On the seventh day God rested

Now this has just gotten out of hand...

Well this attempt to post each day has been a complete failure. I'm not taking it too badly however as frankly I have a life, interact with real live and people don't prioritise the web above this. So in the spirit of living authentically I offer up the Painters & Docker's anthem "Die Yuppie Die".

It's not Thursday...

Who would have thought it so hard to do a post a day? Anyway here's another great local act Eddy Current Supression Ring with their charming film clip for their rockin' song "Which Way To Go". It looks like super8 to me all warm and fuzzy, like the feeling this song leaves me with. I just got around to picking this up. It was an American pressing unfortunately, but an mp3 download was included. Handy 'cos when I try to play records in the car they tend to skip.

I'ts still Wednesday where i'm sitting...

This Is Serious Mum



On a related wanker/yob note a recent study suggests that people tend to assume that males with wider rather than longer faces are more likely to be agressive, and that this perception is often correct. Below is some bonus live TISM to make up for the delay in posting:

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J.M. Carré, C.M. McCormick & C.J. Mondloch. (2009). Facial Structure Is a Reliable Cue of Aggressive Behavior. Psychological Science, 20, pp. 1194-1198.

In Memorium

I didn't know Dean Turner but will miss him. Magic Dirt have always been pretty special to me and I know, to many others and it's a real shame that he won't be around to continue to create such awesome music. It sounds like he was a man of courage and dignity, and we know he rocked pretty fucking hard too. Here is some evidence of this in a live version of their song 'White Boy'.



Apparently they are releasing this song in an EP to celebrate his life and achivements, I'm getting myself a copy.

I got drunk and ripped up the town

Not much need be said really, it wouldn't be appropriate to let the week pass without this, one of the dirtiest riffs ever unleashed under a southern sky.

Ornamental

As we rock along I next present The Funknecks, sadly now no longer playing live though soon to make some final (?) recordings. Their spastic drummer, my good friend Tim has a birthday sometime soon and as he was the one who reminded of my duties re. The Rock this spring I am delighted to share with you Melbourne's most slept on punk-funk outfit.

Rocktober

As I was reminded the other day; its Rocktober and even though rock hardly needs it's own month in order to celebrated around here, I figured as a project I'd chuck up a rockin' Aussie film clip each day this week.

Regretably I wan't able to go the reformation yesterday but as a really cool entry to Roctober here's The Stems' grooviest take on garage rock 'Tears Me In Two'. This video was provided by the kind hearted 'NZOZ' who must have converted hours of tape of 'Rage' and has uploaded to youtube decades of great Aussie and Kiwi rock organised into channels for each year. Cheers NZOZ, here's hoping you're having a great Rocktober!

On a related note it has allways bothered me that rage never shows the song titles at the end as well as the begginning of each clip. Here's their lame excuse for those who too have wondered why:

"Because rage is a very long show and is broadcast ‘live to air’ this makes it technically difficult to title the start and end of each clip. rage tries to have as little interference with the video as possible so that it can be enjoyed the way the creators intended!"

Less annoying since we have the internet I suppose.