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Vol.l No.l October 16-22 .1973 Plough In The Crap And Plant The Seeds IKE, presumably, many breakthroughs and utopian possi­ Lof our readers, we believe Get Marx high and ask Buddha bilities before us. that the existing social struc­ This is not meant self-important- ture is dramatically inadequate ly. The Living Daylights is a modest what he will do when the' proposal. In everyday terms, it boils to our desires. down to . . . ho hum yet another But criticism comes easily and, weekly newspaper. Just another as well as poke at the flesh of the developers come to bulldoze missile in the great media assault. present, The Living Daylights wants Early warning: We do not guarantee to evolve a vision of the future. We ______his banyan tree______a weekly sensation. So why bother? invite you to This paper is not b^ing launched Despite the presumption of our to inculcate an appetite for ludi­ advertising department, this paper Because we believe that we can crous consumer products. The Liv­ is not aimed at the youth market unite a variety of unconventional ing Daylights is not a soap opera of (hardly, at your age — ad manager) ideas about the meaning of the weekly news, as so defined by a nor any other predefined clique of mysterious fabric of life as it exists man with a green eye shade who gullible malcontents. today in 1973, and our place within shouts stop press whenever a politi- In truth, we don’t know with it, both as individuals with soul and opens his mouth or model exactness what shape the paper will as Australians living in a country take. Part of its personality will be ravaged by a riot of idiotic and moulded through spontaneous in­ unnecessary hazards, mainly the re­ terplay with our readers. sult of greed and habit. In mundane actuality, The Liv­ Repressed and insular attitudes ing Daylights is little more than a are being increasingly challenged by few people in a room opening the thousands of committed and active mail. We have a hungry curiosity people, both within the dimensions about the world around and an of their own consciousness and in erratic optimism in the ideological the execution of their influence on social events. We plan to monitor, reflect and pursue this drama. p a g e 3 ' 1 [THE ARMY OF THE RARE UGGER the war, this is what life that the police should no longer use the returns to Australia’s shores later this month is really all about: In a period of BEATING UP THE system of “agent provocateurs” because it for a further donation of watches, is believed internationalB crisis it was pleasing to WEEK’S NEWS involved the men in blue in “morally degrad­ not to be carrying either cans of petrol or note that the real interest of the Aus­ ing behavior”. However, the report made no machine guns to persuade unbelievers to mention of Anglican vicars and boy scouts. tralian public centred around the set of embrace the true faith. nude photographs of a young lady * * * THE heterosexual boozer is up the ditch and a dog which appeared in a Mel­ LET them eat chemicals: The University of anyway: Dr Gordon Baker told the confer­ bourne newspaper. The young lady, Sydney has announced that it is developing a who is believed to have won an obscure ence of the Royal Australian College of Physicians in Melbourne that the hairy chest­ single cell protein for uses in animal food, and primitive tribal competition known ed, hard drinking symbol of Australian man­ which after a trial, will be upgraded for human consumption. Justifying this act of as the Miss Australia Quest, which its hood was gambling with his masculinity and bastardry, Dr D. G. MacLellan, of the uni­ sponsors claim benefits cripples who losing. Men whose drinking habits caused versity’s department of chemical engineering, should be rightly helped by any think­ cirrhosis o f the liver could find that their hastened to add that it would never replace ing government, is distraught and suing. hormone balance was being upset. This led steak and eggs in the Australian diet. It was to larger breasts and smaller balls. Now we Her mother is sedated, the photog­ just an alternative food. rapher unrepentant. Claims that the know why they don't like women in public dog has taken refuge in Queensland bars. are believed to be wildly inaccurate. WELL let them eat bloody locusts then: BRING back the press gang: Mr A. G. W. Immature locusts in bands of up to two miles fied system of issuing visas to tourists coming Keys, national secretary of the RSL, told the wide are infesting land and invading home­ NEXT WEEK we bomb Peking: Some 40 to Australia because of international tensions senate committee on foreign affairs and de­ steads over a wide area near Broken Hill in foolish Labor politicians, who are under the and difficulties “in certain areas”. That will fence that the time had passed when a New South Wales. delusion that their party was elected to a make sure the bloody wogs stay home and country could be defended by an army of position of power last year, have signed a fight it out. volunteers. “The principle of volunteerism is protest petition over Australia’s recognition an outmoded concept, both militarily and LET them eat nothing: A Victorian Country of Chile. In answer to this, a middle class morally. It is unfortunate that the govern­ party politician, sitting within the federal gentleman called Mr Whitlam will shortly pull GERALD who? (an old joke revisited): The ment repealed the National Service Act in­ parliament, said the Labor government’s so­ off his rubber mask, reveal himself as Ivan the god of the western world has nominated a stead of suspending it by administrative cial welfare commission was wicked because it Terrible, restore trade with Rhodesia, support gentleman known as Gerald Ford to play the action,” he said. It is understood that Mr was nothing more than more or less a “giant Portugal in Africa and tell South Africa that recently vacated role of John the Baptist. Mr Keys is above the age limit should national government machine with gigantic economic unless its sporting teams are all white they Ford in a brilliant and witty acceptance service be reintroduced once again. From this strength”. The man who made the charge, Mr will not be admitted to this country. speech said, “I am extremely grateful and stems his courage in the face of any enemy. R. Holten, said what was needed was not * * * terribly humble." The last player of this bit government help for the poor and afflicted, part, one Spiro T. Agnew, whose head was but an upgrading of the functions and facil­ THE END of the affair: Despite threatened resting on a plate outside the White House, JUST in case you’d forgotten that other war: ities of voluntary bodies who could do jobs help from the United States Israeli prime said not one word. A three year old girl narrowly missed being no government could do. Unfortunately most I minister, Ms Golda Meir announced she was * * * burnt alive when Belfast gunmen doused her voluntary bodies made people pray before prepared to go to a negotiating table without LET'S hear it for a loving God: The ethics with petrol and then set alight the cafe she they get their handout. any preconditions to end the current Middle was patronising with her grandmother. Such East scuffle. Her statement may have had and social questions committee of the Angli­ can church has continued in the grand nation­ action by Christ’s true followers showed that something to do with the fact that, for the such gentlemen as the Perfect Master, Guru HE'S alive and well and living in a Newcastle first time in recorded history, the Egyptians al tradition of poofter bashing by releasing a report stating that militant homosexuals Maharaj Ji, otherwise called by his followers state dockyard: A man who claimed to have look like winning. threaten the institution of marriage and of His Sublime Altitude, are really not so bad been an aide to the late Adolf Hitler has * * * society itself. Other choice items from the after all. The greatest crime that can be laid at been ordered by the crown employees appeal THE Americans may be arming the yids, but report include the statement that homosex­ the doorstep of the Perfect Master is a little board to be reinstated as a foreman at the we are doing our bit: The minister for uals’ actions should never be legalised, that all misunderstanding about gold watches on his Newcastle state dockyard. Early this year, the immigration, Mr A1 Grassby, has told federal poofs should abstain from homosexual acts return to mother India after a journey man, Bruno Koch, said he had helped to bum parliament that he has suspended the simpli- and try to “sexually reorient” themselves and through the United States. The Master, who the great dictator’s body. sgsaasgssasssgsasj ill .. ? '■ ' :■> :#£: W m M - ....

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Page 2, THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, October 16-22, 1973 The Living Daylights is published every Tuesday The name, The Living by Incorporated Newsagencies Company Pty Ltd at Daylights, with an 113 Rosslyn Street, West Melbourne, Victoria. You can appalling flourish of write to us c/- PO Box 5312 BB, GPO Melbourne, Victoria 3001. nepotism, is taken Telephone (03) 329.0700, Telex AA32403. EDITORIAL: Terence Maher, from the title of a Richard Neville, Laurel Olszewski, Michael Morris. BUSINESS: Robin Howells. nthcom ing book by Jill Neville to be pub­ ADVERTISING: Robert Burns (MELBOURNE); Stan Locke (SYDNEY (02) 2123104. lished by Weidenfeld & DISTRIBUTION: VICTORIA: David Syme & Co. Ltd. Telephone 60.0421; NSW: Allan Nicolson (London) Rodney Wright. Telephone 357.2588; A.C.T: Canberra City Newsagency. Telephone 48.6914 in May, 1 974 Q’LAND: Gordon & Gotch. Telephone 28.8044; STH AUST.: Brian Fuller. Telephone 45.9812; TAS­ MANIA: Mercury Newspaper. Telephone 34.4511. crap and seeds continued... As for oppression — whether economic or cultural — But all explorations must be bound by a matrix of It will take time for the plot to thicken. Stick social realities and we look for a fusion of psychic sailors around and watch and contribute and order The we will pounce on it wherever we can, but not in a flurry of faded slogans borrowed from our dead comrades’ fights and swashbuckling politicos to contribute to creating a Living Daylights every week. A new newspaper vision of tomorrow, as well as furnishing the tools to for Survival. . . let us confine past dogmas to the trashcan should offer some explanation for its intrusion execute its occurrence. As we said, give Marx a joint and of history and dream up new dance steps for the great into an already crowded and bloated market place. ask Buddha what he’s going to tell the tree executioners. cosmic carnival to come. So what follows is a jumble of words as clues to ESSENTIAL TECHNOLOGY. Who can contain their Every morning we wake up to the here-and-now. In our preconceptions and prejudices, for hardcore curiosity of new inventions and today's technological our society a socialist proposal is generally more lib- catapulting? Besides the boost in productivity and the consumption only. No inflated claims of original­ eratory and progressive than a non socialist one, so here’s ity are being made. Sensible and discriminating potential elimination of drudgery, new technology lends two cheers for the red flag. But never forget that state itself to miniaturisation which can help in the move away readers are warmly advised to skip it and flick the capitalism is no more fun than Canberra on a Sunday and from gargantuan metropolises to smaller, freer and more page. the last thing we want is a union official telling us to human communities. A steel mill for instance, which once tighten our belts for the next five year plan and that gobbled up hundreds of acres, can these days churn it out There must be some way spontaneous outbreaks of freedom will henceforth be in a backyard. Technology is apolitical and can be crushed as ruthlessly as were the betrayed sailors of organised in any way we so desire, although old patterns Kronstadt in 1921, the molotov cocktail mixers of outa here die hard. Hungary in '56 and the mini revisionists of Czecho­ The CSIRO is beside itself with glee over the potential Put crudely, there are three choices available. slovakia in '68. of solar energy, a clean, free, unlimited and thus ONE: Recognise the system for what it is and join it. We reject absolutely the concept of a revolutionary libertarian fuel. They dream of harnessing the Simpson Gather ye rosebuds while ye may to build a fortress of party and all other structural parallels to the society we Desert and selling votes to America; another environment waterbeds, weekenders and quadraphonic swimming are supposed to be leaving behind. Students, surfers, rape, the same old conquistador capitalist attitude to pools. CHOICE TWO: Kickback. This can mean taking to aboriginals, housewives, children, dropouts, derelicts and nature. The real virtue of solar energy, is its capacity for the streets, mastering dates they didn’t teach you at drifters all form subcultures of their own, transcending efficient decentralisation. A stove with Alfoil umbrella school, attending meetings, immersing yourself in the notions of class. Even Mr Average Aussie, when he’s gives free clean fuel for the rest of your life. A commune class struggle and backing whichever radical political honest with himself, gads about in a kind of benign in the sun can thrive, even storing excess energy in solar organisation seems most likely to succeed without tiring. stupor, thinking there must be more to life then Wrest batteries for rainy days. Amongst the mountains of CHOICE THREE - and this is bowling ’em over like Point, Roselands and Valium. hardware junk, there are machines which can provide the ninepins. Render the system as irrelevant as possible by This is not to demean the demands of workers. The bread and hot water of tomorrow. White coated gadget setting out upon one’s own search for inner tranquillity, issues raised by the June Ford riot at Broadmeadows men, send us your visionary blueprints. which can involve drugs, music, sacred texts, meditation, . . . the all women work-in at the fabric factory at Whyalla hitting the road, guru hunting, body disciplines, brown ... the Sydney BLF’s guerrilla green bans against the rice and so on until one can ultimately squeeze the trigger predatory junta of developers . . . are all among the most on a profound personal mystical experience. important and advanced of Australia’s industrial history. Of these paths, we suppose many of us stagger along Many and varied are the sections of society cracking and one, lose our way, drift awhile, discover another, meander groaning under the pressure of the great GNP hoax and a some more, play some old time dance music, truck truck new disorder must guarantee freedom to all. Fuck truck along yet another trail which is ill lit, deceptively dictatorships . .. by the proletariat or anyone else. charted and probably around the bend. While recognising the right of everyone to choose their own alternatives, The Living Daylights states up front that Isn’t OM all you need? it rejects socialism, liberalism and mysticism as absolute NO. But some of the best minds of our generation are credos while reserving our right to add to our inter­ coming up with ways to explore the universe of inner self pretation of the universe a dash of any or all three at will. and we remain open minded, indeed excited, by the new We have a philosophy, the sinews of which will become Sky labs of the Psyche. Quick to ridicule the prevailing clearer as the weeks roll by, but fear not that it will spiritual hunger are intellectuals, their own spirit numbed inhibit the diversity and variety of comment within these by years of immersion in the expedient doctrines of pages. Rather, it will sustain it. empiricism, rationality and objectivity. Ironically, the The Red Ploughman, a Russian anarchist poster, a source most influential contemporary pioneers of the new No more Bolshevik bullshit mysticism are all defectors from the shrine of academic of inspiration methodology — Carlos Castaneda, John C. Lilly, Richard Happily, The Living Daylights is not a member of the Alpert and poor mad Timothy Leary. Marxist-Leninist Preservation Society. We have many Down on the farm friends and allies who pay dues and we tip our hat to the However unpalatable it may seem to the classic mind, astral displays of analytic brilliance. Yet, the cumbrous the fact is this. Since the mid 60s, hundreds and thou­ Perhaps it will all seem hilarious in 20 years, kids from mechanical edifices of these Victorian economists, in the sands of intelligent, curious, sensitive young people in Maroubra and Carlton passing joints around transient face of today’s dreams and realities, come crashing to the the Western world have tripped out on LSD and/or rooms, learning about lantana, agistment and dog tick; ground. Who wants to be born in a state run collective other hallucinogenic drugs. A proportion of these people asking is it true that money grows on avocados. Farmers (who knows how many?) have testified to experiencing a with a shovel in their mouth? How grim to be cast in a are no longer regarded as hick, especially if flexible sombre role of a “glorious” Russian lathe operator, whose profound mystical phenomenon, which drives them to a mechanisation can take much of the toil out of tilling. As big brother is merely a Nixon without a free press. Let’s calm frenzy of spiritual exploration, often altering their Murray Bookchin observes in his ‘post scarcity anarchism’ not get lost in the nightmares of the dead generations. whole way of life and personality, sometimes sending the tractor is a beautiful, versatile piece of modern man The Living Daylights will not be struggling for the bloody them a bit loco, sometimes really cooling them out, and servant, practically a robot, an exemplary chunk of trade-in of one boring, hierarchical, centralised bureauc­ always leaving them aching for something more. liberated technology. That hunger, that spiritual hunger, which used to be racy for another. Diversity, balance and variety are the key words of a We hereby declare that the 19th century pseudo called religion, is every bit as valid a revolutionary instinct healthy ecosystem and political system. Only by society scientific working model of the world, the mainstay of as the physical, painful hunger which drove the peasants pluralising, breaking down into affinity groups, with socialist theory, became fully obsolete in 1945 when J. of China to rise up against all those thousands of years of people united by common interests, aspirations and classical Confucian stayputism, and to swell the ranks of Presper Eckert Jnr and John B. Mauchly unveiled ENIAC affections, with complete and absolute power over their ,' at the University of Pennsylvania to reveal the world’s Mao's magnificent Red army — an army, incidentally, own lives — and no desire for power over others — only first digital computer based on electronic impulses. From which was truly heroic and whose epic deeds and then will the government be defanged and the experi- that moment the West began its blind climb to the brink innovations dwarf anything ever screened by Hollywood. of life become a constant joy and journey of celebration (How delighted we are to be born in the month of the of plenitude. For the first time in history it became and self-fulfillment. possible to conceive a rational future of the world 40th anniversary of the Long March, as well as a few A journey of a thousand miles must begin with one premised on the abolition of scarcity. The reign of the other October historical highlights, not to mention the step, and the election of Whitlam & Co can be regarded as work ethic is over. Today’s revolutionary demand is full Eureka Stockade.) a little lean in the right direction. Still, it is an illusion to unemployment, for those who want it. The right to work However, the revolutionary army of today does not assume that man has any political muscle in present becomes the right to hang loose. march on its stomach pains, for the area of anguish in society. The idea that the casting of a vote represents a modern civilisation — for non minority groups — has choice, that such is a meaningful exercise of political IN AUSTRALIA IN 1973, ANYONE WHO WORKS IS moved from the belly to the brain. Thousands of judgment, that it in any way involves an individual in his EITHER A FOOL, OPPRESSED OR BELIEVES IN Westerners are searching for new levels of consciousness. private future, is sadly absurd, a tragic illusion of our Some of the voyagers seem to have travelled very high THEIR JOB. time. Party politics is the opium of the people. Only indeed, charting new areas of hope, of satori, of an face-to-face communal political interplay has any sanity immense and profound high, which is irresistibly interest­ and significance. Meanwhile, let’s all enjoy the passing ing to anyone who has ever dropped a bit of dope. We parade. don’t think it necessarily inevitable that all branches of So bringing it all back home, we love to watch Kung the New Mysticism will end in a great cosmic jerk. Fu, to disinter elegant Cole Porter and running wild The nagging danger is that it will all end in a grand among the pinball machines. A monastery is for fanatics, crescendo of catatonia, an egocentric indifference to our feet are of the clay of everyday, and we want to have everyday reality, an absolute abandoning of responsibility fun with tne present, so as not to bequeath a future of to anything outside one's own precious Self. Many of the dank totalitarianism. (Although who cannot but be harbingers of spiritual enlightenment follow the great saddened by the current overdose of nostalgia — the tradition of the Indian snake oil salesmen, especially you standard retreat from the challenge of the present.) may think, that 15 year old cherubic Guru Maharaj Ji, The Living Daylights has not had a rehearsal. The staff who’s usually to be found at customs arguing over got together for the first time four weeks ago. We’re wide suitcases bursting with money, jewellery and gold teeth. open, let’s all make it up as we go along, forgive us our And yet the Divine Light Mission grows quicker than eclecticism and lead us not into sectarianism (and deliver Holiday Magic, seemingly providing a blissed out buzz to us to your door every Tuesday) . . . we are aiming directly a fascinatingly diverse cast of radiant converts. If the and flamboyantly at a readership of open minds . . . wel­ Divine Light Mission was a public company and this paper come aboard. the Financial Review, we would recommend a share purchase. RICHARD NEVILLE, THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, October 16-22, 1973, Page 3 BENNELONG’S REVENGE

The first of a weekly series of pages by Martin Sharp

Page 4 ,THE LIVING DAY LIGHTS, October 16-22, 1973 Rumbling Round Redfem

GRANT EVANS Sydney’s Redfern is ast Saturday week was finals Australia’s most L day for the Koori rugby teams. On Friday night aborigine infamous black ghetto rugby players down from the northwest and up from the south coast of New South Wales gather­ ed at the Empress pub in Redfern. At about 9.55 pm 50 people HORRIBLE Harry Gumboot were gathered on the footpath will be a regular contributor to outside the hotel when a fight The Living Daylights. We have never met broke out between two aborigin­ him, but judging from a few sample columns es. Two Redfern detectives who and his letters to this office, he is not were cruising past stopped and someone to take out to dinner — even if he offered to pay, which he wouldn’t. This grabbed the two brawlers. As they week’s rave is about kids, in future issues: got them back to the police car a Waltzing Matilda, pot rot . . . bottle came flying out of the crowd, hitting the car. One of the Ds pursued the guy who threw I am 29 years old, travelled and childless, with many the bottle into the pub where the friends, few responsibilities and an inflated sense of curiosity. crowd promptly set upon him and Most of my approximate peer group are proud parents and threw him out. Under a rain of I cannot understand why. For all their pretty curly locks and bottles he retreated back to his corduroy romper suits, today's young kid is a nasty, slimy, car, followed by a hail of bottles, titty tattling, sugar addicted, soiled bundle of rapacious ego and called for help. and untrammeled greed. Whether the solo offspring of a bright Within five minutes 20 cops upper middle class roaming twosome or a brood from the had arrived. Two cops who arrived earthier, lumpen pseudo hippie proletariat, kids are still being in a mini hopped out with their emotionally suffocated, overfed, overindulged and above all batons at the ready. No sooner owned. Mums: pass your kids around more. (Infanticide is were they out when two flagon impractical.) bottles caved in their windscreen. For anyone alive and not depressed by ritualistic domestic­ The police waded into the ity, nothing is more oppressive than to be visited by an old crowd trying to arrest people who Suburban blackness: Digging in friend with new child. My first law of kidology is that it is were throwing things. A fight be­ some 200 drinkers flooded out on four people as they tried to get to impossible to have an intelligible conversation with an adult gan in the middle of the street as to the street, making the size of the Redfem railway station. human being in the presence of a child (vice versa usually police attempted to drag people the crowd safer to pelt the cops. Twentyfour people were arrest­ applies). from the Empress side of the road Police cars and wagons kept ed in all and they fronted at the Women turn dopey from the third month of pregnancy, to the other where the paddy arriving with lights flashing and Redfern court next morning and are interested in little apart from the oncoming cliche and wagons were parked. Police were sirens wailing and by this time where surprisingly most got off sitting on lavatories. being dragged down and some of about 60 cops were on the spot. their charges or received relatively Such are the social mores of our time, that in kid company one must usually conceal one's distaste, turning a blind eye to the blacks already arrested escap­ The stage was set for a major fight light fines. The blacks feel the the spilt ice cream and a deaf ear to the nagging, ceaseless ed from the paddy wagons. . .. but the crowd started to slow­ cops arent too happy with the Meanwhile, somebody turned ly disperse. The police hussled whole affair. Future developments interruptions. Any registration of hostility is greeted with defiance and even the most broadminded parents are resentful off the lights in the hotel and stragglers and arrested another are expected . . . of any reaction to their progeny except flattery. In more civilised climes children look after each other. AVAILABLE NOW!!! They disappear in groups early in the morning and are from the Publishers of: responsible for each other in the logical pecking order of age "The Complete Guide to 8 PAQE AGE GOCKS group. Growing Marihuana". Melbourne’s friendliest pop & counter-culture bookshop. Lots of new stuff As a result they are open, loving and above all loved. In from overseas: MASTER OF MIDDLE EARTH, Paul Kocher’s masterly some Asian communities, parents never hit a child and study of the achievement of J. R. R. 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THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, October 16-22, 1973, Page 5 Goats Music Head O’Rourke’s Living Songbook Soup HIS is intended to be a regular feature of to life. But if you are a pro it would be nice to get nlike most performers, you T The Living Daylights. Public airing of in touch with its creator and ask his permission. don’t listen to the Stones, contemporary song is rare. So we intend to print youU absorb them, and enjoyment John Crowle is a Melbourne singer of country and songs from as many Australian songwriters as grows with familiarity. possible, both established and unknown, with a original songs. He can be heard at Frank Traynor’s On first hearing Goat's Head Soup is strong bias towards songs that are both easily on Thursday nights and weekends. a disappointment — the tracks seem to readable for non musicians accessible to inexperi­ If you write songs send some in to me. Music is a merge together, suspiciously alike. enced musicians. journey and song is its highway. Angie, the current single from the LP, follows directly in this mood. A Here’s a song cut into strips and dried; bring it MIKE O’ROURKE rather anguished Jagger, with strings rising and falling predictably behind him pleads the case for the ending of X ■SUGAR MPiUA •T'tW V an affair. But with a tenderness usually unassociated with the Stones and some fix ./ j p c D G/ f » beautifully tasteful piano from Nicky Bo rapes ’em *------2 Hopkins, it proves itself an effective ft and moving ballad after the initial KNEW it was going to be c e L r r r * r shock wears off. It is a rather surprising I one of those incredibly © choice as a single, far from their usual memorable nights. The prawn cut­ 0 V/elI it's mj bi/r-rimy life's (im-biLior, to fenud kind o f a o o - cl- wall of sound type rocker, but then lets that followed the Chinese E i A n G Jagger is obviously not blind to the roast pork were a gastronomical selling point in the current English masterpiece. rumor involving he and wife Bianca in I washed the complete delight down n H i some sort of superstar swapping deal ------^ w ------with a late September orange juice, and with David and Angie Bowie. It is H\ a sugar mam - a I W f~ bo s e c . flat warm coke for my mandrax dessert probably his rumor ...... After various pickings and choos­ D G G / f* In fact, Mick and the boys are rarely ings, I asserted mandrax would be the blind to a selling point. The Stones are only acceptable drug to see Bo Diddley T not billed as “The Greatest Live Rock on. The quantity was the only variable £ r r r r and Roll Band in the World” after all to be decided. £/ n ig h t 1 k*Af> looking a - b o u t c.au$e mg wion-cy's run-rung these years for nothing. Years ago, We were a little late in arriving, I when Van Morrison sang Gloria with could tell this not only by my watch, E i A t / D g G T) Them, he was accused of aping Jagger. but by hearing the sounds of a loud Now it is Jagger who unashamedly band some distance (like a mile) from turns the tables and borrows from the barn. e Morrison’s distinctive vocal delivery in Khavas Jute. The man making the a r i the way Astral Weeks Morrison-like o u t cud I w«nr h© hve life, in Jt/X" 1/ - r'y most noise was of course the lead Winter on side two. guitarist. Someone must have told him 'm 1 One of the few rockers on this they were looking for an Australian album, Silver Train recalls Exile on successor to J. Hendrix. It is my sad Mainstreet with its driving roaring duty to inform him he failed the r r r r ! r sound. The Stones have often effective­ audition. The audience didn’t seem to ly used a cluttered over produced mind, which was lucky as the band also Some-where, in tin is greet big Town surely most be a woman for me. sound to achieve excitement and it is backed Jeff St John and Mr Diddley. unfortunate that on this track the same After smashing his way through innum­ G ______£ G effect buries some great rock and roll erable cliches he announced to a dis­ piano from road manager and some­ appointed crowd and a relieved me j* \ r..r r f-j-fiLT r jj time pianist, Ian Stewart. The track that they had to finish. sugtr morn-a listen to mg I don't care How much seems to suffer because the aim has Jeff St John. Long had I awaited been to consciously produce a Stones the moment to see Jeff in glitter, as per B-1 song, rather than a well balanced song. his announcement some months ago, The final track, with its purified but it was the same old Jeff in his same r r r r title Star Star is the real star of the old wheel chair, doing a few new 1 1 BE album. The Stones have written their numbers that still sounded like the ^ money you’ve, got I any it s a lot baby that's e-nough Sugar rnom-a own Little Queenie, complete with the same old Jeff. He roused the crowd to unforgettable chorus line Star fucker some sort of excitement with a revised star fucker star fucker star, a fitting treatment of his last minor record D ______G = 8 * & J p * - Gehtni uith an jn bg*5. tribute to the ladies of the road. It success — Teach Me How To Fly. rocks along from its opening Keith Intermission. Nothing of interest so (t \ 3 r r C O P YtV & H r 1913 , JOHN CRoWLE Richard (with thanks to Chuck Berry) straight into Bo. don't let me. down guitar riff, and is outrageous in the way Bo Diddley of Brown Eyed Hand­ only the Stones dare or care to be. It some Man, Mona, Bo Diddley song Well it's m y burning life's ambition There’s a girl living up the street I’m no simple country boy contagiously recalls the Stones of old fame and his bomdebomdebom de To form a kind of a coalition And boys, she’s got it sweet I know I can bring you joy with their bad boy lyrics and Chuck bombom beat. Accompanied by With a sugar mama I've yet to see She won’t work for a living any more All you got to do is take me home Berry beat, and alone it makes the Cookie Vee instead of his sister the Every night I keep looking about Now she ain’t n o hypochondriac So if you’re here tonight album worth owning. It would have Duchess and a maracas man, Diddley Cause my money’s running out But she lies down on her back Just give a wave, it’ll be alright made a glorious single, but our air kicked and split and rocked and bop­ And I want to live my life in luxury Keeping the wolf away from the door Why go home alone in your limousine? waves censors would disagree. ped and jived and fastshuffled his way through some jive raps, and the above Chorus: Each year the Stones put out an Cause it’s m y burning life's ambition mentioned bom de etc. Somewhere in this great big town Sometimes in my dreams album for their fans, and each year To form a kind of coalition Probably the most complete male Surely must be a woman for me I groan, take away those beans their fans buy it. Buy this one, listen to With a sugar mama I’ve yet to see chauvinist performer I’ve ever witness­ Sugar mama, listen to my song Bring me some of that ham right off it, and you won't be disappointed. The Every night I keep looking about raucous aggression associated with pre­ ed, the crowd who had paid loved I don’t care how much money you’ve the bone Cause my money’s running out got Roast turkey would be fine vious albums is notably absent, but in every minute. His personality apart, so And I want to live my life in luxury. did I. Long as it’s a lot, baby that's enough Oh, any old time its place we have a star rocker. Sugar mama, don’t let me down. So would some strawberries and cream. CHORUS MARGARET MACINTYRE STU HAWK RECORDS

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HERE’S something to be way artless and childlike, but that attempt at rock festival theatre, The Great T said for getting things done is also its fascination. and some general outdoor stuff in in a hurry, before the flash dis­ The Conspiracy of Fun, which the car park at La Mama. Stumble appears. Considering that flashes is what the Stumbles politics All that has become notorious­ move at the speed of light you seems to be about, contrasts di­ ly successful, and somehow rele­ have to be quick to catch the rectly with the other street the­ gated to the Old Days. Now many simultaneous ones of a lot of atre things that have happened in of the same people are into the people. Melbourne before. The APG idea of a professional theatre, The Great Stumble Forward, a plays, Mr Big, The Pot & Peace whose politics is involved in how Kids on Sunday new group of actors and musicians Miracle Show, Dr Karl’s Kure, people’s lives are affected by in Melbourne is a case of a flash were all didactic and politically where they work. An UnAlienated arvo playing with some whose time had arrived. The peo­ motivated. The Stumbles politics Theatre, if you like. ple involved are from Tribe, is not obvious in the content of older troupers and it’s a lot of fun Skyhooks, APG, the Digger, the their work, but more in the way Whatever the strains and inter­ and games... says Anarchists. They are all what you they work. personal difficulties involved, and GARRIE HUTCHINSON might call experienced performers Not that one is better than the whatever the result in so-called it’s a revolution that will take over the world in the fringe theatre, and they other, it’s merely that the condi­ “artistic” terms, the experiment have incredible fantasies, simple tions of doing street theatre, in that the APG is conducting is one and effective performances and Melbourne at least, have changed of the most important in the they’ve only been going a month considerably as have the people current Australian spectrum. It (in the flesh). involved. probably is in worldwide terms as Among the fantasies that will When the original groups of well, but I don’t know enough to probably come true are The China people got together around La say. Fantasy and the Three Bus Fanta­ Mama in 1968-70 there was an Other people, Tribe in particu­ sy: The China Fantasy involves ongoing, it seemed, movement in­ lar are into a kind of less formal going over there and performing volved with anti-imperialism, uni­ version of the same thing. A com­ in the Celestial City and for the versity reform, workers control munal kind of theatre. Tribe has people all around the country, and so on. If one was a radical/ always been the least pretentious travelling by horse and cart, and revolutionary and also a theatre of groups, the least formal, and acting like a group of minstrels, person, then one had somehow to maybe the most fun. Rarely do troubadors and acrobats. fit the two together. they become over serious in their Having just seen the Kwang- The result was, on the one work or themselves. But they chow Acrobats, I’m sure it’s pos­ hand, the attempt by writers like should be taken seriously, now in sible. Romeril and Hibberd to delineate the manifestation of The Great The difference I suppose is in what the Australian consciousness Stumble Forward. levels of skill and in levels of was all about ... to investigate They deserve it because the intention. The Kwangchows do the mythic structure of language need for a large number of people things that are impossible. I say and actions of ordinary blokes. to be around demonstrating that that advisedly having seen them On the other hand there was a things are not as bad as they seem, do it, but there must be some­ sort of runthrough of agitational that other kinds of relationships thing in what they eat or read that theatre methods, mainly by the are possible, that another kind of ordinary people don’t get. Like actors. There were factory tours, lifestyle is possible, is so self having a guy balance a 25 foot street theatre at moratoriums, an evident as to be largely ignored. bamboo pole on his shoulder, with two people doing stuff at the top. Or juggling a table with the feet. Or six people doing hand­ stands of chairs balanced at an Dear Record Buyer angle. And so on. Well perhaps these feats aren’t It's obvious to anyone that has eyes that there are a number of import impossible. Maybe they’re just shops now operating in Australia — what is also obvious is that they all magical. Gravity defying. The have the same stock — this is chiefly because they specialise in getting the Stumbles can’t to those things, latest to you first and good luck to them. Our shop is a little different — but they also operate on a magical we like to get the latest first too heaven knows but we also like to cater for level, and emphasise the physical the minority record buyer, the one who finds himself unable to buy the side of performance. records of his choice m ainly because they are not released in Australia. Tw o In a recent performance, Stum­ fields almost completely overlooked in Australia are those of Jazz and Soul. Our shop has the largest and best range of these two im portant kinds bles In The Park, all they did was of music in Australia and most importantly the knowledge to back up that string together a heap of nursery stock. We keep regular supply of such artists as Gato Barbieri, the Jazz rhymes, and sing a few songs. The Composers Orchestra, Alice Coltrane, Weather Report, Roland Kirk, Chick atmosphere they created though, Corea, Archie Shepp and many other lesser known Jazz musicians. We keep was, as they say, theatrical. It was regular stocks of Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, O'Jays, Barry White, also simple, funny, and involving Chi-Lites, Willie Hutch, 4 Tops, Inez Foxx and all the artists on Motown, — especially for the kids there. Stax, Volt, Enterprise etc etc. If you see a soul record or a jazz record Perhaps it was the nice spring reviewed in this magazine chances are we'll already have it in stock or have day, with sunshine, trees, grass, it on the way. We are also distributors for Australia of the ECM and JCOA record labels. So you see we're not just interested in flogging off a few and a heap of people sitting 'Goats Head Soups' we are interested in giving you, the collector and fan, around digging whatever went on. the best service and selection possible. Why not call in and see us at 5 Or maybe it was the graphic way Manchester Lane (next Dendy Collins St), Melbourne 63.5507 or write to the images of the childhood Box 5159AA GPO Melbourne. If we haven’t got what you want we'll get it stories were physicalised and act­ fo r you! ed out. One wouldn’t want to put too much on it ... it would be easy to go on about the psychology of ARCHIE & simple theatre, or how to exploit archetypes for the child. Certainly the style of theatre the Stumbles JUGHEADS go in for has a very old and honorable tradition. Commedia, the Everyman plays, the Wake­ RECORDS field and other cycle plays, and the record shop for the serious collector — where knowledge waits. the jugglers, conjurers and so on of the medieval period. It is in a THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, October 16-22, 1973, Page 7 lift-out A horrible war has erupted in Melbourne between forces of darkness and light. It is ugly and bloody, and people are being savagely maimed and dismembered. HRIS HECTOR gets badly involved. Pics by RODNEY MANNING

The Peoples Army Fights For You! ND REMEMBER you’re all lian), King Curtis, Mario Milano some sort of excuse for wearing it members of the People’s and Chief Billy White Wolf. but I dont like to see this sort of Army - and they’re right in there They’re our boys - the PEO­ brutality creeping into the sport fighting for you. THE PEOPLE’S PLE’S ARMY. ...” Lord Layton, you get to ARMY, YOUR ARMY fighting Now on the other side of the meet him later.) Von Erich’s got a f o r y o u ... four square ring of life we have crewcut and a dinky little tooth­ jv- '- Big Bad John and his MERCEN­ brush mo. 's this, early Sunday in Mel- ARY ARMY. Big Bad John is one His mate is the Great Tojo; and out of the box in a thorough heavy ("My folks Tojo is a great big fat Japanese yeU, some amazing mao- thought I’d make a preacher gentleman, allegedly an ex-sumo wrestler; he wears the uniform of — man’’.). He wears a mirror-finish Steel helmet; on the back the Imperial Forces of Nippon 9, 4>0 m in khaki combat jacket, an and his daddy’s kamikaze scarf. Lately, however, Tojo has been I , I L cross; ab«qve1a.-§uper bold iter Jack Little, George”Wa$aee south- holidaying in the land of the to w l’n sneer. y^Ac-'V. cherry blossom. Rumor has it that cm one side backed by his fascisti bud- he returns shortly in company , led by Waldo Von Erich, wh<* with another even fatter, nastier Greek, mad wears, so help me, a swastika on nip. arms, Mark his helmet, jackboots, Hitler jodh Meantime (sorry if this is get­ help from the purs, and the BLACK GLOVED s’s wheels, lev­ Ayub (who’s FIST. (“I dont like ~ ities in this an Austra­ ladies and gentle:

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dy has been the even grosser in the ring Waldo’s got in on want to say, you people of Mel­ Abdullah the Butcher (“ the savage the act, he’s got the Sheik down bourne are who we’re fighting for from Sudan”). He doesnt wear on the canvas pounding at his - we’re fighting our guts out for much except his gut and a pair of forehead with the BLACKGLOV- you and all we say is back us up, white jama pants, but he grins EDFIST and the blood’s starting be part of us, be part of the evil. Another mercenary recruit is to pour down his face. Everyone people, because we are the people, the semi epileptic Tiger Singh is covered with the claret by now. we are you, we’re every national­ (“champion of India, master of Flash, it’s all over. Twenty ity, we’re everything on this earth the dreaded cobra hold” ). He falls minutes on the clock, the forces that you represent and stand for, down on his knees at random of Big Bad John beat a retreat. and no filthy mongrels like Big intervals and waves his arms up Spiros, King and Mark Lewin Bad John and his two execution­ and down in esoteric manner. (where’d he come from?) are left ers Waldo Von Erich and Adullah They get occasional help from in the ring, tending the Sheik: the Butcher are going to stand in Black Jack Slade, the French “He’s blind ladies and gentlemen, the way of the truth, and the legionnaire, and a couple of others could you make a path for the truth you’11 find within us, so back who are really small beer. Sheik, he’s blind.” The Sheik’s us up this weekend because we’re The War of Liberation has had forgotten this; he looked a trifle going to fight like mad to hold on its ups and downs. By dint of damp but otherwise OK a second to what is the truth and what we much breaking of the rules and ago; suddenly he lurches blindly, all believe in. So Spiros, this week­ underhand tactics the mercenaries arms shoot helplessly out, the end we’re going to make the word have had their share of wins, but crowd parts, the Sheik escorted by M . . . ” (Mark Lewin). when the bell goes at the end, it’s the front rank of the PEOPLE’S “John, turn your wild stallions been THE PEOPLE’S ARMY out ARMY... loose. You want our belts, come there in front... for you. Coming home the reactions are and get them, but it will take I could go on with the politics mixed. I’m excited, it’s working more than one axe from you bit; there was a real turnup recent­ on some funny reality, suspension executioners to take our belt, our ly with the last minute defection of disbelief, unreality/reality kick name, and the people’s faith, the of Killer Karl Kox, but maybe that I havent figured out but faith of the People’s Army away Mad Dog Brower (“Brower Pow­ ... Rodney’s not saying much, from us.” Then in Greek (Spiros er”) will tip the scales. But he got talking about the pics. Meg seems Arion). done last week. (Flash! Some guy disturbed, much more disturbed SUNDAY morning, Manning’s recently on the radio, advertising than I can dig. I find the violence run out of film AGAIN. Quick at the Royal Melbourne Show, the exciting but ritualised, much less tour of Melbourne’s early opener Acapulco High Divers, I kid you affecting than, say, movie violence. chemists, arrive late, there’s 40 not, and it’s a mick radio station. Meg’s talking about two young people outside the studio, locked Acapulco High: what kind of side­ girls in front of her: at the height out; a padlock and a chain on the shows they had this year?) of the fight they turn round to steel gate. Sign reads, “Wrestling

* * * her, how can you watch, how, spectators here”. Some are drift­ they ask. Turning from the ring ing off home to watch on the TV; SATURDAY NIGHT. Festival they start hitting each other. a couple of young Greeks climb Hall, Mr Little has arranged for But didnt you dig the crowd at the fence, bravado fails, climb ringside seats. Just say you’re with the end; they were happy not back a bit embarrassed. Jack and ask for Paul Jennings. violent, purged laughing; they I phone in to the studio, help, What kind of crowd? Very mi­ didnt/did believe that the blood outside doing story, publicity, grant, poor, lots of family groups, was real; they knew that it wasnt huh. She takes pity, the gateman lots of kids, lots of middle aged but not while it was happening. assists. Jack Little, the studio, the mums and dads, losers, a few Two really beautiful little Greek floodlights,' cameras, the whole spooked out loners (supporters of boys, in neat little grey suits and bit. Manning, by some deviousness, the mercenaries perhaps). clip on bow ties; they’re holding has beaten me there and is dashing It’s the first time I’ve been in hands and swinging gaily along in about adding strobes to the arc Festival Hall when it’s not been front of their papa, firing away in lights. full of freaks - no patchouli, no elfish Greek. Every now and then Jim Barnett: “Hello, what’s it shit, no beads, no beards, no I recognise a wrestler’s name; to be, a hatchet job?” It’s a bit leather gear. Coles’ sweetscent they’re happy, not disturbed, a high, a bit whiney, a bit drawn. brilliantine, Hoadley's Polly- twentieth century passion play? “No”, I say, truthfully, “it has waffles, Colvan chips, Peter’s dix­ Punch and Judy? The valid work­ levels of awareness that greatly ies. ing class art form? For mine, I’ve interest me.” We discourse on the The first fights are slow, drack, not seen one single stage play ethnic overtones of the affair lots of groans, pulled punches, that’s got so far into its audience. (which discussion has been re­ stumble kicks, pregnant silences So if Shakespeare wrote bits produced above): I inquire as to when they run out of ideas. Two for the pit patrons to boo and the origin of the People’s Army 17 stone columns of flesh wrap­ throw pop bottles at where’s that and the current quasi maoist over­ ped around each other and they leave the wrestling? (Digression: tones of his medium. Jim’s a bit forget what to do next... Wrestling and ethnic group integra­ hesitant “Yes, I know, it’s Jack’s The crowd’s not all that inter­ tion. One thing that fascinates me idea really, I’m not sure, I mean ested. Local boy Johnny Grey about the telly wrestling; it’s the to say, that was Mao Tse-tung’s gets a few moving (“ Kill him amount of time they spend dis­ army wasnt it, and I mean... some Johnny, KILL, KILL, KILL” cussing nationality and the con­ people might be offended.” I re­ ... she’s about 27, a bit drained), cept of being an Australian. For mind him that the stance of the but it’s the stars they’re waiting starters, there’s the traditional vil­ new government is somewhat for. THE WAR. lains of Australian xenophobia - more cordial in the direction of Flash, and it’s all happening. A the hun and the jap; the bad the yellow menace. “I know it’s four man tag team match: Big Bad southerner is an interesting new right on the pulse of Melbourne’s The other thing about the telly all so confusing, you dont know John, Abdullah the Butcher versus twist. But more than the trad re­ migrant communities, and he’s wrestling is the amount of time where you are." King Curtis and Spiros the Golden viling of the ethnic outs there’s ready to quote statistical break­ they give to playacting between Is there any peculiarity about etc, refereed by the Sheik. They the public acceptance of the downs. His latest discovery is that the bouts. Barnett concedes that Australian audiences that marks dont even get in the ring; action ethnic ins - the Greeks, the Ital­ Melbourne has some 50,000 the “interviews” are as important them off on the international explodes up the aisles; the blood ians, and the Lebanese.) Yugoslavs. "Did you know that? a part of the show as the “ac­ scene so to speak. “Well, they like flows; King Curtis horribly cover­ John threatens to beat Spiro so Next week I’m going to the States tion”. These interviews take the big men, BIG MEN, great big men. ed with some scarlet fluid; a chair bad that he’ll pack his bags and go to look for a Yugoslav.” form of a series of elaborate and If dat’s what the public wants comes down on Spiros’ head home. Spiro is indignant: “I am I point out that the Yugoslav ornate threats delivered by the dat’s what little Jim gives them .” ,...A KNIFE! A KNIFE! Tiger an Australian, my son he was born community is not what you’d call personnel of the opposing sides. Jim Barnett is a trissy little Singh’s got into the act some­ here, he is an Australian and I’m all sweetness and light and that he “You people of Melbourne. I chap, about five two, balding, where, he’s got a knife (well, Australian too.” (Almost to a man may well have certain Croat versus want you to know there is hatred blond hair brushed over the bald maybe a nail file); one real gen­ the Festival Hall audience rises to Slav conflicts, not to mention the and the hatred that’s brewing spot, floppy bow tie, hands clasp­ uine little old - very old - lady. its feet for gorsave; surely the patronage of the Ustashi. “Yeah, I within the souls of myself and ed over a neat little paunch. She’s screaming, trying to jab the only loyalist audience in Mel­ know it’s such a problem. I had a Spiros and King Curtis, that's get­ What’s the wrestling got going for Butcher with her Wrestling News. bourne.) Spiro repeats the rave in guy but he was the wrong lot, I ting so violent that there’s a word it? “Well, it was Aristotle, or was These guys really do have class, Greek, the Sheik comes on: while think we need a Tito man.” that starts with M and it might it Sophocles? No, Aristotle who it’s movement all the time, they’re Lebanese, he’s “proud to call him­ Tito or Pavelic, for my book happen this weekend. There’s no defined the elements of tragedy as using a multidimensional space, self an Australian”. He delivers a Barnett is way behind the eight German and there’s no African flux of fortune and pity or fear and how. It’s total theatre and the rave in Arabic. ball. I just don’t want to be within that’s going to take our title belts for the protagonist.” audience is right there with them. * * * fallout distance the night Big Bad and take them back to Germany Jim, it appears, graduated from TOTAL INVOLVEMENT scream­ NEXT MORNING I’m talking to John and the People’s Army set or Africa or anyone else on this Harvard with a master of arts in ing, on their chairs, in there, promoter Jim Barnett. Jim is foot in the Balkan hinterlands. earth is going to stop us. I just literature. He’s been a wrestling Page 10, THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, October 16-22,1973 “I promised my mother and I’ll promise anyone else that I’m going to try and be better, and have people like me ...”

promoter for 24 years: with him Mark Lewin, when he regained is the pallid Lord Layton, heir consciousness, still thinking Kox a apparent to the King, Jack Little. villain, shaped up to beat him (When Jack walks through the around the head and shoulders. stadium the people reach out to The chorus, read crowd, inter­ touch the earthy roughness of his vene: “No Mark, No, it was thine tweed sports coat.) own cause he fought, good Kox Jack is apparently bowing out the erstwhile killer.” of the show, fading away, which is The next morning the wrestling absurd. Jack is a sprightly 198, he world was agape; all attention has exactly the right manic focused on the great KOX desperation to contribute to the KONTROVERSY. What dark overall atmosphere. Jack BE­ deeds afoot, would this be the LIEVES, Jack FEELS. He is the break the People’s Army has been whole compulsive mad real bit. waiting for? Back to Lord Layton, who is “Look at the look on Mark cardboard wooden static, but he Lewin’s face, he can’t believe it, and Barnett are by now furiously he can’t believe it, he is amazed, denying that the blood spilt in the absolutely amazed ... he can’t ring is anything but authentic red believe i t ... (Jack Little). blooded, saleable for 30 rupees a Lord Layton: “I think the only pint in Nepal, Wood. person who can give an explana­ “Why” , says Jim, “when I tion of his actions is the Killer started my very first show on himself, and we welcome you Australian television, the very back on this program, and you first, and one of the boys breaks a certainly provided wrestling fans tooth in the first round and with an unexpected thrill, how there’s blood everywhere and the did it come about?” station manager calls me in and Killer Karl Kox: “It’s really says, dont you ever use pellets hard to explain how this came again oh one of my shows. Pellets! about, I dont like to stick my I didnt even know what a pellet nose into someone else’s business. was.” I dont like anyone interferring in Layton says one; interesting my matches, but last june 18 I thing. In his opinion it is the real lost someone who was very close character of the man that mani­ to me and who I loved dearly. She fests itself in the ring. A man's had a long battle with cancer and true self writ large. He, Lord anyone who knows anything Layton, with his coronation robes about cancer knows how people and courtly hauteur; this was the suffer when they have this terrible real Lord Layton, or Athol. disease and I happened to be at bedside — it was my mother — and I happened to be at bedside I GET one chance to talk to a when she died.” “Very sad in­ wrestler, Mark Lewin, on the next deed” (Layton). Saturday night. Mark is a real nice “She died with her hand in my guy, very friendly, very helpful, hand and her last request to me and laying down one of the sweet­ was to please not go through life est (if a trifle obvious) snow jobs any more and have people hate for quite some time. “Yes, I like you and hurt you like you have wrestling, it’s a great sport, great been. Now when your mother people, great athletes. It’s a great says something like this to you, town, Melbourne . . . the best well you know that she means it wrestlers in the world. I just want from the bottom of her heart. I’ve to keep on going till my boy - had my family threatened quite he’s ten now - gets old enough to often. join me in the ring, one of the “My family has suffered due to great father and son teams. Wrestl­ the way that I’ve acted in the ring, ing’s a great character builder; and the way I’ve acted out of the when I’m in the ring I fight as I ring. The things that I’ve done best know how, but when you see through life I’m sort of ashamed tactics used like the tactics of Big of, and when your mother is Bad John and Waldo it just makes dying and asks you to change my blood boil. I go out there your way of life, what else can because I believe in what I’m you do. I promised her faithfully. doing, in the truth. If the people It was one of the last things she know that you’re out there doing ever heard. I would try and your best for them, they’re right change my life. And go through behind you, it's a great feeling It life to make things better than they had been. So, as far as inter­ “Thanks very much, nice meet­ fering with Mark Lewin in his ing you Mark Lewin.” “Drop match, I got into town early to see, round anytime you want a chat.” what’s going on around here. I My next and only other brush dont approve of the war bit, I dont with the secret inner and real life approve of a lot of things that I of the wrestler is the following have done, and if any way, any­ week when a young lady of my time that I wrestle, appear before acquaintance travelled on the very these cameras, anything I’ve ever same great silver bird bound from said or done to insult anyone out Sydney to Melbourne; the very there I wish to apologise right same plane as Abdullah the Butch­ now. er himself, who, with American “I am changing my ways not accent and wrap-around shades, for Mark Lewin or anyone else, proffered a drink and a line. The but for my mother who is dead, a girl declined his advances, so miss­ man who can’t do that is not Kox: “It’s no secret that Lewin beat in. But I promised my should return the $1500 that he ing a unique experience. much of a man I say. He’s just got and I didnt like each other. It’s no mother and I’ll promise anyone advanced for the Killer’s air fare. The next Saturday night in to back off and take a look in the secret at all, everybody knows else that I’m going to sort of try And don’t forget this Saturday Festival Hall, Killer Karl Kox - mirror and take stock of himself that. We’ve had some vicious to be better, and have people like night at Festival Hall there are hitherto darkest villain vile - in an and ask what the hell he’s been brawls in the past and I’ve got a me, it’s up to Mark now, if he THREE WARS! THREE BAT­ unprecedented move defected doing all these years.” lot of respect for the man and I trusts me we'll go on with this TLEFIELDS. In the first battle­ from the forces of Big Bad John Mark Lewin: “I’ve never trust­ will most certainly do my best. thing. I think we’ll be a great field Bulldog Brower and Abdul­ and entered the ring to deliver the ed Karl Kox for one minute and I’m not going to lay my fate in team.” lah the Butcher teaming together BRAIN BUSTER to Abdullah right now I’m trying to believe in anyone’s hands. I’m not going to Big Bad John is unmoved and to go in against Mark Lewin and who was in the process of beating you as being a man who’ll try to change my style because I’m not is currently claiming breach of Killer Karl Kox. . . Mark Lewin unconscious. help weight the scales.” going to go out and have my head contract and demanding that Kox THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, October 16-22, 1973, Page 11

JEALOUSY- The injured lover’s private hell, the tyrant of the mind

'M LYING in bed on my nor the confidence nor the in­ I own. My wife is sleeping clination to do so. with another man. I am imagining, Then she joined womens libera­ with painful realism, what they tion and started fighting back. are doing together. I find it hard Politics suddenly entered our to get to sleep ... home, and our life became a daily, This is happening with my sometimes frenzied battle. I was agreement For the past year or so always a bit late in understanding my wife and I have discussed it all. Sure, the idea of womens "unfaithfulness”. We agreed that equality was right, but this wasnt no matter how good our relation­ what we were arguing about. She ship was, it was absurd to believe was being hysterical, she was find­ that all our emotional and sexual ing excuses for her inadequacies, needs could be met exclusively by she was more interested in stop­ each other for our entire lives. ping me from. enjoying my life Parts of us were not finding ex­ than in starting to enjoy hers. pression. Living together in the But gradually it began to get same house, bringing up the kids, through. I took a parttime job so constantly submerged in the daily that die could also work, and we paraphernalia of family life - all could share the upbringing of the these things built up resentments, children and other domestic petty hostilities, routine, bore­ duties. I found I didnt mind it too dom, dependence, as fast as they much after all. What’s more, I solidified our relationship and un­ realised that Sally’s independence, derstanding of each other, as fast so far at least, was the opposite of as they strengthened certain un­ being a threat to me. She began to derlying bonds between us. So we come alive again, she became agreed that if one or the other of stimulating to live with instead of us developed a relationship with merely a frustrated appendage of someone else it might be good not me. Our understanding of our­ only for us personally, but also, in selves and each other developed. the long run, for our future to­ We reached the point where we In the flurry of a new found freedom, female soul gether. felt that if either of us “took a We also agreed that it was more lover”, it would not be such a baring has become familiar. Men continue to bluff important that it should happen catastrophe after all. We felt that or remain silent. Here JOHN HOYLAND in a to Sally, my wife, rather than to our relationship was strong me (in die first instance, at least). enough to adapt to such a situa­ remarkable piece of self surgery reveals what When we got married (eight years tion, and even possibly come out ago) our relationship had followed of it better. But if we did not happened when his wife took him at his the usual pattern. want to repeat the previous pat­ liberated word. I became rather disappointed tern of our relationship, it would in her. She had seemed such an have to be her first. years and not had any expression it seems fine. We all get on to­ to her own separate existence. interesting and passionate girl Then, a couple of months ago, at all. This is, to say the least, gether, we laugh and talk, there And while I can accept this ration­ when I married her, and now she she met Chris, and they’ve been hard to take, the more so because seems no problem. But under­ ally, the practical business of didnt seem to bother about life. sleeping together several times a it has meant our sex life has neath I am in turmoil. I am adjusting to it is acutely difficult. When my friends came round week ever since, and it’s a passion­ pretty well come to a full stop. silently screaming that I can’t It is difficult for her to make the (I assumed without thinking about ate experience for both of them — On Sally’s side this is because she cope, that I can’t take it, that any emotional switches from Chris to it that my friends would also be as passionate as it was with me is still too involved in the newness minute I’ll crack up completely. me and back - and at the same hers, and didn’t notice that she and Sally at the beginning. of her relationship with Chris to Sally knows how I feel, and it time to preserve her own sense of didnt really have any friends of And, of course, I’m jealous. be able to parcel out her emotions just makes things worse. She’s herself as a person with space to her own) it was sometimes as if Naive sucker that I am, I never as she would like. well aware of the desperation of breathe in. she wasnt there at all. And when expected this pain. I never expect­ Already, in many ways, our my need for her, she’s fully con­ One of the hardest things in it came to going to bed, as often ed this unceasing ache and empti­ relationship has improved rather scious of my desire for her and this situation is to work out ex­ as not she was too tired to do ness, these explosions into almost than deteriorated. The petty re­ my insecurity and misery. Yet the actly where the problems really anything at all. delirious anguish. I never expected sentments and hostilities have vir­ very strength of these emotions stem from. Which of them are due We argued about this. I accused I would feel so crushed, so left tually disappeared, we are talking pushes her away from me. It feels to my personality, which are due her of not being interested in my out, so insecure, so inadequate, so about many things that we have like an invasion of her personality to Sally’s, which are due to needs. She said that when I start­ lonely, so paranoid. been unable to discuss before, to her. She wants space, she wants Chris’s? Which of them stem from ed treating her like a lover, she But why? Is it really such a parts of us that have been sup­ ’to get away, she wants to cut the fact that Sally and I live in a might respond like one. So I naive question? What is this emo­ pressed are coming out into the herself off and obliterate herself house with our children, while from the demands I am making on fantasised about the girls in the tion that means the more some­ open again. Chris has recently broken up with sexy magazines, and lusted after her. She still loves me, otherwise his family, and is currently with­ body I love is happy the more Yet, I’m bitterly unhappy. She in one sense there would be less of the girls I met at parties or stared out a base of any kind? And miserable I feel? She is more comes home in the morning, a problem for her. But our rela­ at in the street, and on a couple of confident, more fulfilled, more kisses me, puts her arms round which of the difficulties stem tionship has become rather un­ from the basic relationship struc­ occasions had one-night encoun­ herself than I ever remember - me. It seems fine, the warmth is natural. ters with other women. When I and I hate it. Why? perfectly genuine, I am only too I also have to face the fact that tures of our western society? Be­ told her about them (because our Partly, and most obviously, her pleased to be kissed and reassured my relationship with Sally will cause the more I think about it, relationship was still the kind present gain is my present loss. by her. But underneath, we feel never be the same again - certain­ the more I’m convinced that there where we didnt hide such things Nearly all her sexual and emotion­ self-conscious, we arent quite ly not if she continues to see are other factors involved - that from each other) she was bitterly al energy is going out to Chris, not gelling, there’s a gap. Then Chris Chris, and probably not even if my jealousy is not simply that of resentful. “Why dont you do the me - including a helluva lot of comes round too, and the three of she breaks with him. In a very a rejected husband but has to do same?” I asked. She replied that sexual and emotional energy us do the kids, or eat a meal crucial way she has established her with many other things besides. she had neither the opportunity that’s become bottled up over the together, or go to the pub. Again, independence from me, her right One of these things is the

•age 14, THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, October 16-22, 1973 Members of the gay liberation movement see unity and organisation as the most potent means of breaking from the stigma difference between the attitudes that one person and two children world. Once upon a time work of men and women to sex. When in an isolated little box called a and society were exalted at the of straightness. Some homosexuals women are jealous it seems to me home — inevitably gives rise to expense of pleasure. Now pleasure that they generally react by going possessiveness. itself has become exalted as the however, have found gay lib to be just cold on their partners. Men, on If I feel I have “lost” Sally, carrot which will make us behave another structure, goosestepping over the other hand, are likely to re­ then I have lost her, in part at and go on working. The market spond with vastly increased least, as a possession. I do not has extended to our bedrooms, to the individual. SASHA SOLDATOW says ... ardor, with a desperate need for own her, she does not own me. If the innermost comers of our per­ sexual reassurance, to know that we can both adjust to this new sonal lives. they too are virile and desirable situation, and accept it and handle Women in particular are sub­ and “good” at fucking. it, then it is something to be ject to a massive onslaught of All sorts of things can get in celebrated, not lamented. The commercialisation of their bodies, the way of sex, including psychol­ problem is not actually one of with whole industries devoted to ogical hang-ups and external loss, so much as the difficulty of providing them with stereotyped ...Out Of The things like the legacy of years of balancing out autonomy. images of their sexuality and their routine, of being tired, or having Her exercise of freedom in worth as people. But for me, too, the kids lying ill with a tempera­ seeing Chris interferes with my the manipulation of fantasy is ture in another room. And, of exercise of freedom in seeing her. continual as if society will only course, there are cases where Yet I do not actually want to see run smoothly when we are all going round in a state of unremit­ Closet Into problems of technique and ignor­ her all the time, and equally I also ance do arise, and have to be exercise my autonomy in going ting horniness. worked out in their own right. out with my mates, or whatever it I admit that for a long time I But generally speaking, being may be. So the problem is rather had an ambivalent relationship "good” at love-making is not a one of balancing the right of with all this counterfeit sex. I quality that one either does or autonomy with sensitivity to each objected to seeing women turned The Clique does not have. Sex is a form of other’s needs. into masturbatory fantasies in­ (Not the least of which is that stead of people, I objected to relating between people, and the HIS IS an article about ment, certain fundamental struc­ we both need to be relieved of them being sold as packaged very attempt to prove that one is movements, particularly the responsibility for looking after the dreams, yet I also desired these T ture orientations are applied. Gay good at it can actually prevent the movements of sexual liberation consciousness for example is fund­ children from time to time. For­ images of women that pouted at mutual flow of affection and but more specifically about the amentally a structuring concept. tunately the children are quite me almost wherever I looked. At warmth and the enjoyment that homosexual movements. You attend consciousness raising happy about the situation so far, times I compared them with Sally real “good” sex involves. Running through our society groups, initially to find a common but whichever of us spends time and found her wanting (unbeliev­ Inasmuch as my sense of sexual there is a belief that things go on ground, and then to reinforce it, away from home lumbers the able, it seems to me now, but adequacy is undermined by Sally’s to keep it from slipping away. other one with the kids. In case true). in groups, that groups have a life relationship with Chris, the prob­ of their own and that you can You find a common basis of that indicates indifference to the Now Sally has developed a real lem is not solved by Sally’s send­ only be effective in organised oppression and then you work childrens needs, perhaps I should relationship with someone else, in ing Chris packing and returning groups. This view is so entrenched from there. add that a positive concern for the which sex takes its part as a form exclusively to me, which is what of communication, a tender rela­ that it has become axiomatic. Unfortunately one of the men usually want in such a situa­ childrens development is one reas­ on we’ve embarked on all this. tion between two human beings. Because this is the way things things that has emerged from the tion. My feeling — my hope - is And suddenly, in the light of full happen, it is also seen as the way short history of gay liberation is that my sexual confidence will The claustrophobia of the nuclear family affects kids as well as consciousness, I see this dehuman­ things must happen. “It seems to that nobody fits the description return when I know she wants to ised, fantasy sex that I have half­ me that the reality of oppression of the oppressed homosexual. make love to me as well as him. parents. Children need love and security, but not suffocation ...) rejected, half-absorbed all this is that any oppressed group in People, when they do fit, do so This is what I hope will hap­ history has had to organise and The kind of autonomy I’m time as nothing more than the shit only as approximations. Yet this pen. In the meantime, I have to band together in order to over­ talking about is not easy to it really is. The reality of the is an insight that most often can­ fight against this bastard feeling, come its stigma” (Altman). And achieve. The permissive society is permissive society is not sexual not be reached because the so this hurt male pride, this sexual what happens to oppression then? double-edged. While everybody is liberation in any true sense, but called loose structure of the move­ competitiveness - this tendency rather the sexual sell and all the What happens to stigma? ment actively inhibits this sort of to think of “good” sex as proof of supposed to go around fucking everybody else on the one hand, distorted values that involves. For a number of historical reas­ realisation. virility (equals power, equals man­ But beyond this, sexuality has ons which don’t concern me here If, however, we do take this hood) rather than proof of com­ they are also supposed to have absolute respect for the sacred another role in our society. Just as the demand for homosexual insight and follow it through, we patibility and openness with an­ women are supposed to live up to equality and rights has emerged eventually begin to question the other human being. institution of marriage on the other. Any threat to the family two contradictory stereotypes — quite obviously as a movement assumption of communality in (So my head tells me. But it (as traditionally conceived) is a on the one hand, the fashionable, which in some cases adopts any feelings, reaction and even goes very deep down, this male threat to “the very fabric of our impersonalised sex-object, and on specific structures of organisation. thought. Any apparently similar paranoia that I have inherited. So society”. the other the personification of And despite the insistence on the behavioral situations are simply much of my insecurity is that of a Jealousy, after all, is a kind of warmth, security and “natural”, lack of formal structure that is that - apparendy similar. So why male ego shorn of the prop of fear of freedom. I have not lost “basic” emotions within the fam­ able to be imposed on this move­ look for a common ground? Per- exclusive rights to a female body. Sally’s warmth and love, but I can ily — so sexuality appears to us in It’s a prop that none of us men no longer be sure that die will be both a public and a private form. need, that we’re better off with­ there all the time, whenever I On the one hand it is a commer­ out. But it certainly takes time to need her. She is demonstrably cialised goodie appearing indis­ leam how to hold yourself up freer within our relationship, I am criminately on every magazine straight when it’s gone.) potentially freer — freer of de­ rack, and on the other hand it is Related to my feeling of sexual pendence and possessiveness, supposed to be the last refuge of insecurity is the more general feel­ more self-reliant, more myself liv­ our most intimate passions and ing that because Sally is in love ing with her on equal independent longings. with another man (as well as me) I terms. If we can create relationships have in some way “lost” her. In a But this freedom is a frighten­ that are relatively free of depend sense, of course, this is true. She ing thing. Not only does it bring ence, possessiveness and the ad­ no longer has exclusive emotional me face-to-face with my ultimate man's fantasies - then maybe we allegiance to me, she also has aloneness, my own final separate­ have helped in a small way in a emotional allegiance to someone ness as a human-being, it is also a fight for humanised relationships else. So I have lost some aspects freedom I have not been trained in every aspect of ours and other of intimacy with her, not so much for. All my life, like everyone else, people’s lives. of our emotional life is shared, I have been subjected to forces Sally insists that our relation­ our plans no longer coincide so which work against my feeling ship is strong enough to win, much. And, of course, I have confidence in my own autonomy but I wonder if we - all three physically lost her during the time - at school, at work, in nearly all of us - are capable of handling die is with Chris - though this social relationships. the situation as individuals. would equally be true if die was Nobody is ever completely I wonder how much can be at work, or visiting her parents or achieved in the area of personal friends. It is only my lack of trust free, nor could they be. People need other people. Dependence relationships without society itself in her enduring concern for me undergoing a process of trans­ that makes me think otherwise. is a part of love, a necessary part, just as people are necessarily formation. I wonder if one of us But beyond these considera­ (and I suppose I’m the most likely tions — which are undoubtedly dependent on each other within society at large. But dependence in candidate) might simply be unable problems, but perhaps not in­ to cope. superably so — this feeling of loss loye can reach the point where it becomes stiffling. I wish I could be sure. I shant also seems to be connected with be for a long time, probably. But If the situation I am in has my psychological conditioning. It it’s worth the try. In spite of is tied up with the way I have jolted me into re-examining a lot everything I honestly believe of my unconscious notions about internalised the values of the nu­ there’s no other way. clear family system and grew up virility, possession and depend­ believing in the eternal couple. ence, it has also made me actually □ For this system of monogamy - a aware of some other aspects of deep-rooted emotional depend­ current social attitudes to sexual­ From Spare Rib, London, ence and attention focused on ity. appearing under a false name. only one person, reinforced a mil­ We mid-20th century men and John Hoy land agreed to come lionfold by living for years with women live in an over-sexed out of his alias for TLD.

THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, October 16-22, 1973, Page 15 DAYLIGHTS’ SAVINGS from closet to clique continued... haps it doesnt exist. Perhaps that there was this last category I feel that one of the most our bargain everyone is so totally different till one day I was part of it. And regrettable effects of gay libera­ that to look for (or construct) a nobody cared. And it all blew tion is that it has made it more common consciousness becomes a back on to me like spitting into difficult to simply talk about book basement bit of intellectual myth-making. the wind. That there was really no homosexuality. TTiis is not to say But is that what it’s all about? difference between ordinary that qay lib is actually inhibiting I thought it was about being able dances and Gay Lib dances except talk, for plainly the opposite is to be different and do things for the presence of a different the case. It’s just that people are differently to the way things are. ideology. talking more but saying less. And And being able to change. All the crap that I’d heard and since the revolution must always But if we think that we can do actually said about how Gay Lib be in the position to recognise its this by changing some aspect of dances were so marvellous and friends and enemies immediately, HIE SEX BOOK social structure then we are forced free, the incredible feeling of one is forced to take a stand. to relate new prescribed behavior solidarity and friendship, of con­ Either way the system is against to the old patterns which people cern for each other and genuine you and you are against yourself. have been following and learning affection and warmth. All re­ If, for example, you question to follow until now. Which is the inforcement of ideology. Which is some of the articles of faith of the same old bog of contradictions. nothing like what happens. homosexual movement (eg. com­ Someone is still deviant in some­ You go there knowing a few ing out, consciousness raising, zap one else's eyes. And isnt that what people, or you hope to do any­ groups) you can immediately be ( m i w a it’s all about. way. When you get there you put down as a person who accepts A quote from the constitution search them out, have a few their inferiority. Someone who is of the NSW branch of Campaign drinks, a few dances. You flirt a subservient and doesnt want to Against Moral Persecution: bit, give a few generous hugs and J M. w V re-think their position. Acquies­ M M T IN GOLDSTEIN, M.B.. “The society shall reserve the kisses, some campish repartee, cent in their oppression. Unwilling ebw!n j: m m n ph.il right to reject any application for Will MC8RI0E overreact a bit to someone whom to be liberated. No one wants to THE BOOK OF GRASS edited by THE SEX BOOK: A MODERN membership, and likewise the So­ you dont know if you like, al­ conceive of an alternative outside George Andrews and Simon Vine- PICTORIAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA ciety shall reserve the right to though you’re quite sure you the movement, so you must be koog. Penguin. RRP $1.55. Our by Goldstein, Haeberle, and expel any member whose behavior dont. wrong. price $1.55. McBride. Bantam. RRP $1.95. shall be held to be prejudicial to This is not a new book but it is Our price $1.55. You do object to them running On the other hand, if you the classic anthology of Indian This pocket size paperback is a the aims of the Society.” (My their hand down your back and become part of the activity, it hemp, which has been revised and modern, informative, and pictori- italics.) Apparently the clause was feeling your bum through your becomes impossible not to be updated for Penguin Books. It ally honest encyclopaedia on sex. written in to stop any exploita­ trousers, but you smile and let offers a wide range of writings It is modern because it looks upon deflected into taking a stance of tion of CAMP for financial gain. them do it. You’re much more over-enthusiastic support which about this ancient plant, its re­ sex and the human body as na­ But even with this in mind, the markable products, and its long tural and beautiful. It is informa­ liberated now. And aware that veers dangerously close to cultism. and ancient history. tive in providing knowledge on all point is still clear. people are watching. So you give The temptation is irresistible to Among the authors represented aspects of sex. The explicit photo­ Groups dont seem to care a him a cuddle. One can’t tell a mindlessly repeat attractive but are: Rabelais, Baudelaire, Rim­ graphs are not only instructive but damn about people. brother in oppression that they’re meaningless slogans. Use jargon baud, Aldous Huxley, Allan also convey a sense of jo y , tender­ They can reject and expel them Ginsberg, G. Jung, Henry Miller, ness, and respect for the human a drag. which has lost its guts, if it ever Hermann Hesse, Alan Watts, Lewis body. (the deviants) precisely because Then you go and dance with had any. “Look out straights, here Carroll, William James, Anthony A Daylights truth zap: M ainly fo r their concern is the perpetuation someone else. You like him. You we come! To make you under­ Storr, and William Burrouqhs. the young at body, who could be of the group and its particular think you’d like to get off with A Daylights truth zap: A n oldie stand what it is to be our kind of confused by the mysterious ideology. That’s part of the whole him but you’re a bit reticent. So but well-worn goodie for armchair autonomy of the photographs. outcast - but also to make you ethos of power and fear. All the you take a dive and move closer. understand our kind of love; to talk about solving some general Become serious. Hold his hand. hunger for your own sex.” "Two, malaise of our civilisation and, Not too serious, though. Thank four, six, eight, gay is twice as incidentally, our society. And God it’s a slow dance. You can good as straight.” more incidentally us. And if you actually move really close. Hold If this is radical, then I’m a still doubt this, go to a gay lib me tight, but you’re not sure lump of shit. dance. if you really feel his cock thicken THE MOTHER There amid the hurly-burly In all the discussions about against you. liberation, bisexuality, the poly­ EARTH NEW S of allowed alternative culture, you Five more dances. Four more morphous perverse, male chauvin­ will find four very distinct cate­ dances. Look blase, and tell him c ^ L M A I S ( A C gories of conforming deviants. ism, sexism,- coming out etc, the you want to fuck him (actually active human body disappears (a) Self-sufficient coupled rela­ you say “ get off” ). He doesnt Overwhelmed by the insistent lan­ tionships, illusory worlds unto answer. But he doesnt go away guage of the movement (the themselves. either. Part of the game, so you F«atunog wctpe* luwm fcwstn®*# i&M , churning out of words about tnoney-Mretag hurt* (b) The Heavies. You can tell put your hands down the front of win* wild foods, l«nd-finding sod words, just as I am doing), the pretty quickly who they are be­ his trousers and feel him up. He financing methods, homestead animal, personality involving itself with raising tipe, organic gardening ioforme- cause they are the ones who are comes closer. It feels nice. So you non weather lore, recycling project* other personalities loses its im­ games, pastimes, formulae, ahemative most assertively and consciously dance for a while, holding on to power concepts, down-home problem “liberated”. They obsessively hug portance. solving and satisfying lifestyles for his belt, fingering his underpants. spring, summer, autumn and winter. each other and are most “spon­ Doesnt matter if anyone notices Well, what’s happened? Have taneous” in their expression of because there’s no difference be­ we been thoughtlessly wandering THE MOTHER EARTH NEWS affection. They also have a discon­ tween being risque and liberated. around, generalising all our in­ ALMANAC: A GUIDE certing habit of standing in groups Same old game only the context sights out of application, forget­ Ross Firestone. Penguin. RRP THROUGH THE SEASONS by of four or five, in the middle of $1.70. Our price $1.55. has changed. ting ourselves and our experiences the staff of Mother earth news. This book contains more than the dance floor during the band We’re into the pretence that for the sake of liberation? If so, RRP $1.95. Our price $1.55. fifty accounts of what it’s like to breaks, arms around each other, in Although the Almanac is a guide what was once done in secrecy is then society has won again. We collide with the law in America. to the northern seasons it contains mushroom-like fairy rings. Oblivi­ now done in public. The personal have allowed our protectors to Contributors include: Jerry much that will interest southern ous (out of the comers of their Rubin, Billie Holiday, Lawrence is political and all that. Except suck into themselves the stuff of hemisphere readers. Amongst the Ferlinghetti, Timothy Leary, eyes) of the fact that everyone that the personal remains putrid. our opposition and they use it for many articles are: Instructions for Eldridge Cleaver, Norman Mailer, else is off the floor. making compost and controlling No longer is it where have all the their own ends. Is not William and Malcolm X, Johnny Cash, Joan garden pests organically, an illu­ (c) The third group is what I people gone, it’s what the fuck John an example of this? And Baez and others. strated guide to knots, how to shall call the other incest groups. "I was called up before the they are doing. what about Kentucky Fried build a cheap modern home, plans judge and sentenced to 30 years There are a number of them, At this point I suppose it will Chicken is womens lib? The and instructions for kite building, imprisonment and a $40,000 fine identifiable by the fact that they folk medicine treatments and seem rather strange that I have to sponge absorbs into itself the for the unrepentant crime of pos­ preventatives, formulas for white­ sit at the same table, drink to­ admit that I find it really difficult drops of ink and spreads them sessing less than half an ounce of wash, an introduction to canning gether, talk together, dance to­ around so the overall color hardly grass.” T im o th y Leary. to write anything more about and preserving garden produce, “ The Pig of Pigs looked down gether, hardly ever move around liberation, homosexuality, sexual­ changes. directions for making exotic at m y wound, raised his fo ot and except together, wear the same cosmetics from ordinary kitchen ity or just personal relationships We are so pleased, for example, stamped on my wound. ‘Get him ingredients, how to generate elec­ sort of clothes, drink the same with our understanding of the out of here,' he told the other generally. tricity by harnessing the wind, sort of drinks, live the same sorts pigs.” Eldridge Cleaver. Partly, this is because I feel sexist dichotomy, the pink and solar energy etc etc. of lives and fuck the same sorts of A Daylights truth zap: Lacks that having overcome certain blue booties, that we forget to A Daylights truth zap: Transpo*- people. notice that this socialisation only laughs. ing some of the bushlore to the things, I am still left fumbling. So antipodes can get tiresome. (d) The last group is the least what right have I to fumble pub­ finds expression in its application. cohesive. They are the wall­ licly? Writing usually means pre­ So when we try to break down flowers who stand around the the barriers of what we are ex­ To Living Daylights, GPO Box 5312 BB, Melbourne 3001. senting conclusions, arguments Please forward books indicated below: I have enclosed full payment by sides, wander around occasionally, and answers, and not confusions pected to be, we reach another cheque/postal order for $...... Payment to I.N.C. P/Ltd. look a lot and generally feel un­ and partial insights. And anyway, barrier: the circumstances which [ j The book of grass at $1.55 inc. postage. easy. words are different in writing determine what our relationships [ ] Getting Busted at $1.55 inc. postage. The point of all this informa­ from what they are in speech. will be like, demand to be arti­ tion, and it’s not only observation And speech is the way I’ve mostly ficially constructed according to J[ J The sex book at $1.55 inc. postage. because at different gay dances I done any looking at personal rela­ the way things are done. The [ ] Mother Earth News at $1.55 inc. oostaee. have been in all these categories. tionships. Because it’s got some­ patterns continue to work in spite NAME ...... The point is that no one cares thing to do with involvement, I of the participants and their prin­ ADDRESS ...... about each other, especially not think. ciples, in spite of the cocks and about the waS-flowers. Stiff shit if But also, sexual liberation the cunts and the preferences. POSTCODE ...... you can’t fit in. groups generally have made it ...... In fact I was not even aware harder to talk. □ to * IS, THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, October 16-22, 1973 A birthday present to our readers The Modem Medicine Man Is A Pox On Good Health

O THE Hindu the cow is a soil unadulterated by chemical misleading people into believing T sacred animal. Our sacred “fertilisers”. that the ravages of unhealthy cow is the medical profession. There are growing numbers of living can be repaired by In Australia, it is virtually naturists in other countries who wonder drugs and that men and impossible to make any effective have found wonderful health by women can be protected from the criticism of the methods of the same means. They have found fruits of their folly by inject­ medical practitioners. You can that to avoid disease one merely ing vaccines into the bloodstream, accuse them (at the moment) of needs to be healthy and that to they are diverting attention from being money grubbers but you be healthy one merely needs to the natural and proven ways to Doctors are lately becoming the subjects, can’t criticise their professional observe nature and follow nature's achieve and keep almost perfect practices. rules (hence the term naturist). health. of attack, not only for their avarice, but also This is dangerous. It is We have in our community It is possible to immunise for their incompetence. The medical dangerous for any section of the various bodies such as the Heart the body against all the diseases; community to be virtually free Foundation, the Cancer Founda­ but it can only be done by practitioner has become little better than a from effective criticism. It is tion, the Kidney Foundation, and nature’s methods, not by infinitely dangerous in the case so on, which are extracting huge introducing foreign substances licensed drug pedlar. So says LARRY DRAKE. of a body of men (and women) sums of money from the public into the blood. who are provided with a growing for the purpose of investigating (Answer, from official proliferation of drugs which are these diseases. records, to a question in the increasingly hazardous and which What do they do with the British House of Commons: In cannot be adequately tested for millions of dollars so collected? the 25 years ended December, possible harmful effects before They hand it over to members of 1962, nearly two-thirds of the being rushed on to the market by the medical profession who children born in England and profit-hungry drug companies. squander it on the idiotic search Wales remained unvaccinated for The medical profession is, for new “wonder drugs”, new smallpox, yet only four children The most prosecuted as a m atter of fact, fast vaccines, new techniques for under five died of smallpox; becoming the greatest single transplanting organs from dead while of the one-third vaccinated paper in the danger to the health of the bodies into live ones. no fewer than 86 children were community. The standard training Do they ever investigate killed by vaccination and many for a medico teaches him practi­ the people who have never more were seriously injured permissive society cally nothing about health and suffered from cancer or heart by it.) how to attain and keep it. (How disease to try to find out why? The body does not become | nAncn ccyicWv | | tiAncocevieWvl nAncn ccvicvv fl many healthy doctors do you Good God, no! unhealthy because it has been The squandering of the attacked by disease. It is THE FACE OF ASIO 6Erotica AUSTRALIA'S know?) The training is devoted al­ WATERGATES most entirely to teaching him money doesn’t matter a damn. attacked by disease because it about disease and most of what it What does matter is that by has become unhealthy. teaches about disease is wrong. It teaches that disease is caused by outside attacks from various 12] germs and viruses, this belief Tha man who w w r ma*. and now la W i alkgattont o# corruption being based on the discoveries of taut staoutd ha ba any »on*ar? tnvoivtn* gambling brine down pramtar* Rm m and Asktn? Pasteur and others that specific diseases are usually accompanied by specific microbes or bacteria. It is rather ironic that Pasteur himself before his death abandoned the idea that germs cause disease, and remarked that “the germ is nothing - the terrain everything”. What he meant was that to be WOULD ' 1 YOU PUT 'C * healthy you must concentrate on STEEL SPURS ON YOUR COCK ? history and persecution keeping the terrain (the body) in good order and that if you do that Gay libber Martin Smith being ejected by Christians you can forget about the germs. There are millions of people in the world today (I am one) Festival of Light gets Heavy who have demonstrated the truth JUDITH RICH arm,” he yells outside to the of this on their own bodies, who HRISTIAN families in their oblivious George street traffic. He have achieved wonderful health, Sunday best flock up the tears up his Liberal party member­ The paper which published The Rhodesian Papers — the documents which and immunity even from that C revealed how Rhodesian agents in Australia were undermining UN sanctions town hall steps through a Salva­ ship card because transport min­ 1 universal scourge the common tion Army Band guard-of-honor, ister Milton Morris is chairing the cold; who shun the medical pro­ The first paper to report Mafia involvement in organised crime in Australia averting their eyes from placard- meeting. fession like the plague; and who carrying demonstrators. "Ungod­ Under the Festival of Light The paper which disclosed the existence of the Friday the 13th Movement would as soon drink poison as take ly!” they hiss. “Son of a snake!” emblem (a hand with a heaven­ the group of retired ASIO spies whose self-appointed task was to try to ke< into their bodies any of the A handful of commune kids ward pointing finger inside a t Labor out of office products of the drug companies. smile sweetly through their flame) committee members, The medical practitioner has The first paper to uncover the existence of cockfighting in Australia bizarre face paint. A few school- clergymen and the Young World become little better than a kids raise a sign saying Don't deny Singers (mini-skirted thighs press­ licensed drug pedlar, a dis­ teenagers their sexuality and are ed tighdy together) are assembled The paper which traced the rise of the racist and anti-semitic Australian League tributing agent for the drug of Rights verbally assaulted by an hysterical on stage behind banks of orchid manufacturers. churchwoman and a priest who pots. The paper which uncovered In Attack - the clandestine organisation whose Even if it were possible tells them they’ll see the error of “Mrs Whitehouse’s visit to Aus­ members spy on single mothers X to achieve health from drugs, their ways when they turn 25. tralia couldn’t have come at a it would be physically impossible The paper which first exposed the activities of the secret Croatian terrorist There’s a woman wearing a Plan­ more opportune time,” announces organisation, the Ustasha for any doctor to investigate ned parenthood is an act of love porn researcher Freida Brown, in­ the merits (and menaces) of the button and a Humanist handing troducing the festival star. “In The paper which questioned Alexander Barton's business dealings a year before thousands of preparations which his $30 m illion group of companies collapsed out leaflets. Sydney today the Festival of t are pouring on to the market, so A roving radio reporter tells his Light committee, through our he is reduced to accepting the microphone: “And in front of me study groups, have found that assurances of the drug manufac­ r USE BLOCK LETTERS PLEASE I can see three gorillas . . . Why do bestiality - that is sexual inter­ turers themselves. you think people come to hear course with animals —' is being To: Incsubs, Nation Review, Box 5312 BB. i The healthiest people on Mary Whitehouse?” recommended as one of several GPO Melbourne. 3001. Please commence my subscrip­ earth are the Hunzas who live in A highly excited Eurasian thrills for teenagers and this is tion to Nation Review as follows: a remote area of the Himalayas. woman is arguing heatedly with mailed unsolicited so that even They have no wonder drugs. They Christians: “ If you believe in God, children can read it.” [ ] Six months $7.80 enclosed use no drugs of any kind. They you’ve got to believe in the Kama To bursts of applause Ms [ ] One year $15.60 enclosed have no cancer, no heart disease, Sutra,” she shrieks. A man waves Whitehouse launches into her no diabetes, no tuberculosis. a Bible at her: “That’s the docu­ rave, tracing her involvement in NAME ...... Their old men play vigorous ment that says Jesus rose up from the fight against "the ways of the dead.” inky men” . ADDRESS games and father children at the age of 100. Their secret is no Inside a shouting Martin Smith of gay lib is heavied out of the Space shortage allows only ...... POSTCODE...... secret at all. They live on natural, unspoilt (that is, unpro­ hall by two ushers. “Men with this brief extract from Judith’s cessed) food grown in healthy crosses on tried to break my devastating coverage. Page 18, THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, October 16-22, 1973 In case you didn’t know, some TV series like to lay on a bit of tit HATED the showbiz world of Sydney where you had to and bum. arselickI and where you were re­ garded as a little thing who would Claire be nice in bed. After doing bit parts in a television series they Balmford CONGRATU wanted to write me in permanent­ tells how Digger on its expose of the Victorian ly. I didn’t want the part be­ Drug Squad. During a recent raid a cause it was bullshit, i didn’t she waylaid the caster’s thick folder of blank search warrants want to take my clothes off be­ was left behind which had been cause it was such a sordid show. drool midstream, in this helpfully pre-signed by a justice of “So I went for the interview the first of a series of the peace. The Digger prints the and there were these two greasy documents. Maybe the uniformed interviews with women by JEAN BUCKLEY dullards had been consuming too faced guys: They explained the much of their booty, instead of part: ‘She’s a lovely girl/ just like merely pushing it, like the Sydney you/ she’s just been brought up to boys. A bad week for the absent walk around without her clothes minded twosome, senior detective on.’ Casting Into Michael James Bell and offsider Val­ "I was angry with myself be­ entine Smith. cause I was actually sitting there listening to this shit. I wasn’t THE Allen Jonts exhibition at saying, ‘I’m not interested in your Sydney’s Hogarth Gallery has attrac­ job.’ I was terrified that, if I got ted much attention, not the least Consciousness because of its angry “womens lib1' the job, was I going to take it find soulmates. Instead I found a had - it’s all too easy. slogans daubed menacingly on the when it represented something I liked and, by spreading round the walls. was so violently against. lot of pubic boys in tights/ instead darlings, you get the darlings back “I don’t think I know enough The gallery’s owner, Clive Evatt, is “ Finally when the big guy said, of finding a revolutionary at­ . . . I suppose. about experimental groups. But it said to be pleased with the result of ‘Hmmn honey, I suppose you mosphere, I found an institution. “ But in Bellbird, most of the all boils down to what you think his midnight handywork with a spray don’t object to taking yer clothes, Later, I used to say, ‘I’d rather actors are probably there because theatre is about and what you’re can. work in a factory than act in they want to get on with the rest trying to say when you’re doing off? I said, ‘As a matter of fact THE one group Whitlam didn’t I’ve got a rather large scar on my something like Bell bird - which of their lives as well. They’ve all it. Radicalism: It’s like people I've now been doing for eight bother to consult when he arsed breast from a childhood accident.’ got bloody good heads. And putting down the trendies as they Gordon Bryant from Aboriginal Af­ And the grease solidified on his months. Because I saw Bellbird as they’re not devoting the rest of sip their wine and eat their gour­ fairs, the black community, is not face although his smile stayed. I anti something I believed but now their lives to spotlight glory. The met meals in their beautiful taking the dismissal quietly. A 14 walked out of there feeling bril­ I see TV work as a very fascinat­ glamor of the theatre is about the pseudo-primitive houses / like man delegation from Victoria, repre­ liant. I was so relieved.” ing and challenging medium. It’s a biggest myth there could ever be. those wealthy communists who senting six black organisations, left challenge to be given a script Monday for Canberra. Another 100 Couch-casting in the theatre is “One of the things contribut­ can still afford to hold radically or so are arriving from Sydney on as old (hat as survival. Yet, of all which is a lump of shit and make ing to this is the whole Hollywood fashionable points of view. it work - just as challenging as deal and the fact that behind any “No matter what sort of ideas Wednesday, and delegations are form­ the fields that women have chosen ing in other states. having a brilliant part all laid out production are the people who you have about doing things, to play in, theatre has been tradi­ Victorian representative Stewart tionally regarded as a place where for you. It’s an ideological chal­ want to make money. So they’re whether it’s starting a new news­ lenge. Murray: “We want Bryant back. He’s women can attain unhampered going to make the production as paper/ a new theatre/ or moving been with us for 20 years. We want and unlimited superstardom. “All the games I have to play attractive as possible to the pub­ into a house with six people — is him in and Coombs, S tanner and Claire Balmford, 21, a NIDA in the Bellbird script — the pet­ lic. Even with subsidised theatres that people have different heads. Dexter out, and teplaced by aborig­ graduate, considers herself lucky ulant schoolgirl bit etc - you play — they’ve got to make money to For instance, the Pram Factory inals.” in that she has only been out of the bitchy stereotype lines quietly keep their subsidy. Fortunes are started off with this terrific idea/ Mr Murray is not unaware that as work for six weeks in three years so that the tone is witty rather spent making productions look got a beaut place to do it/ then Minister for the ACT, Bryant might than sarcastic and then the writers just find them somewhere to camp. of acting. For the past eight stunning or making something had to do something . . . but they begin to change the lines the same Free from the police harassment that months she has worked in Bell- look beautiful/ using people that get so bogged down in intel- way. dogged the Black Embassy. bird, with occasional parts in are beautiful/ and often the play lectualising about it. Homicide, Division 4, Matlock “At the same time, though, I’ve itself just isnt there. "There are so many trips. Like ONE of Bob Hawke's caps is fitting a and recently has been getting into never really felt that women’s lib “Acting in Bellbird: some peo­ the militant women’s libbers/ like bit tight. R. J. appears to have some experimental theatre. is a part of me, I have my own ple see as a sellout and bastardis­ the gay libbers/ there’s an exhibi­ decided that the Whitlam govern­ She dismisses her experience personalised response to libera­ ing any creativity I’ve got. This tionist streak there. All a bit of a ment’s into a one-term stand and that with the series’ directors as the tion. For four years I lived/ ate/ year I did some experimental the­ wank/ there’s no. distinction be­ maybe president of the ACTU is a premium that the acting industry slept/ fucked theatre. When I re­ atre: in Babysitter. Which is hard tween women’s lib and personal better bet for long life and retirement benefits. Relations at the ALP federal places on the boobs-and-bums alised that, I decided to get out. to talk about because I’ve had lib for me/ we use terms like chau­ everyone ringing me up telling me vinist but it’s really in terms pf executive meeting were not happy. commodity. Her criticisms of the So I got a job that would leave me Whitlam and Hawke tried desperately theatre industry, however, are time for other things. It’s only how degrading and corrupting it is people’s personalities and condi­ to patch up their differences over the directed more towards limitations now that I’m beginning to face to me as a woman. tioning that people are oppressed/ prices and incomes referendum — and placed on professional satisfac­ questions like, what role am I “The play is about a babysitter I think it’s a matter of people failed. Now the rightwing faction in tion. playing/ how can I justify that in for a couple who go to a party. being able to stop themselves Hawke’s home state, Victoria, are “The thing that really concerns terms of what I want to be/ and She has her fantasies/ the two from being oppressed by not forc­ ganging up to get Hawke to toe the me most about being in the the­ what I believe when the role I young men at the pinball machine ing themselves into roles line. Their chances of succeeding are slim. atre is that you are not really re­ project is at odds with that? around the corner have their fan­ “We just have to get down to sponsible for what direction you “A lot of the game playing that tasies about her/ the husband fan­ living because it’s so important.” Send your dirt to The Fox. are going in. You can’t initiate goes on in the theatre is due to tasises about her/ and the wife/ things yourself. You continually people’s insecurities. People are and so it goes on ad infinitum. rely on someone else deciding that always getting pissed or stoned “Babysitter doesnt really say they will use you for this, that and there's very little real friend­ anything/ it’s not going anywhere. and the other. Because you can’t ship. I call it ‘dressingroom in­ It’s a vehicle for a certain techni­ initiate anything yourself, nothing timacy’. cal feat - there are lots of sets you do is what you really want to “You do a job with someone and blackouts and we swap do. It’s work and you’re lucky to and within six weeks you know around from place to place. It be in work. everything about them - their sex consists of 79 forty to fifty sec­ “To stay in work you need an lives, childhoods, histories etc. ond scenes. All you end up think­ agent. People tend to think that if Then you stop doing the play and ing about is where you are in the you don’t have an agent you’re no you see them a couple of weeks next scene/ whether you’ve got good. The agent takes ten percent later and it’s all gone: The rela­ your clothes on or off/ what of all your earnings .. . and I resent tionship has disappeared. You’ve happens next. Which is OK for the paying ten percent for jobs that I got nothing to say to them out­ people watching it because they got myself. That’s the deal you side working in the same show as can pick out what they like but all have to accept. them. What else they’re doing isnt you’ve got to remember is what “About 96 percent of an ac­ really relevant and I’m not rele­ the fuck you’re supposed to do tor’s life has nothing to do with vant to them any more because next. why he started out wanting to act I’m not around. “My friends say it’s sexist be­ in the first place. Maybe it’s the “You might be walking down cause this babysitter is being in­ same with every job. But it seems the street and you yell: ‘He-elloo fringed on by all these men. And I so silly that people spend so much darling/ big big cuddle/ kiss kiss suppose that’s so, but it’s also time working crap/ saying it’s crap kiss/ deedadeeda/ THUMP - what very funny and no one knows and wondering if they’ll ever do do I say now?’ And at a party, what happens in the play. But it’s their ideals. people are looking round all the all so glib which makes it boring. “My expectations are different time to see who else is there/ who Babysitter isn’t something I have now. For example, when I first else they can go to/ who else they to sit down and work out on. It’s went to NIDA, I was expecting to can talk to. Everyone wants to be like nearly every other part I’ve THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, October 16-22, 1973, Page 19 CO CO CO co co co co co co co

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IVING DELIGHTS, a rat­ poetry mag (47 Williamson Road, W o o 11 o o m o o lo o , Darlinghurst, opportunity to express to the members is to be held in Nimbin people of Sydney that the spirit Town on Saturday, October 20 at bag collection of things that Para Hills, South Australia) is pre­ Victoria Street, and King’s Cross L of Woolloomooloo, which in the 8 pm. are happening in parks, pubs, senting “ more than a poetry read­ will hold a Spring festival, a hap­ past has generated a unique life­ You can apply fo r shares by meeting halls, corners and nooks. ing”, with the Young Virgin pening social event, generated by style, still lives. W oolloom ooloo writing to “ Turntable Falls Farm How wide the flow of info is up to Weasels and Thonthor Inter­ the people themselves, in the area could still be a lively and pic­ Association” , Box 2598 GPO, you, if something’s happening national in concert. “ Featuring from October 19 to 22, coinciding turesque waterside suburb. One Sydney 2001. For info: Chris w rite in and tell me; I want news guest reader Larry Buttrose of with the opening of the Sydney alternative redevelopment pro­ Stoney and Bob Rosenburg, C/- about almost everything, politics, DHARMA. There’ll be readings Opera House and the Waratah posal on view will show an in­ LIN KU P , 59 St. Georges Road, music, food, discussion, dances, from John-Peter Horsam, Chris Festival. tegrated, comprehensive living and Prahran, Melbourne (phone: anything. I don't want press re­ Coxhill, Pip Giles, Tim Marshall, Permission to use deadend and narrow side streets has been refus­ working, human environment." 51.8214/51.7524), or Tony Fur­ leases or cut rate D -n otices. If Span and many others. Bucolio Balmain tales of Nim- ness, 75 Darling Street, Balmain, y o u ’re w riting give more than the There’ll be an extremely large ed by police and council: resi­ bin: the beautiful people are get­ Sydney (phone: 82.1291), or time, place, cost bit, I want to am ount of silliness and possibly dents must allow strangers to use ting it all together at Nim bin, still. Wholefoods, 451 Milton Road, know who, why and how. some form of music. There will their streets as a public parking also be a short lecture from Mr station. However, the festival will A co-operative venture has been Auchenflower, Brisbane, or Learn­ Some letter I’ve already got. Amos Goatfart, vice-president of happen in private and empty form ed to buy land in the area, ing Exchange, 5 Kyle Street, Glen­ Thanks P. Nice of the Central the Silly Action Committee. houses, vacant allotments and site for the beach head of the new side, Adelaide (phone: 79.7950). Australian Folk Society for letting North/South Dining Room of under the railway viaduct. consciousness. Shares a mere That's all for this week, keep me know about the music nights Adelaide Uni October 27. “ The residents are creating this $200, the first general assembly of the letters coming in. at the Society's clubhouse off Van Also in the city of churches Senden Avenue, Alice Aprings, every Sunday commencing 8 pm. and bluegrass bands, the Adelaide But please write again: w ho’s sing­ Learning Exchange is having a Whatever turns meeting/barbecue on October 20, ing, what sort of songs, how’s the 2 to 6 pm at 5 Kyle Street, place feel, OK? Glenside, phone 79.7950. It’s OTHERS: The Bozar Theatre Workshop — formed three months partly a social and inform ation event and mainly a workshop for ago — an alternative theatre w o rk­ those who want to help in running shop, is putting on an original the exchange and newspaper. drama by group member Tim Gooding, The Great Australian Anyone in M elbourne inter­ Play. ‘‘The story of sideshow box­ ested in m editation, Muktananda, ing, it deals with the elements of and Baba Ram Dass, welcome to m yth and madness in Australian join Shakahari meditation group, society." Village Theatre, Paddo, Sunday mornings 11 am at 329 you on is here October 18 to 21 and again from Lygon Street, Carlton. Meditation the 24th to the 27th. Ring room available any time Shakahari 31.2250 for bookings. restaurant is open. If superb silliness and trench­ Hot off the telex, and in full it ant triviality is your bag, H e a rt sounds so good: “ The residents of And now, a few words Whatever you may about chocolate AYBE it’s the shops I go 22 cents now instead of 20, and M to, but whatever the reason, will probably go up again. Nestles finding a bar of Nestles is a bit and Cadburys have family-size like finding a packet of Ardaths in now - 50 cents for a huge block fear is here a tobacconists, which if you don’t — good ones to get sick on. know, certainly aint easy. After these you get into the Plenty of Cadburys but no higher class of chocolates. Tobler, Nestles. Cadburys chocolate may the Swiss stuff in the stupid tri­ be okay for thems thats particular angular packets, and the nice pas- to it, but I haven’t been able to telly rectangular packets are fairly get into it properly since one day ace. But Lindt, another Swiss job, back in 1960 when I bought a which costs about 55 cents a four bob monster at a place called block is A 1 - really ace. The Fisherman’s Bay on the south shops say that Lindt is getting coast of NSW. I ate it all, being short on supply because of some somewhat of a greedy pig and shipping trouble. No more ship­ went rowing in a dinghy which ments until next winter. It’s a Vice* And Versa* capsized, allowing me to swallow delightful smooth chocolate, flat­ a bucket or two of seawater, ly moulded so it rests easy on the which had a particularly high hip if you wish to travel. Of saline content. Consequently I course with the current economy chucked all over the bay, I chuck­ you couldn’t expect to buy Lindt ed in the mangroves, I chucked on and travel too. Talking about trav­ the sand, chucked in the sea and el, if you travel to the US, yo u ’ll chucked on the land, and I blam­ find, I’m told, that Nestles is there ed it on the chocolate. marketed under the name Nes- Cadburys is the one with the telese, and Cadburys isn’t there. glass and a half of fresh milk, they Lindt’s there. Cadburys is now tell us. Nestles is the one where on British-owned but is still Austra­ TV they shout over power drills lian, like Violet Crumble bars, to tell each other about it. Mac- which also have some chocolate Vice* And Versa* Robertsons make Freddos but its on them. most famous brand is Snack In the main, I suggest the best which has loads of different flav­ chocolate is milk chocolate, with performance, r ors. Apart from Snack it has a all these caramels and nut bars nice Coconut Rough and a very and raisin bars and so on being reasonable Milk. Smalls has a nice bastardisations and commercialisa­ This film is about madness. And sanity. nut bar and its range is well tion o f a true art form which is a Sex.Perversion.Death. And Life. represented in Sydney, but not so bar of plain good old simple milk well in Melbourne. Smalls has a chocolate. nice milk choc too. As a footnote, anyone who Vice* And Versa* Out of all these brands I reck­ lives by the vegetarian manifesto James Fox Mick Jagger Anita Pallenberg Michele Breton on Nestles is best. If everyone can rest easy about chocolate. It Wr.ttfr Of CAMMt. s • P-}dx*d S» SAW0&C Uf BW N 2 fCtf" f. l.'NAi AWWf.; NlCOLAS »0( i • 'I ’ “ N'Cf ' goes and asks shops for Nestles; comes from a plant, and plants are then maybe Nestles or the shops organic. Just dont eat the wrap­ VILLACE TWIN will stock a bit better and I can per, which is paper, which comes ,36 1003 I P grab a bar occasionally. If you from a tree, which is organic. haven't noticed, the big bars cost COLIN TALBOT THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, October 16-22, 1973, Page 21 Sexist Ads HOT BONDAGE....

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All sincere replies im portant), prefer Asian, oriental. 24, seeks similar for discreet dalli­ for replies must allow 3 words in answered. INC box 5793. ance. No effeminates. INC box All replies answered. Photo appre­ text and add 20 cents for • this 5 8 7 3 . ciated. No effeminates. INC box facility — we forward replies week­ Melbourne. Tall, skinny, long 5 8 6 4 . ly. Dalliance ads m u s t use INC Box Brisbane. Well built, blond, haired male, 23, seeks fun and number, which we allocate before weight trainer, 21, bike, seeks games with pretty boys. Must be Sydney. Swinging couples who publishing. others same age for training, sun, under 22 and like being it. INC are young, attractive and intelli­ surf. Photo appreciated. INC box b o x 5 8 3 2 . gent are meeting casually in the ADVERTISING COSTS 5 8 7 4 . relaxed atmosphere of a restaur­ Activity categories determine the Melboume-Frankston. Sensitive ant/bar on november 10. Genuine NOT FOR PUBLICATION basic cost. Category (A) is for free Rockhampton. Lonely young swingers or lonely lady. I am 33, inquiries are welcome. INC box public meetings ($1 for 21 words). homo badly needs companionship 6’, clean shaven, professionally 5 8 8 3 . NAME Category (B) is for individuals ad­ of another in the Rockhampton employed. Bi if wanted, and con­ vertising under any heading ($2 for area. All letters answered as soon sidered good looking. I need your Sydney. Guy, 22, interested in ADDRESS 21 words). Category (C) is for any as received. INC box 5896. company as I am coming down meeting guy, similar age and out­ business enterprise advertising for a break away from hung up looks. Enjoy talking, travelling under any heading ($3 for 21 Brisbane. Lonely guy, 19, seeks city twits. INC box 5833. and oral sex. INC box 5885. words). ALL ADDITIONAL girl for sex. Must be good looking. POSTCODE WORDS 10c EACH. Maybe friendship too. INC box Melbourne. Female, late 3()s, with Sydney or mountains. Young guy 5 8 9 5 . REPLIES VIA INC BOX NOS. new-found freedom, aware of friendly, bearded, square looking, MONEY ENCLOSED. life’s subtleties, seeks male with slim, dark, versatile, seeks mus- All replies to INC Box numbers Brisbane. Young man, 22 years, patience to explore beyond the cular/hairv, good looking males. must be in a stamped, sealed, un­ addressed envelope with the adver­ tall, slim, camp, seeks other superficial to develop close honest Mutual pleasure if compatible. Category A ($1) ...... 5 _ young man for mutual pleasure. attachment (not necessarily ex­ Non effeminates only. Your tiser’s D-notice box number clearly Genuine advertisement. All replies clusive) and enjoyment of music, place. INC box 5886. C a te g o ry B ( $ 2 ) ...... $ _ written in the top left corner. This envelope is to be enclosed in a answered. INC box 5897. ideas, nature’s bountv. INC box Category C ($ 3 ) ...... $ _ 5 8 3 4 . Sydney. Attractive, slim, artistic second one addressed to: INC D- Canberra. Bored, married man, young bi-girl, seeks similar Extra Words (10c each) ...... $ _ notices, GPO Box 5312 BB, Mel­ Melbourne. Gay guy, 18, seeks couple for warm relationship with bourne, 3001. 30, wishes to meet equally bored INC Box facility (20c) ...... $_ woman, married or single, day­ same to 30 for mutual satisfac­ self and groovy boyfriend. Abso­ Dalliance respondents must include time or evening for dalliance. INC tion. Phone number, photo, per­ lutely genuine. First advertise­ Repeat/ dual publication a d s ...... $_ $2 payment with each reply when b o x 5 8 6 5 . sonal description. Discretion. INC ment. No clubs or pros, please. sending to INC for forwarding to box 5 8 3 5 . INC box 588 7. Cash/Chequc/Postul O rd e r f o r T O T A L * advertisers. Non-complying letters Canberra. Young, lonely guy, 26, are destroyed. business executive would like to Melbourne. Attractive redhead, Wagga. Square looking, passive meet ladies, 18 to 30 years. With 28, own private premises, will camp, 44, to correspond with or kids OK. Outings, good times. dally my place by appointment. meet for friendship or whatever. Phone number and photo if pos­ Prefer married business types. Like masculine guvs. Anv age. Ptoasc note: D-NOTICE COPY WILL ONLY BE PUBLISHED IF SUBMITTED ON THIS FORM sible. INC box 5866. “Carole" INC box 5836. INC box 5888. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, October 1 6-22, 1973, Page 23 here'll be no peace in has refused the claim. it unnecessary for workers to The media and the “ irrespoi sibility” of the T the industry” , said the The work to regulations spend as much tim e at government have conducted workers' actions following rank and file militant from has created power shortages work. The electricity com­ a vigorous campaign against the death of a person as a the Munoora power station and brief blackouts in isolat­ mission is using this tech­ the workers. In a charac­ result of a power shortage. In (pictured above), "until we ed areas. The workers have nology as an excuse to teristic twist two Sydney his broad Scotch accent he get the 35-hour week.” regulated the flow of power lay off workers. The workers stations are using John barked back: “ Irrespon­ Power workers in NSW so that large numbers of claim that all jobs can be Lennon’s Power to the sibility of the workers! We’ve have been working to regula­ workers would not be laid maintained simply by re­ People to introduce their been fighting for a 35-hour tions for the past five weeks off in other industries. ducing the working time of reports on the dispute. week for tw o years and it in pursuance of a 35-hour Changing technology in all presently employed in Jock Syme, a show has been consistently re­ week. The Askin government the power industry has made the industry. steward, was tackled on the fused. It’s the irresponsibility of Askin.”

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