Carne' is an awesome track. It's funny, everyone always refers to Sole as this total prick, but he turned out to be lovely, joking around and stuff. Whaddyaknow, eh?

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Live From A Cab In Oakland
Andrew Levins talks to Sole.

“This isn’t my life” Anticon’s Sole tells me as he jumps into a cab, holding his mobile phone with me on the other line. “I don’t have my contacts, I get back home and find out I have to pick up all the merch for my tour on the the side of town by myself, and do all these interviews at the same time. This is Anticon, man.”
Sole (aka Tim Holland) has always been in the foreground of indie hip hop. From his Def Jukie diss ‘Dear El-p’ to his self produced lo fi project Man’sBestFriend, the Anticon founder is always experimenting with something new, often winning new fans and losing old ones. 2004 saw him leave Anticon’s home town of Oakland, California and move to Spain. A few months later and he’s released a new album, his third official solo release, Live From Rome.
“I think it’s a very polarizing record” Sole tells me as he attempts to instruct the cabbie where to go. “I was trying to make a few things clear on this record”. Sole has always had quite an aggresive flow, however Live From Rome sees him calm down a little. “Yeah, I’ve lightened up a bit, it’s much better than being some brooding, pissy asshole”.
Sole excuses himself for a moment and asks the cabbie where he is going. “Powell St!” Sole commands. “Powell St, Powell St, Powell St!” The cabbie mutters something under his breath, to which Sole replies, “Fucker...”

As well as being a great deal calmer, your new album is actually quite funny in parts. Was it a concious effort to use humour within your new songs, instead of anger?

‘Yeah, I mean, I didn’t like the way I was being percieved, like this brooding asshole, who’s like “everything sucks!” For some reason I’ve always found that side of my personality was the easiest to explore. To put my humourous side into my music is important, especially because the heavier topics are tackled, so I think it’s good to not take yourself so seriously.’

Like every new release you’ve put out, your new style on Live From Rome has been garnered a lot of negative reviews, especially from fans.

‘You can’t always listen to fans, our fans are sometimes trained to hate us.’

Do you find that often people read too far into exactly what your lyrics mean?

‘I don’t know, anytime you try to analyse poetry and readings you probably do it, you know? But if people read into it, that’s good also, it kinda forces them to seek out more information.’

It seems that a lot of journalists and reviewers often decide for themselves exactly what it is that you, and the rest of Anticon, stand for.

‘Tell me about it man. You know, unfortunately this interview has to take place with a journalist outside of America. People have blinds on man, it’s absurd.’

So you moved away from the States to record the new album, to Spain. What’s Spain like?

‘It’s not like the rest of Europe; it’s very humane; kinda laid back; very, very old old old buildings, it’s amazing. Very thin streets, it’s the opposite of Oakland.’

Why did you move?

‘I just wanted to get out of Oakland for a little while, I was going kinda crazy at the time, I had to get away from everything and clear my head of all the white noise and bullshit, and enjoy life a little bit.’

You’ve been fairly outspoken about hip hop in the past, what do you think of the genre now?

‘I appreciate it more than ever now. I mean, I can listen to Beanie Seegal and love it.’

A lot of the labels and collectives Anticon were once associated with, namely Rhymesayers and Definitive Jux, they seem to have tried as hard as they could to distance themselves from any ties they had with you guys.

‘That was always gonna happen, it was way obvious back then, the differences between all of us as artists and people are what made that what it is. It reflects in the music, we’re all very different people with very different ideas.’

You’ve perfected your collaborations with other Anticon associates though. The tracks with Odd Nosdam and Alias on Live From Rome are probably the best you’ve ever made.

‘I know, that’s why I’ve gotta get back to Oakland, I’ve gotta make more music with these guys. Before we all die.’

A voice cuts in and informs us that we have one more minute to finish the conversation, and asks that Sole stay on the line for the next interview. I wish him the best of luck, not only for his impending twenty something date tour, but just for the hectic day he’s in the middle of. “This is absurd” he laughs. “Welcome home”.

Sole’s latest album Live From Rome is out now through Anticon/Stomp.

paging mr bip...

2005-03-31T11:20:00.000+10:00

I interviewed Boom Bip last week for 3D World. He's a producer, responsible for one of my favourite albums of all time, 'Circle' (with Dose One). This was the third time I interviewed him, so he just kinda talked for ages, then we had this big conversation about a bunch of stuff not worth typing.

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Red Eyed In the Edit Room

Bryan Hollon has been busy. Going by the alias Boom Bip, the last five years has seen him release two albums, a remix album, an album with Anticon’s Dose One, a handful of singles and remixes for folks including Mogwai, The Super Furry Animals, Amon Tobin and Her Space Holiday. Constant touring and production for underground emcees such as Atmosphere’s Slug has seen Boom Bip linked to collectives and labels as varied as Ninja Tune, Anticon and Mogwai’s Rock Action label.
Boom Bip started out making fairly straight hip hop productions for emcees. As his career as a producer progressed he started adding elements of electronica and rock to his music. When he toured Australia last year, audiences witnessed a very moody, almost post rock influenced set, and on Boom Bip’s latest album, Blue Eyed In The Red Room, we see this same sound mixed with blippy drums, melodic drones and dreamy vocals. Andrew Levins caught up with Mr Bip and discussed his music, from old to new.

Your new album, Blue Eyed In The Red Room, is predominantly instrumental, although there are two tracks that feature the vocals of Nina Nastasia and Griff from Super Furry Animals. Having only worked with emcees in the past, what was it like making music with these singers?

‘It was different to what I’d worked with in the past - rappers, poets - this was different becauseI was working with people who had more of a range and could actually use their voice as an instrument, more than just a lyricist. It was something new for me.’

Did you find yourself adapting your production style to create something similar to their own music?

‘No actually. In fact. if anything, I like to take them out of their element and introduce them to something new, and I also like to do something different as well, not necessarily step into their realm of music, but something different from what they do, so it’s like something completely fresh and new and fun and interesting for the both of us.

‘When I worked with Dose One, I wanted to do more of an indie rock track with him actually singing on it, which is something he had never done. The Buck 65 track i wanted to be a little more electronic. With the new stuff, with Nina Nastasia, she makes folk music, and I didn’t want to make a folk track with her, I wanted to do something different, I don’t tend to create stuff that fits into their particular category, I like to take them out of their comfort zone.’

You’re fairly well known for your collaborative work, especially for your remixes. Your last album, Corymb, was a remix album of Seed to Sun. Are you going to release a remix album fo Blue Eyed In The Red Room?

‘No. I’ve had it up to my eyeballs with remixes actually. Just for now, I just need a break from them. I’ve been doing some, other people have been remixing for me, it’s just this remix frenzy. They can be very time consuming, that was part of the reason that the album was so delayed, because I was so busy doing so many remixes that I had a really hard time finishing my own project. I wanna focus more on studio work and putting out albums more frequently, and take my remix energy and focus it towards all of that.

‘Although, the beauty of remixes is that they’re there to help you dabble into genres and scenes that you wouldn’t normally be associated with. It kind of expands your listening audience. Remixes are definitely a tool in that way, a marketing tool, if you will.’

As a musician, do you think you have grown between Seed to Sun and Blue Eyed In The Red Room?

Yeah, I do. I don’t know if anyone else can hear it, but I can definitely hear it. I feel that I’m definitely growing as a musician, as well as a producer and a programmer. I ‘m getting much more comfortable with the equipment that I’m using, and I’m able now to buy more instrumentsand have a better studio situation. I feel a little more free, before I was kinda limited, I didn’t have as much money, I didn’t have much equipment, I had to do the best with what I had. Just having the experience and having more toys has made me grow quite a bit, in both directions; as far as being both a producer and a musician, and I can definitely hear that on the new record.

I have heard you feel embarassed when you listen to Circle (2000 collaboration with Dose One) these days.

Well, not really embarassed, but listening to Circle, I can tell that I was just starting out, and it’s very much loop based; I would never do something that simple now. It’s like one of your first drawings or paintings, it’s pretty terrible looking, compared to what you’re doing now. It seems kind of amateurish when I listen.

You can listen to Boom Bip’s latest drawings on Blue Eyed In The Red Room, out now on Lex Records/Inertia.

Blastcorp Tour!!

2005-03-29T16:14:00.000+10:00

hey fellows,
my friend kris is coming to visit this week. he lives in darwin and calls himself 'Blastcorp'. he makes blippy indie music and he just got signed to a german label, city centre offices. last time he came to sydney, he played a show in an old church and it was amazing! so i've organized some more shows for him this week. come see kris rip your dang face up at:

Space 3 (Corner of Regent St and Cleveland St, Chippendale)
Blastcorp w/ Gold Mice + Oh! Belgium (Melb) + The Emergency (Melb) + Lakes (Melb)
Friday April 1st
6pm - 10pm
$5
ALL AGES

The Lansdowne (Corner of City Rd + Broadway)
Blastcorp w/ Dsico + DJ Broken Cowboy
Sunday April 3rd
6pm - 10pm
FREE
18+

so come along, it'd be really nice to see you there!!

ps. blastcorp really is amazing!! hit up http://www.blastcorp.com for proof!!

what a day day

2005-03-28T18:25:00.000+10:00

today my sister kate came in and co hosted my show. she's 13 and plays the violin. or at least she did, until, on air at 3:30, she informed me she plaaned to quit.

suddenly a saga unravelled and folks were calling up demanding she keep playing, requesting awesome songs that featured awesome violin solos.

it was a good show. here's what we played...

SOLE sin carne
PLANKTON insomnia (GRIEVOUS remix)
MONK FLY helium hype
LITTLE WINGS sing wide
THE BITES I'm not coming down
CARIBOU barnowl
KANYE WEST school spirit
THE EARLIES morning wonder
ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI tiny paintings
THE LUCKSMITHS the chapter in your life entitled san fransisco
BONNIE PRINCE BILLY a minor place
THE MORNING AFTER GIRLS chasing us under
BOARDS OF CANADA 1969
M83 don't save us from the flames
CODA smoking camel on a camel
BECK girl
VICIOUS HAIRY MARY spyro
SNOWMAN mood swing
PREFUSE 73 feat THE BOOKS pagina dos
FOURPLAY sabotage
COMATONE not for years
MIA bucky done gun
ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI wishbone
ARC SOLO hold on now
KAISER CHIEFS i predict a riot
MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC COMPANY the dark don't hide it
cLOUDDEAD rifle eyes
THE GOLD MICE no going back
BLASTCORP how was I to know you were everything
THE EMERGENCY we got the horror
BRIGHT EYES take it easy
THE FRAMES sideways down
SPARROW HILL no is no answer
THAT 1 GUY weasel pot pie
SCHOL OF EMOTIONAL ENGINEERING redline
ENDS AND MEANS on the low
MACROMANTICS apple crumble
THE MILLERS TALE smile
TOM WAITS make it rain
THE HERD crossaint para zwei na cvrtek
MACROMANTICS who - ha

thanks kate.

eeeeewww? or mmmmm?

2005-03-01T15:02:00.000+11:00

this blog is super ugly.
i'll make a batch of chocolate slice for whoever makes it look nice.
mmm. slice.

a new show

2005-02-15T01:12:00.000+11:00

coming soon to an FBi near you.

it's called four track and feature myself and one James Shine programming 2 hours of experimental lo-fi, everything from anticon esque hip hop, to blistering digital hardcore, sleepy folk, post punk and odd indie stufferies.

like i said, coming soon.

plus this weekend sees the launch of the awesome lounge at the lansdowne.

i'll let you in soon.

it's the truth

2005-02-05T02:16:00.000+11:00

janski = buttflap

Sage Francis!!

2005-01-31T19:02:00.000+11:00

i wrote an article on sage francis a little while ago and hotpress were kind enough to publish it.

--

The Thirty Year Old Monster He’s Become
By Andrew Levins.

Since he was eight, Sage Francis (aka Paul Francis, 34) has been making, or at least trying to make, Hip Hop. With various independent releases, as well as albums out on labels Anticon and Lex Records, he has continually broke new ground for Hip Hop, and has been on the verge of blowing up for a while now. And with the news that his next album will be released on the huge punk label Epitaph, it shouldn’t be too long before Sage Francis is a household name.

“I expect big things from them”. Says Sage of his new label, the one successful applicant of the many labels that approached him for a deal. “You just hear horror stories, I’ve been approached by ‘em, they’ve left a horrible taste in my mouth and it was a pleasure to finally go with a label that I respect who has nothing to do with Hip Hop really, and just kinda throw up a middle finger to every label who ever approached me in an uncool way.”

Sage joins a label line up that includes Bad Religion, Pennywise and NOFX, but he’s not fazed about being the only indie rap needle in a cal-punk haystack. “I really liked the idea of being the only Hip Hop artist on the label.” He says enthusiastically. “It showed that they were willing to take a risk with me, they saw something special there. I think my music has a little bit more appeal to the general public rather than just a Hip Hop crowd.”

The next Sage Francis album, A Healthy Distrust drops in February, and Sage insists how different it will be to his other albums. “It’s all unique until itself. There’s songs that sound like nothing I’ve ever done before.” Having focused primarily on personal problems on his debut, 2002’s Personal Journals and made a fairly classic Hip Hop release with Hope (as Non-Prophets, with producer Joe Beats), A Healthy Distrust looks to be a lot more political minded. With killer lines like “Kill one of ours and we'll kill one of yours / With some friendly fire / That's a funny term, like civil war”, you can tell Sage Francis isn’t just another crusty muso jumping onto the left wing pro politics bandwagon, rather an intelligent writer, passionate in commenting on the world around him.

But not only is the content of the album different, the music is absolutely nothing like the music Sage has made in the past. As well as working with producers such Dangermouse and Alias, Sage has collaborated with folkster Will Oldham, on the track Sea Lion. And it sounds good. Really fucking good. So now that Sage is on a punk label and happy to collaborate with non Hip Hop artists, can we expect to see him on a track with, say, Guttermouth?

“People make a lot of corny references to Hip Hop and punk rock being brothers, and now that I’m on a punk rock label, am I gonna integrate the two? No. However, this is punk rock, in the sense that punk came about as a rebellion against rock music and I truly believe there’s now a whole wave of people who are using Hip Hop; just like punk rock used rock but changed it up a little; to rebel against it. We’re using Hip Hop the style we wanna use it in to rebel against the 30 year old monster it’s become.”

And what a monster it’s become. It seems that every present luminary Hip Hop figure doesn’t even listen to Hip Hop anymore. With groups continually ‘takin’ it back to the old school’, or living in a fantasy world where all they do is bust caps and mack bitches, the genre is looking kinda woeful. But, as Sage points out, this uninventiveness is present in every genre, and the actually talented artists have got to try harder and harder to wade through the bullshit hype to surface.

“There’s always gonna be groups that ride on the coattails of the past. By recreating the same sounds, by just emulating what has already been popular, rehashing tried and true formulas. But those aren’t the groups that stick out fifty years from now. They get buried under the rug after this five year period is over, when people realise ‘oh, this really isn’t all that fuckin’ inventive at all’”.

Sage Francis’ second solo album ‘A Healthy Distrust’ is released in February on Epitaph through Shock. He recently toured Australia and if you missed him, you’re a damn fool.

SAGE’S FASHION RANT

“I have two pairs of pants. They alternate whenever one pair gets dirty and I gotta put on the other. I don’t feel like risking putting on pants that halfway through the day I’m like ‘oh my god, these are too tight’, or ‘this doesn’t match’, fuck all that shit. I have so many other things to worry about that fashion has no priority in my daily schedule. I cannot allot more than twenty seconds a day to fashion. I’m a communist as far as fashion is concerned. I feel like everyone should wear just the same shit. I’m sick of people feeling like they’re making some kind of artistic statement because they wore a fuckin’ Che Guevara shirt. If we’re all forced to wear the same thing then you’re actually challenged to express yourself in a much more obvious manner, you have to dig deep down and let your personality reflect your beliefs, let your ideas come out in conversation.”

--

i'm actually yet to see a copy of hotpress though!! has anyone seen it?

everyone else is doing it, so why can't i??

2004-12-24T16:03:00.000+11:00

levins's TOP FREAKIN' FIFTY for 2004!!!

50. The Red Sun Band - Peapod
49. Hot Chip - Coming On Strong
48. The Brunettes - Mars Loves Venus
47. Busdriver - Cosmic Cleavage
46. Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
45. Viktor Vaughn - VV2: Venomous Villain
44. The Concretes - The Concretes/
43. Chasm - Self Titled EP
42. Laura Veirs - Carbon Glacier
41. AC Newman - The Slow Wonder
40. Triosk - Moment Returns
39. The Crayon fields - The Good Life
38. Rjd2 - Since we Last Spoke
37. The Album Leaf - In A Safe Place
36. Saddleback - Everything’s A Love Letter
35. Bjork - Medulla
34. Kanye West - The College Dropout
33. Elliot Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
32. Beans - Shock City Maverick
31. The Rectifiers - Symbiotic Remix EP
30. Devendra Banhart - Nino Rojo
29. M.I.A/Diplo - Piracy Funds Terrorism Volume 1
28. TV On The Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
27.Tom Waits - Real Gone
26. Passage - The Forcefield Kids
25. Subtle - A New White
24. Surfjan Stevens - Seven Swans
23. Arcade Fire - Funeral
22. Dappled Cities Fly - A Smile
21. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Twinkle Echo
20. Diplo - Florida
19. MF Doom - MM..Food?
18. The Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters
17. DJ Signify - Sleep No More
16. Midlake - Bamnan and Silvercork
15. Adem - Homesongs
14. The Rhombus - Bupkes
13. The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
12. Sixtoo - Chewing on Glass and other Miracle Cures
11. cLOUDDEAD - Ten
10. Qua - Painting Monsters On Clouds
9. Minus Story - The Captain Is Dead, Let the Drum Corpse Dance
8. Dosh - Pure Trash
7. Madvillain - Madvillainy
6. Joanna Newsom - The Milk Eyed Mender
5. Blockhead - Music By Cavelight
4. New Buffalo - The Last Beautiful Day
3. Urthboy - Distant Sense of Random Menace
2.The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike
1. Deerhoof - Milk Man

It was a grand year for all kinds of music this year. i found myself delving further and further into hiphop untill it subverted itself so much that i was listening to folk. the thread of electronica that i was following suddenly became pop, which added fuzzy noise and suddenly it was hiphop again somehow.

if anyone has their own list be it top 3, 50 or a zillion, post it as a comment and i'll judge you. hahaha.

merry end of the year and stuff, see you somewhere.

OH MY GOD I'M PREGNANT!!

2004-12-15T11:56:00.000+11:00

i had a dream last night that i pashed a 38 year old woman.

also, i'm DJing all over this earth this week!
this thursday at the unicorns show at spectrum.
and then at the unicorns after party on friday at suzie q's for pop frenzy.
how exciting!

here's my playlist from monday's radiofonic three hours. it's been a while since i did one of these babies.

THE SHINS so says i
GREG DAVIS at my window
UNDERLAPPER springtime
WHY? me on beer
WHY? the crest
SAGE FRANCIS slow down gandhi
DOWNSYDE bring it all back
EFTERKANG step aside
RESIN DOGS gunshot dub (SPIDER JOHNSON mix)
RJD2 ghost writer
TRI STATE LOVERS planet of the apes
MY DISCO see life
ENON daughter in the house of fools
GAUCHE butter
THE RADIO DEPT ewan
SUBTLE red, white + blonde
TRIOSK two:twelve
THE AGGRAVATORS tiger dub
HANDSOME BOY MODELLING SCHOOL rock n roll (could never hip hop like this)
THE FRAGMENTS obvious
STRAIGHT TO VIDEO phd in apathy
HOT CHIP keep falling
VARIOUS warp mix # 3
JOSEPH LEONARD lot's wife
BLOC PARTY tulips (MINOTAUR SHOCK remix)
SHUGGIE OTIS strawberry letter 23
TERRAPIN emma
THE CAPTAINS PACKAGE arab song
SNAP! CRAKK!! on power off
SLIMEY THINGS space toast
COLDITZ GLIDER who blew up the brittle building?
LAZY SUSAN misunderstood
HERMITUDE gusto's theme
OH! BELGIUM bracelet of stars
THE UNICORNS les os
THE UNICORNS ghost mountain

zoom zoom zoom

HECTIC!!!!

2004-12-13T23:33:00.000+11:00

woah.
today was a hectic day.
but the unicorns!

oh, the unicorns!

and JULES: THE RETURN.

where've you been homie?

2004-11-20T14:47:00.000+11:00

hey peoples!
i was on an island cruise! for weeks!

but i've returned with a wealth of things to speak of.
like these gigs i've got happening next week!

Monday 22nd November
Ben Frosts'School of Emotional Engineering
Underlapper
DJ Broken Cowboy

Wednesday 24th November
Wolf & Cub
Kiosk
The Thaw
DJ's Broken Cowboy and a teenagerintokyo

both gigs are at the frequency lab, 342 elizabeth st surry hills and cost $8, or $6 if you're an FBi or SER supporter.

man, you shud see the flyers i made, they're good and stuff. and by good i mean AWESOME!! and by stuff i mean...YOUR FACE!
i'm sorry.
but come along, these bands fucking rule, other wise i wouldn't have em playing! let me know if yr coming and i'll make sure you get in for cheep. or i'll make you a curry or something.
i'm really excited to see wolf and cub, and school of emotional engineering. i've not seen either but know they will own both my, and your face. not sure about that broken cowboy motherfucker though. i hear the camels want to break his limbs though.

so come one, come all!!
i have a buttload of old playlists to post up here too, it'll happen sooooooon.

two and a half!

2004-11-03T14:46:00.000+11:00

i did it.
i drew another comic.
i was bored at work, folded a piece of paper and completed the unofficial next issue, are you proud?
it's one a4 piece of paper. or half of it.
but it rules and is issue number 2.5.
cummangeddit at the gig this evening, freq lab, y'know....
seeya there?

issue 3 is coming soon, i promise.

employment, drums and adelaidians

2004-11-02T10:21:00.000+11:00

hi all, happy tuesday.
thanks very muchly for your insults, i will be putting the better ones in a zine coming out soon.

me?
oh, life's fine.
i quit my seventh job this year last week. which is a pretty amazing accomplishment if you ask me, which you did.
so far in my illustrious career as a mediochre superstar i've been a caterer, a sales assistant, an ice cream man, a receptionist, a waiter, a clerk, a lackey and a file manager.

also i host a radio show, and yesterday my friend matt (aka NO THROUGH ROAD) from adelaide came and hosted it wih me. he and his friend peta are staying at my place this week.
here's what we played:

LALI PUNA b - movie
QUA devil eyes
THE GO! TEAM ladyflash
NO THROUGH ROAD sucked in matt
THE CONCRETES you can't hurry love
WHY? you will never.../hahaha/on my nineteenth
SADDLEBACK nearly new
STRAIGHT TO VIDED phd in apathy
SURFJAN STEVENS all the trees of the field will clap their hands
ONACKA i'm cold chillin'
SIXTOO one world lost
JOHN CHANTLER opposite ends of same
CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE casiotone for the painfully alone in a yellow t shirt
SUBTLE red, white and blonde
CIRCULATORY SYSTEM lovely universe
WOLF & CUB thousand cuts
GAUCHE take my hand
URTHBOY keep it relevant
MATT'S LITTLE BROTHER flowers
PASSAGE the unstrung harp
PHONOGRAPH unoriginal man
BLASTCORP no one will ever know
THE HIDDEN CAMERAS ban marriage
BECK forcefield
SPARROW HILL no is no answer
COMPANY FLOW end to end burners
GRIFTERS bronze cast
IANTO WAVE blue sky
THE RHOMBUS reflections of a char broiled whiz kid
MIDLAKE the jungler
SWEET RAXXX joan
cLOUDDEAD dead dogs too (BOARDS OF CANADA remix)
THE CRAYON FIELDS get off the good ship
CODA giraffe girl
UNDERLAPPER little
PONYLOAF classique
NO THROUGH ROAD stand up bob dylan, you're a star (live in the studio)
RAND & HOLLAND open my eyes
NO THROUGH ROAD the chelsea theatre (live in the studio, with ill rap interlude)
THE CRAYON FIELDS the good life

then we went and played arcade games. i'm developing an obsession with them. last night i tried one of those virtual drummer games, where you beat artificial drum skins in time to fast japanese power pop. i lasted 30 seconds. i'll never make it.

speaking of making it, tomorrow night me and my friend eli have organised a gig.
no through road is playing, plus rand and holland, underlapper and joseph leonard from founder.
for real, this shit is gonna BANG (in a nonchalant shoe gazing kinda way).
it's at the frequency lab, 342 elizabeth st surry hills.
it's 8 bucks entry, 6 bucks if you're an fbi/ser supporter.
me and emily farrell will be playing records afterwards too.
our dj names are DJ BROKEN COWBOY (me) and DJ CATBOT (emily).
starts at 8:30pm.
do the attendance thing!

that levins sure is a jerk.

2004-10-19T21:40:00.000+10:00

dear everybody.
that bitch of a title tells the truth. i sure am a jerk.
i make a lot of jokes at other peoples expense. they are always awesomely funny in my mind, but it's the same mind that once convinced me to buy those new hawaiian flavoured twisties, so now i know not to trust it.
so i'm sorry.
kinda.

and now, to the games!
i freaking dare you, hell, i freaking tell you to insult me back.
everybody have a go, and forward this to all your mates.
it's the insult levins fun-o-rama!!!
do your worst.
i suggest using these templates if you're stuck for ideas:

'oh boy, that band ........... sure do suck a whole bunch. just like levins. their song 'are you gonna be my ......' makes me want to vomit. just like levins.'

'that levins is a ......., .........., .......... butt monkey.'

'now, i'm not saying levins eats shit, but what he does do is ............... ............ .'

so hit the comment button and make me cry.
if you don't, you're not really my friend.
because friends make friends cry, don't you watch the o.c?

yours cowering in the corner,
Levins.

2004-10-18T19:48:00.000+10:00

on my radio show which occured in between the hours 3pm and 6pm today:

VINNY MILLER pig pen
MOJAVE 3 bluebird of happiness (MINOTAUR SHOCK remix)
SNAP! CRAKK! on power off
BIG JIM frost freeze
SADDLEBACK scramble to
RESIN DOGS ft SPIKEY TEE gunshot dub (DANIELSON remix)
WOLF & CUB thousand cuts
TOM WAITS top of the hill
RAND & HOLLAND open my eyes
HYKOO & OSINAKA life
AC NEWMAN miracle drug
MACROMANTICS hyperbolic logic
DIPLO big lost
JEFFREY LEWIS when i was 4
DAPPLED CITIES FLY states
PATRICK & EUGENE crazy in love
NEW BUFFALO while you're away
KING GEEDORAH ft GIGAN crazy world
MARISHEVITZ city life
LOVE OF DIAGRAMS in the red (QUA remix)
INGA LILJESTROM phoenix
TOM WAITS dead & lovely
THE RESERVATIONS i was born in 1980
THE UNICORNS jelly bones
THE GO! TEAM ladyflash
THE BUG ft WARRIOR QUEEN world war three
JOSEPH LEONARD of mice
ARCSOLO demo
BEACH BOYS it's about time
CARLA WERNER under
DARREN HANLON a to z
DAVID DONDERO the stars are my chandlier
DAVID DONDERO journal burning party
DARREN HANLON there's not enough songs about squash
THE WOODS THEMSELVES beat yr shallow chest
TZU wildstylee

whoopee!

flies

2004-10-12T11:28:00.000+10:00

it's what maggots turn into.
flies.
60 of them.
in my shower recess.
i feel like pharoah whats-his-face, the one with the plagues. why the fuck is this happening? is it a sign that i should stop washing? am i using the wrong shampoo? do i need to stop my cruelty towards my israeli slaves and send them to the land of milk and honey?
so many questions, but the answer i fear the most is the response to the most inevitable question...
what's next?
first maggots, then blowflies. now what?
wolves?

do the ultra hustle!!

2004-10-11T19:31:00.000+10:00

hey liberals, how's it hangin'?
way to win an election and stuff. dare i embark on a highly dull rant already treaded upon by countless others? nah.
sure the leader of this country is a pig fucker, but shit it was nice out today.
and greg davis is the fucking man too. you hurd his musics yet? i saw him play 3 times in the past week, bought a 12er. loverly.
what's that? you want a tie in between music and politics? here's what i posted on a music forum today to mixed replies:

dear musicians of mono,
okay, liberal won, the world sucks and burning flags is awesome.
it might seem terrible to you, and sure, maybe you can make a difference, but please, don't try and make a difference through your music.
does the country really need another hundred or so songs that cry the same thing?
just because there is an acoustic guitar backing and some fucking tubular bells doesn't make your stereotyped left wing ramblings anything more than glorified teenage angst poetry.
the next person to rhyme coward with howard dies.
no exceptions.
i don't care if you live in newtown.
no exceptions.
please, for the good of the country, no political songs this year.
love snax.

i was just takin' the piss, natch, but maaan some folk like to take things all serious. it's like when the planes crashed into the two towers. you can't make with the political laugh laugh for at least a fortnight.
my advice: ignore said pigfucker. instead focus on the many around you who don't fuck pigs. golly, there's a lot of them, ain't there!
also, there is a lot of music in this world. i played some on my radio show today.

AESOP ROCK commencement at the obedience academy
MY DISCO see life
THE GO! TEAM get it together
THE COOLIES transmission (LIVE KANDOS SESSION #12)
THE BOOKS tokyo
PIMMON no jazz for jokers
SURFJAN STEVENS the transfiguration
ODD NOSDAM ft CIRCUS pick me for president
SUN reach for the sky (PLURAMON remix)
UNKLE HO a scottish tale
NO THROUGH ROAD how to make you cum
MS JOHN SODA no. one
I MONSTER daydream in blue
SARAH BLASKO sweet november
SIXTOO & MATTH webeganhearingthings
THE UNICORNS sea ghost
LAURA VEIRS ether sings
CURSE OV DIALECT baby, how'd we ever get this way?
BLASTCORP thousand miles away dub
THE RHOMBUS night
HIGH CONTRAST ft NOLAY angels and fly
ONEIDA each one teach one
GREG DAVIS curling pond woods (stupidly played at 45 speed by an idiot [me])
LIOR this old love
O||O goats milk silk
THE DOLLY ROCKER MOVEMENT just another day
LITTLE SKY new vision
HERMITUDE cave styles
ELLIOT SMITH twilight
GREG DAVIS air (correctly played at 33 speed by aforementioned idiot)

my friend emily is sitting next to me and is all doom and gloom about the weekends offerings. she's making everything i just wrote look like an idiot. could things really become as fucked as she described?
heck, i don't know.
i'ma go buy some krunchy korn kernels.
goodnight friends.
leave the pigs alone.

such a good show too

2004-10-05T13:15:00.000+10:00

it was a little more electronic than usual today.
COMATONE toy
FAKER quarter to three
DEEP PUDDLE DYNAMICS deep puddle theme song
THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN SPEAKING pieces
HAYDEN home by saturday
VIKTOR VAUGHN ft MANCHILD & IZ REAL r.a.p.g.a.m.e
THE MICROPHONES karl blau
UNDERLAPPER little
TERMINAL SOUND SYSTEM dusted
THE CONCRETES you can't hurry love
WHY? early whitney
SADDLEBACK scramble to
RADIOINACTIVE & ANTI MC movin' truck
BIRD BLOBS straight + narrow
EL P tuned mass damper
GAUCHE butter
A - MO there is a great deal to be silent about
CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE toby, take a bow
NEW BUFFALO while you're away
CLUE TO KALO empty save the ocean
HELIUM vibrations
SADDLEBACK gerroa thursday
BLASTCORP thousand miles away
BLASTCORP thousand miles away dub
BIG HEAVY STUFF black heart
SARAH BLASKO all coming back
BLASTCORP and the birds are blue
BLASTCORP one day (live in the studio)
THE HANDS where's my baby?
BOOM BIP morning and a day
BLASTCORP every rose has its thorn (live in the studio)
TOECUTTER ode to brendan
BLASTCORP now everything's impossible (live in the studio)
TOEKEO ft ICE T fuck bush

like i said, good show.

recount?

2004-10-05T13:06:00.000+10:00

last night was the first gig i ever organized.
it was blastcorp, sam smith and sumugan sivansen and happy adults playing in a small hall above a church in darlington.
over 50 people showed up, which is awesome considering i organized it in a drunken stupor whilst in newcastle on saturday night.
it was such a good night, and heck, such a good weekend! good spirits were had by all, also we drank beer.
i don't know where to start really.
so i won't.

thanks to all who came last night, and to all who were rad on the weekend.

2004-09-30T09:41:00.000+10:00

i can't believe it.
yesterday was my one week anniversary of part time reception work and it slipped right past me.
anyone wanna buy me a ring or something?

maggots...

2004-09-29T13:01:00.000+10:00

i had a cold last week.
sinuses blocked, i could neither taste nor smell.
so when my bathroom smelt far worse than normal, how was i to know?
mum said it smelt like something had died in there, but there was no blood or carcasses next to the shampoo. the smell went away in two days anyway, and my senses returned the day after. having never smelt the possible death, i swiftly forgot about its presence and continued to use my bathroom as one normally uses a bathroom, and not, say, a morgue.
a weekend passes, things get drunk and eggs get fried, records are spun in between leeds untangling, and suddenly it's monday.
i get into my shower, turn the hot tap two thirds round and the cold tap one half over. grasping the soap, i glance at my feet to notice motion. a one centimeter wriggle. it's a maggot.
'ew', naturally. 'how did that get there?' and it's swept down into the tubes below me. but centimeters still wriggle, and they are still maggots, a second and a third, that would no doubt be staring right at me had they any eyes. down they go.
i peer further in depth at the corner of my shower. half a centimeter wriggles as it escapes through a crack in the tile and becomes it's full centimeter length. fuck. they're coming from beneath me.
i remember the smell that was never smelled by myself. something must have died under my shower. glancing left to right, they are swimming in both directions. there must be twenty maggots inside my shower. i turn the taps back to where they started and step out of the shower reccess. i reach for my towel to see hat a maggot has beaten me there. the fuckers can climb up walls. also, they are not only in my shower.
with a knowing dread, i look to the floor of my bathroom. they lie in packs, leaning against the wall. in such great numbers, i cannot fathom how i dodn't see them in the first place. there must be over a hundred. awesome.
with ten minutes til work, i spray 'em dead and head out. i'll deal with it when i get back, right?
wrong. i mean, right. i vaccumed and mopped without an apron.
and that was that.
(kind of, there were more in the morning, and some of them actually escaped onto the carpeted beyond, but, i got em.)
the end (so long as you forget that i didn't actually find out what died, where it died and why it died. THE END.)

things and stuffs

2004-09-27T18:25:00.000+10:00

exciting things are happening.
talk soon, yes?

SIXTOO ft SAGE FRANCIS & SOLE when freedom rings
THE BIRD BLOBS nothin at all
THE MODERN LOVERS government center
BECAUSE OF GHOSTS you fool (your house was built on a frozen lake) {LIVE KANDOS SESSION #2}
SCOTT HORSCROFT ENSEMBLE music in D {LIVE KANDOS SESSION #10}
TUJIKO NORIKO narita made
SAUL WILLIAMS penny for a thought
DAPPLED CITIES FLY league of german girls
HANDSOME BOY MODELLING SCHOOL ft MIKE D & MIHO HATORI metaphysical
DURBEYFIELD 'til the good bits come
ANTI MC & RADIOINACTIVE movin' truck
BOOM BIP from left to right
URTHBOY & OZI BATLA the last chance
JOANNA NEWSOM the sprout & the bean
VIKTOR CAUGHN ft KOOL KEITH doper skiller
LE TIGRE new kicks
DAPPLED CITIES FLY my heads queen ant
FOG hitting a wall
MY DISCO! in the benelux
MINUS STORY gravity pulls
PLANT LIFE appreciate
DEVENDRA BANHART we all know
THE COPS cobra nights
I [LOVE] SPACE 6 phase
OLD MAN RIVER sunshine
GRETA GERTLER it's getting harder
DEEPCHILD mercy dub
GRETA GERTLER & PECCADILLO i'm not a lizard
LOVE OF DIAGRAMS what are you waiting for
SPOD secks party 4eva
BLASTCORP thousand miles away

finally! meaning!

2004-09-21T13:12:00.000+10:00

levin (LEV-in) noun

   Lightning; a bright light.

[From Middle English levene. Ultimately from Indo-European root leuk-
(light) that's resulted in other words such as lunar, lunatic, light,
lightning, lucid, illuminate, illustrate, translucent, lux, and lynx,]

"Broad and frequent through the night
   Flash'd the sheets of levin-light;"
   Walter Scott; The Dance of Death; 1815.

"See! from its summit the lurid levin
   Flashes downward without warning,
   As Lucifer, son of the morning,
   Fell from the battlements of heaven!"
   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; At Sea; 1851.

cheers to loada for the fakts.

today has been a fucked up day

2004-09-20T21:37:00.000+10:00

so i woke up yesterday with a terribubble hangover, and it decides to turn itself into a cold. awesome.
i coughed my way through todays playlist:

CANNIBAL OX iron galaxy
PONYLOAF classique
BIRD BLOBS stealing again
QUA devil eyes
NEW BUFFALO while you're away
BUSDRIVER kev's blistering computer tan and drivers rappers rapper moniker
THE CONCRETES you can't hurry love
RADIOINACTIVE & ANTI MC movin' truck
MCLUSKY she will only bring you happiness
THE WIGGERS liar liar pants on fire
OLD MAN RIVER sunshine
INTERPOL narc
ANTI POP CONSORTIUM ping pong
JUMPING WORLDS realm of princely frog
RADIO DEBT 1995
NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL song against sex
NEW BUFFALO no party
MKB i try
ALIAS triple phase irony
WAX MANNEQUIN tell the doctor
SPOD secks party 4eva
FRIDGE sample & clicks
LOIS from a heart
DABRYE making it pay
HOOD i can't find my brittle youth
ACROBAT jewels
CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE toby, take a bow
SOULWAX e talking
VAST AIRE ft BREEZLY BREWIN and VORDUL life's ill pt 2
FYREFLYES brave lies
SLIMEY THINGS nympho babes from planet x
THE GLASS AGE the watch
THE PYRAMIDIACS take a bow
CROPPER step back child
STRIPSHOW flood
DAPPLED CITIES FLY peach
GAUCHE butter
THE HERD manufactured
THE ACCIDENTS baggage handler
PENDULUM submarines
BLISS N ESO weathermen

it was still pretty good i thought.

ow ow ow ow

2004-09-16T17:31:00.000+10:00

i slept really badly last night.
well, i mean, the sleep was good, but i slept awkwardly.
and not awkwardly like "woah, kirsten dunst wants to have a serious conversation about cancer with me except i can see her nipples" kind of way.
i slept in an awkward position.
and my neck really hurts.

a normal neck shud look like this: ] [

but now my neck looks like this: ] /

ow ow ow

also, ow.

sleeping in

2004-09-15T14:21:00.000+10:00

it's good for some. like me.
i am currently, for the second time this year, unemployed.
and by fuck, it rules.
i quit my shitty record store job because i had a hangover. now i'm waiting for a production assisstant job to get back to me. and when i'm not waiting? i'm drawing, drinking and listening. oh, and sleeping.
it's the little things, y'know?
like all the little people who have made searching the word "cunnilingas" the most popular way of finding this site.
go on, try it. all you need is a little horniness and a lack of grammar.

awesome.

2004-09-13T19:16:00.000+10:00

i had a lex records special on my show today and it was awesome, just playing rad songs, back to back.
there were interviews with prince po, boom bip and dj signify.
awesome.
i recrded, so leave yr deets if you want a copy.
lex records owns.

THE CRAYON FIELDS get off the good ship
DOWNSYDE street machines
THE GUILD LEAGUE the storm
THEREDSUNBAND farewelling
THE WIGGERS liar liar pants on fire
I WANT A HOVERCRAFT $10 (live kandos session #9)
KEITHS YARD loopin'
JOHN CHANTLER autu
MY DISCO! inhaler
GEORGE BYRNE goldmine
MACHINE OF THE GODS celentia
*LEX RECORDS SPECIAL*
DM & JEMENI copycats
BOOM BIP roads must roll
TES say when
DJ SIGNIFY fly away
HYMIES BASEMENT 21st century pop song
DJ SIGNIFY ft SAGE FRANCIS kiddie litter
NON PROPHETS, MF DOOM, BROTHER ALI & SLUG doomage
PRINCE PO & MF DOOM social distortion
PRINCE PO & RAEKWON bump bump
DM & JEMINI ghetto pop life
DANGERMURSE to a black boy
DANGERMOUSE encore (JAY Z vs THE BEATLES)
HYMIES BASEMENT ben and joey
BOOM BIP the use of unacceptable colors in nature (MOGWAI remix)
SUBTLE i love l.a.
*LIVE MUSIC HOUR*
THE HEAD hobo atlas
PINBACK fortress (as selected by emily of roundabout)
INJETTISON tightropes
ART OF FIGHTING break for me
BIG JIM where do we go
THE WAGONS this is what death looks like
DIPLO sarah

follow me follow me follow me down down down

2004-09-07T13:57:00.000+10:00

these are my favourite pop songs from the past 5 years or so.
pop songs that were just so goddamned perfect and got me dancin' like there was no pepsi hits on tomorrow.

Kelis - Trick Me
Britney Spears - Toxic
Beyonce - Crazy in Luv
Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes - The Block party
Nelly Furtardo - Turn Off the Light
Ms Dynamite - Dy-na-mi-tee
Sugababes - Overload

oh fuck yeah.
i'm making a cd the most ultimate pop hits.
no ironic, 'i like this song because it's, like, soooo bad...'
i genuinely love these songs.
if you have any suggestions, please add.

it happened today

2004-09-06T18:28:00.000+10:00

and i played these tracks during it:

OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL peculiar noise called "train director"
OSINAKA soul purpose
DAPPLED CITIES FLY cream
THEREDSUNBAND ol' mexico
AMERICAN ANALOG SET only one
HOT CHIP keep fallin'
KIOSK rat boy
KIOSK feathers
CHASM ft OZI BATLA icarus
FOG what a day day
LISMORE blood bank
MUSIC VS PHYSICS two up
THE BRUNETTES these things take time
THE GUILD LEAGUE the storm
LIGHTNING BOLT dracula mountain
BLISS N ESO watchdog water dragons
THE UNICORNS tuff luff
BIRD BLOBS billy
NON PROPHETS new word order
BIG JIM where do we go
THE CONCRETES you can't hurry love
THE COACHWHIPS purse peekin'
WHY? bad entropy
BLISS N ESO creep
DARREN HANLON winter takes fall
WEEVIL halfsmile
ICE CREAM HANDS why'd you have to leave me this way
HYJAK & TORCHA it's over
URTHBOY media'd out
THE CAPTAINS PACKAGE arab song
THE MODEL SCHOOL one way ticket
YOUTH GROUP see saw
PRESTON SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY her estuary twang
THE DRUGS rogue states
DSICO smells like electro
THE HOLY SOUL jesus caught the 5:19
OLLO late/shift
THE PLANT LIFE we can get high

some of this happened....

2004-09-05T13:04:00.000+10:00

i made a few changes to protect the innocent.

monkeys are awesome says: (12:41:03 PM)
   oh man, last night was great

Matt says: (12:41:19 PM)
   what else did you get up to?

Matt says: (12:41:23 PM)
   any hot lady action?

monkeys are awesome says: (12:41:27 PM)
   i was well fucked up

Matt says: (12:41:42 PM)
   nice

Matt says: (12:41:47 PM)
   just booze?

monkeys are awesome says: (12:41:54 PM)
   i finished work at 5pm, called the manager a jerk

Matt says: (12:42:00 PM)
   hahaha

Matt says: (12:42:04 PM)
   to his face?

monkeys are awesome says: (12:42:05 PM)
   then started walking to disneyland

monkeys are awesome says: (12:42:07 PM)
   yep

monkeys are awesome says: (12:42:14 PM)
   i said "so long, jerks!"

Matt says: (12:42:17 PM)
   was he pissed

Matt says: (12:42:19 PM)
   hahahahhaa

Matt says: (12:42:23 PM)
   so hot

monkeys are awesome says: (12:42:25 PM)
   i dont think so

Matt says: (12:42:33 PM)
   you should have exposed yourself

monkeys are awesome says: (12:42:43 PM)
   anyway, i was walking to disneyland

Matt says: (12:42:49 PM)
   yeah

monkeys are awesome says: (12:42:51 PM)
   and my friend Mary Kate Olsen drove past

monkeys are awesome says: (12:42:56 PM)
   and picked me p

monkeys are awesome says: (12:42:58 PM)
   up

Matt says: (12:43:00 PM)
   awesome

monkeys are awesome says: (12:43:14 PM)
   and asked if i wanted to have a fiesta with him

Matt says: (12:43:18 PM)
   hahaha

monkeys are awesome says: (12:43:21 PM)
   and i was like, heck yeah

Matt says: (12:43:26 PM)
   hehe

monkeys are awesome says: (12:43:32 PM)
   but he had to go tapdance first

Matt says: (12:43:36 PM)
   its like your life is a non stop reality tv show

monkeys are awesome says: (12:43:39 PM)
   so we drove to his dance teachers place

Matt says: (12:43:47 PM)
   ...

monkeys are awesome says: (12:43:55 PM)
   which was this creepy den

Matt says: (12:44:01 PM)
   nice

monkeys are awesome says: (12:44:03 PM)
   with tupac osters everywhere

monkeys are awesome says: (12:44:06 PM)
   poster

Matt says: (12:44:06 PM)
   hahahhaa

Matt says: (12:44:09 PM)
   awesome

monkeys are awesome says: (12:44:20 PM)
   and he bought some asparagus

monkeys are awesome says: (12:45:00 PM)
   and as we were leaving, the dance teacher, who was this nutty fuck who grew up in a commune and jumped off a cliff yesterday, called him back

monkeys are awesome says: (12:45:04 PM)
   i didnt know why

monkeys are awesome says: (12:45:20 PM)
   we get to my fried matts place

monkeys are awesome says: (12:45:30 PM)
   and Mary Kate Olsen pulls out an eightball of peanut butter

Matt says: (12:45:30 PM)
   fried matt!

Matt says: (12:45:31 PM)
   hahaha

monkeys are awesome says: (12:45:50 PM)
   and we do some custard, have some fiestas, have some shoe polish

monkeys are awesome says: (12:45:59 PM)
   listening to lightning bolt

Matt says: (12:45:59 PM)
   eightball of peanut butter??

Matt says: (12:46:03 PM)
   awesome

Matt says: (12:46:12 PM)
   i just got all thier albums burnt for me

monkeys are awesome says: (12:46:15 PM)
   peanut butter = coriander

Matt says: (12:46:19 PM)
   ahh ok

Matt says: (12:46:22 PM)
   sorry i aint down

monkeys are awesome says: (12:46:33 PM)
   then i went to Lindsay Lohan’s party, off my face

Matt says: (12:46:37 PM)
   haha

monkeys are awesome says: (12:46:39 PM)
   and hated everybody

Matt says: (12:46:40 PM)
   very nice

Matt says: (12:46:43 PM)
   hahahaha

monkeys are awesome says: (12:46:55 PM)
   and craig nicholls was there, with pesto

Matt says: (12:47:05 PM)
   friends?

monkeys are awesome says: (12:47:13 PM)
   he was like, have some pesto dude....

Matt says: (12:47:27 PM)
   what is pesto?

monkeys are awesome says: (12:47:29 PM)
   i'd never met him before and was like like..."ew! no!"

monkeys are awesome says: (12:47:40 PM)
   its VHS cleaner or something

monkeys are awesome says: (12:47:45 PM)
   it;s like sniffing glue

Matt says: (12:47:46 PM)
   shit

Matt says: (12:47:49 PM)
   wow

monkeys are awesome says: (12:47:51 PM)
   except a bigger high

Matt says: (12:47:56 PM)
   good thing you didnt touch that

monkeys are awesome says: (12:47:57 PM)
   and a grosser headache

monkeys are awesome says: (12:48:04 PM)
   er....

Matt says: (12:48:10 PM)
   did you?

Matt says: (12:48:11 PM)
   hahaha

monkeys are awesome says: (12:48:20 PM)
   he was like "are you too good for pesto?"

Matt says: (12:48:25 PM)
   hahaha

monkeys are awesome says: (12:48:32 PM)
   and i was like "i'm fine, really"

Matt says: (12:48:32 PM)
   you crazy skamp!

Matt says: (12:48:37 PM)
   PEER PRESSURE

monkeys are awesome says: (12:48:59 PM)
   and ten minutes later, someboy grabs my face and holds my mouth shut

Matt says: (12:49:16 PM)
   raped!

monkeys are awesome says: (12:49:22 PM)
   and this girl holds the pesto under my nose until i whiff it

monkeys are awesome says: (12:49:30 PM)
   like, three times

Matt says: (12:49:30 PM)
   hehe

Matt says: (12:49:34 PM)
   was it gross?

monkeys are awesome says: (12:49:50 PM)
   then, fucked, i was like "woah, i'm getting out of here"

Matt says: (12:49:58 PM)
   hahaha

monkeys are awesome says: (12:50:04 PM)
   yeah, i've done it before

Matt says: (12:50:10 PM)
   ahh ok

monkeys are awesome says: (12:50:36 PM)
   so i left, (i called you just before the pesto rape)

Matt says: (12:50:43 PM)
   hahahaha

monkeys are awesome says: (12:50:48 PM)
   and i went to tibet rsl

Matt says: (12:50:52 PM)
   oh if only it was after...

monkeys are awesome says: (12:50:57 PM)
   had some pints of nickel

Matt says: (12:51:00 PM)
   awesum

monkeys are awesome says: (12:51:33 PM)
   then bought some longnecks of reschs and headed to lan franchis, this warehouse in waterloo

monkeys are awesome says: (12:51:44 PM)
   and all these noise djs were playing

Matt says: (12:52:03 PM)
   and curse ov dialect?

monkeys are awesome says: (12:52:05 PM)
   we had some fiestas

monkeys are awesome says: (12:52:13 PM)
   then curse played and it was awesome

Matt says: (12:52:27 PM)
   how do you feel this morning?

monkeys are awesome says: (12:52:40 PM)
   oh, we ain't done yet

Matt says: (12:52:44 PM)
   hahaha

monkeys are awesome says: (12:53:24 PM)
   cos me and my buddy hitler walked to the clare hotel, with a dash of funk, rapping and beatboxing for half an hour (it's about 2:30 am now

monkeys are awesome says: (12:53:25 PM)
   )

Matt says: (12:53:37 PM)
   hehehe

monkeys are awesome says: (12:53:42 PM)
   and we get to the clare and my friends evan and liam are there

monkeys are awesome says: (12:53:54 PM)
   so we have some tequila slammers, naturally

Matt says: (12:54:10 PM)
   of course

monkeys are awesome says: (12:54:25 PM)
   at 330 i get the bus home with hitler, pass out

monkeys are awesome says: (12:54:35 PM)
   wake up just before my stop

Matt says: (12:54:40 PM)
   hehe

monkeys are awesome says: (12:54:42 PM)
   and the coriander kicks back in

monkeys are awesome says: (12:54:47 PM)
   so i skip home

Matt says: (12:54:48 PM)
   woh

Matt says: (12:54:51 PM)
   haHahhaa

monkeys are awesome says: (12:55:07 PM)
   and my sister is still awake, her friends there with her

monkeys are awesome says: (12:55:18 PM)
   so we play twister

Matt says: (12:55:19 PM)
   i didnt know you had a sister!

Matt says: (12:55:22 PM)
   haha

Matt says: (12:55:24 PM)
   older sis?

monkeys are awesome says: (12:55:29 PM)
   two younger

Matt says: (12:55:34 PM)
   cool

monkeys are awesome says: (12:55:44 PM)
   and then her friends leave

monkeys are awesome says: (12:56:10 PM)
   so i go and meet my friend bert newton in the park, we play some twister and i come home and pass out

monkeys are awesome says: (12:56:20 PM)
   sleep through my alarm

Matt says: (12:56:26 PM)
   dude you should be dead

monkeys are awesome says: (12:56:34 PM)
   get my sister to call in sick for me

monkeys are awesome says: (12:56:39 PM)
   and go back to sleep

monkeys are awesome says: (12:56:43 PM)
   nah, i'm fine

Matt says: (12:56:56 PM)
   you must have a mighty fine liver and kidneys

monkeys are awesome says: (12:57:05 PM)
   i eat well

monkeys are awesome says: (12:57:11 PM)
   that's probably it

Matt says: (12:57:14 PM)
   when i was your age i used to be able to get so fuked up and feel fine the next day

Matt says: (12:57:22 PM)
   enjoy it while it lasts

monkeys are awesome says: (12:57:26 PM)
   i am

Matt says: (12:57:26 PM)
   cause it dont forever

monkeys are awesome says: (12:57:29 PM)
   wooooh!

Matt says: (12:57:34 PM)
   you sure are!

monkeys are awesome says: (12:57:48 PM)
   how good was my night!

Matt says: (12:57:58 PM)
   pretty fukin good

Matt says: (12:58:18 PM)
   you animal

monkeys are awesome says: (12:58:50 PM)
   how woz your nite?

good gawd y'all

2004-08-30T20:51:00.000+10:00

apologies for the title.
i watched rush hour on lelly last night.
anyway, todaze show was totally stressful but way exciting.
i managed to get 40 listeners to become FBi supporters.
whoopee!
maybe it was because of my awesome playlist!
fuck it was good.
here it is:

BECK mixed bizness
MCLUSKY that man will not hang
UNKLE HO a scottish tale
DISASTER PLAN lane one form
AESOP ROCK daylight
THEREDSUNBAND devil song
MANITOBA kid, you'll move mountains
THE DEVOTED FEW hopetoun lullaby
JUSTICE VS SIMIAN never be alone
DAPPLED CITIES FLY cream
DJ SHADOW the number song
TV ON THE RADIO staring at the sun
RJD2 2 more dead
SARAH BLASKO don't u eva
URTHBOY & OZI BATLA the last chance
DEERHOOF milkman
HYMIES BASEMENT 21st century pop song
THE BIRD dubim
ENON in this city
SAGE FRANCIS climb trees
MICROPHONES the glow
MACROMANTICS madlymantics
PAVEMENT rattled by the rush
BOOM BIP & DOSE ONE the birdcatchers return
THE CRAYON FIELDS sweet little kids in your sad little town
SNAP! CRAKK!! neon lights
CURSE OV DIALECT baby, how'd we ever get this way?
SHUGGIE OTIS happy house

and for anybody who became a member on my show today, i luv ya!
huge love goes out to:
russell, oz, jonny & the captains package, jo, lam lam, jimmy, tim, craig, tarek & the accidents, roxanne, scott, joel and and the spacers, amy, em, the elefants, ezzi and MASSIVEST OF LUV to ma, pa, mem and teppy.

if you didn't become a member today, all is not lost! i'm hosting a best of show this sunday from 7pm till 9pm. playing live hermitude, ben kweller, the bird, sonic youthness, outkast; holy smokes it'll straight rule.
so become an fbi supporter!
so far the record for most sign ups in one show is 41, by linda, last friday.
today i got 40!
40!
so i hope you feel guilty.
especially if you are one of peoples who i told to sign up today and didn't.
you dicks.

but large love to everybody who isn't a dick.

do this!

2004-08-30T01:17:00.000+10:00

hey lovers.
this is levins.
first of all, mercy! how hott were you last time we met?! i was going to ask you for a dance, but the timing was wrong, the mood was inappropriate and the music was cher. awful. next time though, the dance will be yours.
but to business:
FBi Radio, easily the greatest radio station in the history of ever, has been my choice of volunteer employment since two aprils ago. after years of competing for a licence, FBi was granted one in 2001, and august 2003 saw the airing of FBi's first official broadcast.
now, any monkey in a spacesuit can work out that August 2003 was a year ago, which implies that FBi is a year old. i am here to confirm this. it's FBi's bday. and we need your presents.
y'see, FBi relies on supporters to keep making radio. we're not funded by governments, corporations or yer damn taxes. to keep FBi up, running and awesome, we need a little bit of cash. so i ask you, please, my friends, my lovers, become an FBi supporter this week.
membership costs $60 for the year, or $30 if you are a student. if you have a credit card you can pay 6 bucks/3 bucks a month. nuttily cheap, eh?
not only do you get the satisfaction of knowing that your dollarz are helping a great radio station rule, but as an FBi supporter, you are able to recieve discounts on gigs and events, plus you are eligible for all our competitions and we'll probably send you free shit anyway. in fact, if you sign up this week, you'll definitely get some free shit. we are giving away soooo much shit; cd's, holidays, gear, clothes, vouchers, shit!
to become a member, call 83322945 and give yr deets. you can pledge your money now and pay later.
if you already are an fbi member, you can add another year to your membership and get a bunch of free shit! (see above)
more infoness lies here: http://fbi.org.au
and if you really wanna make me happy, sign up tomorrow (monday) between 3 and 6pm. levins fans will note that that is my regular show time. if you sign up at that time, i get mad props. have you seen pay it forward? clearly, if i get mad props from a bunch of people, then i'll pass on madd props to a bigger bunch of people, then they'll pass on madd props to a ginormous bunch of people and suddenly a ka-giga-zillion people will have madd props.
you could be part of that ka-giga-zillion.
if you have read this far, thankyou a whole bunch. if you become an fbi supporter, i will love you to death so hard that you'll come back to life again. it really means a damn fancy lot to me. FBi is probably the most important (and enjoyable) collective i belong to, and we're freakin' broke. we need yr support.
i solemnly swear that if you become a supporter, i'll pay that shit forward. i'll draw you a comic, featuring you. and pirates. i may even do something else.
in closing, hope you are all well.
let me know how you're doing by hitting that 'post comment' button.
thanks a ka-giga-zillion,
Levins.

(PS: pass this on to yr mates if you want. you can replace my name with yours and everyone will think you're a dickhead. like me! yay!)

(PPS: strawberry kisses)

bachelor pad 2004

2004-08-25T14:28:00.000+10:00

so me and elston have moved into my uncle steve's place for a week while he goes skiing.
holy nuts, it rules.
unfortunately it doesn't rule enough to base a movie around it.
it would be just me and he sitting on the couch, ripped, listening to beats, watching cartoons and laughing.
there are dogs there too. they can play the romantical interests maybe.
cable television can play the villain.
all we need now is a taling donkey and we've got a blockbuster.

post.txt

2004-08-19T15:52:00.000+10:00

some of my favourite sms's i recieved this week:

from angie:
'Fuck! Bar Broadway is going OFF!! They just played Bobby Brown, now KISS! ... such class... enjoy the train! x'

'................Mandy kane!! x'

from elston:
'Whatever watever.i may just chill wit mr t and make pancakes.'

'Man the dude at uni for entertainment at uni is such a fuckwit. i almost had a big time blow up.'

and the award goes to:
'My dick is so hard.i am doctor groove.'
by elston, naturally.

i was considering making a zine featuring ever sms i sent and recieved for a week.
maybe with some toons...heck yeah.

it still has its kicks

2004-08-16T23:11:00.000+10:00

playlist 160804
SOULS OF MISCHIEF 93 til infinity
UNDERLAPPER springtime
TZU dam busters (BABBOONS OF SEOUL remix)
BLEEPIN J SQUAWKINS radio international
MANDARIN eye on time
SOUNDS LIKE SUNSET if i close my eyes (KANDOS SESSION)
MIKE LADD black orientalist
JEFFREY LEWIS if you shoot the head you kill the ghoul
TRACKY DAX happiness
DAVENDRA BANHART this beard is for stobhan
MACHINE TRANSLATIONS chinese bride no 9
BEASTIE BOYS triple trouble (GRAHAM COXON remix)
MACHINE OF THE GODS celentia
78 SAAB beat of your drum
SCHOOL OF EMOTIONAL ENGINEERING redline
ASPECTS the way she speaks
BALL keep the change
HALOGEN collide
THE MICROPHONES my favourite things
BIG JIM where do we go
ADLIB epic
RAND AND HOLLAND open my eyes
BRATMOBILE shop for america
COOLZEY dq luv (dan stealy remix)
BECAUSE OF GHOSTS you fool (your house is built on a frozen lake)
THE RADIO DEBT strange things will happen
DYNAMIC SYNCOPATION ft PHI LIFE CYPHER my verse first
WEEVIL handburn
THE COPS rectify
THE HOLY SOUL love has left the city limits
RED RIDERS the unstoppable
UPSHOT not working
THE BIRDBLOBS yellow food
URTHBOY keep it relevant
HERMITUDE ft OZI BATLA & URTHBOY otford to wenty (live at livid 2003)
FURTHER yesterdays enemy
THE CRUSTACEANS what i miss most
THE NULL SET highland
THE PASTELS i picked a flower

then i stayed at FBi till fucking midnight trying to get on top of all this work i'm a'sposed to do.

zoiks!

middle two fingers folded down, others pointed outright

2004-08-15T21:59:00.000+10:00

(rock)

was definitely the reoccuring theme of the weekend. yeah, i got my trash on, but do you really want to hear me rattle on about how wild and crazy i am? what am i, a sorority teen? sometimes!

notable items:

new buffalo rules. she played at the hopetoun on saturday night and wowed me and others. sure theres a whole bunch of a buzz about her presently, and i'm more than happy to add to it. she just....captivates. i think the best compliment is that i had only seen her once before, 2 months ago at the microphones church gig, and when i saw her this time, i remembered the choruses to more than half her tunes. fantastic.

matt: you let me sleep in your house. twice. and only once did you kick me out of your room whilst i was passed out because you brought a girl home. it's the little things, ya know. beautiful.

lindsay lohan: i watched a pirated version of mean girls when i got home today(sisters are resourceful). the movie fucking owns all of our faces. sure, all the climactic scenes were erased("and the question which will decide your fate is...."{edit}"yay! i got it right!"; then later in the movie: "and the prom queen is..."{edit}"yay! i'm the prom queen!"), but man, what a great flick. and lindsay lohan rules. actually i'm worried about how much i talk about teen heart throbs lately, my browser has an advert link to a mary kate and ashley site for some reason. woah! mean girls: 4 stars.

sleep: please. right now? okay.

this used to be fun

2004-08-13T15:07:00.000+10:00

man, i haven't posted a playlist in a bunch of ages.
here goes nothin'.

120804
EDAN syllable practice
TUNA DAY bittersweet
THE SAND PEBBLES the day summer fell
BIG JIM where do we go
MR SCRUFF spandex man
SOLE plutonium
I [LOVE] SPACE kung fu know how (SPOD remix)
JUNIOR BOYS you want to
DARREN HANLON 2 days in a foreign city
THE RHOMBUS lifeguard
CITY CITY CITY greyscale (live kandos session)
MILOSH time steals the day away
CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE it wasn't the same somehow
BALLS FALLS invoice
DECODER RING alsace lorraine
NEW BUFFALO recovery
WHY? darla
UNDERLAPPER could
MULL HISTORICAL SOCIETY clones
INFUSION better world
JAMES KOCHALKA SUPERSTAR bad astronaut
SARAH BLASKO all coming back
URTHBOY & OZI BATLA last chance
SALON KINGSADORE harrison
BLASTCORP no one will ever know
NEON a man
THE PROCUSSIONS all that it takes
THE WALKMEN wake up
DISASTER PLAN turning left at the red sea
APSCI synth 3p0
MIKEY of THE VANDAS hours away
NICK CAVE nature boy
MORGAN don't build your house on the beat
THE FANGS dark velocity
UNKLE sassafras (PLAID remix)
LOVE OF DIAGRAMS la violenca
DJ SIGNIFY ft BUCK 65 where did she go?
MYLO paris four hundred

130804 (spoooky)
MINUS STORY gravity pulls
ASPECTS the way she speaks
78 SAAB beat of your drum
THE NOTWIST this room
INTERMISSION low lights
BASEBALL wolf wonderland (song for steve)
THE MICROPHONES you'll be in the air
VIA TANIA on sawyer (A GRAPE DOPE remix)
EL P deep space 9mm
ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI owls go
MARK LANEGAN BAND sideways in reverse
MILOSH time steals the day away
THE RESERVATIONS as lonely as me
HOOD you show no emotion at all
THE GUILD LEAGUE the storm
SHUGGIE OTIS strawberry letter 23
SLICKER ft PHAT KAT when the dog goes lame
BLACK CAB it's ok
WEEVIL halfsmile
URTHBOY media'd out
PIXIES tame
HALOGEN collide
THE HIDDEN CAMERAS that's when the ceremony begins
TUNA DAY bittersweet
SLIMEY THINGS help! i'm in the 80's
ANTICON we ain't fessin' (double quotes)
DARREN HANLON a - z
MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUGHTS raised by wolves
THE SUITABLE FEW the game of life
ADEM these are your friends
THE MEMORY BAND calling on
THE CAPTAINS PACKAGE cherry pie
RJD2 & BLUEPRINT final frontier
BEN LEE float on
LE SAVY FAV we'll make a lover out of you
MUSIC VS PHYSICS in a city life
ENON leave it to rust
URTHBOY elektrik shoks
FOURTET spirit fingers
FOG pneumonia

wonderful. awesome. etc....

in other me news, check this bizatch out:

the kiddies might be listening!

i played the nin cover, almost a year ago. the ABA are still giving FBi shit over, apparentally we're in breach of broadcasting laws. but yeah. woah! if you feel strongly about it, eat a can of spinach and email the ABA as hard as you can!

things that i are doing

2004-08-06T18:27:00.000+10:00

i will be djing at a party this saturday night.
my friend jo is turning some age and i'll be spinning records to celebrate.
also some other things are happening.
this saturday at the mandarin club from 9pm.
yay!

word, that was funky

2004-07-30T11:27:00.000+10:00

fuck i'm happy at the moment, i've spent all morning dancing in my underwear to party hip hop.
last night at the clare the dj dropped 'give the drummer some' by the ultramagnetic mc's and it made me remember how ill that album is. and yesterday me and conrad listened to del tha funkee homosapien's greatest hits (as chosen by conrad, natch)
so, i guess i've taken a step backwards today, musically. i'm listening to all my old favourite hiphop albums, like critical beatdown by ultramagnetics, no need for alarm by del, handsome boy modelling school, mf doom's doomsday (dope), labcabincalifornia by pharcyde, souls of mischiefs 93 til infinity...

strictly raw!

after todays hardcore fix, i'll probably never listen to hiphop again.
PSYCH!!!
yeah right, i love this shit, and now i think i associate more memories with hiphop then i do any genre. i remember when i first got into it, how i did it completely independently, just buying whatever album had an artist that i had heard of and like. the beauty of collaboration. i remember when all my mates in you am i cover bands just didnt get it, they described it as 'ghetto', and now most of them regard it as their favourite genre. i remember when all my mates started rapping. just getting really stoned and freestyling crappy rhymes over crappy beatboxing.

i love playing hiphop tracks to people, but most of all i love playing hiphop to people who not don't like it, but just don't get it. earlier this year at sina's place we were watching a beat junkies dvd and it was so fucking incredible, me, sina and elston were just staring at the tv in amazement, whilst leon and cat just sat on the couch, not understanding why we thought these guys moving records were so great. i tried to explain to them why it was ill, and how to appreciate it, but they just stared blankly at us and waiting for it to finish.

the funny thing is, they probably own more electro clash rekkids then they do hiphop rekkids. that's really disturbing.

yes yes y'all, you don't stop, keep on, to the break of dawn.
out.

remembering (with a nasty hangover and a chicken wrap)

2004-07-29T10:44:00.000+10:00

the free drinks drunk last night almost lead me head first into one of those nights. you know, one where you have to piece it all together the next morning. and people keep reminding of all the stuff you did that night. and you just have to accept that you probably did do that. because, hey, you were off your face. and you're an idiot. no, you are.

a little over a month ago i went to see some bands. sounds innocent enough. but then me and my pal matt went to the hard rock cafe (he works there) to get free drinks. i remember asking him, "hey matt, drinks are mad expensive here. can we get free ones from your work?" his face lit up. a massive grin. "fuck! I've never thought of that! yeah! we should do that....NOW!" and ye, it was done. sprinting past the whores on oxford st, we got to the hard rock cafe and got our free booze, colder than the ice it was made from.

we returned. my eyes were lit up like brake lights. i remember talking to dudes and, for a few minutes, avoiding my trashbaggery. but then it became evident. i was not making any sense. my conversations turned to laughter and pointing. the bands finished at 2AM and i groaned at the concept of getting the bus home. but then! a beacon of light! jess! she spoke of a lift home! joy! so i stumbled into a car and this is where the fun begins.

my head was heavy, but i was adrenalined to the maxx. me, jess and some of her friends in a fairly comfortable car. i watched the buildings pass us and tried to keep up with conversation. then suddenly i was on a beach. my shoes off, on a beach. i didn't really question my position. hell, there are a bunch of beaches in this country, why shouldn't i be on one? before i could accept the situation any further, i was back in the car somehow. we were a long way from home. but then we weren't. we were outside jess's house. i got out of the car and found myself in my kitchen. suddenly, it was the next morning and i was in bed, cradling a bowl of pasta.

later i found out a number of things from jess and her pals. flat tyres were involved. at one point we were scootering up oxford street. on scooters. also i ate a whole packet of salt and vinegar chips. a really big one. a friend from melbourne had a missed call from me. and i had made enough pasta for four, so my sister had some for breakfast. and it was good pasta.

one of those nights. i better be careful next time. i might get myself pregnant.

the stubbie

2004-07-28T10:35:00.000+10:00

i bought a new sketch pad last night.
it's palm sized and already came with a name "The Stubbie".
i'm not sure what that suggests, character wise.
so far it's been a bit of a pain, the paper is really thin, so one drawing imprints on 5 sheets.
plus i have to get in a really awkward position to draw goodly.
ah, it's all bitcheries really.
The Stubbie: you're okay.

a dumb joke, and we begin.

2004-07-26T23:57:00.000+10:00

man, my life shud come with a disclaimer that warns of the possibility of traces of peanuts within, because thing have been pretty nuts lately.
i've been wearing myself thin, going out every night, organising impending goodness, that whole thing.
it's a lot like this time last year. success is imminent.
i told myself at the beginning of this year that if i hadn't acheived at least the same i did last year (if not more), i would consider going back to uni.
i can safely say i will not return to such a place yet.
an old friend told me that she worried about my education today, but i proved her!
i like jellybeans.

2004-07-20T11:07:00.000+10:00

i realised that i have about 40 cds that say this on the front:

FOR PROMOTIONAL USE ONLY
NOT FOR SALE
This promotional cd remains the property
of Domino Recording Co Ltd
and must be surrendered upon request

zoiks.
i have this image of these domino hoodlums coming to my door one day with crowbars/death rays...

"uh, are you andrew levins"
"yes?"
"SURRENDER YOUR DOMINO CDS OR FEEL THE WRATH OF THE ALMIGHTY DEATH RAY!"
"never!"
"SEIZE HIM! GATHER HIS ADEM CDS! SHOOT HIM TWICE FOR EVERRY HOOD ALBUM HE STILL OWNS!"
"you'll not get your hands near my juana molina!"

...and so on.

PS. spare a thort for my buddy ellen. she knocked out her front tooth. in an exotic location though, france. you shud make a t shirt that says ' i went to france and all i lost was this lousy tooth".

2004-07-13T01:13:00.000+10:00

yeah, so things are great.
everything is working out pretty good, except for the fact that i'm in front of a pooter at half one in the mo and i'm eating fruit tingles.
also i'm not too happy about the fact that i'm not making musics.
sooooooooo(continue o's till satisfaction)....
who wants to make musics with me?
i don't care what kind. rappy folk o tronica blues.
that sounds like good.
let me know.

2004-07-12T18:28:00.000+10:00

today today todaaaaaay!

JAGA JAZZIST day
SARAH BLASKO all coming back
OZI BATLA starship troopers
THE ALBUM LEAF thule
THE NULL SET daily double
SAUL WILLIAMS twice the first time
MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUGHTS raised by wolves
KELIS trick me
TALKSHOW BOY ice police
THE SAND PEBBLES hanging out
PASSAGE the unspectacular white boy slave song
ACRE private ocean world
UPSHOT ft URTHBOY about to break
SONIC YOUTH my friend goo
BASS KLEPH wildcard
GZA did ya say that
I [LOVE] SPACE kung fu know how (SPOD remix)
QUA on clouds
TROUBLE EVERYDAY a connection
THE RESERVATIONS as lonely as me
TEAM SHADETEK hard dragon
THE NECKS fife and drum
THE NECKS the sleep of champions
AC NEWMAN the battle for straight time
GREENTHINK kris b stopsign dramacont
THE RECTIFIERS levy (RECTIFIERS remix)
THE MODEL SCHOOL one way ticket
UNDERLAPPER springtime
TERRAPIN emma
THE CRAYON FIELDS do it first
NIGHTHOUR vibrations in air
BLEEPIN J SQWAWKINS over and out
DEAN MANNING tricks
SOMEWHEREINSUMMER hey
RED RIDERS the unstoppable
MIDNIGHT SWIM rue de senade
THE GIVEGOODS black and blue
THE LIBERTINES vertigo

2004-07-06T13:06:00.000+10:00

:::with luv from mecha-kamahl:::

FOURTH FLOOR COLLAPSE stories unglued
UNDERLAPPER springtime
THE RHOMBUS comet
SEELENLUFT men amis
THE WOODS THEMSELVES beat yr shallow chest
MUSIC VS PHYSICS post op valley drop
GRAND NATIONAL drink to moving on
cLOUDDEAD rifle eyes
BRIAN COMPEAU it's just the end of the world
YO LA TENGO nuclear war
MY DISCO i'm having the time of your life
VAST AIRE ft MF DOOM da superfriendz
BASEBALL wolf wonderland
INFRA RED intercom
KELIS keep it down
THE CLEAN tally ho
THE TALL DWARFS nothings gonna happen
LORDZ OF THE FLY bump it
THE PHOENIX FOUNDATION and i dreamt we were one
BECAUSE OF GHOSTS a simple dare
GHOSTPLANE state hijack
TRACKY DAX lewinski
FANG flying through the stars
DAPPLED CITIES FLY peach
PINE silence is a sin
MACROMANTICS madlymantics
THE BRUNETTES i miss my coochie coo
TOM LEHRER l-y
GROUND COMPONENTS it all catches up with you
GROUND COMPONENTS it all catches up with you (CURSE OV DIALECT mix)
DJ SHADOW dark days
78 SAAB come on
JOSH MARTINEZ nightmare
BLASTCORP thousand miles away
BOOM BIP roads must roll
THE CRUSTACEANS what i miss most (live in the studio)
THE MICROPHONES ice
BLACK CAB new speedway boogie
JOANNA NEWSOM peach, pear, plum
BUSDRIVER nagging nimbus

2004-07-05T21:06:00.000+10:00

oh yeah, before i forget, i'm doing the 9am till midday shift on FBi tomorrow.
i got guests!
the crustaceans are coming in to play a track, plus dave from dappled cities fly is gonna come in and give me a guide to new zealand indie mooziks.

it shud be a goodun, as always.

2004-07-05T19:07:00.000+10:00

after seeing so much good music on the weekend, i thort i might have to play really bad shit to make up for it.
luckily i didnt and continue to rule.

SIXTOO a to zero
THE NULL SET daily double
MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUGHTS raised by wolves
UPSHOT breathe
ADEM long drive home
BUFFALO DAUGHTER cyclic
BASS KLEPH wildcard
BALLS FALLS leaves
COOLZEY akstoopid
SPOD vs I [LOVE] SPACE kung fu know how
TALKSHOW BOY ice police
LITTLE HAT JONES bye bye baby blues
MT EERIE wooly mammoth's absence
PASSAGE karaoke kissass
JOANNA NEWSOM the sprout & the bean
SMALL DEFENCE rock n roll funeral
TOM WAITS alice
BASEBALL the electric kingdom
THE ALBUM LEAF the outer barks
OH! BELGIUM cold cold kiss
LIQUID LIQUID optimo
HYMIES BASEMENT ben and joey
SECRET MACHINES the leaves are gone
TIM WRIGHT thirst
OMID the kettle: movements I, II, III
THE CAPTAINS PACKAGE arab song
CITY CITY CITY spread em
CITY CITY CITY empty
INGA LIJLESTROM phoenix
MACROMANTICS conspiracy
MACROMANTICS hyperbolic logic
DARTH VEGAS ha cha cha
GAUCHE butter
THE CRUSTACEANS living room study
VELURE walk home
THE CASINOS city lights

2004-07-05T12:29:00.000+10:00

oh man, my sister just made me lunch.
that's fucking great is what it is.
mmm tuna.
my sister is better than all of you.

2004-07-05T12:23:00.000+10:00

yesterday at work, i put on ugly ducklings 'taste the secret'.
this 60+ asian lady stood at the counter, her hands full of ten dollar dvds.
she had a huge grin on her face and asked what was playing.
"i like the beat" she said. "most rock beats aren't as consistent, and i can't dance to them. this has a good beat."
she showed me how she would dance to such a beat, laughed, patted me on the shoulder and bought the cd.
it made the sleepless 10 hours of work worthwhile just thinking about her at home, dancing to ugly duckling.
bless you, lady.

2004-07-05T00:15:00.000+10:00

my friends, sorry i haven't written lately.
it's sunday eve, i smell of a thousand cigarettes(none of them mine) and a connection failure has occured. dang.
so, what have i been doing, you wait for me to answer without prompting....
i done seen me some shows. oh yes, some fine fine shows.
microphones baseball city city city rand & holland pure evil trio when yr dead yr dead forever new buffallo kiosk disaster plan i want a hovercraft modern giant (there were more i'm sure) in just 4 daze!!!
all good, mostly. yessah.

also i think i may be developing an obsession with the olsen twins.
not an obsession, perhaps a mere longing for full house to return.
in all seriousness, get well soon mary kate. i miss yr cheekbones. may your health return just in time for a record contract offer.
and ashley, heck we love you too.
sometimes i worry that because of all the attention now recieved by mary kate, ashley may feel left out and may end up in a hospital herself.
goodness, such thorts are enough to send a man to insanity.
so, a call out:
mary kate vs ashley
which is your favourite?

2004-06-29T14:16:00.000+10:00

i've been mashing up a lot of songs lately, yesterday i mashed venus if furs with jay z...BINGCHANG!!
here are the rest of the songz.

GENE SIMMONS sweet and dirty love (which was played for twenty seconds, then thankfully interrupted by)
OMID sho'nuff
THE COPS the shake
ANTICON pity party people
78 SAAB come on
ROOMMATE tuesday
DILATED PEOPLES & KANYE WEST this way
GEOFF CRAYON this way
WILEY pies
GOTYE i just can't get enough
MIDLAKE balloon maker
CANNIBAL OX scream phoenix
THE CRUSTACEANS in bloom
BLEEPIN J SQUAWKINS radio international
VOLCANO, I'M STILL EXCITED 2nd gun
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND venus in furs
JAY Z & THE DYNASTY change the game
DEERHOOF milk man
JOSH MARTINEZ one more coffee
DARREN HANLON falling aeroplanes (qua mix)
DUPPY roots & rhythm
UNKLE HO a scottish tale
NIKKI MCCLURE procreate
cLOUDDEAD the velvet ant
THE CAPTAINS PACKAGE ya better be
AC NEWMAN on the table
EYEDEA & ABILITIES powdered water too
MISSY HIGGINS greed for your love
BASEBALL one night in osaka
FRIENDS OF MAN girls from holland
I WANT A HOVERCRAFT $10
MEEM urb & citj
GENTLE ASSASSINS next to nowhere
RAND & HOLLAND let me down gently
THE MICROPHONES the moon
THE CANNANES caesar
JOHN BROOKS berkely dreams
DISASTER PLAN something

2004-06-23T12:25:00.000+10:00

friends...today we lost a pair of favourite jeans.
comfortable as they were, they no longer had a crotch an thus had to depart this world and leave for denim heaven. it's a nice, soft place where stone wash and dark denimcan live together in harmony.
which left me with one pair of jeans. and naturally they had to be washed today.
so i went scurraging thru my cupboard and, amidst the ironic tshirts i could no loger be bothered wearing, a pair jeans, not worn for almost a year.
i gulped as they slid over my knees, to the top of the waist and SUCCESS! i must have lost a lot more weight than i thort lately.
so when you see me, marvelling in a pair of once-swish light denim slacks, know that i was once without, but now i wear.

also, crunchola muesli is great.

2004-06-22T13:25:00.000+10:00

i realised i haven't used this blog enough appreciating my dog.
her name is tess.
she is a 5 year old labrador and is the greatest living thing in the world.
she can give hi-fives and hi-tens!
i taught her.
she is so human, moreso than a lot of people i know.
she knows all my family's names and eats carrots, among other things.
i think she is developing an appreciation for the finer things, like pillows and hip hop music.
i wish she could talk.

2004-06-21T19:52:00.000+10:00

"sorry andrew...there seems to be problem with phones in scotland, you'll have to reschedule..."

ah whatever, sir.
todays radio goodness follows:

WOLFMOTHER woman
DILATED PEOPLES ft KANYE WEST this way
THE RHOMBUS lifeguard
TELEMENTARY ORCHESTRA under the knife
BASEBALL gods and stars priests and kings
PASSAGE karaoke kiss ass
ADEM these are your friends
REALISTIX & OZI BATLA green & gold
TALKSHOW BOY ice police
SIXTOO the honesty of constant human error
BELLE & SEBASTIAN if she wants me
DINO call me
THE COPS w.p.s.k
MURS walk like a man
FEAR DRIVE MY FEET by tonight
WHY? ferris wheel
GREENLAND secret rat and the bag of happiness
SLIMEY THINGS teddy's all-nite interdimensional portal and bistro
DEERHOOF c
I [LOVE] SPACE trashbag queen
MYLO muscle can
THE HIVE walk idiot walk
BUCK 65 49 years (square one)
RED RIDERS the unstoppable
MACROMANTICS madlymantics
MIDLAKE the jungler
CURSE OV DIALECT family assorted
TENFOLD LOADSTAR umbrella
NIGHTHOUR bones
HERMITUDE space evaders
HOLLY THROSBY the fishing line
BUDDHAFIED get up
THE CAMELS goodbye
MY POCKET RADIO weakend
FURTHER romance!
SPOD 2131 - ride wit me
THE HEAD it's for your own bad
EVEN thunderbird
MAYA JUPITER & MOKA ONLY perhap
PRINCE PO & MADLIB & RAEKWON bump bump