What Mike did betweeen gigs 1) What Chris and I saw of Moomba 2) Dick thinks over lunch 3) Bill Dettmer and his ambulance 4) That’s Dick on the left and Bill on the right.. I think.. 5) Cinematographer Mary Rudd and my co-star Jill Wayne 6) Colin Rochford on air at 96.5 Or, what…
1) So far, so good.. 2) Queasy Mike in the foyer recovering – I’ll try again today, maybe.. The Magician 1.10.05 – To tell you the truth, I’d forgotten all about my aversion to hand-held camera work. It was about fifteen minutes into the movie that the first wave of nausea hit me, and I…
1) Stephen Cummings and band start the evening’s proceedings (see a bigger pic) 2) The ornate facade of the Spiegeltent 3) The very civilised bar, replete with mirrors, a theme echoed throughout Stephen Cummings at the Spiegeltent 1.12.05 – One delightful aspect of spending a longish time on this earth is that you get to…
Check out a larger view My Camberwell 30.5.07 – It seems aeons ago that I did a gratuitous and rather notorious photographic survey of public toilets in my precinct of Camberwell. (Is precinct right? It sounds so American. Or even Japanese). With my pretty high quality phone camera in hand I feel that it’s incumbent…
Peter Greagg masks his hunger The Greaggs pay a visit 28.2.07 – It’s not often the Greaggs are in town, so it would be nice if I got the message straight when they do venture this far south. In the event we went out for coffees in Camberwell, when what the poor darlings really needed…
Miss Molly invites everybody to hush while she demonstrates the spoon miracle Miss Molly’s exclusive healing session 9.1.06 – I was excited – even more excited than I’d been when Billy Graham’s Crusade came to Christchurch back in the early ’60s. (Or was that the late ’50s?) Anyway, the internationally renowned child spiritualist Miss Molly…
Space 28 – I shouted ‘foyer!’ but everyone one ignored me and resumed counting one other’s piercings.. The play’s the thing.. 14.11.05 – Last week from Tuesday till Friday I was suffering from (another) bout of gastro. I’m plainly doing something unhygienic, and my suspicions are focused on the fridge, which I haven’t had to…
..column over the years and regular readers will know it’s a love/hate thing anyway. Regulars will also know that the year drawing to a close always bothers me as my naturally sunny disposition is occluded by the clouds of general dissatisfaction with the state of Christmases past, present and future. (And I’m not a fucking…
..are carried away by the northerly wind that bends the trees; the sand is now too hot to walk on in bare feet unless one adopts the hot-foot walk of a Namibian lizard; canvas is cracking in the wind and the horizon has upside down mirages of the container ships queuing to pass through the…