Your Bad Example is a song I wrote in the early 1990's, on the occassion of a certain troubling body leaving Dunedin, I thought forever. It was recorded by Mink for the "For My Mink" album, but left off to make space for the work of other songwriters. It has since appeared on the "Arcbeats" compilation, and the "Aleutian" collection of Mink outtakes and demos.::::::. Read about The And Band ::
My interests include: Dreaming, orthomolecular medicine, history, crime, literature (reading and writing), music, rather less drugs, nympholepsy.
Music
Download MINK MP3s including my songs (Sex Kittens, Green Eyes Blue, Milk and Honey) from : amplifier.com
::::Crown of Creation - Jefferson Airplane::Live '69 - Velvet Underground::Layla and other assorted love songs - Derek and the Dominoes::God Save the Clientele, Strange Geometry - The Clientele::Truckin' (live '72) - The Grateful Dead::The Young Rascals::Between The Buttons, Their Satanic Majesties Request - The Rolling Stones::
The Clock comes down the Stairs, Everybody Is Fantastic, 39 Minutes - Microdisney::Scott 2 - Scott Walker::
Sister Lovers - Big Star::
Pleased to Meet Me - The Replacements::
Ege Bamyasi - Can::
The Orange Juice (3rdLP) - Orange Juice::
English Rose - Fleetwood Mac::
Parachute - The Pretty Things::
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd::
If I Could Only Remember My Name - David Crosby::
Pyjamarama - Roxy Music::
T. Rex, Rufus Wainright, Steely Dan, Serge Gainsbourg, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday::Velvets CFHK Demo:
Movies
BUY "SONGS FOR EMILY VALENTINE" and read my album liner notes @ powertools::::.. Punch-Drunk Love (PT Anderson)::
Auto Focus (Paul Schrader)::
Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)::
Bird (Clint Eastwood)::
The Night of the Iguana, Beat the Devil (John Huston)::
The Company of Wolves (Neil Jordan/Angela Carter)::
Freeway (Matthew Bright)::
Bird (Clint Eastwood)::
The Salton Sea (D.J. Caruso)::
Bully (Larry Clark)::
Foolish Wives (Von Stroheim)::
Television
Six Feet Under::
Freaks and Geeks::
Dennis Potter::
My World and Welcome to it (James Thurber)::
Q::
original Star Trek and Night Gallery::
Rock Star SuperNova::
America's Next Top Model::
Starship Troopers::
Dynamo Duck::Histoirie de Melody Nelson, avec Serge Gainsbourg et Jane Birkin, 1971, sur YouTube:
Books
"The real elements of any work of fiction are the elements of the author's personality: his imagination embodies in the images of characters, situations and scenes the fundamental conflicts of his nature or the cycle of phases it passes through. His personages are personifications of the author's various impulses and emotions: and the relations between them in his stories are really the relations between these. One of the causes of our feeling that certain works are more satisfactory than others is to be found in the superior thoroughness and candour with which the author has represented these relations." Quoted from Axel's Castle by Edmund Wilson::
The Good Soldier - Ford Maddox Ford::
Lanterns and Lances, The Beast in Me and Other Animals - James Thurber::
The Quest For Corvo - A.J.A. Symons::
Au Rebours, La Bas - J.K. Huysmans::
A Voyage to Arcturus, The Violet Apple - David Lindsay::
Little Tales of Misogyny, The Ripley Books - Patricia Highsmith::
Rigadoon - Celine::
One For My Baby - Tony Parsons::
Swinburne: A Critical Biography - Jean Overton Fuller::
Swinburne: The Poet in his World, The Marquis de Sade - Donald Thomas::
Collected Works - Rimbaud::
Bayonets to Lhasa - Peter Fleming::
History of US Naval Ops in WW2 - SE Morison::
Brighton Rock, The Lost Childhood, The Pleasure Dome - Graham Greene::
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov::
The World of Violence, The God of the Labyrinth - Colin Wilson::
The River War, The World Crisis - Winston Churchill::
Aphorisms - G.F. Lichtenberg::Out of the Smoke - Ray Parkin::
Sword of Honour Trilogy- Evelyn Waugh::
Claudius the God - Robert Graves::
Kim - Rudyard Kipling::
The Pearl - Anon::
Sexual Personae - Camille Paglia::
The Anatomy of Melancholy - Robert Burton:: Classical Scholarship
Heroes
"Perhaps the decline of the hero in a large-scale social context is the obscure realisation of the fact that such a hero is merely a substitute for good government, a man who makes up by his good qualities and improvised actions for deficencies in a social order.
I don't feel that the hero becomes heroic in passing from self-analysis to belief. He becomes heroic in using intelligence and love to do good in minutely organised particulars - and doing good, let it be remembered, to people each of whom is unique and has his or her particular need to have love and the fruits of intelligence applied in a specific and unique way. This is the kind of hero I hope some day to be able to portray." Aldous Huxley, letter to Colin Wilson quoted in Wilson's "The Strength to Dream" Harold Foster::Carl Pfieffer::Burton Berkson::Abram Hoffer::Humphrey Osmond:: Linus Pauling:: Tom, the inventor of MySpace::
Edmund Wilson::
Peter Fleming::
Roman Polanski::
Hayley Theyers::
Erich Von Stroheim::
Shirley Temple::
Harry Truman::
Bill Hicks::
James Thurber::
G.F. Lichtenberg::
V.A. Kimura Masatomi::
Winston Churchill::
Camille Paglia::
Algernon Swinburne::
Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo
About me: NEW PUDDLE CD OUT NOW!!!
The Shakespeare Monkey, available from Fishrider Records (see my Top Friends)
The Puddle LIVE at Chick's Hotel, Port Chalmers, Sat. 10th Jan. 2009
George Henderson has been a cult figure flying beneath New Zealand music's radar since he formed The Puddle in 1984 in Dunedin.
Despite releases on Flying Nun and a French label, George Henderson's been less than prolific, and the classic ‘Songs for Emily Valentine’ album from 1993 only saw the light of day this century.
A drug habit and jail time didn't help, but a sideline as vocalist and guitarist in Dunedin band Mink revived him somewhat.
Now Auckland-based, Henderson released an album last year and has two more slated for release in 2008.
Fan Graeme Humphreys (Abel Tasmans, Humphreys & Keen aka legendary broadcaster Graeme Hill) interviews one of New Zealand's sharpest lyricists and musical thinkers.
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This next quote is about G.D.H. not by him: What a great night!
The Puddle looked and sounded the best I have seen in years with George D on exceptional form. Some of the new songs were pretty damn cool too.
Is it true Neil Finn declared George one of the country's best song writers?
(I really dunno about that last; this gig was 6/9/06 ReFuel, as on YouTube below; comments posted by lime pickle on dunedinmusic.com events forum)....:::!:::....
George also plays with Mink (see my friends, below).
::::THE PUDDLE's classic CD "SONGS FOR EMILY VALENTINE" - OUT NOW on POWERTOOLS and also available .. ...:::::.GDH4HOMT4EVA.:::.119076158
"It is the duty of the artist to paint beautiful women and beautiful places. The exclusion of sex appeal from poetry, painting and sculpture is nonsense. On the contrary, all arts are an expression of desire -- exciting desirable life, exulting desirable death. . . ." (cheeky paraphrase of letter from W.B.Yeats to the BBC. Read the whole in context here).:::
A Puddle Discography with MP3s and reviews is at insanitywetrust.com :::::::::::::
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The video below is on YouTube "the puddle what I believe". Video by fr. Ian Henderson of The Dark Beaks.
Who I'd like to meet:
Evelyn Nesbit 1901
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What I Believe (YouTube video)
Since Man Has Known Woman...
Sue Lyon (aka Lolita - she was Donovan's girlfriend hence the soundtrack)
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No Love - No Hate (YouTube video)
I have moved most of The Puddle (Music) videos to The Puddle profile. That, after all, is what it's for. See you there.
Just stopping by to say hello and give you some news. The new album 'Coolgilly and the Freakshow' from Centascope is now available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website. You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon and many more.
Hey George, We're coming up to Dunedin again this Wednesday 17th of June to play at Refuel with our good friends Stonehurst from Christchurch, Made In China from Dunedin and Ellen Wilcox will do a short acoustic set at the start. Its free entry & the booze is cheap! Hope to see you there! Cheers Osmium
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The new album 'Coolgilly and the Freakshow' from Centascope is now available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website.
You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon and many more.
PS- I'm curious to hear more of your work with the Puddle. & Auckland, I must say, has been the most pleasant city I've ever had the luck/incredibly fortunate opportunity to have visited in my life. It was also the saddest city to leave. I hope to return one day.
Evelyn Nesbit 1901
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