..version, which is to music what the hydrogen bomb is to a fart. I can understand completely that to discover me sitting on a stool in the corner of a café with a guitar playing a bunch of never before heard songs can be a confronting or even annoying experience if not seen and heard…
..when the relatively youthful and decidedly hip Sommelier appeared and, with gay abandon, she led the decision to place the nights drinking menu in his capable hands. And why not? It is not called a wine room for nothing. He knew the list intimately, having selected them personally, and given the criteria of an approximate…
..be registered, I imagine it’s not as easy to get away with it these days. Musicians are big on moonlighting. Well, with musos it’s not so much moonlighting as multi-tasking. I sometimes wonder what that does to the more sensitive audience members. I remember feeling quite disturbed when Ringo had to take some time off…
..sign of Proust or a bottle of Pinot Noir, not a barbecued artichoke heart to be seen, just accents that could break glass at a hundred metres. I felt surrounded by stereotypes from the Bulletin and Billy Butlin holiday camps. But, with the exception of the on-going lack of Proust and the super strength strine…
..month stint bashing out covers in three states non-stop. Actually, it seems we couldn’t resist adding a few new songs of our own to the list of covers, written by myself and by former Ariel keyboardist Tony Slavich, because at some point we must’ve gone into a studio and recorded a bunch of them to…
.. deliver words of wisdom, affection and good humour. I don’t know the BM but the MoH, Una, will be sure to be formidably entertaining as she is, like Elizabeth, a lawyer. Elizabeth specialises in contract law, which may mean that the marriage Act will need to be rewritten, but Una usually appears for the…
.. environment. I suppose that means they’ve dated. Beatles’ songs not only define an era, (‘60s and early ‘70s), but they are in turn defined by that era, as well as by their geographical and cultural location. As a schoolboy I can remember practising Beatles’ songs at Compton Tothill’s place and Compton’s father querying why…
Anyway, the moment I shed a tear in Ricki and the Flash happened to be a line from Rick Springfield’s character (Greg) when he was putting the word on Meryl Streep’s character, (Ricki aka Linda) which, coincidentally is one of the lines featured in the trailer (that I fortunately didn’t see beforehand) so it must…
.. past the aged beef of the veldt. Whilst I follow in descending order of hope the All Blacks and the Wallabies at the end of the day I would rather see a good game and my team beaten than otherwise. So I don’t really think that New Zealand deserved to win the final of…
..he was as funny as another stand-up comedian he despised. I can see how that might be considered as fundamentally shallow, but if Seinfeld the stand-up comedian is actually Seinfeld the man’s complementary personality, you can see how it can become a very personal issue. Then there’s the (locally) celebrated example of The Vines’ singer,…
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..on FaceBook and Twitter and the room sold out in hours apparently. While we awaited for the appearance on stage of the gentle professor the screens were promoting the advantages of taking up a course at the various arms of Deakin University. The VC gave a short introductory speech – and then the old man…
..more people that need to be fed and watered. This is not surprising. It might, however, fill one with a general sense of foreboding for the health of the planet After a while this becomes background noise, ever present unpleasant facts that become a steady drone of something which we sensibly decide we can’t do…
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..is the issue. For example, I’m certain the food ‘experts’ would decry the quality of food we ate back in the ‘50s and ‘60s. (If we’d seen a sign saying ‘fat free’ back then, we would have assumed it was free fat being advertised). It’s simply that in those days we didn’t eat nearly the…
..shared it is apparent from the other descriptions that we were really in different places at what may well have been different times. Occasionally I find that people have appropriated my life and memories as their own which seems to cruelly deny my existence. If someone else was leading my life what was I doing…
..linguistic refuge for the poor sermoniser. He, (it was always ‘he’ in those days), might start off with a quotation from the Bible, but then he was on his own, unless he was guilty of plagiarising from the book of 500 Great Sermons – (Guaranteed to Rock your Congregation in the Bosom of Abraham), which,…
..bought. More than that, if I don’t like them, I don’t have to finish them. The ultimate luxury. I have been a prolific reader and buyer of books. I buy books for myself and books for my friends with the intent, apart from giving my friends pleasure, of borrowing them sooner rather than later. It…