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.

Two of the best word play appropriations I did in '12 are:

Best House 12'' of 2012

Here are some of my favourite house jams of 2012:

BLAWAN #1

And, my favourite song of 2012 is:

SHED-The Killer

One of my favourite records of 2012 is Shed's 'The Killer'. Murky, gritty, booming, dark dubbed out techno. Listen loud.

New Yorker couch caption

today

I made up a new word: NEUROTICA (story of my life. figure it out).

                          Also, APART= story of my life.
                            Now you know my life story.
        

DRINKING ELECTRICITY

One of my favourite re-issues this year was Medical Records' reissue of Drinking Electricity's 'Overload+singles'. Originally released in 1982, it's a fine slab of minimal synth mixed with angular post punk. Can't really go wrong. My copy is number 180/650. Limited! Unlimited head gyrations.

schitzotomy duocore

New Yorker captions

I read the New Yorker every week (someone please buy me a subscription for Hannukah. The New Yorker costs $12.50 in Australia!)
The first thing I do is flip to the back, to the cartoon caption contest.
I'll start posting my captions.
I can't draw from memory. I can only draw what I see in front of me. I think this inhibits my chances of being a world classic cartoonist. That is a dream of mine. I put the R.in R.Crumb

FELIX KUBIN

Electronic music from Hamburg, Germany. Early 80's.
Makes me want a Korg MS-20 real bad.
My copy of 'Teenage Tapes'- a collection of Felix's early work, just arrived in the mail.


I also just bought this guitar today. So it should arrive in the mail next week.
I love getting mail.

Tea of the week- GYOKURO YAMASHIRO

Gyokuro is my favourite green tea.
It has a strong grassy flavour.
Gyokuro Yamashiro is shaded for 6-7 weeks prior to plucking, so it's dark, extra energizing and extremely rare outside of Japan.