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Well I left the orange one on the floor of my bedroom one night and awoke in the small hours to see a disembodied head, illuminated by a shaft of streetlight coming through the curtains, and it scared the shit out of me, briefly. So I can’t listen to that now without seeing the undead.

That’s as old as my my mum. I don’t know if that’s important but good luck.

I don’t see any need for that display to even be there when everyone knows a mysterious stranger delivers them by creepily entering your bedroom under the cover of night and placing them on your bed.

It’s not even a slow news day.

Saw Tom Jones post a letter on Marlborough St, London.

Definitely need to find more good feeds on here because at the moment it still isn’t as good as the other place, when you have carefully curated your feed to avoid the nonsense. Please help.

I think my dog is a jazz critic, she has been growling at Art Blakey and Melody Gardot on the TV but is transfixed by Jimmy Smith, Nina Simone and Ramsey Lewis. Seems a bit annoyed by Katie Melua but fairly non plused.

Same except we won some games 4-3, or 6-4 and he was still moaning about how it should have been 5-0. Except his teams can’t defend.

Which must mean there is quite a lot of Joe Royle’s Ipswich in this Barcelona side.

Hall & Oates

How about now?

Maybe they should have shared them out a bit.

I’m enjoying the mockery that Arsenal have just made of the daft xG nonsense. Scored 7, xG of under 2.

I believe the first two were TV catch phrases, not stand ups, so maybe even older!

Finally, bluesky is making sense and becoming relevant. I’m not joking, this is like twitter 5yrs ago. Or MySpace 20yrs ago. Or the pub 30yrs ago.

Can’t wait to hear them do Dominion/Mother Russia.

YouTube video by Heartworms Heartworms - Jacked (Official Video)

And, musically, this is just epic. youtu.be/mkXKgRtYp2U?...

Forever 2 (Crush Mix) - Malugi Remix Confidence Man, DJ BORING, Malugi · Forever 2 (Crush Mix) [Malugi Remix] · Song · 2024

Favourite thing out of Aus, it’s nice to see that after 30yrs the Antipodeans finally get dance music. open.spotify.com/track/733ZMp...

DECOLONIZE EXISTENCE - Big Fat Raro Remix MOKOTRON, Big Fat Raro · THE UNITED TRIBES OF BASS · Song · 2024

Favourite thing out of NZ/Aotearoa, several Mokotron tunes open.spotify.com/track/6Vn8lt...

YouTube video by The KVB The KVB - Labyrinths

And 3rd, probably electro dark wave The KVB youtu.be/bBAmU_Q7Gzc?...

YouTube video by Easy Eye Sound Shannon & The Clams - "Bean Fields" [Official Music Video]

2nd Favourite: jaunty garage pop youtu.be/dvo2yOFb7k0?...

YouTube video by GARZA - Topic Cherry Crush

And my favourite tune of this year has been … a re-working of an 11 year old song that was definitely around in 2023 but I think officially released in January 2024 … youtu.be/QAuv5X8VCX0?...

Yay, December 1st, it’s that special time of year when music lists come out!! Like decorations, not allowed before.

Dare to be different

Urgh. Who is responsible for that, we need answers.

Difficult to tell as i can’t make out the leaves but, given where it is and the breadth of the boughs, I’d guess Pohutukawa.

Largest incidence of cars overtaking you in a hurry that have on the back a bumper sticker saying ‘SLOW DOWN YOU’RE HERE’. Also Waiheke.

Largest incidence of bumper stickers telling the car behind to ‘SLOW DOWN, YOU’RE HERE’. Definitely Waiheke.

Largest incidence of vanity plates telling EVERYONE where you live is definitely WHYEKE (don’t think I’ve seen that one so shouldn’t annoy anyone). #waiheke

I’d only vote for two on this list so I did.