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This serial is available at Research Online: https://ro.uow.edu.au/livingdaylights/18 Vol.2 No.8 Feb.26-March 1974 3 0 « THE RETURN OF ARMED UME-inside the Symbionese Liberation Army SLADE SLATED NE purpose o f this paper is to O chronicle the quests for alternative living styles and the explorations of inner , yoc'. -'foU space. D aylights is less interested in the tHi5 tHINO KJU 6 details of gross power, wealth and fame, t n O P e o p u ??!{? which we leave to envious correspondents vjM t D oe,' k il l ' riW " of other media. Neither have we much time for ethereal Utopians, who cut com pletely adrift . . . Searchers for a freer alternative have an obligation to pit their Richard Beckett dreams against the grim realities of the everyday. Those who break loose should beats up always remember those w ho are held fast . . . those w ho are today incarcerated in the w eek ’s new s jails which were considered intolerable a o u r f r i e n d l y n e i g h b o r hundred years ago . . . often for crimes Y h o o d POLICEMAN IS AT IT which are victimless, petty or the prod AGAIN: A 17 year old youth was shot ucts of a passing passion. (The late dead at a police road block near Goul- Bathurst jail had been classified by the bum in New South Wales when he National Trust . . . its antiquated morality jumped from his car and took to the lives on in the sadistic museums o f state scrub. Police said later the car in which public service boards.) TLD fully sup the youth was travelling had been in- by the resignation of sir John Dunlop as ligence, has stated that he is more than a £ $ ports the growing concern for prisoners volved in an accident earlier in the day. a director o f the bank — who in leaving, rights . . . reports from NSW and Victoria little baffled by this demand, and in a £ * The youth was not armed. In Adelaide accused his other directors of “bigotry” (p.6). move o f his own, has countered b y S:* jijijij: South Australian police commissioner, and added that his fellow keepers o f the Sitting in our dingy little office . . . threatening to hire GPO work out at Mr H. H. Salisbury, admitted that some nation’s money tree seem to have a amidst the foetid air and gritty of the great cost and expense to private news- o f his young lads in training could be pathological fear of creeping or back agents on Saturday. Following this de- dusty, dirty city, has perhaps made us biased against minority viewpoints, radi- door socialism. Viewing the achieve cision, butchers will shortly be asked to overserious about pastoral delights, and it cals, protesters and dissenters because ments of the present federal Labor is with great amusement we publish Paul run the health department, and the o f the present methods o f training. But government, one can only view with Craddock’s burlesqueing of beautiful Australian Medical Association will set apart from stating that "it is undesir- bumpkins (p. 20). Dont let satire stop the amazement that anyone in his right up a private portfolio o f foreign affairs. £:*; able for police to be trained in isolation mind would accuse it of socialist prac commune reports coming in, all you from the rest o f the comm unity” he tices. hippy hayseeders. offered littie hope for a brighter police NE MINUTE’S SILENCE TO American Pie this issue. We lead with a THROW UP: The Queensland future. Perhaps a short course in public esperate times require O story from Peter Stansill on the back Country party has managed to invent an manners wouldnt go astray. DESPERATE MEASURES: Sud ground, motives and actions of the sud D election song dedicated to Joh Bjelke- denly realising that a senate election was denly notorious Symbionise Liberation Petersen, which he likes, but which OU SIT DOWN WHEN THE on its doorstep, the Liberal party stir Army. He writes from the desk of the warns him: “ His just rewards are yet to MUSIC STOPS: A group of 25 Col- red, muttered in its sleep and announc Berkeley barb, the only paper in the Y come in the promised land we know.” umbians, who for reasons known only to ed that ageing whizz kid, Tony Eggle- world to have complete communication Pulling our collective head out o f the themselves, want to work in this booze ton, would be summoned post haste with the mysterious kidnappers. lavatory bowl, we can only remark that and beach land, have achieved the ulti- from his com fy job in London to Obviously, this coverage does not im after a song like that no reward can be mate in being expelled from the country attempt to get it out o f the mire. ply endorsement of the SLA methods. just. S;* twice in the one week. The airline which Eggleton’s special job will be to do It is just over a year now since Nixon carried them back by mistake for the something about the image of party dragged back his legions from Vietnam second time claimed to have received a leader Billy Snedden. As his present job ound and round the gar- M and evidence o f the carnage is still surfac telegram from their home country say- as director of information at the com DEN WENT THE TEDDY- j&'j ing; like the report over the weekend that R ing that all systems were go. Immigra- monwealth secretariat in London in BEARS: Aboriginal public servant US herbicides have decimated the Mon- SiS: tion minister A1 Grassby said all systems volves explaining the rationale o f the Charles Perkins is once again in a little tagnard tribe, killed innumerable children were in fact stop and that if there was commonwealth in the 20th century and trouble after stating that the Australian :&'■ and wiped out one seventh of the South any more trouble he would take away in particular justifying such people as Liberal and Country parties are the Vietnamese landscape. But what hasnt the airline’s landing right. Someone Uganda’s Idi Amin, Mr Eggleton is biggest gatherings o f racists in the been assessed by the scientists are the ?:*: should tell the poor bloody Colombians believed to be excellently suited to the world, and that, by inference, the Labor “non combat casualties” — the mental that, for publicity purposes, asians are job of apologising for Snedden. Mean anguish of American and Australian party runs a fairly close second. As the £*: in favor for immigration purposes this while, as they say in deepest Victoria, crisis continued to rage, the permanent troops who returned home with over year due to emperor Whitlam’s great poor old sometime prime minister John head of the department of aboriginal powering feelings of guilt, self-revulsion march to the north, and that all they Gorton, who in comparison to Snedden affairs, Mr Barrie Dexter, threatened to and loneliness (p. 7). need to obtain permanent entry visas is suffers from a bad case o f charisma, resign, and the good senator Cavanagh, :*>: Lyell Cullen is an Australian who recently was in St Paul, Minnesota, at the ;£:? a small, near painless operation to slant may have to fight to hold preselection once again doing his best to calm the their eyes. for his seat. That’s Liberal gratitude for situation down said: “ There will have to trial of two of the Wounded Knee leaders you. be some drastic alterations to the Na- (p. 8). If the defendants, Russell Means and Dennis Banks, get off the charges laid TE CAN DO SOMETHING RIGHT tional Aboriginal Consultative Commit- $:$: HY SHOULDNT THEY SUR against them following last year’s occupa h L AFTER; ALL: Prime minister tee to prevent the tyranny by some $£:j; Whitlam, despite an intimidation cam- VIVE, THEY DIDNT MAKE THE aboriginal members which is destroying $•$: tion it could open the door for a huge W DAMN THING: Professor Peter Parsons, good public servants.” land rights battle in the courts which, if paign by the fat cat farmers lobby, professor of genetics at Melbourne’s La the Indians win, could mean they will be whose members are complaining that it Trobe university, has announced with OW IT CAN BE TOLD: As the handed back land bearing more than half ijijij: is difficult to afford to send four sons to N &$ some satisfaction that the com m on gar of the USA’s natural resources. Future Geelong Grammar these days, screwed poms tramp to the polls in one o f his head on properly and announced the bage fly would outlive man in a nuclear the nastiest elections o f the decade, it issues o f TLD will keep you posted. superphosphate bounty would eventual- holocaust. “ Perhaps a nuclear holocaust was shyly admitted that the five figure £•£: N ot all poetry sent here gets buried in would lead to a return o f a world o f arithmetic on which the government * £ the confusion. Some of it ends up in the ly be removed, thus making sure that insects and other lower forms of life,” based its decision to refuse the striking erratic hands of the News & Weather the city taxpayer doesnt pay twice to chew his cabbage once. professor Parsons said. Not lower, just coal miners their wage claim was wrong people, who this week present a page of sensible. — in other words, someone in the readers delectibles (p.11). (The editors of |OES HE ALWAYS HAVE TO BE government can’t subtract two and S*: N&W are to be found lurking in balmy D < he workers hand syn carry one. Balmain, NSW, at 41 Wharf road.) 'S O NAIVE: Jim Cairns, who at times doubles as minister for overseas drom e IS ALIVE AND WELL NSW.) T AT THE GPO: Unionists who have ET THE BASTARDS GO, THEY Stop Press: In case you were wonder trade when he is not either organising refused to even deliver mail or start post COULDNT EVEN GET TO THE W ing whether our academics care about the new marches against fascist nations, or L acting as a personal ambassador for Cam- offices on Saturday any longer, have QUEENSLAND FLOODS ON TIME: M ecology, your questions have been demanded that the good GPO either More than 300 army officers resigned answered. Early this month 430 personal bodia’s deposed prince Sihanouk, finally grant them a pay increase to make up from the Australian army last year, invitations to a seminar on the “ ecologi woke up to the fact that big business mainly one gathers because they havent £:£: cal crisis” were sent out to the teaching does not like a Labor government and for the overtime they will lose by their staff at Melbourne’s La Trobe university. •:::•$ criticised the board and management of decision or, at least, allow them to work got a decent war to fight. The heartless overtime on Sundays sorting the mail government perhaps could stop this Siij Thirty replies were received. the Bank o f New South Wales for its resignation rate by declaring a limited Readers are invited to attend. It starts opposition to the Australian Industry they now refuse to sort on Saturday. Postmaster-general Bowen, who is be confrontation with one of the more march 4 at 7.30 pm and admission is free. Development Corporation. Cairns’ fall lieved to be a man o f average intel- odious states. S S Contact La Trobe’s SRC on 479.2977. into the pit o f reality was brought about In last week’s Melbourne Living de sssssssssssa lights, Chris and Eva made some tongue- The Living Daylights is published every tuesday by Incorporated in-cheek comments on the rock dance at Newsagencies Company Pty Ltd at 113 Rosslyn street, West clRST CONCERT APPEARANCE OF AUST’S Frankston Police and Citizens Youth Melbourne, Victoria. You can write to us C/- PO box 5312 BB, BIGGEST CAMPUS AT t ^ A C T !0 |\j Club. These comments werent meant to GPO Melbourne, Victoria 3001. Telephone (03)329.0700, Telex reflect badly against the venue, the spon A A32403. SYDNEY OFFICE: Stephen Wall, 18 Arthur street, sors, the promoters, the groups or the Surry Hills, 2010. Telephone (02)698.2652, tuesdays to thurs- audience. It was just a joke. — EDS. days. EDITORS: Terence Maher, Michael Morris, Richard Neville, Laurel Olszewski. 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We know T ly quiet in Berkeley for too that the ruling class must seek to long. stop the revolutionary community The new acquiescent gener here before they can regain an ation o f students was worrying arm of control around the strug about grades, and the radical Left THE RETURN OF gling and oppressed people o f the was splintered into a myriad rival world ...” groups jostling each other for The communique ended with status while an uneasy truce with the flourish: “ Death to the fascist the authorities lasted. insect that preys upon the life o f There was a dangerous tension the people.” in the air over the increasingly In the lack o f any previous apparent contradictions at the knowledge about them, the SLA basis of American life, but no one were immediately linked to a was prepared to d o much about it. known militant group called the And no one was prepared to see August Seventh Guerrilla Move this tension explode as spectacu ment, which recently claimed to larly as it has done during the past have shot down a police heli few weeks. copter over Oakland, killing two It was the nation’s first politi officers. The ASGM was known to cal kidnapping. The effect has include black ex-prisoners and to been shattering. A daredevil es have close ties with revolutionary capade in the name of the revolu groups inside California’s prisons, tion, smoothly executed, deadly particularly San Quentin and serious, and stunningly successful. Soledad. The ASGM had been Patricia Hearst, a beautiful 19 busy for months issuing communi year old heiress o f one o f the ques to the press, including several world’s wealthiest families, has death threats, but there was no been abducted by armed revolu real evidence that they had ever tionaries and is being held to been in action. ransom in return for food for Like the ASGM, the SLA lack poor people. ed credibility. The overblown The trauma is by no means rhetoric fell flat on sophisticated over as I write, but it is already radical ears, and the use o f assas clear that the political struggle in sination as a tactic for dealing the United States is entering a with a school administration issue new phase. A seemingly well or was seen even by former activists ganised group o f Bay Area people, as being ridiculous and dangerous. probably no more than 30 in To make matters worse, the FBI number at this stage, has declared voiced doubts about the existence revolutionary war on the corpor of the SLA, claiming it lived only ate state o f America, and has duly in the sick minds o f a few crimin begun hostilities. People o f all als. political shades are astounded. For two months, Oakland How could this happen on top of police and FBI agents continued everything else? their investigation and made no The Symbionese Liberation progress at all. Not a single lead Army, a name unknown three had turned up until january 10, months ago, has introduced itself when, quite by accident, the with chilling authenticity. One Symbionese Liberation Army gropes for some precedent, for a walked right into their hands. A comparison. There is none. Even police patrol car in the nearby the Weather people, the home town of Concord routinely stop grown revolutionaries who bomb ped a “ suspicious” van that was ed military industrial targets for cruising around in the early hours. two years, never directed their According to police, the two oc actions against individuals. cupants pulled a gun and started If any slogan from the 60s fits shooting. One o f them was hit in the Symbionese Liberation Army, the shoulder and the other man perhaps it is “ Armed Love” , the ran. He was later caught hiding in battle cry of a revolutionary New an alley clutching a .38 Walther York street gang called the pistol - the same type o f gun that Motherfuckers. But the similarity had killed Marcus Foster. ends with the slogan. The SLA is When police searched the van part o f a new tradition, and this and found SLA literature, they time Love is Armed with cyanide could not believe their luck. It bullets. seemed they had caught the ass There has been much specula assins. But it was to be a hectic tion about who the SLA is. Very large number o f citizens, o f night. A few hours later, someone little is known because their or the night o f november 6, when death warrant, issued by “ The course, the ones who would like tried to set fire to a house close to ganisation was clandestine from one o f their combat units struck Court of The People”, with a to believe in the rule o f law, it is the scene of the shoot-out. When the start. From what can be ascer at the first target, in an Oakland detailed indictment of the board terror and extortion and must be car park. firemen extinguished the blaze, tained, they are a racially mixed of education’s “police state” poli police discovered what appeared stamped out. Dr Marcus Foster, the first cies. group and include former black to be the headquarters o f the One hope that seems to unite black to serve as Oakland’s super prisoners, ex-soldiers and radical It was immediately clear that SLA. It looked like they had everybody, however, is that Patty intendent of schools, was walking feminists. This historic alignment these assassins were no ordinary busted the whole organisation. Hearst will get out o f this alive. to his car with his deputy super of social elements in the revolu nuts. The letter was an angry They said they found bombs, Even hardline revolutionaries were intendent, Robert Blackburn, tionary melting pot of the Bay critique of official efforts to start weapons, potassium cyanide and saying this after hearing her after a meeting of the school Area has thrown the organised police patrols on Oakland high revolutionary literature. second taped message, in which board. Three men were waiting Left into total confusion. Radical school campuses and implement a Now there was something to go she speaks out for the world’s for them in the shadows. They leaders have been falling over each new system o f files on students, on. Hard evidence, names. The poor and oppressed and displays opened fire with two weapons and other to condemn the kidnapping including a photograph and bio two arrested men were Joseph an instinctive understanding of cut them down, then disappeared as counter-revolutionary, and as graphical information. The lan Remiro and Russell Little, both the revolutionary goals o f her without trace. Dr Foster died in an open invitation to the govern guage o f the letter was flam boy whites in their 20s. Police started captors, and even some sympathy stantly. The bullets that struck ment to again try to crush the ant and the SLA overstated their mounting a mopping-up operation with them. him were laced with cyanide. left, as it did in the late 60s. case somewhat, but it was obvious and issued warrants for another Here is a child o f the ruling' Blackburn has now recovered This first reaction from the what they were getting a t. .. man and a woman named Nancy class, whose grandfather, William from severe shotgun injuries. established groups was under “ We understand that the def Ling Perry, who they claimed Randolph Hearst, founder o f the standable; they have to protect This was unthinkable. Who inition of a fascist government were accessories to the murder. Hearst publishing empire, was in their “ legitimate” status. But as would want to kill Marcus Foster, necessitates the elimination of all Meanwhile, the Bay Area news strumental in bringing about the this highly charged drama unfolds, a man generally considered to be a who oppose its controls. We know papers had been checking into the Spanish-American war of 1898, a with several lives at stake over progressive educator and adminis that the school system does not backgrounds of Little and Remiro notorious American imperialist great social injustices, it seems trator by black and white alike? educate us, but rather it lies to us and also o f Nancy Ling Perry, the adventure. She calmly and con that the whole future o f radical The police were baffled. There in an attempt to perpetuate the fugitive guerrilla. Remiro had sciously accepts responsibility for politics here depends on whether were no motives, no clues, no interests o f the rich ruling class been a founder of the Bay Area the misdeeds of her forebears, it turns out to have a happy end suspects. The killers were describ . . . We totally reject the ruling chapter of Vietnam Veterans and with admirable courage faces ing. ed as “ olive skinned, possibly class values o f personal material Against the War, and he had also the possibility of her own death. chicano (Mexican-American) or gain and competition . . . worked with the Black Panther It is evident, though largely Whichever side you are on, it is a asian” . “ It is clear that Dr Foster and party and the United Farmwork unreported in the press here, that moving spectacle. But a few days later, the Oak deputy superintendent Blackburn ers Union, the militant Chicano the SLA has a great deal o f A powerful folk myth is in the land tribune, the San Francisco represent the rich ruling class and labor organisation. Nancy Ling support, particularly among the making and the ending, happy or chronicle and Berkeley radio big business, and not the children Perry, it was discovered, had links young, the poor and the minority otherwise, may be a long time station KPFA all received a long and youth of our communities.. . with the United Prisoners Union. communities. The idea of bleeding coming. But to begin at the begin statement from a mysterious or “ The black, chicano, asian and The JJBI started to fit together Randolph Hearst of a few million ning . . . ganisation called the Symbionese conscious white youth in our an ominous picture o f a dedicated dollars to feed the people is in The SLA has probably been in stantly appealing to a large section Liberation Army, which claimed communities recognise the im band of revolutionaries who had existence for over a year, but responsibility for the killing. The o f the population. To an even portance of the Oakland-Berkeley nothing was known o f them until document was in the form o f a area to the liberation struggle o f < ^ 7
THE LIVIN G DAYLIGHTS, february 26-march 4, 1974— Page 3 The return of ARMED LOVE ry n ita ad hn served then and Vietnam in army o mltr tann wt te US the with training military got a political apprenticeship with with apprenticeship political a ical organisations named, o f f o named, organisations ical polit The groups. leftwing activist course, at once disassociated disassociated once at course, ihe i a information/intelli an in fighter fessional, and still very hard to to hard The very still believe. and fessional, hn hy eevd nte com another to speculation received they time wild when usual had the barely start media The and SLA. suspects the the from themselves with the assassination o f president president f o assassination the with Liber Symbioriese armjl the ation f o freedom federated forces united athe f o am unit gence I . . . victorious Fahizah. is name My8 feBBap. “ true ^ J my u o y to powe1N||i love, freedom all brother, and a know to people for time the was from snatches brief only quoted gent letter, very personal and con and personal very letter, gent Nancy from time this munication, noe facts uncover information/intelligence y rm A politicisation her f o the and 1963 beginning in days she school high which in essay, but Perry, Ling Nancy was name activities. its and army Symbionese Liberation the about more now little that was point media main Its other it. the full, in her letter publish to newspaper only the ig er. t a a og intelli long a was It Perry. Ling use my mind mind my use m; as well as gun common our against Liberation fight I unit, Symbionese the f o Kennedy. F. John d r o -w 0 0 0 3 vyh^js one is means name that units more place, attas SLA oppressor, and this I do with with do I this and oppressor, ae THE LI NG DAYLI fbur 2-ac 4, 1974 , 4 26-march february , S T H IG L Y A D G IN IV L E H T — 4 Page civn itra as internal achieving a/| as violence ^ carefulj a In sayinc by but the most profounl profounl most the but not is mysf revolutionary rather She argument . justice” ary : lice o p “ to sponse needs pe the a. ay aias imse her dismissed radicals Many war. with committed girl, all-American on. fight All would they there. said, and she intact, left conse were units been any combat f had o nothing quence and unit house! the that explained She der. ^ tly h tig under held being now i l|tw % sto’f with press solidarity expressed the clarified” violence revolutionary advean he or she is nor el to means legal some passion to revolutionary revolutionary to passion white class some middle a was Here information/intelligence one HQ the f merely o was to fire set , she & mu Foster’s with charged oriijpi them prison, Quentin San in who||Vpirerity comrades, captured balance.” ternal ’ f o force “ that hns ee apnn fast. happening were Things She continued: “ As a member member a As “ continued: She en th here T “ Greetings, my comrade sisters comrade my Greetings, “ She jv She It was an irresistible story. story. irresistible an was It Fahizah then “ corre corre “ then Fahizah ALEXA N D ER THEATRE - MONASH UNIVERSITY MONASH - THEATRE ER D N ALEXA i ad, an and', hie y:W|y that the the that rill i > truly FORUM PRESENTS FORUM need’ need’ Bookings 544.0811 ext. 3992. A.H. 541.3992 541.3992 A.H. 3992. ext. 544.0811 Bookings ekly barb Berkeley ihTo ae Kim Lake, om T with
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She She exhausted. and what their actions mean.” actions their what w on’t do any good for somebody somebody for good any do on’t w love. elrd ;a aant h t, the against ,;war declared be will I way team no medical There’s a also here. weapons, there’s automatic and with armed not was but folded, being was unharmed, began/ Mom, she “ tape. the savn e, oe ad chil and women men, starving f o most intensive publicity operation publicity intensive most understand they and doing they’re u b fre . h SI The . . force me by get to try and out here in e com to it so go, me let they until released treated. A package arrived at KPFA on on KPFA at arrived package A afea vie hn ca: then voice Patfieia% The next two days saw the the saw days two next The ;es in do; do; in ;es “ I’m with a combat unit that that unit combat a with I’m “ br dauc /bur -in net aon te ol”, world” the around rnments % demand! D r the the Dr p ’ s M gpljg^given. 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Every Bay Area newspaper, newspaper, Area Bay Every group. printed or broadcasted in full the the full in broadcasted or printed emblem, the ancient symbol o f f o symbol ancient the and emblem, documents the f o contents - country the many and throughout - others station TV and radio revolutionary a by mounted ever the seven-headed cobra. seven-headed the SLA the displayed also and tape would be more like $400 million. million. $400 like more be would faith. 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California. f o state to whole Hearsts the the feed, expect not did they parents her to explaining by gan tto i Clfri. at was Patty California. television and in radio station every on ed voice. Patty’s was it he When Williams. to in addressed enough, Sure it. on number a vr novd n kda cs in case kidnap a money in f o involved ever sum largest the is this good f o gesture a as but ransom, a said, as he not purpose, the for tributing food to the needy. He He needy. the to dis food for plans tributing announced Hearst ee eqietesm gi. ^—again. same the quite be never basically OK,” she told her father. father. her told she OK,” basically ed od . 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The The tradition. American old impleted. four weeks for the project project the for weeks four is a bigtime showdown in in showdown bigtime a is lolds its breath. But But breath. its lolds delivery men while the the while men delivery is in no hurry, they have have they hurry, no in is asked that people stop stop people that asked r people have refused to to refused have people r brawl in the queues and and queues the in brawl fut of xoto”, extortion” f o fruits e fo t Hearst i th kfrom %iat *§heyi©!! were working was md||welfe FBI jie f^ a h jy forced into saying saying into forced a hr w an- own her was e lk se was she like her no question that that question no i only give the the give only i storm the hide- hide- the storm hey had them- them- had hey pveying the the pveying s case more more case s y, she said. It said. she y, e fa kind o f f o kind fa e se was she t u ions. 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which affects all of society, a rently in “ H ” (H stands for Hell) tions and the next day a couple of SOUTH Australia’s Criminal In rebellion against the US imperial division after a brief stay in hos members of the Norwood CIB vestigation Bureau has wound up Over the wall ist domination o f our country. We pital. Gardner was admitted to its investigation into allegations o f came to his home and asked him PIOTR OLSZEWSKI are determined to make sure that hospital suffering self-imposed why he disliked the police. Beath police brutality and corruption what happened at Bathurst (where injuries. Gardner, who couldnt and Davey then turned up and against members o f the logal drug TUDENTS, trade unionists screws shot down prisoners) will stand “ H " division conditions, asked him about the allegations. squad. S and the Prisoners Action never happen again. swallowed a piece of metal and SA’s British police commis As reported in Living daylights Committee have demonstrated — Prisoners Action Committee, was admitted to Royal Melbourne (2/6) Carey told the police he sioner, Salisbury, issued a state outside Melbourne’s Pentridge jail hospital for surgery to a ruptured would not assist in the inquiries Melbourne, february 1974” ment to the press last week claim- for the third consecutive week stomach. because CIB personnel had been Speakers at the demonstration ing that the allegations were end. The previous weekend four Following such an operation involved in many o f the bashings. warned authorities that they were “ completely unfounded” . He said demonstrators were arrested, in Gardner should have received one drug squad detectives had asked The union wanted a full public engaged in a long term ongoing cluding two on the sprurious to two weeks hospital convales that the investigation be launched inquiry. Carey says that a couple campaign that would continue as charges of loitering near a prison cence. Instead he was shunted o f days later Beath went on holi long as Pentridge does in its pres after allegations were made in and attempting to communicate back to Pentridge, and back to H days. The investigation could only ent state. Adelaide university newspapers with a prisoner (See TLD 2/7). division after only two days, to have spanned a few days at the Barry York, secretary o f the On dit and Ego times late last This week about 50 demonstra make matters worse Gardner is in most. PAC, and one of the demon year. tors loitered near the prison and solitary confinement, a punish Salisbury was referring to re communicated with the prisoners strators arrested last week gave details o f injustices to a prisoner ment that is now supposed to be ports in the december issues o f via a microphone and loud illegal at Pentridge. Gardner’s diet both papers that the drug squad Smoke in speakers. Police made no arrests, which were fully recounted to him on friday. A 20 year old consists o f daily amounts o f tea, had forced a confession out of a ELBOURNE marijuana an inconsistency which should be prisoner, Peter Gardner, described water and bread, and a slice o f guy busted in the south of Ade activists first organised as o f benefit to those already arrest M by authorities as “ radical” , is cur meat. laide. The squad members had sault o f the year, a benefit con ed and due to appear in Coburg manhandled his pregnant girl court this tuesday. cert, held in Moubray street, ings, took over from Liz. He gave friend to obtain the confession. Police this time were probably Prahran last week, was extremely the address o f the group and said Commissioner Salisbury said camera shy - representatives o f Over the air successful, with approx 300 pay that he was anxious that as far as two CIB senior detectives, inspec most national television channels ing guests, and 100 non paying WENDY BACON possible these broadcasts should tor D. Beath and sergeant N. were there to record the action on freaks in attendance. include information that the pris Davey had spent a month quizzing film. Police restricted themselves <
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Page 10 THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 26-march 4, 1974 Sister of Illusion Making It she was naked rachel, and didnt kpow whether she’s beautiful, to grab she sleeps her snatch with her legs apart; or breasts she’s sometimes heard playing “ strawberry fields forever i hung my eyes on a borrowed harp, and my heart murmured that and she claims that she’s an einstein freak: i wrote and is, therefore at least thirty two letters relatively to a woman unconcerned i loved. about clocks. John Lewis Terry Gilmore
Your Name is Empty The Believer
Do I still know you? He calls upon God Just then I lost your name, Much too late in the day It became empty. And sets the phone ringing Was it because I could not find In an empty office Any of you in the foreign things Mark O ’Connor you said? J. Roney Divinely yours
Poet’s Complaint Guru, Guru Where are you? poetry should communicate Boo hoo hoo Where are you so should editors Guru Maharaj ji? rejecting the damn stuff Hi! ji if it doesn’t My, your coming and going turn preach into practice but w hy? takes two to tango For you, Guru I’d die, Maharaj ji. fifty-fifty and all that for you, Guru, example kicks best I’ve given all my m oney to you when the fences are down. OOOOOOOOOOOO! Robert C. Boyce I love you Guru I like my Gurus chubby . . . Disaster Poem, or Confessions of a And rich too, Guru. great and powerful Friend Can I be perfect like you Guru? Isolationism means We don’t run any other country Graham Habgood Except South America. Oh Dear
(Our soldiers may rape This is an Oh Dear tramride But they don’t fuck at the end Fuck is a four-letter word). of an Oh Dear night and As a new generation of sophomores now that m y fare is paid Discovers Eskimo Nell I think While studying Wuthering Heights, I’ll just sit here and hallucinate. John Lewis And 49.57% of Colleges N ow offer credits in swimming Untitled Needlework and Greek civilisation, I came to you with my hands cut off and you wrapped them in your hair Round the fringes everywhere i was junkie thin, on a razor’s edge Board-riders sit out i was way past trying to care From the drowning continent. Mark O ’Connor my mind was hunted, my face a mess Dodge City i had nothing to disguise so i looked for an answer to m y mistakes watch out, kid in the blueprints of your eyes and keep open heart to yourself it isnt safe i felt as mean as a subway gang to let your soul out on the street screaming F U C K in a midnight park these days i nigger rumbled your cornfield thighs unless your tongue is fast and ready till m y pain turned to love in the dark. and Ross Hill it’s no use going around unarmed Loungeroom Journey because then They’ll just hate you for remaining Y ou sit still unprotected. John Lewis Not brooding & But with active eyes Melting Snow Makes a River I sit next to you f t Though I think only you Christmas cheer or Christmas beer, Know where you are Why choose between the two? There’s always enough for everyone, Sometimes, when you look up and smile, even me and you. I see your diamond spectrum world And that is when I know One for mum, one for dad, where I belong Some for one and all. Christmas may be just another snow job I journey out across the carpet but it’s better than nothing at all. to visit you for tea.
John Lewis Steven Phillips
News & Weather is an irregular poetry feature prepared by Nigel Roberts and Richard Tipping.
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PETER GARDNER into them, killing a great number. Some escaped in the scrub, others F MOST people today were jumped into the waterhole, and, asked “ Who was John Bat I as fast as they put their heads up man?” , they Would give varying McMillan organised what was called “ the highland brigade” , a party for breath, they were shot, until replies from hero to founding of 20 heavily armed mounted men. “ The brigade coming up to the the water ran red with blood .” father of Melbourne. None would blacks camped around the waterhole at Warrigal Creek surrounded Eventually some 150 blacks say murderer, thief or bounty were murdered on that day. Sure hunter. The same applies to Mc them and fired into them, killing a great number. Some escaped in ly Australia’s equivalent o f My Millan the discover o f Gippsland. the scrub, others jumped into the waterhole, and, as fast as they Lai. Even then two survivors were Generally regarded as a hero in put their heads up for breath, they were shot, until the water ran made to lead the “brigade” from the Gippsland area, and as a pro camp to camp to further satisfy tector o f aboriginals, McMillan led red with blood.” Eventually some 150 blacks were murdered on their thirsty vengeance. whites in perhaps the largest that day. Surely Australia’s equivalent of My Lai. Even then two McMillan is known to have massacre in the Gippsland area - survivors were made to lead the “brigade” from camp to camp to participated in such forays on two Warrigal Creek. Most definitely he other occasions although the participated in several others. further satisfy their thirsty vengeance. death toll was probably slight How is it that such a travesty compared with Warrigal Creek. of history should occur where One was driving o ff an estimated murderers become heroes or (at an eye witness. This is the age of “ There is, however, reason to fear successful attempt to rewrite the 200 blacks from his station at least in the eyes o f students to whitewash.” that before the arrival of the previous 20 years of white-black Bushy Park near Stratford, the day) great and humane explorers? conflict and to justify the forceful commissioner (1844) a large Evidence o f widespread and other as a punishment for stock Partly the answer lies in the racist occupation and conquest o f native amount o f mischief had been in wholesale massacre is slowly com spearing on MacAlister’s Numbla- superior attitudes and beliefs of lands. The aboriginals, the inquiry flicted on the original inhabitants ing to light. Meyrich’s account o f munjie station at Ensay. Also the time - blacks were just ani established, died out as a result o f by the lawless and depraved who his journey is one o f the prime tradition has it that McMillan’s mals. More so it is concerned with diseases they contracted from had infested the port from Van sources. He says: “ The blacks are stockmen murdered a large two other events, the trial and whitemen — smallpox, influenza Diemen’s land ...” His surmise quiet here now, poor wretches. number of blacks at Butcher’s hanging o f the Myall creek mur and many others. Unchristian and about “ mischief” is correct. How No wild beast o f the forest was Creek near Lake Tyers. derers, and the parliamentary in thus uncivilised causes were play ever, placing the blame on the ex ever hunted down with such Two other massacres have been quiries on aboriginals o f 1858-62. ed down. Massacres were not men convicts would be far from the perseverance as they. Men, meagrely documented. The first The Myall creek massacre oc tioned. women and children are shot truth as it is plain that all the curred in NSW (Inverell 1838) and inhabitants, free and bonded, par occurred at the Pyramids, on the The introduction to the 1858 whenever they are met with.” Murrindal river near Buchan. It is only relevant to the Gippsland ticipated. inquiry stated: “ Had they been a And again: “ They will shortly be resulted after a stockman was area in that the white murderers When the whites first arrived strong race like the New Zealand extinct. It is impossible to say murdered on the Orbost station in were tried and to the disbelief of the blacks thought they were ers, they would have forced the how many have been shot but I retaliation for the handing out of the colony, hanged! This was in ghosts. However, when they real new occupiers of the country to am convinced that not less than poisoned food. The story con tended as the severest deterrent ised that the newcomers were provide for them, but being weak 450 have been murdered alto tinues: “ An angry party o f horse against murdering blacks. How occupiers and invaders, a regular and ignorant they have been treat gether . . . now I am becoming men gathered at the station ever, it seems that the main effect series o f raids, skirmishes and ed with utter neglect.” familiar with scenes o f horror (Orbost) and followed the return was to drive underground the mas retaliations began that lasted for However, nine years earlier from having murder made a topic ing blacks along the banks o f the sacres and if anything, increase 15 years. The blacks would harass Thomas, the assistant aboriginal of everyday conversation.” Snowy river as far as Buchan their brutality and severity. isolated shepherds or stockmen protector, had written to governor Unfortunately Meyrich chose where they were joined in the Fifteen years after the Faith- driving o ff the stock and butcher Latrobe: “Instances of cattle be not to speak out against these chase by station hands o f the area. full massacre at Broken river, ing or dispersing them. Armed ing speared or o f sheep or horses horrific deeds. But at least he The avenging party came upon the Benalla (where seven stockmen whites would retaliate by attack being stolen particularly in the recorded the truth o f the matter. aboriginals who were feasting on were speared by the blacks), W. ing the nearest camp, whether It is also interesting to note that the banks of a lagoon behind the Faithfull told how the enraged Gippsland district, where the abo guilty or not. his estimate o f 450 is about 15 Pyramids. Confronted by the whites spread their system o f in riginal natives have never com e to Angus McMillan, discoverer o f percent o f all the natives in Gipps whitemen and all chance o f escape discriminate murder. “ People terms with the whites, may still Gippsland, led several such puni land in its pre european state. And cut o ff by the steep cliffs o f the formed themselves into bonds o f occasionally occur.” tive expeditions against the it appears that these barbaric Murrindal river, the tribe had no alliance and allegiance to each Foxcraft, writing his Australian blacks. In 1843 a european settler hunts continued up to 1850 in the other and then it was that the native policy in 1941, stated that was speared to death by two chance o f escape and was an more eastern and remote districts. destruction did take place.” there were never any wholescale blacks near Sale. This was the nihilated by the bullets o f the Henry Meyrich, who drove murders o f blacks. But perhaps Other sources such as Dunder- fifth murder of a european within enraged whites.” The second massacre was also stock across South Gippsland in the best condemnation o f the age dale (The book of the bush), a year. McMillan organised what against the Krautungalung (Snowy 1846 wrote: “ . . . but these came from a settler well before discuss the various massacres and was called “ the highland brigade” , river) tribe occurring in 1850 after things are kept very secret as the the parliamentary inquiries. He black-white conflict. They con a party o f 20 heavily armed the murder o f a stockman. “ Swift penalty would be hanging.” said: “ Sandy McBean was not clude “ ... the only effectual mounted men. “ The brigade com and terrible punishment was Meyrich was out black hunting justified in shooting every black- remedy is the gun.” ing up to the blacks camped meted out to the offending but refused to fire on them “ .. . fellow or gin he met on his run, as Even the chief protector of around the waterhole at Warrigal blacks. The few whites assisted by much to the intense indignation I know he did on the testimony of aboriginals, Robinson, stated: Creek surrounded them and fired o f the party who returned leaving the Sale blacks attacked the them unmolested.” Snowy river aboriginals on the The hangings for Myall creek eastern bank o f the Brodribb river in no way deterred. The mounted where the Cabbage Palm creek and heavily armed vigilantes with joins it. Here the offending tribe their secret oaths would detect was so badly defeated ...” The black camps by their smoke, sur storyteller leaves little doubt as to round the area and fire into it the authenticity o f his tale, nam indiscriminately, killing man, ing the white participants and the woman and child with the inten stations they came from. Of the 2500 odd blacks o f tion that none should escape. Gippsland only 200 survived to Normal groupings o f blacks 1880. It is obvious that the early were quite small, about 15-20 al settlers were murderers and together. Fast working, eager mur thieves, operating within a system derers would take little time to of imperialism based on, among dispose of the evidence on top of other things, racial superiority. a bonfire of backlogs. S. Roberts The imperialism o f the great in his history o f squatters relates: powers, and some lesser ones, is “ . . . it was no unusual sight to with us today in a different guise. come across heaps o f bones o f The tragic lesson o f these murder murdered natives.” ed people is that no man, let alone Ten to 15 years after these well country or state, should have known but secret occurrences had power or control over any other finished, two parliamentary in Ponder over this quote from quiries were conducted within Dunderdale: “ All the surviving four years. One o f their ostensible black could say was ‘Quamby aims was to establish reasons for dead - longtime — whitefellow the alarming decline in aboriginal plenty - shootem’.” populations. In fact, it was a it ......
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Chris & Eva 51.9563 or leave messages 51.7425, write Flat 8, No. 7 Irving avenue, Windsor, 3181. A irport West. C r o y d o n , “ P O T T E JIGSAW: Croxton Park G ardens, AZTECS, CLOUD NINE: JAZZ RADIO SKYLIGHT: Jan’s Dance, 7 2 5 -6 2 1 1 . gardens, I hotel, Preston. Sandown Park hotel. Lincoln Room, Trak. plus vigil MADDER LAKE, SEBAS BOOKS AND IDEAS: SKYLIGHT: Swinburne DAVE RANKIN JAZZ SOLOMON: Prospect Hill 11am. TIAN HARDY: Waltzing 3AR, 7.15 pm. FILM Tech (lunch). BAND: Alma hotel, 32 hotel, Kew. M atilda, Springvale. A MERRY PROGRESS — SKYLIGHT: Prospect Hill Chapel street, St. Kilda. LES ENFANTS DU GARY YOUNG’S FAT song/poetry program: hotel, Kew (even). OWEN YEATMAN: Pros PARADIS (M) — Marcel ROCK CATS: Sundowner hotel, 3AR, 11.10 pm. FOLK pect H ill hotel, Kew. Carnes: Union Theatre, E A S T S II SLADE, HOME: Festival G eelo n g . FOLK FRANK TRAYNOR: Ex ADELA FENTON, HIP Melbourne Uni Union Big., (A ) : H S V - H a ll, 8 pm, tickets at the TRIDENTS: George hotel, change hotel, Cheltenham. AND MORGAN: Outpost 8 pm, $2, $1.50 stud. A LE S S O l d o o r. S t. K ild a . BELLENDEN KER, GOR Inn, 52 Collins street, City, LITTLE BIG MAN (M) — S tu d y Jap KUSH: Croxton Park CLOUD NINE: Grovedale DON MclNTYRE: Union 80c. Dustin Hoffman with pm . hotel, Preston. hotel, Geelong. NEWMUSIC hotel, cnr. Amess and Fen MIKE O’ROURKE, shorts: Trak, 445 Toorak T H E MG SEBASTIAN HARDY: MADDER LAKE: Waltzing ■ wick streets, N. Carlton, 8 MELBOURNE NEW PETER PARKHILL, road, 1 1.45, $2. G R A S - George Hotel, St. Kilda. Matilda hotel, Springvale. till 12, $1. MUSIC ENSEMBLE: Com ROCK BELLENDEN KER: Union THE EXTERMINATING b o m b s : H! PANTHER: Prospect Hill SKYHOOKS: St. Albans BUSHWHACKERS AND mune, N. Melbourne. hotel, Carlton. ANGEL (Bunuel), THE C H A R A D hotel, High street, Kew. hotel, St. Albans. BULLOCKIES BAND: SEBASTIAN HARDY, BUSHWHACKERS AND KID — Chaplin and c o c k : A T \ KUSH: Matthew Flinders Polaris Inn hotel, 551 FILM AZTECS: Whitehorse BULLOCKIES BAND: Coogan, THE HIGH — IN C O N C hotel, Chadstone. hotel, Nunawading. FOLK Nicholson street, N. Carl Polaris Inn hotel, Carlton. music by FRANK ZAPPA: M u cci, to n . CLOUD NINE: Croxton SINGERS: Commune cof FOLK OCTOBER (G) (Eisen- PHIL DAY, GERRY Link-Up benefit, Dental Jackie Wil fee lounge, 580 Victoria stein): Union Theatre, Melb. Park hotel, Preston. HALLAM, PETER PARK Theatrette, cnr. Grattan The Crysti street, N. Melbourne. JAZZ GORDON MclNTYRE, Uni Union Big., 8 pm, $2, RED HOUSE ROLL HILL: Frank Traynors, street and Flemington C h u b b y C PETER PAR KH ILL: MIKE O’ROURKE, BOB $1.50 stud. BAND: Sundowner hotel, C ity . road, Carlton, 8 pm, $1.50, 1 0 pm . Frank Traynors, 100 Lt. FRANK TRAYNOR: VAN DER ELST, JANE G e e lo n g . $1.20 stud; cheapest and R E BECC /J Lonsdale street, City. Beaumaris hotel, Beach H E R IV E R : D an O ’ C o n TV PHASE 2: George hotel, JAZZ best. G T V -9 , 10 road. nell, cnr. Canning and S t. K ild a . EBONY, MADDERLAKE: VISIBLE MUSIC Princes streets, N. Carlton, FORT APACHE (A), John BRIAN BROWN QUAR MEETINGS F COUNTRY AND 8 to 1 2 pm, $1. Wayne and Henry Fonda — Teazer, 255 Exhibition TET: Commune, N. Mel street, City. BABERG SYMPHONY, GEOFF AND DIANNE ratshit rednecks: HSV-7, b o u rn e . Miss WIMELA THAKER T H E PR II BUSTER BROWN, JOHN ANTITHESE by Kagel, WESTERN HOLLINGS: Tankerville 1 1.1 0 p m . ST O RYVILLE JAZZ (tapes of): Friends House, 3 A R , 7.15 GRAHAM AND BLACK- MOMENTE by Stock Arms, cnr. Johnson and MONTY PYTHON’S BAND: Manor House 631 Orrong road, Toorak, hausen: 476 Collins street, CHAD MORGAN AND Nicholson streets, Carlton, FLYING CIRCUS: ABV-2, SPUR FOX: Chelsea City hotel, City. 7 .3 0 pm . EXHI 8 pm, free. OTHER ARTISTS: Dorset 8 to 1 0 pm, 60c. 1 0 .2 0 p m . H a ll. Gardens hotel, Croydon, JOHN CROWLE: Frank ELROY BAND: Epping FLOOR SHOW MARCH S P E C I J 50c. Traynors, City, 80c. Memorial Hall. R E L IC S : FILM KUSH: International hotel. ROY OR BISON: Dorset LIBERATE “POT” AND M e lb o u rn BLUES GET TO KNOW YOUR RABBIT Page 1 4 - THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 26-march 4, 1974 a liftout guide to what’s on in the week ahead \ Lift it out, stick it up, lap it up, take it down, turn it round, stick it up. Jon, “ P O T T E R S ” : T re a s u ry street, 1 0 am to 5 pm daily Teazer, Exhibition street, C ity . ing, 7.30 pm, $2.00, $1.50 of consumer trash: gardens, Marijuana action, 1974 PHOTOGRAPHIC C ity . FAT ALBERT, JOHN stu d e n ts . TREASURE OF SAN POETRY plus vigil in City Square, STUDENTS EXHIBI CHAIN: Matthew Flinders, GRAHAM, JOHN TERESA (1951) — another 1 1 a m . TION: Kodak, 252 Collins C h a d sto n e. CROWLE, GRAHAM KIDS smoking special: GTV-9, POOR TOM'S POETRY street, 9.15 am to 5 pm EBONY: Station hotel, LOWNDES: Frank Tray 1 2 .0 5 am . BAND: Commune, North DU TV d a ily . Greville street, Prahran. nors, City. P R O F E S S O R Z IG G L E ’S Melbourne. 80c. arcel SKETCHES OF MEL COLORED B A L L S , TRAVELS: Claremont the latre, EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE BOURNE: La Trobe Cot TANK: Brighton Town JAZZ atre, 14 Claremont street, DRAMA WORKSHOP Big., (A): HSV-7, 10 am. tage, Bird wood avenue, H a ll. South Yarra, 2.00 pm, d m d M A LESSON TO US ALL — S.Y., 10.30 am to 8 pm sat FANTASY: Village Green, DAVE RANKIN JAZZ $1.20, 70c children. CLAREMONT THEATRE, A) - Study Japan: ABV-2, 8.55 & sun, 10.30 am to 5 pm Springvale. BAND: Lemon Tree hotel, South Yarra. m o n . TRIDENT: Whitehorse 10 Grattan street, Carlton, MEETINGS w ith pm. ROCK o ra k THE MOOMBA MAROI HERALD ART SHOW: hotel, Nunawading. 3 to 6 p m .j RADIO Treasury gardens, 10 am to JOHN RUPERT AND THE T H E P L A N T : GROUP MEDITATION: GRAS — take smoke- FANTASY: Croxton Park, 9.30 pm daily. HENCHMEN: Croxton Polaris Inn hotel, Carlton. Ananda Marga, 141 Bark- ING bombs: HSV-7, 9 pm. Preston. ROOM TO MOVE — Roll- RECENT AMERICAN Park hotel, Preston. SKYLIGHT (afternoon); ly street, Carlton. THE CHARADE (A) — Hitch KUSH: Icelands, Ring- ing Stones Story and ARTS: 180 St. Kilda road, GARY YOUNG AND HIS JUNCTION CITY JAZZ and cock: ATV-0, 9.30 pm. w o o d . music: 3LO, 8.00 pm. IN CONCERT — Dion De 10 am to 5 pm d a ily . FAT CATS: Sundowner BAND (evening): Prospect RADIO i — ATLAS: St Albans, YCW, NEW MUSIC: 3AR, 8.25 *P A : Mucci, Bobby Rydell, hotel, Geelong. Hill hotel, Kew. pm . THE WORLD OF JAZZ — Winifred street, St Albans. ental Jackie Wilson, A rt Laboe, PHASE 2: George hotel, St. VICTORIAN JAZZ CLUB: LATE LINE: 3AR; 10.15 itta n The Crystals, The Coasters, K ild a . Manor House hotel, City. ERIC CHILD: 3L0, 10.25 SLASHINGS pm . g to n Chubby Checker: HSV-7, KUSH: Southside Six (aft). DAVE RANKIN JAZZ am . 10 pm . M t w id o p SKYLIGHT: Matthew BAND: Union hotel, Carl NATIONAL TOP 40: 3KZ, 1.50, DISCOUNT SHOW — TV Flinders, Chadstone. to n . 2 -5 .3 0 pm . and REBECCA (A): a classic, CHEAPER THAN GTV-9, 10 pm. FOX: Canopus, Box Hill. AMERICAN TOP 40: ROCK 3KZ, 7-10 pm. MOOMBA! With Sharks, ONE NORTHERN SUM NOSTALGIA M E R — NATURAL DIRECTIONS: 3AR, 7.15. Jerry and the Reboppers, RADIO FOLK MAGNIFICENCE: ABV-2, MATT TAYLOR, SID NATIONAL RADIO THE Ahmed-Moroccan magician ROY ORBISON: Dorset and fire-eater, The Morris 8.00 pm, eskimoes and KER THE PRIMARY YEARS: RUMPO, CHAIN: St. PHIL DAY and GUESTS: ATRE: 3AR, 8.30 pm. Gardens, Croydon. Gradman String Quartet, th a t. Peter’s, Bentleigh. Dan O’Connell, Carlton, 3 suse, 3AR, 7.15 pm. John Lee, Jas Duke THE HARDER THEY >rak, GET IT ON with MAD to 6 pm . TV DER LAKE, BUSTER FILM (dadaist poet from Box FALL (1956): HSV-7, EXHIBITIONS MIKE DEANY, JOHN 1 1.3 0 pm . BROWN, SKYHOOKS: SPLENDOR IN THE Hill), Compost, Painting: DUFFY: Commune, N. SEVEN SAMURAI (NRC) SPECIAL PENAL Frankston P.C.Y.C. GRASS: ATV-0, 8.30 pm. Ormond hall, Moubray Melbourne, 1 0 to 3 am (Kurosawa) — uncut ver RELICS: Nat. Trust, Old FULL MOON, MATT NIGHT OWL THEATRE street, 7pm-12am, $1.99. JULIE WONG, GERRY sion: Union theatre, Mel Melbourne jail, Russell TAYLOR, SID RUMPO: HALLAM: Outpost Inn, with Hal Todd and parade bourne Uni, Union build FOLK DUTCH TILDERS: Out post Inn, City. DANNY SPOONER and THEATRES GORDON MclNTYRE: Frank Traynors, City, 80 ON YER MARX — the cents. aussie Marx Bros — starts Sunday, march 3: Pram Centre, Brookvale, 8.30-1 pendent theatre, 929.7377, LAUREL AND HARDY in NEW MUSIC Factory, 325 Drummond 2 .0 0 pm. am, $ 1 .0 0 . BACON GRABBERS: street, Carlton, tuesday- THE OLD WOMAN WHO ABC TV, 4.20 pm. & OLD MUSIC sunday, 8.00 pm, $2.50, LIVED IN A SHOE: AMP $1.50 students, 347.7133. THEATRE TOLKIEN — CULT OR theatre, Circular Quay, r f t l w e e f c MELBOURNE N E W SESSIONS — layback CULTURE — A profile of MS: 2.00 pm, $1.60 adults, kids MUSIC ENSEMBLE: Com music with Rod Freeman- THE EAGLE HAS TWO the author: ABC Radio 2, 5-10 $ 1.0 0 . mune, North Melbourne. Smith, Gareth Breach, HEADS: Genesian theatre, 7 .3 0 pm . FREE ROCK CONCERT: EXHIBITIONISM ROY ORBISON: Dorset Moses Carmen: Back The 4 20 K e n t St., 7 9 8 .3 6 0 8 , MAROONED — Academy Sydney uni, front lawn, 1 L on - Gardens, Croydon. atre, Pram Factory, above 8.1 5 pm . award movie with space, pm . evue SCULPTURES BY BOB address, thursday-sunday, glitter, Gene Hackman and JENYNS: Watters Gallery, FILM 10.30 pm, $1.50. JAZZ Gregory Peck. Channel 7, JSW, 31.2556, tues-sat, 10 am-5 THEATRE THE SAIL and BEARD r ree. 8 .3 0 pm . pm . DAVE STEVENS AND l i t t l e s u p e r m a n — (Jean Harlow meets Billy iO N , FLEAHOUSES MERV ACHESON: Belle JEWELLERY AND “ART JESTERS by MICHAEL Chinese film: Capitol, the Kid) by Mike McClure: YN, vue hotel, Paddo, 3-6 pm. OBJECTS” EXHIBITION: COVE: Nimrod Street the Swanston street, City, 2.00 La Mama, 205 Faraday RNA NFTA’S IMAGES OF THE p m , $ 2 .2 5 . ECLIPSE ALLEY FIVE: Lord of The Ring, 28 Glen- atre, 33.3933, tues-sun, street, Carlton, friday- otel, MIND SERIES — Repul m w t c t y sunday, 9.00 pm, $1.00. Vanity Fair hotel, 4-7 pm. more road, Paddo, tues-sat, 8.30 pm; fri, sat, 5.30 pn C R Y S T A L V O Y A G E R — sion, L’immortelle: Opera WHY BOURNEMOUTH? DON DE SILVA: Louis 10 am-5 pm. 8 .4 5 p m . dazzling surf movie with House, info 44.5793, 7.15 superb music: Geelong Pix, and THE MISSING LINK Tavern, Elizabeth st., Pad NO NEED FOR TWO pm, $1.60, students $1.20, FLICKS GORDON ANDREWS, 8 .3 0 pm . by John Antrobus: Actor’s do, afternoon. BLANKETS — a total members only, join at SANDRA LEVESON: theatre, 169 Church street, DEEP BAYOU: Stage Bonython Gallery, Paddo, black and white look at the ikers d o o r. LA STRADA by Fellini: Richmond, friday-sunday, Door Tavern, 7-12 pm, aboriginals Australian the MEETINGS pm, FRENCH CINEMA — Le Opera House, 7.30 pm, 31.5087, tues-sat, 11 am-6 8.30 pm, $2.00, $1.00 stu $ 1. 00. p m . atre, 51.3841, wed-sat, 8 Signe Du Lion by Roehmer $ 2. 00. GALACTIC SAFARI — dents, 50.25 34. DOC WILLIS: Beresford pm . WN: (1959): Filmmakers cine TCHAIKOVSKY: Opera POTTERY EXHIBITION: Hal Steele: Theosophical AN EL E MENT OF hotel, Surry Hills, 7.30-10 ma, St Peters lane, Dario, THE EMPIRE BUILDERS: pm. House, 8.30 pm, $3.00. Potters Gallery, 97a Society, 188 Collins street, DOUBT by William Bates: 31.3237, 4.00 pm, 6.00 Bourke st, W oolloomooloo, New theatre, Newtown, FORE DAY R I D E R : M e lb o u rn e . Tait theatre, 107 Leicester pm, members only, join at MEETINGS tues-sat, 10.30 am-5.30 8.15 pm, $2.00 fri, sat, street, Carlton, friday-sun French’s Tavern, 7.45-10 d o o r. sun o n ly . pm. pm . day, 8.15 pm, $2.50, $1.50 FLINDERS UNI FILMS: TUNTABLE FALLS CO HMS PINAFORE — Gil students, 347.1515. DON DE SILVA: Mac THINGS CLOSE TO M E— OUTDOORS Filmmakers co-op, OP MEETING: Old bert, Sullivan: Civic THE COMING OF STORK quarie hotel, the Loo. 31.3237, 8.00 pm. pics by John Williams: church, 184 Palmer street, Centre, Hurstville, by David Williamson — the TOS SHELL’S AUSTRALIA Photographers Gallery, 30 SING A SONG OF East Sydney, 8.00 pm. 57.5471, tues, wed, thur, comedy from which the :ntal ROCK WILDLIFE film series: Ebley st, Bondi Junction, BRASS, massed band and f r i o n ly . boxoffice smash film was Park m o n -fri, 11 am -5 p m ; sat, singers: Fitzroy gardens, Opera house, 10.00 am ROCK made: Alexander theatre, ona- DAVID CASSIDY: Rand- continuously to 6.00 pm, 11 a m -4 p m . Free. WHO’S WHO: Ensemble 3 .0 0 pm . wick Racecourse, 2 pm, theatre, 78 McDougall st, Monash uni, Clayton, mon- $2.00, kids $1.00. GLEN ROWEN: Chequers. PAINTING, POTTERY, $ 4 .2 0 . Milsons Point, 8 pm, sat, 5 day-saturday, 8.15 pm, NY: CERAMICS: Hunters Hill RADIO matinee Saturday 2.15 pm, CAPTAIN MATCHBOX: CONTEMPORARY TEEVEE p m , 8 p m . Curl Curl Youth Club. Gallery, 39 Alexander st, $3.50, $2.00 students, ONE SEASON’S KING AMERICAN TOP 40: HUSH, BAND OF LIGHT: 89.2282, tues-sun, 2-5 pm. starts Wednesday 541.3992. J CAPTAIN MATCHBOX, MONTY PYTHON — New lunch fantasy: Q Theatre, 3KZ, 9-12 am. O ld Caringbah YM CA, 8-12 pm. ALEX HOOD OLYMPIA, series: ABC TV, 9.25 pm. AMP Circular Quay, 1.10 SUNDAY NIGHT RADIO 7 GINGER, GEORDIE: THE REM OVA LIST by Chopkiewicz: Kirk gallery, AN EVENING WITH BILL pm, mon-fri only. 2: 3AR, 7.30. Hornsby Police Boys, 8-12 RANDOM ENTRIES David Williamson: Russell 422 Cleveland street, Surry AND ROBERT PEACH — TO TRAVEL HOPEFUL I IN pm , $ 1 .0 0 . THE PHILANTHROPIST street theatre, City, mon- Hills, 8.00 pm, $1.50. “ Literary entertainment” : LY: 3LO, 8.00 pm. *OT- HUSH: Campbelltown BOTANIC GARDENS: b y C h ris H a m p to n — day-saturday, 8.15 pm, JTS, ABC TV, 10.05 pm. RSL Youth Hall, 8-12. ROCK Macquarie st, 60 acres of worthwhile: Independent TV pre-dinner friday/saturday, D LE GEORDIE: Coogee grass, 7 am-sunset. Free. theatre, 929.7377, 8.15 5.15 pm, $4.20, season tic irch, Oceanic, 2-6 pm. UNI OF NSW FOOD pm, wed-sat. kets available, 654.4000. East HUSH, SKATING EXHI LAUREL AND HARDY: THE IMAGINARY IN BLUE, AUDIUM: BITION, BARREL JUMP CO-OP — fresh fruit, nuts, WHAT IF YOU DIED TO ABV-2, 4.45 pm. C hequers. veg oil, cheese: mon-fri, MORROW by David Wil VALID by Moliere — pre THE ING: Canterbury ice rink, BORN FREE: GTV-9, sented by the Stratford 8.00 pm-10.00 pm, $1.40. 12.30-2.30 pm, 4.30-5.30 liamson: Elizabethan 8 .3 0 . UP, pm; thur, 5 pm-8 pm. Ontario company: Princess riNA FILM CAPTAIN MATCHBOX, theatre, Newtown, 8.15 THE BIOCHEMICAL REV 8TH NATIONAL FOLK NIMBIN KARAVAN — pm, $4.70, $3.70, $2.7a theatre, Spring street, City, 3CE, Home: Paddo town hall, OLUTION . . . mood chang UBU RETROSPECTIVE: FESTIVAL: Brisbane, daytime, arts and craft ex (plus concessions). monday-saturday, 8 pm, VTE: 8.00-12.00 pm. march 9-10. Info, NSW ing p ills . . . heard o f matinee Saturday 2 pm, Filmmakers Cinema, MacKENZlES THEORY, hibition and sale; Sunset — LOVE FOR LOVE: Opera them? GTV-9, 10.25 pm. 31.3237, 10 pm, $1.00. Folk Federation, PO box “ P e a c e -F east” , N im b in $5.50, $6.50, $8.00, chil s up, McASKILL, JIMMY TAY House, 8 pm, info HOUR OF THE WOLF 44, Ramsgate, 2217. video tapes, dancing: V il dren and pensioners half 55 L O R ’ S R O C K ’ N ’ R O L L 6 6 3 .6 1 2 2 . plus THE DECAMERON: AUNTY JACK ’N THE lage Church, Oxford st, p rice , 6 6 2 .2 9 1 1. >lan, rival: Uni NSW, Round GONG IN BLOODY CON COWARDY CUSTARD: NSW Uni Science theatre, house, 8.00 pm, students Paddo, thur to mon only. Iney CERT: Opera House, usual CHEAP NEW RECORDS: Marian Street theatre, am , 7.30, 60 cents. 50c, others $1.00. t n o * t d o ^ PROMISE AT DAWN: agencies, 3 pm, 8 pm, Students Union (NSW, 498.3166, tues-sat, 8.15 FILMS Opera House, $2.50. m a rch 9. Block House, 2nd floor, pm; sun, 7.30 pm. CHEAP THRILLS WOMENS FILM WEEK: between 1-2 pm. Save 20 THE BED SITTING FILMS — these may EVENTS Filmmakers Co-op, info percent and more on Emi ROOM with Sydney uni change at a minute’s VISIT A BATTLESHIP, 3 1 .3 2 3 7 . FOLK 'Festival, Astor. versity drama society by notice, so check with cin CHEER UP A SAILOR: HUNGARIAN STATE ema to be sure. / WOMEN IN SUBURBIA — Spike Milligan: The Union Garden island, info SYMPHONY ORCHES PHIL DAY: Frank Tray All day discussion: Chester theatre, Sydney uni, ex NEVER GIVE AN INCH 359.9111, 2.00 pm-5.00 TRA: Opera House, april ROCK nors, City, 80 cents. (M) — DUEL (NRC): Carl street hall, cnr. Chester pm . cept tues. Info 606.1355. 3, 4. Mail booking form s in ton cinema, Faraday street, . street and Essex street, MUSIC ON THE HOUR: SMH. STEWART AND McKAY: Carlton, thursday-sunday, Epping, 9.00 am-5.00 pm, Sydney Opera House, COUNTRY AND $1.00, bring food, info US NATIONAL THE Jools, 121 Crown st, East 7.45 pm, 90c, 347.5524. 11.00 am, 12.00 noon, ATRE OF THE DEAF: FILM 84.3306, 807.2302. Sydney, 7 pm-3 am. Free. 1.00 pm, 2.00 pm, 3.00 Opera House, I nf o MOTHER EARTH AND WESTERN MILLHOUSE — A WHITE pm, 4.00 pm, $1.00, conc. 3 5 7 .1 2 0 0 . RENE GAYER: Whiskey. KIDS 20c. COMEDY, Antonio 1972 This section con NATIONAL THEATRE SILVER CLOUD: Stage BLUESTONE: Prospect — fantastic satire: Film OF CANADA: Opera C oach. Hill hotel, Kew. tinued on page 25 THE GREAT MIKE, OUR makers Cinema, Darling- RADIO, TV House, info 357.1200. TRANSITION: Oceanic GANG, BATMAN: Film hurst, tues-sat, 8 pm. along with B. B. KING: Hordern Pavil hotel, wed-sat, 7-10 pm. NEW MUSIC m a kers cinem a, 3 1 .3 2 3 7 , AN INTERVIEW WITH CRADLE OF HERCULES ion, march 10, 8.15 pm, T R*OU BA DORS: Manly ADELAIDE 2 .0 0 p m , Sunday also. PATRICK WHITE: ABC by Michael Boddy: Opera $4.20, $5.20. All agencies. Vale hotel, tues-sat, 8-12 NIAGGRA: La Mama, 205 THE PIPED PIPER: Inde House, 8 pm. Starts friday. Radio 2, 4.00 pm. pm . Faraday street, Carlton.- Delights. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 26-march 4, 1 9 7 4 - Page 15 Pag* 16 THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 26-march 4, 1974 I BRITISH ELECTIONS From ROGER HUTCHINSON in London EN YEARS ago, as an acted like a mentally-defective old orphaned amoeba. On the face of will doubtless cure itself if they West End. They wanted to use T energetic member of the millowner campaigning for the it they should go with Heath. get back into office, but for the some o f it for a car park, but south Yorkshire young socialists, I National Front. They have all the bad dreams o f moment I’m consumed by hatred hadnt enough money to buy and voluntarily relinquished a month So God only knows (and I’m their southern equivalents. They for Heath; and can rationalise develop the entire patch. Some o f Sunday junior football, flung sure even he isnt taking bets) what also are more inclined towards the such emotions by arguing that, if body introduced them to a prop homework to the winds, and de the result o f this election will be. cultured, aloof figure of Heath Britain is sliding into horrible eco erty speculator name o f Harry voted my weekends and evenings Heath has cleverly called it on a than the provincial mayor-made- nomic decline, I’d sooner see the Hyams, and a deal was struck. rich taxed heavily than the poor to canvassing for the Labor party false issue: realising that their good image o f Wilson. Hyams wanted to use the area paid badly . . . Oh, and I have this in a general election. performance in government could But, and this is where Heath’s for office space - more office It was an inspiring affair for a not persuade their mothers to vote calculations might go amiss, most story about Alec Douglas-Home. space, in fact, than the by-laws 15 year old, rather like the build for them, the tories have escalated o f the northern middle class has It’s a peculiar tale, with fairly allowed on that small lot. The subtle implications. up to a cup final. There was a lot a wage-dispute with the miners been affluent for only two or GLC agreed to waive the by-laws A few months ago Alec (who to be inspired by, o f course: the into a “ who rules this country three generations. They have and allow HH to build what he Conservatives had been in power anyhow?” issue (they're asking parental or grandparental connec doubles as our foreign secretary wanted on half of the land provid these days) was due to attend an for more than a decade (“ Four us!), and are asking the country to tions with the working class, and a ing he gave them the other half important Common Market con teen years o f tory misrule” we decide between dirty faced helots consequent grudging sympathy. for their roundabout. ference in Germany. The dates of chanted gleefully), through the and the wit and wisdom o f My grandfather was a Newcastle The roundabout was never the conference coincided with charisma o f Macmillan, and in the Heathco. miner. He had five children, .and built. Harry Hyams’ office block absence from the Left o f any three o f them fought their way - Alec’s 70th (or was it 80th?) It’s a con trick that wouldnt was. Its name, Centrepoint, has personable leadership since the through marriage or education — birthday. Not wanting to miss out sell the Eiffel tower, let alone become a British byword for cyni passing o f the fondly remembered into the middle class professions. on a spread at the Savoy, Alec Britain, in normal circumstances. cal property speculation. For ten Bevin/Attlee school. Now they’re as pretentious and contacted the conference and ask Heath knows the southern middle years Centrepoint has stood Now Macmillan was gone, re trite as the middle class can be, ed for it to be postponed. Amaz class well, however. He under empty, quadrupling in value while placed at Downing street by the but they’re not about to forget ed, the europeans replied that it stands their paranoias (reds under homelessness grew apace. skeletal, anemic, utterly uncon the coal dust that ate out their couldnt be postponed, sorry, miners beds has been dug, old and On friday, january 18, two vincing Douglas-Home (I’ve got a father’s lungs until his face turned Alec, but in case you hadnt notic men in Bums Security (the private hoary, out of tory central office story about Douglas-Home later in blue and a dying cough sent coal- ed we’ve got some vital things to army guarding Centrepoint) uni this column) - and from the Left files). He understands their love o f discuss. At which our foreign sec black saliva and blood splattering forms walked up to the front door had risen a new star. It came from orderliness and suspicion o f the retary went into sulk, and refused across the eiderdown. And they of Hyams’ erection and flashed Huddersfield, had a solidly faith north enough to link disorder and may not be in too much o f a to reply for several days. He was cards. They were allowed through, ful working class Liverpool con northern workers irrevocably in hurry to believe that their father’s eventually won round, and given a and as the doors opened to admit stituency, had been educated at their minds. They will vote for birthday package to open in Ger descendants are holding the coun them 70 “ casual passersby” alter Oxford (but had no trouble re- him in Brighton and Wimbledon. try to ransom by asking for 34 many, and the conference went ed course as one and surged into adopting flat northern vowels), Bradford and Wigan, however, pounds a week. ahead. Centrepoint. “ It was” , said organ smoked a pipe, preferred tinned are a different matter. The north Yes, I’ll vote for Labor. iser Jim Radford, “beautiful.” salmon to fresh and said so, and ern working class is Labor’s most Ours but to sit and wait. I must * * * Security guards and caretakers spoke like the tories couldnt wipe consistent electorate. The north confess to a renewed interest in IT WAS also back in ’64 that the were evicted, the squatters settled his arse. ern middle class tends to float the election charade, and (less Greater London Council didnt in for the weekend, and the head I saw Harold Wilson speak at between tory, Labor, and more excusably) in the fortunes o f the quite know what to do with a lines nationwide gave squatting Bradford during the equally suc recently Liberal parties like an Labor party. It’s an affliction that patch o f land in the heart o f the groups their biggest and best pub cessful '66 campaign two years licity for years. later. A neo-fascist group called The occupation of Centrepoint the Empire Loyalists were at some was certainly the most brilliantly strength in the hall (unlike the executed move from the British tories, who usually ran all-ticket Left for a long time. Its design affairs, Labor meets were open to and organisation smacked o f the anybody), and they were heckling kind o f togetherness usually con Wilson for his antipathy (!) to the spicuously absent from revolu Smith government in Rhodesia. tionary groups. The Bums Secur Wilson ignored them, waiting for ity uniforms were obtained earlier the right m om ent. . . this year by two infiltrators. More It came. A burly bloke waving than 100 people worked on ad a large Union Jack stood on his vance preparations, from making chair and screeched: huge WE’RE JUST WILD ABOUT "WHEN ARE YOU GOING HARRY posters for Centrepoint’s TO STOP —” pause for breath 10th storey windows, to research GIVING SUPPORT TO IGNOR ing details o f the building’s main ANT SAVAGES?” tenance procedure. But it has left “ My dear sir” , crooned Wilson quibbles in the air. immediately, "w e dont support ignorant savages. We merely allow The occupiers moved out on Sunday evening, two days after them to attend our meetings.” entering. They did so because He was good, there can be no their purpose, as they put it, was doubt. His politics (which were to draw attention to Centrepoint’s eventually to drive most of my relationship with the homeless, generation away from parliamen tary socialism) didnt seem to mat rather than to occupy the building and hijack it as a permanent ter when he was winning the refuge for squatters. The dialogue nation into the first Labor govern between reformists and revolu ment since 1950. The tories were tionists in this matter was ag out, was the main thing. Hail gravated by Jim Radford’s com Harold! In 1974 the nation knows what ment that among the demonstra to expect of a Wilson government tors supporting the occupation cynical rejection o f socialist from outside were “ political ex principles, hatred o f the extra- tremists bent on causing as much parliamentary Left, and an obses trouble as they can” . sion with political one upmanship. No resolution has been reach The fact that all o f these faults ed, although the pages o f Time and more are personified also in out (London’s radical events Edward Heath could give Wilson magazine, and very much the the edge if he showed that mid- parish organ o f the metropolitan Left) is still buzzing with letters, 60s flair, that authority which pro & con. This one I found demolished the opposition in ’64 and ’66. particularly succinct: He seems to have lost it. In an “ Dear Time out, interview with the harmless Robin The unreasonably prompt Day the night this election was departure of demonstrators from called, Wilson tripped over words, Centrepoint makes it look almost contradicted himself, and got led as though the alleged ‘occupation’ like a baby into spending half of was pre-arranged by Hyams him the interview condemning militant self as part o f an elaborate pub trade unionists. All he had to do licity campaign to secure tenants. was throw names at a government All responsible law-abiding prop with the worst record since erty developers should protest.” Ethelred the Unready, and he Do the baddies always have to win? THE LIVIN G 'D A YLIG H TS, february 26-march 4, 1974 Page 17 Last week we told of the commune nestling on the foreshores of Sydney harbor, now being threatened by a state park plan. Here are the pics for which we couldnt previously find space. Pays.’ 18 THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, loljruaiy 26-maich 4, 1974 Beyond oA lortljernW ife 2001 THIS little gem was found by a reader in the pages of Plain turkey, a magazine put out by The Mount Isa Writers Workshop. It won first prize in the “ article relating to life in a mining town” section of the Northwest Star Literary Competition, 1973. L. M O R TO N I came up here from the south, condensation issuing from her rusted machinery will blend in when the skies were streaming m outh; she must be able to attend with the natural analogy o f the T IS a cool misty day; the along the Coast, still the earth was the theatre; walk through a big land. A few men will remain, but red hills are softened, their I red and the water runnels were as store; see other ethnic and cul these will be, as it was before, blood-like quality has gone. Cool, blood beside the road. In my tural groups, to see these other those whose nature has blended yes, but not cold. I wear jeans and jaunty little car as I bounced groups as meaningful and living, and moulded in them with the a cotton top and can walk com northwards I dreamt o f life ahead, not as here where the surround earth, so that once again true fortably without becoming over so different to the reality. Into a ings have stripped away the rich harmony between man and earth heated. There is a strange mauve flat I went, hateful in its barren ness o f their backgrounds and left will exist. ness o f coloring over everything; ness, but I soon became insensi only the greed and the grasp There is no half-measure here, there is for once a clear, moist V A N IKIN tive as before long I could no common to us all when life is for months, the sun shines as if it country smell. RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA by longer see the dust-caked, sandy difficult and when one must fight has nowhere else to cast its rays; Why this obsession about heat Arthur C. Clarke. Gollancz. $5.20. particles o f the green concrete for a tenuous existence. then surprisingly for several and coolness? I live in the north; HIS is Clarke’s first novel walls. In this apartment, walls The sun has eaten back the months the skies become overcast a hot, hot land. The very earth since the publication o f didnt reach the ceiling, my hus layers o f my skin, leaving my raw and soon it rains, rains and rains. T itself reflects the temperatures 2001: a space odyssey in 1968. band’s television programmes on flesh flinching from its rays. My No man can get into the town and with the burnt orange and red the other side o f the pressed-wood own pain becomes so intense that no man can leave it. The rains are Though written in Clarke's usual colors. In the year I am talking workaday prose, it runs the gamut partition were all too audible. my mind ceases to register the too big for transport, train or about there has been no winter to This flat had a redeeming feature pain o f others and many indeed in plane; they too are halted and I o f satire and hard science to break speak of, even an ordinary winter through to a pinnacle of cosmic and a wonderful one at that, this area are poor lost souls — so exist in a claustrophobic atmos couldnt be classed as such by across from the front porch was many itinerants, so many single phere as defined by the rain and grandeur which almost equals the people from the south. The sum country, flats and then the low, migrants, so many sad aborigines. isolation. climax o f 2001. mer is going to be endless as there Rama is the name given to a rocky, sparsely treed hills. This deadness and acceptance o f If there is a deity, a spirit or a has been no break, the real heat wandering asteroid that streaks In the early morning white suffering must surely be experi Mithras o f this land; here it is must then start early and be in into the solar system in 2131, cockatoos squatted on the dead enced by so many, else a happier harsh, a misanthrope, it looks tensified as the earth has had no travelling past each o f the planets trees like magnificent blooms. In and richer existence would be had down with malevolence; how opportunity to cool. Today how until it rounds the sun and once the evening the moments were by man and beast. many people can be ruined, made ever is the exception and I feel more heads out into the void. magical as the sun set and the hills drunkards, becom e obsessive alive, not enervated by drying This is what has happened. I and their shadows changed from have been stripped, like the in gamblers, be made brutal, how However, Rama is not an asteroid drifts o f sand, but still I experi but an artifact — a gargantuan orange to flaming red to purple habitants, even like the houses many will forget the real value o f ence a feeling of apprehension, hollow cylinder with a complete and to inky-blue. Now such a which are places for sleeping but life? This god sees the weakness in my renewed vigor cannot last and civilisation (including cities, scene is impossible as within a not for living. How long does it each man and exploits it and once soon my feelings will be as des- oceans, fields and factories) glued bare two years little suburban take before even a new house here no man can escape, there are sicated as the dying spinifex. Yes, boxes have interloped upon the becomes dusty and insect-ridden, no softening sea breezes or leven- to its inner walls by centrifugal that is what has happened, the force. An expedition enters this scene. how many days before the garden ing effects o f varied people, differ land has dried me up. I ponder Now I live in my own prop becomes a dust-heap lacking the ing attitudes, instead here by world and finds it dead, dark and upon my existence here in this erty. The ugliest house in the order o f a planned garden and some means the most awful and sterile - but with indications that land and the way o f life as I see it street, talked into buying this lacking the beauty o f the earth as mediocre must be the rule. this is the darkness and sterility o f around me. a newly created machine, a ma property by words of “value”, it was before man hacked into it, Anyone who espouses a differ I would like to sit before a “ cheap” and “ in three weeks it in his desperation to find security ent way is cast out or crushed by chine ready to burst into life at roaring fire, feeling my toes tingle the touch o f a switch. will be a different place” . It is in an area that is alien to man and the dust, the heat and his fellow as they warm up, a steaming drink The entire novel works by im now two years later and it is uglier his ways? men. A man cannot jump into his held between my hands; I would than ever with its half finished One day, I am confident, the car and drive a few miles to the plication. You never see a Raman, like to walk along an ocean beach, additions. There is no view, just earth will once again reign sup hills to regain his sense o f propor and you are never told the reason cold spray upon my face and chicken wire fences looking into reme and beautiful, she is still tion, he can get out his rifle and for Rama’s eternal trek through fingers, the waves pounding as space, but by the end o f the novel my neighbors’ uninteresting yards. very much in control as this land go shooting or go to a waterhole they reflect my heartbeat and there are enough clues to make My baby is the prism of this has conditioned my responses and for a swim but at it he will find then to experience the warm glow your mind pregnant with theories. existence, so soft, so perfect, dulled my senses as I am too half of his acquaintances anyway. as I turn into a sheltered cove; I Rama returns to the theme o f looks back at me with a face small by comparison with In days o f old hermits and would like my baby on my knee 2001, grappling with the possibil that in moments oddly the land’s mightiness. mystics they were able to strip as she watches the raindrops ities o f man’s first contact with away the extraneous aspects of splash against the window. I hope reflects my own. Surely However/one day the existence in such a place but extraterrestrial life. But in Rama so much for a move to a softer she must have joys o f shacks will today even here the mindless the metaphysical gives way to the climate but deep down I fear that climbing a fog blow away, mundane, and transcendentalism points o f our culture give a veneer it will never be, I will live here mountain with is replaced by fear, religious to all — television, football, sub until I look and feel as tired as the grandstanding, and the irrational standard films. Does man bring in dusty trees beside the road. these inanities or does the land hostility that shoots first and A man brutally beats his dog, a push man to this pattern? I think communicates later. Amidst these canary dies o f the heat, there is it is the harshness o f the land mass reactions, only individual too much hardness to bear. People exploiting weakness but by the responses shine - as if Clarke had live in tiny shacks so that there is side-of-the-coin, if a man is abandoned his belief in the cor not even the solace of coming porate intellect, to trust only in able to rise above his home to a fortress against the the integrity o f the individual. physical condition in this rest o f the world. Instead Such a philosophy underlies northern town, he is inside the tiny, hot and the novel’s attack on scientists. truly great, a true man inadequate walls, Clarke has always enjoyed a dig at and in him lies the scientific world, and in Rama ' another hell exists. vindication for us he sends up the anthropologist “ who had made his reputation by uniquely combining scholarship and eroticism in his study o f puberty rites in late 20th century Beverly Hills” , wearily observes that “ even in the 22nd century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conserva tive scientists from occupying cru cial administrative positions” , and jibes at the petty rivalry between the scientists who cling to the Big Bang theory of creation and those who believe in the Modified Steady State Theory. In previous novels such digs amounted to little more than say ing that Christ had dirty toenails: the scientist was savior o f man kind, and that was that. But Rama rejects the scientist by reversing the criteria for godhood: what counts now is the individual’s ability to respond to space with imagination, wonder and toler ance. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 26-march 4, 1 9 7 4 - Page 19 H O L S v n i i ; p e o p l e e lflvvirmiJi, piegpvje i m PAUL CRADDOCK the Young Farmers Plaque to stand beside George at the rostrum. EORGE “ Horseshit” Strumble had George noticed that Alan was slightly Gnever thought of himself as a beau nervous, but he supposed that was tiful person. Sure, he was a bloody good because beautiful people were more sen farmer; he looked after his missus, he was sitive, more tuned to the cosm ic vibra fair with the farmhands and he kicked his tions than ordinary folk. Nevertheless he dog only occasionally, on friday nights looked surprisingly normal for a beautiful I after the pub. He was well liked around person, despite his embroidered jeans and Hicksville and two years ago he’d been see-through Moroccan blouse. the president o f the Farmers Association. "He looks like Mrs Brown’s Bert,” said In general, not a bad bloke and certainly widow Pierce to her friend in a stage not a man given to flights o f fancy. whisper that could be heard throughout Sometimes, of course, he wondered What the hall. It Was All About and once he’d written a “Yeah”, replied the friend equally, poem for the Graziers gazette about his loudly, “ only this one probably shits rose old sheepdog that had gone to herd the petals.” Great Flock in the Sky . . . but as for George turned to Alan as the laughter being a beautiful person, well, it had faded and, using his best, beautiful person never crossed his mind. That is, until the voice, he asked: “ Tell us, Alan, what do day he was knackering the sheep. you do at Nirvana?” There he was, spitting their balls into a "I'm a disciple,” said Alan. bucket and brushing on the hot tar. The k “ At least he’s not a bloody pilgrim,” flies had been giving him hell and after a © said one o f the coarse shearers. couple of hours he’d stopped for a fag “ What are you a disciple o f? ” asked «nYv» George. and a cuppa, flipping through some of the i newspapers that the farmhands had left in "w )i “ A disciple of life,” said Alan. the shed. And there it was — Nimbin There was another eruption o f laugh News by Piotr Olszewski. It was in some ter and George suddenly noticed that i paper he’d never seen before, called widow Pierce was o ff again, screaming Living upstarts, or something like that. “ Bullshit!” as she clutched her side and- As he read, George “ Horseshit” tried to breathe between the gales of Strumble picked his nose pensively: laughter. Grandpa Thomson looked like slowly he realised the awesome truth - he was pissing himself. Alan seemed to be on the verge o f panic, but in a few he was a flamin’ beautiful person. A week WW' later the Hicksville farmers hall was minutes George had quietened the hall, packed. The Hicksville news and farmers urging the Hicksville folk to let the visitor < advocate (est. 1863) had run George’s 'S 4 have his say. advert on the front page, along with a A Alan explained how the beautiful ' J r story headed: “Farmers Are Beautiful ■ 'Z t* » people had left the wilderness of the city jungle to embrace rural communalism. He I People — Wake Up Hicksville.” George was pleased as punch at the turnout and explained how some uptight people had he clutched his new Whole earth cata suggested that the “ man in a state o f logue as he walked to the rostrum, nature” concept was a load o f antiquated acknowledging the applause and cheers claptrap that had been intellectually dis with a wave. When everyone had settled credited several generations ago. This, he pointed out, did not worry the beautiful ■ down, George explained how it was time 1 3 for Hicksville to realise its true position in people, partly because many o f them had the development o f mankind. shunned books and scholarship, prefer “ This Nirvana, or Nimbin, or whatever ring to get their education in the Great it’s called, has shown us the way,” he m m College o f Life. said. “ We can’t just think o f ourselves as Mrs Buxton’s boy, Ernest, just back farmers, we’re beautiful people in a state from teachers college in the city jungle, o f nature, refugees from the wilderness of asked a couple o f terse questions about ping news, and he read to them about emotions. “ Its prime motive is to recruit the city jungle.” “ Who are you calling a what he called “ romantic, counterculture < Nimbin’s methane converter, finishing and supply information to suitable bloody refo?” cried a voice from the back elitists” but Alan explained that the with the quote: “ There is organic work to wouldbe Nimbin pilgrims . . .’’ and several people laughed. beautiful people wanted only to “get a, be done at Tuntables - want to get a bit “ Pilgrims!” shrieked widow Pierce, her “ Look, it’s all here,” said George, little bit o f God on their hands” . of God on your hands?” sides splitting with mirth. I holding up the Nimbin news. Then he Then one o f the shearers chipped-in: When the laughter had subsided some George noticed that even Grandpa > began to read it out aloud. There were a “ Hey, Alan, if you and your mates are body interjected with a rude comment Thomson was rolling in the aisle, unable I few giggles at the first bit about mari just interested in honest farming and about how they could hold church ser to control his laughter. juana and one o f the Brady girls turned enjoying the countryside and each other’s vices in the dunney. Widow Pierce and “ Jesus, George, you must have been around and winked at Grandpa Thom company, why go in for all this bullshit her friend nearly fell o ff their chairs, out in the sun too long,” shouted one o f son, for everybody knew he’d been about pilgrims, tribes and beautiful laughing. the shearers from the side o f the hall. growing his own version of ready rubbed people?” George was starting to have doubts as for years. “ Hey, George, is this Nirvana place in “ Yeah” , challenged another shearer, to whether the Hicksville folk really Australia or bloody Mecca?” George Then George reached the section “what makes you lot any different from wanted to be beautiful people, people realised that it was futile. He did not even about "village or tribal communities” . the rest o f us?” whose every turd was a piece o f heaven. try to explain that pilgrims were the ' Beautiful people, he said, often used words Then it happened. Alan turned slowly “ Here’s something that will interest the beautiful peoples equivalent o f visitors. like that It simply meant that groups of to face his questioners. “ I’ll show you,” mothers especially,” he said as he read to Tears o f mirth were streaming down people lived close by and grew their he said. He smiled with a world weary them about alternative schooling. This widow Pierce’s face; the Brady girls were vegetables together. “ Well, why dont they smile, a gentle, all-knowing smile, the soon led to a debate about the difference in stitches. • flamin’ well say so?" came a voice from smile o f a man who has seen much o f between ordinary school children and It was time for the ultimate weapon. the back. Mrs Pierce, the widow, giggled life’s mystery. Suddenly a light glowed “alternative school children”. George George shouted above the laughter: “ And and whispered to a friend next to her on from his head; a cocoon o f gold that explained that beautiful people often had now, to answer any questions you might the aisle as some o f the lads started shone and glistened in the Hicksville hall. “ alternative” children, although he had to have, I’d like to introduce you to one of Confronted by The Power and The passing around cans o f beer. Still George admit that the uninitiated sometimes had pressed on. He read them the section the beautiful people from Nirvana. Let’s Knowledge they sat like statues in breath difficulty picking out the “alternative” have a big hand for Alan.” less silence. The shearers clutched their about Nimbin’s trucks and how the beau kids from the real ones. A few days earlier George had toyed cans and Grandpa Thomson’s half rolled tiful Nimbinites had bought a new one, a Then he told them about the Nimbin Blitz, for five hundred dollars. with the idea o f using music to increase ready rubbed slipped from his fingers. communications centre, which he said He explained that when Hicksville the dramatic impact of Alan's entrance. Then Alan vanished. It was like magic. was beautiful peoples language for an But George’s missus couldnt work the All that remained was a faint aroma o f became a beautiful “ village or tribal office. Quoting direct from Nimbin news community” they’d be able to write to record player and, besides, she was busy methane and the echo of a distant ( he read: “ It acts as the last frontier o f the in the tearoom making 500 rounds of mantra. the Melbourne and Sydney papers with beautiful people in the wilderness o f the news o f new tractors, threshing machines, freerange, wholefood, sesame seed sand "Streuth,” said one o f the shearers. city jungle.” wiches. harvesters and so on. People were always “ I’ll be buggered,” said another. George Strumble - potential beautiful dying to hear about even the smallest But even without the music the arrival “ We should all feel very humble,” said person - was used to the laughter by of a Genuine Beautiful Person brought a George. detail o f beautiful people, he said. Why, now. But he was not bitter; he knew that even their sewerage problems were grip- hush to the hall. All eyes were on Alan as beautiful people were above such he walked from behind the curtain, past Page 20 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 26-march 4, 1974 \ Elton John: Well worth hearing and worth hearing well place in Elton John’s show. MARGARET MACINTYRE o f the actual difference from the — the band and Elton swinging crowd swaying and humming stage but because of the detach straight into a solid instrumental. along. From there on Elton and Instead his performance is N REVIEWING a concert ment the open air induces. I Elton John is far more in the the band had the audience in their relaxed, and rather than roaring held outdoors, such as at the I started watching Elton John’s tradition o f the Beatles than most hands, with song after song: straight through the show he took South Melbourne football ground, concert from in front o f the English rock bands which seem to Honky cat, Yellow brick road, time to talk to the crowd and let it is almost necessary to have stands and then moved down to structure themselves after the grey seal. And Dont let the sun go the applause die before beginning three different reviewers placed the grass, close to the stage and Rolling Stones. Like the Beatles, down on me, a number just his next song. Your song - about the venue — in the stands, was amazed at the increased Elton and Bernie Taupin write recorded by the band in America: “ you ’re the greatest audience I on the cement in front o f the involvement such a move brought pop songs with strong melodic “for a change from playing all ever have seen” . Frenzy did creep stands and on the grass - because about. The excitement in front of lines, which vary greatly from these old songs” . in then when some o f the the show has a totally different the stage was electric, producing a song to song. This variety allows Visually a lot o f the stage audience felt this signalled the last impact from these different song, but no, “ dont worry, there’s feeling of communication from him to put together a very excitement was provided by positions. performer to audience that was structured and entertaining stage percussionist Ray Cooper, “ once more yet” and Bennie and the In a hall, however bad, it is Jets and All the girls love Alice lacking elsewhere on the ground. show, gently building the excite o f Arsenal, then o f Chelsea and usually possible for a good ment, manipulating the audience (which apparently is not about entertainer to produce an atmo Mild mannered performer now with us” . Dressed in a sharp through the choice in songs rather white suit with white peaked cap Alice Cooper) kept the clapping sphere that will envelop the Elton John appeared on stage on than through stage antics. pulled low over his eyes, he took coming. audience, wherever they are thursday night looking more like a time o ff from his drums and When it was time for the seated. With the possible excep psychedelic aztec chook than Perhaps because o f where I was tambourine to conduct the encore, Elton pulled out the tion o f the Kooyong tennis your usual pop star. And this was originally seated, as well as crowd’s applause with a wave of brilliant Crocodile rock, then stadium, this is not so out of a fair indication o f things to because o f the early sound hassles, his hand as he danced and moved disappeared back stage once more. doors. Viewing a performance come, because Elton is far from it wasnt until R ocket man — well about the stage. His reappearance on a darkened from the stands is a little like your usual pop star. With a flutter into the show - that the stage in full length cape and looking through the wrong end of of feathers, a puff o f smoke and a performance really seemed to get The frenzy usually present in a glasses framed with flashing lights rock and roll performance has no a telescope, not so much because flash o f the lights the show began moving. R ocket man had the brought to mind the comparisons with Liberace — they both certainly know how to keep an Slade slated: Don’t waste your money audience interested. Then Satur day night is for fighting when, free from his piano, Elton the music works to a formula too. projects a strange sort o f sexless CHERRY RIPE hysteria and album sales dont executed a few mean jumps and They are not so much musicians ness in his gollywog tartan troos compensate for the music. Per LADE, unfortunately, are dance steps and actually had the as hysteria-raisers. Coming at you and weskit and top hat covered in haps one day they’ll fulfil their more of a commercial pack Melbourne audience joining in as S between 120-140 decibels, it mirrors the size o f 50 cent pieces. dream and make it in the States. age than a rock band. Like Gary he directed them . . . no easy task didnt seem extraordinarily loud, Perhaps his gawkiness is some Slade, said one fourteener, Glitter they are one o f those at any time. just a fuzzy wall of sound. It point of contact for all those kids “ Oh, they’re alright. I’d rather go musical phenomena who break Certainly when it was over, seems they work to a volume way leaping round in the aisles “ really surfing.” bigger in Australia than elsewhere. those down the front o f the beyond the capacity o f their letting it rip” . It’s a party they And like Marc Bolan, they have PS. Having arranged an appoint crowd left the ground happy and equipment, so bad is the distor want, and a party they get. For never really made it in America, ment to go in and have an inter satisfied. But it is impossible not tion. It’s not something they can their second show, all the centre though they keep on slogging. view with the tour manager to to feel cheated by the sound blame on the PA as they brought seating is being taken out so they They will draw more people in system. Both the band and Elton their own which they use in Eng can dance. Though it could be just collect info on comparative album playing Sydney’s Hordern pavilion sales America etc, and spent an John are well worth hearing, they land. a ruse by the Australian prom o (capacity 6000) than they did last hour while they passed my note more than proved that, and they As to their musicianship, I ters to slip in an extra thousand time they played New York, back book around with 15 pages o f are worth hearing well. Through would love to find something nice on unnumbered tickets without in October. notes railing the concert and out the evening the concert was to say ’cause my age seems to be anyone noticing; it’s a well known Their album sales in Australia mindless music, and having finally marred by the worst sound yet showing. But there’s nothing tax dodge and makes for tightly are phenomenal. It’s only their got to first base with a breakdown heard at the South Melbourne much going on in the lyrics, the packed audiences. The first show second time here, yet, Slade alive o f their Australian gold records football ground. Towards the end rhythm section is almost entirely didnt sell out as they had advertis (recorded "Live” in 72) has ap and some attempt to convince me o f the concert Elton’s voice was a heavy one-two one-two monot ed. parently outstripped sales o f any o f the success o f their most recent still dropping in volume mid song, ony, not relieved by bass lines other album ever released here, For all their crowdrousing and American tour and a few joints, while the technicians fumbled for that stick close behind. The lead topping even Sgt Peppers. Given album selling, it’s a pity what we seemed to be getting along just a satisfactory sound mix. At the guitar sounds like he’s straining to that more people have access to comes out is so unlike music, due fine, til Chandler came back and beginning his voice was handled so keep up, only just getting down money younger these days, it’s to the distortion. Chas Chandler with a “ What, you still here. badly it made you want to take those riffs in time. His solos are less surprising, and they do direct might have you believe I had “ ears Git.” I was out the door. Without the record o ff and clean the pretty uninteresting, variations on themselves at an audience little up me arse” . But they’re his baby, a murmur from Holder, the lead needle. an oscillation between two notes, Inevitably a bad sound rubs off catered to by anyone else. (Cas a Chas Chandler Commercial singer, nor the tour manager and his intro riffs sound like he’s on the performer, and it is high sidy for instance is a musical Package. Coming up through play whose room it was who I was missing two chords in four. All in time that both promoter and generation younger.) ing bass for the original Animals, questioning. Chandler’s word was all it's loud but indistinct and performer realised this and The audience at their concert and “ discovering” Hendrix has law, boys. Perhaps they dont care certainly not satisfying to par ensured a sound system adequate at the Hordern pavilion was en given him a good grounding for about press o f any sort coz ticipate in. They are the only for each venue. I hope the tirely under 20, mostly around 13 mastermind and heavy. You get chances are their audience doesnt band I can think of who actually kids who didnt pay and spent the and 14. The routine was quite the feeling it's “ OK boys, this read that sort o f publication. Still sound better coming out o f a car evening listening outside on the simple: the equipment is all set up week we need 15 new songs and a not what you’d call an exercise in radio. They do occasionally write grass werent to o disappointed by and ready to go but you hang new album” . And he gets them. If rock and roll diplomacy. catchy melodies. what they heard. back for half an hour waiting for the Stones had their “ band people the crowd to work themselves up Theirs is the sort of music for love to hate” , Slade have their to fever pitch, footstamping, slow- which you dont need discriminat Chas Chandler. No mistaking he’s clapping and whistling, punctuat ing ears, just a good pair o f lungs completely in control, producing eats Mother EMMETT TILL THE ARCHITECT AND THE mind games, the power trips, the EMPEROR OF ASSYRIA: Pram ego conflicts. FinaEy, one o f them is Factory, Drummond street, Carl destroyed. The ending is vaguely ton, Vic. cyclical. The emperor is a small man. He HEN you’re down and plays out his avatar/dicta tor/ troubled, and in a way you W omnipotent/sexist fantasies on his wish every day was your last, sole subject. The fantasies are but then again no thanks, when gross, past, present and future. As the kharmic forces o f the universe the play progresses, it is apparent have delivered a series o f left hand, that his real-life m ediocfe history rips to the solar plexus and the has been the site o f far grosser referee won’t stop the bout . .. occurrences. The architect is the well what exactly can a poor foil, the dupe. But gradually he person do? becomes acquainted with how the The answer is, write a play West is won. He takes over, about the hard times, or maybe outplaying the emperor at his own do an album, write a novel, knock fantasy/reality games. The archi out a few poems. Something like tect can move mountains, talk to that. birds, change the wind. He doesnt In this way you not only know why. That is not important. unload a bit o f it on to the He does it. The emperor tries it, typewriter keys, but (and this is but it’s like Moses versus king important) you put the load right Canute. The sea will not roll back on your audience. In fact you can A feast for seagulls give them such a serve that they But enough o f the plot. It’s contemplate their own .. . yawn GOUGH E. FOOT Arrabel translating his ruptured . . . existence, and that’s revenge. childhood into perverse entertain CRYSTAL VOYAGER: on rounds Now take this guy Fernando ment. This particular production o f capital cities. Arrabel. A Spanish chap, heavy isnt exactly as he saw it. Director catholic family, living under the HE SEA is our mother, our Lindsay Smith and the actors kindly general Franco, his father a ancient home. Let us go interpreted it in their own style. T communist on the sly. Now when back to live with her, let us They expanded the opening o f the Arrabel is eight or nine, his worship her omnipotence and play, and tampered with the end mother dobs his father in to play among her tresses as she of the play to remove what was Franco, and Franco having a juicy combs them on the shore. originally an almost total circular dislike for reds has the father Bitter cold and your body motion. Their statement seems to shot. Arrabel grows up a lapsed trembles with exhaustion. Some be that, well, okay it is cyclical times you nearly drown. Jeesus, catholic, a marxist or whatever but the sum o f past experience they call ’em these days, a hater big surf is really hairy. I can’t has some effect on future o f dictators, fatherless, and most figure out why I keep on doing it experience. o f all, with a most intense and solid . . . maybe my friends are right Jack Hibberd, the playwright, dislike for his mother. Good when they say I’m mad . . . also took a hand in the play. He, material for a play most people But Nat Young and George in effect, retranslated the play (a Greenough and Ritchie West do it would admit. The play he writes is French translation) into a less titled The architect and The much better because they’re an auto hulk is pressed into a little the wave a great long roll of literal form and even added some heavily brassed and can afford to box. Cut: the boat getting a coat neatly trapped air twist like a em peror o f Assyria. The Mel local content. According to those be into it fulltime; and George has o f blue paint. Cut: Greenough great gleaming monster, writhes in bourne Pram Factory’s APG got who know, Hibberd and Arrabel hold o f it and y ou ’ll see it being built a boat - a 38 foot ocean bouncing, dropping down the face ponderous agony at the weight have a similar feel so I assume he cruising yacht — so he doesnt have o f an ugly wind-ripped Rincon thrusting on it. Then explodes in a performed at nights in their had fun with it. A lot o f the to hassle through the traffic and wall. Cut: Ritchie West going left, shrapnel o f excited bubbles, Carlton theatre. dialogue is very Hibberd-esque, winking silver and green, slam I guess this is a sort o f review though it may have been that way pay the little green men to park board clinging grimly high up in o f that play, although in most originally; I dont know because I by his sea. And so he can go to all the racing wave. Cut: Greenough ming softly into Greenough’s lens senses it defies review, which is never read it. those hidden places and “kick a knee-deep in vivid silks for his like boiling porridge. Then not to say it is unreviewable. A The sets were also o f a cyclical pick” over the bow, live on board spinnaker. He and Albie Falzon, through the face and he flashes reasonable attempt to review the nature, with the designers utilising and paddle to the surf anytime he who also shot lots of footage, along those courtly, bowing walls play would be longer than the old newspapers, tyres, cars and wants. have put together a peerless first on his kneeboard, camera whirring play itself, which occupies a time other stuff, so it looked like a George aims a mean camera half. on his back to play back at one space of two and a half hours. For rubbish tip, rather than a desert too, and gets far back in the curl The second half sees the boat tenth natural speed. See, this is a two-man play that is a “ fair island. It is a brilliant set though. so all he can see is a little circle o f launched and taken on her what it is like, voyaging through while’’. At times, depending on the sky and land down a big green shakedown cruise, anchored off the land o f purest tinkling crystal. In many ways The architect fantasies the actors were trans tunnel. the beach. Boards thrown in, And Greenough stays under and the emperor is like a VFL lating, it could have been two kids People like George and Nat and paddled to the surf. Becomes a bit water till sunset, filming the warm grand final at the Melbourne playing cowboys in a dump. The Ritchie are Cool and then there’s tedious. But Greenough has saved reds and golds as they play on the Cricket Ground. There is a battle fantasies were ultimately ambigu all the poor shits like me who the best bit till last, as he did in water. The yacht rides quietly at between the two characters, the ous . . . who is going to be the girl, have to d o the hassling and the The innermost limits o f pure fun. anchor, the last gull wheels above emperor (Max Gillies) and the who gets to put the uniform on. paying and the five days at a desk It is lazy and slow, down here the beach, and the external waves architect (Jon Hawkes). There is You know, showing bums and not and say fuck if it’s blown out at under the gleaming lid o f the sea, march towards the land. Back at no real identifying with either playing dead, that style o f thing. weekends. com forted by that light pri the desk next day the images of side, more a general tentative Like the conflict o f cultures in So when these high powered mordial hug. Ahead a wave forms, this film still glow fresh and clean gawking, gaping, half under the play, the actors themselves Cool People point cameras at each folds forward with deliberate in my mind and I lust for standing that both characters, as offer acting identities nurtured other and paste the bits into a surf dignity and rejoins itself. Within Saturday. they change mood, emotion, from opposite poles o f the theatre movie the hasslers like me flock to direction are often opposite poles spectre. Gillies, possibly the best it like seagulls to a rotting fish. of the schizoid self of the play. In actor doing what he does in Sometimes the movie is about as AT LAST that way it is like flashes o f a Australia, is powerful enough to agreeable as rotting fish; some floating madness which threatens play out the small man’s idea o f times, like with Crystal voyager, THE INCREDIBLE to stop us at any time and take an emperor. He offers vocal and the seagulls are feasting. over. But there is the charged facial mutations good enough to This discerning seagull has atmosphere o f a footy final, a outclass a ventriloquistic silent weathered many a surf movie total involvement and the screen star. He plays the part with ripoff and knows the good stuff knowing that one will “ perish” . a sort o f Charlie Chaplin dictator when he sees it. He advises you to The architect and the emperor comic intensity, to give the script join the shuffling queues at is a confrontation between two another dimension. Melbourne's Brighton town hall. men, a series o f games, even a Jon Hawkes, it is said, has a The surfing is all California changing o f roles, a winner and a new theatre sort o f laid back coast, mainly clean Rincon but loser on one level, and whatever style. It seems to be naturalistic with an offshore peak and some you make o f it on any other level. but he says he can’t come at the hidden spots. Nat aggresses on a Briefly, the plot. On a desert method acting scene where you weird little round-ended stick, island the architect is alone, believe you are the part you act. finding little green pockets, naked. Serene, innocent. There is Whatever he believes, to the smashing through to the hook a plane crash. The sole survivor is audience he is what he acts. His with finely controlled power. Still the emperor. He stumbles upon performance is intense and ener magic to watch, although he is no the architect. 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Send to Bruce Abra real communication and teaching/ projects, alternative schools in hams, 9 Burgoyne street, Gordon, learning o f skills will occur. The formation and counselling net NSW 2072. DLM hopes that a permanent works, alternative media, working community will arise out o f in developing countries, radicals in STEPHEN WALL DOVE on the same site at Mul the professions etc. lumbimby. In the meantime, the An Uncareers directory for NOTHER one for you Blue. tisham Park Mill, Bottisham Cam IT LOOKS like some of the DLM alternative technology file is avail Victoria is at present being com A Methane, fuel of the future, bridgeshire, England. proselytes are about to devote able for anyone who wants to piled by the Graduate Careers a 90 pager on how to transform some energy and resources to obtain information from it, or to Council of Victoria. The com shit into fuel, what to use, where some of our more material prob contribute something to it. 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Reminds me of viding access to people and things, theme and aim o f the festival will THAT’S it for this week. The the methane worker who threw a community forming catalyst.” be to set up teaching/learning situ statistic for the week is 6388 — himself into his work; he couldnt What’s all that mean? Well, there ations in alternative technology IN ENGLAND, a non profit that’s how many lucky people swim but he went through the are discussion/learning/action and other crafts and skills, includ organisation called “Uncareers” were fined in 1973 for merely motions. Enough o f this filth. groups about to begin, there’s a ing a fullscale pottery class which publishes a 40 page Directory of placing a limb out of a car win Send one pound ten for an air newsletter and all sorts o f other will be run by the world-famous Alternative Work. It lists vacancies dow. Safety first? Send feedback mail copy to Andrew Singer, Bot- goodies. It is not much use rehash- potter Gwyn Hanssen. The whole and ideas for idealistic and non to PO box 8, Surry Hills, 2010. 8 .0 0 pm, Saturday 1 .00 sleepless editors. february 27, Carnival BAND recital: City square, pm , 4 .1 5 pm, sunday 5 .0 0 AMERICAN TOP 40: good LILIES OF THE FIELD march 2. Become Potato 3.00 pm, sunday. pr.i, 8.00 p m , $2.00, $1.00 songs not available here, by W. E. Barrett, presented Festival Queen! or Austra POETRY READINGS: students and pensioners, 3KZ, 2.30-3.00 am. by the Malvern Theatre lian Potato Picking Champ monday, MLC theatrette, 9 7 .1 6 0 0 . V A R I E T Y - m u s ic h a ll, Company: AMP theatrette, ion! Large prizes for the 8 .0 0 p m . CRYSTAL VOYAGER, Bourke street, monday, ^MELBOURNE: H + comedy: 3KZ, 3.30-4.00 d a rin g . THE CHESKOO RAREE surf movie with some am . 8 .0 0 p m . BALLARAT BEGONIA SHOW with Tom Witting- Continued from centre spread. music by Pink Floyd: MUSIC TO MIDNIGHT: FESTIVAL: march 1-11. slow: City square, 12.00 Brighton town hall, mon- EXHIBITIONS FIST OF FURY (M) a 7.45 pm, $2.25 $ 1 .0 0 stu 3LO, 10.00 pm-12.00mid- 11 fa b u lo u s fu n - fille d d a ys noon. Roller cycling, water day-friday, 8.30 pm, n ite . karate film , til thursday, dents, 82.1 221. and nights of music, artis skiing, girl guides, baton NEEDLEWORK AND th e n W H A T ’ S U P DOC? 6 3 .1 0 3 9 tic or just plain fun — ring CRIES AND WHISPERS — CIRCUS twirling, country and west TAPESTRY: 3rd floor, (G) — a good giggle: Foots- till Wednesday — LOVE Ballarat 3 1.1991 or ern, Ukrainian dancing, cir 180 Flinders street, 9.00 cray Grand, Paisley street, (G) begins thursday — 31.2008 (AH). cus powerlifting . . . Parks, JAZZ MOSCOW CIRCUS: Book am-8.45 pm, friday; 9.00 Footscray, 7 days, 7.40 award winning Hungarian BELMONT COMMON mate. Oh yes, and sport at Myers, $4.20, $5.20, am-12.00 pm Saturday, pm, $1.40, 68.11 38. film : Rivoli Twin 2, Cam RAILWAY, GEELONG: too, and a rip-off guide YARRA YARRA JAZZ $6.20, 662.3050, or see it 9.00 am-5.45 pm monday. TRAVELS WITH MY berwell Junction, night Real steam trains and for 50 cents, and speak BAND: Old Melbourne all on TV free. POTTERY by Warrandyte AUNT (M) — ENGLAND ly 8.15 pm, Saturday, Sun Motor Inn, Flemington m u se u m Vz mile track — ers forum in Flinders park Arts Association: AMP the MADE ME (M): Dendy, day, 5.00 pm, 8.15 pm, road, North Melbourne, BOOK NOW 50c fam ily, 20c adult, 10c which is probably the only atrette, 535 Bourke street, Malvern, Glenferrie road, $2.25, $1.00 students, 7.30 pm, monday-satur- kids (by donation). thing which isnt sponsored. 9 am-10 pm daily. Malvern, 7 days, $2.50, 8 2 .1 2 2 1 . day, plus 3.00 pm Saturday DAVID CASSIDY: March HANDICRAFTS: Lower 5 0 9 .0 5 5 5 . LAST TANGO IN PARIS a fte rn o o n . 10, MCG, $3.20. Plaza, Southern Cross, 9.00 THE BABY (NRC) and (R) from thursday. TRI V AL DOON 1C AN : March EXTRA PLAYS am-9.00 pm friday, THE RULING CLASS PLE ECHO (M) with Glen COURT DRAMA 5, Festival hall, 8.15 pm, 9.00am-5.00 pm Saturday, (M): Dendy, Brighton, da Jackson and Oliver $5.20, $4.20. IN THE HEART OF THE 9.00 am-5.30 pm monday. Church street, Brighton. Reed, and IMAGES with MEMBERS V. HOSPITAL SLANSK — The Polish Na BRITISH MUSEUM by HANDWEAVERS AND Nightly 7.45, Saturday Susannah York: Hoyts Mal EMPLOYEES UNION: tional Song and Dance Co: John Spurting, presented SPINNERS: Guild, 31 Vic 3.30, Sunday 1.45 pm, vern, Glenferrie and Dande- Commonwealth Industrial March 1 9-31. by the Frankston Theatre toria street, 10.00 am-4.00 $2.50, $1.40 students, nong road, nightly 7.30 pm, Court, 1st floor, 451 THE NATIONAL THE (or the slightly less boring Company: friday, 8.00 pm, pm Saturday only. 9 2.8 81 1. Saturday Sunday 3.45 pm, Bourke street, City, ATRE OF THE DEAF: s tu ff) AMP theatrette, Bourke THE SENSUALIST: Trak, 7.30 pm, $2.00, $1.00 stu 10.30-12.45, 2-4 pm. Dress March 9-16, Princess the street, City. MOOMBA NOSTALGIA 445 Toorak road, nightly dents. 50.3193. in fo rm a l. atre, 8.15 pm, matinees: MARDI GRAS: Friday, MR JONAH and DONT by Wine and Brandy pro 6.00 pm, 8.30 pm, Satur march 14 and march 16, march 1, 9.00 pm. KNOCK JONAH — musical ducers: Lower town hall, day 2.30 pm, Sunday 5.00 CABARET (M) til Wednes TV 2 .0 0 p m . THE ROYAL SCOTS plays presented by Mel 6.00-10.00 pm Saturday, pm, 8.00 pm, 24.9333, day, LOVE, PAIN AND GTK: ABV 2 monday- ADELAIDE FESTIVAL: DRAGOON GUARDS: bourne Revival Centre: 11.00 am-1 0.00 pm sunday $ 2 .5 0 . THE WHOLE DAMN thursday 6.30 pm. March 9-16. Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Rialto theatre, Kew, Satur and monday. I AM CURIOUS, YELLOW THING from thursday: SESAME STREET for kids MORNING OF THE Saturday 8.00 pm, sunday day, Sunday, 8.00 pm. STARS BY NIGHT AND (R): Palais, St Kilda, night Hoyts, Camberwell, 734 of all ages: ABV-2, monday- EARTH: David Bowie, 2 .3 0 p m . MY THREE ANGELS by DAY, Planetarium, 304 ly 8.15, Saturday 4.15 pm. Burke road, nightly 8.00 friday, 3.00 am and 4.30 63.1 0 9 3 . LITERARY A W A R D S Sam and Bella Spewack: S w a n s to n St., 11 am , 2 pm , $2.50, 94.0651, $1.50 stu pm, Saturday 4.1 5 pm, Sun p m . DINNER: Union, Mel AMP theatrette, Saturday, 3.30 pm Saturday only. dents. day 5.00 pm, 8.00 pm, UNLIKELY DELIGHTS bourne uni, 6.30 pm. 8 .0 0 p m . THE HIRELING (NRC): $2.00, $1.00, 82.1000. MOOMBA WORD MACH RADIO ABC PROM CONCERT: SKYBERS by Barry Rec- Rivoli Twin 1, Camberwell THE GODFATHER (R): INE, Dorchester, Alexander KOO-WEE-RUP POTA Saturday, Melbourne town kord presented by Adelphi Junction, nightly 7.45 pm, Hoyts, Bentleigh, Centre gardens, 6-10.30 pm sat, COUNTRY & WESTERN: TO FESTIVAL: February hall, 8.00 pm. theatre group: AMP the Saturday, sunday 4.15 pm, road, Bentleigh, nightly 9 am-10.30 pm sun, 6-10pm 3KZ, 5-5.30 am, songs for 27-march 2. Festival Ball, SALVATION ARMY atrette, sunday, 8.00 pm. m o n . Merran and John, P.O. Box 135 Upper r fc le C c U d e Sturt 5156. Phone: 278-1811. on Marilyn Monroe: episode of BBC, serialisa Adelaide airport. Keep RADIO tuesday-thursday, 11.00 NWS-9, 7.30 pm. tion of Tolstoy’s novel: watching all channels am-6.00 pm, friday 11.00 ABS2, 9.15 pm. throughout the day for the PICK OF THE GOONS am-9.00 pm. “ Adam Krie- WILTON’S, THE HAND continuing saga: NWS-9, 5CL, 11.30 am. gal” , 88 Jerningham street, SOMEST HALL IN TOWN 12.00 n o o n . North Adelaide. FOLK — Peter Sellers, Warren FILM LIDUMS GALLERY: tues- Mitchell, Spike Milligan, day-saturday, 10.00 am- MOONSHINE JUG AND Ronnie Barker and Keith M t i W l d c W REPULSION, Roman Pol 5.00 pm, Sunday 1.00 STRING BAND: Modbury Michell — program act anski; JE T’AIME, JE pm-5.00 pm. Exhibition of hotel, 60c. ROCK typical of London music T’AIME, Resnais: National opal jewellery, David hall in 1850s: ABS2, 10.00 Film Theatre of Australia Boyd’s paintings and pot POETRY SLADE IN CONCERT: p m . ROCK “ Images of the mind’’ tery by Barry Singleton. 8.00 pm, Memorial drive, FOLK season: 7.30 pm at Roth- RAGA ARTS GROUP — $ 4 .7 0 . MANSFIELD PARK hotel, mans theatrette, Wayville $1.50, Grand Junction Ginger Workshop, also CATACOMBS — Tony showgrounds. Goodwood road, Mansfield Park. music, films, etc: 1 Arthur FILM Hosi, Judith Crossley and road. Members only. Mem f t o o & t t o t o street, Unley. others: 1 Hackney road, bership $3.00 (over 18 JEZEBEL and NOW VOY- FILMS Hackney, 80c, 8.00 pm. ROCK years — join at door.) Pro EVENTS AGER — National Film gram $1.20, students 80c. FILM Theatre of Australia — SOVIET SONG AND MANSFIELD PARK hotel, ENVIRONMENTAL CIN- NATURAL DANCE “ Images of the Mind” sea D A N C E E N S E M B L E : see THEATRE TV Grand Junction road, frid a y . EMA: George Anderson CLASS: cnr Queen and son: 7.30 pm, State Gov Mansfield park, $1.50. NATIONAL DANCE M O N T Y P Y T H O N ’ S F L Y and students and “The William streets, Norwood, ernment theatrette, state COMPANY OF SENE ING CIRCUS: ABS-2, 9-10 Seven Yellow Months ” — $ 1.00. administration building, THEATRE p m . Victoria square. FOLK G AL: see Wednesday. a new film by Aggy Read. Members only, Member BIEDEMANN AND THE ship $3.00 (over 18 — join AMBASSADOR hotel, 107 F IR E B U G : see Wednesday. TV THEATRE o u e c k t e & t y at door). Program $1.20, King William street, 8-12 DAMES AT SEA: see Rex Cramphorne directs p m , 5 0 c. th u rsd a y . students 80c. MAN IN QUESTION — PERFORMANCE SYNDI CATE in a new work. THEATRE EVENTS LEONARD F R E N C H . FOLK THEATRE Documentary on the Aus FLINDERS DRAMA CEN FILM TRE presents three one act BIEDEMANN AND THE tralian artist: ABS-2, 9.45 GALA FAIR: Wellington p m . Australian plays. CATACOMBS — open BIEDEMANN AND THE F IR E B U G : see Wednesday. TRASH and FLESH, Andy square. North Adelaide, MURRAY PARK CAE pre night, anyone can play: 1 F IR E B U G : see W ednesday. DAMES AT SEA: see Warhol: Capri, Goodwood, 10.00 am-4.00 pm. Blind sents a new play for chil Hackney road, Hackney. DAMES AT SEA — Torch th u rsd a y. 8.00 pm, $2.00 and $2.25. Welfare Association — dis RADIO dren — Director, Warwick Players: 8.15 pm, Scott NATIONAL DANCE CO plays and stalls. Cooper: “ Dan Morgan and THEATRE theatre, 30s musical, O F S E N E G A L : see W ed FOLK One of a series on the the Bouncing Bunyip of $1.60, $1.00. nesday. TV P A N C A K E K IT C H E N — BIEDEMANN AND THE NATIONAL DANCE CO Festival of Arts personal jam sessions and singalong: Bandicoot Reach.” FIREBUG — Therry Dra OF SENEGAL: see W ed ities and festival previews: up to 40 cents cover charge, HAMLET ON ICE — An FILM ROCK AND ROLL LIVES 5CL, 10.10 am. matic Society presents a nesday. 13 Gilbert place, Adelaide. adult pantomime: Sheri — John, Paul, George and dan theatre. morality without a moral: THE SOVIET SONG AND Ringo. The first of five Willard hall, Wakefield MEETING DANCE ENSEMBLE and special programs on rock’n GALLERIES OTHERS street, 8.1 5 pm. POEM OF DANCES (Bal roll: NWS-9, 6.00 pm. DOROTHY P L A K — OTHERS Centre for the real ap NATIONAL DANCE CO let): Warner theatre, 100 KEITH MICHELL AT BELAIR CELLARS: Paint “ Creative Craft Work CRAFT FAIR: march proach to people. Meeting OF SENEGAL: Festival King W illiam street, 11.00 HER MAJESTY’S — first ings and Handcrafts, shop” : Drop in for advice 16-17, Elder Park. Contact to discuss alternatives to theatre, 8.15 pm, $5.70, am, 2.00 pm, 5.00 pm, of three programs present 2.00-6.00 pm. on any craft you may care Craft Association if you existing psychiatric institu $4.70, $3.70. students 8 .0 0 p m . ing past performances at THE HILLS KITCHEN to mention. 57 Magill road, wish to contribute. I tions: 8.00 pm approx, 1 * 2. 20. famous London theatres. RESTAURANT: 12.00 RAGA ARTS GROUP: William street, Norwood. S t Peters. DISTRACTIONS noon-8.30 pm. Exhibition Regular free concerts in TV Presents some of the pro TV ductions at Her Majesty’s by Terence Terry: 19 Cor- GALLERIES parks around town, featur ROYAL VISIT 1974 — ar from 1705 to the present: ramandel parade, Black ing Johnny Ego and his M ARILYN— documentary WAR AND PEACE — 2nd rival of Hers and His RH at | A B S -2 , 7 .3 0 p m .______w o o d . LLEWELLYN GALLERY: all-stars band. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 26-march 4, 1974— Page 25 W e can’t run ’em if we can’t read ’em.Do ’em neat. present life span. liberties” . The beast Y ou all know that all evil Solzhenitsyn is fighting for class everywhere will be totally eradicated rights, class justice, class freedom, and for the absolute infinity within the as such should be praised rather than speaks time that the present generation of pissed on. “ TRAPPED” o f Wodonga was both children who are your salvation are ANDREW BLIGHT, amusing and rather sad. I thought I'd living freedom for the all enveloping St Ives, NSW. present the other side. infinity. I’m just home and it’s pay day. I Teach your children what you are know it’s pay day, the missus always presently spreading to them, for it is of Yeah, and what puts a dress on then . . . over her blue God and therefore perfection. jeans. The revolution is over in America, about Lulu? due mainly to the powers contained From a 1947 women’s journal, she COLIN Talbot just has to be out o f his read where deodorants block up the within and without music of the pyschedelic generation. mind! “ The Lady Singers” (TLD 2/7), skin pores and are harmful and she aint with not even a passing reference to going to be otherwise convinced. I’ve Write yourself a truthfilled bible. Write a history o f the life and death two talents who are undisputedly dropped hints like “ fancy being able to blessed with, I quote “ unique smell the neighbour’ s garbage in a rain of all humanity. Sing and dance and celebrate for we sensibility . . . timbre o f the voice . . . storm” . I’ve $84.60 cash, o f which $26 the ability to sing (well), the ability to goes for rent, the rest for the kids’ are the generation that is making music that celebrates the total and complete look physically good on record covers, lunches, the TV, the pile of overdue an apparent general tallness, the ability accounts from everyone except the milk eradication o f all bad and all evil everywhere in this lifetime. to play musical instruments (mostly) man. Sure I’m suspicious, but a row and to write lyrics and compose music ■ could well put another bill on the pile I send all o f gods’ love to you all forever more. or at least interpret lyrics with great and this is what greets me. sensitivity.” She’s looking forward to the CURLY Lom e, Vic. I’m referring, of course, to Peggy menopause, she thinks it’s a rest from Lee and Bobbie Gentry. Hasnt Talbot men. Her doctor told her it’s okay for ever heard Lee’s I can sing a rainbow, her to menstruate 10 days a month. Oh, Bootlegger There'll be another spring and the I could stretch it out. Besides the “ no RECENTLY, listening to good music, a soundtrack of The lady and the tramp? deodorant use” she w on’t clean any of Or the definitive classic interpretations the teeth she has left, her cooking door into a realm o f higher consciousness was opened unto me. This of Black coffee, He's my guy and the finished off the rest. beautifully arranged The folks who live She watches so much TV her glasses door led into a rather different space than the usual ascetic delights music on the hill. now look like the bottom o f a Coke And Bobbie Gentry! What about bottle. She knows all of Tony Barber’s provides. This was concerned with more everyday affairs: the abnormally Ode to Billie Joe, Mornin' glory, or her personal life but thinks Watergate’s a versions of Max Allison’s Parchman high prices of those bits of plastic and new housing development. She wraps farm, and John D. Loudermilk’s the kids’ lunches in the daily paper strips o f tape which convey these delights. Tobacco road, not to mention more before reading it. I see where the recent releases. average wage is $110, so I’m missing But there is a way to beat these rip-offs. It involves a system o f buying I’ve left out mentioning the out everywhere. ridiculous, one short paragraph dis records, taping them, then reselling the I’m frightened to go to a marriage missal o f Dory Previn until last because once-played records. councellor as he’d suggest suicide. this seems to be an arbitrary, Record new @ $6.50. "Sydney H ubby" misjudged and tin-eared opinion o f an C90 cassette @ $1.00 (one- McMahons Point, NSW. original and disturbing talent. side). Has Talbot really listened to The Resale o f record @ $3.00. veterans big parade, Michael, Michael, Price paid for album by owner of Breaking Beware o f young gtls, Angels and tape: $4.50. Price paid for record: devils the following day, and so on? Or $3.00. Everyone benefits. All we need is he unconsciously (maybe) reacting the chains is a good medium for advertising the to the putdown of the whole DEAR TRAPPED, sales and w e’ll have music for the would-be-hippie-love-drugs-unisex- Have just read your letter in the last people. How about it TLD. media-manipulated “ scene” and the issue o f TLD. You just said it all. But KEVIN LAVERY countless rip offs involved. apart from your personal pergatory o f Brian Hill, Vic. There were other notable omissions the moment, I feel I should tell you in Talbot’s article. Has he ever heard o f that you can write, and you should write a lot more. Now is the time. I the true Carmen McCrae? Or Morgana King? Or Mary Travess? Or Sarah Vaughan? Or Your letter ought to be emblazoned Shirley Horn? along every factory wall, along every music lover The case rests! office facade. It ought to appear on the RE Margaret MacIntyre’s Top Ten: front page of every businessman’s 1. Beethoven Symphony N o.6. RON HERBERT office newsletter and commercial 2. Sibelius Symphony No.5. Austimner, NSW. journal. It is pure truth. 3. Mozart Sinfonia concertante, It is also prophecy, because it K364. Swines represents the awakening of woman 4. Vaughan Williams Fantasia on hood in this day to the repressed role theme o f Thomas Tallis. to which she has been condemned for 5. Tchaikovsky The nutcracker. before pearls too long. 6. Dvorak Symphony N o.3. I WISH you wouldnt insist on As to what you can do, taking into 7. Rachmaninov Preludes. “ correcting” what I say. Last week you consideration the welfare of the 8. Bach Brandenburg concertos. altered "intensional” to read “ inten children, I suggest to you that you take department of social welfare or its 9. Schubert — just about anything. tional” — making utter nonsense of the them away with you and salvage what equivalent and take legal steps to Mayonnaise on 10. Stravinsky Le sacre du sentence. “ Intensional” is a term often you can from the home-jail. Clear out ensure your husband contributes his printemps. used by semanticists and anyone while it is at “work” . What he is doing share — they’re his responsibility too — (Not necessarily in order o f interested in linguistics. Pardon me, to you is clearly to be classified as if he won't do so wUlingly. Or leave Turkish Delight preference.) but your ignorance is showing. Similarly you altered “ un-sane” to “ mental cruelty” . Advise the central them with him, as so many men leave TO WHOEVER reads this letter, good What does this say about me. Does read “ insane” — a subtle but quite > social welfare office — state and federal their children with their wives without morrow to you. A friend of mine said this mean . . . that it’s all over? important change in tone and meaning. ‘ — setting out your case in as clear a second or a first thought. to me that you people kind of like Personally speaking, the music columns The letter was typed, so you dont terms as your letter, with as much If you stay, assert yourself and “ off-beat” items. Well I have a small are all ratshit, so why an editor? have the excuse that you couldnt read extra detail as possible. If you have any refuse sex if you dont want it. It’s suggestion to put to you. BARNEY KOLLNER, it properly. photos which back you up . . . maybe maddening but a husband feels no guilt In your next issue, or whatever, you Rutherford, NSW. Believe me — I know what I'm one of his best will be enough . . . send at wanting sex more often than his could have a section in which you Schubert was pompous too. saying. I hope this doesnt sound them with your dossier. wife, yet if she refuses even once a could ask your readers to put forward E ds. arrogant, but it is annoying to have At the same time contact as many year, she can be prey to incredible their suggestions as to the question, or one's ideas twisted around simply women's welfare groups. Perhaps it guilt. It’s unfortunate that women rather statement as to their favorite On your may be an idea to contact them first. usually find themselves in the position recipe, drink, or particular o f food when because some goon hasnt heard certain words or expressions before. Their files should be overflowing with of denying, but it’s not fair that we one gets the MARIJUANA ROBERT VAN KRIEKEN. similar cases o f social injustice. should feel guilty about this. Insist on “ munchies”. pat baloney Finally, the best of God’s luck to a say in family outings and do as you Yours very stony IT was with considerable interest that I you. And just remember, you ’ve got wish, such as seeing friends; it’s your LARRY MATTHEWS, read the article by Pat Flanagan on The good evolution on your side. right and you neednt be apologetic from HaHaVille. Solzhenitsyn in TLD 2/7. FRED BAXTER about it. I do not claim to be an expert or oil of anarchy Daw Park, SA. Or else stop complaining. If you even reasonably well informed on the A pearl I HAVE been reading your paper since dont make a move it’s not because the Soviet system or marxism-leninism- rules o f society, your husband or stalinism et al, but I find this article I arrived from London last november. Pap for anyone else has trapped you, rather from Curl pretty grim. You are a really good friend and you are trapped by your own fear. DEAREST elves, people, wizards and Flanagan’s main argument seems to every tuesday I'm looking forward to Fear o f the unknown life that you warriors carrying on the fight to be that Solzhenitsyn is only an see you in the newsagent and I go the Trap would lead apart from your husband; eradicate evil for all time everywhere. individual and thus can be ignored. through your pages like a maniac and I “TRAPPED” of Wodonga (TLD 2/7) fear of having no male around to We of Spaced Honey Dew salute Bullshit! Society, any society, is made handle all the difficult and dirty jobs feel happy to know that I’m not alone. asks someone to tell her the right you. Do what you now know you have up o f individuals, and they cannot be and to turn to if things get hard for I decided to write to you because move. The right move depends on what to do forever more and feel the cry of ignored. If a Solzhenitsyn is deported, you; fear of being categorised as an lately I’m getting disappointed, even she really wants and how she really all angels everywhere sending all their why worry, he is not a worker, not a offended, I dont expect you to be feels about her husband, her children “ inhuman monster” for leaving your powers to help you in your cause and member o f the idealised working class! children; fear o f emotional scenes and and her responsibilities to them, but I you alone and you united with God Solzhenitsyn does not break any new “ perfect” but at least be genuine and can see several possibilities. unpleasantness. It could be one, all, or from 5,000,000,000 light years ground, it has all been said before, but dont contradict yourself. none o f these fears but if you Leave; and if you ’re scared or lonely advanced over Nixon. Love is all you who took any notice of it before? His I'd like to know a few things before acknowledge that the help I’ve contact your local council social need so why desire anything else. case brings into the open the I start to tell you my point of view. mentioned does exist, and are worker or a government social worker Money is for free but it’s worth persecution o f the individual who Are you an anarchist paper? If you are, to find out organisations of people in dissatisfied with the present situation speaks openly about what he believes nothing. Share everything you own what sort? What is the purpose of your similar circumstances who could give and yet, do nothing to change your which is what you create and own in and is persecuted for doing so. paper? How would you change the you emotional support and practical situation, then what is it but fear of nothing and gain everything. I suggest that Flanagan has lost sight present society — by violence or by advice. There are no physical holds on some sort. Fear then is ready with new All music is transitional dependence of the forest for the trees and is no you — you're not chained, not bound excuses for inertia whenever the old on all intergalactic brothers and sisters longer concerned with people but examples? I take it you are an anarch ones are solved. by law to stay. whose all encompassing eternal love rather fine sounding slogans and worn ist and you try to persuade people to If you want to take your children JANETTE LANSDOWNE will help you and me and everyone phrases eg “ bourgeois” . “ class be such. I say you will fail for two Beverly Hill, NSW. with you seek financial help from the save the planet earth within this ideology” , “ petit bourgeois” , “civil reasons: Page 26 - THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 26-march 4, 1974 1) Because the majority o f your readers are already in this “ anarchist trip” and they dont need to be con vinced ; what they need is to know that Take a risk there are a lot o f others with the same ideas and they are not the only “ crazy" ones. odalisque So TLD should be the means of communication between these peoples and I think that most o f your articles should be based on this subject, be cause it is not really yours but is ours. As you say in Vol. 2 No. 1: “ O f our many failings we are aware, but each week we believe the mixture improves, the energy flow thickens and ideas begin to dance . . .” So let’s start to exchange ideas and good vibes and try to build something positive in place o f what we criticise. 2) You assume the same level as many other parties (communist, fascist etc) which involve leaders, propaganda, power etc . . . and you therefore break WiHiamstown Ferry b y Bill Beasley in River Yarra Sketchbook. (Rigby) the first principle of anarchy — using powers through revolution, to force other people to believe that your way There’s a ferry at the is the best. If this is anarchy, it makes me bloody sick! Fuck the Anarchist party bottom of our river and all those idiots who call it such. Let's evolve anti-governmental GLEN HALFBACON within the first 34 vehicles in the waiting queue, for that was her systems. Let’s set out to completely E L B O U R N E ’S Williams- capacity — caravans, trucks and change this society. town ferry has ceased for We must realise that we are a small M trailers confusing the count. ever. “ The cost to repair and minority and being such, easy to be Originally doom ed to re return it to working order was destroyed, especially on a “party” dundancy by the Westgate bridge, beyond us” Williamstown’s acting basis. But we are not “ losers” and we the ferry’s expectancy was ex city engineer, Mr Baker, explained still have the chances, especially nowa tended in 1970 with the collapse days, as we watch the capitalistic on friday. Since 1931 the Short of a 450-foot bridge section. The empire going bankrupt. road ferry has plied the 250 yard bridge is currently years behind its Therefore the main purpose of TLD Yarra near where it spews into original schedule. should be to keep this minority to Hobsons bay, the northernmost The only remaining ferry ser gether anonymously and unofficially. point o f Port Phillip bay. The peculiar fluidity of anarchism is vice across the Yarra (tourist Linking Port Melbourne with reflected in its attitude towards organ ferries excluded) is one and a half Newport at a point adjacent to isation. By no means does all anarchy miles upstream. Operating from the belching power station, it was reject organisation, but none seek to Francis street, Yarraville, it takes Melbourne’s only vehicular ferry. give it an artificial continuity, the fluid workers to GMH and the aircraft survival of the libertarian attitude itself Services started at 6.15 am daily, JEWEL EASTGATE underdog, is apparent. Today’s factories at Fishermen’s Bend. is what is important. In fact, the basic finishing after 8.30 pm. Car drivers female is legally emancipated, but ideas o f anarchism, with their stress on HE WIFE of the mayor of socially emaciated. And females always checked to see if they were freedom and spontaneity, preclude the L.A. or somewhere went T are now feeling this contradiction, possibility o f rigid organisation, and missing for a week. The mayor this frustration. They want to be particularly o f anything in the nature was trying to explain this away on B. B. King tour of a party constructed for the purpose recognised as persons, first and TV recently when the wife inter o f seizing and holding power. foremost. The time is ripe for rupted: “ I have been discreet all The agricultural commune is the radical feminism. my life ... I just wanted recogni only answer if you want to work for The first move for a slave is to tion from my husband.” your needs. It’s the only way to get all resist the system o f slavery. of us together and build our own This woman’s actions are Women have been martyrs for too society and give a good example. But symptomatic of a general social long. It is time to resist the roles unfortunately even then we won't be malaise. Let this be a warning to - revolt against oppression. It is completely free because there are prac all “ husbands” - whether legal, not necessary, or even desirable, tical problems that we can’t avoid (eg. de facto, or “ still-looking-thanks” . buying land which involves bureauc to organise a physically violent Let it be an encouragement to all racy and money, buying tools and form of revolution. The tyranny if similarly “ discreet” females. It is fertiliser to work the land, trying to thus overthrown would only be symptomatic of the feeling of fe survive until you grow your own food). replaced by yet another tyranny males in similarly “ permanent” That’s why I’m still “ sucking pol - “ power to the women” is no lution” , but the thought of getting this relationships. The post-war myth better than “power to the men” . relative freedom keeps me alive. So of female emancipation is at last No, females dont need to revolt as dont you bloody print bullshit like: being exploded. Dont let this ex a movement. The required revolu “ In Australia ’73 anyone who works is plosion be merely defused by tion is an individual personal one. either a fool, oppressed or believes in paternalistic arguments such as - their job .” We need to revolt against our own e g e n d a r y biuesman, “being feminist only reinforces who does a lot of prison work in Anyhow comrades, if I may call you conditioning, our own role-play B. B. King, soon to tour sexism” — such arguments serve L the States, and heads a foundation such, I feel much better now. I couldnt ing where it is self-defeating. And Australia, will not perform before only to put the underdog back in which raises money for prisoners live relaxed until I did it. I’m not suggesting an anti-male prisoners at Sydney’s Long Bay to study music and purchase Peace and kindness from a citizen of her place, to shut her up. revolt either. I am suggesting an jail and Melbourne’s Pentridge jail, instruments, decided against the the world. But sexism implies just that — individual anti-female-role-playing as indicated by earlier publicity. NINO, that the female be the underdog. move in Australia because he felt revolt, in your own way. Philip Walker, a representative (unmistakable name to be an Italian), Whereas feminism is the examin it was “ degrading an ideal to a One of the most self-defeating of the tour's Australian promoter, Melbourne, Vic ing o f this role — a seeing through publicity stunt”. King also roles commonly played is that one Robert Raymond, said that he it. It is now appropriate to be fem decided against prison work played in particular by females - had commenced negotiations with Dont let ’em inist as a means o f throwing off because his tour commitments the role of the underdog. Females authorities at both prisons. In these sexist roles. Sexism is rife. were too hectic and because in the see themselves as the underdog, Sydney he contacted the Robin States his prison activities were o f Feminism is an attempt to tran hide the chronically passive servant, Hood committee, a charitable a personal nature due to his scend it, not to confound it. When who has no feelings or desires o f body which organises social PLEASE keep up your practice of these roles have been seen involvement with, and allegiance putting a name (of writer, reporter, her own. She chronically puts activities on behalf of Long Bay to, negro prisoners. through, we will have become cartoonist, artist. . .) to every entry. herself down, subsuming her own prisoners. Walker said that Robin The itinerary for King’s Aust non-sexist. We will then be pri Everything that is written is written wants under those o f her “ mas Hood showed little interest and, ralian tour, which promises to be marily persons, and only second by somebody. We are surrounded al ter” . This is not necessary. The although they did state they a blues fan’s delight, is as follows: arily “ females” or “ males". When ready by words, products, services, sky will not fall on your head if would talk to warders, nothing Brisbane, Festival hall, march we have become thus non-sexist, rules, impositions, advertisements, you refuse to lie down when you eventuated. advice etc, to which no one will put his then feminism and all sexism as 9; feel like sitting up and barking. R epresentatives for Mel Sydney, Hordern pavilion, or her name. Normal journalism stinks such, will have “ withered away” . There is room in day-to-day bourne’s Pentridge jail were, sur march 10; so much because the journalist doesnt Only persons will remain. living for your wants too. Try it. prisingly enough, extremely Adelaide, Apollo stadium, have to sign his articles. In the meantime, however, it is Express your real feelings — assert interested but before final negoti march 11; I say it is extremely important that appropriate to speak of “femin TLD maintain the strict policy of your real desires. You can free ations could be effected, B. B. ism” and “sexism”. Today, the Perth, Her Majesty’s theatre, putting a name to every entry, or an your real self - by simply being King informed the promoters that march 12; conflict between the myth of explanation for its absence. your real self - living! he did not wish to proceed with emancipation and the social real Melbourne, Festival hall, march PHIL O’CARROLL prison concerts. ity o f the female being still the Albury, NSW □ According to Walker, King, THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, february 26-march 4, 1974— Page 27 LESLIE McINNES WE MUST LOOK FOR Heathen Rites in Secluded decency of the telegraph pole tering in virgin bushland. HE TREE is not, as is so MOTIVES. Glen forever; to become now a defector The purity o f untouched tree- Twidely thought, merely a The tree means to evoke a Naked Swimmers in Bushland from the suitably dressed and life is a myth. harmless, indeed benign and lulled sense o f peace in us; to play Setting painted timber o f the town. Every state forest harbors a beautiful inhabitant o f bushland. upon that human defect, viz; a It just goes on and on. Man Trees must not be allowed potential force of crude attack, Trees have minds: they know sensitivity to sensuous rhythm; to succumbing to enticement. their insidious attack on man’s waiting and lurking; ready to drag what they're about and they are hypnotise us into a state o f purely Weak morals are obviously frail tightrope of morality. Man’s the unsuspecting into the pun invariably up to no good. perceptive appreciation through synonymous with the lover of the ability to deny the cry of lust gency o f new-rising sap and the Tell me if you doubt this: Why touch and smell and sight. In bush. The sinuous cry o f the tree from the bush is strong only when final degradation of naked wan do they thrust out those ideal other words - and I shudder to is answered by the gross and it is bolstered by numbers and by dering and a wattle and daub hut, perches for birds? think of the danger to undisciplin primitive instincts of the bush- constant and prayerful vigilance signs o f the bushman-slave o f the Why do they put on a show of ed children on picnics - THE walker, "I come to your soughing and pruning. deceptive green shadows. He is a great color and leafiness? TREE IS LEWD! wind breathed limbs, I com e” . Show yourself strong and do forsaker o f civilised life, a self- Why does their bark crinkle The tree is a brazen appeal to And there you see another not fear to snip the offending indulgent savage. and strip o ff in beautiful patterns? the satyr in man’s often poorly victim, weak willed man, forced branch. Keep down the growth of Deaf to all entreaties to return Why do they sway so provoca trained character. by a barrage upon the senses to your garden to a well disciplined his ears hear only the chatter o f tively in the wind? Y ou’ve all heard the stories — walk the flowering gummed path; and ordered shrubbery. Teach bush creatures and the ever whis Can you tell me this? Nude Romp in Forest lost to the worthy austerity and your children the dangers o f loi pered allurements o f the trees. Printed by Richard Neville at 174 Peel Street, North Melbourne for Incorporated Newsagencies Pty L.td, the publisher and distributor, 113 Rosslyn Street, Melbourne So here we go round the mulberry bush. Here we go round the mulberry bush — mulberry bush, mulberry bush! never having seen a mulberry bush in our lives.