views from different views...

one of the lovely things about it being october in the small town of raglan, new zealand is that the supermarket stays open until 9pm.  i don't recall what time it would close the rest of the year, maybe 7pm or so.  what that means on a sunday evening is that before i head into the raglan radio studio to broadcast across 110th street, sometimes i'll stop by and have a look at the beer selection.

i was perusing this evening, around 7:45pm and the manager came up to me and says, "you want a recommendation?"  sure, i replied.  well, he tells me, this beer from russia is one of my favorites.  it's a strong one, he says grabbing the bottle. "7.2% and only 3 bucks," as he turns to me with a smile.

i have a look at the label. the beer is actually from the ukraine. definitely not a russian beer, i think to myself, at least not these days, or come to think of it, i ponder, who knows who is exporting ukrainian beer to new zealand. could be the russians in fact. borders over there are on some crazy tip these days.  not really a problem that new zealand really needs to worry about, shifting borders that is, unless, we're talking about global warming...

i passed on the ukrainian brew, though i'll have to try it one of these days and settled on an irish cider.

this evening i had a great time broadcasting across 110th street.  yesterday, spent a couple hours digging in the crates of the future.  new music i've been listening to over this last year, all types of good ish.  neo soul vocalists outta the u.k., some well known, some new to me, electro soul outfits, remixes of old funk that gets funkier with the times, plus all types of goodness that has come my way months back and in the last 24 hours too.

this photo, by the way, is almost the exact same angle as last week's image, but from a little lower of an elevation. reminded me there there was a time when i was at carleton, that i thought about majoring in the aesthetic beauty of clouds. not sure why i didn't try and pitch that? though not sure it would have been approved...

this week's across 110th street, ici:

love & health to all...