Monthly Archives: May 2011

I predict Not The Merkins will release something within the next five minutes. As for The Merkins themselves, fuck it. I’m gonna steal a rough mix and stick that out.

I’m gonna create a band called Not The Merkins.

It’s like following an egg truck over speed bumps in a 50 kph zone overrun by old ladies.

Let me re-phrase that. Now it seems yet another song needs bass on it. I don’t get what’s so important about bass. And what’s so great about The Merkins they need so long to record a few songs? I really hope … Continue reading →

The Merkins recording nearly finished, maybe ready within a week or two. Likewise the tour video. Thank God and Visa for that!

There is, in fact, a chronic lack of honesty in the media (this website included). Which is only natural since honesty is a matter of posture, and the various media themselves, with the possible exception of radio, being two dimensional.

Last night I saw something supremely idiotic on TV. Some guy in Australia had killed his wife, his daughter, his best friend to boot, and then killed himself. Maybe his friend was fucking his wife, who knows? They didn’t live to … Continue reading →

Of course it wasn’t a very big tour. You couldn’t say that a two band, four date tour of small South Island venues over the space of a week was huge. But even this took an age to organise. Anyway, as … Continue reading →

My name is Tim Forest. For sheer procrastination, the people contributing to this site should be shot. Everything takes a million years. The tour video should at least be underway. The Merkins’ recording should be finished. I only just lit the fire. Dinner’s a … Continue reading →