Oops, didn't realise I'd accidentally launched the new EP already, but I did, so here it is: music.culturesack.com/album/war-pigs

New EP, War Pigs, coming out on September 30...on CD and Bandcamp and all the streaming services not owned by génocidaires. Which isn't many.

I'm kind of shocked by the people I know who have sold out. I mean they've turned into the people they used to say they hated...is it just what happens when you get a bit of authority? Is it just the nature of institutions, that they produce monsters? Was it always just lies and posturing?

My new EP! With special guest Francesca Albanese (and a bunch of cunts): soundcloud.com/stobiepole/s...

This one's up there in the top time travel movies (along with Time Bandits, Time After Time, La Jetee/12 Monkeys and Beneath the Planet of the Apes)...suck on it, Christopher Nolan: letterboxd.com/film/tomorro...

The hits keep rolling. soundcloud.com/stobiepole/a...

Seems appropriate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kat9...

Wokeness gone mad! mainichi.jp/english/arti...

Fresh banger. soundcloud.com/stobiepole/p...

Here's a preview of the new, as yet untitled, Gerald Murnane album. The track is called Imre the Bandit (a Hungarian poem about a bandit named Imre Bogár) and features Jon Rose on violin! soundcloud.com/stobiepole/i...

Last night while we were watching a movie and Taiga was lying next to me on the couch he began making a whining noise like he was in pain. Dogs are stoic so when they make pained sounds because it's usually a sign of something serious...then I realised he was staring at Kentaro's piece of cow horn.

I am really not interested in how music is made. I like to play with perceptions by blurring the boundaries between real and artificial sounds in various ways, but generally, if the main selling point of a piece of music is some novelty of its production then I am not even slightly interested.

New Renoise 3.5 is very nice indeed. The live coding stuff looks very fun... www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c9Q...

Catholic Labubu! thepost.ph/lifestyle/cu...

French dub is particularly great youtu.be/5SVdMfjU2VY

Here's a great Japanese band that have never received enough exposure in the rest of the world...I met them in the nineties while they were recording their first album in Melbourne. There's a good, sad documentary about them (the singer died suddenly, at their peak): www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwWv...

Very nice indeed... www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNmm...

Estonian prog rock! Started listening to Sven after hearing his soundtrack to the film Dead Mountaineer's Hotel, which is a pretty sweet flick... svengruenberg.bandcamp.com/album/hingus

New track. Probably won't be getting a lot of airplay on the ABC... soundcloud.com/stobiepole/w...

Yin and yang

Wot I has been listening to... hotmule.bandcamp.com/album/funky-... & natorecords.bandcamp.com/album/flying... & bornbadrecords.bandcamp.com/track/philip... I may be having a bit of a Francophone phase.

I taught myself assembly on an Atari 400. I’m so old I had to write Pascal programs onto punchcards complied on a Vax mainframe at uni…

Sweet Chi-fi audio...all made by Snowsky (a Fiio sub-brand). I'm really surprised how good the headphones are, which were only $24AUD. All Fiio gear is great...

'Il poliziotto è marcio' AKA Shoot First, Die Later (1974). Another fine Fernando Di Leo flick, overflowing with great car chases and J&B!

Been getting into Lam Tai-Choi movies...the mystery is why, after making The Cat and Riki-O in the same year, he retired from directing. The only possible answer is that he retired to a cave in a holy mountain to wait, perhaps for a thousand years, for humanity to evolve to fully grasp his vision.

The J&B Files: Uomini si nasce poliziotti si muore AKA Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976)

Okay, especially for Gerald's Murnane's 86th birthday, here's a sneak preview of the new album, a duet between Gerald on fiddle and Pisus Okada on piano performing a kind of blind reinterpretation of Bartok's 'An Evening in Transylvania': soundcloud.com/stobiepole/b...

Haven't posted anything new on Soundcloud for a long time because I've been mostly working on Gerald's new album. But I did this on the side, which is part of an album of COVID-related stuff that's almost finished... soundcloud.com/stobiepole/l...

Lookit me I'm Stelarc

And so it begins…new pupper on the left. The couch cover was clean until three minutes before this photograph was taken.

Any minute now we're heading off to a camp dog puppy meet 'n' greet...I'm feeling nervous, terribly nervous, like I was going on a date...hopefully we'll be bringing one of the little buggers back home with us.

Half lamington, half snot-block. Not half bad.

Being descended from an illegal immigrant I'm not sure I'm allowed to celebrate Australia Day, but there's some sweet swag at LaManna, including a lamington/snot block hybrid...

Waah! Pray for Billiken! japantoday.com/category/pic...

Guilty admission: I bought the Blake's 7 Series 1 Blu-Ray to watch over Xmas. The sets are even more rickety at 1080 pixels. But, you know...nostalgia.

Bought the BBC Dracula on Blu-Ray. It just turned up. But it's not the 1977 classic I saw on the telly when I was a lad, is it...it's the crappy new one. Ah crap. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/c...

New toy...

@causticcovercritic.bsky.social Hmm...a cautionary tale? letterboxd.com/film/the-smi...

Made some final recordings for the next Gerald Murnane album out at the Goroke golf club on the day after Boxing Day. It's getting there...

Went into a handmade sandal store in Shinsekai and bought some getta to replace the Ugg slippers Taiga ate a few weeks ago…I noticed there were boxes of CDs at the back of the shop and asked about them…turns out the owner runs a boutique jazz label. www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2019/01...

The Doremi kissaten in Shinsekai…same @katejames.bsky.social , same café, different dessert, seven years apart.

I was born the same week that Osaka Expo 70 opened. When I was a kid I remember looking up my birth month in the World Encyclopedia Year Book and seeing this strange, bizarre figure, that was either an alien from the future or the god of some ancient forgotten race. In fact, it was probably both...

@captainfez.bsky.social Hmm…what to choose…Ferrari’s definitely out…

New Mac Studio…kinda bigger than I expected…still, seems pretty zoomy…

Santa Dog

@ianfmartin.bsky.social Sweeeeet…