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Allen Ginsberg talks his head off Bob Ellis&Leunig: fifteen years at the Opera House THE ARMY OF THE RARE Richard Beckett beats up the week’s news

ell us something we T DONT KNOW: The world is con­ trolled by mentally deranged people, Dr F. A. Corson, a professor of psychiatry from Ohio state university told an inter­ national psychiatric congress in Sydney. Continuing along his merry path of truism the good professor said - in a statement reminiscent of the one-eyed man-made king in the country of the blind - that the United States is the chief breeder of madmen, and the United States government the chief in­ Phew! stigator of world violence. “The major powers are engaged in overkill prepara­ tions, developing diabolic instruments of violence and destruction”, he added, we more or less as an afterthought. But he had the answer. There was a possibility that chemical food additives are re­ sponsible for violent behavior and this is made it most marked in modern consumer soci­ ety. Gentle whole-earthers murmuring love might as well blow their brains out A TOTAL DISASTROUS FAIL­ right now. URE, UNBELIEVABLY CHILD­ ISH .. . PUT BACK THAT * * * TREE . . . FRANK O’DEA, Potts THE KING OF THE MENTALLY Point, NSW. DERANGED MIGHT AS WELL HAVE US BY THE BALLS: American bases in O’DEA, oh dear, was the first Australia have been placed on full written reaction to last week’s emergency alert because of the Middle dawning and scattered remnants was “an alternative to the DLP”, was did not have the money to pick up its of other sallies litter our office, East crisis. Both the bases at Northwest Cape and Pine Gap, despite denials, now firmly protestant based and allowed own cans, but that local government columnist Harry Gumboot reached obviously have some local significance. only Christians to join. Supporters of organisations should be paid more mon­ a record level of unpopularity for To relate a little past history, Australia’s the DLP in Blacktown are understood ey to do so. a first appearance and one Sunday so-called leader, one Gough Whitlam, to be building priests holes in their fibro * * * newspaper exposed him as a deal­ asked for and was refused details of cottages. THE MEEK (PART TWO): The fed­ er of peace signs, pot and pornog­ * * * coded military communications through eral minister for services and property, raphy. the bases - showing the control he has GUESS WHO DONT WIN THE Mr Fred Daly, said he had recently learnt Following the embarrassing ef­ over his own country. As usual, Whitlam NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE that a federal land grant intended to be fluent of publicity, it should come has done nothing about the presence of (AND GUESS WHY): Ms Maureen used for increased recreational facilities as no surprise to hear that the first the bases. However, he is believed to Freer, president of the Fellowship of in Sydney’s Ashfield high school was issue sold sensationally. Although have turned down a request from the Australian Authors, said in a statement now going to be used to widen a nearby it did come as a surprise to our US that the next base be located on the in Brisbane that “Henry Lawson and road. Oddly enough, he added that he distributors, who are now absurd­ lawn of his official Canberra residence. Bazza McKenzie had contributed to the found the NSW government’s action ly clamoring for gargantuan sup­ •k k k terrible scourge of mateship in Austra­ somewhat "difficult to believe”. plies of this second issue. Ha ha. lian literature and that it had to be SLEEP TIGHT TONIGHT IDI’S stopped”. In a piece of death wish prose * * * More pages this time and still a AWAKE. Uganda’s president Idi Amin she said: “It’s time we recovered from POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL (OR space shortage. We will get fatter after a so-called fact finding mission this mateship syndrome and admitted' NOEL COWARD REVISITED): Lady 11®*? as soon as we can. Keep the through the Middle East announced that that man’s love for woman and woman’s Fairfax, described as Australia’s “best contributions coming. Forgive the “liberation forces” were about to take known society woman” and who, as it delay in replying. . . we’re wal­ loyalty to man and family are the real Jerusalem. This Evelyn Waugh figure forces that have helped nationhood so happens, is cushioned against life’s lowing in chaos. from Black Mischief may seem both shake free of penal origins.” It was untowards buffets and blows by the vast (Inexcusably we omitted Syd mad and amusing until you realise that perhaps unfortunate for Ms Freer that newspaper empire of her husband, de­ Shelton’s credit from the back unlike his white elders and betters he despite her rantings an Australian by the clared gushingly before throwing her page photograph AND the Red- does not allow American military bases name of Patrick White was announced Sydney Opera House opening ball: “ I fern photograph.) to cumber his territory. as this year's winner of the Nobel prize can’t afford such luxuries as self pity. John Hoyland’s jealousy confes­ k * k for literature. There’s one thing about all my friends, whatever their lifestyles, none of them sion aroused much comment and GIVE OUR LEADER HIS DUE, HE * * * anguished sympathy, but as yet DID DO SOMETHING LA ST WEEK: feel sorry for themselves.” She also THE MEEK SHALL NEVER IN­ declared that she walked two miles no complementary excision from Following a lobster and chicken lunch­ HERIT THE EARTH (PART ONE): Mr eon in Canberra, Mr Whitlam referred to through the swish suburb of Sydney’s local readers. Any offers? R. W. Brook, general marketing manager Queen Elizabeth as Queen of Australia. Darling Point each morning singing Letters to the eds will appear for BHP, told the house of representa­ songs. Old fashioned anarchists and new in TLD 3, as will a Stirling marxist The following day the Queen signed a tives standing committee on environ­ document saying this was okay with fashion society ripper-offers may well reply to the first memorial editor­ ment and conservation, that his com­ her. This will scare the Christ out of the ponder on this laid-on-the-plate cap­ ial. Other future delights include: pany intended to make non returnable yanks, the yellow peril and the hordes italistic bonus. The reincarnation of Hermann beer cans, for “as long as the public of Muscovy. Hesse’s Magic Theatre with a cast wanted them”. In a no compromise led by the ageless Steppenwolf, * * * statement he added that industry had NEITHER WILL THE FASCISTS the gentle art of gliding, Dylan’s NO SOONER DOES ONE MOB OF no right to “pervert the requirements INHERIT ANYTHING: The Australian travels, the forthcoming British LUNATICS START FALLING OFF and desires of the community”. One Medical Association has stated that wide­ revolution, poisons in your pud­ THE BUS, THAN ANOTHER LOT assumes that this statement means that spread apathy among doctors is threat­ dings and other food news, throw­ STARTS CLAMBERING ON: Follow­ the community is determined to litter. ening its attempts to raise a $1 million ing cars into bottomless pits, the ing the announcement that the NSW Mr Brook came close to the nub of his fighting fund to attack the federal gov­ cosmic cult of Kung Fu, how to state election will be held on november company’s problem when he stated it ernment’s national health plan. In a plea bore and other rural hints and 17, the United Christian Party has de­ was opposed totally to any can deposit to the association’s members, AMA nostrums, what you wanted to cided it will field a candidate. The system because it would cut steel man­ medical secretary, Doctor Nicholas know about Divine Light but were chairman of the party’s Blacktown ufacturers profits and dislocate job op­ Larkins, said, “ This may well be arma- too cynical to ask, a tip for the branch, Mr John Wanders, said his party portunities. He further added that BHP geddon.” One hopes he’s right. Melbourne Cup and something about another kind of horse . . . See you next Tuesday . . . Eds.

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THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, October 23-29, 1973 - Page 3 The Great Escape petition). Williamson the through mile David a half eagerly, pensively, pictured the the (he sword?), cut a head to with horse, ribbon cere­ reading blue the a at Jack bright on arrive (would wondered, mony bridge he harbor Lang, drab denly moves moves and serve him right the bastard, Ellis Ellis com­ stand bastard, couldnt the he right •bought; play; him his smiling of crawling serve opening the and and to sleet blowing double almost his over stooped inches she shelter paling wood hire an orchestra o f dwarfs. And if you're if And dwarfs. f o orchestra an hire chicken. So they can't use it. Unless they Unless it. use can't they So chicken. od, amn t te crisp-skinned the to warming Boddy, lives. their of expedition memorable people, old and hats, under faces puzzled Edna Fairfaxes, Lady of democracy trian n co ad r waiga headdress a wearing ’re u o y and actor an happily chatting, out on the last big big last the on out chatting, pursed happily with men small dark-spec­ anarchists, bushily tacled young cool Everages, ou’e see hfe xet y hs one this by except shifter scene a ’re u yo small rickety lift, and so all the sets have sets the all so and lift, rickety small true. it’s eight foot six than more you makes that o e are o sae n srthr No stretcher. a got on stage you've on carried says be that to regulation a there's i i te it ad e imnld and dismantled be and lift, the in fit vrie n te'e aig oe more home taking they're and overtime scenery, so the scene shifters are working are shifters scene the so scenery, ae t Prot three Pyrmont can to they so flats taken foot five in built be to nyta Utzon. than oney m eas tees o trg sae for space storage no there's because twenty four hours a day, so they’re all on all they’re so day, a hours four twenty stead. Thank Cod someone's got aproper priorities. got artistic f o someone's sense Cod Thank but stead. in, drive big to stage, vans the removal f o for back enough the at roll-a-door ae4—TE IIG ALGT,Otbr2-9 1973 23-29, October DAYLIGHTS, LIVING Page THE — 4 hr, ncual siig ite ae egg­ face little smiling me inscrutably Pass say sharp, could II Richard so masks, in­ offices administrative built they've oe psus n pt hm n Chinese in them put and possums dozen n i o. ih gv te hl lc a place whole the give Might on. him ing D is atog te lohud ta go that bloodhounds the although piss, the neared they as entering, were them performances. their Sharpen tone. f o bit a is mirror the in there and mirror that egg white temple, a perfect bowl of of bowl like perfect sound the a through swam They temple, music. white egg low pressure systems over Bathurst). over systems pressure low so many glad Fellini extras, and soon the the soon and extras, Fellini glad many so Boddy, which inexplicably smells o f cat’s f o continued smells Cats, inexplicably which Thousand a Boddy, f o Region upon full was vision diem. Daniken Von giant more, they’ve got this inculcated lust for lust inculcated this got they’ve more, a cat in months, but maybe that's because that's out maybe but flushed havent months, in bombs acat time Arab out ttc lcrct, and electricity, static ot, n tees o te wy ogt to get to way other no there’s and volts, gone. we’ve after long suave pretty are cats Though dynamite. ly direction I hear, something to do with do to something hear, I wester­ a in direction generally ly plate, your ff o right to get to so and away, mile a half are hy ot ie dm aot as any­ cats about damn a give dont they sniff to day a times three there through operators, I picture them fighting pitched fighting them picture I operators, piss. ladies one there’s And work. hard like blow to enough stiff breezes and rain and ate wt te osm fr dominance for possums the with battles os anymore, House sleet through cellos their carry they work h sae The stage. the hog i gt zpe wt aot 80 about with zapped gets it through a' ps, en are o a tece to f stretcher a o on region carried the being through piss, cat's tottering volts, 80 floors. between stuck har­ the the into fin Stradivarius bor and man both army. getting keeps it because pot it use chamber a to install time to have they'll eid cran n h lf: lny f o plenty lift: the in sopranos: curtain a bursting behind 200 between toot detr to ely lk te Australian the like really, too adventure a f o need in stage on arriving and down by then and pavlova flying a by hit ting h lf, etn bnsae al h way the all boneshaken getting lift, the The The He walked among a marvellous pedes­ marvellous a among walked He n yu a’ gt n o h sae if stage the to on get can’t you And togt e ol cpue af a half capture could we thought I hy ee on t hv ti big this have to going were They It seemed to Ellis that he and all of of all and he that Ellis to seemed It 7 n tees crio ta bid up builds that corridor a there’s And mgn big n co, riig get­ arriving, actor, an being Imagine Opera the in rehearse won’t they So Oh well I suppose it's a living. A life of life A aliving. it's suppose I well Oh ry eutv wtr ad h sud­ the past and waters walkway, seductive grey wooden the OWN ees pae nie ald the called inside place a here’s eaiae te rhsr, said orchestra, the decapitates eov o te tg we it when stage the on revolve restaurant your your restaurant orchestra's orchestra's because because anyone anyone times times ts o much too it’s akn spots parking alv flies pavlova ht goes that week a

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tg a a ar lp ed o rs into crash to tend clip fair a at stage House. h tou sho t bid ra Opera real a build to school two-up the wn sae n bleia cmn off o coming ballerinas and space wing f o w-p col ad s te rces f o proceeds the use and school, two-up rpt, o ol ta i o extended you if other’s that each only under not violin the armpits, play and average the that only not walls, om ie es on t tk your is Allen's Dave Allen take when Dave stage, the on what to up hear saying can’t going audience he's like room knees other’s each on sit to has orchestra al hn ts ed js a fs a our as fast as just ready it's when hall to time little so gives so costs hire, theatre to opera the that much only from divine not the and can, heaven, who thank those f see, o can faces they though ao t pt n rdcin n t that's it in production a on put to labor mrla nt ny ht tid the bloody f a o got third a that only cloak not the in umbrella, around loiter has the he and that miserably office only to no not them has in, manager fall theatre would accommodate to roof the pit orchestra the rme lg cn o bt hr’ some­ there’s but go, can legs cramped of all we're that mediocre passably even heartrending much so takes and rehearse, s oig ak o h rnvtd town renovated the to back moving us on, going be might what expressions their h adec cnt e te tg a all at stage the see can’t audience the h sii of h pae smtig o do to something with place, bureaucracy. do the with to f o spirit something the well, as else thing ra bg oey okt hp s us all ours, is ship rocket lovely big great aees ay otne, oln believe couldnt continued, lady nameless ours! h’ atal wre bcsae before, backstage worked actually who’d ais egd hm o a a i what in say a for them begged panies Amster­ f o whores the like glass the hind ie h aoead hrs te were they whores, conference. aforesaid private in involved the like disporting daringly there, every sat and harbor, they the at day looking offices hysi, an h dm Od oe this Tote; Old Opera, damn the Australian damn the said, Damn they luck. their crats forced them to leave behind. leave to them forced crats storage rooms, dressing toilets, have when, across curtains the pulling dam; rcial arse n nergtd Just interrogated. and arrested practically ballet’s and theatre and opera crews stage the out, like turned it as or, space, garters and shirtsleeves their in themselves laue fo te ua rc. They race. human the from pleasures bastards the keep to state police a having time long a for and affair, your f o none didnt it if suffer the were to going they were and who House, ones Opera the use be­ there public, passing dubious the to in to conduct The Threepenny Opera, was Opera, Threepenny The conduct to in rt lk Gnhs hn I’ te only the It’s Khan. Genghis like ority to had who as they because was it House, said Opera rightly the they into went pleasure they get. they pleasure out. bureau­ the which crews, stage own very oe hs a zr Js a e routine few a Just zur. way questions. this come theatrical know they dont have talent, they know they talent, have dont they know professional the let even wouldnt they pr Hue o fce u, n the and up, fucked got House Opera autho- their exercise they so authority, f o started and worried, all got they Then hy ny ae hs taset positions transient these have only they It's not just that there’s only 15 feet 15 only there’s that just not It's h Lbrl at bracas the bureaucrats, party Liberal The hy u i tee upuu glass sumptuous these in put They arc Fyn wo a tyn t get to trying was who Flynn, Patrick e sufd si te ueurt, it's bureaucrats, the said stuffed, Get com­ ballet and theatre and opera The ueurt hv ti dfeet e of o set different this have Bureaucrats h fc ta smtig s i s the as big as something that fact The administrators near near administrators microphone, microphone, n a et of tenth a and 65 65 h place. the o ^ swg>ccn Loy^L piece

has become, to them is o f no importance no f o is them to become, has aig Wo o o tikyou’e talking ’re from u o y get think you they do Who pleasure saying: savage happy, oki tesrijce te pr House Lpera the straitjacket the in work his colleagues were ofttimes displayed out out displayed ofttimes were colleagues his to have will who f people o a f lot o careers or oo. il od ol ht a, I am, I that fool old Silly honor. your their for hours half a and accreditations. two for up line afternoon an bedside through way secretary, his mannered compassionate stern, oe abru pols o h gave he — do way peoples the — up barbarous hands more their came with they when forward cards their them handing permit­ then and comers masterwork, and Utzon’s joists of obscure thought­ against magnetic of fulness attitudes in focus and of he wherein slides color redundant of are? you think you do who nd A to? bitter, this to compared when whatever ue, e vlal cnotad h irre­ the and consort valuable her Queen, Umble sir? you, would Oooh, in that? pub­ look we’ll about the and of us for, name tell work the you you and lication Supposing name, there. your you to able be help may we Well, of displeased. opening much the to go must I nay House, to audience impatient curiously his ted premier's the Kingsman, Doug Block presumed to kiss me on the lips. the on me kiss to Take presumed how Oooooh! am? I as accreditation, undeserving and your for files our be will boss my or House, Opera Opera the of the opening the to go else’s to everyone want as same my the problem, attention. Much particular dear. eyed your warm what’s And individual, them your editor (if indeed it has an editor, as as editor, an has it indeed (if editor your ice. to suddenly turned Doug She her. flog and downstairs woman this lcal Rbr Akn n h darkling the in Askin Robert placeable very familiar with. Perhaps if you get get you if Perhaps with. familiar very old good Daylights. of eyebags spidery gentle and eesn Bly n Sna Ls Darcy, Les Sonia, and Billy Petersen, career. Yes here it is. Ellis and Leu Leu nig, and Ellis is. it here Yes career. do. can I else thing be should it applica­ accreditation, of press a for form a for tion application of form blood-but eyes not brown Ellis’s kindly the of shirt sight soya-stained the At Harold Holt. Harold population to lurk within 25 yards of the the of yards 25 within lurk to population long minutes 30 documentary a make to assembled ministers on the rocky cliff cliff the of her rocky yards 100 and the within or dais, Queen on the above the ministers of assembled yards 30 within Review. Nation any­ there’s sure not I’m month. the but of it. sorry, won’t I’m end late, the little a be will guess I Which about by ready this out fill to ape) typing a to opposed King O’Malley and as a final cruel hilarity cruel final asa and O’Malley Bjelke- King Askin, Bob Dunstan, Don Evatt, included allowing random samples of the the of samples random allowing included roast over Ellis soul, Australian the on whispering park to the left of the dais, or or dais, the of left the to park whispering eyes, kindly his in pain forgiving short infinite a for destined radical, office the h fcs n ak ag Pa Lp Bert Lap, Phar Lang, Jack on told facts claret goblet the fine and suckling whole Queen and her assembled ministers in the the in ministers assembled her and Queen this smiting sword. and from fire with underling refrained bumptious just only many similar security precautions which which precautions security similar many In the theatrette of the State Office Office State the of theatrette the In Instead of calling out their names and and names their out calling of Instead And now my boy, what is your — aah! your is what boy, my now And To To Ellis? said the saint behind him, clearly clearly him, behind saint the said Ellis? The press passes were only one of of one only were passes press The the visiting Swedish film team, here team, film Swedish visiting the o i’ nt ulcto I’m publication a not it’s No, Whereupon Doug, with with Doug, Whereupon The Living The

waters that lapped at the outdoor restau­ world, too, baby, you has my congratula­ rant. tions. The press passes could be forged, too, Eight helicopters thrummed towards either by means of the simplest hand the audience like black grasshoppers of printing press or the more wellbeloved the apocalypse and went off under the method of taking a photo of one and bridge. A1 Grassby in his wonderful ice­ pinning the photo on your lapel; but even cream suit and Gough Whitlam in his this minor technical challenge was wholly traditional shy red face emerged with unnecessary, Ellis later learned from a wildly varying dimensions from black charming friend, who got in by claiming Rolls Royces and sat with well rehearsed to have come from Swedish television, timidity out of the limelight. and asking for seven passes for himself The six state premiers, Askin last, and his camera crew. He was as it acknowledging with his well beloved happened from Swedish television, but gangster’s grimace, the unspontaneous none of the papers that proved he was cheers of his invited congregation. were ever even glanced at. But the Queen tarried. Where was the The Askin government is proud of its Queen? How would Hitchcock have han­ record of stern phlegmatic security, and is dled the situation, Ellis wondered. The holding a state election on the strength of Queen would arrive with a bandaged arm, its dazzling success. The Australian pub­ and the news of the faded assassination lic, whose intelligence no one ever went would lead to a shot of two men in dark broke underestimating, will no doubt glasses on the Opera House walkway show its gratitude at having enough bread staring out to sea. In the distance a heli­ and circuses and fireworks and grand copter would be rocking uneasily in the parades to last it until Christmas by air. Bennelong would walk forward on reelecting a government which will then the highest rim of the Opera House and tear down what remains of its heritage, the helicopter passing would leave an and put up the rent on the glass and aboriginal spear in his back. He would concrete memorials it builds upon its stand amazed, looking blackly forward grave. and fall into the crowd. Ironic, thought Ellis, that a fecund One of the men in dark glasses would creative spirit like Utzon should have rise in the confusion with a silencered given these grim-faced eunuchs their pistol pointed. The tennis star beside him brightest weapon or war, and thus ex­ would grab the muzzle, get his cup tended their poisonous hold upon the winning hand blown off, and the fleeing earth. assassin would crawl up over the white shell while government snipers took pot N ah There’s somethin’ on I tell yer, shots at the lurching helicopter, which, averred the taxi driver, who was clearly in catching on fire, would crash into the the know. There's triple emergency staff crowd in the Botanic gardens . . . Hm. on all the hospitals. So there’s somethin’ Maybe it was knighting that was holding on. I reckon it’s arabs. Shoot that Asher ftk su o k k t>lSPLW. her up. Joel. I mean, he's a jew. And that Harry No, suddenly, there she was, looking Miller’s a jew too. Or maybe they'll It was a day of blue skies and bunched Here them wailing in the morning, ravishing in green, acknowledging the kidnap the Queen. I mean, they're losin’ clouds hanging like closed and threaten­ Lordy they got their head bowed down. crowd’s delight on the arm of ... no wait that war over there. They’ll trade her in ing fists over a harbor a-jostle with boats, Over this came the anguished monotone on, that’s not her at all, it’s a buck on the Sinai. I mean it stands to reason. of empty avenues and skies, prying cops of sir Asher Joel begging them all please toothed ring in, bloody lady Cutler. It’s just like the last Olympic games. Bein' and billowing dresses. The wind whipped help him make this day a success. Poor Hitchcock gave way to Nabokov. The broadcast all over the world. It bloody through the harbor like a great spoon, fraught old bugger, thought Ellis. After crowd sat back with a disappointed snarl, stands to reason. through the noise of a crowd confettied his last extravaganza, the Captain Cook and then to everybody's amazement a If only Askin could somehow be shore of shimmering rock music, and bi-centenary reenactment, when screech­ baggy little man in a baggy little suit tempted to blow his nose in her majesty’s through the hallowed reaches of the ing loud speakers, saboteurs in speed (Nabokov gave way to Fellini) got up on bosom, and carnally attack the duke, if Opera House’s forecourt, sending chairs boats, Askin forgetting his speech and the dais, counted brazenly to eight and the price was right he’d probably do it: and microphones crashing, and cushions alarmingly averring, but the Endeavor was then got down again. Then his twin he’s a man of proven pragmatism. greenly spinning overboard. only the first example, your majesty, of brother who proved to be sir Asher Joel But how could we make him believe Ellis, casing the joint, while this heady an average gross tonnage of merchant himself, in his usual role of a menopausal we had the price? It was a thought that expectant element blew through the shipping to arrive on Sydney harbor Woody Allen in big trouble, got up on Ellis chose to linger on a while forgetting world, and the navy band played Blow which now amounts to 20 billion tons a stage in his baggy suit and so did the for a while the world he actually lived in. the Man Down, foraged through the year, compelled his no longer radiant baggy little man. Together they counted A world where a man as coarsely selfish as burgeoning crowd for faces he knew; but monarch to warn him severely that if he to eight and called for applause. Spiro Agskin would win his coming elec­ apart from the odd Clyde Packer, ponder­ ever put on another reenactment, that And THEN the Queen arrived and all tion, and ascend on a brightening cloud ously advancing, the odd Jack Renshaw, was alright with her, if it gave him please, the chairs blew over. More in sorrow than into glory, and a man as lucidly benevo­ red face over Bogart buck teeth, the odd good on him, but she herself wasnt in anger, sir Asher picked them all up and lent as Whitlam would probably lose his, Jack McEwen, stiff backed but shrunken coming to it - he must think this wind the Queen in her traditional dreamy smile and flee before the vengeful hounds of to well under six feet these days, and the was sent by Yaweh himself. But what did of sleepy ecstasy, became as she arrived caucus into rapid retirement, querulous odd Sonia and Billy in shocking pink tie I do wrong? But oh dear, thought Ellis, to and waved and sat, in Ellis’s mind, a posterity and a bleak unhonored grave. and shocking pink shirt conspiring under a ask his audience to forgive him in ad­ decidedly sexual object. Let me take you Yes, blowing his nose in her bosom. That suitable listening shell. And a luscious old vance: Well it’s the Liberal party sub­ away from all this. This life is empty, would do the trick. pommy girlfriend with her mini skirt stitute for showmanship, Ellis supposed, meaningless, come and cook my sausages “A daring doodle on the back of a blowing up over her head, who stoically an appeal to the reverent consensus to in a loft: I adore older women. Danish m enu," said Barry Humphries. My accepted his tender kiss and faded like a play the game. It wouldnt wash at the Here come the kings my, you have grown up. daydream into the brightening air, there Tivoli. Let’s dispense with their apologisin' It would be nice to say that Utzon’s was no one he recognised at all. Here come the madmen And just bring on the acrobats and shade loomed over the day that followed These are my master, he thought with They're too excited to atonin' clowns. like the ghost of his fellow townsman growing alarm, who daily buy and sell the Bum down the mosque they're shoutin’ Askin mentioned in his usual bullying Hamlet over the heart of his distraught better half of me for base commercial Burn it down. speech (it is my great pleasure to take this son. But it wasnt like that. It was more gain. The commanders of cabinet, the Twentyfive national groups marched opportunity on this occasion from tremen­ like a virgin birth, of choirs of hired buyers and sellers of knighthoods, the by, in what looked like Walt Disney dous distance to welcome you and your seraphim to sing the coming Messiah from looters of the earth, the polluters of the versions of their national costumes, past corgies to this fair virgin promontory) the womb. heavens and the sea, and I do not know the bright and bellying streamers on the that the people in New South Wales at Utzon’s beautiful empty egg, new lac­ their names. dais and then broke up in a traffic jam of any rate were loyal to the English crown, quered overnight so that it shone like a On the stage a sailor nudged a tiny squabbling territorial arguments over by crikey, though he didnt know about top, was attended not by its maker, not golden bell. Long haired and bearded whose chair was whose. the Australian Capital Territory. by Joe Cahill, nor by its original evanga- boy scouts nearing 30 momentarily paus­ One lot were proud Melanesians in The Queen replied with some difficulty list Eugene Goossens, long since disgraced ed in their bullying of the inquisitive colored brassieres and grass skirts whose as she hung on to her dress, her hat, her because of some dirty postcards, long poor. Tugboats blowing out white wings white toothed sassy arrogance stirred a speech and 40 staticky microphones that since dead; nor by any of the million of spray in case the harbor caught fire few old loins, even those in the stalls of course his loyal assurance made all the dream maddened lottery fiends whose swept on regardless towards the bridge. under Homburg hats. An elocuting an­ difference, and Ellis promptly fell in love. simple faith, as predicted in the Bible, Two sailors endlessly signalling to each nouncer patronised the island groups in I’ll breed dogs for you my darling, I'll moved mountains of granite across the other with scarlet ping pong bats from the way that only a Liberal speech writer ride to bloody hounds. But all in vain. world; but by robber barons and dema­ the top and the bottom of the same long can, and added that our own aborigines Eight F ill’s flying through the na- gogues, fuzz and sumptuous duchesses, stairway change places. And in the front were among the best natural dancers in dancing sheilas and uncle Toms, and cold forecourt the band struck up Charade. the world. And I hear you honkies are Cont page 6 winds fierce as all damnation. Here come the priests among the most frequent farters in the TH6 fAMOUS SPEtCH BY ASHER JOELS AiSHTAHT.

THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, October 23-29, 1973 - Page 5 The Great Escape rc) a tn ws ad tee a thun­ was Ku­ there laid, to was way stone gave a (Fellini brick), anthem tional Perhaps you are wondering why I called called I why wondering are averred you Leu nig Perhaps and heavens the in der with fright that God was about to speak. speak. to about was God that fright with this meeting. Have ye not yet learned the the learned yet not ye Have meeting. this lesson of the Tower of Babel? Lightning Lightning Babel? of Tower the of lesson flashed and the house of song is cracked cracked is song of house the and flashed beg the stones to cover them. Stanley Stanley them. cover to stones the beg Kubrick gives way to Hieronymus Bosch. Hieronymus to way gives Kubrick and about fall howling people the asunder, balloons went up at precisely the moment moment the precisely at up went balloons you couldnt see what color they were, were, they color what see couldnt you hn h sn et eid h cod so cloud the behind went sun the when and the wind blew them out to sea in in sea to out them blew wind the and about twenty seconds. Hieronymus Bosch Bosch Hieronymus seconds. twenty about gives way to Jimmy Sharman the elder. the Sharman Jimmy to way gives Leunig, after watching a bright green green bright a watching and after Ellis and seats the Leunig, up pick could they and land in the harbor’s dirty water, water, dirty harbor’s feed. a the had and air, off in pissed Summer land the and through snake streamer the back of the neck of Davis Hughes, the the Hughes, Davis of neck the of back the Minister of Works who had given Utzon Utzon given former had who handsome Works of imperially Minister jawed big the sack. He was looking vaguely around around vaguely looking was He sack. the o smoe o ie i a it H was He lift. a him give to someone for ae6—TE IIG ALGT,Otbr2-9 1973 23-29, October DAYLIGHTS, LIVING Page THE — 6 No, all that happened was a lot of of lot a was happened that all No, i Ahr od vroe o is f so off piss to everyone told Asher Sir On the street they watched for a time time a for watched they street the On Read it all in NATION REVIEW this week this REVIEW it Read all in NATION SEX MANUALS SEX A SURVEY OF SURVEY A you read you can’t believe h e’s serious when he advocates the use o f rubber washers on washers rubber f o use the advocates he when e’sserious h believe suspect can’t I . . . same authors the their as possess to misconceptions him/her sexual want social, you unless metaphysical, child teenage f your o hands the extra long pricks. ” pricks. long extra that Dr Lombard Kelly is sending up the whole sexual adjustment industry. adjustment sexual whole the up sending is Kelly Lombard Dr that “Read NATION REVIEW NATION ‘Into Thy Hands’ by D. R. Burns byR. D. Hands’ Thy ‘Into This This Understanding human sexual inadequacy inadequacy sexual human Understanding Tedul ei... . . helix. double The week in week dont let any o f the others fall into fall others the f o any let dont

thought at one time to be a possible possible a be to time one at thought petition. Ah well, pussycat, c’est c’est com­ like pussycat, well, didnt Ah Askin petition. wagon. his him gave fixed Askin then but premier, future vie. the Opera House to handle and that really really that and handle to House Opera the ae e lc/Srone b fam- by Surrounded place/ a me Save for the same reasons that reasons same the for

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c’est la c’est share the end/ To watch the world go up go world the watch To end/ the share in flames. in here gathered is us f o Each faces/ ily yachts. There’ll be a lot of fucking out on on out fucking of lot a be There’ll yachts. had to write before monday. before write to had strange a sang islanders ocean the dark rich who sat bemused in their lighted lighted their in bemused the to sat water who the rich across orison twangling knot fpRTY the water tonight, thought Ellis, and then then and Ellis, thought tonight, water the remembered the eight thousand words he he words thousand eight the remembered singing were You are my my are You were singing ny sunshine, only police, and on their own, happy in the the in happy own, their dubious on the compre­ with and a not other, police, with each could With danced Ellis hend. they that it to blitheness and own their purple foyer in front of the ghastly Olsen Olsen ghastly the of front in foyer purple de­ self in hands beneath concrete orchestra looming coated the red The dark. look of an out of town motel. Then the the Then motel. the town of out masterwork, an of Utzon's look inside ghastly -mural, the into ascended tiaras, bobbing on. danced islanders played fence fireworks soared like sperm and blossom­ and sperm like soared fireworks ais a soe t te ue, n she and Queen, the to spoken had ladies of the yachts. And soon, so soon, it was was it soon, so soon, And lights yachts. the over the sky of night the in ova like ed Eureka, Gallipoli and a first Australian Australian first a and Gallipoli Eureka, over. looking back, into the dark of her own own her of dark the into back, looking gasping old few A enshrined. duly now royal tour when prince Alfred, duke of of duke Alfred, prince when tour royal and a great content. great and a and back eyes spoken had loving mind, lonely strained bleak strange her with were killed, not shot been had Edinburgh, this they would take to the grave as a sign a as grave the to take would they this So it’s all, all over now. over allall, it’s So enough. Dawn on the twentieth. the on Dawn h dw wk Uzn n i obscure his in twentieth. The Utzon woke dawn The Askin back in office sang his name for a for name his put sang that office in fireworks back the And Askin sleep. world to the back across went and over turned abr h pre lp ad pcd out spaced and lips parted the across the and light, f o harbor The myriad a silent. in were shone too they then and time ys Ln Pr wee h Australian the where Park Luna f o eyes known, was longer no now it as Cahill Taj ol eie, ee aig h ohr way. other the facing were resided, soul Along the iron fence in the glimmering glimmering the in fence iron the Along The words of the song they were were they song the of words The The rich arrived in buses and with with and buses in arrived rich The Another great Australian cockup, like like cockup, Australian great Another Spanish motel. Spanish n ta, li gesd fr oe was some for guessed, Ellis that, And l dn ad iihd H grunted, He finished. and done All huh h tn ws all was tune the though on Free, Born winds but the happy happy the but usie my sunshine, To /

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T’S at Melbourne’s Pram Factory Ithat the issue of womens position in the theatre has been most clearly articulated and polarised. In 1971, the APG put on Australia’s first womens show: Betty Can Jump. Lindy Davies and Evelyn Krape outline their different sorts A Tale of involvement in this scene. Lindy Davies, 27, first started acting in traditional theatre with the Monash uni theatre group. Two years ago she dropped acting to get into teaching-workshopping- directing-writing and childrens commun­ ity theatre. Of Two “Use that space”, she shouts to a group of people, “MOVE — use all that space. BREAK that space,” taking a flying leap into the air. Crunch, and she lands on the wrong leg, thereby breaking a foot. Women “I first got involved with experimental theatre five years ago when a group of us Last week The Living Daylights started a series of banded together to create a strong en­ semble of actors. We called ourselves the interviews with women. In this second installment La Mama Co. and started some really intensive workshops. JEAN BUCKLEY talks to Lindy Davies andEvelyn “The first program included Jack Hib- Krape about theatre berd’s O and Who and Meagan Terry’s Evelyn Krape Off, off Broadway. It was well received Party I was going through a great deal of yr disposal, now the idea of being an not be clearly understood by the audi­ by audiences and that started the whole conflict and didnt create anything. At the actor and seeing that as the be-all and ence because the other situation — the new wave. By the end of ’69, the group time I was trying to resolve a dual end-all, is no longer important. mateship ethic — is also real, eg. the became known as the APG and in 1970 personna of actor and teacher. “But community theatre is a separate disenchanted lefties. we moved into the Pram Factory. “After Don's Party I started some entity. That works in terms of offering “The problem is that it’s very hard to “With John Romeril’s play, I Don't workshops on Betty Can Jump which was people an alternative experience. It pro­ write roles for women in social and Know Who To Feel Sorry For, I reached a womens lib play. I withdrew from that vides a venue for the kids creative activ­ political contexts because women dont some kind of peak. I played the part of — it required great energy and personal ities/theatre and creates an environment play a dominant role in that sphere. an embittered woman coming to terms confrontation. The change/shift involved enabling kids to express their individual Women are often written into plays to with the tragedy in her life. It wasnt a a process of self-examination and assum­ feelings and fantasies. For me, one’s provide the frills and flounces. So it womens lib statement. I wasnt aware of ing greater responsibility for my actions. responsibility in the theatre is in offering seems to me you can’t rely on male that then. It was a statement about a “it was no longer enough to put on alternative modes of living and experi­ playwrights for female parts. woman struggling and that was a new plays without accepting responsibility ence. “I think it needs a female writer to experience for me — an emotional and and following through their impact. So “ With Betty Can Jump, I didnt have establish a feminist reality which may theatrical statement. In a sense, it was a now, as a teacher, what’s important is the awareness. But in a situation of exist independently of the male culture/ banal play but its very banality made it a being part of the group yr working with greater consciousness, it was my responsi­ reality in that it has a reality and emotion great play-experience. rather than being an individual leading a bility to become involved in a show that of its own that springs out of female “Then with Don’s Party, I reached group. offered alternatives. That explains my conditioning. some sort of impasse. I had decided that I “in terms of my acting consciousness, present involvement in the abortion/ “Women are brought up to be emo­ wasnt a good actress and that was hard to where I once saw the individual’s re­ authority show. Having made the com­ tional and to relate differently to men. It cope with. I’d always believed that crea­ sponsibility as making one’s own personal mitment, yr doubly responsible - you would legitimise that form of commun­ tivity stems from conflict, but in Don's statement on whatever means you had at have to realise that yr initial ideas may be icating if, instead of portraying it as a radically changed as a result of the weakness, it was portrayed straight. process of being involved. And you have “Women need to believe in themselves to be as flexible and honest as you can. and to believe in their much more per­ sonalised way of relating to people and to communicate that in their acting and EVELYN Krape, 24, sharp/red-headed/ theatre. In Betty Can Jump, the personal wearing granny glasses that seem to ac­ element was integral to the final produc­ cent a deceptive myopsy vagueness, got tion. We established a different way of into acting by dropping out of law at working together as a group, using per­ Monash. sonal expression as a means of working “There’s an immediacy about experi­ on documentary material. mental theatre that I really like: with the “The problem now is much harder. It’s audience and with the material — material not good enough to do just womens that concerns specifically yr own culture shows. We also have to find new roles for and country. It gives you greater freedom women. There are no female playwrights to experiment with new ideas. Instead of (at pram) and few female directors. And being pressured as an actress, you can it’s very difficult to share our experience play an active role in determining the with men because there are no equivalent final production. Whereas normally, in female jobs to exchange with them. The political terms, the actor has the least say only traditional female work is shit work and the least power. So to break down and it’s interesting that shit work is all we those hierarchical roles is really good. It can share with the men. allows new things to happen and new “The problem is in explaining why possibilities. your reality is different from theirs and in “Of course the thing is being a woman finding a language to explain that. This in the theatre. While experimental theatre has a defocusing effect. may not necessarily change the sex roles, “In doing this sort of thing, while you have more of a chance to modify there’s a dilemma in reinforcing the that and give them yr own flavor. SCUM-sort of image of womens libbers - “Traditionally women in the Pram man-hating/ball-breaking etc. - the po­ Factory have played mens parts. That is I tentiality of women as physically active, played Mousey in One of Nature’s Gentle­ dominant, quick-witted and intellectually men. What’s explored is the mateship powerful, has to be recognised. If that myth, its inherent violence and what means showing women who are extreme happens to the mens relationship when a in some way and who can be physically woman is introduced. violent in the same way as men, then that “There are two male characters - may have to be shown too. Mousey and Bull — and in the end “Feminism is central. What gives the Mousey wins the woman and kills Bull. womens movement its strength is that it Jude Kuring played the woman, Dolly, enables you to keep fighting/ an alterna­ quite tough and played against the play­ tive where you dont have to define yrself wright’s intended effect. The playwright’s in terms of men. concern was to show the violence in­ “That doesnt mean to say you lose yr herent in mens relationships. The woman identity - there’s a false fear about this is shown as she’s seen by men, as the strip by some women who say they’re inde­ dancer chewing gum - it was this sexpot pendent enough on their own without the image that Jude Kuring played against. help of the womens movement. “Although the part implicitly degrades “But the differences in our experi­ women, the difficulty from a feminist ences/ personalities and stages we’re at viewpoint is in making the implicit, ex­ are great enough to ensure that in the plicit. The stereotyped degradation and battle yr fighting, yr still very much on yr Evelyn in Betty Can Jump the stereotypes men have of women may own.” T H E L IV IN G D A Y L IG H T S , O ctober 23-29, 1973 - Page 7 lift-out GINSBERG

Looking Back In Love ALLEN GINSBERG, with a gay person. transcribed the poet leader of the beat We feel it is important interview for & acid generation, had this because of the new Gay Sunshine, is well conversation with legislation in Canberra and known in the gay ALLEN YOUNG in because of what ° liberation movement. New York. As far as we Ginsberg is saying. Part two will be in know, this is Ginsberg’s Young , who spoke Daylights next week, first in-depth interview with Ginsberg and lished his great book, Town and the City. OUNG: One of the YOUNG: Did you associate that with the art of gaiety and some of its attitudes and Y things that pro­ The commercial insistency was that he faculty at Columbia also? styles in writing. In some of his poems voked this whole conversation between us write something nice and simple so that GINSBERG: There were a couple of guys there’s a lot of stuff about himself, where was my reading of the Dharma Bums last everybody could understand it, to explain on the faculty at Columbia that partici­ there’s all sorts of high teacup bullshit. In summer. In that book the character what the beat generation was all about. pated in that rather than in an open those days “high teacup” was a lifted Alvah, who is quite obviously you, is So he wrote The Dharma Bums, to order, democratic, Whitmanic gaiety. To be pinky infra-language. There was a certain portrayed by Jack Kerouac as hetero­ for his publisher, a sort of exercise in open and democratic and Whitmanic tendency among gay people there to sexual. There are a number of sexual virtuosity and bodhisattva magnanimity. meant kissing the football players in plaster labels over everybody, including encounters and there isnt any indication He wrote in short sentences that every­ public, for instance . . . themselves, instead of seeing the nameless that there was any kind of homosexuality body could understand, describing the YOUNG: Well, was kissing the football love that everybody is. Just as there was a in this group of people. spiritual revolution as he saw it, using as a players in any sense a reality, or just a tendency among macho heterosexuals to Whitmanesque fantasy? plaster labels, so there was a counter­ GINSBERG: That was Kerouac’s partic­ hero Gary Snyder; actually, Japhy Ryder GINSBERG: I was kissing Jack Kerouac balancing tendency among homosexuals ular shyness. I made it with Kerouac is Gary Snyder. who was on the Columbia varsity team in to overreact to that and camp too heav­ quite often. And Neal Cassady, his hero, YOUNG: So then your portrayal as a those years. It was a Whitmanesque fan­ ily. He was sensitive about being put and I were lovers also, for many years, heterosexual doesnt have anything to do tasy, which, like all Whitmanesque fan­ down as a fairy, which he wasnt. [Calling from 1946 on and off. Finally, he didnt with being in the closet. tasies, were practical realities. over to Peter Orlovsky on the other side want any more sex with me. But we were GINSBERG: No. I came out of the closet I was silent about it [homosexuality] of the room where he was not listening to still making it in the mid 1960s after at Columbia in 1946. The first person I at Columbia the first year I was there, the interview.] Was Jack a fairy? having known each other in the mid 40s. told about it was Kerouac because I was between the age of 16 and 17. At 17 ORLOVSKY: No . . . in a tiny sense of That’s a pretty long, close friendship. in love with him. He was staying in my something shook me loose from the the word. Neal and Jack, for the matter. room up in the bed, and I was sleeping on authoritarianism of the culture and from GINSBERG: Perfect, in a tiny sense of YOUNG: Did Jack Kerouac identify him­ a pallet on the floor. I said, “Jack, you the authority of Columbia. I think it was the word. [To Peter]: We all made it with self as being a gay person? know I love you, and I want to sleep with you, and I really like men”. And he the jailing of a friend, whom I loved, who Jack once. GINSBERG: No, he didnt. A lot of that knew Jack well. And then also I was ORLOVSKY: [One time] he was so took place in the cottage we all held said, “Oooooh, no . . .” We’d known each interested in Rimbaud and Whitman, and drunk he couldnt even get it up. together, and then I had been living with other maybe a year, and I hadnt said I had met Burroughs by then. I was GINSBERG: (Laughs) Yeah. Well, no he Peter for several years. Peter, Jack, Gary anything. getting teaching from Burroughs that came that time. We were at Clellon [Snyder] and I and various other people At that time Kerouac was very hand­ included Blake and Spengler (The Decline Holmes’, remember? I blew him and you were all sleeping with one or two girls some, very beautiful, and mellow - in the o f the West); and semanticism was im­ screwed me. that were around. Jack saw me screwing sense of infinitely tolerant, like Shake­ portant, separating words from the ob­ ORLOVSKY: What about on Second St.? and was astounded at my virility. I guess speare or Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky, infinite­ ly understanding. He was a slightly older jects they represent, not getting confused Do you remember that? Jack was gallant­ he decided to write a novel in which I was ly drunk, laying in one of the small side person and someone who I felt had more by labels, like gay or queer, in those days. a big, virile hero instead of a jewish So it was just a whole change, growing rooms, and you tried to blow him. He communist fag. authority. His tolerance gave me Permis­ sion to open up and talk, because I felt up out of high school and puberty and couldnt get it up and he was talking YOUNG: What was your reaction to closed-in-ness. It wasnt closet; it didnt about his littie cock; it was so tiny, so that? Did you feel that he was hiding? there was space for me to talk, where he was. He wasnt going to hit me. He wasnt have that much style about it. It was just small, shrivelled up, sad. GINSBERG: I didnt notice. On the Road timidity and fear of rejection. All through GINSBERG: He was very apologetic. But has one scene in the original manuscript going to reject me. Really, he was going to accept my soul with all its throbbings high school I was secretly in love with all ten years ago he was asking me to blow in a motel where Dean Moriarty screws a him all the time. In '62 or '63 he said: and sweetness and worries and dark woes sorts of boys - particularly one boy from travelling salesman with whom they ride “I’m old, ugly, red-faced, I’m beer- and sorrows and heartaches and joys and East Side High, Paterson, who I actually to Chicago in a big Cadillac; and there’s a bellied, and I’m a drunk and nobody glees and mad understanding of mortal­ followed to Columbia. two line description of it which fills out loves me anymore. I can’t get girls, come ity, because that was the same thing he YOUNG: Whose name begins with “R.” Cassady’s character and gives it dimen­ on and give me a blow job.” There were had. And actually we wound up sleeping You mention him in one of your poems. sion. That was eliminated from the book times he’d get drunk and he really in­ by Malcolm Cowley in the mid 50s and together maybe within a year, a couple of GINSBERG: Yeah. Very soon I was sisted on it. By that time he’d gotten times. I blew him, I guess. He once blew babbling at great length. The permission Jack consented to that. So Jack actually beer-bellied, florid-faced, and I no longer me, years later. It was sort of sweet, for that openness came from Burroughs did talk about it a little in his writing. saw him as the romantic, handsome, peaceful. and Kerouac who I was living with. They In a book that’s being published now, young glamor beau of postwar, dark, Visions of Cody, there’s a longer descrip­ were wide-brained, international, hip, YOUNG: Did you experience any kind of Jack London, Doctor Mabuses, all. doomed, maddened Spengler hippiedom. tion of the same scene. It was written in a split between your hipster circle and 1950-51 by Kerouac and was his first Kerouac was a very funny, strange, getting involved with other gay people as heroic figure, a seminal figure for many book after On the Road, a sequel to it. It you were coming out? is a great experimental book, including a ideas and attitudes. He had a lot of GINSBERG: There was a whole group trouble; he drank himself to death. And couple of hundred pages of taped, tran­ of queens around Columbia at that time scribed conversation between him and he ended, like many older writers, re­ who were doing things like going down to actionary in a funny, interesting, char­ Neal, over grass at midnight in Los Gatos hear Edith Piaf sing at the Plaza hotel and or San Jose, talking about life to each acteristic way, a way that’s teaching interested in status and money. They had other, the first times they got laid, rather than negative. But the basic thing jacking off, and running around Denver. cultural interests that went back to Lotte about him as Character (with a capital C) YOUNG: Why is it first coming out now? Lenya and things like that, but at the was an enormous mellow, trustful toler­ GINSBERG: Kerouac always wanted it same time it was an ance and sensitivity. And that’s why he’s published. But the commercial publishing overly aristocratic, such a great writer and observer. You world wasnt ready for a book of such elitist thing. know, he held everything dear, as a great looseness and strange genius and sensitive young fellow, even my fairy odd construction. It’s more like a Ger­ woes. In fact, we wound up in bed together. trude Stein Making of Americans than it is Jack Kerouac speedy Kerouac. YOUNG: You’re saying that this really That’s what really excited him: black wasnt where he was at sexually? YOUNG: Was it a fight for Kerouac to pantees! black stockings! He also appreci­ get his stuff published? GINSBERG: Well, he was very mixed ated beautiful boys and had a really GINSBERG: Oh, yeah, On the Road was sexually. He had a lot of trouble with novelistic, personal appreciation of older written in ’50 and was never published till attachment to his mother and his moth­ queens - which was a sharing of common ’57, even though he had previously pub­ er’s dependence on him. He was a foot­ humanity, a sharing of emotions, even a ball player, and he liked girls. He liked to sharing of the erotic, except that he didnt eat girls and was feel it was right for him to participate in really hung up on the erotic.

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Page 10 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, October 23-29, 1973 SEXUALITY same warmth was growing in his breast to Living in Neal Cassady’s house I wrote underlies the lessons and ideals of the me, and that what was building it was the a little poem, from a line by Whitman, profound saviors of every land and age, I got freaked out at the whole idea of naked chastity that we were practising about lying down between the bride and and which seems to promise, when bodies and sex, in fact. That was one of together. When we got on the stage and the bridegroom. This was one of Whit­ thoroughly developed, cultivated, and my first lessons in chastity. There’s a line played together - I was singing mantras, man’s great lines. In a fantasy I wrote a recognised in manners and literature, the in Yeats: “ Old lovers yet may have all the blues and playing harmonium and he description of what I would do, my love most substantial hope and safety of the time denied, grave is heaped on grave that playing dobro — the erotic communica­ fantasy, between Neal and his wife, say, future of these states - will then be fully they be satisfied.” I found actually in the tion between us got ecstatic and delirious. given permission by his tolerance. expressed.” course of time that everybody I really It couldnt be withheld. We’d keep burst­ The crucial moment of breakthrough Then, in a footnote, he says: “ It is to loved and wanted to go to bed with, I ing out in song, and eye glances which in terms of statement came while writing the development, identification and gen­ finally did. It may have taken 20 or 30 turned the audience on completely, and “Howl”: “Let themselves be fucked in eral prevalence of that fervid comradeship years, and we may have both fallen into turned me on, and turned him on. So I the ass by handsome sailors, and scream­ (the adhesive love, at least rivalling the ruins and baldness and all our teeth fallen was feeling another kind of very subtle, ed with joy.” Usually the macho reaction amative love hitherto possessing imagin­ out, but desire always found its way, even ethereal orgasm that seemed to occupy to that image of being fucked in the ative literature, if not going beyond it) if it took decades. There’s a lesson there. the upper portions of the body rather ass would be just like in the James that I look for the counter-balance and Once you become a little detached, once than the genital area. Dickey film Deliverance where it’s sup­ offset of our materialistic and vulgar you lose neurotic, obsessive attachment, Though I’ve always been prejudiced posed to be the worst thing in the world. American democracy and for the spirit­ when things are floating lightly, then you against that kind of sublimation, thinking ualisation thereof. Many will say it is a YOUNG: You have a line somewhere: find love objects you once worshipped dream and will not follow my inferences: “Who wants to be fucked in the ass, drifting in on the tide, back to you, more but I confidentially expect a time when really.” than you can deal with; in fact, horrify­ there will be seen running through it like ingly rottened up from the sea. GINSBERG: That’s in the book Kaddish, a half-hid warp through all the myriad An element in the gay lib struggle and in a poem “On Mescaline”. On mescaline, audible and visible wordly interests of metaphysics that I dont think has yet who wants to exist in the universe to America, threads of manly friendship, been taken up is that of disillusionment begin with? Who wants to have a name? fond and loving, pure and sweet, strong with the body. I’m not trying to be Who wants to have an ego? And also who and lifelong, carried to degrees hitherto provocative in that - just the age-old wants to be a queer? Who wants the pain unknown, not only giving tone to individ­ realisation of over 40, over 50, over 60, of being fucked in the ass at times when ual character and making it unprecedent- over 70 and over 80. Finally, the age old it is painful, when it occasionally is. edly emotional, muscular, heroic and grinning skeleton, with the spiritual les­ That’s part of the scene, too. Sometimes refined, but having the deepest relation to son behind it, of detachment from neu­ you never know it in advance. Things general politics. I say democracy infers rotic desire. I think there’s a genuine eros seem to be all right, and all of a sudden it such loving comradeship as its most inev­ between men that isnt dependent on turns out to be painful. So, who wants to itable twin or counterpart, without which neurotic detachment and obsession, that’s be fucked in the ass that way, really? it will be incomplete, in vain and in­ free and light and holy and lambent - The outrageous presentation came capable of perpetuating itself.” which is more or less what we all get Walt Whitman with “Howl”, where I suddenly realised Then, in the preface to the 1876 during our first fantasies, loves and devo­ of it as some sort of sublimation of how funny it would be in the middle of a edition of Leaves o f Grass, he adds, in a tions. Some of us are lucky enough to be primary, holy sex drives, the experience long poem if I said: “Who let themselves long footnote: “Something more may be able to act out and receive back and was so delicious that I can’t really put it be fucked in the ass. . . and screamed added, for while I am about it, I would forth. But it can only come in like the down for any moral reason at all. I with joy,” instead of “and screamed with make a full confession. I also sent out tide when you're free to float in it. If recommend it; everyone should have that pain.” That’s what the contradiction is in Leaves o f Grass to arouse and set flowing there’s too much of a neurotic grasping to experience, too. You can get real close that line. An American audience would in mens and womens hearts, young and gaiety, to gayness, even to gay lib, then it with people that you love who wouldnt expect it to say “pain”, but instead you old, endless streams of living, pulsating, makes everything too tense, and the otherwise want to sleep with you sexual­ have “and screamed with joy” - which is terrible, irrepressible yearning, surely lightness of the love is lost. So the gay lib ly. But you could have a total relation. really true, absolutely, 100 percent. more or less down underneath in most movement will have to come to terms I know lots of men who are thinking human souls this never-satisfied appetite sooner or later with the limitations of along those lines. They may not want to for sympathy, and this boundless offering sex. sleep naked together, but they have a love of sympathy — this universal democratic If you consider sex from a hindu, thrill in the breast for each other and yet companionship, this old, eternal, yet buddhist, Hare Krishna, even Christian are completely heterosexual genitally. ever-new exchange of adhesiveness, so fundamentalist viewpoint - a warning And I wouldnt be surprised if that is, fitly emblematic of America — I have about the body and a warning about among the mass of men, a universal given in that book undisguisedly, de­ attachment itself - it becomes interest­ experience, completely accepted, com­ claredly, the openest expression. Besides, ing. Burroughs has actually written about pletely common, completely shared. important as they are in my purpose as it at length in a way which hip people and The idea of a buddy is just the emotional expressions for humanity, the even radicals have found very interesting: vulgarisation of it. The tradition of com­ special meaning of the ‘Calamus cluster’ the sex “habit” - sex as another form of radeship, of companionship, spoken of in of Leaves o f Grass (and more or less junk, a commodity, the consumption of the Bible between David and Jonathan - running through the book and cropping which is encouraged by the state to keep all the way to the body relationships as out in Drum-Taps), mainly resides in its people enslaved to their bodies. As long we know them - all these are probably political significance. In my opinion, it is as they’re enslaved to their bodies, they intense love relationships which the gay by a fervent, accepted development of can be filled with fear and shock and pain lib movement, in its political phase, has comradeship, the beautiful and sane affection of man for man, latent in all the and threat, so they can be kept in place. not yet accepted and integrated as de­ Neal Cassady The road of that, he said, leads to the lightful manifestations of human com­ young fellows, north and south, east and great palace of green goo, the garden of munication, satisfactory to everybody. In And again I have a line like: “Who west - it is by this I say and by what goes green goo . . . other words, there’s a lot of political and blew and were blown by handsome sail­ directly and indirectly along with it that I find, as I’m growing older, no less communal development open to the gay ors, caresses of Atlantic and Caribbean the United States of the future, I cannot flutterings of delightful desire in my belly lib movement as it includes more and love,” referring to Hart Crane, actually. It too often repeat, are to be most effect­ and abdomen. But also I’m becoming more varieties of love, besides genital. It was an acknowledgment of the basic ively welded together, intercalated, an­ more tolerant of other resolutions be­ may be that the bridge between gay reality of homosexual joy. That was a neal’d, into a living union ...” [Leaves tween people besides sex. When I was in liberation and mens liberation is in the breakthrough in the sense of a public o f Grass, Modern Library Edition, Australia I had a crush on a beautiful mutual recognition of the masculine tend­ statement of feelings and emotions and p. 526-7] young dobro player who travelled around erness that was denied both groups for so attitudes that I would not have wanted So, that’s really the direction, I think, with me. He sought me out and waited all long. my father or my family to see, and I even for gay lib, for mens lib, the release of day at my hotel and put himself at my YOUNG: In “Kaddish” you say some­ hesitated to make public. So that much emotions, finally a release of tenderness service to play music with me. He wanted thing about the weight of your homosex­ was a breakthrough: literally coming out that’s being suppressed. to play mantras and then turned out to uality: “Matterhoms of cock, Grand Can­ of the closet. be a great blues player, and he taught me yons of asshole.” Did you use those big YOUNG: Some people in the gay move­ blues. And he went to bed with me the metaphors because homosexuality was a YOUNG: Did critical reaction to you ment who call themselves “effeminists” first night, when I really got entranced by heavy thing for you? ever focus on the fact that you were would say that this sort of romanticis- his servility, availability, generosity, stress GINSBERG: When I was a sensitive little homosexual? ation of masculine love is anti-woman, and duty. And then he didnt want to go kid, not able to touch anyone or speak that it’s another expression of male to bed with me after that, but he loved my feelings out, little did I realise the GINSBERG: Yes, Norman Podhoretz, in supremacy along the lines of Greek love; me. I was the first man he had ever been enormous weight of love and numbers of Partisan Review, made a big attack on all that the Greek society which tolerated to bed with. How am I going to deal with lovers, the enormity of the scene I’d enter the beatnik literature, the "know-nothing and nurtured homosexuality was at its somebody who really loves me but doesnt into, in which I finally wound up a public bohemians”. He said that though my root a male supremacist society. want to play with my cock and doesnt spokesman for homosexuality at one poetry was not too bad, its chief force necessarily want me to blow him? point. In that sense, "Matterhoms of rested on this somewhat questionable GINSBERG: I dont know. I dont think So I finally got into a scene which was cock, Grand Canyons of asshole”. Taking insistent proclamation of being queer, that’s so in the long run. I think it’s too like the old 19th century thing recom­ off my clothes in public and getting homosexual all the time, which, if frank, genuine a feeling. With Whitman it didnt mended by Edward Carpenter and Whit­ myself listed in Who's Who as being was not that interesting socially. It was a seem to interfere with his relations with man - people sleeping together. It’s married to Peter. putdown which acknowledged and at the women, because he had women friends same time dismissed, while it called who felt the same as he and who were, I called “carezza,” a platonic friendship in YOUNG: In a number of poems your which people sleep together naked, caress­ Kerouac a “brute”. think, married household lesbians. homosexuality flows very naturally. Did Whitman was saying that emotional ing each other, but dont come, saving that really happen? their seed for yogic or other reasons. So I giving between men, acceptance between GINSBERG: About 1953 I wrote a big, did that with this kid. WHITMAN men, has not been developed in America. long, beautiful love poem to Neal Cassady One would say nowadays that it’s been For the next couple of weeks we were called “The Green Automobile”. I made running around Australia. I found the Whitman is important on male tender­ repressed by the spirit of competition and the love overt. I didnt make the genital ness. He’s never been brought forth as a rivalry characteristic of capitalist home intensity of my devotion to him in the part overt but I made every other aspect: heart area - a warm, aching feeling in the totem or as a prophet by either gay lib or economics. A concomitant potential of a tenderness, kneeling together, holding on, by the radical left despite some very communal fraternity would be brotherly heart, growing and growing and growing, travelling together, and then ultimate and becoming more and more desirous precise statements he made on the subject tenderness at least. That tenderness has separation. of mens lib. been denied to the southern redneck and and narcotic-like, and more and more The next poem that had some overt satisfactory to carry around with me. In Democratic Vistas Whitman says: is responsible for his disrelation both with thing was a little poem in ’53-’54 that “Intense and loving comradeship, the And I found him responding in a very mentioned the “culture of my generation, continued page 12 similar way to me. I realised that that personal and passionate attachment of cocksucking and tears”. man to man - which, hard to define, THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, October 23-29, 1973 - Page 11 men and women. We dont yet know what across that I just sat and held hands with the result would be of men forming closer and felt love feelings towards them, and emotional ties, or of the making con­ they towards me. Gay is too much of a scious of those emotional ties and the category. acceptance of them as a political signifi­ cance. YOUNG: I think definitely a tension What’s the alternative? You can bring exists today between gay freaks and up the spectre of Greek love and its straight gays. There are some people in anti-feminist concomitant and point out gay liberation who say: “I have more in aspects of that in behavior of the beatniks common with a heterosexual freak than - a fear of women, at least with me. But with a gay person who’s into very short you would also have to see it as a real, hair and alcohol.” And then there are heartfelt, native development, out of the other gay people who say, “My loyalty is fear and restrictiveness of the situation to other gay people, and the freak culture that we were brought up with: distrust, is very macho”. hatred, paranoia and competition be­ tween men rather than cooperation; and GINSBERG: The form I felt it in was the saiae also between men and women. between the heart-felt, populist, human­ Whitman was most sensitive of that ist, quasi-heterosexual, Whitmanic, bo­ because of his blocked love for men, hemian, free-love, homosexual tradition, because he couldnt make it with men as you find it in Sherwood Anderson, openly and publicly. He had to find a Whitman, or maybe Genet, versus the way of expressing his adhesiveness, as he privileged, exaggeratedly effeminate, gos­ calls it. sipy, moneyed, money-style-clothing con­ I think a liberation of emotion be­ scious, near hysterical queen. Of course tween men would also lead to a liberation there’s nothing more ancient or honorable or straightening out of relations between than the old shamanistic transvestite that men and women, because men would no we see running up and down Greenwich longer have to be men in relation to Avenue or among the American Indians, a women in the sense of hard and con­ shaman who dresses himself up like a quistador. They might have a much more woman and even takes a husband. The relaxed relationship in which they werent screaming young queen — there’s some­ continuously obliged to be sexualised thing very ancient and charming about but could be just friends, or fond. Mens that; great company, total individuality non-sexual friendship with women is and expressiveness. Sometimes you fear now considered unmanly. So the devel­ Ginsberg; Melbourne 1972 it’s the screaming, hysterical outside of opment of frankly emotional, non-genital somebody who’s going to have a nervous friendships with men might mean also the him occasionally, taking refuge in San breakdown and wind up in the church, or development, the opening up, of frankly Francisco from his travels with Kesey, something. But then there’s also the emotional non-genital friendships with back and forth from the railroad; and pettish, spiteful, anal retentive, disciplin­ women. Gavin Arthur had slept with Edward arian. What is the effeminist alternative posi­ Carpenter and Edward Carpenter had But when I was younger the split was tion between men? In other words, what slept with Walt Whitman. more between the grubby, beatnik, open- do they propose besides saying: “No, you Gavin Arthur says that it’s very old hearted . . . the nameless, gnostic lovers shouldnt feel good with your fellow man; and very charming for older and younger and the monopolistic queens who had heterosexuals should not develop towards people to make it — which you realise as privilege and money. The distinction was emotional relations with heterosexuals?” you get old too - and nothing to be more between the cold-hearted and the They’re pointing out the danger of an ashamed of, defensive about, but some­ warm-hearted. exclusive club, but we’ve already had that thing to be encouraged; a healthy rela­ exclusive club in another form with the tionship, not a sick neurotic dependency. YOUNG: In the gay bars of New York Hemingway macho scene, or with the The main thing is communication. did you find both? military muscular macho scene. Older people have ken, experience, his­ I’m saying and Whitman is saying that tory, memory, information, data, power, GINSBERG: Oh, I found both definitely. the antidote to the Hemingway and mil­ money and also worldly technology. There were lots of outspoken, funny old itary macho scene is the development of Younger people have intelligence, enthu­ sailor queens from the 20s; and then frank, emotional tenderness and an siasm, sexuality, energy, vitality, open there were all sorts of prissy mouthed, paronoiac, fearful, conservative-reaction­ acknowledgment of tenderness as the mind, athletic activity - all the character­ ary, short-hair, worried, advertising mar­ basis of genital or non-genital emotion. It istics and sweet, dewy knowledges of tinets. And everything in between. There may resolve itself in more men friend­ youth; and both profit from the recipro­ is a manneristic fairydom that depends on ships, a democratisation of friendships, so cal exchange. It becomes more than a money, chic, privilege and exclusive, that it’s not exclusively friendships be­ sexual relationship; it becomes an ex­ monopolistic high style, and I would say tween men and women on a sexual basis. change of strength, an exchange of gifts, that it is usually accompanied by bitchi­ I think it would resolve a lot of the an exchange of accomplishments, an fact, some sort of argument about a boy ness and bad manners and faithless love, macho conflict and contradictions. exchange of nature-bounties. Older peo­ may be the cause of the shooting of too. I like homosexuality where the I think that’s one of the definitions of ple gain vigor, refreshment, vitality, en­ Lorca. I dont think there’s any written gaiety, or homosexuality: there is a built- biographical history. lovers are friends all their lives, and there ergy, hopefulness and cheerfulness from are many lovers and many friends. in conditioning, from very early times, in the attentions of the young; and the [Homosexuality] is all in Whitman’s which both genital and emotional flow younger people gain gossip, experience, texts: his homo-erotic rhapsody, includ­ goes towards men more than, as is more advice, aid, comfort, wisdom, knowledge ing a description of the time he lay down usual, towards women. I thought the and teaching from their relation with the with a friend who opened or took off his point of gay lib was to admit that variety old. So as in other relationships, the shirt. Whitman lay down and kissed him of development as being viable, making a combination of old and young is func­ all over his body. Did you know that? it’s place for that. Otherwise, what is a tionally useful. It’s far from sexist, in the in Part 5 of Song of Myself. homosexual? Unless you want to have a sense that the interest of the younger homosexual liberation front which pro­ person is not totally sexual; it’s more in YOUNG: You dont get it in high school. poses that men should develop out of the relationship and the wisdom to be NEXT WEEK : homosexuality to a more equal and dem­ gained. GINSBERG: But school is irrelevant to ocratic relation with both men and In Edward Carpenter’s and Whitman’s poetry and everything else anyway. I Ginsberg talks about women. But I think you could say: let time the older person made love to the mean school is something from the 19th the straight flower bespeak its purpose in younger person, blew the younger person, century. Poetry has gone back to 15,000 living in straightness, which is to seek the light, and there was the absorption of the BC. There’s Whitman’s: “We two boys and that the crooked flower bespeak its younger person’s electric, vital magnetism together clinging, one the other never Cuba and loving purpose in crookedness, which is to seek (according to a charming, theosophical, leaving, up and down the roads going, the light. The crooked flower has to go 19th century theory). And it’s something north and south excursions making, pow­ with Peter Orlovsky around the rock to seek the light. But the er enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers point was to get to the light of love, and that somebody older like myself does experience as a natural fact. When you clutching, armed and fearless, eating, the straight flower just grew up straight, drinking, sleeping, loving, no law less than right into the light of love. So you have sleep with somebody younger you do gain a little vitality of breadth and bounce. ourselves owning, soldiering, sailoring, either biological or conditional man-love thieving, threatening, misers, menials, and a gay lib movement which purports YOUNG: You’ve referred to Whitman priests alarming, air breathing, water to release and make public those emo­ and Edward Carpenter, and in some of breathing. . . ” tions. One thing that gay lib could do And Whitman says... “a glimpse would be to break down the fear barrier your poems you mention Garcia Lorca. through an interstice caught a crowd of that queens have against women. Break­ For me it was a very recent discovery that workmen ... in a barroom around a stove ing down the fear barrier between men these famous writers were gay like my­ late at a winter night, and I unremarked and men would probably tend towards self, that I had this bond with them. I’m seated in a corner a youth who loves me that. curious as to how you made this dis­ Another point I’d like to take up is the covery. and whom I love, silently approaching traditional, effeminist possibly, objection and seating himself near, that he may to the "sexist” relations between older GINSBERG: Lorca’s “Ode to Walt Whit­ hold me by the hand. A long while, and men and younger men. I saw some man” speaks of “the sun singing on the in the noises of coming and going, of effeminist manifestos [on this point] in navels of boys playing baseball under the drinking and oath and smutty jest, there Berkeley. I took that question to Gavin bridges”, which is an image of such erotic we two, content, happy in being together, Arthur, who died this year in San Fran­ beauty that immediately you realise that speaking little, perhaps not a word.” cisco. He was a great gentleman, with he understood, that he was there; that The adhesiveness that Whitman spoke beautiful manners, an astrologer, a teach­ was an emotion he felt. Then, later on, I of is latent in all of us now and ready to er, a guru, and a grandson of president met somebody in Chile who knew him be opened. In the past ten years, God Chester Arthur. Neal Cassady slept with and said that he’d slept with boys. In knows how many younger boys I’ve run Peter Orlovsky Page 12 - THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, October 23-29, 1973 Aleks Danko, from News Sc Weather, a poetry magazine in search of finance. Second in a series for those who want to hang inside a tabloid.

How Green Is Your Alley? ThoThe nroorlv/greedy bloodyK I w rlmmlnnorrdevelopers can't be stopped they said, sitting OWENS: It is a basic principle in portable armchairs watching yet of democracy. As we have another chapter of history go under repeatedly said, and as Jack Mundey has eloquently express­ to the bulldozer. The National ed it, the problem with the Trust makes some phone calls, union movement anywhere is drafts some letters, sends another that after a while it stagnates, delegation...and, undaunted, the developers continue on their ram­ the people become "jobbists'' page. and become interested in retain­ Then a couple of years ago the ing the offices for their own NSW branch of the Builders Labor­ ideological ends rather than ers Federation stepped in and pushing democracy amongst its slammed green bans on areas ear­ members. The problems faced by unions marked for development. There are now boycotts on construction pro­ can be seen w ith the Builders Workers Industrial Union which jects to the tune of S3000 million. ten years ago was widely regarded The developers are screaming, the as the leading union in the build­ Master Builders Association wants ing industry and now it has topp the union deregistered and national secretary of the union. Norm toppled downhill. It's not a lead­ Gallagher, wants the federal body ing militant union. I think that of the union to step in. the general problem with unions, whether they are right or left, is that people have a tendency to stay too long. Q. Could you tell us more about rank and file activity within the UM nnESSnu union and about membership control? OWENS: Our union has to remem­ ber that we are a fairly radical union, miles ahead of many other unions, so we've got to be careful that we dont get too far ahead of JOE OWENS, who recently A lot of people are now talking replaced Jack Mundey as secretary about rank and file democracy. The of the NSW branch of the BLF, Liberal party of NSW is even starting talks with GRANT EVANS. Photos to agree with the concept of worker by SYD SHELTON'. participation, John Ducker says the Q: With the attempts by the same thing. In all cases th e y w arn Master Builders Association to against worker control. have the NSW BLF deregistered, I think it is a sign of the times do you expect support from when you have reactionaries com­ the federal leadership? ing out in support of worker part­ OWENS: Firstly, this is the icipation which shows how fearful third or fourth time that the they are of worker control, even Master Builders have been in its embryonic stages in Austral­ huffing and puffing about de­ ia. But it's catching on fast. The registering the union. If they trade unions fear it. deregister us they w ill have to do Q: A lot of groups on the left it federally because we are a claim that the Builders Laborer's federal union. are involved in middle class polit­ The attempts at deregistration ics with the green bans. And you are lin ke d up w ith the green bans- would argue that once you start The Master Builders have on a organising grass roots a c tiv ity it number of occasions attempted immediately extends towards to get us before the Arbitration revolutionary action... I ip®***' gkllL*, iiigr" "idgt Commission over green bans for OWENS: That's right. There's an \ grX. g g nasrz big companies such as Hooker's age old idea still held by some who have a lot of economic sections of the left in particular influence over the Master Build­ that the working class, meaning ers. the fellow wearing hobnailed I think that we can keep them boots and a pick in his hand will at bay successfully. The only be the one who will win the thing that worries me is the role revolution. Now that’s utter bull­ that our federal body w ill play shit. in it. After the last ACTU It's becoming clearer and congress and the deal that clearer, that more and more Gallagher did with the rightwing­ people, including the working ers D ucker and Marsh, his class and the m id dle class - w ho allegiance, to say the least, must after all are the working class in be in doubt. an age of multinational corporat­ Already some of the ions - are all taking action. Now employers in NSW, including these have to be welded together the Master Builders and repre­ if we want to change society to .» * ... sentatives of Hooker's in one make it a democratic socialist instance, have gone to Gallagher society. and asked him to intervene over I think that the enemies of the one of the green bans we have union have said that we support 11#,. in Cook Road, Centennial Park. the silver tails. Certainly we have Pressures have been exerted from supported areas of land where this area long with the Arbitrat­ people wanted parks to be kept ion Commission and I think whether the people in the areas that one of the biggest problems were over S10,000 or under. We've i!t that we'll face is pressure from a had the two opposites - we've had f 1 number of sources on the green Woollahra and the Helen Keller bans. I'm sincerely hopeful - Hostel. Very different groups of I stress hopeful - that Gallagher people but all with the same aim. ’Xi * »«*»*«*iiwX •... will not be sucked in by the If you can get those groups of Master Builders or by the people talking together about a Arbitration Commission to get similar concept, well that's a pointer js to life our bans. toward revolution. Revolution Q: Your ticket stands by won't be carried out by a small limited tenure of office. Why group of people but by mass action Next week WENDY BACON reveals what she found when she paid a call do you th in k th a t this is so by all of the people. on her friendly neighborhood developer. im p o rta n t? Just Us t<4ds

To start our regular pages by kids we have something by NSW High-er School Certificate students to warm your spirits on E - Day. Brother JOHN GEAKE, our NSW monitor, follows with a round-up

t’s good old exam time again — the annual ritual of rewardingI the goodly and punish­ ing the naughty by a quiz show so gigantic th* Pick-a-Box and Great Temptation pale into insignifi­ cance. All aero* the state, students are stuffing their brains with verb- age and garbage to the point of atrophy, priming their recoil for that intellectual chunder upon which, we are told, all future happiness depends. Probabilities and statistics are the chief topics of conversation in staff rooms, and homes where parents are fielding an HSC candidate com­ petition is legion. But the funny thing (ha ha) about matriculation exams is that both examiners and examinees, in fact almost everybody, knows they’re a sham, a public scandal to the annual tune of half a million dollars and thousands of tons of paper, not to mention the 32,500 freaked out candidates, along with their friends and relations. Exams dont select the most suitable ptBple for further educa­ tion. Studies at" the University of New England have shown that success at university (exams) is just as low amongst students who didnt matriculate as amongst presently putting kids through those who did. Besides, some unis checking clocks, calendars and English comprehension to or their paces, like show jumpers rule books. are accepting students on accredi­ ashes! Should anyone inquire as provide a fitting atmosphere before the Royal Easter spectac­ tation repadless of HSC pass or However, like all mass action, to the whereabouts of your paper with a stink bomb (butyric acid is ular. fail. it doesnt recommend itself as your reply can display your excellent), No exams means radically dif­ warmly to the isolated individual. knowledge of the natural sciences or Exams dont select the most ferent teacher training, or even no Certainly the individual who never “I oxidised it!” (Cellulose + oxy­ provide an unfitting atmos­ suitable people for employment. training at all. No exams leads to appears will save him or herself an gen = carbon dioxide + water.) phere with laughing gas (nitrous Employers select by interview, deschooling. Thus it’s unlikely experience sufficiently awful that Now there’s first level practical oxide), aptitude tests, job experience, or that this pillar of society will be it ought be missed, but the politi­ work. or first in first served, depending on brought down by its supporters, cal significance may be missed BURGLARY: provide a bonfire with a small their vested interest is too high. also. molotov cocktail over the pile of the job. Break into the Gov­ Then what do exams do? They If exams are to be abolished, undistributed papers. ernment Printing Office; steal all give people the shits. The HSC is a it’s up to the potential examinees BURN YOUR the exam papers and burn them, half million dollar public laxative. to wield the axe. Here are some EXAM PAPER: An handy hints for stuffing the sys­ or DISTRACTIONS: Then why arent exams abolish­ individual act of conscience that tem before it stuffs you. Let your steal one copy of each paper, A car outside ed? Because they afford a means could rate with draft card burning mind wander during your next reprint it and distribute it before the exam room with a loudhailer of control; if you dont pay atten­ (and probably carries a similar study break. each exam, or public address system, broad­ tion, do your homework, be a penalty). Phone up a television or casting music and crib sheets. good girl or boy - you will fail station the night before — the hijack the car carrying the “The French for Starfucker is your exams!!!! (Said in fire and BOYCOTT: wider the audience the better. To papers to the exam centres, burn Etoile-fouteur." brimstone voice.) Teachers are by There can’t be an get your exam paper outside the the papers or hold them to ran­ or virtue of their qualifications good exam without examinees. Imagine exam room you will need to be som. Sit in lotus position on top of passers of exams. If there were no no one turning up. Imagine thou­ fleet of foot, but a little help from desk, meditate, and chant exams, there would be no syllabi, sands of papers on thousands of your friends should block the BOMBS: Blow up the “Ommmmmmmmmmm ...” so little need for fixed timetabled evenly spaced desks in thousands cover defence of supervisors in examination centre the night “Excuse me but examination routines at school, and consider­ of halls - empty save for the time to reach the cameras and before, or rules state that. . . ” able job crisis/unemployment panic stricken supervisors and ex­ apply a match to the offending telephone a bomb threat the Get everyone else to join in, amongst the army of teachers amination officials frantically document. morning of the exam, “Ommmmmmmmmmm ...” or icate their point of view. This Light some incense, pass some ■ form of action has obvious dif­ food around, pass some joints ficulties. First is the difficulty of around. Have a party, direct communication to and or from the "proletariat”. Second is Have a mass shit-in. Everyone the limitation of resources and the wants to go at once - a hundred HE PRIMARY problem fac­ dependence on organisations with arms waving like daffodils in the T ing skoolkid radicals is that ions, nor the sympathetic aims to provide meet­ breeze - “I gotta go right now - they not only have a large body of ing places, equipment and, when diarrhoea - it’s urgent!” headmasters/head­ established opinion to change but mistresses needed, cold hard cash. or are denied the right to organise to Sydney High Schools Student Provide food for thought by who decide the effect such change. And this de­ membership, veto Underground, originally housed decorating the halls with graffiti nial is central to the established over Third World Bookshop, once) and anti exam slogans. the decisions and opinion - Catch 22! holidays, does not spread very far censor the publications of these produced a newsletter, has organ­ TENSION RELEASE: The established behavior model during the year, and even then councils. The areas for considera­ ised a highskool student strike and Acts of is strictly authoritarian; real learn­ casual rates are lousy for minors. tion by these bodies soon become publishes a newspaper, Stone personal liberation that may sub­ ing only comes from those in While parents may fork out hun­ constrained to matters whose re­ Rack. Glenfield Farm has been vert the seriousness of it all. authority - parents, teachers, dreds of dollars in fees and uni­ solve will not alter the funda­ used by students as a centre for a Attend the exams painted elders. The test is how well kids forms students have little or no mental status or civil liberties of free skool. A first group moved to green (or red or blue or a multi­ can imitate the behavior of auth­ money for funding political cam­ Paddington and dissolved into the tude of colors). Hand out bal­ ority figures and eventually step paigns for self-determination. Creative Learning Collective. A loons, stars, flowers etc. Blow bub­ into some wellworn shoes. Learn­ Nor is there much prospect of second group from the local Liver­ bles, sing songs. ing from interaction of kids with raising funds through traditional pool area are now busy establish­ Perform street theatre with their fellows is not regarded as means of levies. The SRCs and ing a free skool at the Farm for some friends. Dress up for the true learning. Behavior from such unions in colleges and universities 1974. occasion — wear a ball and chain, interaction is labelled childish, im­ are funded by compulsory fees. July, 1973 No. I IQt A more independent stand has or a gorilla suit or become super­ mature, inexperienced or rebel­ Despite anti administration pol­ been taken at Blacktown. The man for three hours. lious; ie. invalidated and/or ra­ icies, student organisations at ter­ Blacktown Student Underground Undress for the occasion, slow­ tionalised, but never accepted. It tiary institutions are supported to draws students from all skools in ly and resolutely all the way - an is true that many teachers and the point where the administra­ the Blacktown area. Their under­ excellent tension release as well as headmasters claim a deep affec­ tion acts as the fee-collecting ground paper Imprimatur, is pro­ a good distractor. tion and understanding of those agent. Student political activism, duced and distributed under Write your exam paper with “entrusted under them”, but such while steering in many different threat of expulsion and police felt pens of many colors - de­ affection is seen to be paternalis­ directions over the years, has been action by the local authorities. mand marks for decoration. tic in the extreme when these a longstanding tradition at uni­ The Blacktown Boys High head­ Bring along your favorite ob­ same people, in staff meetings, versities. master, Jack Kelly, offers $100 ject of affection - teddy bear, pet either joke about kids or show Skools have no tradition of reward for the capture of the " EATS CRASS, ROOTS, carpet snake or whatever. Insist concern in a manner that denies student activism; the very 4 LEAVES.* mysterious graffito writer who that it cannot be left outside. the idea that kids can organise idea that skoolkids articulations adorns otherwise ugly buildings: Hand out pamphlets against their own lives or make meaning­ should receive genuine appraisal “Smoke More Dope” and “Pseudo exams — hold a spontaneous ful decisions about themselves. In by authorities is heavily opposed. kids at skool - eg. uniform de- Radical Teachers Fuck Off”. short kids experiences are not meeting when it’s time to go in. The skool councils set up recently sign, date of the skool dance, Blacktown skoolkids have used SUBVERT valid until they’ve been altered, the profits of free enterprise - that is “matured”, to coincide from cray fishing to bookstalls — with authority’s experience. THE MARKERS: to meet the printer’s bill. Once the exams are finished, the Most kids dont take their pol­ Independence has advantages. itics beyond the level of carved marking begins. The above activi­ The AICD Environment Group desk tops because this isnt where ties can be performed at the agreed to finance and distribute a their primary struggle is. Skool is Showground where the papers are new offset newspaper, Wombat, very much an extension of the marked. Prepare nice food as an for Sydney high schools, to be family and it is the family that alternative to Showground pies: a produced by skoolkids and teach­ provides the original “mad or hungry marker is a mean marker. ers in the CLC. When sixteen type­ bad” invalidation. Now, it can be set and layed-out pages were final­ argued that liberationists of one POLITICS: ly presented to AICD for printing, Start a campaign kind or another are acting out old the kids were most disappointed against exams on the basis of bad family conflicts in a wider social educational value and waste of field, but at least they dont have to find that not only could AICD “not find a car” for transport to public funds, to face mother and father across the printers, but could not find or the breakfast table. Skoolkids do, time to even proofread the pages Send all your exam notes and and many completely deny feel­ for two weeks, by which time the exercise books to the minister for ings of frustration in order to news was stale and the forth­ education (32,500 candidates x satisfy parental wishes of estab­ coming vacation an inhibition to 10 lb of notes = 145 tons of lished social conformity. Kids sup­ paper. The education department port parents illusions of control distribution. With encouragement would need a steam shovel to by lying about or omitting to like that who needs a family clear it all off their doorstep. inform parents of what they are crisis? E T FOR HELP DESKOOL YOUR Exams may stifle creativity, doing. LOCAL SKOOLKIDS - THEY but destroying exams calls for a There is another large problem fertile mind. HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT area - economics. Nine to three A PREDETERMINED FUTURE. GOOD LUCK! compulsory attendance five days a in some highskools are a superb charity fundraising and the price week limits the possibilities of example of repressive tolerance of pies. Brother John and mem­ Interested kids of any age contact John casual work. The money earned which fools no one - neither the So skoolkid activists must hold at 827.1557, Sydney, or for Melbourne bers of the Creative Learning flogging newspapers in an after­ kids who have been granted “dem­ clandestine meetings and publish based whiz kiddies, contact Rob King, Collective. noon, or picking fruit during the ocratic” channels for their opin- underground papers to commun­ 5 Sydare Ave, Chadstone.

THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, October 23-29, 1973 - Page 17 ALBIE THOMS (“ Miss Ivory Snow”, a TV ad is in the Bonnie and Clyde mould ACK IN Australia a few days queen who sells soap powder on - achieves a certain amount in the Future I’m asked to write a column B the box). Miss Chambers gets hers area of style. Samuel Fuller has for The Living Daylights. With on a trapeze in a variety of ori­ made some of the best films in this only a few bucks in my pocket fices simultaneously. Take your genre, but his recent Dead Pigeon and no job in sight I can’t refuse. pick. I also got off on the softcore on Beethoven Street (made for But the doing has proven a lot German schoolgirl reports. Cologne TV) is definitely not one Flickerings harder. THRILLERS: Everyone used of them. The truth of the matter is I got to like thrillers and Sisters is one WESTERNS AND MUSICALS: sick of writing, and when I went of the best of them, in the tradi­ on my six month study tour in It seems Hollywood has finally tion of Psycho and Rear Window. exhausted these two great genres. Europe and New York I avoided Made by Brian di Palma who using the typewriter to analyse Hair and the musical of GWTW On The learnt everything Hitch has to are still to come, but the decision my experience. I think I was teach, it doesnt have stars and to make Jesus Christ Superstar as suffering from withdrawal re­ mightnt get ballyhooed. But it’s a sultant from minimal feedback. In a modern and not a biblical was sleeper. an error. three years writing for so called Ditto Duel which has had a alternate publications like Tracks, Screen short run in Melbourne already. WEIRDOES: These ones . al­ Revolutions and Planet so little Dennis Weaver (fast becoming the ways get me in because they break dialogue developed that the effort new American archetype male) with genre styles and predictable of sitting down and straining my gets paranoid when driving his car patterns, exercising the mind brain thru a typewriter for little on the freeway. A monstrous while entertaining. Take Jodorow- or no payment or reward became truck appears in his rear-vision sky’s The Holy Mountain. A se­ an exhausting experience. mirror and pursues him without quel to El Topo (which has yet to In the end I think maybe I’m rhyme or reason for the rest of be commercially screened here), doing it out of love for the absurd the film. Definitive American made, with a big budget and pro­ struggle. paranoia, it was made by ABC-TV duced by Allen Klein, this is as I was going to write about the and shown by them immediately unpredictable as Jodorowsky's latest developments in avant-garde after Nixon’s Watergate white­ previous films. Latent surrealism, film as witnessed at an inter­ wash speech last august. it is more heavily didactic than national festival in London last The TV programmers suggested before, though no doubt the di­ month, but I’ve decided to give quite blatantly that the monster rector regards his film as Zen. that a miss. There seems so little in the rear vision mirror was none Less surreal, though equally interest in avant-garde film here other than Tricky Dick. Relate it exotic, is Werner Hertzog’s Aquhra, (especially among the film bureau­ to your own paranoia. the Wrath o f God A historical crats) that it doesnt warrant the COMEDIES: Both comedies I re-creation of a 16th century at­ effort. Instead I’ll attempt to ful­ note are Comedy noir. Marco Fer- tempt to find El Dorado by cross­ fill one of Richard’s aims to make reri’s Grand Bouffe stars Mas- ing the Andes and heading down this a Good News paper rather troianni, Picolli, Noiret and the Amazon, it features a crazy Jodorowsky's El than the old Australian knocker. Tognazzi eating and shitting them­ performance by Klaus Kinsky, Topo So what good news can I tell? selves to death. A bawdy farce in suggested as a possible Leichhardt, Well, I think I’ll stick with the Ubu tradition (fecalophilia), for a German TV production movies in this first column and it makes some claim to being a about that insane Australian ad­ tell you about some that you social allegory. venturer. might hope to see on your local Ditto Pink Flamingoes, the un­ Another Historical is Russ screens during the next six derground hit of New York. This Meyer’s Blacksnake. Meyer is a months or so. They are not Aus­ has two couples fighting to de­ major American stylist whose tralian movies, as I have not termine who is the dirtiest parson work is ignored by mainstream caught up with recent develop­ alive. Divine, a grotesque drag criticism because of its sexiness. ments while I was away. queen, wins, and along the way Blacksnake comes across like a In fact, the only Australian director John (Mondo Trasho) parody of Pontecorvo’s Burn!, movie I saw in the past six months Walters manages to cover a wide and just as slack. When will the was Libido, Australia’s official en­ range of black humor (which has Russ Meyer cult start? Auteurists try at Cannes. I lasted a bit longer nothing to do with the recent dull note! than most of the audience there negro exploitation films). Ciao! Manhattan has been hail­ but in the end I too fled this NOSTALGIA: Claude Watham ed as the Citizen Kane of the 70s The Canned stupid, cynical movie. (I will avoid has concocted an innocent revery - not so much as a breakthrough Libido here ranting against the policies of about the late 50s called That'll movie, but one that manages an the film bureaucrats responsible Be the Day, carefully fictionalis­ epic style. It recounts the fictional for this film and for showing it in ing the period in England when but true story of Susan (Edie Cannes.) the Beatles and others decided to Sedgewick - Warhol superstar) So here are some foreign films give up school and become rock who dies (truth and fiction) dur­ that are worth seeing if and when stars. It features Ringo at his best. ing the course of the movie, mix­ they make it to our screens. Across in San Francisco, work­ ing an old unreleased fictional Firstly, ROCK MOVIES: There ing for Coppola’s American xero- film with recent fictional footage are innumerable films in this rela­ trope, George Lucas has come up to create a past/present synthesis. tively new genre, most of them with a revery for the early sixties records of festivals or major con­ in American Graffiti. This neat AVANT-GARDE: I said I was certs. I saw Wattstax and couldnt tale of highschool kids on their going to give the avant-garde a see what people were getting ex­ graduation night takes place in the miss but there are some films that cited about. More interesting was mushy period of R&R. The Amer­ can’t be ignored. For example, a fictional film, Payday, by Daryl ican kids are somewhat more in­ Michael Snow’s Central Region, a Duke. Starring a favorite actor of nocent than the English ones, and monumental work that is undeni­ mine, Rip Tom; it is about a C&W much more mobile, since most of ably a masterpiece. Projected for singer who goes over the edge. the movie takes place in cars three hours with changing film Very fast with a lot of ironic cruising from hamburger stand to speeds and changing pan speeds humor. hop and back again. Both are very and axes, it does pretty savage Of a different sort is Jimi cute and guaranteed to stoke the things to the brain; the literal Hendrix, a biographical film of joy of remembrance. mind fuck that people have talked the star. Factual rather than fic­ DOCUMENTARIES: More and about for so long. tional, documentary rather than more docos are finding their way New films from Paul Sharks synthetic, it contains film clips into cinemas, and not just as sup­ are also impressive and Stan Trucking Dennis from most stages of Jimi’s career Brakhage has come up with a Weaver ports and fillers. Phillipe Mora’s (reminding one of the marvellous Swastika has been shown at Aus­ powerful documentary film in image-banks now available to tralian festivals and hopefully will The Act of Seeing With One's moviemakers). It also contains find its way into our more imag­ Own Eyes. lots of interviews with people who inative independent cinemas. Not Three avant-garde features knew him and these reveal a lot as camp as his previous film, it made for German TV are also about the man that the cosmetic scores good moments by dubbing worth looking out for (perhaps jobs in the rock press failed to Hitler’s home movies, and spin­ they’ll get here for a festival or via capture. ning a swastika thru the cosmos. the NFTA). Werner Nekes Next, SEX MOVIES: Long Misinterpretations guaranteed. T-wo-men is an experimentally banned in Australia these are Visions of 8 is one of those structured depiction of a lesbian starting to be seen (and made) slick documentaries that make all relationship. here. I dont know how long be­ reality look plastic. As a record of Klaus Wybomy’s The Birth of fore Deep Throat arrives, but the Olympic games it compares a Nation has subject matter sug­ maybe it will come before its unfavorably with the masterpieces gested by its title (it’s actually a sequel The Devil is Miss Jones. of Reifenstahl and Ichikarwa. But film about film language). Werner This features new sex star Gloria Arthur Penn’s slow motion pole- Schroeter’s Willow Springs (star­ Spelvin enjoying it up the bum as vault sequence is well worth see­ ring Christine Kaufmann) seems to well as with a snake and whatever ing. be a high camp modern day west­ else she can get inside her. COPS AND ROBBERS: Most ern that falls somewhere between This New York cheapo is being of these seem to be about blacks a Bergman film and Nick Ray’s Hitler starring in challenged by Behind the Green and are basically cheap remakes of Johnny Guitar. Swastika Door, a San Franciscan cheapo familiar plots. They bore very I guess that is enough of a rave that stars Marilyn Chambers quickly, though Dillinger — which about movies to come. Page 18 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, October 23-29, 1973 A FORMER INMATE REVIEWS THE RISDON CAN AST fortnight, a poor able society tarts have squawked created the world which builds screw, but he was either too to the “education program” of L broken down sod shambled in pious horror at these bolshevis­ such paradises as Pentridge and frightened, or didnt care enough this wretched establishment. But on to my building site and asked tic utterances. Risdon. to put an end to the frightful this non existent program is mere­ the foreman for a job. Luckily for Now, after last year’s “ riot” by Apart from being allowed one business. ly a cover for the hopeless system him, Tasmania is in the midst of a prisoners at Risdon (ie. a sitdown visit of 20 minutes per month, and which cannot but make confirmed building boom, so he was taken strike followed by a few broken one letter per fortnight, this is the But the worst yard in this crims out of many first offenders. on. windows and prisoners heads) it bare minimum of the “luxury” en­ wonderful house of rehabilitation At the beginning of my sojourn Abject, pale and weedy, he should be readily apparent to any­ joyed by the prisoners. Things with which the Labor “friends of in the place, I kept a diary, in commenced work alongside of me one that Risdon is scarcely a can’t get any better than that, but the workers” have blessed us is which I poked fun at the screws at the bottom of a ten foot health resort. But not to the twits for many of the prisoners they the “ Boys Yard”. This social and the pompous old soldier fools trench. As the morning wore on I who write letters to the Mercury can, and do, get worse. sewer, otherwise known as E Divi­ who are the higher ups in the realised that I had seen him some­ and the Examiner. Tasmania’s The prisoners live in cells sion, is where the under 21s are establishment. The authorities ap­ where before. Suddenly the prisoners have it too good already, which are arranged in two tiers caged together. Any "Star” (first prehended me in this dreadful memory of the bleak concrete they say. around the edges of the exercise timer) who is thrown into this lair crime and assigned me to dunny prison yard came back, and I The truth of the matter is that cage. There are seven such yards is immediately set upon and sub­ cleaning duty. After two months recalled him telling me of how he Risdon, whilst doubtless an im­ at Risdon — including the remand jected to all kinds of degradation of this, they relented and reassign­ was homosexually raped in the provement on such hells as Pent- section where those prisoners, and terror. ed me to the “schoolroom” as showers whilst a screw looked on ridge, is nevertheless still a foul still legally innocent, are awaiting The “Star” is first passed assistant to the education officer. and laughed. blot on any landscape. The day - trial, and are incarcerated, some­ through an official prison recep­ Thus I had the opportunity of Too small and weak to defend every day - begins at 6.45 am to times for months, in conditions of tion ceremony. He is stripped of experiencing at first hand the himself, he had been terrorised by the snarling of some dopey screw endless boredom. his outside clothing, screws peer circus of the education program. almost the entire population of who is too useless to get a job There is a definite social hier­ up his anus, and his hair is crop­ A large number of prisoners at the “Boys Yard”, until someone anywhere else: “Get out of bed archy among the population of the ped to regulation standards. He is Risdon were either totally or par­ in authority had finally shown you cunts!” “Cocks off, socks yards. At the top is a small group then dispatched to the wild beasts tially illiterate. One would some spark of humanity and had on.” Then it is time for breakfast: of “tough guys”, mostly lifers and of the arena of the yard. transferred him to the safer waters imagine that teaching them the the ubiquitous “burgoo” (a other long term inmates. This He is insulted, bashed and spat rudiments of reading and writing of my yard. watery version of porridge that group runs the illicit gambling upon. Sexual indignities are forc­ would be high on the list of This wretched shred of human­ tastes as nasty as it sounds), fol­ schools where the currency is the ed upon him in the showers. In priorities for a self-styled re­ ity had once been one of the abominable sweepings known as many cases the “Star” is stripped lowed by a saveloy or a dollop of habilitative institution. But no. inmates of Tasmania’s “luxuri­ fetid beans., “Honeydew” and “Greys” to­ naked and forced to run a vicious ous” jail at Risdon; the “pink Them comes the first of the bacco. They also arrange by vari­ gauntlet of fists, boots and flying At one time prisoners in the palace” erected by the “socialist” interminable “musters”, in which ous methods to get bigger helpings saliva. Thus initiated he takes his jail were allowed to own musical government of Eric Reece. you are lined up, counted, and of food than the common or place in the life of the yard. Soon instruments. However some fat- Yet, on that very morning sent to your appointed place of garden variety of prisoners. he will be full of admiration for arsed RSL type seat warmer de­ when the man began work, a daily labor. At 5 pm you are In some yards these characters his crim superiors and the deeds cided that prisoners could too furore was developing in the local locked in your cell until morning. exercise a veritable reign of terror they have performed both in and easily string themselves up, or press following the statements of The routine is varied at weekends over the weaker crims. Once I out of jail. He will enthusiastically strangle screws with guitar strings. legislative council member Mich­ when you are either locked away interceded to stop a huge giant of join in the persecution of new So the practice was discontinued. ael Hodgeman on prisoner re­ in your “slot”, or left to aimlessly a “big shot” from further pound­ arrivals. All in all, what I saw in my habilitation. wander around the caged-in ex­ ing the already pulped face of But the biggest fraud about stay on Her Majesty’s Pleasure to These views outraged Tas­ ercise yard. On Sundays, if you are some runt who had transgressed this concrete mausoleum is the my mind makes a mockery of the mania’s reactionaries. Scandalised so inclined, you can go off to the the rules of the giant and his rehabilitative qualities it allegedly words of the reactionaries and ex POWs (wot never got it while prison chapel for half an hour to cobbers. This bashing went on possesses. With pride the stupid ALP prison-builders that “the in­ they were in Changi) and respect­ pray to the merciful God who under the very nose of the yard ignoramuses of politicians point mates have never had it so good” .

THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, October 23-29, 3 — Peg* 19 FLA SHPOINT T r ip a r ■wr JL ELL, the cholera chased the left is too strong. tering of rebellious, counter cul­ X X ilXj From W tourists away, the October They have a lot of trouble to ture youth, the newest wave rain chased the cholera away but keep us in line as it is. Not that (30,000 kids run away from home killed the Tuscan grapes (they they havent tried. There have every year). were the best in two decades - a been two attempted coups - one An industrial north and an tragedy). of them almost serious - put agricultural, depleted south which ANGELO QUATTROCCHI The production machine (Fiat together by the military and the sends three million people out to and Co.) thinks it can get away right, but in both cases they had work in Germany, Switzerland with only a few strikes this only lukewarm backing from the etc. (There are seven million “for­ autumn, and the consumption ma­ CIA. eign workers” in Europe, coming chine is gearing up for another They would, of course, step in from Greece, Turkey, Portugal, Christmas. We won’t have any if we went our traditional way: the south of Italy. They run the trouble with gasoline. For a dec­ occupation of the factories, work­ ade we have snuggled up to the assembly lines of all western ers councils and the establishment Europe, and live in ghettos. They arabs (we were the first to offer of a peoples government. Italy are the niggers on which industrial them a fifty fifty deal, undercut­ would be much more left and Europe was built. ting the Amerikan moguls, which much more determined than An internal migration of are called, here, the Seven Sisters). Chile. gigantic proportion is now almost It’s now ten years since the The left hare was sapped (as in completed. The countryside and CIA stepped in and killed Mattei, France) in the last decade by the the mountains of Italy have been the head of our very enterprising mellowing of the Communist emptied; centuries old agricultural gasoline industry, ENI, a mysteri­ party. It has become a mere structures have been smashed by ous plane crash. That stopped a watchdog of the working class; massive industrialisation and the projected pipeline that would they talk of a parliamentary road Common Market. have linked Trieste with the to socialism and murder every Ten million people have left USSR, but we’re still friends with wildcat strike that comes along. the countryside, the south, the the arabs, and still fighting the But the past five years have small villages and gone to swell Rome in Seven Sisters. Call it geopolitics. brought in a strong movement to A left journalist who was dig­ the monstrous outskirts of north­ the left of the Communist party ern towns. Pollution has been ging into Mattei’s death and find­ made up of students, young work­ rampant, and unchecked. In the ing skeletons in mafia cupboards ers and oldtime revolutionaries. summer, ten million tourists flock was killed a year ago. Lotta Continua (permanent in and smash what’s left of the old The Chilean ambassador to struggle) is the strongest group structure. Peking, Armando Uribe, has pro­ with a command of 50 to 100 Southern towns are potentially duced proof of a speech made by thousand militants, a daily paper explosive and have exploded often herr Kissinger in Chicago on Sep­ of the same name and a little bit in the past three years. Before the tember 15, 1970, ten days after of imagination; not much, but a cholera, there was a bread riot in Allende’s victory. Kissinger said, in little bit. Naples. a quasi-secret meeting: "What’s Believe it or not there are Whatever government we have happening in Chile is very serious, another two dailies left of the — we have a so called centre-left our companies in Chile are en­ left: Manifesto, which is a splinter now, with some good old fashion­ dangered, and the American gov­ group of ideological diehards, and ed socialists in - the people have ernment’s interests are endanger­ Liberazione, a counter culture a total mistrust for the power ed. It could lead to ominous daily. It’s the liveliest in terms of structure, a mistrust which is an­ things. Allende is probably a content, style and readership, cient, and more than justified by Moscow communist, and he’s representing the ragtag army of the corruption and the total in­ dangerous for our security; his counter culture youth. eptitude of the Byzantine ma­ example could be followed by * * * chine of power: the law, the other industrialised nations with a ITALY. You’ve got to imagine a schools, health system, local gov­ strong left, like Italy and France.” country which is both catholic ernment, land reform and town We'll see. and communist, with a rightwing planning, land speculation and One thing is certain: they have army and a well paid, murder­ pollution... done-in Greece, and Chile, but ous, bomb throwing fascist It’s a beautiful and squalid they can’t do us in. We are too fringe; a militant left, strong, country, and we have a starting industrialised, too big, and the lucid and determined; plus a smat­ p o in t. . .

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CCORDING to Nostradamus, phonograph. Except that there is a It probably doesnt mean anything The last chance for the world. The to anyone. But when they got married the ecologist, and those who world shortage of poly vinyl chloride Hare Krishnas are working overtime A (PVC), which are what discs at made of, 2583 sets of presents were received. out here. The little fella, Maharaj Ji is say sooth, we havent much time The king of Siam gave her a set of gold left to savor the dew which settles and a world shortage of paper, which is going to be at Dallas Brooks Hall in Vegemite what books are made of, and a world cups, circa 1770, the Catholic Welfare Melbourne giving a free concert, the on the concrete, or the soft wind which shortage of wire, which is what coat- Organisation of Melbourne gave her an Palestinian underground wants to whistles through the tall buildings. opal paperweight and food to be dist­ As Ross Wilson once so prophet­ hangers and barricades are made of. The bomb a school if Australia supports only thing there isnt a world shortage of ributed as the princess desired. Israel. Whitlam has taken the Pope’s ically noted, “We’ve all got to go,” Miss J. H. E. Kohler gave two in the which is a damn shame because I is world shortages line and hopes for an early settlement colored guest towels, the Flying Doctor while deploring the loss of life on bet we all had plans for the next And talking of discs and bells tolling Service of Australia presented a book, for whom, in 1947 the bells tolled for both sides. twenty years. All this talk of the Flying Doctor Calling, by E. Hill, some­ You know what it’s all about? apocalypse and the dropping of princess Elizabeth and lieutenant Mount- one gave her a cinema, Ms Alice Bredt hand batten, known far and wide as Phil, who All this business? Vegemite, that's candy wrappers on the street as if it sent recordings of a duet made by her what. It’s very rare overseas. There’s didnt matter. But times change, as after the king shogged off, became good self, a couple sent a recital recorded known as the Queen and prince Philip, a shop next to Australia House which Alwyn Kurts says during the Viscount by their son, the cast of the film The has it, and one in San Francisco. adverts, and it becomes increasingly for it was then they married. They’re Secret Lite of Walter Mi tty sent a gold is worth both doing their best to stave off the Vegemite is better than books, records harder to pollute concrete. charm brooch, the Hudson Bay Com­ apocalypse. and wire? and the Queen, Mao and Unperturbed by it all, President pany sent a beaver coat, and the General. the little fella want some of it and the Phil has come out for Lake Pedder Council of the Jewish Community of Whitlam is soon off to China to play Palestinians want some. and because of his regal influence, the Palestine sent a collection of “air more mah-jong with Mao Tse-tung, saddled When the junkies run out of drugs with a stud bull as the goodwill government said, well fuck the pension­ photographs” of the Holy Land. they shoot it up. It has mystical present. Either he’s deliberately ers and the high rise flats, let’s save She also got jewels, walking sticks, properties. It can stop the apocalypse. tempting fate, or he has never heard Lake Pedder so Reg Ansett can land suspender belts, handbags, towels from Armies could march on it. So if in the the story of the china shop. But that, his helicopter on it, in case the Yarra Mrs F. D. Roosevelt, with “E” mono- Gough takes a jar to Mao instead of as the expression has it, is his trip, al­ gets too turgid. All that after the Tas­ grammed on them, and loads of other a bull, and if Australia sends a jar though the bell may toll for all of us. manian Hydro-Electric Commission was things. Some people sent in specially to princess Anne as a wedding gift, Even when the hard rain starts planning to turn Tasmania into an composed sonnets, and of course the and if the little fella comes out for bush falling we can hang up the three-piece island dynamo. And the queen opening Country Women’s Association of Aust­ Vegemite it’ll be okay. suits, build barricades and sit in mud the Opera House, after 15 years, so that ralia turned in a nice wedding cake. Nostradamus was wrong. They brick comfort reading books and within that garrish bombshelter, culture I think she knows. Australia is where didnt have Vegemite in those days. listening to discs on the portable stereo may overcome class. it’s at.

CHEAP EATS ... a load of old tripe

HERE’S nothing elegant one onion, finely chopped, T about an empty belly as any­ one clove garlic, finely chop­ one who has gone hungry will ped or crushed with salt, know. If you have been so poor twenty ml oil, that you couldnt afford food then, sixty ml tomato puree (keep like the classic description of fox­ the rest deep frozen until needed), hunting, you become the unspeak­ half kilo fresh tomatoes, skin­ able in pursuit of the uneatable. ned and chopped or one can, But with the high cost of food whichever is cheaper, today, the problem for most peo­ one hundred and twentyfive ml ple is how to eat well on a red vino (or white; or one bacon minimum budget. In Sydney, yes­ stock cube dissolved in water), terday, onions were 39 cents a one bay leaf, half kilo and spuds about 20 cents twenty ml parsley, finely chop­ for the same quantity. ped, pinch of chopped fresh, or The art of eating well with powdered, marjoram and same of little money to spend is not orig­ thyme, inal. The finest cuisines in the grated rind of one or half world evolved from peasants who, lemon, if they could afford meat, could salt and pepper to taste, only buy the worst, which was as twenty ml capsicum (red or costly as gold, even in those days. green pepper) finely chopped. They had to learn how to use (Note: 20 ml is 1 tbsp, 125 ml tripe and how to convert the is half a cup. stringiest old fowl into fine food. Now saute onion and garlic in And to illustrate a point, I'll unless YOU tell them what you cm squares or strips about 2.5 x can be halved, but I’ve not tried oil, so slowly that they just be­ come transparent. Add tomato not hesitate to draw on recipes want. 7.5 cm. Put into a clean saucepan this yet.) puree and cook for one minute, from the best sources, wherever It’s the same with cooking and cover with cold water. Add The French, Italians, Portu­ stirring all the time. Remove from they might be. But I should add tripe. They dont know how to 40 ml vinegar or the juice of a guese and Spaniards can compete heat and add all other ingredients, now that I look for food which is prepare it properly, so dont both­ lemon, and some salt. for honors in the art of tripe cui­ and mix well. If consistency too finely flavored and has a delicious er asking. In the US (of course) 4. Poach as described above. Ifsine. My preference is the Italian dry, add a little water or more appearance. and Britain, they’ve tripe which you’re going to finish by cooking way, but before I can give a recipe, vino to give the sauce the con­ Which brings me to tripe. you can cook in twenty minutes. the tripe in a sauce, deduct the remember that tripe, if poached sistency of cream. Season with I could rave on for pages on The stuff here takes from two and time of final cooking from three until tender, drained and dried, salt and pepper and simmer 30 the history of the stuff, the dif­ a half to three and a half hours, and a half hours. can then be dipped in milk (or an minutes. Then add tripe and con­ ferent stomachs it can be made but you dont need much heat. (A Greek friend egg) and breadcrumbs (or stuffing tinue simmering for one and half from, and the different colors Once you get to 4 (below), and tells me that if mix) and fried and served with hours or until tripe is tender. obtainable where people are con­ have brought it to the boil, reduce you add to the fried onions, chips and anything noisseurs of tripe. But what’s the the heat so that the water surface poaching water Serve with boiled noodles, else; and garnished with a slice of spaghetti or new potatoes. Gar­ point? just ripples, and there’s an occa­ a cloth bag con­ lemon (or a few sprinkles of vin­ nish with grated cheese (I prefer If you can’t afford a good sional air-bubble breaking the taining charcoal, egar) and some parsley. butcher who can rescue and pro­ Parmesan) and sprigs of parsley. surface. This poaching works with the cooking time But here’s a recipe that should* cess the tripe you prefer from the I’ve served trippa alia Romana many tough meats, fish and veg­ cost you about one buck for four slaughterhouse (and charge etables, so remember it. It cuts to many an unsuspecting guest. people, not counting the veg or through the nose for such ex­ fuel costs and you can rarely And whenever I’ve served it, noodles. From Italy, I suggest pertise), then you’ve got to get overcook tripe. Once I let the everyone has come back for more. trippaalla Romana: what you can. In my book, this stuff cook all night and next They usually get bread to mop up means the cheapest and at pres­ morning, it was beautifully ten­ half kilo tripe, cut in fingers the sauce remaining! ent, in Sydney, tripe can be der, and hardly any of the water and cooked two hours, JOHN GOODE bought at 78 cents a kilo which had evaporated. must make it the cheapest waste- But to get down to basics, free meat. prepare tripe as follows and you But unlike Genoa in Italy, or shouldnt go wrong: Caen in France, where there are 1. Wash tripe in cold water triperies - butchers that sell noth­ under a running tap. Stand for ing else but tripe — butchers here about an hour in cold water, or know SFA about the tripe they less if you can’t spare the time. sell. The honeycomb (which has a 2. Blanch by covering the deep cellular surface on one side) tripe with cold salted water, bring is the best and they charge no to the boil quickly, allow to boil more for it; but they’ll try and rapidly for a minute or two, drain, fob you off with anything they’ve and wash again in cold water to got. They’ll even try to tell you remove fat and other loose sub­ that “blanket” (it has a woolly stances. looking surface) is the same thing, 3. Cut blanched tripe into five THE LIVING D A Y LIG H TS — October 23-29, 1973 — Page 23 O’Rourke’s Living Songbook Presents... WISH to publicly deny authorship of writers out there somewhere. DOUGIE YOUNG I the egregious tag “music is a journey WHERE ARE YOU? We have very few preconceptions and song is its highway” which appeared above about the kind of songs we want, except that my name in the first issue. This was written by they should be easily accessible to inexperienced a certain editor whose enthusiasm got the better musicians. of him. Music is actually a pork chop and song This song will be appearing on Graham’s new is its apple sauce. LP, Survival is a Song, which should be Send your own ideas on this subject any­ coming out before Christmas, and is also on where but to me, but do send in songs. This Jeannie Lewis’ Free Fall Through Featherless feature will probably be appearing fortnightly Flight, which should be out soon and will be from now on. If you can write musical notation, played in full on ABC radio’s Room to Move. that’s fine, but if not just send in a tape Remember that if you want to use this recorded at 3%. I know there are lots of song­ song professionally get in touch with Graham MIKE O’ROURKE

Troubadour Lowndes And...

Matilda Me Darling ountless drab middle class rebels The wanderer, Every(swag)man Cand snobs, as well as the right rests beneath the shade of a coola- wing Alf brigade, take great offence bah tree and puts on his tea. Being at the prospect of Waltzing Matilda a contemplative character, he sings becoming the official national anth­ into space a plaintive lament for em. The whole idea of an anthem his solitude, “Who’ll come a waltz­ is a wretched jingoistic hangover, ing matilda with me?” , which in a PHOTO: RODNEY MANNING but like it or not, the bulk of the broader sense can be taken as an His New Song population wants something soul­ invitation to everyone to desert the ful to tickle their sense of self rut of the familiar, the cautious, importance on Great Occasions. the conventional. So why not Waltzing Matilda? . . . a 'TILL TIME M s: While so philosophically engaged, deliriously exhilarating celebration a sheep comes down to drink at the of the drop-out, the loner, the billabong, another drifter from the wanderer, and his slashing victory common herd, perhaps compelled over the forces of crass commer­ by instinct to succor the meditative cialism and pig royalty. Waltzing swaggie, as lambs are symbolically Matilda is usually categorised as: wont to do. Naturally, it is expro­ “a song about a sheep stealer who priated by a hungry stomach for a is apprehended by police and com­ future contingency. mits suicide.” That this interpret­ Up comes the squatter, mounted ation has gained such wide currency on his thoroughbred, to assert his reveals the lingering impact of an property rights. A mindless, spoilt austere and cowardly worldview on landbaron, who historically spear­ our folk culture. headed the imposition of a suffo­ Waltzing Matilda is a fine song, cating class structure on this alien, not despite its lyrics, as is so often mysterious landscape. alleged, but because of them. Down come the troopers, one, two, three - jailers to Her Majesty, As a national anthem it apparent­ servants of a ruling coterie and ly stands disqualified, for neither kickers-in-the-pants of the down C- E7£&us4) E7 does it glorify butchery, like the and outsiders. Star Spangled Banner, nor is it a Rather than accept the chilling - t: i § sanctimonious dirge for the Queen, prospects ahead for a redhanded Empire and a chauvinistic God. sound And so we sViofe our com-wwi bond And ftjce Hie sheep stealer, even supposing it to Our hero is a jolly swagman; un­ be a first offence, our antihero named, a voluntary refugee from the springs into the billabong. I-mai? C- Q shrines of urban industry, cheerfully I think of it not as suicide (no wandering the countryside and sett­ evidence of a corpse) but as gentle E= rr It- • * rf.r ing a pattern of dislocation that has sorcery, a vanishing trick, whereby Hir-wi| Hiahsuf-founds Till Hme brings ckrnc^ Tit) h'me brintjs prevailed flamboyantly in the Aust­ he eludes the mundane Empire ralian consciousness ever since. If builders and merges into literature, G76ks4-) 07 we were to call him Leopold Bloom leaving only his ghost to taunt his COP YRIGH1 and place his meanderings in the pursuers and to remind us all of our context of a foetid, puritan city, right to our own individuality, both dwncje then you could line the road as a nation, and as ourselves. No, from here to Oodnadatta with Gough, not for state funerals, but Banjo Paterson PhD students. for national births. Page 24 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, October 23-29, 1973 Matt’s Mind Mix STRAIGHT AS A DIE. Matt personal history Brisbane to Taylor (Mushroom L34955) Beechworth is one of the few HIS IS essentially one man’s “songs”, as such, and the music look at the world, its prob­ rocks along in an easy lay back lems,T and himself. The one man is feel, largely due to the guitars of Matt Taylor. Greg Lawrie (whose impressive After fronting for Australian talents seeps through the album) Harrison: A panacea for insomnia rock-blues/blues-rock band Chain and Phil Manning . . . and then GEORGE HARRISON: Living in sought after panacea for insomnia. sweet memories of his spiritual for a number of years, he split to Taylor’s harmonica. the Material World (Apple PAS The album is not, in spite of idioverse (denoted by the falsetto- the country for a homespinning Throughout, with a couple of 10006). the bleatings of all the overseas on-sitar refrain) merely as a self- farm life to develop his life, exceptions, the musicians are used ITH the present quiescence reviews, a “conscious pop re­ conscious form of escapism. thoughts and music. The result is solely as backup players and in W of rock music that re­ ligious ceremony”: two of the Harrison's greatest handicap is an untanglable interwoven life/ this role they are brilliantly suc­ sembles the soporific state of pop numbers Sue Me, Sue You Blues his insistence at pseudo-intel- music mix that is this album. His cessful. Their playing is com­ immediately pre Beatles, it is not and Try Some, Buy Some date lectualism: the master of “heavy personal outpourings are delivered plementary, sympathetic and surprising that the alternate cul­ back two years when they were simplicity”, he manages to reflate in a voice of cultivated unpolished unobtrusive. The sensitivity they ture is pivoting on the Beatles recorded by Jesse Ed Davis and a voracious personal statement in­ rawness. exhibit, is probably due not only once again as its savior-in-arms. Ronnie Spector respectively. It to a PhD treatise on morality. On The lack of musical seduction to the fact that they are fine The four erstwhile constituents of merely appears to be a religious The Lord Loves the One (that somehow accents the personal musicians, but also because the group are the centre of hope­ concept because much of Harri­ Loves the Lord) it takes him nature of the material. They are they are old friends and playing ful expectations to give rock a son’s output is structured in that four whole minutes of ostenta­ his thoughts-songs, and I am cer­ partners. boost in the backpocket. vein. tious seraphism to communicate a tain he is the only person who Simple Decision is an embar­ Unfortunately Lennon has Neither can it be considered message that took Lennon- could deliver them effectively - rassingly cliched cosmic evolution been too involved in alternating “as personal and confessional a McCartney half a minute on The this makes him, his music and the realisation. We'll Never Do It between careers as a working class work as the first John Lennon End — the love that you take is album individually unique. Again is a witty little winner; it martyr and shareholder in the album”. Harrison's religious prod­ equal to the love that you make. The words — printed on the could have been written by (a) avant-garde to be of any use to ucts are not so much compunctive It’s such a cliche (especially side of a well presented McClaus- someone very stoned waking on a rock music. Ringo has neither the assertions of piety and dedication among Beatle followers) that sure­ land cover, so you can follow public holiday they forgot was potentiality nor the inclination; but pompous little sermons, a ly the song calculates as a con­ your own bounding ball - stress happening; (b) in the middle of a and it is painfully obvious from regular uncle Joseph wagging his sequential waste of time. the homespun nature of his nasty total strike; or (c) a S.F. McCartney’s Red Rose Speedway forefinger and smugly shaking his It is only when George forgets writing, rather than any lyrical/ look at future shock/reality. Take (which boasts only two tracks head in quizzical bewilderment at to remember his role as the Maha- poetical mastery. His material your pick. worthy of his capabilities) that the folly and immorality of man. rishi Yogi Chapter II content to travels from the intensely person­ Krishna Loves You is a per­ Paulie-poo still requires a little Additionally, the basic dis­ spew out solemn didactic and al to. simplistic philosophy to ceptive beauty, drawing parallels more self-discipline in his creative parity between the Lennon and moral Indian dirges and reverts to wry perception to obscure cliched for the Hares with the Salvos, efforts. And judging from Harri­ Harrison albums is that while being a rockanroll star that his cosmic consciousness. Christians and Lions and passing son’s latest venture, the last of the John deals with painfully human songwriting attains its zenith. If you play the album starting the church plate. He closes his great white hopes seems unable to qualities (jealousy, alienation) Stuff like Wah Wah, Something side one, track one, you will be offering with a happy little manifest the required stimulant Harrison is merely withdrawing and While My Guitar Gently greeted by the sound of Mother instrumental jig, featuring his either. into the polished fantasia of his Weeps are all essentially products Nature - the song, of course, not harmonica and a tabla player. Almost the most complex and religious didactics. of the western musical heritage the dear lady — a plaintive exam­ But dont take my word for it. problematic Beatle, Harrison’s In any case, I strongly suspect and it is for songs of this ilk that ination of ecology/society with a It’s worth listening to, just to lack of impressiveness and imag­ the intensity and authenticity of he will be remembered for. very simple answer sung in a make up your own mind. ination found him being over­ Harrison’s religious convictions Although Harrison is the most rather labored style. A piece of STUHAWK shadowed by Lennon-McCartney and supposed rejection of the industrious Beatle since the split, in every way. It was only when he material world. There has been, of he needs a band like the Beatles if climbed up the mountain with his course, the legend of his being the he is to survive in rock. His guru that he managed to create most money-conscious of the four inability in achieving any degree some kind of identity for himself; moptops, but on this LP he offers of consistency and disparity leads and thus, perhaps not surprisingly, even more vindication. On Who to his work running the gamut it has been an image he has clung Can See It he arrogantly demands from excellency to nauseating me­ to with embarrassing tenacity. It his dues, while his admitting on diocrity all within an album. Over­ has been the perpetuation of this the title track to being hopelessly all this is an unambitious and guru image that has made Living engulfed in the material world disappointing album. in the Material World the long reveals his employment of the CHRISTIE ELIEZER

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After closing time at 8 by CHRIS HECTOR Dada, Surrealism and on to Andy interested in performing are in­ McLaren and some of McLaren’s pm on Tuesday nights the library Warhol et al. Produced by Sydney vited to come for free. films, October 25 at 7.45, State becomes a drop-in place for young man, Rod Weatherall. TIMESTREAM POETRY Film Centre, 1 Macarthur St, East people — to listen to music, drink Don’t knash your teeth there’s MAGAZINE and TIMESTREAM Melbourne. Orged by the Associ­ coffee and TALK. still time, pick up pen and write: CASSETTES (w hich may be ation of Teachers of Film Appre­ The whole thing started be­ Radio Features Department, ABC, bought or hired from the co-op ciation; if you want to go ring cause there are no places for Box 487 Sydney, 2001; explain library) are available from the Dawn Brown on 347.3833, ext. teenagers to get together and talk that you were visiting a sick aunt, Timestream Media Centre. The 17. during the week. The kids run could they please repeat. The pub­ magazine is available in several Shell-shocked males recovering things themselves with branch li­ licity man’s promised to give us shops in Sydney, Melbourne and from last week’s Jealousy piece, brarian Heather Lacey and other warning if “ The Surrealist Dream” Brisbane: subscription, three is­ help is at hand: “ A group of men young library people around to is on again. sues posted fo r a do llar. is getting together in the eastern keep the urn boiling and lock up While you’re at it have a listen Timestream cassettes cover suburbs of Melbourne to try and afterwards (about 10 pm). Rugs to “The March of the Common poetry readings, experimental hoist each other out of their male and hurricane lamps make the M an” a BBC series, on Sunday music, programs on social ques­ sex-role stereotypes using tech­ place cosy in winter. The kids are nights. tions by such people as lllich and niques of the Women’s Liberation planning to move to the beach in In Sydney: TIMESTREAM Nader etc. and is open to tape consciousness raising groups. summer. MEDIA CENTRE, 217 Common­ contributions from people who The things are open-ended and Storytelling in Greek, Italian wealth St., Surry Hills: “The send in for the current catalogue. the members will guide the and Turkish, Coburg childrens li­ Centre has been established to p ro ­ The Timestream Cassette Co­ group's strategy. Those interested brary, Town Hall, Bell St., Co­ vide access to the media fo r the op Library joining fee is three may contact Peter (870.3929) or burg. Three after-school story­ people. The Centre includes an dollars which enables you to bor­ Brian (227.5503). telling sessions will be held in the office and film/tape/print/editing row four cassettes consecutively Whilst on the subject: if your library on consecutive Mondays room and a cinema/performance and get a two dollar refund when erstw hile happy home has been starting on October 29. space which is otherwise used as a the last cassette is returned. rent asunder by Hoyland’s heart- Storytellers will be Greek, Ital­ coffee shop and gallery area. The Lights Experimental 8 mm barings it might be interesting to ian and Turkish high school stu­ "A t the moment a 16 mm film Film Workshop will be meeting at collect a few thoughts/ reactions/ dents and local residents who will workshop is being run where the TIMESTREAM Media Centre traumas on paper and post them schoolkids are making films which in the cinema/coffee house space in to TLD — that way we get THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, October 23-29, 1973 - Page 25 on the album is printed in this pedal steel to his repertoire and is tell stories which they have trans­ Dave taking the treble notes, own. issue o f TLD and is written by touring with Slim Dusty. lated themselves into their native Gerry heavy bass, always threa ten­ The tapes go on for five hours: GRAHAM LOWNDES. Dusty has been moving musi­ languages. For in fo ring Susan ing to double time, compelling Peggy Deroesman, Terry Hanigan, rhythms building up harmonies, Colin Campbell, Colin Dryden, Graham is due out on an album cally ever since he toured with the Shore, 350.1611, ext. 38. Survival’s a Song. (See O’Rourke * * * overtones of Crosby, Stills, etc. Chris Duffy, Doug Parkinson, New Zealand bluegrass group, The in this issue.) Hamilton Country Band, and it OUT of the folk clubs into your but getting stronger, more their Marrion Henderson. They are all own. there, writing their own songs, One of the big breaks for the will be interesting to see what ears . . . effect Chris will have. Big concert Went round to see Mike Eves in They've been joined by third matured, beautifully arranged and emergence of this group were the scheduled for Melbourne early Sydney to check the fo lk scene. guitarist, Jim Jervis. Mike's tape waiting to take off. And there are three live-to-air concerts on Chris people there, like Mike Eves, who november. He first surfaced as a traditional recorded after they've been to­ W in te r’s Room to Move about can sympathetically record them. English singer and accordion play­ gether three short weeks. two months ago. Lowndes and If McClelland lives up to his The music has grown from its er o f note. Since then M ike has First take. A medieval ballad, Lewis starred and another folk promises and rules for 50 percent origins, it’s now no longer sym- made a name recording musicians three guitars, weaving, stately, music legend, songwriter Bob Australian content on the air in his basement/mini recording great . . . moving on to a blues patico with the folk club set-up, Hudson, caught the eye of the waves these people are going to it’s looking for an outlet and an studio — recording the changes on cum spiritual, very hard, rocky, Willessee octopus and signed up make up the nucleus of an emerg­ audience. Jeannie Lewis, who is the folk scene as it’s diversified some of the vocals shaky but for a national show with Paul ence the like of which occurred in one of this group of musicians and widened. coming together. (Dave, Gerry Hogan. Canada after their 50 percent rul­ who have learnt their craft on the Bank of mikes in front, one and Jim are playing fairly regular­ One other legendary figure ing. wall the sea grass m atting crawls ly at Mike Eve’s Folk Club in the folk scene, has started to show the w h o is breaking o u t is Chris D u f­ Instead of Leonard Cohen, up to the ceiling, egg cartons on Elizabeth Hotel, Elizabeth St., way. Moving towards a more the­ fy. Duffy living in Paddo, practis­ Gordon Lightfoot, and Joni the other walls, two gigantic Sydney.) atrical, concert setting, using ing 15 hours a day, instrument Mitchell, read AL HEAD all those speakers, two tape decks in the What GJ&D have done, and mime and dancers, to create total after instrument, BLUEGRASS, above and a dozen or more others what the other musicians associ­ effect. COUNTRY and WESTERN and who are about to come of age. corner. ★ ★ ★ First tape: Gerry Gillespie, ated with Mike recording have Recently the recording studios POP. Who put down a tape with Dave White and Jim Jervis. Gerry done is to take the idiom, vo­ have become more interested. M ike Eves? THAT’S all folks, keep dem let­ and Dave I've heard around for a cabulary and grammar of a dozen Jeannie Lew is has an album , Free Duffy playing guitar, autoharp, ters coming. Memo to certain pub­ couple of years — playing in folk or more folk traditions and make Fall Through Featherless Flight, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, and elec­ licity persons: Thanks for the clubs, at festivals, in pubs. Playing them their own — moving easily coming out on EMI. CHRIS WIN­ tric bass, singing lead and the concert tour handouts, send the together at the last Melbourne and unself-consciously from one TER is rumored to be playing it harmonies, all overdubbed, all TICKETS with them next time festivals. idiom to another, evolving their soon, one of the songs she sings Duffy. Duffy has now added and you just might get a plug.

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