Issue 164

..staggering Lear-like around a deserted caravan park. What legacy will he leave? Missed opportunities, doors closed that might have been opened, darkness where there should have been light. The opportunistic gall, the sacrifice of principle to expediency and the denigration of truth and transparency will rankle less than the utter mediocrity of the man and…

There is no doubt that the Sydney CBD lacks the culinary variety that Melbourne has in spades and alleys. This particular alleged restaurant was located on the third floor at the top of an extremely steep set of stairs, which ended up being my most strenuous exercise for the week. Malcolm is a bit larger…

..late twenties, early thirties, dark complexion and some variation of Asian ethnicity. There’s a cheerful bespectacled Asian chap who also mans the counter and who converses with her in whatever Asian language whom I suspect could be her father, except for his entirely opposite disposition. Everything is too much trouble for this woman. I’ve tried…

S P E C T R U M S P E C T R U M S P E C T R U M M I K E R U D D B I L L P U T T . C O MM M I K E R U D D B I L…

.. Pepper could well have used Bill as their model and I’m sure you can think of many more examples. He was actually once asked if he’d consider playing the role of Derek Smalls in a Spinal Tap musical – or was it a Spinal Tap tribute band? Either way he wasn’t interested – in…

..three dimensional look. For those who didn’t do basic film studies a cel is a sheet of transparent cellulose acetate that it can be laid over other cels or a painted background, then photographed. The cels change subtly with each image so that the images flow almost naturally when projected at twenty-four frames per second….