Issue 130

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. ..It’s bad enough having stuff thrust upon me, but when I actively seek to bring more of it into the house, I begin to wonder at my sanity. Afterall, I’ve already got a whole lot more stuff than I can handle and only a tiny house – something’s gotta go!…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. ..but it couldn’t make up for the subsequent psychological scarring – it was an utterly humiliating night. To give you an example: there was a farcical minute or two when this guy tried to engage me in a meaningful conversation, blissfully unaware that I was actually playing at the time!…

..subject to the fashions of the day and it’s only the occasional performer who manages to transcend fashion. Dutch’s pithy advice to Geoff Achison to ‘play what you know’ is all you really need to know, but Dutch’s bigger-than-life personality surely played a part in his becoming the quintessential expression of Aussie blues. It’s a…

Let me say that it can rain in New Zealand. But, by prior arrangement with Elizabeth, not where we were. Whilst we were in Auckland in rained in the South Island – one place had Melbourne’s average annual rainfall in one day – and when were in the South Island it rained in Auckland. However…

Half out of the corner of my mind I heard emerge from the noise matrix of a video installation the phrase ’So many people living without me’. Was it a girl’s voice? I paid little attention and continued my way through the art gallery – being oddly impressed by the soft pendulous glooping of the…

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