May 2007
punkasila →
“australian/indonesian punk”. or art-punk. or something.
telemarketing
She walks upstairs and looks at me. “He’s offering a holiday or something.” “Hang up,” I whisper. She hands me the phone. I press the button.
The phone rings a second time. I press the button twice, quickly.
The phone rings. I press the button and listen. I can hear people talking in the background. Eventually somebody says “at least you could have the decency to say you’re not interested.”...
Hawks at Dusk, Dakar on Flickr - Photo Sharing! →
“Look closely, and you’ll realize that each of those hundreds of tiny specks are not starlings or sparrows or pigeons or swifts …. they are *hawks*. All of them. Huge brown hawks with a meter-wide wingspan.”
stuck
Somewhere amongst the wind and the traffic noise I looked across Bell St to notice two policemen and one man. He struggled a little as they tried to place him against the back doors of their van, hands in the air. A moment later he struggled again, and I saw the exact moment of indignity as he was shoved on his knees and face-planted while they handcuffed him. The traffic flowed on. I tried not...
the boats, the immediatists and zac keiller at...
I got down to Carni last night to see Zac Keiller, The Immediatists and The Boats put on a night of improvised post-something or other. Great stuff. Where were the rest of you? The venue’s not bad - it could turn out to be a nice little space for sound projects. It’s nice being able to walk home from a gig again, too. [ see all the photos from last night ]. (via ajcos blog posts)
Flickr: Photos from -H- →
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365 Days #142 - If The Bomb Falls, A Recorded... →
what to do in case of a nuclear attack
The mystery of the daytime idle →
“look out your window. Who /are/ these people?”
Perceptions: anticipation →
“âIf the drawings succeed in conveying an emotion, itâs because they might give the sense that something has happened or is going to happenâ, he said. âEither youâre too early or too late. It’s always the wrong moment.â”
running through the night →
“But I donât want it wiped out either. And I do dislike tagging and vandalism. I get a laugh out of coming round a city corner and finding a life-size chimp on a post, but I get depressed by tunnels full of visual rubbish.”
112 - Real Maps Reassembled Into Non-Existent... →
âSince the start of my exploration into mapmaking, I have become increasingly fascinated by the intersection of manmade and natural forms made visible in maps and atlases.”
pedal steel guitar accessories lessons stories... →
Evil Graham Lee (of The Triffids fame, among other things) has a site all about the pedal steel guitar.
East Germany, in the Caribbean →
“It transpires that Cayo Ernesto Thaelmann wasnât actually mentioned in the unification treaty - West Germany never made a claim to it - meaning this Caribbean island is arguably the only remaining piece of East German territory.”