Source: Rolling Stone
LINKS
Photos from the Reunion Show and More [rollingstone.com]
Led Zeppelin Finds Its Old Power [nytimes.com]
BONUS
500 foot art installation at Tate Modern in London, NZ woman injures herself “I just didn’t see it” [nytimes.com]
UPDATE (03/12/2007): Download the recording of the show.
The playlist is online and if you dig the show, add it to your feeds!
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I’m joining nsu on UPFM’s Beat Dungeon this Sunday for a chillout special.
nsu says “2 hours of ambient, dub and downbeat sounds from the dance music spectrum, and of course don’t forget those NZ grooves too!” To quote Timothy Leary “Turn on, tune in, drop out”.
To listen in I recommend the live stream but if you’re in New Zealand frequencies are 107.5FM Akl, 88.1 Wgtn.
Giveaways and laid back tunes! If you’re listening text in with any questions, I promise I’ll answer them all.
Tune in
Sunday 2nd Dec 4pm NZT, 4am CET, 3am GMT
Saturday 1st Dec 10pm EST, 7pm PST
How seminal is this? Stuff like this makes YouTube great.
Source: YouTube
Video and photos from the South Island Tour are finally online. Includes Stewart Island, Queenstown and the West Coast.
South Island Tour slideshow
Source: YouTube
South Island Tour video
Source: YouTube
It was good to see folk on our trip, Roshan & Lottie in Christchurch - thank you for the awesome dinner. Ivan & Gabi in Queenstown - thank you for hooking us up with skiing gear. Sharon & Steve in the greenstone shop in Hokitika - see you next time in another random New Zealand town! Tip of the hat to Kiwi Campers - I recommend them if you’re looking to rent a campervan in New Zealand.
Source: Squidita
Liam Finn shows up on RollingStone.com as a Artist To Watch. Goodonya son!
“The twenty-four-year-old has toured with Crowded House, his dad Neil Finn’s band, over the past year while also recording his gorgeous folk-rock solo album, I’ll Be Lightning … Recorded with a mixing deck that once belonged to the Who, I’ll Be Lightning melds Elliott Smith-style melodies with loosey-goosey execution and the big, airy harmonies of yacht rock. Finn plays every instrument on the album — and during live shows. Triggering loops he creates via pedals, he’ll riff on guitar, go nuts on theremin and pummel a drum kit for a one-man-band extravaganza. “The aesthetic is DIY, leaving the woolly edges,” he explains.”
Artist To Watch: Liam Finn [rollingstone.com]
UPDATE (19/11/2007): Well, what do you know, their archives seem to be staying online for now. I’ve added a direct link at the bottom of the post to accompany the Google cache one.
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Damn. Well, StylusMagazine.com has been and gone and I didn’t manage to link to them before they died.
StylusMagazine.com had a lot going for it, passionate opinionated reviews and articles about music, film, audio. Manned by loyal staff members who wrote well and I enjoyed reading. It was like PitchForkMedia.com but more low-fi & probably a bit more snobby :-) It is a loss.
If you read one article retrospectively, try “Imperfect Sound Forever”:
“…Think about how you listen for a moment. I’d wager that a large chunk of your listening is done during a commute, whether that’s in a car or on a bus or train or a walk through a city centre. I listen a lot on the train myself, running my iPod (songs encoded as 192kb AAC files) through a pair of Koss Portapros and trying to sit next to other people who have earphones in so my leaking sound doesn’t offend commuters who want to read or whatever. Unsurprisingly I see a lot of other people with MP3 players, most of them using tiny earbuds of various kinds. Often their ears are plugged and their eyes are intently focused on a book or magazine or even a mobile phone screen too, senses shut to the horror of public transport. I get the impression that they’re not listening to music so much as avoiding what’s outside.”
Link: Imperfect Sound Forever
Google cache: Imperfect Sound Forever.
I am not, when it comes to computers, a model power user. Like a lot of people I have my idiosyncratic ways of using Windows XP and the software I have running on it. I am rarely one for stopping how I do something to see if I can do it more efficiently, I’d much rather get it done. But I’ve come across something that has made a significant & noticeable improvement to my work flow, my ability to concentrate and “get stuff done”.
At minimum I get maybe 5 - 10 emails every hour in a working day. Let’s assume the busy end of the scale so that’s approximately 80 emails a day. 400 emails a week. It sounds like a lot, of course it depends on your role but in mine these can be anything from news to large job requests that require hours of work. I was finding that while instant messages could be easily answered and then forgotten about, email wouldn’t go away as easily. Sometimes urgent requests would cause immediate disruption or difficult questions would intrude into my thoughts on whatever I was trying to work on.
My reasoning was that urgent messages needed to read as soon as possible so automatic send & receive in my email needed to stay on. So I tried to find ways of flagging emails with “Urgent” red flags and setting aside time during the day to “Do Email”. But the problem of difficult questions intruding on my thoughts still existed. Closing email solved the problem of getting new email “Ha! Try and email me now!” but email is so embedded in how we work nowadays that I was constantly opening email to reference saved and sent messages. And of course, as soon as I opened email I automatically pulled down anything new.
So the obvious presented itself. Turn off automatic send & receive. The notion of this seemed very “Mum & Pop” to me, I preferred email coming in on its own and going out as soon I clicked Send. Clicking Send and then Send & Receive? Every time? It didn’t seem very sensible. And I just knew I’d start clicking Send and forgetting to Send & Receive and end up with time-critical emails sitting in my Outbox. But I thought I’d give it a try. My Inbox was out of control and I was starting to fear every new email, I was willing to sacrifice time to try and fix the problem.
The improvement dawned on me slowly. Sometimes I was forgetting to click Send & Receive to clear my Outbox. But I noticed I was getting more done, my ability to concentrate was vastly improved. I was impressed, I hadn’t realised email had been disrupting my work as much as it had been. And I noticed I was coming to natural points during the day when I would take a break, reply to any new messages and then move onto the next job. Being able to write email without replying was a pleasure too. During the day reasons to send email would come up so I’d compose an message and put it into my Outbox for the next Send & Receive. This worked better than considering new email (and new questions) at the same time.
I think this solution is probably specific to the type of email I get and high level of concentration I need to do on a daily basis. And I know there are those out there who can just block out pressing concerns and focus on the task at hand. I am not one of those people. So my advice: reduce the intrusion email makes during the day. And those urgent messages? If it’s really urgent you will get phone calls. Trust me.
What a photo.
Source: Rolling Stone
(above) Above Christchurch on the Port Hills.
Back from the deep south. Smashed my elbow trying to be a pro snowboarder. Hopefully lots of photos and (maybe) video to come. The rest of my September is a busy one. Maybe DB will post his initial thoughts on the trip first.
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