HOT KARL ACTION

HOT KARL ACTION – KICK ARSE ROCK MUSIC FROM THIS CENTURY

 HAS THERE BEEN ANY KICK ARSE ROCK MUSIC SINCE 2010?

Following on from my HOT BABOON ACTION CD compilation, and still armed with my trusty CD burner, I made my last compilation CD back in 2009.

It was called “HOT KARL ACTION” (2004 - 2008)

Several times since I’ve had a crack at doing another one, but I’ve never found enough awesome tracks to do a full CD’s worth, so I haven’t ended up doing any more compilation CD's.

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The last time I was inspired to have a serious crack at it was 2016, and my 2016 compilation was going to be called “HOT FART ACTION” (AKA. Am I just a boring old fart?) and only contain tracks from 2016. But I didn't manage to find a CD’s worth of tracks even ranging from 2008 to 2016, so "HOT KARL" ended up being my last compilation CD.

Here it is, my final compilation from the tail end of the great era of rock music (1967 to 2007). HOT KARL ACTION 2004-2008:

2004 – Arcade Fire – Power Out

2004 – Fix up, Look sharp-by Dizzee Rascal

2004 – Upholsterers – Pain (Gimme Sympathy)

2005 – Bloc Party – Helicopter (The Whitey Remix)

2005 – Franz Ferdinand – The Fallen (2006)

2005 – Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor

2006 – Cold War Kids – “Hang Me Up To Dry”

2006 – Muse – Supermassive Black Hole

2007 – Brakes – Cease And Desist

2007 – Kaiser Chiefs – Everything Is Average Nowadays

2007 – Kings of Leon- Knocked up

2007 – LCD Soundsystem – “Time to get away”

2007 – The Shins – Phantom Limb

2007 – The White Stripes – Catch Hell Blues

2007 – Yeah Yeah Yeahs 10×10

2008 – Beck – Gamma Ray

2008 – Flight of the Conchords (NZ) – Inner City Pressure

2008 – The Raconteurs – Consoler of the Lonely

and a bonus track from 2009

2009 – Karen O / Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Soft Shock (Acoustic)

 

 

BADCOCK GOES APE

This is what I did to one of John Badcock's paintings. John Badcock is a NZ painter whose paintings pull in surprisingly high prices. Here is one of a naked man beating a woman with a stick.

I took a photo of one of his paintings in a gallery and carefully added some Toyota HiAce van reflection to give my photo of his painting some added social context.

And then I let rip with a few filters which seemed to bring out the beating aspect a little more. There is nothing like a good beating!

The things you see in the street…

Are we being traumatised by these images? Well I guess that depends how sensitive we are.

I didn’t make any of this up – really I didn’t – Here is a photo of John Badcock:

 

A FULL PLATE

 The 2025 Tour de France has just kicked off this weekend. I've been following the Tour since the 80's and remember buying this book when I was at school, 40 years ago!

Apart from watching this year's Tour highlights I seem to have about a million other things to do  this month, and this post is just a random collection of images that caught my eye.

This month was also part of an experiment - back in May I had a month off doing any blog posts, and surprisingly my hits actually increased, so I became interested in checking out what effect not posting has on my hit count. I'll fill this month in later, but in the meantime, apart from this post, I will monitor a second month off and see if a pattern emerges. 

 

ONE OF MY FETISHES

 

For some reason I have a fetish for taking photos of strangers.

I lurk about with my camera waiting to get a snap of them. And then I post their pics online and hopefully my unwitting victims never know! Here are some lucky strangers that caught my eye.

(I like my strangers in a Polaroid style)

OVER US$12k FOR A BLOG POST

 

GET RICH BY BLOGGING!

Back in 2016, in the early days of the blogging platform Steemit – when it still looked like an awesome new blogging platform rather than a massive Ponzi scheme – certain key accounts were flinging money about in an apparent effort to bring in new users.

One of my first posts got a $400 payout. Although the whole thing looked a bit suspect, I didn’t look a gift horse in the mouth – I just went “choice mate, thanks a lot” – https://steemit.com/photography/@sift666/my-obsessive-polaroid-photo-fetish

Next I started learning about crypto currencies, and by early 2017 was hanging out to get started. So I cashed out some of my Steemit earnings and bought Bitcoin. They were only US$1000 back then so US$400 bought 40% of a Bitcoin.

Cryptos went nuts that year, and by the time Bitcoin went up over US$15,000 I was getting sweaty and nervous. I managed to cope with the stress until they hit US$17,000, then I sold the lot and breathed a sigh of relief. They actually peaked for a short time at US $19,000 but $17k was an awesome point to ditch them.

So 40% of a Bitcoin went up from US$400 to US$6800. Convert that into NZ$ and it became NZ$10,300. Next I used that money to buy gold bullion, back when it was $NZ1700 an ounce, so that $10,300 soon went up plenty more.

Later when Bitcoin dropped back from US$19 to US$5, I bought some more Bitcoin  at US$5000, and that worked out well too. I just waited for that nervous sweaty feeling to come back, and then headed back to the the bullion shop – https://www.mygold.co.nz