Just upgraded the audio at home. Turned it up loud. Hit Me with your Rhythm Stick shuffled around. Floored. Can’t believe I’d heard that song hundreds of times in the past forty years (!) and never copped to the […]

The Rubin interview makes it clear, by the way, that his manner of delivery is a very deliberate, conscious choice given where he lies on the autism spectrum, and that his natural way of communicating would be […]

Keen for this to be resurfaced, as this is – monotone delivery aside – an amazing feat of scholarship. He had a decent interview on the Rick Rubin podcast a couple of months ago which is worth a look.

See what you did there (did there) – chapeau

I’m in Melbourne, where this sort of caper is taken EXTREMELY seriously. My fairly lo-fi setup is a Breville burr grinder and the Breville/Sage Bambino Plus. No frills, very decent results and takes most (if not […]

Enthusiastically seconded. My wife’s still scratching her head and DOES NOT GET IT. Heart swooningly wonderful.

“Jousting sticks? Tell him he’s dreamin’.”

Beautiful morning for a spin down Beach Road through Mordy, and then to mow the lawn. Feels like spring for the first time this year.

Calumny

* Duke Ellington rather than Count Basie

As per Captain Darling, I’d be bizarrely happy to be part of Taylor’s backing band, maybe as part of the Reputation tour in 2018. Bigger, bolder and cracking tunes. Great fun.

Rewind to the Newport Jazz […]

All the songs from The Beastie Boys Book—which I somehow seem to have three copies of—roughly in order. Some seriously funky deep cuts, the sources for multiple samples and overall great fun.

Begrudge all you like, but track 1 side 1 of U2 Album number 1 remains a cracking tune.

Your mileage may, of course, vary.

Derailleur

Ah yes, it would appear so. Apologies.

Maybe I’m a similarly bastardised Proddy Dubliner, and maybe indeed I went to the equivalent of his school, Mount Temple, on the southside: but either way, I wasn’t horrendously offended by Bono’s performance on […]

As above, I’d be a veteran of 1978. The old Ormond in Stillorgan, south Dublin for my 8th birthday. We’ve just revisited the main movie series in Machete Order—which goes IV, V, II—completely ignoring Phantom Men […]

We use Slack to communicate in our business and it’s been indispensable—especially during our interminable Melbourne lockdown. As a result, we’ve developed a strong emoji game and a shortcut visual lingua franca r […]

He’s only gone and thrown a spanner amongst the pigeons

This is superb! Sparkling work @cookieboy