Two of my worlds/interest areas come together in ‘The Silver Book’: Pier Paolo Pasolini & Olivia Laing!

Black Sabbath on my grandfather’s farm at the 1973 Great Ngāruawāhia Music Festival in New Zealand. I remember my dad telling me a crack up story about how they burned a massive cross at midnight which shocked the locals but when you saw it up close it was really homemade and dungy.
📸 David Stone

Popping by to play some records at Civil & Naval in Lyttelton on Sunday for a nice cosy 3-6pm moment. Will be spinning a dolly mix allsorts jumble of interesting records, do pull up for a quiet arvo pint and natter to round off the long Puanga weekend!

Never forget the dream I had where my friend bought a Mr Whippy van but instead of selling ice creams he was cruising around peddling mixtapes and bootleg cassette recordings of gigs by New Zealand underground artists 🍦

Bob Bert just posted this amazing pic of him with The Muffs!

I’m constantly saying “I just need to return some books to the library,” and am very aware how much that makes me sound like Patrick Bateman.

Had fun playing records at Civil & Naval in Lyttelton. A witches brew of Pakistani surf rock, Afghani tea house music, krautrock, freak jazz, Nigerien-Ghanaian synth, Ethiopian keyboard music, Trinidad panharmonic orchestra steel band music, deviant pop from Europe & other gems. Pull up next time!

‘The Conversation’ is the only essential Coppola film. The perfect film, a masterpiece of 1970s paranoid cinema (my favourite genre). Each shot framed to perfection and one of the best uses of extraordinary sound design in a film ever. And Hackman. Pitch perfect in that existential, melancholy role.

Air clearing purity of image and sound 💛

Apologies if already posted but this is a classic too 💛

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Bit late chiming in but here’s one from New Zealand,

New year, new TBR pile. In praise of non required summer holiday reading! Currently loving ‘The Bee Sting’ by Paul Murray. It’s got everything you could ask for: Irish, big hearted, funny, moving, ambitious.

Annual reshare of the greatest post ever.