te pua o te rēinga (🫴🏼🎃)

rangiora flowers

jasmine flowers

tarata (lemonwood) flowers

the pathway to my house is resplendent with rangiora, tarata and jasmine at the moment 🙂

reverse glass painting of kate bush, posed similarly to the cover of ‘the kick inside’ in a leather jacket, black tights, toes pointing in silver shoes, yellow orange field, stylised ’kate bush’

i’ve only been in doc whyte’s on abel smith (pōneke) 3 times (b/c it’s so mouldy) -

1st time he accused me shoplifting,

2nd time I found a pristine copy of ‘happy nightmare baby’ (fabulous opal record),

& the 3rd time this 80s reverse glass painting allegedly made at rimutaka women's prison 🥰

digital drawing. a strange lizard-like creature with very long legs standing in a desert alien landscape. there are mountains in the background. rocks. a weird looking plant

creature #art

Nobody ray chung tonight

walked 12k, cycled 20k, and installed four anchor piles (0.4m3 of hand mixed concrete). 💪 but i’m definitely pooped.

ME: give it to me straight doctor. how long do i have
DOC: what
ME: left. to live
DOC: it's carpal tunnel syndrome. you're not going to die
ME: my god ... eternal life

harder and harder, and deeper and deeper

watching a tuna (eel) hunting these puplings. the parents quacking an alarm, herding the ducklings to safety, swimming as fast as they can only to pop under water for a few seconds before reemerging safe. scary asf but they all made it.

invigorating (light rain and gale winds)

we are all sherman

It’s not right to take small children to the park when the bucket swing looks like adult underwear

InTensIFieD ORIGINAL SKA 1962-66, sound system on cover

IRS CALLING ALL RUDE BOys AND girls How the people remember: Nights of Sensation and Pure Excitement a Dam and Blue Ribbon club Limbo and Flamingo, Brixton Hall and Stoke Newington Town Hall - no getting the place callad teeTwenties - catering to the cats from far and near with music to shake the matien to the foundation, plen hundred blues dance every Saturday night for ten years, with sound system competition between: Cous Count Shelley, Coxson (UK), Sir Collins, Sir Biggs the President and Duke Vin the Tickler - but them co get no Red Stripe beer fe sell in a dance at night. But time longer than rope and this is the sound that goes around, so here it is again.... INTENSIFIED! SIDE ONE El Pussy Cat - Roland Alphonso 1965 2. Solomon Gundie - Eric Morris 1964 Teenage Ska - Baba Brooks 1965 Carry Go Bring Come - The Charms 1964- Duck Soup - Baba Brooks 1965 1965 Rukumbine - Shenley Duffus Stampede - Don Drummond + Drumbago 1965 Independent Anniversary Ska - Skatalites 1966 SIDE TWO 5. 6. 8. John + James - The N Rocket Ship - Tommy. We Are Rolling - Stranger Cole James Bond - Roland Alphonso Housewifes Choice - Derrick + Patsy University Goes Ska - Don Drummond Penny Reel - Eric Morris The Higher The Monkey Climbs - Justin Hines 1965 Reissue coordinated by Stephen Barrow. Sleeve notes by Johnnie Cool, Forest Gate. All tracks originally recorded in Kingston Jamaica. Hail and salute these wonderful musicians who supply all backing for these records: On Trombones: On Tenor Sax: On Alto Sax: On Trumpet: On Piano: On Guitar: On Bass: On Drums: And Vocalists: The incomparable Don Drummond and Rico Rodriguez. Roland Alphonso, Tommy McCook and Gaynair. Lester Sterling, Karl Bryan and Hedley. Johnny "Dizzy" Moore, Baba Brooks and Raymond Harper. Theophilius Beckford, Jackie Mittoo and Gladstone "Gladdy" Anderson. Ernest Ranglin and Jah Jerry. Lloyd Brevette and "Blues". The great Lloyd Nibbs, Drumbago and Hugh Malcolm. Stranger Cole, Eric Morris, Justin Hines, The Maytals, D…

InTensIFieD ORIGINAL SKA 1963-67, sound system on cover

38372 CALLING ALL RUDE BOYSO GIRLS Back again with musical dispensation to rock and shake the young generation.... here comes the authentic voice of Jamaica Ska.... good music, brothers and sisters, can never die - it just gets more INTENSIFIED!! SIDE ONE SIX AND SEVEN 800KS OF MOSES - The Maytals as The Vikings 1963 Dr. KILDARE - The Skatalites 1965 CONGO WAR - Lord Brynner and The Shieks 1965 WOMAN COME - Marguerita 1964 MAN IN THE STREET - Don Drummond 1965 WHAT A MAN DOETH - Eric Morris 1964 LUCKY SEVEN - The Skatalites -1965 8. MISS SKA-CULATION - Roland Al and 1966 The Soul Brothers Featuring the voices of: - The Maytals, Lord Brynner, Marguerita, Eric Morris, Stranger Cole, The Ethiopians, Sir Lord Comic and Desmond Dekkar SIDE TWO 1. Dr. RING-A-DING - Roland Al and The Soul Brothers 1966 1965 2. RUN JOE - Stranger Cale SUCU-SUCU - The Skatalites 1965 THE GREAT WUGA WUGA - Sir Lord Comic 1967 DICK TRACY - The Skatalites 1985 MOUNT ZION - Desmond Dekkar and The Four Aces 1965 MARCUS JUNIOR - The Soul Brothers 1967 TRAIN TO SKAVILLE - Ethiopians 1967 and the instrumental talent of: - Trumpet : Baba Brooks, Johnny "Dizzy" Moore, Raymond Harper and Billy Cooke Trombone : Don Drummond, Jay Nelson, Rupie Anderson and Danny Simpson Tenor Sax : Rolando Alphonso, Stanley Ribbs, Tommy McCook, Dennis Campbell and Val Bennett Alto Sax : Karl "Cannonball" Bryan and Lester Sterling Keyboard : Jackie Mittoo Bass : Lloyd Brevett Drums : Lloyd Nibbs, Drumbago Guitar : Ernest Ranglin, Jah Jerry All Tracks recorded in Kingston Jamaica 1963 - 1967 Compiled by: Stephen Barrow Special thanks to Laurel Aitken, Dave King, Duke Vin. ISLAND Manufactured and distributed by EM Recoros Limbed oui®

love a good comp, and this good, some familiar songs and some new ones, raw.

letting the siren call go to voicemail

salsa in the blender jug, you can see cilantro, tomato, and dried chillies

making salsa, objectively the best in aotearoa 🙂

(letting the salsa steep for a couple of hours before the old blendarooni)

close of the top of daisy dog’s head as she sleeps on the bed

seen a perfect-eared angel sleeping 🙂

Grey oyster mushrooms just beginning to fruit. The bag has droplets of moisture and is full of white mycelium.

Grey oyster mushrooms starting to fruit!
#gardenlife
#gratitude
#AotearoaNZ

"Welcome to this place. I'll show you everything." -The Immaculate Concierge

yes the are little larvae that dangle from silken threads and glow at night.

young me at back door open, blue shorts, no shirt, finger at my lips or in my nose, rear view of ozzie dog pup beagle

when i was a kid we lived briefly on a farm outside of bartlesville oklahoma, a plain grassy sultry and cold place from whence my earliest memories arise.

to throw rocks in the pools and watch the silver dark ripples race towards the banks - the angle was not right for skipping stones but i tried - sliding down to the bottom of the bank muddy shoes - nose inches from the water looking for tadpoles and fishlings to catch in a jar

it’s friday time to rock

if u listen to the hotdog rollers w yr heart u can hear angels simg

they awarded me the nobel evil prize its new

at the supermarket. this lady coming over today and idk what kinda pudding she like. so i’ma buy one of everything and put the rest in God’s hands amen

fridys i miss goig tickle mode on my cellmate

it’s been going on for years

it says good vibrations on it, you’ll probably be fine

purple key in a māhoe tree trunk

the purple key in the māhoe tree is back - it’s been gone for months - a long journey

titiwai along the stream banks - looks like stars

you guys the forest is so pretty right now the titiwai (glow worms) are glowing, the creek gurgling and the wind howling in the tree tops, and ruru hoo hooing ever so softly in the distance 🙂

close of the top of daisy dog’s head as she sleeps on the bed

seen a perfect-eared angel sleeping 🙂