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My 51st Birthday


17/11/16 - Looks like we went to what was the best banh mi shop in the western suburbs, I had a bit of a read and then down the Largs Pier Hotel with the kids.


Pigface in bloom


16/11/16 - Pigface is one of my favourite plants. Again, beautiful flowers.


Nice morning for it.


16/11/16 - Running on the beach. I don't do that so often nowadays.


There may be hope with what we could see


Those of us with civilization have it so hard to imagine ourselves not having civilization for anything. But there were many more generations of humans who never had civilization, and thrived still without so much work, than all the generations with civilization. We can learn the ways to have what we can be comfortable with, making things that we can and growing things, without that dependence on civilization, that we would not be lost when civilization is lost.



Cactus flowers.


15/11/16 - Living where we live means we get to have cacti and succulents in abundance in our garden. I even have a stubborn thorn in my finger as I type. Their flowers are always spectacular.



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15/11/16 - I must've received an order of 7" singles in the post. This, Ruby Andrews' original version of Casanova, is a great little record. Ruby Andrews is one of those singers who only seem to get some love from the Northern scene, largely because of Just Loving You.


Say Leroy!


I picked up a load of Jimmy Castor Bunch LPs in the mid-80s in a second hand record shop and have always found his acid-funk work enthralling, even though a good 50% of his LPs are just unlistenable MOR cover versions.

This single used to get spun at acid jazz dos. It's a cracker.





Choon! Long time want.


15/11/16 - Underrated tune. Disco Strut by Cream De Coco. Neither very disco-ey, nor very strut-ty. But good all the same.


The sawtooth building from across the river this morning.


15/11/16 - Another old port building that's bitten the dust. There was a bit of a local campaign to save this one.




Nice run up the beach listening to the plink, plink, fizz of #stephanbodzin.


I'd forgotten how much I liked Stephan Bodzin's Liebe Ist album. I very rarely pay CDs or digital files any more, so this has just slipped off my radar.

This photo was taken under the Largs Pier Jetty. The decay of the timber is very attractive.




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10/11/16 - Bought a couple of Xiantoni Ari singles at this time. They're very good. Future Northern classics I reckon.


For Deleuze, as for Foucault and Lyotard, the activity of political reflection must have as a primary goal the freeing of an individual (be that individual a person, a group, or a practice) for new practices, practices that change, undermine, or abandon the power relationships that keep old practices in place. Foucault addresses the same concern in his description of philosophical “curiosity”:

"...not the curiosity that seeks to assimilate what it is proper for one to know, but that which enables one to get free of oneself… There is always something ludicrous in philosophical discourse when it tries, from the outside, to dictate to others, to tell them where their truth is and how to find it, or when it works up a case against them in the language of naive positivity. But it is entitled to explore what might be changed, in its own thought, through the practice of a knowledge that is foreign to it." (Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure)

#deleuze
#foucault
#lyotard
#poststructuralism

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"...That utilization, however, must remain a “minor” one: the task of becoming-minor is precisely that; it is not a task of making the minor dominant."




SInce I have no friends here yet, I'm posting this random photo I took in Iceland to brighten my feed.




One dollar


06/11/16 - Picked up at Gepps Cross Market, which used to take place on the drive-in cinema site. All closed down now, to feed the insatiable housing beast. Another loss for people who like to browse random shite spread out on a tarpaulin.

Also, another record that's barely worth a dollar.






There I was, running up the foreshore, and....FUUUCCCKKK! #brownsnake


05/11/16 - Snakes terrify me. As I was leaving the scene there was a man nudging it with his bicycle wheel, whilst his girlfriend implored him not to. A little vignette showing why women live longer than men.