civil society and civic pride...

came to town yesterday.
nice and quiet.
got home and turned on magic.
some of it was anyway?????
a message from the Mayor of Masterton about enjoying the town over the holidays.
so I get to town today and the guy on the tricked out pimped up hardly davison with the number plate vertical was doing laps in Queen Street and I could hear him going down Dixon Street from Queen Street.
So all this talk about civil society is just words and more bloody words.
how can it be a civil society when any meathead can buy a vehicle and take out all the muffling and drive up and down the main street with impunity?
If the Mayor of Masterton is really a mayor and knows what she is doing then she will make sure that a stop is put to this sort of behaviour.
That is what she is paid for and she should make sure that shopkeepers have an emergency number to call and the Chamber of Commerce gets of their arse and takes a stand.
Nobody slopes off to the skin bars in Wellington and comes back and commits acts in the streets so why should any old moron pretend that that they are in their own private dragstrip when they are in the urb?

anyway.
Great program on George Harrison on PrimeTV last night.
I read a scathing item recently about somebody purporting to report on Georges last days and I thought it was very poor but when I saw the doco it was not like that at all.
and I have to say that Georges song "The Inner Light" is one of my all time favourite songs ever!
how about that?

there will always be an England...

in USN.

the room was humming harder...

as the ceiling flew away...

Merry Christmas Mrs Brock...

Thank you fo ryour observation about lack of characters in the v8 races these days.
It is symptomatic of the whole world of taday.
Things are infantilised or blanded out to the max.
We miss your husband.
He was a real man.
Even though he drove a Holden. (larfs)
Best wishes to you.

the greatest album of the 20th century hands down...

The Beatles single handedly re-invented pop and rock and roll after Elvis was drafted, Jerry lee Lewis was stabbed in the back by the British press, Buddy Holly went to Valhalla and Chuckleberry was arrested and jailed for doing what comes naturally.
A pretty sad commentary on the morals and ethics of  system that was in dire need of reformation but the Beatles supplied the soundtrack with up-beat wails and then unfathomable strange but universally appealing hymns for the crisis en masse that was the death of religion and the rising of the techo-gadgetry inspired pathetic individualism of shoddy goods and flick controls. i.e remotes, sell phones auto trannies and whatever else that served to isolate the masses from reality.

This album was the crowning glory. The Beatles never did release a dud album but this is the daddy of them all.
Pushed on by the Beach Boys who saw themselves in competition with the fab four the Beatles took music to several new levels that were unimaginable in even the previous year.
Like the Beach Boys with their homage to folk music and the public domain viz Cottonfields and loop John B the Beatles delivered homely homilies alongside sikeaydeelic novelties that stretched the recording technology to the limit.
Whatever the future holds this album is like the pyramids and other wonders of the world that will live forever.

way back in the 1950's....

Greatest albums of the 20th century 23...

Willies magnum opus. Choc full of the good stuff and Grady Martin in his retirement on the road with Willie and Paul too.

Country Music will never see another album of this quality and depth ever again!
I first listened to this album solely on a whim and realised that not only was it good but seriously supergood.
And what ever your own personal skill level you can work out the changes pretty easily and play along.
What more can a poor boy want?

The BeeGees Finest album.

One true test of a great album is all the stuff that had to be left off. The BEEGEES diversified as they say but this album is a one off of the highest order.
You can learn to play these songs your self without too much trouble and then it is up to you to search your own soul for emotional depth and produce it as good as the Gibb brothers.

5* all the way and more

Docs first and best!
Has some easy to learn songs on it, e.g. My Fathers Family and Lay Down My Old Guitar but mostly it is a tour de force of fast flatpicking and ultra cool fingerpicking that stunned the world when it was released and continues to amaze even today.
They try but somehow they just cant do it like Doc.

A collection of Jimis singles and there aint much better anywhere to be found. 60's pop at the max.
Includes Burning Of The Midnight Lamp with possibly the greatest guitar intro ever put down on wax!
This one will scorch the airwaves when you give it 10!

the first and the last...

I have a well thumbed copy of Gallands epistle.
A testament to personal bravery and the monumental stupidity of a criminal regime that didi not know how to rule the state that they had acquired.
all very sad.
its like they just ground up all these people just for the hell of it.

Galland makes mention of 100 squadron and 205 so they get a little feature here.