Whores - I See You Are Also Wearing A Black T-Shirt

Oddly satisfying

IMHO

THE GREATEST FILM OF THE CENTURY. HOLY FUCKING SHIT. LOOK AT THIS SCENE! LOOK AT IT!!1!

I woke up this morning and realised that I'd only seen this once. I felt a deep sense of shame. 

The Unstoppable Brad

Foo Fighters meets Bob Dylan. Interesting things happen.

Who needs traction control anyway

This guy.

UNKLE - Rabbit In Your Headlights

UNKLE - Rabbit in Your Headlights from Onur Akdeniz on Vimeo.

Gains

Edward Crackerhands

Someone's embracing Christmas hard this year. 

First pohutakawa flower for the summer

Just in time for Christmas. This started off as a one-foot-high baby tree that Raj gave me as a birthday present in 2012. Might need a container upgrade one of these days. 

Dave Grohl/Josh Homme/Trent Reznor - Mantra

Tool rehearsal

Kings of Leon - Molly's Chambers (Live)

The pedal addiction begins (again)

Care of Raj and the family for surviving another year. Badassery all over the show. I've coveted Holeyboards for a long time but I never thought I'd actually get one. The new MXR Sub Machine and Dunlop Crybaby suit it rather nicely too (some Royal Blood covers, anyone??). 

Plenty of real estate left for 2017 too. The scheming begins....

"Don't make me assume my ultimate form, I will f$&@"& wreck..."

When you really need Chicken McNuggets...

Spiderbait - Shazam (Live)

How Michael Caine speaks

Com-scan has detec-

Tall Ships - T=0

Deerhoof - Fresh Born

Tenacious D - The Metal

Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing (Live 1979)

Stratocaster tone, expert-level.

MXR Sub Machine Octave Fuzz pedal

Also wishlist +1.

Idiotbox Whores Fuzz Freq pedal

Wishlist +1.

Sufficiently Enraged

Saw Hero

Just up the road from Lainfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

12 Bricks

Big Business - Regulars

Animals as Leaders - Kascade (Live)

It might be time to find the reset button

Well that's that then, I guess.

Kylesa - Scapegoat

Beatboxing dog

Millenials

Nickelstats

Demon Trout

A tense few days remaining

Big Business - Just As The Day Was Dawning

Boris - Blackout

Heavy.

Guitar Moves - Dan Auerbach

Sustainable Coastlines charity boxing

So many haymakers.

Word salad

Guitar Moves - Josh Homme

O Negative

David Firth's Health Reminder (Part I)

C/o Raj.

Punched before eating.

Shaky Hollows - Evil One

A new high-water mark of sorts

...and 1216 posts overall since 2009, 253 of which have been original in one way or another.

Labour Day Labour

An accurate representation of the typical day-before-the-working-week-starts routine.

Sardine run

Sardine run 2016 from Shark Explorers on Vimeo.

The Black Keys - The Moan

The eyes

Red Rover

Red Rover from Brooke Goldfinch on Vimeo.

2nd try at awesome mascot drummer!

Giraffes? Giraffes! - Emilie Sagee's Secret

On a permo

Michael McIntyre at Vector Arena

I wouldn't have thought a comedian could sell out Vector, but there you go. 

Cats can be dicks

Jose Gonzalez - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

The state of gun violence in the US, explained in 18 charts

Surely this is pushing the limits of what the motor cortex can handle

Tomas Haake in impossibly good form, as per usual. 

Shark in a cage

A+ for structural integrity. 

Jeeps, real-life Tomb Raider, and animal close-ups

A few bits and pieces from our visit earlier this year. 

Limmy's Show - Swings

Tosin Abasi

The Saiga 12

Crosstown Traffic

A snapshot of how much time I spend navigating Auckland's mobile parking lot on a typical day, condensed to 32x. 

Viking Sword as my first offering:

A familiar face on Google Street View

What are the odds?

Mutoid Man - Scavengers

The Tenner

Yes it's John Mayer, but it's worth it for the guitar tone

What's heavier?

Dr. Steve Brule's puppet show flashback

Someone really broke this guy

Cheer up, Eric.

When you play Death Grips at a party

Big things on the horizon

This excites me greatly. 

Incidentally, it also makes "DTF" a viable alternative for the banner. 

Animals as Leaders - CAFO

Windhand - Cassock

Russian Circles - Deficit

Metallica - Whiplash (Live 1989)

Kings of Leon - Happy Alone (Live)

Recommended TV/films list so far

Time to clean up the sidebar. Here is my running list of best film/TV, IMHO, for safe keeping. 

• 13 Assassins
• 1408
• 21 Jump Street
• 22 Jump Street
• 28 Days Later
• 300
• 50/50
• 9 Songs
• American Crime Story (TV Series)
• American History X
• American Movie (Documentary)
• American Psycho
• Annabelle
• Anomalisa
• Antichrist
• Armadillo
• Audition
• Awakenings (Documentary)
• Bad Neighbors
• Bill Cunningham (Documentary)
• Black Swan
• Boy
• Bronson
• Bully
• Bus 174 (Documentary)
• Captain Phillips
• Chico and Rita
• Chopper
• Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
• Cold Fish
• Coraline
• Cube
• Dark Shadows
• Dear Zachary - A Letter To A Son About His Father (Documentary)
• Django Unchained
• Don Jon
• Donnie Darko
• Dorothy Mills
• Dredd
• Edge of Tomorrow
• Elephant
• End of Watch
• Enter The Void
• Evil Dead (2013)
• Fantastic Mr Fox
• Fish Tank
• Fubar
• Generation Kill (TV Series)
• Get Him To The Greek
• Godzilla (2014)
• Hell and Back Again (Documentary)
• Her
• Ichi The Killer
• Ils
• Inglourious Basterds
• Inside
• Inside Out
• Interstellar
• It Follows
• Jarhead
• Juno
• Kick-Ass
• Kill List
• Killer Joe
• Killing Them Softly
• Last Man Standing (TV Series)
• Looper
• Love and Mercy
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Making a Murderer (Documentary)
• Man On Wire (Documentary)
• Mary and Max
• Melancholia
• Miss Bala
• Moon
• Narco Cultura (Documentary)
• Neds
• Never Let Me Go
• Note By Note
• Once Were Warriors
• Out Of The Blue
• Pacific Rim
• Pandorum
• Perfume
• Persepolis
• Porco Rosso
• Rango
• Red Dragon
• Restrepo (Documentary)
• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
• Se7en
• Seven Psychopaths
• Shaun The Sheep
• Shortbus
• Sicario
• Side Effects
• Silver Linings Playbook
• Snowtown
• Sound City
• Stranger Things (TV Series)
• Survive Style 5+
• Take Shelter
• Taken 2
• Tears of the Sun
• Ted
• The Act of Killing (Documentary)
• The Babadook
• The Boy
• The Bridge (Documentary)
• The Bridge (TV Series)
• The Cabin In The Woods
• The Cell
• The Conjuring
• The Crazies
• The Dark Horse
• The Fall (TV Series)
• The Grey
• The Guest
• The Hateful Eight
• The Hurt Locker
• The Jinx (Documentary)
• The Killer Inside Me
• The Machinist
• The Mist
• The One I Love
• The Possession
• The Prestige
• The Raid Redemption
• The Resolution
• The Room
• The Silence Of The Lambs
• The Skin I Live In
• The Social Network
• The Way Way Back
• The Witch (2016)
• There's Something Wrong With Aunt Diane (Documentary)
• This Is The End
• Under the Skin
• Unfriended
• V/H/S
• V/H/S 2
• Valhalla Rising
• Waking Life
• West of Memphis (Documentary)
• Wet Hot American Summer
• Wet Hot American Summer (TV Series)
• What We Do in the Shadows
• Whiplash
• You're Gonna Miss Me (Documentary)
• Young Adult
• Zero Dark Thirty
• Zodiac
• Zombieland

Missing Podcast

Another good podcast series - worth a listen.

How to practice for Death Grips

Mayhem.

Lightning Bolt - Horsepower (Live)

Blood Brothers - Set Fire To The Face On Fire

A quick trip to Christchurch

A random collection of photos from concentrated family time over the weekend.

The Comeback

Imperium

Harry Potter grows up and joins the white supremacist movement. Worth a watch.

Paul Banks - The Base

Kings of Leon - Slow Night, So Long

Seems legit

"There were some deaths."

Winter is dead

Auckland Botanic Gardens, 10.09.2016. Photos C/o RGK.

Making good use of the Spring sun

Time to go blind some people.

Barrage of face

Foals - Two Steps Twice (Drum Cover)

Lil Buck / Yo-Yo Ma

Thee Oh Sees - The Dream

Dragon House - Illusion of Choice

Crystal Castles - Fleece

Dilated Peoples (feat. Talib Kweli) - Kindness for Weakness

"Learning to play the thavil" remains on my bucket list

The Unresolved Podcast - Israel Keyes

Sunday nightmare fuel.

(via ruinedchildhood)

The Sonics - Have Love Will Travel

Pale Blue Dot

"We succeeded in taking that picture, and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there – on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

[...] To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

- Carl Sagan, 1994

Full ride on the Space Shuttle boosters

Oddities of South Auckland, Part 2: A valued family member

The Black Keys - Grown So Ugly (Live)

Tera Melos - Weird Circles Squared (Nick Reinhart Remix)

And So I Watch From Afar - Like A Mouse

Indian Handcrafts - It's Late Queeny

Criminal Podcast - Jessica Parker

New Zealand makes it onto the Criminal Podcast. Probably not the best advertising, but an interesting story. 

Meet the Tiddas

Just finished binge-watching the hell out of this thing

Bad thoughts

(via Purple Collared Comicx)