Author: Mike Rudd

Shucks – thanks Mark! What do you really think?

I’ll Be Gone in another movie 30.9.05 – I was perusing the Age in the Starpark Café yesterday morning, as is my wont, when I nearly choked on my jasmine tea. I was reading Adrian Martin’s review of a recent local release, The Magician, when I came across this mention (left) of The Song in…

Is nothing sacred? 3.8.05 – Walking past the dog shampoo joint (sigh!) this morning I caught sight of something odd about one of the cute doggies painted on the wall. After scrawling his challenge to all graffiti comers, the local graffiti-ist had taken an extra couple of seconds of his precious time to deface the…

Hale the king! 29.8.05 – Some of you may be aware of my trying to catch Gerry Hale (pic) and band at the Terminus Hotel, (A Separate Reality), so will be relieved I’ve been at least partially successful this time around. Well, I got the night right, anyway. However, I did manage to get there…

It’s OK – I’m still here! 2.8.05 – I dunno. You start these things and then people have expectations. I’m back, but my errant bits and pieces haven’t spontaneously sorted themselves out, which is disappointing, and I’ve been scrabbling to sort them out in a hands-on, analogue kind of way. The Good News is that…

Alkira’s dyslexic songbook The week that wasn’t.. 31.7.06 – For some reason I thought it was August already when I awoke this morning. Maybe it was because I felt like a horse’s arse, August 1st being every horse’s birthday and all, but in any event, when I got to the bank I found out that…

Bill poses with most of the crowd – Bill is most of the crowd.. Well.. 25.7.05 – It pays to have a sense of humour in this so-called business. Yesterday, (Sunday), was Mike & Bill’s inaugural performance at Wellers of Kangaroo Ground. I arrived really early, which was my first mistake. Then I discovered one…

1) Me at the Starpark Café putting a brave face on my coffee ration 2) the Oliv macchiato 3) Oliv at 328 Auburn Rd Coffee – the never-ending search for the perfect cup 2.7.05 – Ironically, I’ve had to cut down on my coffee consumption lately. While I’m generally of a delicate disposition anyway, I…

Things that are getting up my nose 25.7.07 – I can single out three issues that are providing that non-existent cosmic entity with an abundance of mirth at my expense. And, speaking of expense, having an illness sorted out and treated isn’t cheap. But let me update you with the latest info in my sphere…

A nice old building in Adelaide SA reflections 26.6.06 – Somebody told me recently there are no weatherboard houses in Adelaide, which I found hard to believe, so last time we were over I looked. I did see some outside the metropolitan area, but none in Adelaide itself, so I might have to concede that…

Pete and Marg Bird – what’s up wiv yer thyroid then? My health – the continuing saga 27.6.07 – There’s always something there to remind me.. So sang Sandie Shaw in 1964 – it was a big hit for her. And it’s true. When we arrived at San Remo on Sunday, I went into the…

Bill Dettmer cancels gig 27.6.05 – I was having a bit of a lie down last evening when, inevitably I guess, the phone rang. It was Bill Dettmer, and he informed me that his Little Willy and the Hopeless Romantics’ concert, slotted for this coming Saturday, is off. It seems the enormous public liability insurance…

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