Adios (for the next month anyway)

Just another normal day in America

(via here)

Timelapse of Auckland

Auckland - A Tranquil City from Siyamalan on Vimeo.

Kyuss - Spaceship Landing

The Black Keys - Keep Me

Die Antwoord - Zef Side

Feeding New Zealand's birds

Feeding New Zealand's Birds from Matai Media on Vimeo.

No real surprises here

(via here)

Muse - Hyper Music (Live)

Heat - Bank robbery scene

Eagles of Death Metal - I Want You So Hard

Ghostface Killah - The Sure Shot

The Sword - Apocryphon

Monolord - Cursing The One

Alice Glass - Stillbirth

Monolord - Audhumbla

THAT FUZZ. 

Dexter Mayfield

Vive la liberte indeed

All political arguments aside ("tragedy hipsters"etc etc...), what a nightmare this must have been.

A few months ago I linked to a good article by The Atlantic about the underlying intentions of a group like ISIS (in part, creating the conditions - through increasing tension and mistrust between Muslims and non-Muslims - for an apocalyptic "good vs. evil" conflict from which "true believers" would emerge). So it's good, I think, to see that the general response in the wake of the Paris attacks has been to encourage more understanding and compassion across social and cultural lines, rather than less. There's also been a recognition that while there will always be a small, bigoted, murderous fraction of the population, they'll always be far outnumbered by the lawful and free majority.

As an aside, here's to hoping Eagles of Death Metal can return to this some time in the future:

Alabama Shakes - Future People

With all the nastiness overseas right now, here's something to balance it out

(C/o Raj)

Thee Oh Sees - Contraption/Soul Desert

Carpenter Brut - Wake Up The President

Dr. Steve Brule - For Your Wine

The Jesus Lizard - Mouth Breather

Shocking Pinks - Victims

Good advice

(via fuckyeahdementia)

Every. Damn. Friday.

This is what some of the world's worst congestion looks like. 

Ryley Walker - Live on KEXP

Carpenter Brut - Run, Sally, Run!

Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler

Auckland Half Marathon, Sunday 1st November

Cows & Cows & Cows

Balloon Goon

Follow the butterflies

The Oscars without dialogue

Excruciating.

Charles

Death Grips - Guillotine (Live)

Bane - Non-Negotiable

Everything is always better in slow motion

Creative direction care of Raj.

The best of Death Grips' Fashion Week release

Take that, brain. Full playlist here. 

Radiohead - Give Up The Ghost (Live)

Blood Red Shoes - Red River

A most excellent prank call

A+ for tailgating

From today. 

Pedestrians, Auckland style

The DP-12 Shotgun

Danny Carey drum solo

Kurt Vile - Laughing Stock

The Matt Jackson slow zoom

ISIS - The Red Sea

Heavy goodness, with the drummer (Aaron Harris) being the drum tech for both Abe Cunningham (Deftones) and Danny Carey (Tool). 

Russian Circles - Lebaron

When the running gets super ugly

Death Grips (feat. Bjork) - Billy Not Really

Blood Red Shoes - Je Me Perds

Tool - Ticks and Leeches (Drum cover)

A+, even if drums aren't your thing.

Scratch 22 - Medicine Man

Russian Circles - 1777

The Horrors - Sea Within a Sea

Slipknot - Eyeless (Drum cover)

Hendrix-esque

Must learn this.

Bob Ross goes Hard In Da Paint

Repost.

Way to walk on the crossing, guy

His misguided sense of being right brightened my afternoon.

Death Grips - Come Up And Get Me

Music gear wishlist #1

Dreams are free, thankfully.

Exactly

Nerves of steel, or suicidal. I can't tell.

The Great Dario
Facebook facebook.com/supremeaircommanderInstagram instagram.com/supremeaircommander/ So I tried to shake off my friend Dario with some aggressive flying but the skill of this man is compared to none. He has no trouble keeping you in frame, dodging trees and burbles ( Burble: A separation in the boundary layer of fluid about a moving streamlined body, such as the wing of an airplane, causing a breakdown in the smooth flow of fluid and resulting in turbulence. ) Thank you Dario for your magnifico filming skills. Filmed using the GoPro hero3 - Wingsuit is Squirrel Colugo 1 prototype.
Posted by Graham Dickinson on Monday, September 21, 2015

Sword and Scale - Josh Powell

Crazy, crazy stuff.  Also disturbing. Click here for the link: Sword and Scale Episode 22.

How to protect yourself from animals

Soulwax - E Talking

The ABCs of drugs.

Tama Abe Cunningham Signature Snare

Hozier - Take Me To Church

A Perfect Circle - Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm Of The War Drums

Lightning Bolt - Dead Cowboy (live)

Brian Gibson at his coolest.

Slayer in the studio

Worth it for that solo at 1:00.

It's probably time to binge-watch Trailer Park Boys again

Battles - The Yabba

Whores - Daddy's Money (live)

Wingsuit flight through a two-metre cave

Underwater nuke

Drenge - Bloodsports (Reading 2014)

Death Grips - The Fever

Rammstein - Keine Lust

Smashing Pumpkins - Tales of a Scorched Earth

Glowing eyes of doom

The Distillers - Hall of Mirrors (Live)

James Brown. That is all.

Nas - Made You Look

Autechre - Rotar

Death Grips - Guillotine

Ecca Vandal - White Flag

Fuzz - Earthen Gate

Daylight - Life In A Jar

Military porn

Credit to Toby for the link.

Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian At Best

This guy

Savages - City's Full

Daft Punk - Derezzed guitar cover

North Hollywood bank robbery - Raw footage

AK-74 in slow motion

So much wobble.

The best moment in "Shaun the Sheep"

He's still watching.

Pete Evans and his simple daily diet

Needs more cymbal

Testing the tolerance of The Killing Room's neighbours.

Deep Blue

Nope. Nope nope nope.

The Knack - My Sharona

Royal Blood - Out of the Black (Drums)

Chris Adler at Modern Drummer Festival

Key & Peele - Turbulence

Lamb of God - Pariah

Mainly because I just upgraded from Audacity to Reaper. Clicky metal kick drum sound, you will soon be mine...

The Glowing Orb of Hate

Things have really escalated down south...

They start out as just a potamus

The hippo part comes later.

P.O.P Hold It Down

Brann Dailor on drumming

The Guest

10/10.

Matt Barrick

Dope Body - Leather Head

Repost, but good. 

Glass Host - Odds Are Even

Roadtesting the 339

It's a keeper.

Channelling Kirk Hammett

Perfect snake food

Queens of the Stone Age - Mexicola (Live)

A cold walk of shame

The ice. The broken strap. The heels. The unforgiving light of day. 

Carpenter Brut - Turbo Killer

Three Beat Slide - Summertime is Great

Backstreet Boys shred

Carpenter Brut - Le Perv

Credit to Dave for this one...

Polysics - MEGA OVER DRIVE

One of the many gems from last weekend's Dunedin Youtube-and-drinking binge. Credit to the Evans Street crowd for some GOLD material.

Skepta - Shutdown

OMG Steve Irwin

Jaylen Moore

When Dave Grohl breaks his leg, this happens

Bear bellyflop

Tom Hanks meets autistic superfan

Well done that man.

Liz Climo

Foo Fighters - The Colour And The Shape (Live)

Twice in a month, I realise. But THIS one includes Dave Grohl on drums. 

Russian confidence drills

Alive Inside - Henry

Auckland drivers - A summary

After about a year of recording, here are some highlights from my little dashcam project. Go Auckland. 

The challenge of the Islamic State

Foo Fighters - The Color and The Shape

Royal Blood - Out of the Black

Chucking it down

A bit wet out there today.

Ruairi McSorley

Aphex Twin - Windowlicker

A bad lip-reading of the NFL

"I wasn't loved as a baby."

DragonForce - Through the Fire and Flames

Fight Amp - Shallow Grave

Petzl Tikka R+ Headlamp

170 lumens of USB-charged reactive-lighting goodness. No more close calls with the cycling crowd, hopefully...

I have much better hair in pole-dancing avatar land

Thanks Tinus and Raj. 

Queens of the Stone Age - Born to Hula (New Version)

The Mars Volta - Metatron

Radio Moscow - Broke Down

Big things on the horizon

Because Play Doh, that's why

Colourful happy creatures care of Raj.

Avantone MONDO Bass Drum Microphone

Kick drum upgrade

Remo Powersonic 22" batter head, replacing the old Remo Emperor coated head, and removing the need for a pillow to muffle all the ugly ringing overtones. 

Renting it is

Shellac - Dude Incredible

ANZAC dawn parade

The Marauder

Order yours here. 

This guy is built to swing a hammer

Strangely satisfying to watch. Cheers Tinus for the heads-up.

Ex cops smoking weed

Odonis Odonis - She's a Death

Fight Amp - Ex Everything

METZ - Acetate

Oop...