Day 8: Medal Table

Olympic athletes are very inspiring. The idea of training for an event for four or six or more years, with that one event as motivation - what discipline! I'm moved to make some long term goals for myself.

Wicksteed Works

It's a big day for me: my shiny new website is launched, meaning my New Project is officially under way!

Check it out, and please go ahead and like my new Facebook page too. Tomorrow I fly to Austin, TX for South By South West. Hit me up if you're there!

Perfume Genius - Hood

New video launched today from guess who's tip for Artist of 2012. Check it out:



More info on Pitchfork here. Preorder Put Your Back N 2 It here. Album streets 20 Feb!

Perfume Genius: 2012 is his year

I know I may post a lot about music and new releases, but if you download nothing else from me all year (ok, all month) then please please download All Waters from Perfume Genius and have a listen. Tell me what you think.

Perfume Genius' second album, Put Your Back N 2 It, is released on 20 Feb, and I personally can't wait having ordered not one but two signed vinyl LPs. You can get yours here.

Steps

These steps connect two sections of Hankey St in Mt Cook, Wellington, where i lived in 2004-5. The street was part of a neighbourhood planned on paper, and it didn't fit the geography of Mt Cook. On reflection it seems that uncooperative geography was but one of the problems faced by Wakefield's surveyors as they set about establishing the city. More on wikipedia here.