The start of a new art project. An installation in the making for an exhibition in April.
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Going through a midlife or pre-midlife crisis!?!? Well I recommend buying a sports car, or a car that drives like a sports car or at least sounds like a sports car. I recently bought this sporty number because it was cheap and it ran well. Admittedly, I was at first dazzled by the bling i.e. the wooden sports steering wheel, the LED lit gear knob and fat ass muffler. That was until the gear knob came off in my hand as I was driving to the mechanics, at which point I also noticed that the cars prior owners had taken a hacksaw to the gear stick…hmm, dodgy backyard modifications. Not only that I later learned from my mechanic that instead of installing a boss to hold the wooden sports steering wheel in place the prior owners had chosen instead to nail the damn thing into the steering column. Brilliant!! Needless to say I had the car UNmodified back to its normal state. It is now an enjoyable and easy drive. The muffler on the other hand has provided me with much entertainment and continues to amuse me to this day. It is just the funniest thing. It hadn’t occurred to me before but when you have a fat ass muffler, people in other pimped out cars just want to race you. It’s great, I feel 21 again! So until it doesn’t amuse me any more I’m sticking with the muff. I think the next step is to take my fully sick car for a drive to Parramatta and enter the Saturday night Church Street parade…
I recently joined Freecycle in my local area. Freecycle is an online network of people who are interested in ‘recycling’ unwanted items. Basically this means instead of chucking your unwanted crap out you can give it away to someone in your local area for free. It’s along the lines of ‘one mans trash is another mans treature’. This network of recyclers extends worldwide, so I joined my local area and look at these little gems that I acquired today (Thanks Martha & Phil!!) Cinemax MX 1000 8mm film camera (1976) Podcast: Download (43.6MB) Happy Valentines Day!! This weeks show Amour Tragique has been prepared by Yun Mei. “I don’t want to work. I don’t want to lunch. I only want to forget and so I smoke” sing Pink Martini in the opening song Sympathique. So tragic but so true. A big thank you to French label Baskaru for sending us some fantastic music including Etre’s - A Post-Fordist Parade and a new release from Lawrence English - For Varying Degrees Of Winter. We also hear from the extraordinary Holger Czukay, plus an excerpt from I Am Sylvia (1973, Institute of Sonology) by Simeon ten Holt and to conclude the show the wonderful Tom Waits with When You Ain’t Got Nobody. For all the lonely hearts out there this show is for you…with love. 1. Pink Martini - Sympathique [Sympathique / Naïve] 2. Etre - The Hypnosis Of The Stone [A Post-Fordist Parade / Baskaru] 3. Flanger - Lata [Templates / Ntone] 4. Tom Waits with Jerry Garcia & Ken Nordine - Thousand Big Bangs (by Jack Kerouac) [Devout Catalyst / Grateful Dead] 5. Dilo - Spe2K [Post Office-Special Argentina Madness / Telegraph] 6. Holger Czukay - Sudetenland [Rome Remains Rome and excerpts from Der Osten Ist Rot / Virgin Records UK] 7. Elliott Sharp - Farm & Field [Figure Ground / Tzadik] 8. The Books - An Animated Description Of Mr. Maps [Lost And Safe / Tomlab] 9. Elliott Sharp - Playground [Figure Ground / Tzadik] 10. Bird Show - Seeds [Lightning Ghost / Kranky] 11. Skeleton Crew - Jelly Roll Stomp [Hallelujah, Anyway - Remembering Tom Cora (Disc 2) / Warner Music (Japan)] 12. Buckethead - Frankenseuss Laboratories [Kaleidoscalp / Tzadik] 13. Yoko Solo - Untamable Cockle [www.myspace.com/yokosolo] 14. Cappablack - Suikinkutsu 09.12.2003 [Facades & Skeletons / ~Scape] 15. Lawrence English - Unsettled Sleep [For Varying Degrees Of Winter / Baskaru]* 16. Simeon ten Holt - I Am Sylvia (1973, Institute of Sonology) [Anthology of Dutch Electronic Tape Music: Vol. 2 (1966-1977) / Composers Voice] 17. Triosk - Goodnight [Moment Returns / Leaf]* 18. Tom Waits - When You Ain’t Got Nobody [The Early Years Volume One / Bizarre-Straight] * Denotes Australian Made Link to StraightUp episode
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