self portraits from this year

S O P H I E

Sophie was one of the most interesting artists in 2013.
Perfect amounts of lots of nice things.
Yep.

Drawings of an ex girlfriend, while she slept...

WHITE HEX- Stranger love

White Hex are one of my favourite Melbourne bands. I saw them live for the first time this month and they totally blew me away. I know that their record HEAT came out last year, but i've revisited it this year, and thus, it's one of my favourite records of the year.

A G E N D E R- Mani Pedi

"A confession of one’s fixation and fetish with the femininity of fingernails. In an otherwise bleak world, it’s the touch of a woman that adds colour to the chaos."

PALMS TRAX- EQUATION

One of my favourite tracks of the year, for sure.
Gorgeous.

HOME video

Straight trippin'
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Directed by William Sabiston
Animation/Effects by Matt Reed and William Sabiston
Single out now on 100%Silk
Available at: itunes.apple.com/gb/album/home-ep/id6743­26979
https://soundcloud.com/house-of-romyo

Carly Simon- Why

Such a great song about that thing called Love. Such a pivotal question.
Coda, rhetoric.
This song numbs all the pain.
Produced by Nile Rodgers.
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C H R O M E

I've been obsessively bingeing on CHROME for the past few days.
3 songs to prove how fucking good they were.
Makes me want to lock myself in a room for a while.
Post Stooges, pre Industrial and everything in between.

VEREKER

I'm absolutely fiending for everything from Vereker at the moment. Makes me want to eat my own flesh.
Trilogy Tapes and L.I.E.S= Two of the best labels around.
Knife to the:

❤

ANDROIDS OF MU

Androids Of Mu's one and only LP 'Blood Robots' just got a much deserved reissue. It's made me rethink and revisit this very influential (on me) band.
All girl U.K anarcho post-punk band born when I was born; 1980.
So neccessary

Lovers' Rights- Motivate

Great track. Nice video.
satin and snakes and squishy and snares

P U R E P U R E P U R E P U R E P U R E P U R E P U R E P U R E P U R E

L O R D S O F A C I D

LUSTLUSTLUSTLUSTLUSTLUSTLUSTLUST

WHITEHOUSE- Ruthless Babysitting

KLANGWERK- Klangwerk

YES. Let's Klang.

HI

Sorry. Went AWOL.
(America Will Overtake Lives)

hello

KITCHEN & THE PLASTIC SPOONS

Experimental synth punk band from Sweden. 1980. This is made, and I am born.

Veronica Lipgloss &the evil Eyes

I think I've mentioned that I lived in San Francisco in the early 2000's. Got to see this band a few times. Just had a flashback. Sudden pangs and hunger to listen to them. Feed me.

more drawings

MEKANIK KOMMANDO- Microbes

Totally amazing track.
80's minimal synth/new wave band from the Netherlands.
Sounds like a precursor to Devo's 'Mongaloid', perhaps?

DRUMS OF DEATH- Fierce!

Killer. Making me rethink everything.

JESSE SAUNDERS- On and On
One of the first house tracks ever ('84)
I've re-fallen in love with this, and it's made me find my comfort zone/ room in (the) house.
More about that soon.
For now, just appreciate this 7:45 minutes of pure genius.



ADONIS- No Way Back
A few years later ('88), this! This song is my mantra. Keep it simple.

These two songs pretty much sum up where I'm at right now, in terms of house music.
It's Valentines day, and I've fallen in love again with these <3 p="">

Nearly 2 years sober

I'm approaching my 2 years of sobriety.
Life is precious. That is all.

SCISSORS, PAPER, STOP

how frisbee's came into being...

TARA CROSS+ALGEBRA SUICIDE

TARA CROSS- 'No More Drugs'
Desperate pleas and synthetic peace.



ALGEBRA SUICIDE- 'Agitation'
minimalist mute hearts and spoken spine snaps.

C A R I C A T U R E S

Some collected caricatures I've drawn

SELES/GRAF

The two greatest players, ever, in women's tennis. Seles, the first loud grunter, with her double handed forehand, Graf, with that graceful backhand and constant finesse. These two women were artists on the court. A great rivalry, unprecedented today.
Watching the Australian Open Women's final last night made me nostalgic. Women's tennis has been quite flat and inconsistent over the past six or seven years. So it was good to see a strong, close match.
Witness the fitness below, Graf VS Seles '93 Australian Open final, back when the court was green, not blue.
Also, one year, my family drove to Melbourne from Sydney, to watch the Open, and my sister caught Steffi Graf's towel when she threw it into the crowd.

CHRISTOF GLOWALLA

Rare synth wave jams from DIY '80s musician Christof Glowalla, a young German armed with just a single synth, a 4 track, and a super primitive drum machine.

Silent Servant

Happy new year!  I'm still settling into '13. Nice number.
This was one of my favourite records of last year. Negative Fascination, by Silent Servant, released on Hospital Productions. I endorse pretty much everything they release. Dark on repeat. now repeat. Coda.

Hydra Head split

This is the last release ever from Hydra Head, a label that released a lot of boisterous, heavy music over the past two decades. A split LP between JK Flesh and Prurient close the curtains on what was a very important and momentous label who disturbed the peace, in a good way.