Choice selections including Dan Rhodes

If you want to see this charming group, come along to The Physics Room , Christchurch on Thurs 27 March: "Lullatone - they are Shawn Seymour and Yoshimi Tomida. Based in Nagoya, they wrote the official Hello Kitty theme song and have been behind some of the most melodic post-pop electronic sounds to come forth in recent years."


The Guardian's take on the world's most powerful blogs

The Age's Noise pollution blog links to Nick Cave's nutty Victorian seance vids. Beautifully hammy acting.

Headline of the week? Missing penis a cause for Royal Opera blush.

Dan Rhodes - my favourite author, and still one of the most amusing author websites. I just looked at his literary recommendations and spookily he namechecks two of my other favourite books namely Misadventures by Sylvia Smith and The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills. What is the common thread that links these authors? Humour, humanity, a sense of the ridiculous, dryness, ingenuity, idiosyncracy, beauty ...

I am please to see the return of my favourite Public Address blog Radiation from Fiona Rae. A good post to launch in with, and interesting comments as ever. She announces:

In other frakking fantastic news, Battlestar Galactica is back on air April 4. Advance publicity includes this frakking fantastic Last Supper. Six is Jesus!

Yay it is oyster season!!

And on the other side of the Tasman, Archibald Hitler fails to win Archibald Prize.

A nice piece o'spam I recently received, charmingly entitled "Reliable the man":

The kindest wishes to my new friend. I am 32 years. My name Tatiyana, I would like to get acquainted with you and to correspond, I want that all was reliable, that among us was not what secrets, and all we relations were on long. I am tired to be one, and to look only on bad, I wish to find and build relation with decent the man.
2008 has begun, and I wish in this suit to year the life. That the life washing has incorporated to strong spirit the man which always will be line a difficult minute, maintain me. My heart freely also burns with the desire to give all love to the man which deserves this. My letter is sent from agency, from an email of agency, and I ask on him to not answer. And to write only on my email.It for me will be easier. I shall wait for your letter and I hope that in the future we become the relatives each other.

Indeed, my heart freely burns too.

Melange Melee

OK, another heaving round up of interesting things on the Interweb (including this bullet bra from Rita Sue:

BOOK STUFF

Vivienne Westwood's manifesto on ART - from the Hay on Wye Festival

Bookman Beattie - great New Zealand book blog.

How to write by Philip Matthews - useful advice from The Listener.



MUSIC

Hallelujah - the Leonard Cohen song. I was obsesssing about in on Saturday and look at what this wonderful blogger has prepared. Jeff Buckley and Rufus Wainwright - wonderful boys.

Radio 1 Mash up
Radio Zero

Dark matter - Guardian article on the joy of Nick Cave: "Cave, as a poetic craftsman, provides all the enjambment, ellipsis and onomatopoeia that anyone could wish for. A word on eroticism and the dreadful dolour of knowing not only that all passion is spent - but also that you're overdrawn. If Cave were to be typified as a lyricist of blood, guts and angst, it would be a grave mistake. He stands as one of the great writers on love of our era. Each Cave love song is at once perfumed with yearning, and already stinks of the putrefying loss to come. For Cave, consummation is always exactly that."


FUNNIES

Irony Central - a highly amusing take on parenthood. Thanks to MoMo.

Am a wee bit obsessed by the LOLs:
LOLCats
I can has cheezburger
LOL80s



ASSORTED WHATNOTS


Bettie Page wigs at the wonderful Rita Sue

My Heritage - find out who you look like. Be freaked by the results.

Enter this photography comp The Press Pacific Pathways Photography Competition - Christchurch is our home, Pacific Pathways tells the stories of how each of us came to be here, what we brought and what we created.

The Food Pornographer blog