Apparently we still have a pulse...

...and there are bulbs in the ground.
And spirits in the still.
And I have two maps.
And two wolves.

Dusting off the Piano

The ballroom is getting cleaned up and will hopefully be back in business soon. The shed (behind Door #2 Bob, with the majestic antique padlock) has been cleaned and currently has three fermenters bubbling away. Two are dedicated to spirit production at the moment as levels are low and demand is high – it's an economic recession motherfuckers, time to moonshine! There's also 23l of a well-hopped ale in there. Nothing to match an Epic Armageddon, but what could? I bottled 5 dozen tallies last weekend and they're conditioning in the cool Waitarua nights. Outside the shed I've had some seeds germinate (Broccoli, Kale, Peas) and heap of bulbs have popped up, my daffodils and Dutch irises, so thats looking ace. The Bronze is awaiting the sun. A few stencils are awaiting the scalpel. Shits happening.

Someone made some labels for some BrewNZ Beervana promo bottles.



And some mean posters for Malthouse

It's a Dose, It's almost Daily. It's definitely Bogan.

There are plenty of wheels you can put on a Falcon.
Eric Bana put 17 inch Custom made Minilites on his.
Doesn’t mean I have to.
I don’t turn green and blow my nut just coz he did.
I can.
But I don't.

There were three real options in the seventies.
Tridents, Turbos or Hotwires.
I could have gone The Tridents.
Like everyone else.
Nah.
Cheviot Turbos like on the General Lee.
Say no more.













I got some Hot Wires.
14 inches of twisted fun.

An Old Idea

This is the view from Room 12D at the Quest on Johnston St, Wellington. The view is of the HP Tower down on Featherston St. Close to the ANZ & National Bank. A fine looking tower, all mirrory and exciting. Please note that on top is a rather attractive HP Logo



Kinda like this one, but white. For ease of explanation I’ll use this to demonstrate what I’m thinking.




Voila, it’s the nightime. There's another alien! OMG! You'll notice all the little worker bees are still in the HP hive, but, it’s a bit hard to tell it’s HP coz there’s some bars missing from the sides of that neon sign up there and the ‘n’ is gone from ‘invent’
Hmmm, invent...



This shows whats missing from the neon sign...





This is a picture of a projector. You can find out all about it here.



I’d like to get a projector of some description and similar power to replace the missing bits of the neon light, ideally in a contrasting colour like red, from a neighbouring building. The one shown there is probably bigger than what we’d need but demonstrates the idea.

I reckon it’d be pretty easy to spin some PR out of it.

And every night at 12 I’d like it to flash ‘invert’ for thirty seconds.

All the Prophets in their Houses

There was a fantastic HBO show called Carnivale that ran on TV ONe for a while. Well worth digging up. I have some on DVD. It has the most fantastic art direction and direction and art department and visual appeal ever.

Oh yeah, Happy Superstition.

Update

We're relocating and renovating.

More news when there is some.

Have you had your Daily Dose of Bogan today?

I was going to write this about picking the right dog.
The right dog is the one that gets out of the sack before drowning.
It might be a Staffy/Rotty/Shepherd/Doberman/Ridgey – ideally a bit of each.
If it lacks these bloodlines it is not a dog.
It’s a fucking gerbil.
Unless you’re Mel Gibson.
In which case you can have a Blue Heeler.
And an XB Falcon.
Like me.
And Eric Bana.
The important thing about a dog is its name.
Dog is fine.
So is Caesar. Cleveland. Windsor. Rogue.
Wolf. Yes. Fang. No. Brutus. Maybe.
Cerberus? Don’t be a smarmy twat.
Dog is fine.
Eric Bana has a dog.
It could kill Mel Gibson.

Who wants to be your dog?
I wanna be your dog
Iggy Pop version
Wilco version

It's your Daily Dose of Bogan!!

Ducati.
The classic café racer.
A classic café race involves putting a song on at your fave café, racing to a designated point and returning to hear the end of the song, with a hot espresso waiting.
Played a similar game once, involving two car dealerships, a Skyline GTR and a slightly stronger stimulant.
Vanishing Point styles.
Through Avondale.
Less Bulldozer.
Never stand up in court.
Hearsay.
Eric Bana engages in fictitious narcotic activities.
He’s an actor.
He also has a Ducati.
5 in fact.
I shit you not.

Here’s the list.
900 Monster
RS 748 SuperSport
900 SuperSport
SP3 851 SuperBike
888 Doug Polen Replica SuperBike

Mean.
I have a Ducati.
888.
Red.
Doug Polen Tamiya Replica Edition.
1/12th.
Me. Eric. Tight.

Thematic music links...
Richard Thompson Vincent Black Lightning
Tracey Chapman Fast Car

Another day, another dose.

Tattoos are cool.
A right of passage for any self-respecting bogan.
I have tattoos.
I’m not sure about Eric Bana.
He did when he played Chopper Read though.
That’s cool.
They show you’ve made it to sixteen and are ready to leave home.
They show you can and do root anything and everything that moves.
Not so good if you’re a girl.
If you’re a girl it shows you’re sixteen and it’s acceptable for your uncles to crack onto you when they’re round watching the league with your old man while your Auntie’s getting drunk on Baileys in the kitchen with your mum.
And there’s a special kind of tattoo that your Uncle specially loves, that’ll get him asking you to find that video of the highlights of the Kiwis games from the eighties in the VHS under the Trinitron knowing full well your brother taped Predator over the top of it in 92.
The Tramp Stamp.
There’s all sorts of legends floating around on the internet about what the various ‘tribal’ shapes and pseudo-Deco curves of a tramp stamp or ‘butt antlers’ actually mean.
One word summary folks, Slut.
Maybe once they were hot.
Once.
That first week you had it done.
If you were the first in your fifth form class to have it done and no-one else’s parents would let them.
If.
I doubt.

And if you’re a guy and you were raised by inbred backwater hillbillies (feasible although unlikely in 2007, especially in NZ) you might be considering a tattoo on the small of your back.
No.
If, and only if, you’re being held down in prison and having BITCH engraved with a needle and ballpoint is it acceptable to have this part of your manhood tattooed.
Only until you find some Hydrochloric Acid to erase it.
Better scars than a tattoo there.
The only thing that should be gracing this part of a man’s back is back hair.
Like mine.
I haven’t checked Eric Bana.

Where should a man’s tattoos be?
For a man the shoulders, chest, ribcage, on your neck creeping up to under your rats-tail, arms, legs are valid locations.
In fact pretty much anywhere. Everywhere is encouraged.
But the bottom of the back?
No.
Not at all.

A stamped tramp, yesterday.

Daily Dose of Bogan

Decided to migrate these over here.

I'm thinking, to help you all get as acely bogan as my good self I'll give you a "Daily Dose of Bogan" - An educational supplement introducing you to some key elements of bogan culture.



Today, Ladies & Gentlemunts,
The XB Falcon Coupe.
Yup, primer black too.
Some people call them hard tops. There was no soft top, so why be a dick? Call it a coupe.
The car Mad Max drove was a modified XB Falcon coupe.
There were also several XA & XB sedans used as Main Force Patrol Cars.
I have an XB Sedan.
Doesn’t make me cool though.
Owning an XB Sedan, having tattoos and fathering nothing but boys does though.
In Road Warrior the XB Coupe was modified into with 40 gallon external fuel tanks.
There was a dickie seat attached to the door for his dog, a blue heeler.
This is a GT Coupe, they ran a 351 cubic inch V8.
The cars followed the american pony car style, as pioneered by the Mustang.
It is RWD, essential for doing burnouts.
The XB was the first Falcon to introduce a disc brake front as standard. Making Burnouts even easier. And safer.
You can fit at least 8 crates of Lion Red in the boot.
You will have to inflate the air shocks to 93psi to compensate for this load.
Eric Bana has an XB coupe.
Doesn’t make him cool though.
Owning an XB coupe and playing Chopper Read does though, so he squeezes in there.
Nice one Eric.
You and me bro.


And really there’s only one appropriate track to go with that car.
AC/DC – Highway to Hell.

Rock on children
Lml.

There's gonna be dancing in The Ballroom tonight...

P.s. This won’t actually be Daily, I’m far too lazy.

Happy Race Relations Day

from all your friends at The Glenesk Ballroom

The weekend definitely sucked.

I had the flu. bad. but thats ok. Gonna be extra productive soon. Extra.

What goes down must come up.

I had a shitty arsefuck of a day yesterday. But I’m not going to worry about that because the good news is that The Gutter Twins have finally, finally released their album. Better yet, I have it on the d/l coz SubPop is schmart and are selling it for only $9.99 online. Make it yours.

I might have also scored myself a Wilco ticket, so that’ll be nice.

I also got this ace wallpaper for my macbook via boingboing
at this place here.

See more from the guy who designed this, Dustin Hostetler, aka UPSO. I like the diamonds, they are purty and go nice with my header. I’m so fashion-relevant.


And, in the spirit of my ambitions to own that badboy falcon ute below, I’ve made a road-trip mixtape that I plan on playing as I bring it on home.
New Gutter Twins track on it.
Long roads, alone.
Killer scenery.
And I’ll probably take the Greenhornes album, Sewed Soles that I got recently too. Its some heavy grimy 60’s stylin’ but not. Might even go via the Hawkes Bay where there’s an EA wagon to check out for the wahine.

In theory those stars should be MiG’s but quick games are good ones, and quick covers, cover bases.

Here's the tracks in two parts, total of about 130Mb. 1 and 2. With a surprise bonus track.

Stink

Been toying with idea of getting into a bit of this, sadly suspect it's gonna get quite popular now.
r.i.p.

Lazy Weekend

I was sick and did next to nothing. By next to nothing I mean, made a batch of vodka, dug out my gladioli & iris bulbs, dug out and potted my day lilies, dug out my pomegranate tree, prepped a mandarin tree for removal, ate some of the passionfruit I grew from a one foot plant into a sprawling mass that covers two water tanks, cleaned up the shed, rationalised the homebrew crates and found myself an XE Falcon ute to buy.



Please refer to this diagram to see how this will impact on my life.




I also dreamed endlessly and was visited by a friend with a project of his own. To which end I provided him with some 80% spirit and my best wishes.

Also discovered a funny, undernourished webforum; The Forum of Awesome and Manliness. I may have to subscribe.

I also had a hack at the seat but found my rivets were a little too short. No stress, better slowly and properly than rushed and ruined eh?

Rivetting!

Pun. Sorry. I finally got some bifurcated rivets. I never did find my little tin of copper ones that is somewhere, packed away carefully. I managed to find some at Mitre10 – about 20 for only $23 when I was grabbing some more plywood. Bollocks. And they had none of the sizes of ply I usually get. Mega useless. So I went across the road to Jeff's Emporium and found the rivets for 5 cents each. So now I have a selection and can/will get the seat for the trike finished. The leather has been shaping round the alloy bit for ages now, so it's nicely curved. I should really do a dummy assembly and take a pic. Just so you don't think I'm talking bollocks.

AK47 - Ready for delivery

I'm proud to announce that the first case of AK47 is ready to be delivered. A few bottles of the Green Jesus, some Cinnamunt and plain old AK-47.

Quality control however was a bit lax, and as you can see if you look closely, a spider is in one of the bottles. I think it's kinda apt. Pity it's not slightly larger and more tarantula styles. Next batch. That's an Ed Roth rat-fink font. Also apt for spiders in bottles. Hurrah!

I am a distillery (and so much more).

I am most excited. I have ordered a case of bottles that'll be getting filled this weekend. Pro-steez. And just so you don't think my priorities in life are completely wrong I'd like to point out I did visit my garden this weekend, despite the rain and and can say that finally, after what seems like months, my Italian Precoce Broccoli is beginning to sprout. It is pretty, and when a little bigger I will take a photo. I also looked at the (renamed) Taupaki Bulbs site and have lined up some irises I will order if god smiles on me and all my plans fall into place regarding housing, working and living. They are rust red and blue, a most peculiar colour combo, not particularly pretty, but interesting to have. Kinda like an Edsel.

My tomatoes are all very disappointing this year. It seems that they cross-pollinated last year with My Beloved's cherry toms, so they are mid-sized and red, rather than voluptuous black orbs. I want a glasshouse.

Did I tell you my Wormwood seeds arrived? Oh yes, they did.

Girls on Film

My Queens of the Stone Age tickets arrived. I should have ordered more. They're playing with the Pumpkins. Project-wise I've been semi-slacking, more interested in commercial ventures – been producing stencils on canvas to sell. It's still a project. Stuff featuring GT Falcons seems to sell well. No one digs the F100 so much. Fools. Only doing 8x8 canvases as they're nice and easy. Might do a boxload for Beach Hop.

AK47

With some fantastic work by The Westie Wasteland, AK47 vodka has it's very own ad starring none other than the dashing, debonair, Dan. Alcohol makes you a muppet. Here's the proof. Proof, get it? Copywriter joke!

Oh yeah, AK47 is the 47% vodka I've been dishing out to punters who want it. Apparently it's already responsible for more than one grown man crying and, admirably, one stomach pumping.

It's a summer night

You can tell, coz it's raining.

I got to thinking I have a back cat of comp cd's I should sling out there.
And, dear Reader,I owe you a Summer Knights comp I've been promising since at least a week ago. Click the motherfucking link. It's a raw mix of songs I wanted to listen to. I was gonna craft it and theme it and try and please you. But really, what have you ever done for me?
Dad, you are An hero to me...

GAME not OVER

I haven't been posting much, but i have been doing shit. I re-assembled the front wheel of the trike, it was a prick of a job and I scratched a few of the delicious red spokes, so there'll be a bit of retouching to be done.

I also bought myself a nice big metal tool box, plain galvanised tin, so i primed that and spray painted it a nice red inside. Then added a Coop, Rat Fink and NZHRA sticker so it looks the part. It's tigerstripe primer on the outside coz that's low-key.

I cleaned up the Falcon a bit and installed a CD player and 6x9's so it can rock, but they're Fusion speakers and they have shit-tinny sound. Not ace.

And, in the break over Xmas I made those cool alien cutout's you see above. I'm making masses of them and will string them into the classic Space Invader formation and hang them on the wall. Cool. Also made the Galaga spaceship to go underneath. Designed a poster or two for a friend. Made nearly 20 litres of Spirit. Grew some Salvia.

Same old, same old.

Dirty Beast

This is a bit of a Glen Esk Ballroom Project and a bit of a West Auckland Wasteland project. We've been printing these bumper stickers and then putting them on cars. Fun! I haven't been to beasttube, been to redtube, I can imagine what'd happen at beast-tube. I'd rather not, but I can. For some reason the jpeg above is coming out blue, but you can make it red and print your own if you're a clever little beaver.

Print it on some sticky paper and slap it on the car of someone you love.
Send us a pic if you do.



And to all you sick puppies looking for puppy sex on google and ending up here; Thanks, any hits a good hit.

Happy Yoyar

Thats what kids say, last year. Took until this year to figure it out. I've been holidaying. Less action. Kinda slow. Too hot to move. Reduced output. Fuck it.

INVASION!

It's nearly that day. Here's my v.own Arch-Angel on top of my tree. Ace.

Them be some purty flowers I grew. And a cat. Case you were getting confused. Is not a Piha Panther. They're slightly larger. And nocturnal.

I love plywood. I can make some great fun things from it. Easy-pease.

If I can find some stronitium whatsit things would glow in the dark. But as yet, I can't.

Eggs in baskets.

I realised I haven't talked about moonshine or hotrods in a while. I am making The Green Jesus, a potent little number. Do drop by over summer and try some. Bring a sausage for the grill. And wormwood if you can.
My Gladiolis are looking ace, the purples are near all done, the last of the pinks is in a vase. A yellow is starting to open. Oh look! Here's one I made earlier, she made it look pretty. And a delicious Epic Porter to boot. Nice label, bet I did that. Some of the Lilies are coming out too.

I got joy joy joy, down in my heart...

There's a cool song, a country one, called "If Jesus Came To Your House" it's kinda hokey country stuff. It's about forgiveness, and caring for your fellow man, and asking yourself if your living like a good christian. Some times I do, sometimes I need to sit down and have a good listen to that song.

Jesus came to my house. He was blue. I haxed Duwe stylez, coz it was cool.


Last weekend's project was refurbishing this old chair thats been sitting under the house rusting. I had stacks I bought off the preschool always planning to do something like this. I ended up giving a few to my tattooist and another friend who used them to be making some art. I finally decided to do another to match the original Max chair I made last year.



And I got some leather to do the trike seat. Currently it's being shaped to the alloy seat using my favourite sticky tape and some big bad clamps. I have some rivets somewhere in this house, I just need to find them and that bit will be done.

Cans of spaghetti...

Another idea I'm gonna have a toy with and talk to a friend about... Wrapping spray cans with art by Graf artists. Also would like to do cinder blox. Xmas fundraising is in full swing...

Anyone who wants to sponsor me into some strontium aluminate is welcome. I know there's an NZ supplier, seen the site but forgot to bookmark...


Statcounter I love your trackback feature!

The monkeys, they're breeding!!

I made more monkeys on the weekend. I have a dire need to start hanging them around town. I s'pose it could be a barrel of monkeys promo idea but waiting is hard.


In other "hanging things" news, threw an idea at a friend at a shoe company based around the classic sneakers over powerlines thing. For Xmas I want to put LED's inside them, so they sparkle. Xmas in the Ghetto! If i have any spare cash I'll build a mock-up.

Never got round to that Summer Knights mix...

but will soon. Promise. Right now though, I got Piha FM, so you know, wtf...

speaking of Piha FM, here's a cool idea I'm trying to talk to them about doing.

Fun weekend project methinks.



(I improvised an aerial with a coat-hanger, upholstery pin and my swiss army knife to get radio reception)

Monkey Biz

I got super busy, making monkeys. Not more childeruns, but real fake monkeys. As demonstrated in this handy photo montage shown here. Did a trace, a print, sprayglued on borrowed Mum's jigsaw (Cheers Ma!) bought those nice thin blades – good for curves, cut, painted, repeated a few times, and then went for a walk with my monkey.

Sent him up the tree. I wasn't climbing up that high.
He's only 4, not too attached, easy to replace.

There will be more monkeys.

Want some? Sing out and we'll sort something out.

Gold.

WIN!!


Got some trike time too, with a nice new coat of Matt White on the rim, and sprayed the pedally bit (tech-term), might get some Billet pedals made, that'd be mean. Here's how cool that front wheel is gonna look, no wonder it took so long, it's fucking ace.

I don't think I could make this post any cooler, unless it had drug references and it had Monkey songs posted up too.



Oh shit. It does!!

This here is a
Monkey Biz zip file link I found.
It’s a sniffle under 60 meg.

Spray Cans & Plans

Bought a few cans today but main focus is on a couple of work things at the mo so this is getting a little neglec. Got some delicious Shadow Factory stuff happening. Maybe an update over the weekend.

Brighten up...

Hmmm.


Here's some links to some singing I found.

Especially loving Miles Davis at the moment. Wondering if that's anything to do with the increasing amount of lonelytime I get or just the grey hairs. Whatever. It's ace.
Here's a track list, ain't an album, just some sounds.

Brighten Up – 44meg
Also Johnny at San Quentin, case you need some Prison Blues

News in the morning

That is, I'll post some news then.

The night is young...

I've got a big conference day tomorrow. So tonight I'm drinking beer and going out to fly a plane or two. Photos later hopefully.

Sunny days are here again...

The sun hit town on the weekend. I dearly tried to get a post up for the Monday traffic, but you know, work and all that.
I was sitting around on the weekend, camping in the backyard with the Boys, hanging at the beach watching horses and kids splashing and a half marathon roll past. Usual Shit. This was pretty much the sound track, summer songs from the Captain Stardust folder in my iTunes. It was so fucking ace I had to share.
Sunny Days 1 48meg
Sunny Days 2 60 Meg
Track list looks like this, and the cover is up the top. Duh.
Summer Knights mix in a day or so.

And this is the Twilight Singers doing Jose Gonzales’ Down the Line. Just ‘coz you love it.

Homegrown Tomatoes

Van Morrison opens up the Fillmore West in 1970 with Moondance. It’s fast, it’s got horns and he hammers it out. Hammers. Go away old track. Don’t seem like he’s enjoying it. There’s some desperation till he remembers where the fun was, some piano. And I’m tapping some keys. And you can jump the next track, but then he’s telling the band we’re playing Crazy Love and he’s repeating it, so I wonder if the tracklist said something else? She gimme love, love, love, love crazy love.
I need her. Crazy love. Righteous. Mellow. Whole. Lord. Come a runnin to me. My still is bubbling. Made another few litres. Constant 90 and about to hit the 4 litre mark. First 100ml go down the drain. 4l water. Distill again. Another 4l. Filter 4 times. Interestingly I saw the new Diesel Alkypop being sampled yesterday in Glen Eden. I love the West. Diesel contans 4 y.o. Bourbon. And that’s better than a Woodstock – coz that stuff only hit 2 y.o. says the sampling guy. What shit. Not Old. Not Mature. Not Bourbon. My moonshine is better.

Bit of break in the concert there. These dreams of you kicks back in, all alive and warm, coz he got his faith together son!

I can’t remember where I picked up this bootleg from, but it’s ace. And, if you’re office-bound and need some music to get you through through a day, it ain’t gonna hurt you to check out Wolfgang’s Vault for their streams of classic concerts at the Fillmore, and, if youse a rich bro, buy something and whack it out as a torrentula™…

(If you love copyright issues, you’ll love…Larry Lessig – guy is guru!)

It’s too late to stop now!! You will not have a vocal chord left! Pwned. Rock my gypsy soul.

Been hitting the garden too. I planted some Gladioli last year but very few survived in the ground thru to this year due to my little friends. Got a few in pots though, so they should be ace. A couple of poppies have come thru, hopefully a Black and a Flemish Antique. And there y’all can see Theo with some Black From Tula tomato seedlings that we put into the beds we prepped up in winter. There’s something about home grown tomatoes…
Sprayed the trike in black but got waylaid in town yesterday and didn’t pick up the sand paper and fresh white to progress her.

Light Bombs

K, i stumbled across a GRL trick called throwies (LED+battery+magnet), which are pretty cool and while wandering Welly I noticed a couple of metal sculptures that could benefit from some LED light action, but, of course, with a little MiG twist, so, Ladies and Gentlemen, my variation on a theme...

So the basic ingredients are here, some 3v button batteries, some LED's and some planes I already mounted on some foamboard. Watch.




A plane, cut out and the bits. One LED, one 3v, connect the LED and masking tape it on.





Then that gets attached to the bottom of the MiG. Tidy and, thanks to the delightfully thin battery, not as bulgy as the front of my pants.




OMFG! Afterburners. Top fucking Gun!!




Yeah, Hun in the sun! Achtung! Gott in Himmel!! She's nearly ready for action. I got magnets floating around somewhere. They'll get hot glued on, coz I ain't had the hotgluegun going in a while and I really like using it.

Time flies

I'm maintaining the commitment to complete some projects, time however, is an evasive whore.
I did some Lego time with Vin, and taught him the important art of making a plane

Moonshining & Ratrodding

I’ve been making a concentrated effort to do more productive stuff in the weekends and finish some projects. I also committed to doing more exercise and drinking less. Meh. The first project is the old trike that’s been rusting under the house. I wanna rat-rod it – flat black, bare metal and some bright red, kinda like this:


(There’s heaps more salty goodness like this from Bonneville here at jonesblog. Well worth a visit, great pics.)

PROJEKT 1

I stripped it down a while ago and pulled it apart then left it. Lazy bastard. You get an idea of the condition in the first pic. She’d been a seaside bike so she had a few rust bites before I abandoned it. Those are my assistants/apprentices/test pilots. Vinnie has his own drill and wire brush – he’s four. I didn’t get one till I was 22. I stripped the top of the frame back to bare metal last weekend, but left it outside, so after getting some surface rust off I gave it a few coats in clean, mean Matt Black. The metal is pretty badly pitted but you don’t notice so much. I likey.

I also stripped down the front guard. It’s a real nice shape and I decided after wire-brushing it down that it looked real good just like that. So I clear lacquered it.




I left this bit of the original paint on with a hint of the original pin-striping. Originally when I got it, my plan was to restore it to this kind of graceful state but then it just didn’t seem right, and the rat-rod thing seemed heaps cooler. And it’s a boys bike. My boys, and they like rock’n’roll and Falcon’s and Hot Rods. So this stays bare-metal and has a NZHRA sticker on the back. Looks like it was always there. I've stripped the spokes out of the rim, didn’t even break any. The rim is going to be white, the spokes red, pseudo-whitewall styles. Schmart. Pitted as fuck, three layers of primer and then some ‘Appliance White’ which undid my hard work. The cheap paint at The Warehouse is cheap for a reason. I’ll let it dry and redo it next weekend.

Also finished cleaning up the tray and coated it in grey primer. It’ll get the black treatment later, I just wanted to seal it and see how it looked. It looks good.


The spokes were all pitty and shitty, so they got the wire-brush and Theo polished them up a bit with some 1200. Then I devised this guru little painting rig – cardboard. They got primer then the shiniest Spraykote red I ever did see…

PROJEKT DUECE
So I put that aside to dry and moved my attentions to Project 2: Ethanol Production. Top quality drinking alckyhol, moonshine styles. I decided to do a double batch coz I can, which was lucky really coz one of the 24hr turbo yeasts wasn’t a 24hr one. So it was a gentle trickly kind of evening as the 70% spirit boiled off. I got litres and litres and litres. 8 litres to be exact. That’ll result in about 13 litres in the end. Nearly a dozen 40oz. For $40ish. Plus power – it does seem to take a while. I don’t even drink it. Here’s the rig in action…



PROJEKT THREE
So in keeping with the spirit (ba-fucking-ha) of this post, ladies and gentlemen, Moonshine Music, good honest hillbilly/rockabilly/cockabullyinarockpooly kinds of sounds, with a cover even. I didn’t post the files, I just lassoed the links…


Bob Seger - Midnight Rider
Lucero - Drink ‘til We’re Gone
Old Crow Medicine Show - James River Blues
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Things Going On
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Running Dry
Dolly Parton - Daddy’s Moonshine Still
Jolie Holland - Moonshiner
Willard Grant Conspiracy - Ballad of a Thin Man
The Sadies -Talking Down
The Black Keys - Run Me Down
Waylon Jennings - Dukes of Hazzard

Matters of National Security

So it was most exciting for me to be sitting in what is my increasingly regular seat, 2C, when who rolled in to sit next to me but Phil Goff. He's a regular on the 474 out of Wellywood, and usually the last to board. Coz he's all governmental I couldn't resist nosing at what he was reading. The title page was something from the Ministry of Defence. I decided not to read over his shoulder anymore. Instead I peeked at the lady in 1E, who was doing some top level Kiwibank stuff. They compete with ANZ, my company's client...

So then, landed in the AK and rang my mate Rich, who I was planning on meeting for a beer. He's a cop and had spent the day "hanging out with Jamie Lockett's mates". He couldn't do beer. Home for an Epic Porter.

The picture is something that magically appeared on a wall somewhere. Maybe a hotel. Dunno much about it myself. Got sent it bt a friend of a friend's cousin's friend. Yup.

I looked high and low for the Rage Against the Machine cover of Bombs Over Baghdad that apparently exists to post up but couldn't find it, nonetheless, Phil & Rich, this dance is for you...
Bombs over Baghdad - OutKast
Settle for Nothing - RaTM

Also, sidebar, The plane was a 'new look' Air New Zealand plane in bright green livery: Dear Air NZ Marketing department why don't you just paint "Oh fuck, we're so scared of the competition we've decided to paint our planes bright and exciting just like them" on the side?

Marc Ellis gives you AIDS

When life gives you AIDS make Lemonaids they say, but, where does life get AIDS from? Simple really - Marc Ellis.

Charlies Juices is full of AIDS.

HIV in every sip. True.

So you'll die from drinking it. Like a gangster in a storm of 9 millies...Bang Bang