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o d s V x e d W m m ruE a r m y o f t h e r a r e * Richard Beckett beats up the week’s news

And now for TILL GRABBING THE HEAD­ SLINES: Prime minister Gough : Whitlam admitted at his weekly press something • conference that chocolate eclairs were j not provided for cabinet meetings. In j answer to a particularly stupid ques- : tion and in an equally stupid answer, completely i Mr Whitlam said: “ I have my problems I; and I dont want to admit any more :■ weaknesses than I have to. However, different ■: you have mentioned to cabinet, and •: while its proceedings are secret, I can WE HAVE been running just to stand still assure you that chocolate eclairs are in recent weeks, at last the whole enter­ I not provided under this government.” prise is now beginning to seem almost not < At this week’s press conference we are impossible. Copy flows fulsomely, pro­ I; going to abandon the usual “ state of duction neuroses have diminished and an S the nation" approach and instead con- atmosphere of reader interaction insinu­ ates itself . . . So what’s inside this week? i centrate on lamingtons, pavlovas, Vic- As we go to press, all communications •: toria sponges, and that most famed of with Greece have ceased, with the tele­ • all Australian dishes — chocolate phones cut and the army tightening its • crackles. grip. It seems like Mr William Humphreys flew out just in time — his diary of what he saw in Athens appears on the back page. ot that it matters, we John Grissim, who is to be one o f our N ARE SLIDING TOWARDS THE irregular US correspondents, conducts an : YELLOW PERIL: Professor Peter absorbing interview with Timothy Leary j Angus-Lappin, head of the Depart- in Folsom prison (p. 5). Yet again, we : ment of Survey at the University of have to revise opinions of this enigmatic : New South Wales, has stated that in a sorcerer. In the context of Watergate, the : mere few million years time Australia US government’s kidnap of Leary in txctguru. First we had Albie istration) and has taken time out to | and every one of us, cried Tiny Tim. fly on a given day.” Although Mr Thoms’ Thumbs down (TLD 5 ), then poison a dog o f one o f the witnesses to last week an inundation of defensive Jones’s personal morality over the the inquiry. letters from the Divine Light Mission, whole affair, in that it is related to air safety, is most commendable, one plus an interview with Rennie Davis at hey do sm ell different: Houston. Foolishly we misprinted that regrets that the word “ lock out” has Mrs Betsie Verwoerd, widow of only 500 premies turned up, hence our to be used in connection with a semi N THE BRIGHT SIDE: British •:j: the late great prime minister of South surprise at non coverage. Actually it was socialist government. The ghost of parliament will consider a new Africa,T Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, claimed O 50,000. George Orwell is with us still. bill o f childrens rights next year fol­ Anyway, some weeks ago we asked as the country’s architect o f apartheid, lowing recent revelations o f bat­ Mike O’Rourke to check out the Divine •:§: writing in the Taalgenoot, the official * * * tered tiny tots. The bill has been Light organisation as a way to get him journal o f the Afrikaans Language and UT IF THEY’RE BLACK THEY hastened on its way by the revelations out o f the office. This plump troubadour Culture Association, said it would be MUST BE CANNIBALS: Chief that between 600 and 700 children are approached it like a real investigative B far better for the country’s whites if minister o f Papua New Guinea, beaten to death by their parents each journalist, except that he went not in :•$: they couldnt have black servants. search of the facts, but the Knowledge Michael Somare, in a rough and ready year and a further 300 suffer perma­ Homing in on working white mothers (see page 9). attack on most Australian newspapers, nent brain damage. Our Christmas issue (december 18) will who hopefully left their white off- said he was sick and tired of his be devoted to anarchy. The word stems spring in charge of black nannies, she constituents being represented as a from the Greek anarchos, meaning with­ ::•> said: “ Even a characteristic smell, mob o f feathered and decorated eaters out a ruler. Despite its horrendous image, which is normally repulsive to a white o f human flesh. Perhaps if Mr Somare LIDING VERY SLOWLY BACK it’s mankind’s purest political expression person, will become associated in the wanted to encourage enlightenment in TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: of generosity, good will and optimism. If S child’s mind with the person with the outside world, he should invite Greece’s armed forces have risen once you have anything to say on the subject :•£ whom it spends most o f the time. Can travel agencies to cease publication of again and overthrown the government of anarchy, and Australia today, in the this later repel him when he is grown o f Papadopoulos. The new leaders are arts, society or imagination, contributions his country by means o f a series of up?” With this sort o f diatribe in mind close for that issue monday, december picturesque blacks posed in primitive said to be a little less addicted' to 10. Si one can only assume that the good old attitudes. He should also stop the electrical novelties than the members Until next week. S: Betsie uses a vaginal deodorant spray. holding o f the highland shows which of the former regime. EDS

The Living Daylights is published every Tuesday by Incorporated Newsagencies Company Pty Ltd at 113 Rosslyn Street, West Melbourne, Victoria. You can write Jockeys get taken for to us C/- PO Box 5312 BB, GPO Melbourne, Victoria 3001. Telephone (03) 329.0700, Telex AA32403. EDIT­ O RIAL: Terence Maher, Michael Morris, Richard Neville, Laurel Olszewski. PERFECT MASTER: Barry Watts. BUSINESS: Robin Howells. ADVERTISING: MEL­ BO U RNE : Robert Burns (03) 329.0700; S Y D N E Y : Stan Locke (02) 212.3104. DISTRIBUTION: VICTORIA: David Syme & Co. Ltd. Telephone 60.0421; NSW Allan Rodney Wright. Telephone 357.2588; A.C.T.: Canberra City Newsagency. Telephone 48.6914; Q’LAND: Gordon & Gotch. Telephone 31.2681: STH. AUST.: Brian Fuller. Telephone 45.9812; TASMANIA: South Hobart News­ agency. Telephone 23.6684. a ride on page 4 Page 2 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, november 27-december 3, 1973 Pic by Syd Shelton

common Brooklyn type hood,” in tion first. There was a delay of GRANT EVANS the words o f Actors Equity organ­ two weeks and during that time iser Colin Voight. Not the stuff Voight had to go o ff to Brisbane. big crims are made of. Annoyed by the delay, the Voight was seriously bashed strippers went to the Current af­ and injured by bouncers recently fair program to tell o f their work­ when he went to the Pink Panther ing conditions. As a result four of to investigate working conditions them got the sack. N THE dispute o f strippers there. Such standover There was a feeling that the that has blown up tactics are used against entertain­ union had sold them out and the around the two ers working in the Kings Cross internal solidarity of the group Kings Cross strip area, and as the entertainers are began to look fragile. They were clubs, the Pink also very worried about violence. generally unorganised these tactics Panther and the A t first the union was unsympa­ pay off. S taccato, there thetic to this and felt that the remains one mys­ Following the assault on strippers were being a little hys­ Voight, however, these tactics tery - at least pub­ terical. have backfired and prompted licly. By the time Voight got back People are ask­ wide public concern. The NSW another nine strippers had been ing who’s the big State Labor Council placed a sacked. The strippers had picketed black ban on the two clubs and wheeler and dealer the clubs and a boyfriend of one John Ducker, acting secretary of behind it all, who is of the pickets had been bashed. the council, said all supplies and “ Mr Sin” ? While The picket began because Far- services to the clubs would be rudia was using non-union stripp­ nobody’ s really stopped until their management prepared to say, ers from Adelaide. It has been accepted certain industrial stand­ suggested that these “ scab” strip­ fingers are starting ards for employees. The ban will pers came from clubs owned by to point in the cut o ff all services and goods Saffron. direction of including water, electricity, mail, The working conditions in the big wheel food, drinks and cigarettes. clubs are bad. Dressing room and around When he was bashed, Voight safety facilities are almost non­ the Cross, was assisting a strike by 16 strip- existent. The strippers have to do 'A b e Saffron. pers at the clubs who are seeking at least six spots a night, moving TheTh front higher wages and better condi­ back and forth between the clubs. n at one o f tions. They get $2.30 per spot and are the clubs is a ■ One of the strippers, Janine on call from 6.30 pm to 4 am. guy called Gair, who has been a member of Working six nights a week the Farrugia. “ A Actors Equity for some years, most the strippers can earn is discovered a little while back that about $108 per week. The Stac­ the union had decided to accept cato and the Pink Panther pay the strippers. She encouraged the lowest rates in the Cross. £ other strippers to join the union. But now that the union move­ The strippers ment has swung in behind the strippers they stand a good chance 1 f l wanted 1 % ■ ■ to act on o f winning back their jobs, and 1 1 % I I improving with better working conditions. 1 1 \ 1 I their working Janine Gair was delighted by the union movement’s support. | W J k conditions She said that “ it will force the mnmm — immediately club’s management to realise that but the trade unions are not to be laughed union a t The management needs to be wanted taught a lesson. In the past any­ to gather body has been allowed into the more informa­ Staccato and the Pink Panther.” She said she believed that the strippers would get their jobs back. And she added: “ We hope for a management change.” A strong feeling o f warmth and friendliness has grown amongst the strippers during the struggle, and possibly one of the most important effects o f their militant action is that it shattered the crude image of them as sex ob­ jects. Their fight against standover tactics for better conditions should benefit all entertainers in the Cross. What remains to be done is the cleaning out o f the big crims who pull all the strings. * * * Friday night the strippers led a march into the Cross and fronted the clubs where, outside the Pink Panther, a shoving duel took place between the demonstrators and the heavies. Enter the lumpy shape of the ever popular Far­ rugia: after shoving a demonstra­ tor from the steps of his club he elbowed his way through the crowd and headed o ff to more tranquil sanctums. The march moved on to nearby El Alamein park where Jack Clancy, NSW secretary of the Builders Workers Industrial Union took the mike and told the meeting that he would ask the ACTU to support black bans on the clubs. However, to prove that sexism is not the sole prerogative o f strip club owners, one member of the BWIU said: “ . . . even though the people who are strik­ ing are girls, they have been courageous, even more courageous than many men in such strikes.”□ THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, november 27-december 3, 1973 — Page 3 Riders on the storm MICHAEL MORRIS larly from the 1600 metres start. more hazardous; the horse has to In Victoria the rate for jockeys depend largely on a lot o f skill, a The false rail is used by race club be practically cranked around the is $12 a ride, whether it be a hick lot of guts, a lot of work, and a N SATURDAY in Sydney officials to protect certain sec­ bend. When the AJC held a meet­ race at Wangaratta or the Mel­ lot of luck. no small men in silk tunics O tions of the track and what it does ing on Saturday to discuss the rail bourne cup. Peter said: “ In Ire­ Around the stables at Fleming- were admitted to hospital; the in effect is increase the acuteness business and the hoops claim for land, where the standard o f living ton, Canterbury and Caulfield the meeting scheduled to be held at o f the turn. more money, the jockeys werent is lower, jockeys get the equiva­ failed hoops spend their lives at Warwick Farm was cancelled Thoroughbred race horses are invited - a typical situation. lent o f $20 race.” the end of a shovel, cleaning the When the jockeys went out on He went on to tell me how he shit from the stalls. Many are stupid animals at the best of The jockeys are demanding a strike. has to travel all over the state, all there because they werent good times. Generations o f inbreeding five dollar increase in riding fees Hundreds o f thousands of week, riding everything he can enough, because they werent washes any semblance o f intel­ from $13 a race to $18 and an punters spent a gloomy weekend throw a leg over. Next week he tough enough, because of perma­ ligence from the beasts — they get increase from five percent o f prize carrying around unrequited coin­ goes to a two day meeting at nent injuries from riding, because themselves stuck in stalls at the money to ten percent. The AJC in age — bread laid aside each week turn say they are doing better Warrnambool, then back to the they grew up unexpectedly and to feed into TAB agencies. Punt­ start o f races, get horny mid race, than jockeys in other states. city to ride at Sandown, then o ff are now too big to ride under the ers can understand when meetings shie at phantoms, pig root, buck, I telephoned Billy Burnett, to central Victoria to ride at weight scale, or because they took are called o ff when the tracks are run wide at turns, turn savage, president of the NSW Jockeys Tatura, then back to Melbourne some “ advice” from one of the washed out — that’s an ACT OF bite and kick. It’s mad to put Association, on Sunday and was to ride on the Saturday. He must many hoods and touts around the GOD. But when the day’s gambl­ money on them, even more hair­ told by his bodyguard (death pay all his own expenses. track, got caught on the steward’s ing is fucked up by some per­ brained to ride the bastards. threats were made upon Burnett Jocks ride track work six days film and were rubbed out. Be­ nickety little jockey, that's too With 22 horses thundering flat over the weekend) that no further a week, clambering out of bed sides, the job market doesnt have much! as a strap, clustered thicker than statements were forthcoming, but when dawn cracks to get to the that many opportunities to little For some time now a con­ flies around a fresh turd, coming a meeting between association and track for four hours riding to the men who know only how to throw frontation has existed between to a turn which Jackie Stewart the AJC would take place this stop watch. They dont get paid a leg over the saddle. the NSW jocks and the turf god­ wouldnt take in higher than first week. for this work; they do it as a So, things are desperate in the head, the Australian Jockeys (!) gear, the chances of a pile up are I then spoke with Victorian “ favor” to the stables, the trainers jockeys room. If they dont ride pretty good. All's needed is one Club, an archaic gaggle of crusty jockey Peter Bakos, president of and the owners - people whose winners they dont get the money, colonial throwbacks. horse to clip the heels of the one the Victorian Jockeys Association patronage is essential to their sur­ and if they dont get the money Things began last week when in front and . . . kerblam! Tear up and what he told me considerably vival. they dont get the horses. They the hoops refused to ride in a field tickets and call the ambulance, altered my previous views on jock­ The hoops rely heavily on the head for the country where com­ of 22 starters while the “ false Sam. eys. whims of trainers and owners and petition is less fierce, where the rail” was being used. They claim­ When the false rail is used for There are 205 registered jocks often find themselves riding 100 prizemoney makes their five per­ ed it was too dangerous, particu­ the 1600 at Randwick it is even in Victoria. Of these only 15 are to one hayburners on the chance cent even more ludicrous. But it’s able to earn enough from riding to that in a later race they may have something. .. support themselves; the rest have the honor o f wearing the owners So, the hoops ride like dement­ to rely on other work to get by. colors on better horses. ed sons of the devil, but few find One drives a bus and when he After a brief and broken term themselves in the winner’s circle. came a cropper in a race his wife at school, jockeys begin their They put more into the race game had to take the wheel while he “ career” at the age of 14-16 and than any of the. racing clubs, was on the mend. Although they commence a miserable six year owners, breeders, trainers, the are able to claim workers com­ apprenticeship, to learn their government, bookmakers and para­ pensation they only get the flat trade and the meaning of the sites who rake o ff the cream. rate, no more. They get no sick word “ subservience” . Very few They are (apart from the small pay, no holiday pay and no super­ make the bigtime; the chances of punters, I guess) the most malign­ annuation. getting the good horses seems to ed sector of the “ racing industry” .

On november 13 the chairman of the Australian College of Health Surveyors, B. Hicks, said that cartoned milk was making people sick without them suspecting the source. In the Victorian legislative assembly on november 14 Alan Scanlan, minister for health, side-stepped the issue by saying that it was subjudice as a writ had been taken out against Hicks. Hicks has received no writ and searches at the supreme court do not disclose one. Incidentally, the speaker of the legislative assembly, Kenneth Henry Wheeler, is a former general manager of Croftbank Dairies.

Whilst the police inquiry into the “ signed blank search warrants” proceeds slowly, Ed Flannery of the Victorian Council of Civil Liberties has charged Sergeant Michael Bell of the drug squad and Arthur L. Smith, justice of the peace, with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. The case is listed for Carlton Court on december 4. * * * Queensland member of parliament Colin Hinze (Country party) called for the reintroduction of the death penalty, stating that he preferred the firing squad as, “ hanging and electric chairs are just exhibitionism” . He continued with his ideas on sexual offenders by saying that, “ the only problem with castration is that they can still get an erection, so we should cut the bloody thing off” . It is rumored that ex-nazi war criminals and mass murderers feel that he would have been dismissed from the Gestapo for cruelty, but Richard Nixon may invite him to be his next attorney-general. * * * Last wednesdav a small demonstration greeted US ambassador Marshall Green when he arrived to speak to the Melbourne press club at the Hotel Australia. In a book to be published shortly, a chapter is devoted to outlining Green’s insidious complicity in coups ranging from Korea, Indonesia, Cambodia, to Vietnam. The book, which is being compiled by Mike Richards and Ron Whitton will be titled The Australian connection * * * On november 21 an appeal to the county court by Paul Osmond against five months iail for assaulting police at an anti-nazi demonstration was successful. Osmond’s father is the Canadian consul general, K. S. Osmond o f Toorak. The deputy headmaster of Geelong grammar school, Donald McLeod Miles, told the court that Osmond was “ a young man of high principles, integrity, and sound character” . In placing him on 14 months probation, judge Rapke said, “ I dont think a fellow with this background needs jail” .

The Melbourne Herald, having prophesised doom for private enterprise under the Labor government, announced a record profit of $12.3 million.

THE F O X

Page 4 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, november 27-december 3, 1973 Gan you hear me? asks Leary, not weary, who has taken 500 tri FIRST, what I ’d like to know is . . . who gonna happen and beware, dont let it is Timothy Leary ,.. who is he as a happen, and I was considered pretty person? radical; for example — saying that mari­ I ’m a philosopher. I’m a psychologist, juana should not be criminalised, LSD who has been studying the nervous sys­ should be turned over to the government, tem for the past 30 years. I ’ve written ten better than ever to be treated like fissionable material, like books and hundreds of articles. I prob­ atomics. ably know as much or more about how In the subsequent years most o f my I prophesies have come true and many very the nervous system works - the far behind bars galactic outposts of awareness and the conservative organs like the American range of human experiences — than any JOHN GRISS1M talks to Timothy Leary Medical Association, American Psychi­ scientist around. in Folsom prison, California. atric Association, the American Bar As­ You also happen to he a person in sociation, even William Buckley, the con­ prison. servative writer and television star, Well, yes, I ’m in prison, and that may they’re all coming around to positions seem odd . . . a philosopher in prison. But that I was considered radical in espousing I have to say this about my profession. in the 1960s. The best philosophers often end up in I believe you said ten years ago that prison. If you’re a good baseball player, you wanted to change the spiritual level you often end up in the major leagues. If o f the Unitedi States. Did you consider you’re a really successful politician, you yourself a drug messiah in a sense? You end up in Washington, I ’m sorry to say. If started your own church. you’re really a good philosopher, if Well, if you hadnt asked me about you’re coming out with new ideas about drugs today, I wouldnt have brought it the seven great destiny questions that are up. I talk about the nervous system, I talk about how we can use our Knowledge gonna rattle the walls o f the social institu­ to make this country a better place. I talk tion .. . Most of the men that I model about how to reduce crime and that sort myself after have been lucky if they got of thing. I want to point out that you’re away with just being in prison for their the one who’s asking questions about ideas. drugs. Now, I know I have to answer ques­ As far as the general public's concern­ tions about drugs because I ’ve been label­ ed you’re probably best known for your led, as they say in prison, “ it's on my views on drugs. When did you really get jacket” . But, I’ve no more to do with started working with drugs? drugs than Einstein has to do with the Uh, starting in 1960 at Harvard uni­ versity . . . atomic bomb. Wtiat role? How? Now, now . . . Well, for many years before that as a A ll the way through . .. psychologist and once studying the nerv­ TIMOTHY LE A R Y was sent to Folsom prison to You never did ten years ago? ous system and knowing that the nervous suffer the official wrath of a fearful citizenry, but Well, when I was lecturing, if you read system is the key to all human knowl­ instead o f languishing in despair has risen to a level my books, less than ten percent o f any edge, I had been looking for instruments book I’ve ever written, or ten or fifteen to see how the mind and nervous system o f immense vitality and productivity. percent o f any lecture I’ve ever given, is works. And in the 1960s, as we all know He follows a rigorous routine o f exercise and on drugs, and usually the drug question very well, drugs came along as modes of physical yoga, counsels prisoners, writes several came up in the question and answer expanding consciousness, just like tele­ hours daily, devours information from every media periods afterwards. scopes and microscopes. If you are gonna Now when Albert Einstein got to the study the nervous system drugs are one of input available, and carries on a voluminous corres­ particular heaven at Folsom prison, hell or the major tools. pondence. He’s doing exactly what a lot o f wherever his destiny led him, and he You were looking at it from a research cretinous bureaucrats, Chicken Little rightwingers, began talking about the equations of vieW; did you ever go away from that politicians and power addicts dont want him to do space-time and the relativity theory, I view, or every time you worked with know that there’s a reporter or a tele­ drugs were you looking at it from re­ — he’s broadcasting again. vision man saying: “ Yeah, Albert, but search? If only because of his vitality and optimism I what about the atomic bomb?” And Well, the philosopher is looking not think Tim is on to something. I ’m not sure what it he’ll say, “ Yeah, it’s true that it’s those just at the narrow research aspects, but is but it seems a lot o f people in various ways are crazy mixed up kids who got ahold o f the for the implications; the great questions quietly reaching out for it. Just as important, I atomic bomb on the base o f my theories like — Where «to-,we come from? Where and blew up Nagasaki and Hiroshima . . , ” are we going? We are on this planet, this feel, is that a lot o f what Tim is saying makes So I have to take the responsibility for spaceship Earth. How are we gonna get sense. drugs as being one part o f the philosophy along with each other? How can we use I dont know what role history will eventually that I ’ve been teaching and studying and our heads? So I’ve always been interested confer on him, but I ’ve got a feeling that many working on. in finding ways of using our nervous Did you not advocate LSD? . . . the system as an instrument to answer the generations hence people will remember a trio o f use of it? basic questions of life. I think any scient­ unorthodox seekers at Harvard in 1960 — Leary, No, I never advocated drugs. I defend­ ist who really gets to the frontier of his Richard Alpert and Ralph Metzner — and describe ed drugs, different drugs, against unscien­ science gets to these basic questions, gets them as occidental advance men fo r a new age tific charges. But as soon as you start kind o f mystical, gets philosophic. It’s saying marijuana is not a killer drug, inevitable and I’ve accepted that responsi­ which saw a giant stride forward in human con­ whqo, you become an advocate . . . bility. I think we need at this time a new sciousness. I mention this trilogy o f visionary Ten years ago you were giving advice. philosophy. madmen because I ’ve long viewed Tim as being What kind of advice do you give young Are you ahead o f your time? Is that part o f a kind o f alchemical process begun when people today? why you havent been accepted totally Well, you know I ’ve been o ff the air yet? those three first turned on. for three and a half years and I havent Yes, I’m in a kind o f a time warp. I’m They became new faces in the old Tarot. Ralph given any advice. I’ve been letting other definitely ahead o f it and it’s a question Metzner, the Gentle Scholar, went on to spread the people take over to see how good the whether I may be o ff in the right direc­ good word with his pen (viz.. Maps o f conscious- advice is they could pass on. My main tion. Perhaps the great centre movement advice to everyone is to . . . we got to of society and science won’t follow me. ness); Richard Alpert, the Cosmic Before and After learn how to use our heads. These are the risks that the far-out Man, metamorphosed wonderfully before us and We got to realise that the nervous scientist takes. But I have the certain, became Baba Ram Dass; and Timothy Leary, the system can be used as an instrument to empirical, experimental proof that I’m Divine Fool, put on his glad rags and danced down help us understand why we’re here and not entirely wrong, because most every­ where we’re going. I think we’ve got to thing that I’ve said in 1962-63, my the media midway to proclaim you can be any­ change. In 1976, America is going to be testimony before senate committees thing you want this time around. 200 years old. We’re proposing that we about how we could avoid a drug prob­ organise a political party, but not a party lem in this country; in those days I was - JOHN GRISSIM almost alone as a voice saying this is THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, november 27-december 3, 1973 — Page 5 e r r a c e houses, as we significant terrace house renova­ walls out, turning the flats into flats, well how can they be lonely know, are all the rage, as tions have been carried out by the silos. with so many other people above they used to say in the 20s,Housing Commission, who knock But the Housing Commission and below and around them. It accordingT to Robert Graves, any­ down not only the inside walls, should really be doing somethinq would possibly give a secure way. Well he didnt say terrace but also the outside walls (this constructive, perhaps providing feeling. houses were, although they might leaves in fact a sum total o f no [0 ] targets in the concrete garden for And it’s not too bad up there, have been, he said all the rage was. walls, or a general wall deficiency) suicidees on the top floor. No, about 20 storeys. Oh sure it gets a In fact terrace houses probably causing the roof to fall in. Then something more constructive, to little chilly out on the stairwells, High were, although not renovated ones the commission pours concrete 30 show they care for people. Per­ and what with the corridors open because they would have been storeys high, hollows out the haps they could install lifts, or to the air. But they provide a new then. You can tell a reno­ middle and throws people down pipe the barks o f afghans and good view, and sometimes if you rise vated one easily because it has no it, and these are called flats, poodles through a PA or show stand there long enough, a breeze walls inside, it’s painted blue out­ because they rise high. slides o f gardens, perhaps hang will flit along the concrete pas­ side, and it costs more. They differ from real renova­ photographs (black and white) of sage. free There are usually afghan ted houses in several ways: (a) flowers in the stairwells. And on cold nights if you look hounds in renovated terrace hous­ they are not blue; (b) there are no Hand out pictures of the Opera out and down, you can see where, es, and they (the dogs) are big and afghans because animals arent House, because the Opera House not far away, the real terrace yellow and dont say much. Not allowed; (c) there are more is for the people, you know. houses, the renovated ones, with fall only because dogs can’t talk but suicides; (d) the people in them Still, there’s probably a lot of trees in the backyards, and dog because if they were to, afghans are poorer, sadder and ruled by a fuss over something little, as they kennels, and maybe a little gar­ couldnt because they are dumb. fascist landlord; (e) etc. say, because what with television den, well there’s smoke coming You also get poodles which are However, the Victorian Housing and drugs, now children dont out of the chimney. Well, up in the neurotic and even afgoodles or Commission is trying to overcome really need gardens and lawns flats you put on another coat and poogans which are dumb and its bad image ( “ lets not say the these days, and at least they dont know you’re just as warm, and neurotic, as well as being uneasy image is bad, lets just say the image get bee-stings inside the house, watch the telly, because you get on the eye. But they seem to get could be better” ) and has employ­ and they can probably fit in a bit the same channels, well basically O p e n in g on well with the owners, possibly ed the services of the architect of reading, and maybe have a very you’re living the same life, and the because they have something in who has renovated half o f Carlton, good chance to educate them­ universe must have some integrity, fa r e w e l f y common, which is not to say the to work on the high-rise flats. selves, even further than the very as the lit tie fella might have said owners are dogs, not by any Therefore they may well be good education program supplied as he checked the time from the COLIN TALBOT means.. . colored blue, instead of concrete by the state. set o f watches running up his arm. To press on, perhaps the most grey, and he may bash the inside And as for the other folk in the □

/Leary continued . . . I’ve probably pushed my nervous system of one against the another . . . a birthday advantage o f this opportunity to study laid it all out, warned them against it, and as much as any human being living. I ’ve party. We’d like to see the United States society, from this very interesting vantage we created a new class of criminals. You taken LSD over 500 times, I have experi­ move into its third century with the point. I’m talking to prisoners, I’m listen­ know, in 1969, before Nixon took over, enced a wide range of these bio-chemical same spirit we have 200 years ago. ing to them, then I ’m doing some writing. the Narcotics Bureau had a budget of $20 million. Today it’s $240 million. It’s and neurological possibilities. I think I'm Now, as I look around since I’ve been This is where it’s happening. It’s a micro­ an army o f narcs going round knock­ the strongest, sanest person around. back, I dont see that Nixon or the cosm, you got all the raw essence of ing down people’s doors, as you well I’ve written two books in the past few Democrats have a program that’s going to human society here, this is where you can know . . . And the drug use is going up. I months and the book Hope fiend got a lead us into the third century with this really see it coming down. And in some could solve the drug problem in this quarter of a million dollars advance. So vigor that we need. We’ll limp or crawl or ways it may seem a cop-out for me to say country in six months. somebody at Bantam Books didnt think kind o f stagger into the third century, this, but I dont really trust any philos­ it was insane. But, perhaps one o f the which I think is a tragedy. So I dont have opher who hasnt been on the other side How? most comforting things that I can think any advice for anyone. I’m just simply o f the system and somehow seen it from Well, it depends how much leeway I about as I wonder where my head is at, is saying that we’re going to be broadcasting the perspective of the alienated, or the had. What I ’d really like to do to elimin­ that I know I’m in prison because they’re our ideas o f hope and o f confidence and blacks, or those who’ve been pushed ate all crime in this country would be to afraid to let me go around and express o f courage .. . and we dont say we’re down in society. It’s a rare experience. eliminate cash money. Now, I think my ideas. right, but God knows we’re about ready It’s nothing I want to make a career of. you’re very well aware that the drug for a new philosophy. It’s going to come. It's very easy to get institutionalised but, problem, much to my horror and to my If I were free from prison I would go Would you give advice on the use of uh, see, it’s my ambition to really liberate anguish, in the past few years has become back lecturing at colleges; you know, I drugs, nowadays? the world. Why not? Why settle for very closely connected with money. In always used to draw the largest crowds in Yeah, I should do that, and I’ll look anything less? I have a sense o f humor the early days, 1960, ’62, ’65, it was only the history of college. I could go on the right into the eyes o f everyone that’s about it .. . I know that the odds are a free, voluntary grouping of people who platform with any psychiatrist, or philos­ reading this and say that I dont urge you against me. But we have only a few years were looking for new ways to use their opher, or government agent, and debate to take LSD in particular. LSD is the here. heads and to find a new way of life. But them, my ideas against their’s. And you most powerful substance that the human Let’s try to leave this spaceship a in the past five years, to my horror, a know, if I am insane, my government being has ever developed for influencing better place and all the models and all the money situation has developed. should be happy to let me out and let my the mind. I've used the comparison of philosophers and all the men that I think Now when they bust a big heroin insanity be apparent to everybody. Now nuclear energy or fissional material. I have really liberated humanity have all dealer they dont say: “ Well, it could have there’s something very ominous about think that in the right hands, the scien­ done their time, on the outside. I want to ruined a few hundred lives ...” Mostly this tendency to call anybody that you tific and disciplined and hopeful people, get back in. they say, “ Five million dollars, ten mil­ dont agree with insane. it will bring about changes. But for, uh I think that a society that imprisons lion dollars” . I think if we eliminated A hundred years ago they said you . . . I dont want anyone reading this to its philosophers is playing with very bad cash money, eliminated personal cheques, were possessed by the devil, or you were get any other message, that I’m telling magic. You just can’t imprison ideas. And and had everything on the basis on a heretic. Twenty years ago, they said you to stay away from LSD. the one thing that we can see in societies personalised dockets, all money trans­ you were a communist. The really sophis­ In the first place, 99 percent of what’s that become constricted and repressed is actions would be computerised in your ticated totalitarian method now is to say called LSD, isnt LSD. And 99 percent of that the life flow goes out of it. It’s a bank. You could only cash money in that someone is a dissenter, that is against the things that are said about LSD are scandal, a national scandal that I’m here, your own bank this way. the society, is insane. totally lies or fabrications. The whole and I’m going to make it clearer and If there wasnt all this free, anonymous In Russia now, very smooth, they take thing is so confused now that I'll flatly clearer that, uh, you know, about this money floating around you wouldnt have their philosophers and their dissenting make that statement. magic, two days after I was kidnapped, dope dealing, most of the crime would be poets and they dont put them in Siberia You also said in the past that you are by presidential order, to bring me back to knocked out. You wouldnt have Water- any more, they put them in an insane afraid o f heroin. You dont like heroin? this country, that was january 18. Jan­ gates because you couldnt have all those asylum. uary 20, Watergate- started to blow. So Personally I dont like heroin at all. It’s little White House people with their bags Maybe it is insane to be against what’s a down trip. It’s an escape trip, and, that Nixon, at that moment when I came full o f this cash running around. happening in the United States today; back to the country, was at his peak. although Thi an escape artist, I like to What about brain damage by the use maybe it’s insane to try to have hope that Look where he is today. And the king of escape into life, not escape from life. I o f drugs? Do you think that you've something could be done about it. So, if Afghanistan, who had invited me there think that heroin addiction is like dia­ suffered any brain damage whatsoever? that’s insane, count me in. But, other­ and could have protected me but was o ff betes or it’s like epilepsy. There are Am I insane? O f course, that’s a very wise, make up your own mind. for a weekend, was kicked out recently. certain people that just physiologically tricky question for anyone to answer. I’ve What do you think of your future? Do Now I’m gonna be around as long as they end psychologically are so wired up that lived through the 30s and 40s, and the you think you’re going to walk out of are, and the ball game’s far from over, they’re going to be attracted to this mode 50s, and the 60s, and I think that anyone Folsom prison a free man one day? when you’re dealing with philosophical of escape. And heroin addicts, there who’s still erect after those years has had I think my future is very intensely ideas. would probably be 60 or 100 thousand his sanity tested. connected with the future of this coun­ if we’d kept the money thing out of it. It Three hundred o f the eighteen hun­ I’m 52 years old, facing the problems try. You just can’t keep your philos­ could be handled by physical prescrip­ dred people in this prison are here for of maturity and getting old. I’ve been ophers in prison. If I am kept in prison, tions, by doctors, just the way diabetics drug use or sale, or whatever. You said through a lot of rough times in the past it’s going to be a very bad symptom for now use insulin. But if you passed a law that you have to accept some responsi­ few years. My career has been ruined, freedom and for hope and for union. against insulin, immediately the price of bility for the drug revolution. Do you they took my credit card away at Harvard After all, in a way, I’m a spokesman for insulin would go up, like the price of accept the responsibility for them being and I’ve been harassed by the United millions of Americans, and how’re you heroin, and you’d have diabetics going here? States government pretty heavily. And going to bring the country together if around robbing and stealing to get their Why, no, because if the government I’ve been in four prisons, all without you’re going to be locking up people that fix. But for me, heroin is no trip. had followed my suggestions ten years committing any crime that I know of. I ’ve are saying things that many people be­ You’re sitting here in prison and what ago when I testified before congress, we been in solitary confinement for four lieve in. It’s never worked before. are you doing productively? wouldnt have had this drug problem. I months. The main thing I’m doing is taking predicted exactly what would happen, In addition to all of these pressures □ Page 6 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, november 27-december 3, 1973 T HAS become almost fash­ room. It was plain that the Iionable to put down exams administration’s cool was blown. and yet each november comes On Wednesday, the administra­ CMACUINC tion flipped when Lazenby issued around and the traditional exam quietitude descends. Radicals re­ injunctions against five students treat to Ritalin and cramming. to prevent them from coming on Your studious mediocrity submit campus. At 6 pm one was laid but to the examination yoke and the other students went under­ meekly accept their exam num­ ground. The point o f the injunc­ ber, exam paper and the symbolic CYAMC tions was to isolate the anti exam triumph o f the self-perpetuating GRAEME DUNSTAN leaders, but their effect, o f course, authority system that the modern A r i i t i a was quite the opposite. The university has become. injunctions isolated the admin­ The vice-chancellor, professor But it didnt happen that way tuesday the main exam hall was exam collectively. Their demands istration from students and staff. Alec Lazenby, was not impressed this year at the University of New put out o f action by stink bombs. created pandemonium in the And the fumbling zealousness o f with the demonstration, o f course. England. The exams there were The light switches were epoxy exam room for they insisted on the registrar and his cohorts in challenged by an anti exam Initially Lazenby’ s attitude was to glued off. A girl came to an exam having meetings to consider demo­ their attempts to deliver the in­ campaign, which in a series of treat the protest as a prank to de wearing a sign “ Exams rape cratically all the whispered de­ junctions, de authorised in their student actions and administra­ escalate the threat posed because minds” and was pounced on by the mands and compromise offers. very attempt to exercise their au­ tion over-reactions gave rise in­ at exam time the university is very supervisors who tore o ff the sign They had taken their books to the thority. stead to the experience o F ‘a most vulnerable to disruption. Papers thereby demonstrating the truth exams and in every other way On friday, Lazenby backed enjoyable upheaval” as one of the are printed, timetables are pre­ o f the slogan. flouted the exam rules but, faced down. At 9 am the injunctions flood o f pamphlets put it. The pared, staff employed etc, it is an Tuesday was also the day o f with their united front, the were withdrawn and no reasons eruption has seen not just exams enormous administrative task and the marxism exam. Marxism is a administration was powerless — were given. questioned as a means o f assess­ very tightly scheduled. There is student option course that was the proverbial paper tiger. And now the university is in just no room for mass postpone­ obliged by arts faculty regulations ment, but also assessment itself Eventually, after extracting delightful turmoil. People are questioned and the authority ments because that would muck to have a three hour closed book talking to each other, standing in up the enrolment and course written permission from the dean structure o f the university ridicul­ final exam like all other subjects. groups arguing about exams, preparation for the next year. If The marxism students argued that o f arts to allow them to take the ed for its ineptness and its total paper home to complete in a week about how they really only test mass assessment doesnt happen in exams engender competitiveness irrelevance to the learning experi­ in essay form, they left the exam the ability to do exams, about the november then it just doesnt and bourgeois individualism. They ence. room. There they found ten cops possibility o f a self-assessment uni­ happen. demanded the right to do their On sunday, november 11, as the lined up. Lazenby’s final card was versity, about visions o f a univer­ Taking no chances Lazenby peasants were being yarded for in hand for he was prepared to sity that is not a fodder maker for their annual culling out and dip in increased security staff and, fear­ the capitalist production machine the rituals o f arbitrary authority, a ing, disruptions as recommended but a genuine centre for inquiry, group o f students met and de^ by the Student Action Commit­ learning and community rele­ cided to have a peasants revolt in tee, had exam staff check o ff the vance. The administration cries the last week o f term. An anti examinees before they entered the chaos, but the students are getting exam march was proposed for the exam rooms. This caused late a sense o f self-direction and sense following thursday. starts. The fear o f disruptions o f university. For them the The march resulted in 200 created disruptions and the ten- university is working. Once there students taking control o f the jions escalated. The easily pro­ was a breed o f graduates who administration building for 24 voked administration invited. learned by accepting the authority hours. The students then decided structure o f the university, now to continue their activity during the most influential graduates the exams. — ^ 7 learn by rejecting it.

OMETHING utterly dreadful happens to people when they is A. J. Weberman who lives in New York — a dylanologist, become converted to a system of thought. They become garbologist, and Crazy Cat, hardly known outside the underground boring.S Their cherished system acts as a factory of readymade press. opinions, and predictability becomes the key note of their thinking and talking. To an alarming extent, the counterculture is a victim of Another aspect of today’s mind conformity and conversational its own conformities. Many readers and writers of this paper have a paraplegia is the gruesome twosome. More people are coupling than broad pattern of consistent postures and opinions. ever before, then splitting up and coupling again. While many have bravely rejected the myth of romantic love and all forms of And havent you noticed the deadly decline in dinner table permanent commitment, they nevertheless cling to the concept of conversation? Marxist bores are the most merciless, though avoid­ close companionship with another individual. People are afraid to able. The dope bores have so multiplied as to have made venturing live alone. What of? Perhaps the tedium of their own company. into polite society a mental health hazard. Especially if they double I am not launching a Hermits Liberation Front. It’s just that this as music bores (the latter category at least acknowledges its own society makes us, our egos and our bodies, into consumer products. dreariness, by accompanying conversation with a stereo amplifier A relentless dependence on another individual is no less than turned loud). dependence on cigarettes or hamburgers — artificially induced by the Boringness is basically congenital, but as life trundles along, many prevailing mores. ease the burden of thinking originally and individually by embracing “ Just as you can tell a good lover by the aftershave he is wearing an ism. Proudly they model their new mental straight jacket. Perhaps so ...” — Abigail. privately they are administering self-medication for depression. Oh I know, we all want to be a Bogart to a Bacall, and vice versa, Group thinking acutely afflicts today’s radicals. Many people who but this society never gives encouragement to live alone, to exist smoke dope and dont call women chicks any more and who like to alone, because you aint such a good market. If you are alone, you think o f themselves as politically hip, have set speeches on a diverse don’t give yourself presents or take yourself out to swish dinners. range of subjects — all derived from the same rigid assumptions. Alone people are increasingly discriminated against. It’s getting Today is the day of the party line; of one dimensional much harder to buy a small can of baked beans. Ever seen a personalities. I hope this newspaper will tolerate a multiplicity of^ butcher’s face when you ask for half a pound of rolled sirloin? points of view, unlike many other utopian sheets. That tone o f' Packaging will soon make it impossible to buy one lavatory roll. sanctimonious superiority, that more-revolutionary-than-thou-ism has But solitude has its benefits and the threat of aloneness is already entered the Daylights letters page and one thanks heaven dramatised out of proportion by a culture which desperately needs that such people are not yet running the politburo on your block. to fill our days and nights with marketable distractions. The true crime o f capitalism is not in its oppressions — all political regimes are C -U M b o o t * . The stench of mental confusion which pervades the twilight of oppressive (okay, smart alec, piss o ff to Havana) — this one has the youth movement is even worse in the late middle age generation, addicted us to THINGS and it’s merged this addiction with our but they have their compensating eccentrics. Where are ours? Or are natural love for one another, bastardising the result. we all? It’s not only that people have become sex objects, they have Surely the great individualists are on the decline, or am I meeting become objects per se and sadly, this applies no less to ourselves the wrong people? The nearest thing to Francis James this side of 68 than to those whose heads we are trying to blow.

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PageS — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, november 27-december 3, 1973 D IV IN E LIG H T MISSION: Guru Maharaj Ji (322 Brunswick HEN I first heard about the Divine street, Fitzroy etc) - THIS religion is the latest release in a series W Light Mission, I immediately con­ o f Indian export productions which, taken cumulatively, have ceived a strong dislike for the organisa­ been a serious threat to the comparative prestige o f Rome and tion and its Perfect Master, Guru Maharaj Canterbury in world markets. While our own Western productions m JP Ji. I was already fed up to the back teeth with Indian persons who claimed to be play to a slowly decreasing number o f packed houses throughout Lord o f the Universe, and this one was the world, these shows from India are steadily gathering hard-core only 15 years old. (A t least he was at the devotees, and Divine Light Mission, with its slick production and time. Contrary to popular belief, he has often intelligent script, may well turn out to be a real blockbuster been getting older ever since at the same at the box office. Even if the sight o f a Krishna consciousness fan rate as the rest of us.) in his (or her) madcap uniform turns you blue with rage, DLM I strongly incline to distrust anyone i under the age o f 20, because such youths 4 may well be what you’ve been waiting for. Full-bodied, robust, and maidens generally think either that and possessing a good nose, this is certainly one o f the better f they know something or that somewhere available religions and may well turn out to be one o f the all-time \ / / there is someone who does know some­ greats if given a reasonable time to mature. It travels well and may thing and that one day they will find out even be able to compete successfully with the more established who it is and whatever it is that this brands now that consumer loyalty is passe. person knows; whereas I find it impos­ sible to believe that, apart from gross physical manifestations, anybody knows anything about anything. There is only one statement that might be universally true, and here it is; any process or event not only implies but exists only by virtue of its opposite or negation. So the good news that at last we have an adolescent Perfect Master who knows at least a great deal about many impor­ tant matters did not fall sweetly on my ears. I strenuously denied the mere pos­ sibility and told the boys to warm up the Stranger tar and get in a good supply o f feathers. A t last, I thought, a change from the same old round o f beating up Krishna devotees and stealing their incense. Before long I discovered that several people I numbered among my friends and acquaintances had fallen victim to this new and deadly strain o f Eastern mysti­ in the light cism; my hostility perceptibly increased.

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What on earth was happening to them? The speakers, all premies, varied in acquire anything at all. As Gautama write, write. You just cry. Cry, cry, cry. You must cry from the heart, and he will They were cutting o ff their hair, wearing quality from the reasonable to the ridicu­ Buddha so succinctly put it: “ I obtained come. If you do not cry, then how will he clean underwear and getting jobs. Had lous, from calm understatement to absurd not the least thing from unexcelled, come? Many other places cry, cry, cry to they lost their senses? Was everybody hyperbole. Something for everyone. One complete awakening, and for that very see the lotus feet. They will only come if around me slowly going gaga? Would I be remarkable thing about their oratory is reason is it called unexcelled, complete you cry. Remember, seeing Him is not the last human being left on Earth? that most of them have been greatly awakening.” like eating chocolate. How many times Fear o f being left all alone to be influenced by the persuasive speaking The important thing that seems to drearily and boringly human while every­ styles o f the Indian persons they revere, happen to them is that they lose anxiety, must I tell you.” body else was becoming angelic compel­ the Guru, his family, and his mahatmas. which is a nice thing to happen to The chastened premies cast deprecat­ led me to hastily assemble a rational and Thus many of the premies have a anybody. Anxiety is a sort o f alarm ing glances at their own very inferior- easily explicable argument against these tendency to lapse into broken English system which we all have installed in the lotus feet. “ Now I must go away again, new doctrines. I was not in the least when excited. They have in effect learned process o f our socialisation. With most o f after being here for so short a time. I will deterred by the fact that I had no idea of to speak English with a slight foreign us it has an unfortunate tendency to feed fly. Fly, fly, fly. I fly everywhere. And what the doctrines of the Divine Light intonation, which does wonders for the and thus paralyses the whole system. This why? Because I am your slave. And you Mission actually were. Ironically enough, immediacy of their communication but is not a very good thing because one then are taking good care o f me, such good I based my attacks on the teachings of can make comprehension difficult, (cf. becomes unable to deal with whatever is care o f this little child who cannot even the well known Zen school o f buddhism, the indiscriminate use o f the word nice causing the anxiety. On the whole it take care o f himself.” which alone of all religions is dear to my by the members of the Krishna cult, appears to be bad installation that causes At this point I was overcome by heart, mainly because when taken to its native speakers all, which is closely the feedback problem. Meanwhile, back boredom and left the room. I will not try to hide from your puissant understanding logical conclusion it refutes itself entirely, paralleled by its use on Greek and Italian at the Ashram . . . as follows: hamburger shops: Sam's nice food, or By the end of my first satsang, my the fact that I was not favorably impress­ Q: Why do you want to be enlighten­ Food nicely cooked.) And like all preach­ disquiet had already begun to congeal ed. The above discourse may well appear ed? ers, they like to use parables and extend­ into opposition. This was natural, I sup­ to you, as it did to me, to not possess A: So I ’ll feel better. ed metaphors when in pursuit o f the pose, since my assumption of objectivity, quite the clarity and depth o f a mountain Q: Who is it that will feel better? unspeakable. Freely rendered, it goes while honest enough in intent, was mere­ lake fed by crystal streams. Perhaps it will A: Why, nobody. something (but only something) like this: ly a necessary part o f my new role as not be so opaque to your comprehension Q: Then what’s the point o f feeling “ Guru Maharaj Ji has put us all on an observer and commentator. While much if I point out that much of it had to do good if there's nobody there to feel express train and he is the conductor. But o f what was said made sense, a greater with the much advertised Second Com­ good? this is no ordinary express train, no proportion amounted to nothing more ing, a show supposedly starring Guru A : ★ x indeed it is not.” Knowing chuckles from than a load of old codswallop, and the Maharaj Ji himself. As everybody knows \W\ nonsense tended to discredit the sense my by now, he did not actually turn up for 'iiw It has long been my other premies. making it seem accidental. I was not this, no doubt because he did not receive contention that the "This express train is not headed for repelled, as I had been by the Krishna sufficient fan mail. This divine sort of Krishna Consciousness an earthly destination, as if it were a train cult, but I did feel that in all probability activity, fucking around with other peo­ movement has two use­ that goes from Melbourne to Sydney. No. the premies did not know what they were ple and generally confusing them in an ill ful social functions: first in that it lessens This is a different kind o f express train altogether. This express train has a doing, and in fact could not tell their own mannered way, is dignified by the name the strain on our meagre resources for heavenly destination. And Guru Maharaj arses from large marshmallows. of lila, or the game playing o f God, in taking care o f the mentally ill, and Nevertheless I went out to Tullamarine which he (or It) deliberately forgets that secondly that it provides a viable and Ji is the conductor. Get aboard, he is saying. And we are getting aboard. But the next day to catch a quick glimpse of he is One and pretends to be Many in reversible alternative to suicide for those Mahatma Ji as he passed through Mel­ order to play silly games with himself. who would be inclined to kill themselves the incredible thing is that we are already bourne on his way to Auckland or some “ Looks like he might not come,” said through sheer carelessness or desperation at the destination! And we are already at such barbaric place. Mahatma Ji is the my amiable guide later. “ You might not rather than in the fierce pride o f their hot every station along the way!” A look o f mahatma into whose care Guru Maharaj have a story after all.” intellects. But in the course o f adding this pain and bewilderment crosses the speak­ Ji has entrusted Australia and New Zea­ “ I have already got a story,” I replied idea to my anti DLM armory, I chanced er's face as she senses the metaphor giving land. He seemed like a nice fellow, obliquely, averting my face. As it turned on the rather horrible idea of the Persua­ way beneath her, rather in the manner o f the Forth bridge giving way beneath an though he appeared to me to be sunk in a out, I was wrong. And so was he. sive Revenant. The next satsang I attended was graced express train with an earthly destination. debased state o f gravity and self-esteem. What if people who killed themselves But perhaps he was only tired after the by the presence of the revered Mahatma could still manifest themselves in some “ So we are going at very great speed, trip. Each passenger on the crowded Ji. Heroically I went along even though way and went around trying to persuade by the grace of our Perfect Master, to­ flight had to pass out between two rows two W. C. Fields movies were playing in others to take the same step? Really, you wards a destination which we have al­ of premies who were grinning and singing opposition. Can you picture my chagrin? can’t imagine how beautiful it is to be ready reached while simultaneously stop­ a little song about Guru Maharaj Ji. The I hardly think so. My face was set against dead. I’ve never been so happy in all my ping at every station along the way. Such joy, such bliss. Perhaps you cannot under­ tune used was Hey ho, nobody home, a the Divine Light Mission and I did not life. Suddenly one seems to be in tune circumstance which could easily be inter­ intend to honor the institution with the with the whole universe. Why dont you stand how this is possible, but I am telling preted in an unkind light. The other benevolence of my smile. This time I sat try it? (Not a bad parallel, actually, you that Guru Maharaj Ji makes all things passengers behaved very well under fire in one o f the chairs provided for the aged, except for two important factors: any possible. I will now ask you to imagine and did not make loud remarks or rain the infirm, and the incredulous. Sitting genuine way o f liberation is suicide o f the that the whole world is asleep in this blows on the heads of the premies. on the floor causes the lower part o f my ego, not o f the body, and suicide of the room. Most of the people are sound asleep, they are dead to the world. The When everybody was settled in an body to pass into a state of numbness. ego may in fact be a consummation NVIP lounge at the airport, the effete The first few speakers were premies, devoutly to be wished.) premies are nearly awake, they are rolling Mahatma Ji cast his discerning eye over including one middle aged man who I was right in the middle o f my battle over and grunting.” Precisely, my dear girl. “ The mahatmas are sleepwalking. And many public relations matters, publicity looked more or less like a garden gnome. with the forces o f darkness when it was being his foremost concern. Then he He held up a gold ring. suggested to me that I should investigate in the middle of the room is Guru proceeded to give the premies a pep talk, “ If I take away the gold” , he said the DLM and write an article on it, for Maharaj Ji, who is clapping his hands and saying ‘Come on, everybody, wake up! a condensed and heightened version of mischievously, “ is there any ring left?” which I would receive a certain amount which I give below. o f money. I agreed with feigned reluc­ wake up!’ Conspiratorial giggling. Maybe, I thought cautiously. “ Look at you, ah? I wake you up, I go “ No,” he answered. “ And if I take tance. A t last, a platform from which to “ Really it is scarcely possible for you to understand the transcendental grace o f away, you go back to sleep again. What a away the ring, is there any gold left?” harangue, revile and vituperate. I could — lot of dull clods you are, eh?” Premies dare I say it? — save the world from the Guru Maharaj Ji which allows me to Yes, probably, I thought. nod and smile tremulously. “ How many creeping determinism! But my hopes get up in front o f you and talk intelligibly "N o again,” he said triumphantly. of you have been writing letters as I told Curses, foiled, cursed Oil-Can Harry were dashed when I found that I was about this fantastically marvellous grace you?” One or two hands raised. “ Ha! I discarding almost all of my useful and o f Guru Maharaj Ji which is - ah - which O'Rourke, foiled. tell you to write letters and you do not “ There you have it,” he continued. attractive prejudices. I was, despite my — which is so very blissful. Ah. Thank you very much.” write letters. Now listen, scum. I tell you “ Do you understand now?” own earnest desires, becoming objective to write letters, you damn well better write in the best traditions o f journalism. The premies did, anyway. They laugh­ Thus: Taking Knowledge does not put letters, okay?” Their eyeballs are wet and It was not long before a plausible ed appreciatively, even though they had anything in your head that was not there glistening, can they take much more o f friend took me to a satsang. A satsang is not been able to answer his difficult this? “ Ah, how easy it is to go to sleep more like a committee meeting than a to start with. While those whose minds questions any better than I. I’m gonna get are confused may achieve clarity and again, how easy.” He claps his hands and religious service, and probably more like a youse guys, I thought, baring my teeth. laughs delightedly. The premies join in pork chop than either. On the other hand directness of thought, those whose minds The gnome now proceeded to intro­ are of inferior quality will not receive without much conviction. “ Ah, my it is not like eating chocolate. We took duce Mahatma Ji, which had been his appreciable intellectual benefits. Who in­ friends, my dear, dear friends. I am your o ff our shoes (this made me nervous right purpose from the start; but he had been deed would expect otherwise? Premies slave. I live only for you. But you do not from the start) and after a great deal of unable to resist giving a short sermon do not appear to automatically acquire understand enough. You are still half walking up stairs we entered a large room himself before relinquishing the floor. asleep. You must write letters. Write, shaped like a fat U. Directly in front of wisdom. In fact they probably do not Many of the premies have this fault, that the door was a dais on which were while freely confessing in their more lucid flowers, fruit, and a red velvet chair Nigel had Taken Knowledge two weeks ago and moments that they can tell you nothing which held a color photograph of Guru o f importance about the experience of Maharaj Ji sitting on a chair. My guide it had turned his mind into a finely-honed razor Taking Knowledge, yet do they talk at prostrated himself before this photo­ which he was using to dismember me. My fears great length about it. A seemly reticence graph, causing me a few more anxious is more attractive to me. moments. When he had finished we sat on were being realised. He was as sunk in the iniquity Having gloried in (or been the victim the floor under a large wall-hanging or o f) the most intemperate praise I have banner which bore a portrait of Guru of pride in his enlightenment as was I in the de­ ever heard lavished on any visiting over­ Maharaj Ji and the legend LORD OF THE lusion of pride in my ego, ______seas performer, Mahatma Ji began to UNIVERSE.______speak in a fairly aimless way. It was Page 1 0 - THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, november 27-december 3, 1973 characteristic of all the speaking that I Cardigan street. The euphoria o f the night heard at satsangs that it was addressed to before had worn off, and I was afraid. those present who were uncertain or What if the experience I had been uninformed rather than to the premies. through had nothing to do with the With only half an ear open to the reality of the illumination the Guru offer­ mahatma, I entered the overgrown paths ed? I had seen the whole structure o f the o f a subtropical reverie, being determined mission as an elaborate play or game, to work out to my own satisfaction what designed to mould itself to your secretest was afoot. There was plainly something heart’s desire and entice you to the fishy about this business. treasures within. What if the premies saw Firstly, there was some kind o f con it as being the outward visible form o f the going on. Lord o f the Universe, eh? A true reality? Was it to them Mother deranged appellation. I spit on it. No Church? And for that matter, what if the enlightened person would so exalt himself mask was intended to be penetrated? above others as this Guru has been That would mean that I would have to go exalted. I gazed at the photograph o f this through with it and eventually Take bloated spiritual plutocrat and writhed. Knowledge. O f this in particular I was And what about this business of the Holy scared shitless. Family? Is not an abundance o f reverence It took me about five minutes to work closely akin to slavery? up enough courage to knock on the door. The premies have surely given them­ Finally it was opened by a young man. I selves into bondage. Listen to your man took a deep breath and said nothing. I up there. Open your hearts, empty your could not think o f anything to say except hearts and let Guru Maharaj Ji fill them, maybe “ Help” . he says. Okay, WHAT WITH? Fill them “Yes?” he said. There was a long with himself? Polymorphous perversity if pause. I must have looked strange. I ever I saw it. suspect that my eyes were staring and my But hold on a minute there, said a still jaw may have been slack. small voice which I recognised as that of " I want to see Mahatma Ji,” I said my effete and execrable conscience. Fair softly but unmelodiously. go, it said. Just consider for a moment There seemed to be a certain amount the consequences if everything you have o f consternation caused by my arrival. so far concluded is true, and if it is also What will we do with him, we can’t put true that Guru Maharaj Ji is truly an him in the best parlor his boots are dirty, enlightened person who meets every re­ should we send him around to the trades­ quirement of your high standards for man’s entrance, who is he anyway, etc enlightened persons? What then? GO etc; none o f this spoken o f course but I AW AY, I muttered, breaking out in a was feeling particularly sensitive. Even­ heavy dew scented with honey and roses. tually I was shown into a kind o f lounge- CONSIDER, it rejoined remorselessly. I room or office, where I was left to cool considered. my heels. Mahatma Ji will see you in a If Guru Maharaj Ji, I reasoned slowly while, they told me. and reluctantly, enjoins his followers to For perhaps 10 minutes I sat in a empty their hearts in order to find the sweat o f terror. What was I doing here? way, then, he being (as agreed upon as an The enemy had me where they wanted over-the-table concession) a truly enlight­ me! Then Nigel the premie came in, sat ened person, his own heart must be down and engaged me in kindly conver­ empty. How then can he fill their hearts sation. Nigel is not his real name, but with anything? should he read this and recognise himself, It has often occurred to me that I want him to understand that I bear no experience is like standing under a pelting malice and appreciate his friendly over­ shower. (Adjust temperature as you pre­ tures, though as will transpire I did not at fer.) We are not content to let the water the time. flow past; we cup our hands to hold as He asked me a few things about much of it as possible. Thus we have a myself, unwittingly giving me the para­ store o f past experiences to contemplate noiac suspicion that he had been sent in which comes to seem precious, irreplace­ to check me out In response to his able, unique. This corresponds with the tenuous visions. out to be a matter o f definition. (See questions, I told him of my experience of ego. To put the metaphor right out on a When 300,000 years had passed, Mahat­ Void, above.) Perhaps she was just the night before. limb, we can see our reflection in the ma Ji concluded his melodious discourse, humoring me, though it did not seem so “ Good heavens,” he said. “ It’s nothing water we hold in our cupped hands and and another o f the premies got up to at the time. They must get all kinds of like that at all.” My heart sank. I ventur­ think that what we hold is a picture of speak. I was immediately stricken with a crazies and desperates at that place. She ed my idea that the Guru was an empty our Self. To persist in this deluded feeling o f claustrophobia. The essence of told me that Mahatma Ji would be vessel. activity results in painful cramps in our the trick after all is that one must never available the next morning at the DLM’s “ Ah,” said Nigel, “ you only think that hands, which is the image of anxiety. let on that it is a trick, and I knew that Cardigan street building, and I readily because you have reached the place where (Had enough? In extenuation of my this low grade devoted premie would consented to go. I was hooked. There’s your inner self should be and you have further use of this metaphor, I would like probably succeed in talking me out o f my nothing like a needle in the brain. found it empty. This body is only a to plead extreme provocation.) The en­ high by filling my head with a plethora CAUTIONARY TALES, CHAPTER vehicle for your true inner self, that lightened person is he who can open his of nonsense. I fled downstairs, and start­ TWO: FURTHER EXPERIENCE OF A guides your body around the way you hands and let the water escape. With ed to walk out into the street barefoot. CRAZED LIB ERATIO N ADDICT. drive a car. .You must realise that you water streaming down over our heads, Returning, I stood amid the massed ranks Giggling, laughing and nudging each have this beautiful place inside yourself over our bodies, why bother? o f shoes, having not only forgotten where other, my deranged friend and I trucked and that Guru Maharaj Ji can take you Thus when the premies open their my sandals were, but being also uncertain on down to the Union Hotel, an obscure there.” hearts and let the Guru fill them, they are o f where I was and what I was doing watering-place in Amess street, North I stared aghast. What was this trans­ being filled up with what must really be there. I had not been prepared for this. Carlton whose major attractions are a cendental idiocy? Void. (Perhaps I should point out that I Leaning my forehead against the wall, I beautiful landlady and a late licence on “ No,” I said. “ You are what you do. use the word Void because no other word became inert. todays. We could not control our sphinc­ Movement is truth and the little man seems to suit as well. It does not mean “ Are you all right?” inquired the ter muscles and could fall down 32 flights inside you is illusion." nothingness or emptiness, but on the young lady who stood at the foot o f the o f stairs and feel no pain. We had “ No no,” he replied. “ You havent other hand it does not mean any kind of stairs. permanent huge erections, could leap tall understood.” somethingness either.) I think it was at “ I am very confused and disoriented,” buildings at a single bound, and found Stab me, I thought helplessly. The this point that a sort o f explosion went was my reply. our perceptions of time and space conflict o f two religions after all. This o ff in my head and my body suddenly "Oh yes” , she said with an understand­ strangely distorted. witless youth was being unkind enough to filled with rushing gases. I was staring at a ing smile, “ I understand.” It is my painful duty to record that I play the game of I-am-more-enlightened- photograph of Guru Maharaj Ji, but he no “ I have just had A Certain Experience started preaching almost at once. For­ than-you with me, and I was not suf­ longer appeared strange and loathsome O f A Kind,” were the words that I then tunately I retained enough sense to con­ ficiently enlightened or at ease to refuse to me. The Mona Lisa smile he wore, that uttered. fine my remarks to such as: “ He certainly to play. So I explained to him my inferior had once seemed hypocritical and smug, “ What was it like?” she wanted to seems to have something there,” or “ It’s and unfortunate delusion that the DLM now held a welcome. You crafty little know. not what you think it is,” both o f which was itself a game or play. I was desperate bugger, I thought, grinning all over my “ It’s all a trick,” was the first explana­ statements I am still willing to stand by to find common ground with him, to face. Where previously there had sat tion to spring to mind. She was horrified without embarrassment. Strange to relate, agree with him about something. merely a fat Indian youth, I now saw an at the mere suggestion. I explained my I found that alcohol, friend o f mine and “ Good heavens no.” With words to incarnation of the Void. I had been right. chain o f thought, and we reached some constant companion, actually brought me this effect did Nigel greet my suggestioa There WAS a con going on. Internally kind o f agreement. Neither did she ap­ down that night. “ You musnt think that.” rocking backwards and forwards, I closed prove of my suggestion that Guru Maha- I arose at the unwonted hour o f seven my eyes, and was treated to several raj Ji was an empty vessel, but it turned o’clock the next morning, and headed for £ = 5 7 THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, november 27-december 3, 1 973 — Page 11 Stranger in the light

Nigel had Taken Knowledge two taught from early childhood to internalise weeks ago and it had turned his mind into the expectations of others, and then to a finely-honed razor which he was using build our own expectations on this con­ to dismember me. My fears were being struct, which then starts performing realised. He was as sunk in the iniquity of operations on itself, and, most curious of pride in his enlightenment as was I in the all, investing itself in objects and ideas. It delusion of pride in my ego. I put it to is intended to be a stabilising system, but him that I had once before had a similar like all such systems it becomes more experience, and I knew that it was a unstable as its control becomes broader genuine experience o f liberation; indeed and stronger. Our egos are as much a how could it be otherwise, for could he in failed social experiment as our police reason claim that there was such a thing forces, and are very nearly as difficult to as a false experience o f liberation, this get rid of. surely being in itself a laughable con­ If you move a piece o ff the board in tradiction? Yes he could. chess it has nowhere to go. It is “ liberat­ “ This experience of yours,” he said. ed” but has become useless. It can only “ What was it like?” go back on to the board again because it “ I am unable to say.” moves only by virtue of the rules under “ Did you see a brilliant white light in which it is moved. Without the rules, your head, did the whole universe seem without the game of chess, it ceases to be to be filled with light?” a “ chess piece" and can only be some­ (Some time ago I had spoken o f my thing else if you establish a new set of previous Experience O f A Certain Kind to rules for it. a friend who was heavily into acid. It was Thus the illuminated man can do like being totally new, I said, as if I was nothing but go back into the game, unless the first member of the human race and o f course he wants to play fulltime the contained all human potential. Nah, he game o f being an illuminated man. Roles said with contempt. It isnt like that at all. do not impede socialisation any more The true transcendental experience is like than the restrictions on the movement of being a leaf on a tree.) the various chess pieces impede the game “ I had no actual visual sensation of a o f chess. Socialisation is not possible blinding white ligh t” without roles. The game of living must be “ Ah,” said Nigel, leaning back in his played wholeheartedly, or else it is not armchair and smiling. "The brilliant white worth playing, just as an actor cannot be light is only the beginning. You havent effective as long as he is detached from even reached the beginning yet." the part he is playing. The premies seem Did I, dear reader, spring from my to lose anxiety about which role they chair and with a hoarse scream o f rage play, as well as the real killer, anxiety punch Nigel right in the face? Did I tear about whether one is playing one’s role his skin o ff in ragged strips? Did I lean properly. forward and with low intensity utter the Q. Is it, in your humble opinion, a following malediction, Fuck, suck, Good Thing? tongue in cunt? Did I violently tear o ff A. Who knows? Wait around and see. his nether garments and thrust a photo­ Who can tell what it will become in the graph of Guru Maharaj Ji up his arse? (I long run? The premies have not yet had see that your understanding partakes of time to really settle down with the many o f the qualities o f a brilliant white Knowledge. There are many possibilities; light.) No, I did none o f these things. some of them are frightening, others “ You do not appear to have interpret­ heartening. Perhaps this is going to be the ed my remarks correctly,” I said with a next great step forward in social evolu­ great weariness stealing over me. I could tion. Dont underestimate the D LM ; it is read his mind. Poor fellow, he was think­ not impossible that it could become the ing, he doesnt understand me, for how world’s major religion, though it is not could I possibly fail to understand him? really a religion at all in the usual sense. “ Then try to tell me,” he urged. “ A ll opposition” , said Mahatma Ji, “ turns “ No,” I said. “ I must decline your into propagation.” kind invitation. You are intent on talking Alvin Toffler, in his book Future me out o f having had any experience at shock, talks about a “ superindustrial rev­ all, no matter how lowly and of poor difficult for me to convey the extent of because there is nothing to oppose it. The olution” that has already begun. It seems quality. I will not say any more to you my confusion. I had tried a frontal assault Knowledge is not so much truth as significant that the impacted ego seems to and I suspect that had I asked the when I should have realised that skilful technique. be the major agent o f future shock. venerable I Ching for its opinion on my and subtle means would have had more Q. What does the Knowledge, to your And that is not the only thing that visit here, it would have said: It is a waste chance o f success. A few more people limited and defeated understanding, seem seems significant, buddy. There is more of time to talk, because what is spoken entered, among them a mint-fresh premie to be? to the DLM than meets the eye, though it will not be heeded.” who commenced immediately to talk A. The Real Thing. It is not like eating is not necessarily what anyone says it is. Nigel soon left, but his parting words about Taking Knowledge with all the chocolate. And remember that, barring accidents were strangely moving. loathsome cheer and familiarity display­ Q. Who is Guru Maharaj Ji? like crucifixion, or gross physical man­ “ I am just beginning to understand ed by ladies who sit in doctors waiting- A. A reincarnation o f James Dean, ifestations like aeroplane crashes, the who you are,” he said. “ You are a human rooms and talk about their operations. Buddy Holly and Marilyn Monroe. Guru Maharaj Ji is going to be around for being and it is a wonderful thing to meet On and on he prattled, while my head Q. Are you sure he isnt the Antichrist? maybe another 80 years, that is unless he a person and reach out your hand to him. slowly turned into a block o f ice. Finally, A. No. turns out to be immortal. Time enough. I want to know that you have made me with deep regret and poignant relief, I got Q. Where did you go wrong? Q. Are you going back? feel very uplifted.” to my feet and stumbled out on to the A, Pride and fear. Let only one person A. I dont know. I doubt that I will for Certainly, Nigel. You put yourself up street, not forgetting my shoes on the stand forth and say that he (or she) has a very long time. I hope that it has not by putting me down. But naturally it is way out. never been proud or fearful, and then I been hidden to the reader’s perception not that simple. Who was Nigel? Was he I dont know where I would be now had will consent to be ashamed. This com­ that this pilgrim’s progress was not in­ an agent o f a Greater Power? Perhaps he I stayed. Sometimes I wish I had, but petition is not open to Guru Maharaj Ji or tended to be the last word on the DLM, was just what he claimed to be, a human mostly I was glad I didnt. Now I suppose his relatives. or indeed on anything. Got that, scum? I being. No wait a minute, he said that I that you will be wanting some answers, so Q. Do you confess to being dreary and was trying to give an honest account of was a human being. Then what was Nigel? I will interview myself and see if I can get boring? the various stages o f an encounter or Within a few minutes I was politely them. A. I freely confess to that and also to search as they happened in my head. I ushered upstairs to the room where Ma­ Q. What is the Divine Light Mission? innumerable other crimes too awful to may not have made much sense out o f it hatma Ji would be holding his question- A. Whatever you want it to be. Noth­ mention. all, but then, never mind. Nobody’s per­ and-answer session. I had wanted to see ing about it is simple and explicit except Q. Why do the premies change so fect. him alone for a short while, so that I the mere fact o f its existence and the much? Q. Why do you want to be enlighten­ could be reasonably certain that his re­ Knowledge it offers. It exists as a service A. It seems that they become “ liberat­ ed? sponses would not be theatre designed for organisation to supply Knowledge, and is ed” , “ illuminated” , or “ awakened” , A. To feel better. someone else. But after all, who was I, beautifully designed for the purpose, in whichever suits your taste. This process Q. Who is it that wants to feel better, and how did I rate? Frankly, pretty low. that its philosophies and doctrines are so can be rationalised in many ways, but rat? It should be obvious by now to the least unformed and contradictory that they perhaps the most fruitful explanation is A. Nobody. Ho hum. skilled intellect that there was something admit not only all interpretations, but all that the ego is dissolved, broken up or at Q. Then why do you want to feel wrong with my attitude. interpretations at once. It would be fool­ least radically altered to eliminate the better if there’s nobody really there to A lone premie sat in the room, absorb­ ish to expect order and logic, because feedback problem caused by an acute feel it? ed in wistful meditation. I settled myself philosophies and doctrines are o f course sense of self-consciousness, as when an A. Why not? on the floor and tried to control the true only by virtue o f the fact that they amplifier tries to amplify itself. ^^rowthoftheiciclej^m^bram^jt^is^ are false. Universal truth is self-negating The ego is a social implant. We are □ Page 12 THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, november 27-december 3, 1973 living there communally. One day someone produces a box Farmer Nolan’s harmony tonic. The rent. The box is displayed, people contribute, the money t ^ A V I N G accumulates, recently returned farmer to the city Nolan is paid. from Nimbin, I Harmony. was disappointed No hassles to discover that about “ who’s various rumors not paid rent of a failing this week?” No Nimbin had one knows how caused people to much the rent is. believe that all is Not even farmer not well on the Nolan knows Nimbin scene. Allow how much is owed. me to say a few There are many such words to clarify the instances where people situation. Graham Dunstan and things get (TLD 3) seems put o ff by done. There is a general air the fact that no one displayed of togetherness and friendship. organic vegetables at the agricul­ Everyone is anxious to get on to tural show, nor put on an the property and really get things exhibition o f arts and crafts. give this person a certain amount started, but in the meantime there Agricultural shows are a bit of of hard cash in exchange. are other things which can be an ego trip - everyone trying to The cost of the property is done. The present owner is show o ff and prove that they $100,000. permitting the land to be garden­ produce the biggest and best of a COORDINATION CO-OPERA­ ed in preparation for moving in, certain commodity. TIVE LTD. and the gardens are growing both The food co-op in Nimbin On October 19 this year there in size and in produce. And provides organic food, to eat, was formed a legal organisation there’s work to be done in other and is on display every day in the known as Coordination Co-opera­ directions like the food co-op, the Tomato Sauce Factory, as are the tive Ltd., which is basically a arts and crafts, housework, cook­ numerous arts and crafts produc­ group of people with the interests ing and other everyday chores. ed by the new Nimbin society. of natural loving at heart, who Now and again people drop by These arts and crafts range from have contributed upwards o f $200 to have a look at things and are fine arts, candles, batik, silk per head to raise the money to immediately at home. They leave screening, leatherwork, weaving buy the land. feeling invigorated by the general and pottery, to anything anyone This contributing of money in atmosphere to return to the city has a mind to create - and there the language of the world is to earn bread to become part of are some beautiful creations. termed “ buying shares” and the the community and tell their TUNTABLE FALLS: people who have so contributed friends o f the beautiful Nimbin The focal point of interest at become “ Share Holders” . Thus, Thing. And it is beautiful. The Let the children in the moment in Nimbin is the anyone who is interested in living atmosphere, the town, the coun­ Tuntable falls land project. What a natural life in harmony with PHIL O’CARROLL dumped his job as lecturer in tryside, the people, the culture, exactly is happening? nature, now or at some time in philosophy at ANU and took to the road in horse and are all conducive to harmonious The Tuntable falls property is the future, can become part of a cart with his daughter Jesus and her mother Jewel living. 1000 acres of lush, green country community with such aims by Anyone who was there for the (TLD 4). At present he is odd jobbing up the Murray, consisting o f 300 acres of cleared contributing to the co-operative, First Co-operative meeting on picking peaches and jotting down notes. land previously used for dairy (ie. buying shares in Coordination december 20 will bear witness. farming and being volcanic soil is Co-operative Ltd.). Unfortunate­ Everyone was really together in ideal for cultivation of a variety of ly, as I said earlier, this is a friendship and happiness. U R society desperately “ adult” affairs. Why are we so garden produce. The remaining financial obstacle which, because The picnic in the property’s lacks folk wisdom, or simp­ scared o f the children? They can­ 700 acres is virgin bush and rain of society as it is, can only be natural ampitheatre (complete Oly a custom of thinking-for-your-not assault us. Physically. But forest. overcome in this way. with swimming hole) was a raging self. they are honest - until we teach Tuntable creek runs through The community realises that success — people jamming along Society today is so super­ them by example to lie - and the property all year round things have to be done, they know with whatever instruments they organised that a real change in any confident - until we teach them providing ample water - apart certain people who have a knowl­ could lay their hands on. This part entails a change in the whole. by example to disbelieve in them­ from the 100 inches per year that edge of this particular aspect and type of thing happens all the time (One example: to change from selves, to deny their own minds. falls out of the sky. so they seek his advice. Groups of in Nimbin. our competition system o f educa­ So we must swallow our stupid The head of the creek and the people get together and discuss I remember one night we had tion we must change the whole pride. Our children have so many head of the valley are Tuntable the right and wrong ways, reach a playing together — one guitar, one system by which money is dis­ powers that we have lost. Children falls, 300-400 feet high, providing conclusion, and act. This way guitar (two strings missing), a tributed throughout society.) So can accept reality - until we a spectacular sight for those who there is no need for figureheads sitar, three jews harps, bongos, while we know that change is teach them, by inculcating our feel like a ramble along the rocky and power trips. Maybe thats why drum sticks, numerous voices and necessary, we are terrified o f it. myths, to fear it. If you stop and creek bed winding through dense certain people who want to hand clappings — the result was We can’t handle it. We are terri­ think for a moment you will rain forest. organise everybody are disillusion­ tremendous. Another night a fied because we do not dare to realise that your child has the Being at the head of the valley ed; because everyone gets them­ squeeze box was produced, some­ think for ourselves, to answer for capacity to become a caveman, a and being almost completely sur­ selves organised. one played spoons, rhythm sec­ ourselves, to act for ourselves on Roman, a hindu, or a man of the rounded by state forest, the There’s no one saying, “ It’s tion was a sledge hammer played the basis o f what we rationally year 3000 — until we socialise him property is ideal for our purpose. about time the compost was dug.” with two hammer shafts. Real decide is the best action. our way. That is, to create a community bush music. I believe that our society Do we adults have such pow­ free from the hassles and pressures “ How about someone cleaning The food which someone got would make an evolutionary leap ers, and does “ our” way work of modern society, free from the place up?” . . . together both at the meeting and forward in one generation if we anymore? Is our way of life going pollution, where we can eat good “ It’s time someone else fetched at the picnic was a fine example abolished school and allowed our to be liveable, worth living, worth organically grown food and live as the water!” of the good healthy food that is children safe conduct throughout imposing on these new people? close to the earth as possible. In People see that something eaten in Nimbin. our society for 20 years, to see And just as your child could harmony with nature. needs doing - and do it. Other Beautiful feasts are not an what we are doing: In our offices, become, with different socialisa­ We hope to be as self-sup­ people notice them do it, make a uncommon occurrence in Nimbin factories, army camps, bedrooms tion, a Roman soldier or what­ porting as possible, any com­ mental note, and next time it — someone feels like cooking - .... Furthermore I believe that ever, he could become whatever it modities which need to be obtain­ needs doing, they do it. they cook. Anyone feels like this is the only way o f restoring takes to cope with western society ed from the outside world being Some people go out to the eating — they eat. Nimbin is a rationality or responsibility-for- tomorrow: socialised by judging acquired by means of trade with garden. On the way they take the living organism not a ten day self as a way o f life; to release our for himself a world that he is free the various arts and crafts and any water containers to be filled and festival that dwindled into noth­ children from our schools and let to perceive, allowed to be the surplus garden produce. carry back to the house when ing. The people are alive and them be educated by reality itself. rational animal that he naturally It sounds like a dream but if they come back. They return at raring to go to make the Nimbin We in adult society have been is. you look at the way the world is the end o f a tiring spell of Thing work. so long divorced from the very Let everybody be responsible for going and has been going for gardening and remember: “ Shit! positive self-motivating way of life the world our children will countless ages, you can see that I’ve got to cart those heavy water The Buddha said: “ Make what of the unschooled child, that we inherit. ours is the way it ought to go. containers back up the hill.” But is right, become.” dont know our children. Some Let the children know the world Since we are part of this there’s no need. Someone has Nimbin is right. adults are so alienated that they they have to live in. modern world there are various passed by the empty containers, Footnote: believe that children are by nature Let the children out: reality is the obstacles to overcome before we filled them and taken them to the Anyone interested in further inactive and would not do any­ only security. can achieve our ideals. The main house. Coordination. details of the Co-operative con­ Let everybody be responsible to obstacle is that all this land is Before moving on to the prop­ tact: Melbourne, Chris Stoney: thing unless forced to. We see them as trouble, they are too the children. owned by one person. To take erty, people are renting farm 51.8214/51.7524; Sydney, Tony embarrassing to have around in Let the children in. possession of the land we have to houses for a few bucks.a week and Furniss: 82.1291. THE LIV ING DAYLIGHTS, november 27-december 3, 1 973 — Page 13 I Undeveloped Australia 3 FRANK PITHERS

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DO IT YOURSELF RUNG FU 9 Continuing our exhausting introductory guide to the martial art of Kung Fu.______

(56) Stop the rotating movement when the thumb points toward your chest and the (48) Begin to rotate your hand in a clockwise motion again. (49) When your palm faces to the left. (57) Bring your right elbow to within three inches of your body. palm faces the floor, start to make a fist.

(58) Relax your wrist. (59)*Keep the elbow in toward your body during every forward motion. With the wrist still relaxed , begin to straighten your arm until it is about three quarters extended.

(52) Open your right hand with the palm facing up, forming the palm-up (60) Keeping the elbow in place, start rotating your hand counterclockwise. block. Begin moving your hand outward from the center of your chest. (53) (61) Stop the rotating movement with the thumb facing your chest and the Extend your arm only three quarters. Do not straighten it. palm facing toward the left.

(54) Rotate your hand counterclockwise, with youi* fingers pointing toward (62) Bring the elbow back to within three inches of your body. (63) Repeat your chest. (55) Keep the elbows stationary as you continue the rotating the sequence in figures 58 through 61 three times before going on to 64. m ovem ent.

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(72) With the left hand, begin a palm strike toward the floor. (73) Open your (64) Perform a right-hand slap block to the left. Remember not to go past the hand and extend your arm. left shoulder. (65) Return your hand to the middle of your chest.

(66) Execute the vertical palm strike by extending your arm, with the palm (74) Begin a right palm strike toward the floor. (75) Both arms are now fully facing away from you, to an area directly in front of your nose. (67) Turn extended and both palms are facing the floor. your palm up to form tan sao (palm-up block).

(68) Rotate your hand counterclockwise without moving your arm or elbow. (76) Lift both hands, palms down, to waist level and toward the rear. (77) (69) When your palm faces the floor, begin to form a fist. Execute a double palm strike to the rear.

(70) Retract your fist to (71) the right side of your chest, in the basic sil lim (78) Raise your hands and bring them to the front at about chest level. (79) tao position. Execute a double palm strike in front of your groin.

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(88) After executing the finger jab, drop both arms, palms down, in front of your groin in defense against a groin kick. (89) Still extended, move your arms up, with the palms facing you and fingers pointing toward the floor. (80) Lift both hands and begin to cross the left over the right. (81) Raise the left arm to shoulder level and hold the right arm below and parallel to the left. The palms are faced toward the floor.

(90) Form your hands into fists as you retract them to your chest. (91) Turn the palms up so that you are again in the basic sil lim tao position.

(82)Simultaneously swing both arms out, and extend them to your sides in sol jee (outside sweep or sweeping fingers). (83) Return your arms to the original position (an inside eye sweep) in front of your chest. This time, place the right arm above the left.

(92) Perform the left slapping block (pak sao) to the right, but do not move .your hand past the right shoulder. (93) Return your hand to the middle of your chest, keeping the elbow three inches from your body and the fingers pointed toward the ceiling.

(84) To execute a sinking elbow block, raise both forearms so they are parallel, with the palms facing each other. (85) Without moving the elbows, execute a palm-up block (tan sao) by turning the two palms up. i

94 (94) Execute a left, sideward palm strike (woang jeong) by thrusting your palm straight out at face level. (95) Then rotate your hand to the palm-up position.

NEXT WEEK: Sil Lim Tao continued (86) Turn the palms away from you and jerk them downward (jut sao). (87) THIS supplement is extracted from the book Wing Chun Kung Fu by J. Yimm Lee, Quickly extend both hands in a double jab to the eye (bil jee). Ohara Publications, Los Angeles, California. The book is available in some city bookshops.

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ACH century seems to have tidigitation which makes still pic­ yet created. And Andalusian dog, famed everything else while at the same Eits mode of thought. In the tures into movies. One of the These films date from the for its image of a razor slitting an time entertaining that nothing 19th it was romanticism; the 20th great fathers of movies was height of surrealism, when the eyeball, but more amazing for its relates to anything. is surrealism. Georges Melies, and for him movement in Paris was young and compounding irrationality as one Bunuel’s films generally ridi­ It is easy to think o f surrealism movies were merely extensions of vigorous, and avant-garde artists image piles on another in a cule religion and authority, deny­ as an old art movement, or as the his stage conjuring act. approached cinema with a sense dynamic demonstration of the ing the assumed power o f insti­ “ funny” pictures of Salvador Dali. But there exists an extensive of freedom and anarchism only surrealism o f “ the chance meeting tutions while positing individual But really it is the grid in which body o f explicitly surreal movies, recently recovered by our con­ of an umbrella and a sewing freedom which is never free be­ most o f us see the world. “ That’s many made by the artists associat­ temporary avant-garde filmers. machine on an operating table” . cause of the mysterious manifesta­ a bit surreal” is quite a common ed in the textbooks with surreal­ Take Entr’acte for instance. Finally, for those with a tions of the human spirit. saying and is not limited to es­ ism. The National Film Theatre of Originally shown as an interlude perverse interest in the effects of While the N F T A season is not thetes and art connoisseurs. It’s Australia is currently showing in a ballet called Performance drugs on the mind, Blood of a intended as a Bunuel season, his the Harbor bridge and the Opera some of them in capital cities postponed, it featured Picabia, poet, recording a junkie’s vision o f work dominates the programming, House, the man in the kaftan around Australia, and for those Duchamp, Man Ray, Satie and the few seconds it takes for a tho his ever-present surrealism is walking down George street, the interested in trying their minds on others looning round in Paris loca­ brick chimney to fall to the often overshadowed in such works commercial in the middle of the something a little harder (or tions in a quick-cut tempo with ground, here extended for over as Nazarin, Viridiana, Belle de murder scene on TV. easier) than whether Guru Maha- extreme camera movements that half-an-hour and filled with jour and Tristana by his mastery Surreal vision is part of our raj Ji is God, they are well worth even today would have the judges visions of paranoia and despair. of the conventions of classical everyday lives, just as romantic the visit. * * * in the Benson & Hedges film Unfortunately, the N FTA narrative filmmaking. Only in The vision dominated a century ago as IN ONE o f the best programs competition poohbaahing about hasnt been able to get hold of exterminating angel (1962) does a part of the wake of the French assembled by any cinema this confusion of purpose or lack o f Bunuel’s Age o f gold, his towering patently absurd situation take revolution. I suppose we owe sur­ year, the NFTA is showing Picabia consistency. Or Seashell and the masterpiece and the greatest ex­ over the plot and make possible real vision to the first world war & Claire’s Entr’acte (1924), Ar­ clergyman, once banned by the ample of an aspect o f surrealism the extremes of irrational be­ and its total destruction of any taud & Dulac’s Seashell and the British film censor who claimed it that Dali has defined as “ paranoid havior that are the essence of imagined order in the world. But clergyman (1928), Dali & was “ so cryptic to be almost criticism” or “ critical paranoia” . cinematic surrealism. it grew from a reaction to roman­ Bunuel’s Andalusian dog (1929) meaningless. If there is a meaning Essentially this has to do with the Other films being sljown test ticism and was fostered by the and Jean Cocteau’s Blood o f a it is doubtless objectionable.” The mind’s ability to associate any one the full range o f surrealism, from poet maudits of the fin de siecle. poet (1932). A nice night’s enter­ copy in the National Film Library image with another, to see in­ the poetic fantasy of Cocteau’s Apollinaire invented the word tainment, as Barry Humphries comes with a psychologist’s warn­ finitely receding associations be­ Orphee (1950) to the recent Paris in 1903. He coined it in his might say, but also a collection of ing to be read to audiences before tween ideas and objects, with as­ does not exist (Robert Benayoun, introduction to his play Tireseas's the most powerful cinema the screening. suming everything relates to 1969), with its modish surrealism breasts which took surrealist thea­ induced thru hashish ingestion. tre one step beyond Jarry’s King There are also films admired by Ubu. Apollinaire pointed out that the orthodox surrealists. (Who, it when man wished to imitate the must be remembered, were an action o f walking he invented the exclusive Paris club ruled over by wheel rather than mechanical legs. Andre Breton who by divine right This he claimed was an exercise in pronounced some works surreal surrealism - the human vision and others not.) In this category extending beyond what is seen, are the great German expressionist and creating what is imagined. works The cabinet o f Dr Caligari His successor Andre Breton and Nosferatu, and the giant seized upon the surrealism of American fantasy King Kong. dreams and for a long time people Then there is the Marx Bros associated surrealism with the Animal crackers and W. C. Fields’ night time imaginings of our You're telling me, as well as two minds. But Breton also defined American films that I am un­ another kind o f surrealism - pure familiar with — Peter Ibbetson psychic automatism — in which (Henry Hathaway, 1935) and man acts freely beyond the con­ Pandora and the flying Dutchman straints of learning or knowledge. (Albert Lewin, 1951). In this he picked up on the Italian One of the most enjoyable futurist Marinetti who had shout­ ed “ Let us reach out into the un­ films in the series is Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Man on (1949). Never a fathomable reservoirs o f the absurd” surrealist, and responsible for such diverse cinema classics as Wages o f Absurdity is no longer some­ fear and The Picasso mystery, thing o f mystery, or even surprise. The Theatre o f the Absurd point­ Clouzot teamed with surrealist writer Jules Ferry to adapt the ed to the absurdities of everyday Abbe Prevost’s 18th century novel life, and the cross-cultural fertil­ of love, fate and death Manon isation of the global village has Lescaut. juxtaposed so many contradictory Clouzot and Ferry seized upon elements that we now accept that the irrational turns of fate of this what is absurd to one person classic of French literature, and in appears quite normal to another. updating it to contemporary times For someone who allows himself to see it so a walk in the street is (ie. 1949) have rendered it surreal as surreal an experience as one in the manner of many o f Rene could wish, as all those drug con­ Clair’s later works. Seeing it now, sumers in our society know quite 25 years later, time has rendered well. Breton and his friend Max it even more surreal. Ernst made such urban per­ I first saw this movie about 15 ambulations a feature of their years ago and in my adolescence lives, walking thru the movie go­ identified with Manon's free spirit ing on all around them. at the mercy of irrational fate. In many respects movies are all Her death in the desert at the hands of arabs then had con­ surreal, reconstituting people and temporary relevance, coming as it places in time with all the dexter­ did after the second Palestinian ity o f the fabled magicians. This war. Now seeing it after the was after all their source of origin, fourth Palestinian war it seemed in the fairgrounds, as part of the just as relevant and the situation sideshows, the flickering pictures even more surreal. on the nickelodeon, the pres­

THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, november 27-december 3, 1973— Page 19 Clouzot shows no sympathy for either the arabs or the jews, but is pointed in revealing the promised land as a desert, and suggesting the American western in the raid by arabs on camels coming over the hills to attack the jewish refugees. Like all surrealist films, Manon can be read as a critique of society, with its incidental treatment of the humiliation o f women who had socialised with the wartime German occupants, postwar black- marketeering and exploitation of jewish refugees, and the jewish colonisation of Palestine. But as is usual with surrealist films, the narrator (ie. the filmmaker) stands aside from these events and in depicting them allows the absurd­ ity of most human endeavor to show thru. In doing so he invokes critical paranoia and a lot of humor besides.

WHEN I started making films 11 years ago I followed the surrealist banner, and the first two that I made were from scenarios by sur­ realists, It droppeth as the gentle rain (by Jacques Prevert) and The spurt o f blood (by Antonin Artaud). The first was banned, showing the fear surrealism still held for authorities in 1963. The response at that time dif­ fered little from that of the Brit­ ish censor banning Dulac’s film of another Artaud scenario. While I was making those films there was another surrealist filmmaker working in Adelaide. He was Dusan Marek, and in his purity of vision must be acknowledged Aus­ tralia’s most important film sur­ realist. Unfortunately his films (dis­ tributed by the Sydney Film Co­ op) rarely get shown, and of course were not considered for the N F T A season (which is based on foreign textbooks on the sub­ ject). But in his Cobweb on a parachute, Marek has created a surreal film heavy with psycho­ analysis that stands as a consider­ able demonstration o f critical paranoia. Regrettably, the finan­ ciers of this film were shocked by what they saw and never allowed the film to get beyond the editing stage. But the film can be seen today (in black & white rather than its original color) ably dem­ onstrating the grip surrealism still has on the contemporary con­ sciousness.

SURREALISM is not a dead movement (even tho Pope Breton has passed on), but has transcend ed the confines of art and has entered the everyday world. In trying to understand the machina­ tions of a Nixon mind one has to see it within the context of this everyday surrealism, the critical paranoia integral to the workings of the mind, and the irrationality of our own behavior that results in or from those unaccountable twists of what the ancients called fate. si! m&s Those men up there in Skylab watching Kohoutek are having a real experience, yet to me, sitting down here and looking up into the sky it is patently surreal, an episode from a Georges Melies movie or something that Salvador Dali dreamed up. As Eugene Ionesco once said, “ Reality is the only unreality” . j~ ~ j

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.______U *3 107? . HE ANNOUNCEMENT of a Just us teachers page. cosmic joke. The first is from politics o f the school page However, for this week we JOHN SOUTHERN of Temple- broughtT a minor avalanche o f cor­ restrict the discussion to two re­ stowe who is considerably more respondence from diverse areas of ports on SRCs at outer suburban optimistic, and who mentions in the education system, and not Melbourne high schools. The sec­ an introductory note that he can only from kids. The numbers of ond is from ANDREW MACLEAN see the possibility of a widescale Built on totally disillusioned teachers in of Mitcham who seems to wonder student organisation, a project Built on the system seems to suggest the in the end whether the whole ques­ perhaps for the holidays. - ROB solid future possible inauguration of a tion is not perhaps some kind of KING. chewing Correspondence etc for the Melbourne School Kids Page can be sent to Rob King, "Lodge Ralph", foundations David road, Lilydale. gum HE SRC at Mitcham high TUDENT government, or school has been established perhaps more appropriately S for approximately six months. the lack o f it, is an interesting TDuring the first four months it subject. As a student who has went through natural birth pains. been involved with the establish­ However, over the past eight ment o f an SRC and its activities, weeks the students, the admin­ I have too often heard the cry istration, the PCA, the parents, from student activists that SRCs the advisory council and some of are not representatives of the stu­ the teachers have been prepared dent body, but mere puppets of to accept it as a group o f students the school's administration. This trying to bridge the gaps that exist may well be true in many cases. at present between staff and the But the fault lies not with the student body. This remarkable SRC system but with those be­ change was brought about by an hind it. event of seeming insignificance: Take, for example, my school, the necessity to stand for the a typical suburban high school in national anthem. the outer suburbs of Melbourne. The SRC supported a move by During my six years of attend­ some students who couldnt see ance, two SRCs have failed be­ the purpose of standing for a tune cause the school’s administration that meant nothing to them. It is crushed them into extinction. At important to note that it was the beginning of this year a few played friday morning, as it states students decided that a school of quite clearly in the handbook of 1000 students should be able to Rules and Regulations published achieve some form of student for the Victorian Education De­ government. partment; that a very elaborate Behold, the magic question ceremony including the national arose, how to do it? This time we anthem be performed on monday avoided the death trap o f going to morning before the school week the school’s administration, but begins. wisely called on the assistance of The protest by the SRC took parents. They responded and from the form of a sit-down. This unim­ this point we have grown into an portant and by now common oc­ effective student body. The reas­ currence throughout our dem­ on, I suppose, was that the ocratic world aroused a surprising school’s administration was not degree of emotion, and tempers prepared to enter into conflict mittee to organise visitors to ad­ extend the range of our involve­ progress with the fulfillment of were rather frayed at times, but with the parents that were behind dress the student body. Again the ment to various activities, such as our aims and goals in an independ­ there were no suspensions as the us. SRC has complete power over headmaster admitted the numbers Democratic elections were held clubs. An example o f this is the ent way that otherwise could not who it invites. film group which was granted have been possible. were far too great. However, the and the SRC as such existed. SRC was accused of being ir­ Throughout the year meetings Perhaps one of our most con­ money to buy equipment neces­ To achieve effective student structive achievements was our sary for filmmaking. government one must build upon responsible; o f not knowing the were held every week during extent of support it had through­ which any student could express financial foundation; we organised Overall the SRC this year has solid foundations. I believe that an SRC week in which the various out the school; o f not informing his opinion. Some may claim that achieved the most important thing properly run SRCs are indeed this forms throughout the school rais­ of all in student government: it foundation. the school of its intentions and of an organised meeting is a repres­ failing to communicate with all sive atmosphere but the ad­ ed the funds for the union. Over has established itself amongst stu­ JOHN SOUTHERN $300 was raised and with this members o f the school. vantages of having an organised dents, parents, teachers and the Numbers have now been in­ meeting cannot be overemphasis­ money we have been able to administration. From here we can □ creased so that every form is ed. represented, and that representa­ Many o f you will say, so what, ^ You tive reports back to their form you sound pretty much like any frV5 / 1 CAM ^ every week. An interested group other SRC. Well to show you that v weup yoo s,rr of teachers have organised them­ we are different I should list some WHAT You WAWT selves so that at least two are of the results of our existence. ) \ r You T.EEP I r C - present at each SRC meeting and Quite Atouvio THE • Forum committee (equal J SCHOOL., CdtAE to C L. the PCA have invited six SRC numbers of students, teachers and Some o r oue. (A£etin<;s members to attend its monthly parents): This committee has been /a t thC Back o r t a g meeting. After much enthusiasm R\U_ ROARD, TRt extremely useful in creating links Sc-UCOL, AT to-ao was generated by the above initia­ between the various groups of the u \^Tomirat O-'R. tives our hope in humanity was school. In fact this body has rather daunted when the SRC enabled the SRC to gain the much proposed that it have a representa­ needed support o f teachers. tive on staff meetings. • Student newspaper, run by a This request will be denied, subcommittee of the SRC: This but, as one staff member said: paper is completely free of censor­ “ We’re still discussing it,” which ship and is completely controlled does show some glimmer o f hope, by students. “ but nearly all the staff is against • Use of school facilities: That it,” which does not show any is, being able to communicate to glimmer of hope. It seems that students by means o f PA system, staff members feel that it might / / * * duplicated notices and being able lead to a loss o f teachers "united to hold special form assemblies. "SO facade” ; interstaff gossip might • Social activities, such as stu­ AT Y o o R NEXT become interschool gossip; stu­ dent dances which had previously S - ft - C . dents might lose their respect and r\E -£T INQ Y o o been out of the question until the their image of their teacher if the CA\CMT C£T SRC was able to exert some pres­ BOSTH? truth be known. .— . sure. The SRC also has a subcom- ANDREW MACLEAN |___| Page 22 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, november 27-december 3, 1973 A guide to what’s on in the week ahead Nov 27 - Dec 3 UmyBdtyhte

MELBOURNE MELBOURNE MONITOR: Chris & Eva 51.9563 or 51.8214, write Flat 8, No 7 Irving Ave, Windsor, 3181. and original. Union build­ TV sity, Union theatre, see Leicester street, Carlton, Viaduct theatre, see wed. THEATRE T m » s . ing, Melbourne uni. Closes “Melbourne” : *23: A city tuesday. $2.50, $1.50. “ My Sister Eileen” , Mal­ nov. 30. 10-6. gone Mad” — documentary “ French Connection” : vern Theatre Co, see thur.j “ Waltzing Matilda” , Pram | of the police strike. 7.30, Footscray Grand, see tues­ FILMS “ Happy Birthday, Wanda Factory, see tues. R O C K day. “ Happy Birthday, Wan dal] Channel O. “ Kwaidan” (N.R.C.): June” , Actors theatre, see Kush: Musicians Union. June” , Actors theatre, see | “ Yes” : Referendum talk, Ghost stories. Melbourne fr i Mighty Kong: Station fri. 9.20, Channel 2. TV university. Union theatre, “ Showbiz 73”, Tait the­ hoteL P rah ran. W I V l H i “Man of Straw” : BBC see tuesday. atre, see fri. Ariel: Matthew Flinders. F ILM S r o c k : RADIO dramatisation of Heinrich “ Marat Sade” and “ Flash “ A Flea in her Ear” , Pump­ “ M oan a” , and “ Sarre FOLK Upp, Earls Court, Upper Australian Percussion Mann’s novel. Part 1, 9.20, the Sheepdog” : F or kids at kin Players, 8.15, 314 Bique”, Fitzroy Film So­ P e t e r P a rkhiU, Frank Esplanade: St Kilda. Ensemble: 8.32, 3AR. Channel 2. La Trobe university. Agora Church street Richmond, ciety, 124 Napier street Traynors: 100 £ittle Lons­ Kush: Croxton Park. “ M O R G A N — A suitable theatre, $1.50, 50c kids. $1.50. F itzroy, 8 pm, $1 plus dale street. Farm: Whitehorse. case fo r treatment” : D ont donation. miss it! 9.00, Channel 0. FILMS “ French Connection” still JAZZ H uh* Hot City Bump Band: FOLK Sat FOLK “ Shoot the Pianist” (M) by at Footscray Grand. ROCK Truffaut, and “Kanal” “ Showboat”, 2 pm, Trak Prospect Hill, Kew. Country radio, Dingoes, (M) Polish, about a par~ cinem a Bushwhackers and Bul- Carnival, Hot City Bump ROCK Matthew Flinders. T H E A T R E lockies: Polaris Inn. fri tisan group in the Warsaw Band: C roxton Park. H ot C ity Bump Band, Henchmen, Whitehorse. R A D IO “Waltzing Matilda — a uprising, see tuesday. Mississippi: Whitehorse. Tank, International, Matt Big Push, C roxton Park. Alberts Bridge, Tom Stop- national pantomime with LATE NITE, Athenaeum, JAZZ Ariel, Tank, Waltzing Taylor, Dingoes, Madder M adder Lake, Upp, Blaises. parch: 3LO, 8 pm. tomato sauce” : Pram Fac­ Matilda, Myriad: Matthew 10.30, $2.00, $1.00. Frank Traynor: Beaumaris Lake: Chelsea city halL Mackenzie Theory, Atlas, O TH E R S tory, 325 Drummond Flinders. hoteL Mississippi: Rembrandt re­ Melbourne tow n hall. RADIO ‘‘Christmas Carol’’, s tr e e t, Carlton, 8.30, Mighty Kong: Penthouse Fat Alroy, John Brown- Skylights: Prospect Hill. ceptions. Adelphi Players, 12.00 $2.50, $1.50, $1.20. Country Radio: Station rigg. Madder Lake, Teasers “Valerius”, play: 3AR, noon, part of a Commun­ “ All in a Family” : Power­ hoteL FOLK Pendulum, Essendon foot­ 8.30. TH E A T R E ity Day Spectacle in the house, Lakeside drive, Bushwhackers and Bul- ball chib. FOLK KIDS F itz r o y gardens. Con­ A lb ert Park reserve, 8.00, “Waltzing Matilda” : Pram lockies: Pollaris Inn. l $1.00. Peter Parkhill, phis Colo­ tinuing with “On the Factory, see tuesday. John Crowle, Mike nial dancing with Chris “ George and Dragon 1” at John Crowle, Frank the Claremont theatre is a Move” , Jazz Ballet At the ‘ F ILM S “ A Bunch of Ratbags” : O’Rourke, Christy Cooney, Wendt, Dan O’Connell, Traynors, Steve Ellis, The short play that will appeal same time displays o f p o t­ f ftUm berto D.” (G ): Fes- 8.15, Viaduct theatre, 27a Frank Traynors. Carlton, 3 pm. Ramblers, Mike O’Rourke, to older kids at various tery, painting, judo and I tival o f famous film s, Cromwell road. South St Andrews Night, Richard Bruce McNicol, Graham Dan O’Connell: Carlton. levels. While George goes wrestling. Dont miss Poor | DeSica. Yarra, $2.50, $1.00. Leitch, Hugh McEwan, Phil Lowndes, Marg Road­ Marg Roadknight, Tanker- snail hunting, his people Tom ’ s Poetry Band. . “Heat Wave Island” (M): “ A ll in a Fam ily” : P o w er­ Day, Peter Parkhill, Scot­ knight, Outpost Inn. ville Arms: Carlton. starve and the apothecary I Kane to Shindo, both at house, see tuesday. tish Piper, Tavern Folk, Peter Parkhill, John Gra­ solves all. The Dragon is 1 8.00, Melbourne university Union, N. Carlton. ham, Peter Parkhill, plus JAZZ w orth seeing. 2 pm, 50c Hen Union theatre, Parkville, FILMS more! Frank Traynors. J Owen Yeatman: Prospect JAZZ kids, $1 adults, Claremont [$1.70, $1.20. Roger Anderson, Mike Gal­ FOLK “ October” (G ): Eisen- Hill. Red Onion Jazz Band: ■ “ Exterminating Angel” stein’s famous film, 8.00, lagher, Commune Folk, street S.Y. Philip Day, Frank Tray­ Dave Rankin Jazz Band: Prospect Hill, Kew. lan d “ Dead o f Night” : Sur- University hoteL nors. Melbourne university, Alma hotel, 32 Chapel Dave Rankin Jazz Band: I realist films at Carlton Jackson McQuade, guitar, Union theatre, see tuesday. street, St Kilda. Railway Club hotel, Port JAZZ Icinema, 7.40, Faraday “ Five Fingers of Death” Melbourne. plus Fusion, Joannas Carl­ Sun Ted Vining Trio: Prospect ■ street, Carlton. and “ Billy Jack” : Foots- ton (soon to move to FOLK T H E A T R E S Storyville Jazzmen: Manor Hill. cray Grand,.see tuesday. House. greener pastures). Country Radio: Teasers. POETRY AND ROCK TV “ A p ollo 17” , “ Mariner- “ Waltzing Matilda” : Pram Fantasy: C roxton Park. Poor Tom’s Poetry Band:] Mars 69” , “ Clouds o f Factory, see tuesday. JAZZ Tank: Icelands. ‘Advance New Guinea: THEATRE Commune. Venus” , “ Exploration of “A Bunch of Ratbags” : Matt Taylor, Mackenzie ! Where?” ATV-O, 7.30. Dave Rankin Jazz Band, EXPERIMENTAL: the Planets” : By Monash V ia d u c t th eatre, see “ Waltzing Matilda” : Pram Lem on iree , Carlton, arvo. Theory: Ayers Rock, St RADIO Wednesday. Factory, see tuesday. Vincents Church Hall, N.I.A.G.G.R.A.: La Mama' Astronomical Society, Skylight, Prospect Hill, Faraday street, Carlton. Monash university, 8.00, “ My Sister Eileen” : 8.15, “ A Bunch of Ratbags” : Kew, arvo. Strathm ore. *73 Bayreuth Festival: Malvern Theatre Co., 29 V ia d u c t th ea tre, see Lecture room hall. Free. Yarra Yarra Jazz Band, Madder Lake: Teasers. FILMS Rheingold, 3A R , 7.30. Bourke street. East Mal­ Wednesday. Danny Spooner plus Gor­ Prospect Hill, night “ French Connection” : “ No” : Referendum talk by OTHERS vern, $1.40, $1.00, 70c. “ Happy Birthday Wanda The Plant, Polaris Inn. don McIntyre, Frank Tray­ Footscray Grand. Hamer, 3LO, 6.40. FIL M S June” : Actors theatre, nor, Marg Roadknight, Wind in the Woods, Alex “ M other Joan o f the 8.30, 196 Church street, T H E A T R E S John Crowle: Outpost Inn. R A D IO GALLERY Greave Chamber Players: Angels” (M ): Polish film,, Richm ond. “ Ceramics” : Exhibition at “ Waltzing Matilda” , Pram L ain g’s “ Madness, the Flagstaff gardens, better than the Devils. “ Showbiz-73” : Review, JAZZ the Ewing gallery is diverse Factory. F a m ily and S ociety” : 12. 10- 1. 10. 8.00, Melbourne univer­ 8.15, Tait theatre, 107 “A Bunch of Ratbags”, Fusion, Joannas: Carlton. 3AR , 10 pm. SYDNEY MONITOR: Stephen Wall 698.2652, P. O. Box 23, Surry Hills. Listings are free. Copy closes SYDNEY Thursday before publication.

Glenn Yarbrough, Henry THEATRE O TH E R S TV , R A D IO “ Fillm ore” : see tues. FILMS Fonda: ATN7, 11 pm. “The Threepenny Opera” , Biennale of Sydney: see “ Shanghai Express” — Mar­ “ China’s Red Sons” : Film Iue» “ The Couch” , psycho-sus­ Opera House, 8 pm. “ Millhouse” and “ Battle of R O C K tues. lene Dietrich: TCN9, 11 Makers Co-Op, 6 pm, 8.15 Algiers” : Mosman Classic, pense stuff from the guy pm. pm. Flake: Chequers. who wrote “Psycho”: T V , R A D IO 2 pm. AT N 7 , 8.30 pm. David Frost with Harold O TH E R S T H E A T R E W. C. Fields, “ T illie and CONTEMPORARY etc Gus” ; Marx Bros “ Monkey E VE N TS Wilson, ABCTV, 8.50 pm. Biennale o f Sydney: see “My Aunt the Unicorn’ Business” : S.U. Union, Biennale of Sydney — “ Man’s Thumb on Nature’s Fri tues. John Hepworth’s comedy: Jeff Bull: Stage Door Tav­ 4.30 pm. Balance” — control and ROCK Tea House and Library: Studio 228, Kings Cross ern. exhibition o f paintings and W. C. Fields “ It’s a G ift; sculpture by aussie and for­ preservation of wildlife: Old Church, tues-fri. (info 43.0433, ext 677). Abbey Jazz Band: Lord Omnibus: 1 Glebe Point Marx Bros “ Horse Feath­ eign manipulators: Opera A T N 7 . 11.15 pm. 31.6270. “ Tricky N ick ” , see fri. Dudley hotel, Paddington. Rd, Glebe, 8 pm. ers” : Syd. Uni. Union, 8 House exhibition hall, “ Sex and the single girl” — “Tiny Alice” by Edward Eclipse Alley Five: Vanity Bank of Light: Chequers. pm. 10.30 am-7.30 pm. Free. Miss World 1973: TCN9, Albee: The Old Church, Fair hoteL Pirana: Manly Vale hotel. N F T 30s musicals — “ One Lunchtime Ferry Trips: 7.30 pm. cnr. Palmer & Stanley Merv Acheson T rio : Bistro, Tantrum: Brighton hoteL Satur Hour With Y ou ” and Wharf 4/5, ask for 20 cent streets. East Sydney 123 A voca st, Randwick. E V E N T S Tepois: Oceanic hotel. ROCK (31.6270), 8.15 pm. “ 42nd Street” : Opera Don De Silva’s Jazz Band: excursion ticket. Take Biennale o f Sydney: see Dizzy and the Heroes: Omnibus: 8 pm. House Music Room. O ld Push. your own tucker and ring tues. Black Bull Wine Bar. La De Das, Pirana: Avalon T V , R A D IO “ Hendrix” : Village Twin, 27.5276 for departure de­ Dick Hughes Solo Piano: Prices Referendum Confer­ Francis Butler's 69ers: comm unity hall. “ Raiders of the Seven Seas” 5.15, 7.45 pm. tails — all week. French’s Tavern, Darling- ence: Teachers Federation Hakoah Soccer Club. La De Das, Hush: Caring- — Swashbuckling pirates “ Performance” : Village hurst Auditorium, 9 am to 4.30 bah YM C A. CONTEMPORARY, etc. and a bit of your old Twin, 5.30, 8.15 pm. | CLASSICAL pm. Band of Light: Taren Point treachery on the high seas: “China’s Red Sons” (6 Dick Hughes Trio: Stage Poetry Workshop: St Youth Centre. ABCTV, 10.30 pm. pm); experimental films Door Tavern. NHK Symphony Orchestra John’s church, Darling- Pirana: Manly Vale hotel Ghost Story: ATN 7, 10 (8.30): Film Makers Co-op. R O C K Pact Folk: YWCA, Liver- — Stravinsky, Isnn, Tchai- hurst road, Darlinghurst. Tantrum: Brighton hoteL pm. THEATRE ■ kovsky: Opera House con- Flake: Chequers. Info 455.1414. p ool st. Tepois: Oceanic hoteL Sigley on Sa tu rd a y — un­ Street theatre | cert hall, 8 pm. Finch: Brighton hoteL Puppetmaking Workshop: Sydney Folk Song Club: Dizzy and the Heroes: Nim rod reality on TCN9, 9.30 pm. “ Kaspar” 8.30 pm. tues- “War and Peace” , Proko­ Magic: Oceanic hoteL Old Church, 6.30 pm. Elizabeth hoteL Black Bull Wine Bar. Cellar Folk Club: Liver­ E V E N TS sun. fiev: Opera House, 7.30 CONTEMPORARY, etc. Yoga: Village church, Pad­ Hush, H ot R ock et: R ock­ pm. dington, 5.30-7.00 pm. po ol st. dale Masonic HalL The Great Kung Fu Show TV , R A D IO Port Jackson Trio: Stage Bill Haesler’s Jazz Band: — Packaged Power Puffs: FILMS CONTEMPORARY, etc. “UFO’s Fact or Fiction” : Door Tavern. Cricketers Arms hotel, Hordern Pavilion, $5.20 A T N 7, 11 pm. Surry Hills. The Colonials: Stage Door N F T Surrealism — “ Animal Traditional Folk: Elizabeth (info 29.7949). “The Joker is Wild”: Hum Doc Willis and the Dukes Tavern, 211.0411. Crackers” , “ Y ou ’ re Telling hoteL R O C K Biennale of Sydney: see TCN9, 8.30 pm. Merv Acheson T rio and Men: Albury hotel, Dar­ Pact Folk: YWCA, Liver­ Me” : Aust. Govt. Centre Flake: Chequers. tues. E V E N TS Theatrette, 7.30 pm. Guests: Bellevue hotel, Finch: Brighton hoteL linghurst. pool street. Womens Electoral Lobby Sydney Folk Song Club: See “Millhouse” at Mos- Hendrix: Village Twin, Paddington. Magic: Oceanic hoteL Jeff Bull: Unity Hall hotel, — “ Money for Mum” con­ Elizabeth hoteL man Classic then, Bar-b- Double Bay, 1.30, 5.30, Dick Hughes Quartet: Francis Butlers 69’ers: Balmain. ference: Glebe town hall, 2 Traditional Folk: Edin­ que, A.I.C.D. Benefit — pm, 7.45 pm. Stage Door Tavern. Black Bull Wine Bar, The White Company: Vil­ pm. Performance: Village Twin, Jeff Bull’ s Band: Old Push. lage Centre theatre, Pad­ burgh Castle hotel. $3.00. Steak, salad, slops Haberfield. Village Bazaar: Village (info 26.1701). Double Bag, 1.30, 5.30, dington. Bill HaedeFs Band: Crick­ church, O xford st, Pad­ C LA S S IC A L C O N T E M P O R A R Y , etc. eters Arms (afternoon). Kung Fu: see fri. 8.15 pm. C L A S S IC A L dington, 9 am onwards. Filmore — Santana, Grate­ Sonatas by Mozart, Bach: Blue Grass and Traditional: Merv Acheson Trio: Belle­ Biennale o f Sydney: see “War and Peace” — Pro­ tues. ful Dead, Hot Tuna, Quick Conservatorium o f Music, Red Line hoteL vue hotel (afternoon). kofiev: Opera House. Silver: Manly Silver Screen, 1.10 pm to 1.50 pm. Free. Port Jackson Jazz Band: Eclipse Alley Five: Vanity Recital: Opera House Re­ 7.30 pm. N H K Sym. Orch. — Take- Stage D o o r Tavern. Fair hotel (afternoon). Sun mitsu, Mozart, Tchaikov­ Unity Jazz Band: Old cording Hall, 8.15 pm. Doc Willis: Albury hotel, C O N T E M P O R A R Y , etc. Men T H E A T R E sky: Opera House concert Push. Darlinghurst (afternoon). Nina Simone: State the­ R O C K FILMS Fair Dinkum: Chequers. “The Threepenny Opera” hall, 2 pm, matinee. C L A S S IC A L Doc Willis: Beresford atre, 8.15. Berthold Brecht: Opera Nabucco: Opera House, “ Hendrix” : see tues. hotel, Surry Hills. Omnibus: Blues, Folk. C O N T E M P O R A R Y , etc. Puccini: Opera House, 7.30 House, 8 pm. 7.30 pm. “ Perform ance” : see tues. Unity Jazz Band: Old The Clique: 559 Crown st, Unity Jazz Band: 729- pm. “ Fillm ore” : see tues. Surry Hills. T V , R A D IO Nathan Waks, cello; Gor­ Push. Club, St Leonard’s. [ don Watson, piano — Bee­ “ China’s Red Sons” : Film Jeff Bull: U nity hall. George Golla, East Neas- “ A Big Country” , a docu­ FILMS Don De Silvas: Old Push. thoven, Brideoake, De­ Makers Co-Op, 8.15 pm. The White Company: Vil­ don Spasm Band, Meadow mentary on motor bikes: N F T Surrealism: see tues. bussy, etc: Opera House, lage church, Paddington. Band, Frank Walsh: Kirk EVENTS 4^0 ABCTV, 8.35 pm. T H E A T R E Kung Fu: see fri. 8.15 pm. “ Hendrix” : see tues. C L A S S IC A L gallery, 8 pm. “Survey” : a Dylan Thomas “ Perform ance” : see tues. “What if you died Tomor­ Biennale of Sydney: FILMS A N ight o f Opera — Faust, C L A S S IC A L m em oir” : A B C T V , 10.05- “ Film ore” : see tues. row” — David Williamson: tues. Traviata, Hoffman, Car­ Classical music on the hour pm. “ Hendrix” : see tues. “ China’s Red Sons” : Film Opera House, 8 pm. Drug Referral Centre: men: Federation Auditor­ from 10 am-3 pm: Sydney ^“Travels with Charley”, “ Performance” : see tues. Makers Co-op, 8.15 pm. “ Tricky N ick — Alive and aOpen meeting. Steinbeck, Rod McKuen, “ Fillm ore” : see tues. W ell” — a Christmas plav: ium, 300 Sussex st. Opera House. f Yoga: Village church, Padj T H E A T R E Mosman town hall, 8 pm Nabucco: Opera House, 1 ABC Concert — Syd. dington, 5.30, 7.00 pm. “The Threepenny Opera” , (info 61.9243). Symp. Orch: Sydney town Pm- FILM S hall. Free. 8 pm. Opera House, 8 pm. “Wick in Wickedness” : Pil­ “ Hendrix” : see tues. < grim theatre, Pitt st. Perform ance” : see tues. x Y V

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ed or interviewed on TV because Smartarse Celluloid he had not done his hair — which was because, he claimed, the pro­ writing condescension moter had not bothered to men­ REFLECTING upon the first six bad­ tion the press conference to him ly registered editions of The Living Am ong the many things I find This, after demanding extra Daylights, I felt that the most ap- depressing about your trite non-toe- plaudible remark one could utter money above and beyond his con­ treading journal (more aptly described would be “ interesting” . . . I suppose. tract to even make an appearance Within the limited sphere of your as a ferret’s afterbirth, perhaps?), not at all! the least is the insulting treatment you sociological interests, I found the work I certainly did not stage the have handed out to the film Dalmas most indicative of any direction at all first Australian concert so soon was the follow-up article by “ Joseph­ The article which poked its snotty ine Turner” (TLD 5) from “John nose out o f a back corner in (T L D 3) in after his scheduled arrival by Hoyland’s” revelations (TLD 1). which one Robert King takes the op­ choice. He demanded eight con­ It is interminably less corrupt than portunity to display his powers of certs in eight days. If we were not a high percentage of other writing in your paper. In accordance with a superficiality and his crude con­ prepared to agree, other promo­ discernible philosophy rampant temporary anthropology (YU K!) is, in ters would — as witness the be­ amongst “ alternate” publications, fact, symptomatic of your apparently hind the scenes activities that many of your writers follow a kind of condescending attitude to celluloid in tried to sabotage the New Zealand smartarse technique, pioneered in Na­ any of its forms. Your choice of contract as it was. It was un­ tion review. This I believe is merely a articles over the first five issues can garrulous cover-up job for the usual fortunate that the only flight only be branded as tokenism. hackneved reporting. Robert King writes: “ It is for these from Christchurch to Melbourne I was led to believe from your was late in arriving. That customs editorial in the initial issue that the people (the remnants of Australia’s paper would not become a forum for ubiquitous counterculture? YUK!), refused to release his amps from small time, political chest-thumping; and for the others who might join Tullamarine until just 15 minutes that perhaps it would rather strive them, that the film Dalmas was made.” prior to the scheduled starting somewhat savagely for some measure My dear sir, I am not part of any time o f the concert. That they o f truth. culture which you could have been would not release the Jands sound I had even expected you to seek describing in your five paragraph pre­ out something progressive of Austral­ equipment also aboard the same amble of pseudo-anthropological his­ ian writers (artists). Unfortunately, plane, as at least the first half of tory (Y U K !), nor would I join such a m y expectations were dashed almost the concert could then have com­ at once, and have been blighted even group, but Dalmas was made FO R ME! more with each subsequent edition. So Even in the unlikely event that Bert menced on time. As it was, the many situations that you deal with Deling made Dalmas for himself and sound equipment takes about one have been dealt the death-blow years his peer group, once he submits to and a half hours to set up and ago. showing it to the wider world, he Mississippi said that they would Without avast and intense upheaval creates ripples which he must acknowl­ o f conceptual initiatives, I envisage the not perform either with only the edge will reach all people; not just Living daylights remaining a secure resident sound system. anchor for many bored, afraid-of-the- some cultural backwater. If MM really thinks that the dark dissidents. CINEPHILE of Buddy Guy tour was such a finan­ a l a n M cG r e g o r , Mordialloc, Vic cial success, good luck to her. I Eaglehawk, Vic. house of assembly and legislative diet and colonic irrigation — no drugs can assure readers it was a loser. council. This prompted that rightwing at alL Sour But she is obviously so biased that Come back rat pack o f Labor fakers known as the "In monkeys, subcutaneous, intra- nothing I could say would con­ peritoneal and intravenous inocula­ state government to hold yet another Berry vince her otherwise. The facts are Syd Barrett of their farcical departmental in­ tions even of the most virulent quiries. material, are without effect, but that after two busy years o f con­ I WOULD like to draw ycur attention Acting in the best traditions o f this cultaneous inoculation, particularly NE COULD be forgiven for cert promotion in 1971 and 1972 to the Syd Barrett International Ap­ kind of fiasco, attorney-general Merv upon the eyebrows and genitals, is expecting that a writer al­ I brought nothing here in 1973 preciation Society. The society’s aim usually followed by typical primary O Everett wrote a “Dorothy Dixer” to is to prom ote Syd and his music, and located as much space in your until the Berry concerts were of­ Big Dan Homibrook, controller of lesions.” (Jordan) to try to get EMI (England) to release november 20 issue as Margaret prisons, asking his opinion o f m y This is a rather clear way of saying fered less than three weeks prior all the tapes of Syd they have, allegations. that it is only a specific “nerve MacIntyre would have at least to the date of his arrival in Aus­ whether recorded solo or with Pink Danny Boy (born in Cork but stimulus” . I know an osteopath who checked the basic facts prior to tralia. Floyd. has had considerable success with V D Syd form ed the Floyd in 1966 and nevertheless an ex-Royal Marine, ex launching into her diatribe against My contract with the New colonial prison governor in Malaya, and many homeopathic preparations left in 1968. Since then, two solo me. As it is, she gets just about and staunch supporter o f British im­ which are also effective. T o view going Zealand promoter, despite MM’s albums have been released, The mad­ perialism) naturally was indignant that to a doctor as the only alternative is everything possible wrong in her statement to the contrary, specifi­ cap laughs and Barrett; however- typically chauvinistic. story about the first Chuck Berry neither of these have been released anyone could say such things about cally nominated that I would not his establishment. The average life expectancy in­ concert. locally. crease since 1870 is not so much due be responsible for Australian tax. Anyone who appreciates Syd may End of inquiry. Everett issued a It is true that I expressed a press statement claiming that the to medical improvements but a greater These contracts must be submit­ join the society by writing to: reaffirmation that jazz men are “Pink Palace” was the victim of a availability o f food and simple, basic ted for approval to the Reserve Paul Cox, 32 Edgeworth Avenue, cleanliness and improved sanitation. A easier to handle. For one thing - Ainsworth, Bolton, BL2 5RL, Lancs., malicious smear campaign. Bank. Such an undertaking would Everett claimed that the article recent article in the National times they have integrity — and they UK. showed that although antibiotics and be illegal and disapproved by the smeared not only his precious prison certainly do not believe in going Barrenly yours, and his turnkeys but also, mind you, immunisation were considered a Reserve Bank. The Los Angeles P. DALY, the “inmates” ! How gallant and chiv­ dramatic breakthrough against infect­ on stage with musicians whom “ go between” who negotiated the Tullamarine, Vic. alrous o f this upholder o f law and ious disease, most of the reduction in they had never even rehearsed one contract had advised that Berry order! I would suggest that if Everett mortality had already occurred before bar, even though the local boys they were introduced. would pay his taxes himself. The Not what is so concerned with the welfare and did a great job and were complete­ reputation of the poor devils at Ris­ On the question o f the use o f very day of departure from Cali­ ly faultless by the third concert. don then he should take a long, hard technologic medicine, with its incred­ fornia for New Zealand, Berry not it seems look at his position as administrator o f ible investments in intensive cardiac Berry advised, two weeks prior only demanded his total money in care units and “wonder drugs” the Dear Daylights, the system which breeds criminals. to his departure from the USA, article stated that an English research advance, but also threatened that Re your advert in T L D 2. The Does Mr Everett really believe that project, in 1971, found the proportion that he would do one — and one if his Australian and New Zealand company is M & P Parking where I was you can rehabilitate a man by dragging only — press conference in Aus­ him away from his family and subject­ o f recovery rates, deaths and other taxes were not covered, he would employed for as long as my gall allow­ ing him to the monotony and mean­ results were almost identical for home tralia. I had to then nominate in accept engagements in America ed, and during that time made investi­ treatment and expensive hospital inten­ inglessness o f life behind bars? Does advance the time and the place. rather than make the trip down gations into the conditions of the Mr Everett really believe that incar­ sive care. The conventional medical My PR girl, Jo Spencer, chose women employed. However, at the therapy is not and never has been under. He was told that “ we ceration of criminals together day 10.30am Wednesday, november after day, in the custody of men who orientated to what causes such degen­ would do what we could to avoid P female staff were never trained to be anything erative diseases. 14, at his Melbourne hotel. taxation” . other than guards, can rehabilitate ROBERT BOWDEN, When he arrived at Tulla- Thereafter he demanded extra w anted them? Does he really believe that in Ktribilli, NSW. SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE marine, a number of photograph­ money in Australian and New such a social stewing pot, the smaller DRIVERS - MANAGERS ers and reporters were on hand. and weaker prisoners are not bullied? References: Zealand notes before he would $75-$110 Weekly to start Rational bacteriology, p80. Verner, Excellent benefits and a great opportunity for advancement with I retract nothing in my original Having been warned o f Berry’s agree to go on stage, knowing the our rapidly expanding parking stations. article. Weiant, Watkins, USA. incendiary attitude towards any­ Sydney — Apply 142 Elizabeth St. or ring National times, november 12. audience was waiting outside in 61.2932 after 9.30 a.m. thing not previously approved, I V ------M elbourne-Ring 67.2847 , the halls and despite the fact that - A FORMER INMATE. risk of becoming a bore I would Right on said to him that he could speak he had already received everything like you to know that a driver is paid with them or allow himself to be in his contract - and more. We $66 and a manager $75 to $85. A VD photographed just as he felt in­ had to agree to pay first class driver works a nine hour day with a Kevin clined, but that the scheduled return air fares for himself and his half hour lunch break and the manager success THANKS for Kevin Gilbert’s White press conference was, as previous­ poison's gonna kill yuh kids — it was wife. His wife did not come, so he an 11 hour day. Some with no lunch ly advised, the next morning. I break. I feel that this advert is very IN REPLY to some of the points raised (to me) angry, just, lucid, concise, cashed in her ticket and pocketed then handed him the typewritten misleading. I hope that you agree. b y Fed up with idiots (TLD 5), who solemn, funny and in a word, brilliant! the money. He failed to honor obviously displays an unbounded ig­ M ay we see more such articles. itinerary in which this conference B A R B A R A PO TTE R , many of his off-stage oblications. norance of the field of natural I ’m kind o f amazed that there can was clearly shown in black capi­ ______Bondi Junction, NSW He held his promoters to ran­ medicine and drugless healing. I am a be any charge or court proceedings at all without there being some evidence. tals. som. On the night o f his last second year student at a college of The next day when he finally Risdon inmates osteopathy and a final year student at H o hum, please let us know the concert in Sydney he demanded a the University of Sydney. outcome o f Kevin’s hassles if possible. was persuaded to make an appear­ very large sum o f money in cash The little yellow taxi was also good. Regarding syphilis: Rational bacter­ ance before the increasingly dis­ to cover his taxation in America “smeared” iology states that a naturopath, Mc- Do you use full page graphics to fill gruntled gathering, some 20 min­ on his Australian earnings, despite THE publication of my article on Donagh, “ has also rendered syphilitics space? Sometimes it appears so. utes after the nominated starting Risdon prison (T L D 1) caused ques­ with positive Wassermans (examina­ SHARON, the fact that any tax paid in tions to be asked in the Tasmanian tions for VD) quite negative simply by Eastwood, NSW. time, he refused to be photograph­ Australia under the Reciprocal Page 26 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, november 27-december 3, 1973 Tax Agreement would have given Charlie Byrd, Barney Kessel, him a credit on American tax. Herbie Mann, Gary Burton, These are but a few of the many Stephane Grappelli and the Bru- unpleasant incidents which made beck family - and even enjoy the up three of the longest days I can music that they will make. remember in 20 years of concert KYM BONYTHON promotion. Jazzart Concert Promotions I certainly have no beef about Berry’s actual performances, but Feeding am still naive enough to believe that a man’s word should be his a brother bond. We agreed to pay a certain In these days of cosmic bullshit and sum for certain services and then pseudo brotherly love it was beautiful to see some o f Australia’s finest enter­ we fulfilled our obligations to the tainers help feed one of their brothers Jail house rock letter only to be confronted by an and his fam ily b y donating their time artist who puts his promoter in and services in giving a concert at HE ENCLOSED extract /■ such a position that he cannot Melbourne’s Leggetts ballroom in came from the Advertiser deliver what he has promised, not Greville street, Prahran. They gave a november 19, and it raised a few only to his audiences but also to benefit for Chris Stockley, guitarist and interestingT questions, especially the media, unless financial de­ looney from Dingoes, who was shot in for anybody who had, in fact, mands (which were illegal any­ the name of alcohol. been on the very Memorial Drive way) are met at the very last It would be nice to see some token of appreciation expressed by the media courts at the time of the horren­ moment. in the hope that the brotherly attitudes dous crimes being committed. Yes — most jazz men ARE shown by the people who put on the First, as to my impressions of easier - and nicer and more hon­ show and the people who donated what I saw. The offender in fact orable too. And I defend my bread might be further enthused made two trips up on to the stage. rights as a promoter to advise my amongst us all. On the first occasion, he jumped audience of what I have coming Though not through such drastic on stage mid-number and, without horrors as Stockley was reduced to, it up, especially if it is only to fill in in any way interfering with the a few moments o f time before the would be interesting to see much o f the togetherness displayed on that day artists, attempted a little im­ concert is ready to commence promptu go-go dance. After some anyway. It is possible that even by Sydneysiders whom, to me, seem pretty freaked out even by a smile. seconds, two o f the stage crew MM might be interested in hearing removed him from the stage with of the coming of musicians like BILLY THE KID a minimum of trouble. Some time later he made his A f: t V 7 , second appearance; this time in­ 'is * . tent largely on a handshake with superstar Leon. Mr Russell inter­ rupted his piano tinkling long enough to accord a resigned hand­ The Advertiser,November 19 shake to get rid of the offender who was once more removed from the stage with minimal trouble, Court sequel not to come to the audience’s attention again until we opened our monday 'Tiser, where we read the article with its talk o f “ dis­ to concert orderly behavior” , “ bumping into people” (imagine the fun the A 19-year-old laborer who embraced police will have arresting us all for rock star Leon Russell at a concert on Friday the heinous offence during night was gaoled for 35 days on two charges Christmas shopping days) and in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Sat­ “ embracing” — not to mention urday. that it had all been deemed Geoffrey Williams, of had then seen Williams worthy o f 21 days imprisonment. no fixed address, pleaded jump on to the stage and guilty to charges of dis­ embrace Leon Russell, who Let us consider the fact that orderly behaviour and was seated at a piano. the crowd on the courts was not offensive language. Security men had then in any seated arrangement but was Assistant Police Prose­ taken hold of Williams standing in a fairly amorphous cutor J. M. Murray told and had spoken to him at mass, with a great deal o f move­ the court that about 10.20 the, back of the stage, ment throughout the crowd dur­ p.m. on Friday police had It ^ alIeged he seen the defendant run­ become highly excited and ing the whole show - I am sure a ning about the main body had abused police. lot of people “ bumped into” a lot of the concert audience Williams was gaoled for o f other people during that night, on the lawns in front of 2i days on the charge of indeed we were clearly exhorted the stage at the Memorial disorderly behaviour and Drive tennis courts for 14 days on the charge by the on-stage artists to “ do our It was alleged he was of offensive language. own thing” etc. in the freedom of bumping into people. He appeared before Mr. S rifa cn t& e fo our amorphous body. APP Murray said police H. A. Dicker, Special JP. Let us consider the powerful, “ gospel-folk-rock” nature of the whole Leon Russell stage show with its aim of total audience queered his pitch. in the past, this fellow’s action involvement and inspiration — Certainly, one cannot condone was pretty tame and, actually, how many people ever got 21 invasion of the stage by even one quite uninteresting in itself. The crowd that brought you the postage stamp, the telephone, the Pink days for “ bumping into people” fan for fear of larger conse­ Musicians and audience alike bare­ Pages, your Xmas cards, gas bills and unwanted mail order catalogues now as they raced o ff to “ embrace” quences. But I am sure that, by ly lost a beat over it. brings you The Living Daylights. Yes, the largest branch o f the Billy Graham at his version of the standards of the screaming public service has been geared to deliver The Living Daylights. 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m m m ™ ^TH^^VIN ^D AYLJG^^^iovem be^ 7 ^decem be^^^ 7 ^ ^ T a g ^ 7 a t t t t e Last week students and “ I joined a Greek friend whose raced past. I saw one longhair being Cross o f Athens) where I noticed civilians were shot and business office is 150 yards from chased by a policeman who’d lost the streets were beginning to look both his hat and his cool. the worse for tank tracks and that maimed as the tanks Syntagma. At times the noise of machine gun fire was so loud it While strolling back towards several other trolley wires had been rumbled through Athens. interrupted conversation. Omonia, a plainclothesman bellow­ downed. WILLIAM HUMPHREYS “ She has lived through the Ger­ ed at me in Greek to hurry along. “ I returned to the hotel to learn was there. Here are extracts man occupation, the subsequent Peering over my dark glasses, 1 that the curfew had been post­ from his personal diary of civil war, which protracted into the intoned in my most autumn brown poned until 7pm. I have remained within: sporadic machine gunning is those harrowing few days. 50s, the chaos o f Greece under Oxford English ‘I beg your par­ Papandreou; although a staunch so­ don?’ His manner mollified at once; still going on at 11pm. cialist, she told me NO to civil war he smiled, and affecting a shy bow, “ American Forces Radio quotes at any price. She said she was made a little gesture with his hands the death toll at five. The radio o f ashamed of both the students and suggesting I should hurry along. the Greek armed services continual­ the police, and insisted that 90 “ I lunched at Omonia and ly broadcasts the umpteen dos and 'T 4 o o e M t f ie n 1 7 percent o f the Greek people wanted watched a police wagon pull up and donts — your guide to staying alive cart away five youths who had just until tomorrow. “ rT , O D AY revealed, the full ex- peace and quiet whether it was happened to be standing on a cor­ “ The mood o f the man in the X tent o f the government’ s con­ Papadopoulos, Nixon or Brezhnev who gave it to them. ner. Article One o f the martial law: street is generally calm and cheer­ cern over the “ nihilist threat” . Mar­ “ A t 1.30pm Papadopoulos made congregations o f five persons or ful. He accepts police self-exertion tial law was imposed at 11am and with a shrug of the shoulders: not curfew at 4pm. Banks, shops and a five minute proclamation over more are forbidden. an easy thing to do, for the Hel­ offices closed by midday, traffic the radio pledging to suppress the “ A t noon I went to OTE — the lenes are a proud race. Some o f the disappeared from the streets, and conspiracy against ‘democracy and Hellenic telecommunications or­ older folk chat agreeably to soldiers tanks - after a field day terrorising normalisation’ , and exhorting the ganisation in Omonia Square — and and policemen; but between the the populace — surrounded the Hellenes to assess the situation for placed a call to Australia. The youth of Greece and the defenders parliament in Syntagma (Constitu­ themselves. building was packed with anxious o f the status quo passes nothing but tion) Square and occupied Omonia “ I lunched in Syntagma observ­ Greeks and foreigners attempting to glares o f loathing and mistrust. (Concord) Square. ing the tanks in Venizelou protect­ contact remote relations. “ Helicopters flew overhead like ing parliament from an invisible “ At 12.10 machine gun fire horrific primordial birds. News­ enemy. A t 3pm I returned to my broke out and people rushed in papers reported four deaths from hotel where I have had to remain from the streets. < < T AW reigns: not a single shot the night before (students who had ever since. There is no point ventur­ “ A t 12.20 two tanks with nests I i was fired in Athens today. In climbed on to the roof o f the pre­ ing outside as, in addition to all the of gunhappy soldiers invaded fact the army and the police have fecture) and 150 casualties, of shops being shut, I might get shot Omonia. An overhead trolley wire felt secure enough to be polite to whom 38 were officers o f the Taw’. on sight. In any case, as the banks was shot down. They are N O T citizens. The tanks have been few “ According to an arab acquaint­ suspended trading almost as soon as using blanks. The tanks (on a power and far between. Traffic and pedes­ ance, the army opened fire on a they had opened, I have very little trip, as one bystanding American trians jostled for supremacy o f the mass of students demonstrating in money to spend on food. As to­ put it) sped down one of the morrow is sunday and I shan’t be thoroughfares leading into Omonia. roads. Banks and Turkish baths Syntagma, killing 15. He showed reopened? Latest figure: nine dead. me blood stains on his trousers able to raise the Australian am­ Then we heard sustained bursts of bassador, I foresee a plightful week­ machine gun fire and what sounded “ On the suggestion of my pro- from a wounded girl whom he had government Greek friend I visited tried to help end. like one or two cannon shots. A few minutes later an ambulance the Polytechnic and saw the other “ I missed this event, being en­ side of the coin. The Polytechnic is gaged at the ministry of foreign came careering around the corner making after the tanks. a modem Greek ruin. Daubed with affairs where I was handing back slogans, littered with broken glass day two o f martial / “ In OTE a middle aged Greek my scholarship. The liaison officer, <<-r|ESPITE from nearly every window, with ■i-^law and the 4pm curfew, it woman and an Indian trying to not understanding why I should two demolished automobiles in its choose to involve myself in an looked as if we were in for a day of telephone England wept. However, forecourt, it is a testimony to the ‘ internal matter’, assured me the rest. A t Syntagma, the tanks guard­ most pretended to regard it all as a student revolt. Around the corner, ing parliament had circumspectly huge joke - the esprit-de-corps of tanks were only firing blanks to a bus with its windows shattered show the rioters that the army was withdrawn into laneway s allowing people facing a common menace. and its tail end battered in, waited the free passage o f traffic along “ By 12.40 Omonia was filled behind the government. to be hauled away. Opposite, the “ Earlier I had witnessed a large Venizelou. And traffic was brisk. with tanks and footsoldiers armed smashed glass doors of a bank were congregation o f dissenters near Tourists and locals were out in with rifles fixed with bayonets. being replaced. Traffic lights had Syntagma, taunting tanks to shoot force, but despite the fine weather, “ A t 12.55 I was told my phone already been repaired, but no one at them and making the open palm fewer cameras were clicking. So far call to Australia was cancelled. We had swept away the glass from the gesture o f contempt. Groups of no shooting and no fever amongst were then all locked out of OTE. sides of the road. Outside one shop, youthful onlookers in the sidewalk the ubiquitous packs o f police. “Along Venizelou, crowds and a weighing machine had been over­ cafe’s around Syntagma were ap­ traffic had already thinned. In “ But down at Omonia, things turned. plauding the demonstrators and en­ Syntagma, all circumspection had were more familiar: the polytechnic | “ The latest news is that a five couraging them with cheers. Fool­ vanished: tanks clogged the streets in October 28th street was block­ year old boy was killed on the hardy tourists took snapshots of around parliament and police were aded by tanks. You couldnt get terrace o f his house by a rampaging the scene for boastful slide-evenings loping about yelling abuse at pass- within two blocks o f it. Police on tank. Are we to blame ‘student back home. But most foreigners ersby who paused to spectate. street comers bawled at pedestrians vandalism’ for this? Does the action huddled together in the foyers of “ At a traffic light I overheard to move on. Two police cars with o f some hundreds of students per­ luxury hotels and tried to put on a an American woman bragging to captured youths in the rear seats mit the police to bully the general­ brave face. Many citizens continued compatriots that a friend had ac­ tually seen someone shot through ity? wandering brazenly about the *‘As for the students, what nave streets; others congregated in door­ the throat. * m they achieved? A few o f them have ways watching silently, some weep- Soldiers in the square cleared , ; the sidewalk cafes at been killed and many wounded. They have given Papadopoulos his C , V. 2 Pm’ so 1 withdrew to chance to put o ff discussion about the Plaka the restitution of democracy. They (the Kings have lost their appeal for academic self-determination and a shortening o f military service. “ Not that it wasnt a valiant try: it takes inordinate courage to stand in front of a tank and dare a nest of trigger happy soldiers to shoot at you.”

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