Friday, December 30, 2011

saturday morning blues




junkers 86



set of for a few dollars more!

george beurlings spitfire


no rain, no rain,no rain.
where's Neil when ya need him.
it hasn't  stopped for three days.
gotta slow rolling low.
not much to do but look through old picture books and imagine what it was like in those days.
and why they can only make piss weak movies with no dramatic tension.
just big comic book after big comic book.
when it comes down to it  the 'hulk versus galactica' comic was tons better than any movie I've seen lately.
found a nice book ON the first decade of the R.N.Z.A.F.
lots of good piccies not available anywhere else?
plus another neato pictorial history of the south african air force.
good piccie of 11 Cessna 185's in loose formation.
from 11 Squadron.
doh.
very hard to find good pictures of Cessna 185's.
somehow all the available pics seem to be dogs with bad angles and poses?
one of lifes strange oddities.
Still working away on the TAB of Ragtime Annie from Happy Traums Flatpicking Country Guitar.
really nifty old fiddle tune.
MY memory aint what it used to be but I can sight read tab.
wow.
nothing in the rag except the usual low grade assaults and thumbnails of the recipients of new years honours.
plus idiots who think they can raise a mob and lynch the accused in Taupo.
some of these people have been watching too many movies or have not come to grips with dealing with reality and still suffer from unbridled juvenile omnipotence. i.e. self will run riot.
Have been trying to read Gregory Batesons ecology of mind but in some ways it is nearly unreadable.
dense and not clear. in places he is right on but then he wonders of in a sea of redundant verbiage that only serves to obscure rather than illuminate.
No wonder R.D. Laing took to him. LIke the followers of other obscurantists they think that if they cant parse it properly then no one else can either!!!!!

Thursday, December 29, 2011

gods little acre






it came round in the fifities but my mother would'nt let us go and see it.
drat.
I guess I never will now.
I still have a pan reprint with a wonderfully lurid cover.
yoweeeeeeeeee!
got some new strings for the Ibanez and the Jackson but haven't changed them yet.
Still a bit of life left in the others.
Had the jackson for over five years and only ever had one set on it.
Its time for a change.
I have a Nu-X mighty 8 amp now and it is much easier to keep everything tuned down and not to loud.
plus you can put it into the house p.a. and it sounds just as big as a marshall stack.
nice little prog on local music on RNZ this morning.
all sorts of stuff inculidng the Maori Haka Boogie with its wonderful slide solo.
those guys could play.
in those days they had mandolin orchestras and other non orchestral string schools.
all gone now.
all the kids can do now is thumb an ipod and satisfy themselves that they are cool.
lots of fun on thestandard.org.nz.
politics keep going even during the holidays.
It drives away the ennui!
All the rightwing fruitcakes have come out of the closet.
cutting and pasting huge screeds of nonsense and just filling up pages with incomprehensible garabage.
why do they do that.
if you dont have an argument just shut up.
ludwig wittgenstein.

here is a little beauty from the complete essays of Michel de Montaigne.
"On Thumbs".

Sed nec vocibus excitata blandis
molli pollice nec rogata, surgit. 

hehehehehehehehe

otherwise just filling in the time working over the changes to:
"riders on the storm"
"light my fire"
and
"little wing"
keeps a boring old fart busy!

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

just for fun







happy new year

mama hated diesels











Just saw a silly old man going down the main street on a hardly davison with no effective muffling.
It made a frigging racket and the old prick was so proud of himself.
The country has become inane.
Any twat with a certain amount of money can go and buy themselves an expensive piece of machinery and then proceed to break all the laws about keeping the peace and good order just because they are riding a motorbike.
WTF is going on?
All my stats coming from the old U.S.S.R.
Dont know what they call it now.
C.I.S?
anyway it seems like they are starved of cultural artifacts.
The leaden hand of state communism must have killed many avenues of expression and what was left was swept under the rug.
I dont mind. let them gorge on the excreta of capitalism.
Lawyers, guns, money, pelf.
Its the same the whole world over.
Eavesdropped on two guys in the family shop.
There has been a Janes Sea Technology book in the family shop window for quite a while and along come two chaps on holiday who run an ocean technology company and they snapped it up.
good stuff.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

slap dab in the middle

just been to town.
very quiet but people around.
people dont seem to know how to get into holiday mode properly?
got a warehouse gift card in the stocking so I went to the redshed and scored a new pair of jandals..WOW, and "L.A. WOMAN" by the doors.
its obvious that something had happened to Jim by that time (1971) but he still gave it everything.
cool vinyl doods.
they dont make it like that anymore.






nooooooooooooo.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

grinching it for christmas

just do it dood.
its fun.
sons of anarchy tons of fun.
yipppeeeee type fun.
lets play ball in the park and develop our mucles fun.
?
ok pete.
roll em.
flag down some double ees.
in the moonbeams
through the trees
fade
cool breeze

christmas goodies for grinches and other human beans









thats right folks. if you dont buy stuff then you are a grinch. Kiwis love to call other people names and dob them in and by and large that is all they are good for.
oh and buying cars and motorbikees and cutting the exhaust pipes off and making a big noise because thats all they can do.
either talk or make a noise.
they are equivalent to one another. if you talk then you are making a noise and if you are talking then you know everything because its only a matter of opinion and kiwis opinions of themselves is off the clock.
yea right.
we also a very dishonest country.
no one is straight forward or straight up.
listen to the talk shows on RNZ and its all about who is breaking the law.
ISN"T IT.
Kiwis always use interrogatives. they catch it off low rent pommy soaps dont they.
its the mark of dishonest, disrespectful and ignorant people to use interrogatvies.
I hiope snata gives RNZ the gift of speaking for themselves instead of asking the whole world to agree with them.

now for something completely different...