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Tuesday, October 6, 2026
Monday, October 5, 2026
Curve - No escape from heaven Cocteau Twins - Seekers Who Are Lovers
- No Escape From Heaven
- I can see through your eyes
- to the back of your mind
- All you've said is fiction
- the blind leading the blind
- I'd like to take your clothes off
- and play for a while
- Now hold my hand in summertime
- we'll walk for miles and you'd be mine
- Hold my hand in summertime
- and you are mine
- There's no escape from heaven
- Try as you might
- There's no escape from heaven
- Lie on the floor
- don't open your eyes
- Just listen to the sweetness
- of this lullaby
- Break my heart in anger
- hit me in love
- Push me into danger
- give me a shove
- Now hold my hand in summertime,
- we'll walk for miles and you'd be mine
- Hold my hand in summertime
- you are mine
- There's no escape from heaven
- Try as you might
- There's no escape from heaven
- There's no escape from heaven
- Try as you might
- There's no escape from heaven
- Woman in love
- woman in love
- woman in love
- woman in love
- woman in love
- ...
- Hold my hand in summertime
- Oh, just hold my hand in the summertime
- Hold me
- hold me
- hold me like you used to
- Just hold me,
- hold me,
- hold me like you used to
- Hold me
- woman in love
- like you used to
- woman in love
- Hold me
- woman in love
- like you used to
- woman in love
Seekers Who Are Lovers
Brush by gracefully
A love as big as a risk
It fills you up
And you can't look down
The breath of god in my mouth
A love you can taste
God get some paste
He and I, breath to breath
Clothed in saliva
Healing thru your arm
I cant stop humbling foreigners
I forgot the use
My head fell out of sky
And crashed into my bones
Jesus God
Valentine
Love
On the tip of it
The old rivers lack of others sweet scents
So seek
You are a woman just as you are a man
Creeping hungers
Is a magic love like
Like flights, clouded peak
I was choking on the blood
Whose camouflages lack of soul
Whose misty fire, muses soul
whoa
Kneeling by the harm
Which is promising away
His poor essence
under the truth
modern heart polish itself
I slid my heels but slowly ran
So send Lucifer into I, I
Love
On the tip of it
You open us like a woman split sex
So see
You are a woman just as you are a man
Love
On the tip of it
you open us like a woman’s sweet scent
so see
You are a woman just as you are a man
Love
on the tip of it
You open us like a woman’s sweet sex
So see
You are a woman just as you are a man
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Angel Olsen - Big Time, Shut Up Kiss Me
Good morning kisses, giving you all mine
Pull back the curtains, show me the sunshine
Needing this coffee, needing some nature
Need it right now, it can't wait until later
We're always busy, baby, not this time
Lay in the tall grass, talking with your eyes
Talking with your eyes before we knew we were
Thinking the same things, I'm a believer
And I'm losing, I'm losing, I've left it behind
Guess I had to be losing to get here on time
And I'm living, I'm loving, I've loved long before
And I'm loving you big timе, I'm loving you more
Take to the lakе, playing lady in red
Hanging onto every word that you said
Staying up all night, out by the fire
Singing your songs now, you know I'm a crier
And I'm losing, I'm losing, I've left it behind
Guess I had to be losing to get here on time
And I'm living, I'm loving, I've loved long before
And I'm loving you big time, I'm loving you more
And I'm losing, I'm losing, I've left it behind
Guess I had to be losing to get here on time
And I'm living, I'm loving, I've loved long before
And I'm loving you big time, I'm loving you more
And I'm loving you big time
And I'm loving you big time
And I'm loving you big time
I'm loving you big time
Sunday, September 27, 2026
Artist's new beginning in Nelson
Artist's new beginning in Nelson
Tao Wells is living and working at an artists' retreat that is being set up in Wakefield. He and his partner, Laura Shepard, are expecting a child, with a civil union on the horizon next month.
Wells gained notoriety in Wellington in 2010, with a controversial installation project that promoted the virtues of being unemployed.
His taxpayer-funded installation, The Beneficiary's Office, urged people to abandon jobs they didn't like, rather than suffering eight hours of "slavery".
Wells, who was on a benefit at the time, ran an office in Manners St with five "staff" for two weeks, promoting his unemployment philosophy publicly.
The project received a $3500 grant as part of a $53,000 performance art installation series paid for by Creative New Zealand and the Wellington City Council.
It received a mixed response, with some labelling it a waste of taxpayers' money, outraged by his audacity, and others applauding his courage to speak out.
Even before that, Wells was no stranger to controversy.
His performance piece entitled Inuit Time was described as "an insult to the fundamentals of theatre" by National Business Review theatre critic John Smythe after its debut in 2000.
Wells has performed different versions of the same piece, 27 times since then and will do so again at the New Performance Festival in Auckland in February.
In 2007, Wells used a Creative New Zealand grant to visit Melbourne as an artist in residence, where he exhibited "a whole lot of really full-on political artwork" exploring race relations.
Wells said he expected his exhibition at Conical gallery in Fitzroy – "a hot-bed of political activism" – to evoke strong reactions, but was shocked when the curator of the gallery censored his work.
Wells had printed 3000 pamphlets saying there was "no culture in Australia" and that the country was "20 years behind New Zealand" in terms of race relations, but the curator banned him from delivering them.
"It
was like they were willing to invest in me as an artist as long as I
behaved in a way that didn't actually do anything," he said.
Wells features in the latest issue of edgy New Zealand art magazine White Fungus, which forms part of a new exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art next month.
He said he had found "a new lease of life" in Nelson and was excited about getting involved in the region's art scene.
"My work ebbs and flows. There's the controversial and shocking stuff and there's actually just normal products that I try to sell," he said.
Wells is working on a series involving "domestic linen paintings" using pillowcases, which he hopes to show at some point.
"It has been quite a crazy road. I was in Wellington for over a decade and in the last five years I felt like a rusty old car in someone's yard that no-one wanted to fix. People give you a go here."
The Happy Bene, a film documenting the Wells' installation project and the reaction it received, is available online.




































