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‘The simple mechanism of can turn into something not anonymous flocking behavior only inhuman but truly terrible ”

■ ■ ■ orSUNBURY a bawdy weekend of SPECIALripper vibes and sensational INSIDE music, Editor • * ...... Lashes out S one squeaky voice in what pur­ A ports to be a crude collective, I’d like to say that while Ward McNally’s stirring o f the cesspool o f professional Boy roasted IF 3 & V boxing (page 6) is useful, he doesnt come Richard Beckett CAPE TOWN, Jan. 27. — An 11- year-old South African colored to terms with the bestial nature o f the boy who was roasted by three white mpn is to nave psychiatric o/V£- beats up treatment to try to cure him of sport itself; the bloody concept of a fear of whites. Godfrey Lambert was caught slogging match and the motives for picking up coal at the Beaufort the week’s news West railway yaid. The whites, gambling on other mens blood. Australia aged 18, 20 and 24, beat him. un­ dressed him, smeared his body T’S AUSTRALIA YOU MUGS, with grease and held him in front has already elevated competitive sports to of a locom otive fire, giving him NOT BOGNOR REGIS: As third degree burns. a level o f caricature, from swimming to I The men were sentenced to six lashes each and one year’s im­ 7 all.. Sunday driving; without this paper loiter­ $:£: Queensland suffered one o f its natural prisonment, suspended for three years. ing at the ringsides. and rhythmic underwater periods, wow i WANr yoz which have been occurring since at least ’-TO U E D O H /V O /V Harry Gumboot is back with a bang, 7 H i5 f tP H A N b 7E o | weighing in against work, continuing the the end of time and long before land AU-AtcOT/r. debate on this subject which has been speculators were even heard of, two surreptitiously fluctuating in these pages matter fact statements went almost since issue one (page 5). Perhaps it’s all a unnoticed in the welter of stories about sly apology for his own slackness in these grandmothers clinging to the tops of past weeks. gum trees, heroic rescue bid by blind The work o f merely being alive leaves 8$ Spot, the drover’s dog, and telegrams of face prints, as Syd Shelton’s shots show sympathy from queen Elizabeth of Aus- of the Sydney busmen’s picnic (page 12). tralia. The mood is a graceful contrast to that of :£:j; The first was made by environment the Sunbury music festival, pulsating with minister, Moss Cass, who said “ the all the usual rituals o f youth; which, if a losses were distressing but both the gulf than five minutes o f any given day and he voice of the mock W: whether any members of the army are TURTLE WAS HEARD little hackneyed, were far less so than the and channel countries of Queensland T still able to pull a trigger in mock anger. THROUGHOUT THE LAND: Sir newspapers which reported the occasion. were subject to periodic flooding, every- Several Sunday journalists confessed to one knew that and those people who are Reginald Sholl, a former Victorian £:£ writing their stories before visiting the prepared to fly in the face of mother ack on the real front supreme court judge, said in Melbourne, *•* scene. So far was the truth from the nature just have to learn to offset B LINE: Firing yet another shot in that criminal law should not be changed “ nude orgy, pictures” and headlines, that profits from the tolerable years against the great butter-margarine war, the to excuse drug addicts and alcoholics one shudders to contemplate credibility >:*: the somewhat damp ones (or perhaps deputy New South Wales Labor opposi­ from their actions. In other statements, sir Reginald said that chronic alcoholism W:; in other areas. start breeding cattle with gills). When tion leader Mr Ferguson claimed that The living delights guide grows and Brisbane went under water, federal the dairy industry wanted to make should be punishable by banishment grows. There was a ballsup last week science minister Morrison, while exud- margarine so unpalatable that people from society, drug offenders should be involving Melbourne Delights which was ing a little clucking sympathy for the would, “ throw up rather than eat it” . treated equally harshly and that increas- X;X not the fault o f Chris and Eva, so sorry wet suburbanites, said many of the He also observed that while both armies ed criminal violence in the community $*: for any inconvenience. We’re trying it as a cities flooded areas had been irrespons- claimed that they were starving to was the result o f “ the decline o f relig- centre spread, to be lifted out and left ibly designed for housing or industrial death, both had managed to mount ious faith, the growth o f materialist and around. Is all the drudgery and time it 8$: development. He made no comment at intensive and costly public relations wholly selfish philosophy, the portrayal absorbs in preparation each week, worth­ j&v all on the mentally defective condition campaigns to press their points o f view, o f violence and cruelty as universal while? Please let either the Sydney or o f those who are mugs enough to a fact that somewhat spoiled their re­ entertainments". -gj; Melbourne Delights editors know, if there actually build houses over natural water spectable images. UST IN CASE YOU HADNT M are any gross omissions o f interesting courses. Meanwhile the Brisbane land NOTICED: The cost o f living in weekly things to do (see centrespread). speculators remain dry and insulated on eeping sm all nations in J Australia rose by 13 percent last year Margaret MacIntyre is soon to be higher ground. THEIR PLACE: American secre­ K which should worry absolutely no one phasing in as the overseer o f the music tary o f state, Dr Henry Kissinger, has who exists on a diet o f cold water and pages, joining our growing cottage indus­ KISS TO BUILD A DREAM ON: warned that the superpowers will joint­ seaweed. However, for the rest o f the try o f contributing editors. She plans to Seventyeight year old Edna Ed- ly adopt a “ strike first” war plan if A community, this could indicate the con- break out from the restrictions of rock wards o f the Sydney suburb o f Hurst- improvements in nuclear weapons went ditions this year might not be so rosy. :*ij consciousness and to concentrate more ij:$: ville, told police that a thief w’ o stole unchecked. He then gave the world a In an effort to damp down this mad $100 from her during the night returned little hope for the future by stating that on indigenous music scenes. spiral, the federal government an- As the commune movement acceler­ $7 o f his takings and gave her a kiss on American nuclear strategists had decided nounced that it would support quarterly ates in Australia, so does the controversy the cheek before bounding out into the to switch nuclear targeting from cities cost o f living adjustments and at the 8 8 continue as how to balance anarchy with night, presumably into the arms o f a to military installations in the future same time it increased the health fund structure. In the first TLD o f the year, somewhat younger companion. because advances in nuclear missile contributions - making it highly unlike- Graeme Dunstan, announced a workshop development no longer favored the ly that anyone will dare to get sick in :$ :3 on alternative living to be held in New e didnt even mention women and children first principle. 1974. M England, NSW, all invited, $6 fee, febru- HGOUGH WHITLAM: Author Pat- rick White in accepting the Australian o f m ary 15 to 20th, more information from HERE’S SMALL POX IN THE EAT ME, WHIP ME: The world’s :j:§: the Year award in Melbourne said he Alternative Living Foundation, PO box BLANKETS AGAIN: Senator best known child care expert, Dr S S believed the prize should have been T B 126, Uralla, 2358. In this issue, Frank Neville Bonner has revealed that mili­ Benjamin Spock, has blamed himself for g g shared by three other people — historian Wingham, a widely travelled commune tant aboriginals are prepared to use producing “ the spoiled brats o f Ameri- professor Manning Clark, green bans chronicler, airs his rather didactic views, violence against the white community ca” . He said inability to be firm with builders laborer, Jack Mundey and pages 16 and 17 (and he also supplied the to achieve their aims and are at present children was one o f the commonest Barry Humphries, chronicler o f the pas- pics). Sony, Frank, for the vanished stockpiling weapons to fight , the good problems in the great nation o f the sage o f the great Australian ocker. His byeline ... fight. The reason for this stockpiling is United States today and although he V# i” j:: well healed audience most of which had Some people objected to last week’s believed not to be entirely unrelated to didnt press the point further he indicat- 8 3 vxj: at one time or another suffered from feature Men against sexism, and fuller certain attitudes among the members of ed that the Vietnam war could have >:W: the hands of the three unrewarded replies will appear next week, as will a the Queensland police force. But been caused by these “ spoiled brats” . 3:8 gentlemen was not particularly amused. vigorous inquiry into Richmond city Queensland police minister Hodges, in Dr Spock went on to say, “ in the 20th council . . . a survey o f action plans by defending his finest, said all people were century, parents have been persuaded pot reform groups .. . a confession from HY BOTHER, THEY’LL FALL equal under the Queensland sun. Actual­ that the only people who know for sure 8 8 a middle class work addict and anything W OUT OF THE SKY ANYWAY: ly he is right, the Queensland police, if how children should be managed are the 8 8 more that can fit in the puny space The Australian airforce’s swingwing anything, enjoy bullying hairy white child psychiatrists, psychologists, teach- allowed — see ya next week — EDS. lead sled, the F ill fighter bomber, is to southerners almost as much as they do ers and social workers. My talks on child PS. Due to a deadline time scramble last engage the Australian army in mock intimidating black northerners. Not sur­ rearing were meant to be helpful but week’s story on the Adelaide Triplight battle next month. The purpose of the prisingly in view o f this official attitude, while I did not know it until it was too ijigj Together Company didnt carry a by-line. tests, as announced by the defence a group of Australian aboriginals are late, my apparent know-it-all attitude The piece was written by Brian Johnston, department, appears to be to find out now touring China with a view to was undermining parents confidence.” a journalist not directly connected with whether the somewhat expensive F ill setting up their own communes once Perhaps Dr Spock and sir Reginald 8 8 the enterprise. Brian pointed out that ;i;:$ can defy the laws of gravity for more they return to their so called homeland. Sholl should get together. j83 Peter Carey, the centre’s chief spokesman has been receiving more than his due of the fuzz’s “ attention” and wished the The Living Daylights is published every tuesday by Incorporated Newsagencies Company Pty Ltd at 113 Adelaide police to know that it wasnt Rosslyn street, West Melbourne, Victoria. You can write Carey who filed the story. to us C/- PO box 5312 BB, GPO Melbourne, Victoria 3001. Telephone (03)329.0700, Telex AA32403. EDIT­ ORS: Terence Maher, Michael Morris, Richard Neville, Laurel Olszewski. CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: MUSIC, Margaret MacIntyre (03)91.3514; NEWS, Piotr Olszewski (03)38.5979; SYDNEY, Stephen Wall (02)698.2652. PERFECT MASTER: Barry Watts. BUSINESS: Robin Howells. ADVERTISING: MELBOURNE: Robert Burns (03)329.0700; SYDNEY: Stan Locke (02)212.3104. DISTRIBUTION: VICTORIA: Magdiss Pty Ltd, Tele­ phone 60.0421; NSW: Allan Rodney Wright. Telephone 357.2588; A.C.T.: Canberra City Newsagency. Telephone COVER: First two pictures and quotes 48.6914; Q’LAND: Gordon & Gotch. Telephone derived from Newsweek issue on Konrad 31.2681. STH. AUST.: Brian Fuller. Telephone 45.9812; TASMANIA: South Hobart Newsagency. Telephone Lorenz. 23.6684. Page 2 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, january 29-february 4, 1974 DAVE BLUE Bob Dylan: Bully-boy the singing breaks real estate broker out A.J. W E B E R M A N , self-proclaimed dylanologist and founder of the Dylan Liberation Front, has been Dylan’s most the booze trenchant critic, stalking the poet like

Tom hates drugs: “ They pervert plexed Victorian fuzz some the crocodile stalked Captain Hook in and degrade humanity,” he told $17,500 in forged 10 dollar notes. Peter Pan. Here Weberman has a poke Melbourne Truth men inviting He claims he had contact with them to come along and chronicle "Mr Brown” , the man who con­ at Dylan’s current US tour his citizen’s bust. ned $500,000 o ff Qantas. Tom But Tom and Russ came a was big and blousy in those gutsy (who "collected nazi memora­ gutser: Truth's news editor, days... How many years can an audi­ bilia”)! Why I even found anti L ’Estrange, decided to invite com ­ These days Ericksen and his ence Semitic literature in John ments on the legality o f the raid buddy Pearson have hung up their Listen to the same old songs? Mitchell’s garbage carefully under­ from the Victorian police commis­ guns and bask in the surf and And how much bread must lined to support his contention sioner and the Council for Civil sunshine at Barwon Heads where people shell out that the jews funnelled illegal Liberties. Our heroes were next Tom manages the hotel for his Before they know they've been money to McGovern in return for seen in the Prahran magistrate’s wife and brother-in-law. There wronged? his support o f Israel. Israel can court on a series o f five charges have been some problems though: The answei m y friend Ainthere tonight exist without Amerika having to each. the locals recently kicked up a be a dictatorship - at least I hope fuss when they learnt Tom was The answer aint here Describing the incident, Truth so! selling cut rate petrol, shaving Tonight. journalist Martin Ryan told the All the bread from the concerts cream, smokes and sweets as well court he saw Ericksen “ aggressive­ is going to Israel’s most reaction­ as alcohol. ly” handcuff the two alleged drug nyone who pays $10 to ary elements, in total secrecy It’s a shame Ericksen doesnt users and tape-record “confes­ A see “ Bob Dylan” and The since Dylan doesnt want any con­ E WENT to sions” . Ryan said the intrepid pair exercise the same vigilance as in Band during their current tour has troversy or arab threats cutting southwest roared into the pad brandishing a his former drug-hounding days. got to be out of their cotton- down on the gross. WHY Victoria, down by shotgun, knuckledusters, a two- When we visited his pub we could pickin mind ... and Dylan is DOESNT DYLAN SAY SOME­ the sea, to Barwon way radio and a tape recorder. He have sworn that some o f the laughing his ass o ff at them! He THING ABOUT THE INSANITY Heads, to its hotel, described how one of the “bust- drinkers were under 18 and, in even talks about conning his fans AND INHUMANITY OF THE to see what our ees" tried to swallow his joint.. . fact, when questioned admitted in the Newsweak cover story about PALESTINIANS FORGETTING old friend, anti Ericksen and Pearson prised open they werent o f legal drinking age. him ’cause he knows they’re payin’ ABOUT THE SIX MILLION drug crusader, hefty his mouth and retrieved the soggy To abide with the licensing to see a ghost, to resurrect a mem­ JEWS WHO WERE SYSTE­ heavy Tom Ericksen dope. laws Tom has a quaint custom at ory o f a time when there was hope MATICALLY MURDERED AND closing time. Patrons are escorted THE ISRAELIS FORGETTING is hatching. The case went up to a county in Amerika - he knows how des­ from the lounge where they queue ABOUT THE MISERY OF THE Tom and court jury, but the vigilantes were perate you are and is going to up to buy "supper” for readmit­ his faithful acquitted o f charges o f unlawful squeeze every last penny out o f TWO MILLION PALESTINIANS sidekick. Russ tance to drink and dance until Hattie Carroll, Song to W oody LIVING IN TENTS AND imprisonment and assault. 11.45pm. Pearson, are peddling and Mr Tamborine man. SHACKS IN THE DESERT? Operating from his heavily Russ was on guard duty out­ the world’s The real Bob Dylan is stoned Everyone needs a place to armed fortress in Toorak, Big side the hotel's main entrance .. . most widely cold dead — murdered by capital­ crash free o f persecution - arabs Tom used to offer his services as relieving patrons o f glasses they abused ism, heroin-induced cynicism and and jews - and it’s Amerika’s bodyguard. He “travelled” with tried to smuggle out. The local policy o f using the jews fear o f drug. racist cultural nationalism. abortion reformer, Dr Bert Wain- police cruised past the hotel, only Mr Zimmerman (Dylan) is a extermination to keep down the But Tom and Russ like kids, er, around the time o f Mel­ stopping momentarily to disperse multimillionaire with a large port­ arabs that's led to the current like to keep fatherly eyes on their bourne’s big abortion inquiry. He people who were obviously not folio of stocks (he once admitted tragic situation. Ultra-zionists like habits and ways. Why, as recently went on to hit the headlines when staying for supper. Perhaps they to me that he owned Ling-Temco- Dylan play right into their hands as june 17, 1972, the Dynamic he was the go-between in an un­ had other more feared drug users Vaught — a war materials manu­ . . . I’m not saying he should give Duo staged a vigilante midnight derworld handover of forged cur­ to pursue than Big Tom ’s drink­ facturer) and he also owns a lot of the money to Palestinian terrorist drug raid on a South Yarra flat. rency and graciously handed per­ ers. real estate in Manhattan such as a groups who often disguise their good part of a skyscraper at 1400 age old anti semitism in anti Zion­ Broadway along with many town- ist rhetoric - but there are pro­ houses in Greenwich Village. All gressive elements in Israel who o f these are purely profit making could use his support. . . ventures — meanwhile the Free It’s obvious that I have a love- Clinic of New York city is going hate thing going with Dylan - if I to have to close for lack o f a didnt dig him I wouldnt have cheap space ... The check re­ spent so much time deciphering printed on the last page o f this his poetry — and after he did packet can give you some idea of George Jackson I was so impress­ Dylan’s wealth — it’s merely the ed that I discredited myself by discrepancy between two account­ apologising to him, hoping he’d ants after a re-audit o f the books become a human again. When I at Columbia - he’s worth at least found out he kept all the bread FIVE MILLION. from the single and refused to Dylan’s politics are the same as meet with Jackson’s mother mv the Jewish Defence League’s: ex­ hopes were dashed to shreds and tremely rightwing. He’s contribut­ I realised I’d been had. ed large amounts o f money to A few years later, when he them — under the name of Abra­ announced he was playing at the ham Zimmerman and personally Nassau Colosseum despite all the wrote a check to Meir Kahane for pot busts that have been going 15 grand. Kahane’s latest thing is down there and despite the tour mailing letters to Israeli arabs promoter’s (Bill Graham) promise offering them money to leave the to boycott the joint I realised my country — Rockwell, the nazi, contention that — “ The great used to do the same thing - only artist isnt always the great human the letters went out to Amerika’s being” - was the supreme exer­ blacks. cise in understatement. Dylan can Although I do agree with the shit all over you only because you JDL’s contention that there must let him — poetic and musical be a predominantly jewish state — talent is no excuse to exploit & thanks to A dolf Hitler - their pro con people - let’s put some grass­ Nixon stand is intolerable. They roots pressure on the rock in­ want to leave the fate o f Israel in dustry and everyone will be the the hands of rightwing Germans better for it. lik e Haldeman, Ehrlichman, FREE BOB DYLAN! and Big Tom's standover Buzhardt, Zeig Heiler and Liddy FREE YOURSELVES! (NYNS) THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, January 29-february 4, 1974 — Page 3 %

The life and times of Omnibus MICHAEL ELVINS

N JANUARY 4 after a the very near future, you watch. O very successful concert with Omnibtis is now about seven years Captain Matchbox (bless ’em), old. The first five years were spent Omnibus, at 1-5 Glebe Point road, germinating in one poor bugger’s closed down operations, and a head (mine) and the last two rather shaky attempt to create a disturbing the peace in a growing totally counter-cultural environ­ number o f other peoples heads. ment within Sydney was tempo­ A lot o f people have asked rarily abandoned. what the hell is Omnibus, and Not much would be gained by usually they received a pretty going into the whys and where­ spaced-out answer. Unfortunately, fores of why we did close, except it’s not possible to give a simple maybe a few myths might be laid one. Two years ago, it was the to rest. name o f a theatre company; then YES, the licensing squad police it became the name o f a rede­ did hassle us, and in fact scared velopment project in Woolloo- the shit out o f us, but on their m ooloo that was to house, among own were a problem we might other creative workshops, the the­ have been able to handle, one way atre company. or another. YES, the owner did pull a couple When the bans were slapped on of vital foundation stones out to Woolloomooloo, Omnibus be­ came the name o f a couple o f from underneath us and create all VfCTOfclA JT - WmtT MNJRj iV f kinds o f hassles in our heads, but houses in Collins street, Surry he also wanted sincerely for Hills, next to the Institute o f Omnibus to happen, and spent a Natural Health. We were simply a great deal o f time and money group of people who were trying Victoria St :The Peoples Plan giving us the opportunity. to live a fuller, more complete YES, it was a fascinating building, existence, and, for a while it WENDY BACON but it was also unmanageable, and worked. Nimbin was the high HOSE houses in Victoria containing every pamphlet, poster of the 350 people who turned up point o f that phase, but in the MODATION (meaning motels, street owned by Frank to see Captain Matchbox, only post-Nimbin euphoria (rather like T and report published. The daily and other temporary accomm oda­ Theeman now stand doorless and about 100 would have had any­ a post-Billy Graham revival meet­ press and TV were not as unsym­ tion). The agreement made be­ almost empty. Although the signs thing like a decent view o f their ing), when the wildest o f idealistic pathetic to the squatters as he tween the BLF and Theeman was performance. fantasies became probabilities, SA VE VICTORIA STREET, must have hoped and have paid that there would be no demolition YES, we were a pack o f pretty Omnibus frantically cut itself BUILDINGS FOR NEED NOT some attention to his large invest­ until the action plan was com ­ GREED have been blotted out, untogether people a lot of the loose from Collins street (one day ments in Vale Corporation which pleted. The green ban would then time, but we were hog-tied almost I hope I’ll be forgiven), and Omni­ Mick Fowler, a lone tenant, still is in liquidation. A poster featur­ be lifted providing there had been from the moment we opened, and bus at Glebe Point road gradually lives in 115. ing photos o f the thugs had in­ adequate consultation with the although we couldnt admit it even came into being. Meissner and his crew, are en­ cluded his son Michael. Also Thee­ residents and if the residents en­ sconced in the agent’s office. Be­ man knew that the squatters were to ourselves, our ability to be Essentially, Omnibus is only a dorsed the plan. low, in Brr jgham street, hundreds positive and to function with a name. It is a name a lot o f preparing their own newspaper Contrary to the union’s usual of doors, including some fine old City squatter which would con­ '•’'ear vision was so clouded by the people have used in order to policy in green ban matters, this cedar ones, are stacked, partly tain details o f his business connec­ uncertain ties confronting us that give themselves the courage neces­ agreement had not been reached exposed to the weather. tions and security organisation. It we functioned well below our sary tp stop being a mindless at the request of the Resident It’s clear that squatting in V ic­ may be that Theeman, relying on capabilities. automaton and to start the long Action Group. So on sunday, jan­ toria street — for the time being the protection of the conventional Still, we had some real vic­ slow haul into thinking (or more uary 20, the group met to consid­ anyway — is no longer on. A solid Australian press, had not expected tories, and a few people got a accurately, feeling) for them­ er our position. row of police and controllers such details to becom e public and good zap sometimes, and we’ve selves, and, even harder, doing for Aside from our belief that a made any move back into the was now frightened o f just where gained a hell o f a lot o f experience their selves. modified version o f Theeman’s houses impossible. For a few days, our investigation might lead. which will be put to good use in “development” plan would be ac­ some squatters and friends camp­ A second possibility is that cepted into the action plan, and ed under a tarpaulin and maintain­ Maddison, state minister for pol­ from the fact that we already had If you're black, you can't afford to stand back. If you're white, support ed a picket on the street. Elvis, ice, who supplied the cops for the human right — as you did against conscription, apartheid and Vietnam. The our own co-operative housing plan whose chimney they pulled apart evictions, was not prepared to back system killed Namatjira. It tried to silence Charles Perkins. Now it's after for the street, more general con­ in order to get him out, was the Kevin Gilbert, aboriginal poet and land rights campaigner. The cops reckon he up with hundreds more for the siderations were raised. last to come down. demolition. Also, it may be Thee­ sent a letter threatening to kill the queen. Gilbert reckons you'd have to be In days of public opposition to Theeman announced that green man was not receiving much sup­ some sort of a nut to do such a stupid, futile thing. But it got him out of the urban “ development” most coun­ way before the openinq of the Opera House and it killed the land rights demo, ban or no green ban demolition port from the other developers cil plans include some citizen in­ that he was planning for that day. If the charge succeeds, it will also get would go ahead. No-one felt very who, rather than throwing in their put. However rarely, if ever, has Kevin out of the road for the rest of his life. The Free Kevin Gilbert campaign optimistic about stopping him. We lot with this new boy, preferred this affected the basic political seeks your support and donations. Car stickers, posters, badges and leaflets are had already learnt from the Rocks to sit back and acclaim him later decisions on which the plan is available. So, too, are 4 illustrated poems by Kevin Gilbert at $1 each or $4 a incidents last October that even if he did manage to bust the green set of four. From Free Kevin Gilbert campaign. Box A 711, Sydney South PO, born. Plans go on display, but with large numbers, demolition, if ban. The Institute o f Real Estate Sydney. 2000. Protests to: Sir Roden Cutler, Governor of New South Wales, who knows what happens to the backed by the police, is much Developers actually published a Sir Robert Askin, Premier, Parliament House, Sydney, NSW. 2000. wishes and comments o f the resi­ harder to stop than construction. statement dissociating their or­ dents. For the BLF, it was a bad time for ganisation from Theeman’s use of a confrontation. City laborers violence. So, the Victoria street group who had already lost money Another possible explanation made several conditions for par­ through stoppages and lock-outs for Theeman’s change of policy at ticipation in the action plan. Plan­ late last year, had only just return­ this moment is that he realised ning begins where participation ed to work after the holiday that if he waited another few (not consultation) o f residents be­ period. If the funds of individual months, he might well get his gins: members were low, so too were development off the ground with­ • The structure plan would the union’s. While the union as­ out all the confrontation that have to be scrapped; sessed its position, the thoughts o f demolition would now involve. • All planning decisions to be the squatters turned to sabotage - We do know that after the evic­ made at open, general meetings o f but the best we could come up tions, he met Doug Danes, a residents and other interested peo­ with would only have made dem o­ council town planner. Danes is ple; lition tough, at best to hold it up part o f the team o f planners pre­ • Residents o f Darlinghurst for a couple o f days. paring an action plan for W oolloo­ (an adjacent suburb) be included Then on thursday, january 17, m ooloo (including the west side since they would be affected by Theeman contacted the BLF offi­ o f Victoria street) under the au­ the proposed highrise develop­ cials, and reached an agreement spices o f federal minister Uren, ment along William street. with them that on certain condi­ Fuller the state minister for the The following day we paid a tions there would be no demoli­ environment and lord mayor visit to the council town planning tion. What made Theeman hesi­ Shehadie. department. The man at the tate at this point? There are sev­ The basic structure plan shown counter told us we couldnt go eral possibilities. to the W oolloom ooloo residents on into to see the action plan until it Homer with Billy Green, Fonda Glenrowan, Capt. Rock, It’s known that Theeman fears january 2, showed Victoria street had been approved by the council, Carl Myriad, Ken White, John Ley, Peter Lillee the publicity building up against marked RESIDENTIAL - EN­ which would not be for several him. On his desk there s a file TERTAINMENT AND ACCOM­ Page 4 -T H E LIVING DAYLIGHTS, january 29-february 4, 1974 months. Only after we mentioned that we knew Rita Spiegel, the council sociologist, did we get our way. So on tuesday about 10 Vic­ toria street residents - joined Harry Gumboot on work later by some from W oolloom oo- loo - looked over the maps with the town planners. The maps in­ clude details o f traffic studies, -the curse of the thinking class topography, development applica­ tions, proposed workforce, and HE bum-orientated issue o f Penthouse magazine, now on sale, becoming delicately, intricately harmonious, at peace with their citizen participation. We remarked lets John C. Lilly, the voice at the centre of the cyclone, speak nature . . . Oh, these shimmering mistresses o f Oblomov. on the low level o f “ participa­ T out between the pics of powdered cheeks. A dolphinologist, I suppose we must pity the poor wretches who need work as an tion” . We were told this map only formerly with the US navy, he is asked: “ What else are you getting anvil on which to forge their own identity, but let them not turn the represented the results o f a ques­ into?” pitiless distraction o f toil into a virtue. The new year’s honor list — tionnaire sent out last year. We Lilly: Learning how to d o nothing. today’s Goebbels diaries — the fatuous medallions pinned to the explained that no one in Victoria Penthouse: How do you do that? chests o f land butchers, the achievers, the success stories, the people street had received a question­ Lilly: You just do nothing. who produce the most profitable piles o f garbage. naire. Neither, as she pointed out, Penthouse: How much o f your time is involved in that? D o not confuse these sentiments with hustling to survive, doing had a woman from William street. Lilly: Oh, about 90 percent of it. the dance naturally, like the dope dealers, photographers, The planners insisted the ques­ Penthouse: Where would you like it to get to? parttime cabbies, students, designers, models, artists, “ revolution­ tionnaires had been delivered. Lilly: One hundred percent. aries” , book reviewers, models, beach inspectors, and so on . . . all The basic structure plan, which Like many people with a super industrious past, Lilly is learning doing the daily jive . . . the planners claim is the result o f to love loafing. He is late coming to it. A smattering o f the Yes, this is being unashamedly middle class. I refuse to don baggy all their studies so far, divided the generation which matured in the mid 50s and 60s intuitively realised overalls, thicken the voice, flash out angry slogans on the right to area into five or six land-use sec­ that work was hazardous to their mental health. Apart from sporadic tions. Despite the planner’s suggest­ work, the next five year plan and humming the Internationale. Mil­ dust clouds o f energy, designed to divert attention from their hard lions o f people are obliged to sweat through material necessity and ions that the sections are related core drop-out-ism, such people have flourished. that is disgusting. But it is also true though rarely aired, that the to topography, it is clear that the They have mastered the art o f doing nothing with exquisite style. main residential and community great stinking, sweltering mass o f the bourgeoisie are not working to Occasionally they are to be found in the Slough o f Despond, through fill their bellies, but because of the indoctrination of the fantasy area will be on the commonwealth guilt; moral outcasts in a society cowed before the altar of achieve­ aches o f acquisitiveness, status and other ego diseases . . . all reinforc­ five and a half acres and that the ment. Even as I write, kids are flaked out all over Australia ruminat­ commercial, entertainment and ed by feelings o f guilt about laziness and given incentive by ing on whether . . . “ Shit, shouldnt I be doing something more useful “accommodation”, mixed with pyramid mortgages. Drop out, you idiots, before you do any more residential, will be on the private­ with myself?” Dont. One false move and you are likely to pick up the damage. Cut crazy consumption, leave room for those more desperate malingering habit of work — a habit which has cost humanity dearly, ly owned land, where the develop­ than yourself to move. and day by dreary day fuels the plunder of our soil and soul. In these times, a new venture should not be undertaken unless it ers already have first stage approv­ Work is here defined as: money induced labor. (Thus separated makes a positive and joyous contribution to us all. That would al for their plans. from esthetic obsessions, enjoyful pursuits and emergency repair eradicate much o f the crap. I dont think the Living daylights would Our dissatisfaction with the work.) survive the test. Is it worth the killing o f trees, the harnessing of plan led to a discussion about the Nearly all work is harmful. Not only to the human who indulges heavy machinery, the trucks and drivers, the IBM typesetting, the difficulties of implementing low in it, but to the spaceship earth which is battered about in its holy eternal phone calls, ink, energy, proof-reading and office politics? rent housing. name. The disasters crushingly outweigh the dimunitive benefits — ... all to produce the piddling Living daylights . . . it seems absurd. The planners said they couldnt and in any sensible society all o f us are prepared to toil a few hours And it is! Remember back to the first time you took acid. Was see why so many residents were a week to keep the post office opened, the garbage collected and not that first flash (forgotten now in the sizzling drug sodden 70s), concerned with the problems of bicycles repaired; in return for the abolition o f all material junk . . . that first flash — especially in a city trip — o f the sheer irrelevance o f implementation o f the plan. Ap­ and the slavery its production entails. most human endeavor, the ridiculous, turbulent overpowering parently it hasnt occurred to them But let’s here leave the cosmic sociology to other minds and other preponderance of things. Go stoned one day into the grandest de­ that most residents know what forums; look at the effect of the work drug on the people around partment store in your area, freak out on the junk heaps, sense the they want, but how to get it in an sheer exhilarating sanity o f indolence. area of development and land you. About 10 years ago, I began to notice that the only people If you’re afraid to take the leap start somewhere easy. For an price boom is the stumbling around me who had anything interesting to say, didnt work. People Australian, the decision not to own a car can be the starting point block. On leaving we told the planners caught up in a career became shallow, one dimensional, narrowly of liberation. (See delightful centre spread in the current Digger, on o f the conditions for further par­ ambitious. Their personalities faded into the archetype o f their non pollutant, self serviceable push bikes.) Shedding unnecessary ticipation. After some hesitation, occupation. And the busier they got, the more boring they became. possessions is easy. The real challenge is with tertiary capitalist they said they would be only too Oh God, how awful it was (and still is) to meet someone in their commodities. Will you “buy” education for your children, buy happy if we would do our own office lunch hour . . . health from the government, buy insurance from those maniacs who plan and bring it to them, instead Being busy means not being available for commitment, convivial­ have littered the skylines with box towers — the gravestones of of continuing with such destruc­ ity or even conversation. And how work stultifies the brain (except freedom? tive, negative talk. in the direction o f their “ specialisation” ). Whenever one connects All play and no politics makes Jack a romantic weakling. Work Last thursday night, the Vic­ with an old friend, someone you last saw in 1964 setting o ff to play and corruption are loathsomely entwined, the developers and toria street and W oolloom ooloo golf with the boss, they’ve invariably lost their sense o f humor, their despoilers must be stopped in their tracks. Which is why Victoria groups met together. All round hair and immediately they start groaning about what unions are street, Sydney, is the Tobruk o f today. In the same weekend that dissatisfaction with the action doing to the country . . . Melbourne bay swimmers are shown to be in a soup o f human shit, plan was expressed. It was decided It’s the same with cities. Melbourne has always been drearier than plans are announced to actually mine the area in search for more oil. that work would begin on a “ peo­ Sydney, because too many people toil. Although at last laziness More shit . . . ple’s plan” for the whole area. seems to be making a comeback. Internationally, cities can be rated In Australia, with its wide open spaces, a great enemy o f personal This weekend down in W ool­ in terms o f stimulation and imagination, to the proportion of freedom is the advertising industry, the gestapo o f the consumer loom ooloo Herman, an architect voluntary unemployed . . . laying about in cafes. society. Like James Bond — a figure whom they largely created — who lives in the area, is cleaning Women are smarter than men, and o f all the ones I vaguely grew they are licensed to kill; killing us softly with their words. If the his model. Residents and squatters up with around the beaches of Sydney, only those swallowed up by adventure o f life is regarded as a search for truth, both within you are preparing to shape their de­ a steady grind and/or relentless domesticity, have failed to grasp the and without you, then one feels an almost prim contempt for the sires out of chunks of foam rub­ true significance o f their social options . . . that they are on the brink citadel o f the lie', with its Vatican in Madison avenue, its citadels in ber. A videotape informal survey o f a dramatic change . . . as they continue drone-like in their office every nook and cranny, cascading forth with suffocating falsehoods — o f all the people in the area will burrows. pumping out a message in every medium, until it is finally the poetry begin next week. The brightest women do nothing and mature like a zen garden — o f our age. ______

ACTORS FORUM PRESENTS Cards are on the table GALA AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Gerds Nicolson and Lew Luton sity isnt big enough and lacks the IN PIOTR OLSZEWSKI • Copies of photographs could be used by police to identify stu­ resources to cater for the current 'TERRIBLY TERRIBLY" TUDENT dissidence is off dents; students alone. He added that the A black comedy by Alan Hopgooo. S to an early official start in high insidence o f theft from the • This action renders useless the With Beverley Dunn and Gary Down Victoria this year. Front line libraries has also necessitated fur­ pool of union cards the SRC is Season strictly limited, 30th Jan.-9th Feb. honors go to the Melbourne uni­ ther security. ALEXANDER THEATRE, MONASH UNIVERSITY versity SRC who bagged publicity presently holding to distribute to Hewett claimed a number of BOOKINGS 544.0311, ext. 3992; A.H/541.3992. after placing an advertisement in people. the photos of students were taken MSD AND MYERS. the Melbourne Age recently warn­ Hewett complained that the students were misled into believ­ and placed on “ file”. ing students against an administra­ ing that photographs were com­ tion plan to introduce student Barrah stated that several pulsory, not, as in fact they are, union cards complete with photo­ photographs were taken of new optional. Hewett says there’s a graphs. students for “quite understand­ LIBERATION sign explaining this, but it is so Spokesman for the SRC, An­ able use” in faculty records. He 155 Greville S t, Prahran, 3181 placed that students see it only drew Hewett, said it was opposed said that the number of photo­ (Off Chapel S t, at Town Hall) after having their photographs to this action for the following graphs taken varied according to taken. reasons: the faculties students were enter­ LOU REED - Rock and Roll Animal; LEO KOTKE - Ice Water; JOE However Mr Barrah, assistant • The university is already a ing and he said there was no WALSH - Meadows; JOHN PRINE - Sweet Revenge; STEVE M ILLER - “closed” institution and the new registrar, claims that the SRC is central filing of photographs. The Joker; ZZ TOP — Tres Hombres; DOOBIE BROTHERS — Captain & Me; SUGAR CANE HARRIS - Cup Full of Dreams; JIM GROCE - I Got union cards would make it even unjustified in its attack. He says As a closing piece of irony A Name; BO HANSON — Magician's Hat; YES — Tales of Topographic that he too would like to see a Barrah pointed out that as a result more difficult for outsiders to use Oceans; BOB DYLAN & BAND - New Release; MAHIVISHNU ORCHES­ facilities such as libraries; university completely open to the of the publicity in the Age, busi­ public but he maintains that this TRA - Live; GRAM PARSONS - G.P.; TRAFFIC - On The Road; • The SRC considers this action a nesses “ downtown” were now only ALICE COOPER - Muscle of Love. frontal attack on civil liberties; it can happen only in an ideal state recognising cards that carried and that our state is far from "AUSTRALIA’S BEST COLLECTION OF WORLD QUALITY RECORDS". leads to students being unable to photographs. All single albums $6.30 ideal. move about freely without ID "MELBOURNE'S PROGRESSIVE MUSIC CENTRE". cards; Barrah claims that the univer­ □ THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, january 29-february 4, 1974 — Page 5 RANK STEWART, the Min­ themselves with a cricket bat, will commissioner’s chair. Channel Seven, then went over­ ister for Recreation and haunt the mind o f those o f us But Stewart wasnt having any seas for more watching and talk­ F Tourism, says Australia madewho its love this cruelest o f all sports, o f that. Quite rightly so, too. He ing. big breakthrough in sport during and want to have it properly told the public through a number And that, friends, was nine 1973, and under his direction. controlled. o f press statements that he was months ago, and until today the And he has announced that his So what's kept Frank so long? establishing a committee to in­ last we’ve heard o f the boxing department’s inquiry into boxing Shortly after coming to power, quire into the control of boxing in commission intended for Austra­ is nearing completion. And about Frank Stewart retained former Australia. lia. time, too. top featherweight and ex-Salva- What control? For a Government which The blood and guts business o f tion Army captain, Trevor King, There’s been no unbiased, promised quick action in this area TV ringside will soon be on again, to act as his “ trouble shooter” proper control of the blood and while in opposition, Labor has and a large number of half fit during the promised ministerial guts game since the day big, black been damned slow in coming up sluggers, and misguided mugs who investigation o f boxing. Jack Johnson taunted little Tom­ with anything concrete. Are we shouldnt be allowed to pull on a King had been nominated by my Burns down at what later going to have to wait for another glove, will be belting the living Fighter, the only magazine devot­ became known as Rushcutter’s ring tragedy before something daylights out of each other for the ed to boxing in Australia. In fact Bay Stadium, hammering hell out is done? enjoyment o f the cash customers. Fighter's publisher and co-editor, o f him as he did so. We’ve witnessed a number o f Once again the spectre o f death Mike Ryan, personally touted Anyway, the Stewart appoint­ ring tragedies in Australia since in the ring o f severe brain damage King to Stewart and, it seemed at ed committee made the rounds of the start o f the 1970s already. For to one or more of the poor the time, tried damned hard to get stadiums in Australia. Talked to instance, little Filipino, Alberto bastards who couldnt defend King eased into the proposed blokes like genial Ron Casey o f Jangalay died after being knocked

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WVJ Idown by Kid Snowball in Festival only lost his previous ■Hall, Brisbane in August 1971. A fight against the black (postm ortem revealed crusted i sensation o f the time, Bennie Iblood on a portion o f his skull. I Brisco, because o f a cut (This was proof, doctors said, that \\ I eye in Round 8. Actually IJangalay had been badly hammer- j he was carried senseless led around the head before the from the Madison [Snowball fight. ' V i 1 Square Garden ring only Under the control of a com- V _ 55 seconds into Round 2. Ipetent boxing commissioner and [dedicated commission, Jangalay’s “ Bad News’ (Austin/a went into the Brisbane [previous severe head injuries J, IJ hall ring with fat falling [would have been discovered. He over his trunks. He lasted a |would have been prevented from ’ little more than one round. | staying in the fight game for his ’ DeLima was belted around for [own protection. four or five rounds before being Johnny Phillips, colorful knocked down three times. It was |Sydney fight trainer who took pitiful. [Welshman Ronnie James to a \ So far as Mundine’s concerned [world welterweight title fight there’s a long trail o f neverwassers [against the famous Ike Williams in or hasbeens notched to his gloves. [Cardiff, in 1948, and who has Most wouldnt have been allowed [trained most of the hasbeenswho [have been brought to Sydney to to fight him under commission control. [fight Tony Mundine, said: “ Snow- [ball didnt hit Jangalay hard. Poor That's just part o f the sorry | [Little Alberto had no right being story o f boxing in Australia. | in the rinq that night. . . ” And now Frank Stewart says Phillips also says former good the inquiry into the blood and | fighters such as 33 year old An- guts sport is almost completed. ltonio Aquiller who lost early to Let’s hope it won’t be too long I Mundine at the Hordern Pavilion a now before we have a commission couple o f years ago, was rated operating. only 48th among world middle- But not so quickly Stewart will | weights when he fronted up to settle for some self-seeker as com­ | Tony. missioner who is interested only America’s Boxing illustrated in the buck he can extract from I endorsed Phillips’ statement con- the game. I cerning Aquiller’s position in box- Not someone who has milked I ing. On his record he had no right the game for every cent he can get I being in the same ring at the same from it by working both sides o f I time as Tony. the fence at the same time, taking from promoters as well as boxers And just prior to the Jangalay for small services rendered. |tragedy, Trevor Thornberry, a There’s a few about the game that I [clouting Queenslander with little fill that bill. [boxing ability, but dubbed "The Poor little Rocco. All he stayed lack o f control here. Tw o years of us. We appeared bloody child­ My nominee would be Fred [iceman” because he had chilled a in the blood and guts game for ago Felix Smith, leading Jamaican ish. And werent we? Henneberry, former brilliant Aus­ [few secondraters with one mighty was to get enough cash to bring promoter, brought Percy Hayles, Bill Slayton, intelligent black tralian middleweight. Fred proved [swing, collapsed in his corner at his mother and father to Austra­ Commonwealth lightweight cham­ trainer o f the black middleweight himself a sound fight commenta­ j Brisbane’s Festival Hall and was lia. Proper, commission supervised pion to Brisbane to fight Manny Lonnie Harris, told me in Brisbane tor, and a successful businessman. [taken unconscious to hospital. medical checks would probably Santos. The title was to be at 13 months ago when Harris was He is above suspicion. That’s what | [Doctors found his condition was have revealed R o cco ’s depressed stake. stopped in five by Tony Mundine, we need. A man above suspicion. | caused by punishment sustained state o f health and he, too, would When Hayles suffered a cut that Harris had taken the fight Suspicion is the one thing that |over a long period. have been refused a licence to mouth during a training session against his advice. must be kept out of any appoint­ fight. That’s the way it should be. and wanted a week’s postpone­ “ But Lonnie has been out o f After hovering close to death ment to this important post in a And then there was pathetic ment, Dick Lean, boss man at boxing for 18 months with a | for days Thornberry was discharg- game noted for suspect acts and little Pat Lamanna. Remember Jed into the care o f his wife, Carol. Stadiums Ltd said no dice. stomach illness. He needs the arrangements. Pat? They carried him deathly No dice that was unless Smith ready cash, so I agreed. But you | These days he sits in the sun and Boxing has got to be taken out | white and unconscious from Ron agreed to take Hayles down to know, he isnt rated in the first 50 I smiles blankly at his three chil- o f the wheeling and dealing area Casey’s TV ringside at Melbourne [dren. Perhaps he is struggling to Melbourne and for the fight, a TV middleweights. I dont think he and brought into high public es­ and rushed him to hospital. You ringside affair, to go on there has a chance in hell of winning [force his brain to recognise them, teem. Human lives have for too could say he’s never regained con ­ instead o f Brisbane where public this fight," he said. An hour later [and to explain to him who the long been the pawns in a game sciousness. Certainly the half interest in the bout had drawn he was proved right. attractive little woman is who that has served the pockets o f world o f shadows in which he only $200 worth o f reserved seats. Then he added: “ I wasnt so | looks after him so bravely, loving­ promoters for far too bloody now lives isnt consciousness. impressed with Mundine. Lonnie ly ? Smith told me, “ Who the hell long. To use a Labor cliche, It’s Pat was an eight rounder. He would take him given three more If we’d had a properly estab­ does this guy Lean think he is? Time. Over to you, Mr Minister went back to the game after mar­ lished boxing commission then Some sort o f little Caesar? We fights to get back into the game.” rying a nice little Italian girl. He | Thornberry is another fighter who signed to put the title on the fine Harris wouldnt have been al­ wanted to buy good things for the today would probably still be in Brisbane. We chose Brisbane lowed to go in against Mundine new house he’d bought . . . things enjoying life with his family. Ex­ because the climate is like back under commission control. After he couldnt buy from his truck tensive medical and skull tests home, and Percy could adjust such a layoff he would first have driving job. Earlier fights reduced would have revealed his state o f quickly to it . . . But Melbourne, had to prove himself by fighting Pat's resistance. He was a victim health and he would have been hell man, that’s a cold place, and his way into the main events of insufficient medical control. refused a licence to box; for his Percy could end up with a cold from semi-windup bouts. The first loud bellow for a | own good. and be a sitting shot for Santos Other examples of boxing commission in Australia II easy recent fights Another boxer who would still was heard after Victorian, Archie forced on to the | be with us was R occo Spanja, the Later Smith said: “ Boxing in Kemp, was carried senseless from paying public to happy Yugoslav lightweight who Australia is goddam undemocra­ -A 0 Rushcutter’s Bay Stadium in 1949 make them think they/ - i constantly complained to his land- tic. It needs humanising. Some o f after being knocked down and were going to see a [lady and friends o f severe head­ later belted through the ropes by the guys I’ve seen training to fight fight and not a aches for a fortnight before going national lightweight champion, prelims on the Hayles-Santos card one-sided slaughter, are' into the ring at Newcastle against Jack Hassen. Kemp, a brilliant havent been taught the rudiments Jureus DeLima and the then rising star. Hector boxer and popular sportsman, of self defence. They’ll end up “ Bad News” Austin. Thompson. R occo had even spent died that night in St Vincent’s with scrambled brains. What’s Both helped inflate [some time in bed, away from hospital. He never regained con­ wrong you dont have a boxing Mundine’s record of | work because o f his headaches. sciousness. commission here, bud?” knockouts. In the name o f decency let’s Felix Smith told Lean he wasnt j Thompson knocked him out. DeLima was He never regained consciousness. hope we’re not going to wait going to be pushed around and supposed to have Fighter and the NSW Veteran another 25 years for that com ­ have venues switched on him So Boxer’s Association secretary, Bill mission promised by Stewart. he took Hayles back to Jamaica. I | O’ Loughlan. arranqed for the bur- Poor supervision o f fighters have read what he told his local | ial. The promoter didnt attend apart, many experienced visitors pressmen about boxing in Austra­ 1 the funeral. to Australia have lampooned the lia. It made me blush for the rest

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semi or unskilled work. “ They talk about cab around this old town for 29 years. one-and-a-half hours as he explodes from a living wage, but Jesus mate, they dont His friends call him “Skavinsky”. subject to subject on his wall-to-wall (as get up at sparrow’s fart, work 12 hours (“ Everybody calls me that. You can call his fancy takes him). He is small and on the road and finish up with about me that. I’m not ashamed of it.” ) His round and hasnt stopped smiling as we enough money to paper the inside of a ambition is to drive a Kenworth semi take our leave. Mother hesitates, then also dunny roll . . . Living wage - bullshit - with 30-odd ton up, all the way over to comes to the door to illustrate his parting that’s what I say. Cobblers to the lot of Perth. “ V k n ow , those things will go so advice. “ Just you remember that if ’em!" was the verbatim response from slow that you can get out on a straight you’ve got a wife whose prepared to help one Astoria driver last week. After road and walk beside it . . . like this .. ” you as mine has me, then you’re half way months o f agitation, the taxi industry was At which point Ivor Dunstan went there. If you havent, then you’ve got granted a ten percent rise recently, but truckin’ down the hall, giggling. And why nought, sport.” failed to leave the drivers glowing with did he drive the streets o f Melbourne Ivor owns one cab and drives it ten pleasure. They generally set themselves a when he could be paid to read Pix-Post hours a day, six days a week. He suggests daily target and knock off when they for eight hours a day as a government $70 as a weekly wage sufficient to pay take that amount, which means they driver? “ I’ll tell you boys” , he hammered the bills: unlike a lot of owners, he re­ spend slightly less time on the road for back, "I’m me own boss. Meeting people fuses to allow anyone else to drive his cab. the same money. But the unhappy lot o f every day of the week from your top It now costs around $23,000-$24,000 to the employed driver (who, in any case, is businessman to the guy who gets in and put a fully fitted-out cab on the road the “ intinerant” of the industry) can be goes from one pub to the next. Right without the added expense o f tyres, compared to that of the owner-driver, mother? Mother nodded. servicing, fuel and a weekly subscription ESSENING the tedium o f working who owns his cab and possibly several o f Ivor loved his cars, you could see that. of $7 to the company. The owner can Lfor money is the tenuous thread them. By outlaying around $20,000 for a The glint that became his eye was the make the choice Ivor has made and run that keeps people smiling on sunny days. licence, the owner-driver has made a deeply-polished coat of his “Stanley the whole show himself, or reduce the life Regardless o f how you characterise free­ commitment to stay in the taxi game; Steamer” — an FC Holden that he used as o f his car by employing another driver at dom — be it with Royal Crown cola or there are not many o f them. his cab for eight years before turning it to night who will help defray the overheads. giving oneself to quiet succor 40 miles the pasture o f his well-appointed garage. Those who do this, particularly if they from a general store - unless you have a * * * In fact, the whole family loved cars; ITH handshaking among contem­ own more than one car, often do very lot o f money, or such belief in your mother affectionately remembered the poraries having been long forgotten, well out o f the taxi industry with an eight inherent creativity that justifies you living W time when son was getting married. She in favor of the popular frenetic nodding hour day and five day week to boot. off other people, you’ll have to work for was compiling a photo album for son’s o f head, it was disconcerting to have Ivor Because o f the tolerably happy lot o f money at some stage o f your life. That is, wife, however, son returned it to mother — all five fo o t six o f him - grabbing one’s the owner, the employed driver suffers. your fingernails will become dirty for to include photos o f all his ex-cars. Ivor hand with outrageous enthusiasm, smiling The owners are represented by the Vic­ money. This is one way o f getting the said, “ Can you find some m other?" She broadly as his forearm tensed and his fist torian Taxidrivers Association, on whose necessaries whilst reserving to yourself shook her head. “ I looked this morning gripped tighter. At the same time, his left initiative any application to the TRB your political potential. to get some to show the boys, but I think arm swung round to clasp one’s right arm (Transport Regulations Board - the fas­ son took them all. But I’ve got some beneath the elbow, demanding a dis­ cists o f the industry) for increased fares photos of our holiday in Fiji - do you tinctly uncomfortable ten seconds lather­ will begin. The employed drivers are think the boys would like to see them?” ed in smiles at the door. We went into his renresented bv the Motor Transport and HE CAB pirouettes on its right We saw Fiji. Chauffeurs union, which claims to act on earlobe and seizes its opportun­ house, which has neatly trimmed lawns T Ivor said, "Where are the Cheezels, behalf of three and a half thousand ity — a four-inch gap in the traffic bordered by a great deal o f clean con­ mother?” He speaks o f his G. J. Coles metropolitan drivers and another two going the other way - and nudges, crete. It lies discreetly in the shadow o f the Pascoe Vale gasometer. “ Look here umbrella, going up like a parachute on thousand “ occasionals” . Secretary o f the first one headlight, then a bumper, and so boys,” he began forcefully, “anything I rainy days. He also likes the sound of his union, Jack Waters, sat behind his desk in on. The beckoning whistle which insti­ tell you here is genuine, fair dinkum and meter: “The kite’s on like a hairy goat an’ the trades hall last week and put some gated these proceedings is drowned in a the truth. I call a spade a spade, an’ if you tickin’ like crazy.” damn good sentences together. cacophony o f horns airing their dis­ want to turn it over an’ call it a shovel, He talks faster, “ Dont think there’s a “The taxi industry is made the whip­ content. A flood o f passions and curses that’s your business.” couple o f beers in me!” Ivor talks o f the ping boy for the shortcomings of the erupts from the smoggy serpent, Mel­ Ivor Dunstan is 55 and has pushed a working class and doesnt sit down for public transport system,” he said. “ We bourne’s Footscray road, the implacable rely on the common hardheadedness o f face o f the driver suggests a passive the owners (the V TA ) in pushing for fare acceptance o f this performance as being w PL, increases; we then add weight to the very much the status quo. He may smile a < application before the TRB.” Naturally gently, or raise a laconic index finger x enough, both the union and the VTA from the window, which the eyes o f the CO front up to oppose the issue of any more world may dwell on for but a second. 2 O licences in the metropolitan area, to “ Where are you going mate?” Q ensure there’s plenty o f work for every­ “ City — Flinders street.” co one. Jack said 1500 applications were “OK.” u heard when operator’s licences were last With the meter ticking and the blinker issued, but only 100 were granted. blinking the car moves out into the street, The upshot o f all this is that fare by the fish market, Appleton dock and increases will only be seriously applied up past Festival hall (where wrestling fans for when the owners are feeling the converge on the doors). Skipping over the pinch. The TRB is responsible for in­ grey grime o f Spencer street, left at the vestigating the economics o f the business Charles Hotham pub and it’s all smooth before recommending any increase, and is to the station. more likely to look at the owner-driver “ That'll be dollar fortyfive.” than the employed driver when making a “ Thanks.” decision. This is partly understandable “ OK, see ya.” when the income figures o f employed Of that dollar fortyfive the employed drivers are as inaccessible as they are; half driver has earned 45 percent, or 65 cents. of them are avoiding tax and the other Nearly five percent will go to compulsory half dont know how much they’re earn­ union dues and Sunday rip-offs, leaving ing anyway. the driver with 60 cents, or “ five-eighths of So, for the average driver we have three-tenths o f fuck all” as the drivers comparatively poor money and rigorous commonly refer to it. Most of them are conditions (particularly during the warm­ aware that the average pecuniary rewards er weather). Another factor is the govern- of the job compare poorly with other

THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, january 29-february 4, 1974--Page 9 than insults down at Victoria dock and those 12 hours without any unreasonable lack knowledge. It doesnt matter anyway. found the situation becoming grim until demands as to money earned. When you It’s a good idea to learn to drive with he waved desperately to another cab drive for an owner who has one or two the microphone in your hand all the tim e; going by. The driver was an oak-tree cars, you can’t say fuck it and decide not whenever you drop out in the suburbs, Maltese, shoe-horned into a Yellow cab. to drive when he has allocated the car for briefly look at the street directory and The thugs fled, pursued through a maze you, for the simple reasons that he’ll memorise all o f the suburb-names in a of containers by the gleeful Greek who gently ask you to remove yourself to fine direct line between you and the city. You was waving a monstrous woodfile out his leg. Besides, you might feel more guilty are then reasonably prepared for any window and working hard to run them about ripping off a small-time owner radio work that falls into your lap; down. Cannonball revisited, he came back (with a bigtime mortgage) and beating the proceed to find a main arterial route back beaming, fondly caressing his file: “ If I pisser out o f his car. Owners like you to into the city and you’re then more likely ketch them, I would keel them." be on time, and after all, reliability is a to pick up any street work. This is about dirty word to a hippy. as much as you can do to ensure a An important thing to remember if reasonable amount of work in the begin­ you drive for Yellow Cabs is that you are ning; before long the stations, bus depots, a self-employed person. Y ou sign a form theatres, pubs, restaurants and other like­ ONT get the unfounded impression which has the effect of making you a ly spots to find fares will become known Dthat pushing cabs is a bummer. lessee (ie. you rent the car) o f the cab for to you. By listening to the radio and Quite the opposite; it’s potentially a way talking to older drivers (their egos are of life, and the big key is wholly a taller than their stories) y ou ’ll gleen question of attitude. useful information about their favorite Consider it esthetically: the leafy ment carrot, in the form o f high wages tricks, ploys and so on. boulevards, the highways, the streets, Occasionally the new driver may win a offered for driving the dearth of new lanes and grimy alleys o f the metropolis commonwealth cars — the taxi industry good radio jo b through sheer luck and be are the cabby’s canvas, his domain. He confronted by a surprised passenger say­ suffers a Labor government like an albat­ grapples with the beery,, neurotic, path­ ross around its camshaft. All have con­ ing "I havent seen you before” . Disbelief etic, inspiring and hilarious guts o f Mel­ spreads, twitching the nostrils (how can he tributed to the rapidly diminishing num­ bourne while hammering the shitter out ber o f taxi drivers; the old-timers are know all o f 600 drivers?) until he says of someone else's car. This is the stuff that tw o or three drivers pick him up sentimental with age and like good sol­ cabbies are made o f — a street-level almost without fail. Each of them knows diers, their ranks are near to empty. This rapport kneehigh to the gutter lies be­ the job is a long one and precisely when it has left a good number o f spare cabs lying neath the ethnic sensibilities and language will be called. One unknowing hippy (he around waiting to be driven; it’s attractive difficulties. Riders o f the storm, sailors o f wanted to buy some land and grow vegies, to migrants keen to work long and hard, the asphalt — the four-wheeled mystics! but at the time he was paying o ff his or to hippies wanting their own time. For The new or potential cabbie must, $3000 car) tells o f a case in point. One the diehards who treat their driving jobs however, remember that not every man grey morning, when the wetness was as no more or less than work, being a jack and driver can grasp this; oftentimes, spread by spinning tyres and semi-circular cabbie becomes the same as bending while you are diffusing your ethnic sen­ flicks on the windscreen ("vision was mattress springs or rolling toilet tissue; sibilities in the suburbs, there are those good at five feet above the ground” ), he thus, when the employment situation is who will be ripping you o ff elsewhere. In found himself at Oakleigh with the pros­ buoyant, many are tempted to seek easier short, there are unscrupulous drivers — pect o f returning to the city empty. work elsewhere. There are, o f course, Philistines who have inveigled their way Having heard in the past some radio calls worse things about the job. into the cabby’s ranks, and they together directed to the area, he managed to find with the older drivers consistently mani­ the Oakleigh station rank where he sat fest their aim o f laughing long and hard at HE NEW violence has found its way and waited. At 13 to 7, not a passenger, inexperience. Bear in mind that it isnt the from the footpath on to the road; car, dog nor even water in the gutter. T sort of situation where you can smile at seldom does a month pass without a Within the space of 30 seconds, five their crassness on other levels with any Melbourne cabbie losing his takings to a yellow cabs converged on the rank from real efficacy; they seek only to consum­ bunch of knife-bearing desperados in a all directions. It was like the return o f mate their quest for the dirty fingernail. West Preston alley. The cost can indeed Richard the Lionheart - horns tooted, The following constitutes instruction for be somewhat dearer. In late 1971 two arms waved, the poor hippy meanwhile the sensitive potential cabby. drivers were taken into thick bushland in dying o f fright and thinking he must have Victoria and summarily executed, at least four flat tyres, or was his bib another driver got a misdirected bullet in hanging out the door? But no, at 10 to 7 a Murrumbeena cafe last year. More a call on the radio to our hippy (being the T’S easy to become a cabby. Al­ often, physical danger arises when in­ first gar on the rank): first o f a series o f though there was a time when ebriates choose not to pay a fare or take I pick-ups out at Noble Park, going in to several weeks o f intensive study and a exception to the route taken by the Elwood, then to Armadale, then to the series o f exams was a necessary precursor driver, though it ought to be said that the city. This is what they were all aiming for to receiving your badge, this is now latter is not entirely at the mercy of - an easy ten dollars, only to be thwarted forgotten on the basis that if you put a by an unknowing innocent. rookie on the road he would have to learn But this is all knowledge to be slowly quick. The procedure is simple and entails the period you have it. Legally this means and painfully acquired, fraught with mis­ the following: front up to your favorite a cabby is supposed to pay his own takes that will surely cost you money. taxi company — it’s easiest at Yellow income tax. If you’re honest, by keeping The enterprising hippy must look to Cabs down at South Melbourne — in your tips separate you ’ll be able to cover other ways of counteracting his short­ borrowed shirt and tie. Y ou must be able the tax assessment easily; if y ou ’re dis­ comings; there is no reason why he to write in English, "I can speak English honest the chances are you w on’t be cannot in fact do as well or better than very well.” (It has been acceptable when discovered as a defaulter. Yellow Cabs say the craggy old bastards with their boots­ a chronic shortage o f drivers exists - they dont make the pay-in records avail­ ful of cunning tricks. A good driver can after a shooting incident, for instance - able to anyone, though of course that’s get $4 or more a day in tips. Since tips for companies to accept an equivalent no consolation to a friend of ours, who are your own money and not registered verbal statement. This is important for some unaccountable reason save that on the meter, you get the lot instead of knowledge for a passenger; if your driver someone dobbed him in recently found a 45 percent. This goes for any money ever throws up his arms crying he can’t letter from the tax boys suggesting he earned “over” the meter, including bag­ speak English in some forgotten alleyway, ought to pay $600 in tax. Once the tax gage charges and other rip-offs to be now you know he’s fibbing.) You must people have a mark against your name discussed later. Tips can therefore be possess a full driving licence without too you are checked regularly; the decision equivalent to two-three hours normal many major blemishes and have around here is yours. driving work. Cabbies come to quickly $32 on your person. Six notes for medi­ Once on the road with eyes furrowed recognise the types o f people who never cal check, photograph (hence vindicating and enthusiasm rampant the general truth tip and those who have an open mind on the painful decision re shirt and tie) and of experience is apparent. Depending on the subject. six more for the test at the TRB. The $20 weather conditions, the time of day, the Workers and middle class people who is only needed when you decide to sign day o f the week and the area in which a over relate to the working class tip the up with the company — it’s surety in case cabby finds himself, a particular course of best; never much, but it’s constant. With unsociable clients. you have a prang. If you write o ff the car, action will yield more satisfactory results. the latter group, the more charmingly All cars are equipped with warning for example, and it was your fault, then The experienced drivers use well-tuned idiosyncratic you are the better. The devices to attract attention when in dif­ you lose $20. radio equipment and that, with a knowl­ main thing is to have a bit o f pitter patter ficulty and perspex screens to discourage The licensed driver is entitled to work edge o f geographical high points, dis­ to kick the conversational ball into their rape and assault from behind. Each com ­ for the company itself, or for a single tances and directions from radio aerials all court, and from the response you’ll be pany has an emergency code to use over owner. The owners try to entice you means they are assured o f winning any able to tell whether they’re into nattering the radio, which produces extraordinary away from the company with promises of radio job they want. If they’ve been or not. It doesnt matter how mundane it results when called. There is no fiercer automatic cars, good shift times or even a driving for some time, they may have half is — a simple problem o f investment in ally than a cabbie who has been held up dozen bottles. The company (which, in­ their jobs arranged already before they the verbal flow. To be considerably richer himself, of course, and the empathy cidentally, is owned by Ampol) can’t start the day. One such fellow carts a you should be ready to adopt the mode shown between drivers in moments o f offer you new and/or automatic cars, carload of elderly ladies up to Surfers o f each passenger in the cab. Politically, violence tends to manifest itself in unre­ since these are snaffled by the older Paradise every year, stays in the best this means the dialogue is acted out by strained mayhem upon the would-be as­ drivers. They do however, offer you hotels on the way and returns to pick yourself; from worker’s control to people sailant. Many drivers carry their own autonomy. There are tw o shifts - begin­ them up six weeks later. who arent sure whether they like Doug special “ dissuaders” . A young driver we ning at 5 am and 5 pm - and you are When new, you cannot compete with know was recently threatened with more entitled to have, hold and use the car for these drivers on that level because you Page 10—THE LIVING D A YLIG H TS, january 29-february 4, 1974 e> Anthony more than Paul Hogan, and it all serves to keep your sensitivity quotient up. Your political hue comes to resemble the rainbow and the pot of gold becomes real, for the more earnestly one agrees the larger the tip or the more jellied the bean. You may discover that a lot of older drivers are grateful for any tip at all, even five or ten cents. You will come to regard course, who will be paying for the petrol such miserable gratuities with scorn. and may not make as much profit as they Apart from the obvious tactic of reinforc­ otherwise might. ing the passenger’s views on everything It is a useful practice to know, and is from reactionary politics to the flogging often used after sporting events (such as o f bashers - as outlined above - there you’re about to knock off and go home the horse races when five people will “district” and those who deliver parcels are many more subtle and entertaining to sleep (home for the moment being climb into your cab all wishing to go into without turning the meter on. The TRB forms o f attack. At the end o f each trip, somewhere like 30 miles away) and in­ the city; the deal is a dollar each without officers are a different crowd altogether, rather than be seen expertly flicking the meter. Workers are generally happy to quire if anyone wants to go that way. The consisting mainly of thugs who couldnt change out o f a plastic money-holder, odds are on that someone wants to go have a cheaper trip, also young people get into the police force. They hate grope for your change in a screwtop your way. You then grudgingly agree to J&J |»1 i * longhairs and have enormous powers over Vegemite jar with the label half-peeled take him “all that way” . Not a bad fare. taxi drivers. The best way to avoid them off. Take advantage o f your “ newness to All taxi companies have account cus­ is to keep the car clean and to carry all the game” people will smile at your tomers who carry little credit cards with a the right gear (TRB identification etc.). calculated bumbling incompetence and be number, which you fill in on your d oc­ generous. After a time this newness will ket-book, or they may have their own be difficult to fake, having been subcon­ dockets as well. Some of these people are sciously displaced by an aura o f studied quite silly and hand you the docket ennui. (Y ou ’ll find yourself deftly sliding without filling it in, in which case you amongst the traffic like a rivulet of generally add on a few cents here and mercury, and no one who witnesseth the there before you cash it back at the nonchalant finger on the steering wheel depot. Some drivers lusting for money will believe you only started yesterday.) invent some account numbers by them­ Try the “ struggling student” or “ put­ selves and cash $40 or $50 worth; the ting meself through Taylor’s” line, or problem is that the driver’s name and supporting six brothers and sisters after radio number has to be written on each the joint death o f your foster parents last with longish hair and anyone else who docket. This ploy is only for the very year, or anything along the bad luck doesnt look like they’d take your number desperate and can only be done once (it’s theme. and report you. Care must be taken at called forging and uttering, and the taxi Alternatively, take the direct approach night, when a tiny light behind the dome companies dont hesitate to prosecute) T ’S ALL made easier with dope of and talk about the miserable bastards light tells TRB thugs or passing company and it’s worth remembering that they Icourse. Not only the driving itself, who ask for their change or dont tip at “policemen” that the meter is on or off. always have your address and licence which necessarily becomes cataclysmic at all; ask your passenger doesnt he/she Taxis do a good deal of parcel delivery particulars on their files. times, but the people — many o f whom think it reasonable to pay a little extra work and it may occur to you that a A final lurk worth recording is the you will doubtless loathe. Once acquaint­ for a nice, steady and safe trip. Some parcel is a whole lot easier to negotiate question of petrol: some unscrupulous ance remembers the Tullamarine freeway people react adversely here, but most will with than a potentially honest passenger. hippies we know fill up their 12 gallon as a series o f alligators to be circumnavi­ be so embarrassed they'll hand you their In fact, taking lunch breaks is a sheer tanks at the depot without noting it gated; the passenger remonstrated that he purse and leap out o f the cab like a waste of time until you get a parcel on down on the sheet, then go home and ought to drive with two wheels on the startled gazelle. Who you choose to sub­ board; then, with the meter quietly tick­ drain it into their own cars. They say this median strip at 30 mph. ject to this awful treatment is your ing and no actual passenger, the time is is very satisfying. But you have many friends on the business, but do be a little class-con­ ripe to select an appropriate pizza parlor The company “police” are used to road, and such things can be overcome; scious. and be paid for taking in food . Y ou ’ll catch drivers indulging in all these prac­ among the drivers, from the wit to be As Melbourne loses its drab counte­ probably find you can cover the cost of a tices. They concentrate on drivers pinch­ heard on radio, the glint to be seen in nance in the light o f a newly acquired large Cappriciosa by this method. Alter­ ing other drivers jobs before the driver their eye and the sort of cigarettes they natively, you may not wish to turn on the smoke, the social order shall be reflected vision, you ’ll find waterside pubs, homes entitled to it reaches the address. They meter at all; instead you can indulge in a unerringly. for the insane, the ethnic clubs, hospitals, nail those who take too long to get to a little multiple hiring by picking up any slygrog shops, massage parlors, gambling job, those who call a job out of their joints and striptease clubs become known street fare whose going in the vague □ to you as the haunts o f people who need direction of the parcel’s destination. taxis. To know these places is also worth Legally, when you stop for a fare with money. When interstate businessmen your “ not for hire” sign is out o f sight, he climb into your cab in, say, St Kilda and or she can demand that you take them ask to be taken to a striptease show, anywhere at all within the metropolitan rather than drive them 200 yards down to area. Fortunately, very few of them know the nearest for 45 cents, you tell them this, so if they want to go the other way the best show is back in the city. If they you can politely say you have a parcel to want women you tell them St Kilda’s deliver and get away with it. been busted and then bring them all the Multiple hiring is a lot o f fun and a way over to Fitzroy. Likewise, when favorite o f some o f the older drivers. This someone in Brunswick wants liquor after is possible when you are the only cab hours, you tell him the nearest slygrog around and a whole lot of people need a shop is in Elsternwick, and vice-versa. taxi; you ask where they’re all going and This way y o u ’ll make a lot more money. then suggest a fairly circuitous route which looks after all o f them. They each All this is quite legitimate. As you pay 75 percent of the total fare up to the discover how the system \vorks you’ll point o f their individual destinations (get learn all sorts o f interesting practices this straight with all o f them before you which, whilst not blatantly dishonest, are move) so you can earn about twice the viewed unsympathetically by the com­ metered fare as a kind of tip, as well as pany. your 45 percent of what’s on the meter. It will be obvious that if you speak to This practice is quite illegal, save during a passenger about where he’s going, quote train strikes and so on. A variation on this him a cheaper than usual price and take theme is to discover the best fare amongst him there without turning the meter on, a group of people. You find an airport then it will be similar to receiving a very terminal or bus depot with a number of big tip. This isnt fair to the company, o f fares desperate for a taxi, announce that THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, january 29-february 4, 1974 — Page 11 Page 12 -T H E LIVING DAYLIGHTS, january 29-february 4, 1974 busman's picnic I havent had me photo taken since I was 17,” said one of these women at Bronte Beach last tuesday fortnight It was the annual busworkers picnic. The men on the top left, aged 80, 90 and 70 (left to right) put between them 160 years on the trams which once rattled around Sydney.

TH E L IV IN G D A Y L IG H T S , january 29-february 4, 1974 — Page 13 Stephen Wall 698.2652 S t f c U e c f PO Box 23, Surry Hills.

VILLE” — Aust Opera FLAKE: White Eagle hall, ma, St Peter’s lane, Dar- with Vincent Price & Nan­ Movie — “ BLACKBOARD Co.: Opera House, 7.30 Cabramatta. 8.00 pm. linghurst. Info 31.3237, 2 cy Kovac: Chan. 7, 9.30 JUNGLE” — The 50s and TV pm, $6.50 to $10.50. ROD STEWART AND pm . pm . educational Bower-Boys: TURIBIO SANTOS — THE FACES: Randwick “TRIAL” — Movie with Chan. 7, 10.00 pm. “ HIGH SOCIETY” — movie musical with Bing Brazilian Guitarist: Science Racecourse, 8 pm. $5.70. THEATRE Glen Ford — Legal drama: Crossby, Frank Sinatra, Theatre, Uni of NSW. CHOCOLATE WATCH- Chan. 9.30 pm. “MY AUNT THE UNI­ Grace Kelly, Louis Arm­ $2.70, students $1.70. BAND: Fiddlers Vine, “INCIDENT AT PHAN­ CLASSICS CORN” — Comedy by JAZZ strong. Well worth it for 8 .1 5 pm . C ron u lla. TOM HILL” — Movie — John Hep worth: Studio nostalgic songs. Channel 7, TITANIC GEEZA: US Civil war drama: Chan. 228, Cnr . Forbes street & “THE BARBER OF SE­ MERV ACHESON 9 .0 0 . JAZZ Chequers, 8.30 am. $2.00. 2, 9.55 pm. VILLE” — Aust Opera Co TRIO”: Bellevue hotel, St Peter’s lane. Kings Golden years of Holly­ Movie “NAPOLEON” — Cross. Info 43.0433, 8.00 do Rossini over: Opera Paddington, 7.00-10 pm. war and a little piece — CHRIS WILLIAMS: Unity wood — Movie “ INTRUD­ p m , $ 1 .5 0 . ER IN THE DUST” — not House, 357.1200, 7.30 pm, CHRIS TAPPERNAC, Josephine: Channel 10, HaU hotel, 82.1331. 7.30 a a f a n d a u $6.50 to $10.50. DAVE FURNISS”: Forest pm , free. “THE GHOST OF GREY a film about contract 9 .0 0 pm . GABLES”: Aust theatre, Lodge hotel, 7.30-10 pm. GTK 74 — Mighty Kong at DOC WILLIS JAZZ: Al- cleaning: Chan. 9, 11.25 Lennox street, Newtown, pm . THEATRE Modern, “PETER BOOT- Sydney town hall: Channel bury hotel, Oxford st, city. 31.3625, 2 pm. HAM” : Limerick Castle. 2, 7.30 pm. 8.10 pm. Free. JAZZ “THE HOSTAGE”: See “HELLO AND GOOD- Surry Hills. B R IA N C A D D & F A M ­ TRADITIONAL — Kevin CLASSICS “ ECLIPSE ALLEY fri. BYE” — A compassionate ‘DICK HUGHES QUAR­ ILY: Channel 2, 8.10 pm. Goody: Limerick Castle, study of “ poor whites” in TET” : Stage Door Tavern, 211.1401. 7.30 pm. FIVE” : Vanity Fair hotel, “THE HAPPIEST DAYS “I AM A DANCER” — A South Africa: Australian Campbell street. City, 4 p m -7 pm . OF YOUR LIFE”: See ballet film with Nureyev theatre, Newtown, 7.00-10 pm. ROCK WORKSHOP “DOC WILLIS” : Albury tues. and Fonteyn and other 51.3841, tues-sat 8.15 pm, hotel, Oxford street. City, “THE BALLAD OF well known tap dancers: sun 7.30 pm, $3.00 plus FILMMAKING WORK- 3 p m -6 pm . ANGELS ALLEY”: See Opera House, 2, 5, 8.15 CHOCOLATE WATCH- “ DOC WILLIS” : Beresford fri. p m , $ 3 .0 0 . concessions. No monday. FILMS BAND: Fiddlers Vine, SHOP — 16mm facilities pub, Bourke street, Surry “ SHADOW PUPPETRY” : TANNHAUSER by Wag­ “THE HAPPIEST DAYS C ronulla. for embryonic film fuck­ CRYSTAL VOYAGER”: Hills, 8-10 pm. See fri. ner: Opera House, 7.00 OF YOUR LIFE” with the SEBASTIAN HARDY, ers: Old Church, East Mercurian players: North Manly Silver Screen, 5.30, Sydney. 31.6270. Free, 8 “UNITY BAND”: Old pm, $7.50 to $12.50. TITANIC: Chequers, 8.30 Push, 8.30-12.30 am. TV, RADIO Rocks Community Centre, 7.30, 9.30 pm, $2.00. pm . $ 2 .0 0 . pm . 871.6075, 8.15 pm, $1.20, PUDDIN THIEVES’ and “ CHRIS WILLIAMS”: FILMS “MY WORD” — Frank kids 60 cents. ‘BRAKEFLUID” — B. FILMS Unity Hall hotel, 82.1331, Muir, Denis Norden: ABC Davis: Filmmakers Cinema, FOLK, JAZZ 7 .3 0 pm . “THE BEST OF JOHN FILMS St Peter’s lane, Darling­ “ PUDDING THIEVES Radio 2, 1.40 pm. H A R D I N G ’ S U N D E R ­ KIDS “ SUNBURY POP FESTI­ WATER FILMS” (narrated hurst, 10.00 pm, $1.50, AUST, SCOT, IRISH, AND BRAKE FLUID”: See Wednesday. VAL” — Highlights: Chan. live by Filmmaker): Union “LE FARCEUR” — P. De members $1.00. Join at COUNTRY FOLK: Red Broca (French new wave): door $3.00. “THE PIED PIPER” — A 10, 5.00 pm. theatre. Info 660.1355, Lion hotel, Pitt & Liver­ kids play: Independent “THE WELSH SONATA” 8.30 pm, $2.40. Filmmakers Cinema, St A CONCERT FOR pool sts, city. 8.10 pm. ROCK BANGLADESH”: Opera theatre, North Sydney, 2 — National Radio theatre: “WHERE’S POPPA” and Peter’s lane, Darlinghurst, UNITY JAZZ BAND: Old 6.00 pm and 10 pm, $1.00, House, 9.00 pm, $2.50, ex­ BAND OF LIGHT: pm . ABC Radio 2, 8.30 pm. “ W H A T ’ S T H E M A T T E R Push. 8-12 pm. “SNOW, SAND AND SAV­ members only. Join at cept sun, mon. Campbelltown Civic Cen­ “DIARY OF A MAD­ WITH HELEN” : New Arts, PORT JACKSON JAZZ AGES” : Filmmakers Cine­ MAN:: — Horror movie Glebe. Info 660.6207, door $3.00. BAND: Stage Door tavern, tre. 8.00 pm. “CRYSTAL VOYAGER”: 7.00-10 pm. Manly Silver Screen, 5.30, ROCK 7.30, 9.30 pm, $2.00. NFTA “ off Hollywood sea­ “TITANIC” — Sebastian Chris & Eva 51.9563 or s o n ” , “ S H O C K C O R ­ Hardy: Chequers, 8-3 am. 51.8214, write Flat 8, No 7 RIDOR” and “TAR­ $ 2 .0 0 . GETS” : Aust Govt Centre 'T K M o u r u t c Irving Ave., Windsor, 3181. Theatre, 7.15 pm, $1.20, fa d a y members only. Join at WORKSHOPS BIG PUSH: George hotel, MACKENZIE THEORY: PETER PARKHILL, MIKE door $3.00. St K ilda. Station hotel, Prahran. O’ROURKE, DIANNE “ CREATIVE DRAMA FOLK t u e & d a p UPP: Sandowner hotel, PIRANA: Matthew Flin­ HOLLINGS: Tavern Folk WORKSHOP’ by Learning G eelon g . ders hotel, Chadstone. Club, N. Carlton. ROCK, BLUES Collective: Guriganya, 444 CONTEMPORARY CAPTAIN MATCHBOX: JAZZ Oxford street, Paddington, ROCK FOLK FOLK Polaris Inn, N. Carlton. 8 pm. Free or 20 cents, DON MORRISON, PHIL DAY, PETER “CLOUD NINE SEBAS- m ay be. FREUDIAN SLIP: Red- OCKERS ROCKERS: UNION HOTEL: Carlton BELLENDEN KERR, PARKHILL, J O H N TIAN” : Chequers, 8-3 pm, “ POETS READ” — Guest fem, 699.1736. 7 pm. has guest artists. DANNY SPOONER, PHIL CROWLE: At Frank Tray­ $2.00 readers — Mai Morgan, and George hotel, St Kilda. TRADITIONAL FOLK: KUSH: Croxton Park, Pres­ BUSHWHACKERS AND DAY: at Dan O’Connell’s, nor’s, City. FOLK, BLUES: “JJO’ : Old Church, Palm­ Elizabeth hotel, 26.3132. 8 BULLOCKIES BAND: to n . C arlton . “JOHN UBEC” : Hang Toe, er & Stanley streets, Dar­ pm . Polaris Inn, N. Carlton. PHIL DAY: Tankerville JAZZ 217 Commonwealth street, linghurst, 8 pm. Free. CELLAR FOLK: YWCA, FOLK Arms, Carlton. 8.30 pm, 50 cents. 189 Liverpool st., City. BLUES JOHN CROWLE: Frank YARRA YARRA JAZZ JAZZ 8 p m . COMMUNE has folk: come Traynor’s, City. BAND: Prospect hotel, “THE LORD OF THE CLASSICS DUTCH TILDERS: sings K ew . RINGS” — John Sangster’s Red Lion see thursday. alon g. PETER PARKHILL: the blues at Frank Tray­ JAZZ BRIAN BROWN QUAR­ original interpretation: “TANNHAUSER” by CONTEMPORARY — Ker- Frank Traynor’s, 100 Lt. n o r ’s. TET: Commune. Opera House. Bookings Wagner and in German: All rie Biddel, Don Burrowes, Lonsdale street, City. DAVE RANKIN: Alma ho- 211.2646, 8.00 pm to Lee Conway, John Currie, dressed up and nowhere to JAZZ tel, Chapel street, St Kilda. FILM 10.30 pm, $4.00. go? This is your night! Martin Henderson: Opera House. Info 929.9880. 8 JAZZ OWEN YE ATMAN: Pros­ “DON DE SILVA”: Old Opera House, 7.00 pm, PROSPECT HOTEL: Kew pect hotel, Kew. “BED SITTING ROOM” Push. pm. $3.50, $5.00, $6.50. $6.50 to $10.50. DOVE: Prospect hotel, has jazz. FRANK TRAYNOR: Ex­ and “BANANAS”: Late “ DICK HUGHES PIANO” : FRANK TRAYNOR: twin­ THEATRE K ew . change hotel. nite, Trak, Toorak road, French’s Tavern, Oxford kles at Beaumaris hotel. $2, 1 1 .4 5 . street, Darlinghurst, 6-9 FILM TV pm . PANDAM GURITNO — In­ FILM TV “ ECLIPSE ALLEY t / u v n d f t y donesian Puppeteer — “THE LITTLE SHOP OF SIT YOURSELF DOWN, FIVE” : Vanity Fair hotel, shadow puppetry: St HORRORS” (Roger Corm- “JE T’AIME. JE T’AIME” TAKE A LOOK IN CONCERT: Rock, Goulburn street, 7.30-10 James theatre, 169 Phillip an) and “HALLELUJAH (Resnais) and “ HOUR OF AROUND: Folk-rock. country and western, etc. pm . st, info 357.1200 Ms Lorna THE HILLS” (Mekas): THE WOLF” (Bergman): ABV2, 10.10pm. HSV7, 10.00pm. “MERV ACHESON JAZZ CLASSICS King. 8.15 pm. A$2.00, NFTA, Guild Theatre, Mel­ Guild Theatre, Melbourne MORNING OF THE TRIO”: Bistro, Avoca Uni Union, $1.20, 80c stu. C $ .5 0 bourne Uni Union, $1.20 EARTH: Surfing film. street, Randwick. IL TABARRO, SVOR “THE HAPPIEST DAYS (80c stu), 7.40pm. 7 .4 0 p m . HSV7, 11.30pm. ANGELICA, GIANNI OF YOUR LIFE”: see { n ic ty SCHICCHI, by Puccini: tu esday. PARK EVENT PARK EVENTS Opera House. Info “THE BALLAD OF 357.1200, 7.30 pm, M r f u n d a # cu ed ttea d cty ANGELS ALLEY” — Rol­ REMEMBER THE REMEMBER THE BEAT- $10.50 to $6.50. ROCK licking Aust. musical: New BEATLES: Treasury gar­ LES: Flagstaff gardens. theatre, 542 King st, New­ dens, 12.10 and 1.10pm. A FRUITY MELO­ DRAMA: Treasury gar­ UPP: Whitehorse hotel, ROCK FILM town. 8.15 pm. A FRUITY MELO­ Nunawading. FOLK “THE HOSTAGE” by DRAMA: Hiss the villain, dens. JOHN RUPERT AND THE MATT TAYLOR, BUS VARIOUS ARTISTS at Brendan Behan: Cronulla cheer the hero, have your CIVILISATION by Ken- HENCHMEN: Croxton TER BROWN: Chelsea Elizabeth hotel, Elizabeth Arts theatre, Surf rd, soul seared by the plight of MEETING neth Clark — “ The Hero as park, Preston. C ity HaU. street, city. Be early, say Cronulla. 523.6888. 8.15 the heroine, Flagstaff gar­ Artist”: Art Gallery of KUSH: International hotel, COLORED BALLS: Cano 7.30 pm, 8.00 pm. Price: pm . dens, 12.10 and 1.10pm. LINK-UP ORIENTATION NSW. 12.10, 1.10, 2.10, Airport West. pus. SFA (well nearly). NIGHT: 8.30pm. 3.10, 6.10 and 7.10. Free. PHASE TWO: George PENDULUM: St Peters, BLUES TV, RADIO A FILM ABOUT JIMI TV hotel, St. Kilda. East Brighton. “JUNIOR AND THE HENDRIX: Manly Silver RED HOUSE ROLL ARIEL, EBONY: Teazer GOLD TOPS”: Fiddler's ‘‘GILBERT AND Screen. Info 977.5503, “IN CONCERT” Edgar t t u t n A d f t y BAND: Sundowner hotel, JOHN RUPERT AND THE Vine, 115A CronuUa Winter, War Headline, D oo- G E O R G E ” : A vant-garde time? Except tues, wed. G eelon g . HENCHMEN: Whitehors* street, Cronulla, 7.30 pm. bie Bros, Jim Croce. Chan­ artists, ABV2, 10.55pm. NFTA “OFF HOLLY­ OCKERS ROCKERS: hotel, Nunawading. nel 7, 10.00 pm. Perhaps it’s a joke. THEATRE WOOD” “CISCO PIKE” ROCK Penthouse hotel, Broad- BIG PUSH: Croxton park, and “DRIVE HE SAID” : “THE ENERGY CRISIS m ead ow s. P reston. Aust. Govt. Centre The- AND WHAT IT MEANS RADIO RED HOUSE ROLL SKYHOOKS, BLACK- 69ERS: Southside Six “ LOVE FOR LOVE’ : Op- atrette. 7.15 pm, $1.20, TO YOU” — Or what to do BAND, TANK: Whitehorse SPUR: Royal Ballroom, Moorabbin (aft). era House, 2.00 pm, $4.50, until the stove goes out. ERIK SATIE: Piano music, members only. hotel, Nunawading. Exhibition building. PHASE TWO: George ho $2.75 pensioners, students, Channel 7, 7.30 pm. 3AR, 11.10pm. “COUNT COPERNICUS” UPP: Croxton park, Pres­ CHAIN, 69ERS: Teazer. tel, St Kilda. ch ild ren . GARDENING — Five min­ — a Rock Doco: Filmmak­ to n . MATT TAYLOR, SHER- TRIDEN: Sundowner ho utes of true grit: Channel ers Cinema. R. Hamilton CHAIN, ABEL LODGE: BERT, ARIEL: Back to tel, Geelong. TV 2, 6.55 pm. (1974). 10.00 pm. $1.50, t v e d m e & s t y Waltzing Matilda, Spring- school rock. Festival Hall OCKERS ROCKERS members $1.00. vale. $ 1, 1 p m . Penthouse hotel, Broad- Sit yourself down to Rock/ CLASSICS BIG PUSH: George hotel, SHERBERT: Matthew m ead ow s. Folk music with Marian ROCK St K ilda. Flinders hotel, Chadstone. ARIEL, ISAAC AARON: Henderson, Bernard Bolan, Young Opera “THE PLAY FOOD GARY YOUNG’S FAT Matthew Flinders, Chad­ John J. Francis, Alan OF HEROD” and “THE HOT CITY BUMP BAND: CATS: Sundowner hotel, FOLK ston e. Luchetti: Chan. 2, 9-10. CHEAP FOOD: Uni of SLAUGHTER OF THE IN- Whitehorse hotel, Nuna- G eelon g . “HORIZON” — Hospital N SW “ C o -o p ” : R o u n d NO CENTS”: Conserva- w adin g. SUNRISE: Grovedale ho­ DANNY S P O O N E R , FOLK 1922 documentary on house, 5 pm-8 pm. Out of torium main hall. Info RED HOUSE ROLL tel, Geelong. JULIE WONG: and others, Charing Cross then and muesli teabags this week. 29.7949. 8 pm. BAND: Croxton Park, AYERS ROCK: St Alban’s Outpost Inn, 52 Collins GRAHAM DODSWORTH, now: Chan. 2, 9.40 pm. “THE BARBER OF SE­ P reston . h o te l.______street, City. GRAHAM LOWNDES.

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11.15 pm, $2.00. Elizabeth street, Surry “LAWSON REUNION”: Manly Silver screen: Chil­ Hills, 1 pm. Free. Filmmakers Cinema, 8 pm, PHILIP” Laurel and drens matinee plus car­ $1.50, $1.00 members. Hardy: Channel 2, 4.30 toon, 2 pm, 60 cents. ROCK U n derw ater film s: see Sat­ pm. “PRAISE MARX AND urday. BOYER LECTURES — To­ / k l< vee6 , “BANK OF LIGHT” — PASS THE AMMUNI­ Buffalo, Kush: Curl Curl day, yesterday and tom or­ TION” : Filmmakers Cine­ KIDS row — Sir Keith Hancock: MEETINGS OLD CHURCH — Drop in JOURNEY TO LITHU­ Youth Clubs, 8 pm. ANIA” by J. Mekas (New ma, Darlinghurst, 12 mid­ ABC Radio 2, 5.00 pm. to teahouse and library: “ NITRO” : Fiddler’s Vine- American Cinema): Fjlm- night, $1.50, members “OPERA THROUGH THE Sunday Playbill “ PARIS- INTERNATIONAL WO­ Palmer street, East Sydney, Cronulla. makers Cinema, St Peters $1.00. Join at door $3.00. TIME MACHINE” — for IENNE” a tragi comedy by MENS DAY PLANNING tues.-fri., 2 pm -11 pm. “ TITANIC” — Ted Mulry: M E E T IN G : Womens lane, Darlinghurst, 8.00 “COUNT COPERNICUS: Geeza, Chequers, 8.30 pm, kids between 4 and 12 Henry Bacque: ABC Radio TARONGA ZOO: Feeding 1, 8.00 pm. House, 25 Alberta st, pm, info 31.3237, $1.50, See thurs. $ 2 .0 0 . years: Opera House, 11.30 times, alligators, 1.30 pm am. $2.00, kids 60c. “KHMER! KHMER!” Pro­ Sydney, 7.30 pm. sun., thurs.; Hons, 2 pm $1.00 members, except “ OTHER ENDS” — Crom­ sun., m on . FOLK well: Cronulla Masonic “ S N O W , S A N D A N D S A V ­ file on Cambodia: Channel daily (fish on fridays); A G E S ” : see Saturday. 2, 1.00 pm. ROCK, BEBOP seals, 2.45 pm daily, “ SUNSHINE SEA” — hall, 8.00 pm. More suds and surf: Opera “NEW YORK PUBLIC 9.30-5.00. $1.50, kids 40 LIBRARY” — Doug Rich­ DISTRACTIONS CLASSICS BAND OF LIGHT — Good cents. House, 6.30 pm, $2.50, ex­ cept sun., mon. ardson, Trevor Winn, Ann evening: Chequers, 8-3 am, “THE COSMIC TUBE” — Hissink, Dan Johnson and 19 30’s VERSION OF MUSIC ON THE HOUR — $ 2 . 0 0 . ROYAL COMMISSION — Surfs up with Nat, George others: Folk Shack, near REALITY — The Sydney Features Aust. artists and “A LOOK AT THE and Ted, Opera House, entrance to Waringah Mall, City councils band per­ works from the Classic TV MAFIA” with a cast of 4.00 pm, $2.00, except Brookvale, 939,2869, 8.30 formances — Salvation Repertoire: Opera House. thousands: Supreme Court, FILMS sun., m o n . pm-1 am, $1.00. Army Band, Band Assoc, 11 am, 12, 1, 2, 3, 4 pm. “WAR AND PEACE’ — A King street, City. Court preview, a lead in to a BBC No. 3, check in “ Herald” “WATTS TAX” — Soul with “TRAD” — Modem: Eliza­ “THE SMALL WORLD” of NSW, Musicians Union: $1.00 adults. 20c kids, serial: Channel 2, 9.20 pm. for daily details. Isaac Hayes, Rufus beth hotel. City, 26.3132. and “ A LAND OF BIRDS” At Hyde Park, Victoria pensioners. No advance “BLUES” — John Bourke: Park, Beare Park, respect. 3 b o o k in g s. “ MONTY PYTHON’S Thomas, et al. “A foot- — Shell and Robert Ray­ stomping hip shaking cele­ Limerick Castle, 122 Ann pm-4.30 pm. Free of FLYING CIRCUS” : Chan­ mond conspiracy. Opera bration” (how about ‘pit street, Surry Hills, 7.30 cou rse. THEATRE nel 2, 11.00. ROCK House, 10 am, 12.00 noon, sweating’): Academy Twin, pm. TRIP AROUND A WAR­ 2 pm, 4 pm. Oxford street, Paddo, 2.00 “TRADITIONAL FOLK” : SHIP — HMAS Brisbane “ THE BALLAD OF FILMS RENE GEYER AND “ B L A C K O R P H E U S ” M. pm, 4.00 pm, 7.45 pm. Edinburgh Castle, 8.00-10 (watch your step, now): ANGELS ALLEY” : see fri- MO TH E R E A R T H : Camus (French new wave): “TRASH, FLESH” by pm. Garden Island, 2 pm-5 pm. d ay. “LA MARSELLAISE” J. Whisky, 8.00-3.00 am, Filmmakers Cinema, Dar- Warhol: New Arts, Glebe, “PACT FOLK”: YWCA Free. Renoir: Opera House $ 2. 00 . linghurst. 4 pm, 6 pm. (music room). 7.30 pm. info 660.6207, mon.-fri., Cellar, Liverpool street, 8 ARTS DISCUSSION — FOLK SILVER CLOUD: Stage­ $1.50, $1.00 members. 4.00, 8.00, sat., sun., 3.30, pm. Nudge, Nudge: Camp/Gay $ 1 .7 0 . NFTA’s Images of the coach, 8.00-3.00 am, mon- 7.30, wed., 12.00. Lib Centre, 33A Glebe BOB HUDSON, DECLAN Mind “THERESE DES- OPERA day-thursday, free; friday, “ 2001 — A space Odyssey” WORKSHOPS QUEYROUX” and “UN Pointrd. Glebe. 3.30. Free. AFFLEY, PETER QUEN­ Saturday $2.00. TIN, BUDDY WILSON: a n d 4‘ZABRISKIE SOIR, UN TRAIN” : Opera TRANSITION: C o o g e e POINT”: Randwick Ritz, “ CREATIVE DRAMA TV, RADIO Kirk Gallery, 422 Cleve­ “ THE BARBER O F House, $1.60. 7.15 pm. SEVILLE” : Opera House. Oceanic, wed. to sat. only. 399.9840 (check first, WORKSHOP” by Nimrod: land st, Surry Hills. 8.00. Members only. Join at 7.30 pm. $6.50-$10.50. Old Cerebos factory, 500 door $3.00. “PUTTING PANTS ON $ 1.0 0 . may be off), mon.-fri., “WHAT IF YOU DIED 7.30, sat., 3.30, 7.45. TOMORROW” by David Williamson: Elizabeth the­ atre, Newtown, 51.7471, tues.-sat., 8.15 pm; fri.-sat., GALLERIES 5.30, 8.15 pm. $4.70, $3.70, $2.70. HOLDSWORTH GAL- LERIES — Herman, “TOOTH OF CRIME” — Friend, Percival, Boyd, etc: “ A Savage Send Up of the 86 Holdsworth street, PHIL DAY: Outpost Inn. Rock Scene”: Nimrod Woollahra, mon.-sat., BOB CRICKET, MIKE Street, theatre, book on 10.00 am-5.00 pm. G A L L A H E R , MIKE 33.3933, tues. to sun. 8.30 THE SCULPTURE GAL­ DEANEY: Commune. pm; fri., sat., 5.30, 8.45 LERY — East Sydney PHIL DAY AND GUESTS: pm . Tech, Final Year Students: Dan O’Connell’s Carlton, 3 Cambridge street. The 3-6 pm . “LOVE FOR LOVE” by Rocks, Sydney, tues.-sun.. JULIE WONG, JOHN William Congreve with Old 11.00 am-4.00 pm. GRAHAM, MIKE Tote Company: Opera BRETT WHITELEY — O ’ROURKE, DUTCH House, 8.00 pm, $5.50 Drawings 1960-1973: TILDERS: Frank Tray- plus concessions (except Bonython Gallery, 52 Vic­ n or’s. Sunday). toria street, Paddington, “ THE PHILANTHROPIST’ 31.5087, tues.-sat., 11.00 JAZZ by Christopher Hampton: am-6.00 pm. Independent theatre. SKYLIGHT: P r o s p e c t DIVOLA GALLERIES - North Sydney, in fo Dobell, Friend, Miller, hotel, aft. Guest in eve. 929.7377, wed. to sat. Boyd: 165 Rowntree PLANT: Polaris Inn, N. only at 8.15 pm. street, Balmain, 827.3018, C arlton. thurs.-fri., 11.00-6.00, sat., DAVE RANKIN: Lemon “JACK SHEPPARD OR sun., 12.30-7.30. Tree hotel, Carlton, aft. ANYTHING YOU SAY WILL BE TWISTED” — MARILYN MONROE KIDS 18th century froUc: En­ PRINTS: Angus & Robert­ semble theatre, 78 Mc- son’s store next door, 207 Pitt street, Sydney. “ P R O F E S S O R Z I G G L E ’ S Dougall street, Milsons 9.00-5.00, tues., wed., TRAVELS”: Claremont Point, info 929.8877, 8.00 pm, sat., 5.00 and 8.00 thurs. only. Theatre, 14 Claremont with KEN WHITE: and pm . street, South Yarra, 2pm. FONDA ZENOPHON will do his thing. Food, films, cttottcfap FILM paintings, beauty bikini / k lcu eefa TV contest, so bring your own RADIO “ ROLLING WITH KENNY “TARZAN’S NEW YORK bathers. Moubray street, ROCK “80 STEPS TO JONAH” ROCK (G): Carlton Cinema, Fara­ “ARE HIERARCHIES ROGERS” — FOLK? ADVENTURE” : Late nite, Prahran 7-1 am. $2. MUSIC: Channel 2, 6.30. Athenaeum, City, OCKERS ROCKERS: day street, Carlton, thurs- NECESSARY?” — A new 10.30pm. (with chemicals). FOLK George hotel, St Kilda. THE BOBBY JAMES sat, 90c, 7.45pm. series of eight documen­ “THE BRUMBY” — Docu­ JOHN RUPERT AND THE SYNDICATE: M ayfair “ ENGLAND MADE tary programs on vertical mentary on Australian wild HENCHMEN: C ro x to n room, Southern Cross organisations: ABC Radio horses: Channel 10, 7.30 RADIO MARGARET R O A D - ME ” ( M ): “ TRAVELS: Park, Preston. h otel. WITH MY AUNT” (M): 2, 10.15 pm, tues., wed., “ALI V. FRAZIER” — KNIGHT, JOHN thurs., and mon. only. Both aim to retire rich and CHINESE VIOLIN CON­ CROWLE: Outpost Inn, Dendy Malvern, Glenferrie , CERTO: Ng Tai Kong, FOLK road, $2.25, 7.45pm. silly: Channel 9, 7.30. C ity. MOVIE. “CARRY ON 3AR, 11.10pm. DANNY SPOONER, GOR­ JAZZ “ THE GODSON”(NRC) JACK” — One and a hall DON McINTYRE: Frank PHIL DAY: Frank Tray- and “ TH E BABY” (N R C ): FILM nor’s, City. hours of poop decks: T ra y n o r’s, C ity. YARRA YARRA JAZZ Dendy Brighton, Church BAND: Old Melbourne street, Brighton. “CHARLOTTES WEB”:! Channel 2, 7. 30. Town. 303 Pitt street. icmdew EXPERIMENTAL POETRY, MUSIC Motor Inn, mon-thur 7.30 “PETER PAN”: has its 61.6708.9.30, 11.30, 1.30, “THE ERNIE SIGLEY i onwards, and sat. aft, 3pm final spurts, Footscray 3.30, sun., 1.30, 3.30. SHOW” — Watch it once at MELBOURNE NEW POOR TOM’S POETRY on w ard s. Grand, Paisley street, “ALVIN PURPLE” : May- least — he’s sooo bad: Channel 9, 9.00. ROCK MUSIC ENSEMBLE: Com­ BAND: Commune. Footscray, $1.40, 7.40pm. 73 Castlereagh street, 28.1734, 11.15, 2.15, “WHILE THE CITY m une. FANTASY: Croxton park, JAZZ THEATRE 5.15, 8.15, sun., 1.45, SLEEPS” — High drama Preston. OUTDOORS RADIO 4.45, 7.45. with Vincent Price: Chan­ UPP: Icelands, Ringwood. TED VINING TRIO: Pros- “THE ARCHITECT AND “REMINISCENCES OF A nel 9, 10.30. MATT TAYLOR: The Sac­ T H E EMPEROR O F A R E HIERARCHIES CHINESE LION DANCE: pect hotel, Kew. red Heart Hall, Winifred ASSYRIA”: By Spanish NECESSARY?: 3AR, 11am, Lt. Bourke street, street, St Albans. writer Fernando Arrabel, 1 0 .1 5 p m . City. Plus Kung Fu at 3pm FILM CHAIN, MISSISSIPPI: newly translated, promises on Southern Cross Plaza. Teazer. “M”: Fritz Lang in Ger­ to be a large, physically Time to check out those comic rendition of this ftOC(A steps you’ve been practis­ many. NFTA, State Film MELBOURNE ARTISTS’ psycho-sexual farce. Pram COMING EVENTS ing. C e n t r e . 1 M a cA rth u r WORKSHOP: At Ormond Factory, 325 Drummond ADELAIDE ARTS FESTI­ pm, $5.50, $4.50, $3.50; | HISTORY OF THE street, E. Melbourne, sub­ Hall opens its doors again street, Carlton, tues-sun, “THE CORONATION OF VAL: Sydney info, Mitchells, Grace Bros., BRASS BAND: Myer scription only, tickets with “SUMMER-EN­ $2.50, $1.50 stu, 8pm. POPPEA” : Victorian 25.2641. D J ’s. Music Bowl, 3pm. available at Guild or Dental C H A N T E D E V E N IN G ” , screenings, or NFTA, 27 “ AFRICA” : A savage mus­ Opera company, feb 14-16, SYDNEY FILM FESTI­ SYDNEY SYMPHONY| ical by Steven Spears, Pram ring 41.5061. La Trobe with the fabulous cast of RADIO Canning street, N. Mel­ VAL: Booking, 660.3909, ORCHESTRA IN CON- [ BLERTA, HOMER, with b o u r n e , Factory, Back Theatre, Uni are holding a summer BH. CERT WITH ARTHUR BILLY GREEN, GLEN- PARISIENNE: Play, 3LO, above address, wed-sat. $2, school in feb. Fencing, DAVID CASSIDY: March FIEDLER: Opera House, ROWAN, CARRL MY­ 8 pm . RADIO 1 0 .3 0 p m . swimming and weaving, get 2, $4.20. Usual booking Box Office 241.2416, 8.00 RIAD, CAPTAIN ROCK, fit, typing, weaving, sumi-e o ffice s . pm . painting, fabric printing, PETER LILLEE and his MEETING NEW MUSIC: interesting CHARLIE BYRD, BAR­ ELTON JOHN: Randwick | jazz ballet, copper enamel­ band, incidental comedy INSIGHT: F. Whittle, kultcha for frustrated FILMS NEY KESSEL, HERB EL­ racecourse, february 24, , provided by JOHN LEE. Theosophical Soc., 188 ’Room to Move’ listeners, ling, dressmaking, i LIS: Sydney town hall, 8.00 pm, $5.20, usual | Soft comical country rock Collins street, City. 3AR, 8.30pm. “WHAT’S UP, DOC?” (G): quiries: phone 479.2194. tues. 5th, thurs. 7th, 8.15 agencies.

THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, january 29-february 4, 1974 — Page 15 OW THAT the Tun table Falls com ­ munity is under way at Nimbin, we couldN be seeing more Nimbin-type experi­ ments, as suggested by Graham Dunstan in TLD 2/1. On the north coast o f New South Wales there are seeds o f a commun­ ity in gatherings of people at Mullum- bimby, Byron Bay, and the Bellingen Valley. On the Tablelands a community is in the making outside o f Armidale where a workshop is planned from february 15- 20 to consider the human factor in inter­ national communities. This appears, then, to be a good time to put down on paper for discussion some thoughts about the human dimension in community. WORKING * * * OW COULD it fail? The concept of Ha harmonious community free of the hangups and exploitation o f establish­ ed society surely must work — if we can IT OUT just get a piece of bush property away from it all and get things going. The beauty of the dream and the striving to bring it to reality may bring people together in initial harmony. The ■TOGETHER, challenge o f organising the physical envir­ onment can be so consuming, though, that the more difficult task of building satisfying people relationships does not receive the attention it requires. We may think we have escaped straight society, but fail to notice all o f its garbage inside o f us that we carried to the new inten­ tional community. Along with the vision and hard work of building a utopia, then, must be a dedication to radical re-orientation o f individual and group behavior consistent with a value system that may be either Both approaches may be viable, but it Santa Barbara, California, group o f 150. In contrast, the new Nimbin commun­ stated at the start o f the community or is doubtful if either community will Conditions of membership include such ity seems to be resisting such a highly allowed to emerge at the same time as survive for long without an in-built strictures as: no smoking, no alcohol or defined structure and centralised eco­ people grow and change. method for resolving conflict and pre­ drugs, and no nudity in public. Members nomic planning o f enterprises in the early A new community has the choice of venting the buildup of tensions and re­ agree to live by the principles based on stage o f its formation. There are certain tw o basic roads to reach a state o f sentments. The second type of commun­ James Churchward's account of The broad shared values, however, as express­ satisfaction in relationships and accom­ ity, however, is in greater need o f a sacred and inspked writings o f Mu, and ed in last year’s Nimbin festival: concern plishment o f goals. system which will allow its members to I gather that the leader of the colony is for the environment, renunciation of ex­ The first model is based on a strongly evolve or metamorphose — shed old looked to for guidance in interpretation. ploitative relationships between people, structured value system with prescribed skins for new - travel the demanding Every morning and evening members are minimum dependence on readymade rules for behavior. Such a model has given road to self-understanding, expanded expected to meditate. There is a system technology, faith in the ability of people great stability to religious and therapeutic awareness, and radical self-change. This is for resolving differences utilising a medi­ to take care o f their own basic health and communities such as the Bruderhofs, not to say that an organisational plan is ator. In physical results, the brotherhood spiritual needs, decentralisation o f deci­ Shakers, and Synanon. Members conform needed; in fact a heavy plan shouldnt be is doing remarkably well. It has assets o f sionmaking, and the encouragement of to what has proved to be a workable laid on for people who want to travel the $1.5 million, a farm, city house, moun­ individual and group responsibility for system within the parameters set by the path of personal and group growth. If tain ranch, contracting equipment to do learning and growth. Presumably these institution. their chosen system of personal develop­ income-producing city work, and a 15 values will be guides for settlers on the The open community model sets no ment in the group setting is successful, it foot draught yacht to be chartered for thousand acre property at Tuntable Falls initial directions for behavior. It can should be reflected in the living structures round-the-world tours. All this has hap­ up in the hills six miles from the town o f grow, evolve, and make changes in struc­ which evolve. pened in tw o years, with help from Nimbin. ture as experience indicates. A general I visited a community last year in foundation grants, it is true, but the The valley site for the festival shows value system may or may not be stated, which the structure was already handed enterprises seem to be operationally few signs o f the 4000 who lived on it for but exists as the basis for living together. down - The Brotherhood of the Sun, a sound. ten days, but as Graham Dunstan pointed

Page 16 — THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, january 29-february 4, 1974 nature? For such persons, one-way coun­ selling by those more skilled in the process will be needed until they can begin to assume responsibility for them­ selves and get off heavy trips with dope, drink, depression, or other forms of self-destruction. All this is not to say that the sole basis for communal growth and cooperation is a planned program of therapy. To a degree, internal relationship problems can be transcended if there are strong extern­ al goals. Even with goals, I dont think that their definition and achievement is a process to be left to chance. There are also learning structures for personal and group formulation and implementation of goals - systems that work and build confidence as people see them at work. Let not, though, the external goals get to be too much of a thing before we are centred within ourselves. Nobody is going to change anything or influence anybody until he is right within his/her own person. Human transformation is not easy, as the aboriginal tribes recognise in their deliberately traumatic initiation cere­ monies. Communities need ritual, too, but a ritual o f process, not prescription. The rigid prescription o f aboriginal rites worked extremely well for thousands of years o f a protected culture, but failed to cope when faced with intrusion of an alien culture. If the process is right, the community and its people will adapt to change, not be shocked by it. I have been deliberately didactic to provoke discussion. I will probably change some views after the ALF Duval out in his article in The living daylights, supportive manner. people - between friends, within fami­ Creek Workshop. A few issues have been there were some scars left behind in him Exploration of one’s present behavior lies, but it usually doesnt. It should, at raised here: and in others. The beautiful life of the and past experience leading to that behav­ least initially, be structured until the 1. Does a community need a manifesto? small dedicated crew who lived in Nimbin ior is a second process I would want to co-counselling habit is established. If so, at what point in its development, preparing for the festival was muddled by encourage, to facilitate personal growth. A third policy I would encourage is and how is it to be formulated? the massive lifestream which hit the This, I believe, is best done through a non regular opportunity for learning and prac­ valley in may, bringing with it all the directive, non judgmental process of tice of personal exploration of our inner 2. How will conflicts be resolved? dependency, childishness, and warped counsellor-client relations. An excellent as well as physical self. There are numer­ patterns o f those who could not see the model for lay counselling is the Re-evalu­ ous paths to self-awareness: meditation, 3. How do we shed our disfunctional vision even when they had “crossed to ation Counselling movement initiated by retreat, fasting, guided fantasy, bio-ener- behavior patterns - free ourselves of the other side of the mountain". Harvey Jackins o f Seattle, Washington, getics, yoga, massage, bio-feedback. There stereotyped responses to people In perspective, though, occurrences and described in his book The human use are definite techniques for these trips, around us? such as the rip-offs by a few customers at and if learned, they can produce exciting o f human beings. A number of co-coun­ 4. Can we build new societies when our the honor system co-op store and the selling communities have been established inner experiences and a recovery from main tools are those we learned in the lifting o f materials vital to the operation on the NSW north coast in the past year, destructive stressful experiences which ones we want to transform? How do of the crafts centre were minor happen­ and more workshops are planned by the may make us sick and difficult to live we acquire new tools? ings. The major loss was the failure o f University o f New England in that area. with. many people to contribute, to give o f The general idea o f co-counselling is to Nearly every commune has been faced 5. Is intensive inner contemplation likely themselves. We’ might call them “ low take responsibility for your own analysis with the decision of what to do with the to lead to a state o f disengagement energy” people, but in giving them such a and change o f behavior through various member who is considered “ undesirable” from life in a community, or can it be name, we may neglect their energy poten­ forms of emotional and physical dis­ — usually because of irresponsible or a force for regeneration? tial which can, through appreciation and charge, The counsellor-client roles are dependancy behavior. Granted, an indis­ 6. How do we set goals, both personal awareness o f self, be released. reversed to assure that a dependency criminate entry policy creates such situ­ and community? How do we help people to transform situation does not develop, as it may in ations, yet should not a community have their personal view o f themselves and professional counselling. Ideally this room for a manageable number of people change their behavior so that positive counselling process should exist between who have troubles o f a fairly serious □ energy forces begin to radiate? Will this happen out of a magic elixer of commun­ ity where the vibrations are good, or should their be more deliberate and struc­ tured learning experiences where the growth can take place? I have talked about this with a “ high-energy” member o f the small band who stayed through after the festival, and he has a vision that appeals to me: a total community which is, in itself, a therapeutic community - like a self-sealing, punctureless tyre. I hope his vision will come true. I hope there is a new consciousness in the alternate culture today in Australia which will so pervade the Kves of intentional communities that the hangups will be hung down and peace will prevail. The festival community was, generally, o f good spirit. People did relax, smile, and dance a lot, and there was hugging and warm being-together. There was also the releasing o f hostility with the police bust and the Hare Krishna/Hairy Gumboots conflict. In my community, I would ensure that people with skills and training for improv­ ed interpersonal relations and personal development are members. Therapeutic communities dont just happen; they are the result o f a planned program o f work­ shops, counselling, and small group en­ counters and mutual validation. Many communes have found that at least a two hour weekly meeting to work out grievances, resentments, and mis­ understandings is needed: they prevent the buildup o f tensions which can lead to the group’s dissolution. This encounter process, while it can be destructive, is a positive, reality-facing force when people have learned to conduct sessions in a THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, january 29-february 4, 1974-Page 17 gorillas- ROBERT/MIICHfiM OBERT MITCHUM is showing my you want,” he says. “ I will reply in pulling down “a hundred bucks a week when Paul Monash (Coyle's producer- Rhand some mercy, “Hello, my kind." and all the horse manure I could carry writer) will be as good a writer as Higgins. name's George Peppard.” Uh-huh. We’re WHAT WE DONT TALK ABOUT: hom e.” “ Of course, he doesnt have the same standing three flights up from Sunset Mitchum’s biography has been the Some 33 movies later, he was a major access to materials, either. Higgins has boulevard in the smartly subdued offices subject o f countless press handouts, news­ star, under contract to Howard Hughes’ certain advantages being a United States of Talbot Productions, the actor’s film paper headlines, magazine articles, inter­ RKO and to David O. Selznick, riding on attorney. I assume much o f his dialogue company. He’s on what I suspect is a rare views and, recently, a full-length book by top o f the world when he was cast as comes from what might be referred to as visit to the shop to talk to the press about Mike Tomkies, titled appropriately Prisoner No. 91234. The production fea­ inadmissible tapes. his latest movie The friends of Eddie enough The Robert Mitchum story. Still, tured a narc bust that found him one of a "But, anyway, we get the people who Coyie, a gritty gangster drama based on it is more interesting than the plots o f quartet of players taking a few tokes in a ask: ‘Where’s the story?’ The quote Holly­ the best-selling novel by George V. Hig­ most movies he or anyone else has made, house up in Laurel Canyon. w ood screenwriter unquote has a ten­ gins. so it bears an abbreviated retelling. Circumstances surrounding the arrest dency to look at a property and say: ‘I Talbot, like all o f Mitchum’s business Robert Charles Mitchum was bom on on the night o f august 31, 1948, were so can fix it.’ Then he searches for a story. affairs, is watchdogged by an efficient, august 6, 1917, in Bridgeport, Connecti­ kinky - entrapment is but one possibility Mr Higgins doesnt write that way. No attractive, casually cordial lady named cut. A year-and-a-half later, his father was that comes to mind - that on january 31, beginning, middle, end. I thought we Reva Frederick. Only moments before, she crushed to death in a railroad yard 1951, the courts reviewed the conviction were there to celebrate the success o f the had led me into a section o f the suite accident. His mother remarried and the and ordered the guilty verdict be set aside book. Then they start with: ‘ Do you where two men were finishing a discus­ family - Mitchum has an older sister and in favor o f a plea o f not guilty. realise that the computer says that music sion. She introduced me to one o f them, a younger brother — did a bit of relocat­ The news o f his arrest and conviction is 12 percent of the total success of a pic a departing journalist, and waited a few ing over the next several years. Young was widespread. Less publicised was the ...' Everybody chews on that one. It’s a beats too long in getting around to the Robert did even more. At seven, he ran reversal o f verdict. Curiously, Mitchum circle jerk. I’m not saying the picture is other guy, prompting the Peppard open­ away from home for the first time. While didnt bother to spread the word. After bad, it’s probably good. I just think it ing. Like most o f Mitchum’s one-liners, it a “thin, ferret-faced kid” of 14, he lied serving 60 days o f a two-year sentence for would have been better except for the can be read a number o f ways - as (a) a about his age and signed on aboard a “ conspiring to possess,” whatever the hell tampering of some not necessarily quali­ good-natured chiding o f his office man­ salvage boat, from which he was tossed that means, his comments on the matter fied people.” ager for her momentary forgetfulness (b) when his real age was discovered. were usually about the treatment o f Reva wanders in to refill the glasses. as a mock-humble gesture, suggesting that He hit the rails, bummed across the prisoners. A typical one: “You get a new “ Isnt that just another problem that you anyone might fail to recognise that bat­ country. In a Pennsylvania coal mine, he chimpanzee and put him in Griffith Park always have to face” , I ask, films being an tered, world-weary countenance or (c) a discovered he suffered from claustro­ zoo and everybody rushes to look him industry rather than an art?” simple, funny way of getting our meeting phobia. In Savannah, just prior to his over. And if the keepers dont feed him The comers of Mitchum’s mouth go o ff to an easy-going start. 16th birthday, he wound up in the slams well and take the best care of him, the further down, the thin upper lip rises It could also be (d) none o f the above, for vagrancy, even though he was Depres­ public raises hell. But you put a person in slightly. “ There are artists, but they have (e) all o f the above or (f) something else sion-rich with 38 bucks. Later, he was a cage and nobody seems to care how he to work within the system. I dont see again. No matter, Mitchum is relaxed, charged with theft and after he informed gets along. And it doesnt even amuse the why it can’t be a happy marriage. In the loose as a goose, his chin tucked into his the judge that he had been behind bars on children.” old days, the moguls had the good sense neck, eyes as sleepy as they used to be the day o f the crime, he still found He did his thing and walked away with to engage innovators and artists. They when Jane Russell sang to him, only now himself laying Georgia blacktop as a his reputation and his career nearly in­ recognised taste. But now they’re not they’re half-hidden behind fancy-framed member of the Chatham county chain tact. He was Mitchum the tough guy, sure. I think Otto Preminger is a great tinted specs. He points to an empty gang. Mitchum the iconoclast, Mitchum the producer, but a rather mediocre director. section o f couch, then reclaims his resting Thirty days o f that and he skipped movie star. You find that pretty often, but they spot. His big hand goes over the coffee out, dragging an infected leg (courtesy o f Still there are no everlasting Mitchum insist on directing. Stanley Kramer’s an­ table, ignores a sandwich wrapped in wax the irons) through swamp and sewer. By movies. Yes, he was good as the soldier in other one. He’s been bmised time after paper and claims a frosted glass half-filled the time he caught up with his moveable The story of C.I. Joe. Yes, it is difficult time, but he feels he has to keep doing it, with a clear liquid. “ Would you like family, the leg was in such bad shape to forget the L-O-V-E and H-A-T-E tat­ I dont know why.” something to drink,” Ms Frederick asks. doctors wanted to hack it off. Mitchum’s toos and Night of the hunter. The devas­ “ Speaking o f Preminger, I read a story "Cold vodka for the heat?” I admit it mother wouldnt allow it and the wound tated face of an ineffectual husband of about your first day on a set in which a sounds like a fine idea. eventually improved. Ryan’s daughter! But these are not director says: ‘I shout at actors, but it Mitchum leans back. I recall a quote o f It wasnt long before he was o ff again, Maltese falcon or Citizen Kane or, Red doesnt mean anything. The next morning his: "I have to be able to drink, because introducing his younger brother, John, to river. Instead, Mitchum was usually cast I’ve forgotten it.’ Your answer is ‘I punch the only way to get rid o f people is to moonshiners in Alabama and railroad in something he calls Pounded to death people who shout at me, but it doesnt out-drink them. It takes 36 hours or more bulls in Louisiana. And there was Cali­ by gorillas. mean anything. The next morning I’ve sometimes and it nearly kills me. But in fornia. And Toledo, Ohio, where he had “They open on a long shot of me forgotten it.’ Could the director have the end, they go.” Looking at the double his first taste o f the dread marijuana. standing. Then a huge gorilla looms up been Preminger?” shot o f Kremlin Castor Oil in front o f me, In Sparks, Nevada, he boxed for 50 behind me and hits me on top o f the Mitchell shifts on the couch. “ Not at I get a flash o f paranoia. He’s got me bills a night until “ a guy had my nose head. Boom, I crumple. Boom, boom. I all. Those two other guys, as a matter of pegged for a short-distance record. over to one side, gave me a scar on my keep falling down and getting up again. fact, Henry Hathaway and Dale Robert­ "Sometimes 36,” he’ll be adapting the left eye, had me all messed up and I Then they cut to a little girl skipping son.” comment, “but then like that guy the quit” . through fields o f daisies and finally she “ Are there a lot o f Hollywood stories other day, sometimes they kiss the coffee His family had migrated to Long comes to this house and a voice says: that incorrectly get attributed to you?” table after only 30 minutes.” Beach, California, where sister Julie had ‘Who’s there?’ As the writers havent “ I guess so.” I shoot him a suspicious look, but it’s becom e an actress. Robert let her talk figured that out yet, they cut back to me. “ Did you ever hang a director upside clear he couldnt care less about my him into stage-handling, then doing bits Boom, boom . That gorilla is still knock­ down by his shoelaces?” drinking ability. He’s at a point where in plays like The petrified forest. He was ing me down. And I’m still getting up Mitchum shakes his big head. he’s already run through a couple o f writing at the time - short stories, again. Finally, the gorilla collapses on top “ N o.” reporters, with others in the wings. And poetry, a play titled Fellow traveler that o f me, exhausted. Then the little girl “ Well, what about.. .” he's being very pleasant considering the the Theatre Guild would later option and comes in and says: ‘He’s around here “It was a producer. Raymond Stross. savagery o f tw o recent profiles. Rolling that Eugene O ’Neill would take time to someplace. I just know.’ She peels away I’d forbidden him from the set (The night stone's Grover Lewis tried to cover him in critique. He also wrote material for night the gorilla and there lies our hero - me. fighters) and he came on anyway. He “ now” journalese and innuendo and Brad club performers and composed an ora­ She hauls me to my feet, puts her arms tried to kick me privately, so I think he Darrach married Freud with Confidential torio that was presented at the H ollywood around me, looks straight into the camera warranted the treatment.” for a gossipy little offspring in Penthouse. Bowl in 1939, produced and directed by and says: ‘I dont care what you were, I This seems like a good avenue to Oddly, both writers obviously admired Orson Welles as a fundraiser for jewish like you ” explore. “ Is it true you threw William the man they were poking at, which tells refugees. “ It was just a vaudeville black­ “ I have been playing like this all my Wellman into the drink during your brief you much more about writers than it out,” was how the author described it a life. It’s easier than acting see? Every time moments in Blood alley?" does about Mitchum. few years later. the writers run out o f words, they just Again the head shakes. “ Absolutely With a sip o f vodka burning the back In 1940, after saving enough money kick the shit out o f Mitchum. A tried and not. The story was that I threw a guy of my throat, I depress a few buttons on touring with astrologer Carroll Righter, true fortune.” named Coleman (George Coleman, trans­ the tape machine. “ I hope you dont mind he married a lady he’d met while still in WHAT WE TALK ABOUT: “ I think portation manager for the film ) in. He if I use this?” I croak. his teens, Dorothy Spence. The ceremony Reva’s spent the whole morning on the weighed 290 pounds. No way. The papers Cool as his shot glass, Mitchum replies: went against Righter’s prognostication o f phone talking to everybody at Para­ the next day said: ‘Coleman denies being “ Not at all. I hope you dont mind if I marital disharmony. (Regardless, they are mount.” thrown into the water. Mitchum denies dont say anything.” Is he smiling? Is the still married today.) Mitchum is saying re Eddie Coyle. throwing him. Obviously som ebody’s cov­ big guy smiling over there? Yeah. OK, The Mitchums settled on the west “ The picture we saw last night isnt the ering up for Mitchum.’ The only thing then let’s get the job done before the coast, where Bob eventually abandoned picture I thought we were making. obvious to me was that they didnt want vodka starts working its way up the back both writing and acting for a job at There’s the script. Read it. Tell me if me around, so I left.” o f my head. Lockheed Aircraft. The work was so that's the picture that was on that We are now into the subject of his "I’ve been reading a lot about your, stultifying that he developed a psycholog­ screen.” movies and for the next two hours we run ah, private life,” I begin, tentatively, “ so ical blindness that went away only after I look from the bound script to the through nearly all o f them, not to men­ maybe we could go on to something he quit. actor. “Then you dont like the movie.” tion a few more vodkas. Later, when I else.” He had been asked to leave the employ “ I dont know, really. I think it’s a play back the tapes. I can almost gauge Mitchum looks at me with exaggerated of the Chandler Shoe Stores (for shouting matter o f taste, like time or wintergreen. my intake by the way my voice is going surprise. “ Really? I’d rather talk about "Beaver” at a lady customer), when he When it is, these geniuses sit around up the scales. Near the end, it sounds a that. I dont know much about that. wangled a part in one o f William Boyd’s having conferences and what they seek is bit like Yma Sumac on the upswing. Might be revealing.” Hopalong Cassidy movies. “ I didnt know a story. George Higgins is a rather narra­ Why did you decide to form your own “ Well, if you think so . . .” if I was supposed to bring my own tive novelist and obviously quite success­ company? “ No. You just go ahead with whatever makeup or horse, or what.” Soon he was ful at it. I dont think the day will dawn I wanted a white chair with my name Page 18— THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS,january 29-february 4,1974 on it. Actually, I think it was because of His glass is empty now. He leans couldnt figure out what that had to do “ I was called away while I was talking some legal advice I got. forward and in the loudest stage whisper with anything.” to him, and he resents this. At least, I Did you ever want to direct? imaginable, says: “ It’s very difficult get­ Reva Frederick enters with the "celery assume he does. And he writes the piece. Sure. ting any of that celery tonic in here.” On tonic” which she puts on the coffee table. The first thing I see is that he’s got Tim Why didnt y o u ? receiving no immediate response, he mut­ “Why dont I just leave the bottle,” she going to Africa (Tim Wallace, Mitchum’s Nobody asked me. Anytime the sub­ ters: "Suddenly struck earless out there.” says. She also mentions that it’s after five. stand-in), which is wrong. Then, I find ject came up somebody’d always say: We’ve been talking about Bogart and Mitchum just shrugs and continues on more and more wrongos and I realise that First we’ve got the script we’d like you to several other actors Mitchum has known, about the S ton e piece. this cat is just writing a piece for himself, do. And I'd say: I’d need an awful lot of liked or disliked and a place called Vic­ “ This guy was accepted, wined and to extol his own mission and virtues. money in front to do that one. And that tor’s that was always getting busted or dined by everybody. Except me, because Also, I note that he has stepped on never seems to be a problem. They pay it knocked over. I am sufficiently mellowed I didnt really know what he was doing people — not me, incidentally — but in yen, but they pay it. by the potato juice to broach the subject there. Rolling stone? I never heard of people who dont like to be stepped on Do you up your price for a script you of the Rolling ston e article. Rolling stone. and who might make it very difficult for dont like? The actor pauses him. If he’s gonna take on the teamsters Right. And they take me up on it. I before replying. “ I and the longshoremen and a few other dont want to sound like a complete groups and he doesnt know what the hell talked to that guy for whore. There are movies I won’t do for he’s talking about, well . . . that’s not about five minutes. any amount. Maybe I should go out and being exactly cautious. If he really want­ He asked me do Patton or Dirty Harry and piss on the ed to be bold and brave, he should have world and its opinions. about gun taken on the fuzz. The fuzz were around You're saying that the morality of the control the whole time and they’re merciless, script is more important to you than and I right?” anything else? There is a strange grunting sound Of course. coming from my recorder and I note with There are a lot of people who dont surprise that a third hour-long tape has feel that way. unspooled. Three hours, and I’m still They need the job. They need the navigating. Deciding not to press my luck money. If I’ve got $4, I dont need the or my capacity, I click off the machine fucking money, daddy. and polish off the remnants of the vodka. Would you rather do a bad script ... "Before I get out of here,” I say, No bad script! No way. I dont do bad "what’s next on your schedule of films?” scripts. I do things that I think have a “I think I start one tomorrow morn­ chance. A chance of being useful or good. ing. REEV, WHAT’S THE NAME OF I present myself in good faith and expect THAT PICTURE I START ON TO­ everyone else to .. . well, that’s a fool’s MORROW MORNING?” game. I know better than that. Still I From the next room, Reva sends back: expect people to respond in kind with "We havent finished negotiations on it their efforts. Not so. They’re just around yet.” Mitchum waves his hand. "There to get the new convertible and pick up you are.” new broads. They move on to the next “ I heard somewhere that you were caper. going to make the film version of John I’m confined in this business. I have Updike’s The centaur.” great faith in it. I think the audio-visual He nods his head affirmatively. “ I read medium is just now approaching its im­ it. I liked it. And that was the end o f it. portance. I dont take kindly to the The minute I said I liked it, it became people who dismiss it and dismiss their poison. I thought it was a good story.” responsibilities, to the clever pimps who He stares thoughtfully at his glass for a employ it to their own advantage. We second or two, then: "Getting back to should add to it. that Rolling stone thing. I wonder what We neednt all be millionaires. We makes writ . . .?” He smiles instead o f neednt be all-powerful moguls. The word finishing the sentence. “ Probably it’s the “producer” is a powerful word around old story. Frank Sinatra once explained it here. You can hang it on your car door to me. ‘They jerk off and we buy yachts’, and drive down the Strip and pick up is the way he put it.” women all night long. That doesnt appeal “ That’s pretty cynical,” I toss off. to me. How many can you use a night. “ Well, I'm a cynical-style girl. I’m a Producers, that is. believer that a certain amount The movie industry is a togetherness o f cynicism is inherent in the group. You scratch my ass, I’ll scratch beast.” He stands up, fixes me yours. Totally unmindful of what’s going with the lopsided Mitchum grin. on out on the streets. Jesus Christ, you “ I know it’s all bullshit. know the leaders of the communications But it’s also a pretty good ride.” fields should provide whatever can be provided. People have to be informed on everything. We can bounce signals o ff of satellites so that everybody in the world DICK LOCHTE, knows what’s happening at exactly the same time. The most criminal form o f — LA free press. slavery is the denial o f intelligence. Of information. The combined brainwashing system o f the military and Madison aven­ ue is awesome. The least that can happen is that you know what’s going on. That you know y ou ’re being gulled, that you know you’re walking around with some­ body’s finger up your keister. Dont things like Watergate help to smarten us up? Alright. So . ..? So the problem is... The problem is dumb people! Several years ago, I got back here from Vietnam [asked there by the state department, the actor spent three months in the war zone and took part in over 150 missions] and I tried to talk to people about it. I asked why people werent being permitted to know what was going on over there . . . no fucldng way. Bob Kennedy got up and walked out on me. His absence was excused by the statement that his advisers werent present. Bullshit! Where were my advisers? I had just come from a place where something had happened and the newspapers were sending out the wrong information. I was there. I saw it. But he was gone, didnt want to discuss that. The implication was clear. Just sit there and keep on sucking. * * * WHEN someone once asked Mitchum why he consumes all the booze he does, he answered: “ I drink as a preparation for death. When that great day comes, I will be completely inured. It will be just one more hangover.”

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Page 20-T H E LIVING DAYLIGHTS, january 29-february 4, 1974 TERENCE MAHER & the photography collective: BRENDAN HENNESSY,ROD MANNING® & DON SHARPE OR THE 30,000 rock & roll the rainbow. He bashed out the Over all, facilities at this Sun­ Ffans who sweltered and rock classics with barely a two bury were much improved on snuggled in the foothills at Diggers second pause and played to the previous years. The provision o f a Rest in Victoria over the Australia mass singalong hill crowd like he second stage at the top o f the hill day weekend the 1974 Sunbury had been rehearsing with them for and a big folk/jazz tent gave music Rock Festival was a ripper. The weeks. He eulogised a former freaks an alternative to the noise vibe was good, Mother Nature Sydney conviction for indecent power o f the main "Sin City” smiled and the music was surpris­ language in You can’t go round stage. The rock ballet made rowdy ingly brilliant. saying fuck on stage and he turn­ bikies placid. Mackenzie Theory Australian rock & roll has had ed the crowd’s motto “Suck More made mind magic for heads when to come a long way to get to the Piss” , into a frenzied improvisa­ they got together with a light crescendo it reached at Sunbury tion which captured the spirit o f show in the tent. APG did Africa this year. Four days supply o f Sunbury and its King. for the skinheads. musical energy through a 4000 Of the 40-odd acts on at Sun­ On the religious front, western watt outdoor hi-fi system And it bury this year, more than just the religions were the predominant took a local group who have been Aztecs should receive recognition sect. The Salvation Arm y’s “ Jesus on the rock scene for over eight and respect from rock and blues Folk” won by default when the years to crystalise that energy and consumers. Band o f Light, Sky­ Hare Krishnas and Divine Light make Sunbury '74 a raging suc­ hooks, Matt Taylor, Colored Balls, Mission failed to show. Perhaps cess. The Dingoes and Mackenzie Theo­ they dont like rock & roll in New Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs ry won many new admirers with Delhi. The festival was so peaceful completely electrified a very dis­ some fine sounds. If the local that even the catholics and angli- cerning crowd of 25,000 people industry has this much depth cans got a big crowd when they on the Saturday night to take line we’re in for some really good held a joint rock service on Sun­ honors as the best rock & roll Australian rock & roll over the day morning. band in Australia. His awe inspir­ next few years. Main ripoff, not considering ing performance at this, his third Yellow journalism had a field the $12 weekend ticket, was a Sunbury festival, far outclassed day depicting the festival as a public relations hype by Comalco the other two contenders for his “Pop Orgy” in the youth put- for their recycled aluminium cans. crown - Sydney’s Sherbet and down mould. Breadhead kids were offered 25 skinheads pride, Lobby Lloyd and The cops took a low profile cents for every 50 cans they lug­ the Colored Balls. and avoided provoking the main ged in. Promoter John Fowler Thorpe had the crowd by the crowd. Only 14 arrests were made proudly boasted that one kid knackers with his huge sound sys­ for drunkenness up till sunday dragged in 800 cans. He didnt tem and his fast ’n’ furious style, which isnt bad for 30,000 people mention the kid had to individual­ and he used this power to make at a rock festival. A bout 40 bikies, ly crush them in an outrageously his point that "the old boys still Satans Soldiers and Devils Horse­ inefficent machine before he got have some life left in them yet” . men, were asked to leave late his miserly $4. He made no bones about his use Saturday night when they came on The promoters of Sunbury, of the Sunbury battleground spot a bit nasty. F oot injuries were Odessa Promotions Pty Ltd did a for a grudge match against what halved this year because bottles good job in organising this festival he termed his “ knockers” . were banned and there were no and consequently the consortium The crowd roared and sang like serious accidents. The drug squad of businessmen who own the com­ it was an FA Cup Final as Thorpie were there but could not find pany will gain financially. What a hung his legend on the line. “ You anyone to arrest which was nice pity that the musicians and their might like this and you might hate for all the people who were smok­ associations cant organise their it,” he said breaking into a fault­ ing, and also nice for the drug own festival and so cut out the less rendition of Somewhere over squad. middleman. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, january 29-february 4, 1974 — Page 21 other races of men feel the same Blues from oppression and seek the same re­ lease as the black man, or will his emotions be inevitably simulated, one heavy a pale imitation o f the real thing? In The joker, Miller assumes some emotional commitment to smoker the blues. It is, in fact, more steeped in blues conventions than ROB KING his last album, Recall the begin­ ning. THE JOKER: The Steve Miller In the spoken introduction to Band. Your cash aint nothing but trash, he poses the classic blues T WAS not so long ago that dilemma: “ Well you may have I a very serious debate raged heard about the Gangster o f love, within the music world. The point and the Space cowboy, but I’m o f contention was whether the gonna whip the cat on you right white man could play the blues. now. Is that worth the trouble, The circumstances were that trials and tribulations?” The groups such as John Mayall’s Gangster o f love and the Space- Bluesbreakers, The Paul Butter­ cow boy are figures from previous field Band and Canned Heat were albums, previous affirmations of setting themselves up as blues the Miller identity. And in this bands and playing black music song, and the one which follows with far greater success than the it, The joker, he proceeds to black man himself. demolish the both of them, to The purists argued that the insist that what a person is has white bands were merely exploit­ nothing to do with wealth, or ing black music, that the blues success, or even what they say was the expression of the collec­ they are. Identity is feeling and tive cultural experience o f the feeling is transitory. American negro, with its roots in The joker, incidentally, seems tribal Africa. Those who support­ likely to become Steve Miller’s ed white blues, claimed that like first ever hit single in this country. any music, the blues was merely a Its widespread acceptance is per­ vehicle for the expression of uni­ haps evidence o f the emergence o f versal human emotions. While ac­ a new kind o f ghetto o f despair, knowledging that it was the Amer­ and in particular o f the influence o f marijuana in this realm. Miller ican negro who had evolved the his recorded work does not read­ better thing to be down, no mat­ has a hold on me. I am what I am, sings I'm a joker, I’m a smoker,/ form, it was by no means inacces­ ily fit into what is traditionally ter how low, than to be out o f and this is how I feel. It is a means I’m an all night toker,/1 sure dont sible to any sensitive human be­ conceived to be the blues idiom contact with feeling. It is a means of de-socialisation, even of de­ want to hurt no one. ing. It is for this reason that any o f escape or release from oppres­ personalisation. It’s not surprising In Evil, a slow blues, the op­ There were the rudiments here consideration o f his work de­ sion. It involves a that the blues thrived in the black pression is on a personal level, o f a classic debate, but for some mands an answer to, or at least statement that in ghettoes of the big American with the motifs of guilt and re­ reason both sides seemed to get consideration of, the question, cities, along with alcohol, mari­ the end there is venge tortuously intertwined, until cold feet. Perhaps it was some­ what is blues? juana and heroin. which he lets fly with a couple o f devas­ thing to d o with the fact that Blues involves the celebration It is here that the great debate tating guitar solos, forcibly un­ music at this time was so closely o f emotion over reason. It allies on blues crystallises. Can the ravelling the double bind. Evil is a entwined with identity, that even itself with chance and fate against white man with his affluence and live cut, and, at the end o f the to raise the subject in conversa­ science. It insists that it is a far his domination over nature and tion represented a serious danger first solo a wave o f relief breaks o f destroying a perfectly harmless over the audience, an all too rare personality. In any case, it seems reminder that the power and reasonably safe, in 1974, to once Howl feeling o f a great concert can be again ask the question, what is captured on record. “ blues” ? The joker, the most re­ away husky It is in these songs, and in the cent record by the Steve Miller last track — a gentle love song — he’s right) and Band, provides an excellent reason that Steve Miller is most articu­ moondog! Levon Helm - the for doing so. late, Lie down, my love, lie world’s greatest rock Steve Miller was among the AMOS DRUMMOND down,/ Rest easy and close your drummer and reputed first brigade o f bluesmen. He was eyes./ Like clear water in a moun­ MOONDOG MA TIN EE:- mattress magician - still a “ natural” guitarist - a man, for tain stream/1 will come to you in The Band sings like he gargled with whom, like Clapton, fluency and your dreams/ Like pictures re­ HEN I was a snot nosed, peg grace came without effort. What and just cleared his flected in a mountain lake/1 will panted, slick haired, shifty made him more exceptional still W throat. I think (and that’s import­ be with you when you wake. eyed youth roaming the streets o f was that he possessed a fine blues ant) the best numbers are Holy There are occasions, however, New York city in the days before voice; he never attempted to cow - a recent Allan Toussaint when his intentions seem obscure, Alan Freed coined the expression like to relieve that revolting and song, A change is gonna come mimic the voices o f the black and his music slightly trivial, and. “rock 'n roll” anything funkier traumatic period is beyond me). blues men, and yet he was able to (prophetic?) by Sam Cook (I if it is to be enjoyed thoroughly it than Sha boom (the operative But enter The Band, which has to convey the entire range o f em o­ mean you have to like this one has to be accepted for what it is: words in those days were “ cool be one o f the greatest rock ’n tions associated with blues, from even if you dont. The guy is a the work in progress o f the m od­ man” and “ crazy” ) was given the roll (or Moondog if you prefer) martyr) and Aint got no home by the piteousness of a Robert John­ em white blues man. It stands up name "M oondog” . groups of the decade with their son to the assertive arrogance o f a Clarence “ Frogman” Henry. well to repeated listenings, and Moondoggers could be heard on tribute to the not so distant roots. Howling Wolf. They throw in the Third man will assume a prominent place in a black radio station hosted by The situation is reminiscent of He assembled a band which theme for a laugh and us radio Steve Miller’s already large anthol­ Jocko, the Jet Black Ace From the time when Bob Dylan came included Boz Scaggs on second fans but I think the number is just ogy o f recordings. Outer Space and were copied by out with his Self portrait album. guitar, and a black drummer (at a too damn cute. Like so many innovative art­ every pre pube bastard in the poor Here with this album, the critics time when mixed bands were They’ve done a lot better but ists, Miller borders on-the para­ man’s echo chamber — subway are weeping and lining up their alu­ rare). They had a feel for the their “ not so good” is a lot better noid, desperate to be accepted, stations. minium buckets because of the blues, and on their first album put than most groups “better” . How for the genius he believes himself The name allegedly comes lack of original Robbie Robertson down a beautiful interpretation of come critics never asked Otis Red­ to be . . . and at the same time from a legendary and almost material. They have a point. Big Bill Broonzy’s Keys to the ding or Janis Joplin or Joe Cocker convinced that his work is not mythical drummer o f the same Robertson is a shithot song writer. to do original songs? Eh? highway. But, whereas most white understood. In a sense, each o f his name. I dont really know or care. But the main point is The Band is bluesmen contented themselves In a recent interview, Bob albums has been a repair job on But the early Penguins was M oon­ a shithot band who could play with endless interpretations and Dylan, the man who articulates the one before, an attempt to dog. Roger Miller songs and get away my maddest ideals and lack o f variations on 12 bar classics, Mill­ correct the false impression creat­ The nostalgia boom with Fat with it. same, said because his type o f er attempted to develop the blues, ed by the previous effort. This Old Bill Haley and Arrogant Old The album, Moondog matinee, music, o f the late 50s and 60s, to endow it with the qualities it makes him an elusive musician, Little Richard has, to a large is a tribute and a good one. isnt being done the way he likes it had not previously possessed. and there are few, in a consumer extent, satisfied my desire to re­ Robbie Robertson plavs his usual by anyone else, he’s back on the And, although he has rarely let an society, who have the patience to capture my pimply faced halcyon tasteful, frill-less dissecting guitar road with The Band. Cool man, album pass without including at accept the seemingly endless^ evo­ days (although why anyone would (I always want to hear more but that’s sayin’ it. least one “ standard” , the bulk of lution o f an imperfect idea. j Page 22 - THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, january 29-february 4, 1974 use folk music as a hobby like unfeeling bastards. loom up out of the mist. I cannot stamp-collecting, or as a personal­ The American tunes Brilliancy think of another band that could ity prop, have fairly well lost the m edley and Cherokee shuffle had carry off a completely unaccom­ game by now. The music will go the interesting additions o f Dave panied bass solo lasting about four on growing no matter how many Pegg on mandolin and Dave Mat­ to five minutes without losing admonitary hands are raised. tacks playing bass with his hands either the song or the audience in Dave Swarbrick’s antic postur­ and bass/drum and hi-hat with his the process. ing, his struts and swaggers, com ­ feet. The Brilliancy medley featur­ It was a little annoying that bine with his magnificent fiddling ed a few wrinkles that even Eck many of the audience, perhaps to produce the most delightful Robertson never thought of. thinking they were at a jazz or a and unselfconscious stage pres­ It came as a surprise to many bluegrass concert, insisted on ap­ ence I’ve ever seen. Swarbrick is people in the audience when Trev­ plauding each instrumental solo as the most effusive of the group on or Lucas introduced his wife, if it were a circus act. They meant stage, balanced by the dignity of Sandy Denny. Last tour she was well, but the song tends to suffer Trevor Lucas and Dave Pegg. Dave advertised, her name in fact writ if the solos are regarded as Mattacks has a fine chimpanzee larger than Fairport’s, and she “ breaks” or displays of virtuosity. act that I remember from last didnt show up. This time the Sloth is a brilliantly conceived and year, but this year I couldnt see Fairport’s fun feast promoters modestly did not ad­ controlled piece of music, and I him for cymbals. And Jerry Dona­ vertise her appearance at all. Nicer think I have never heard anything hue just sort o f stands there most MIKE O ’ROURKE that way, I think. I knew she was so totally absorbing as this con-' o f the time. coming myself, so somebody must cert performance o f it. The first three pieces were all have been spreading the word. She Fairport Convention played for AIRPORT Convention is having paid out good money and traditional: The hexhamshire lass, started o ff with the grim and about two and a half hours. At seven years old this year, a all that crap. But even with all the fiddle tunes The hen's march fearful ballad o f Matty Groves, the end o f it all, Dave Swarbrick 'good healthy life for any bandthose in points down from the start, F through the midden and The four- which drew appreciative opening very politely asked everybody to these days o f instability and John Currie made it. If the sup­ poster bed, and the harrowing stand up. This was a very clever change. Fairport has changed, cer­ applause from the surprisingly porting act has any reasonable broadside ballad Polly on the move because people will not tainly, but the changes seem due large number o f people who rec­ function apart from humiliating shore, which contains some of the stand up in a concert hall if they to the natural processes o f ognised the first few bars. Australian musicians, it is to warm most moving lines in English tradi­ can help it. Ask them to dance growth, accretion, and wriggling, Sandy Denny’s voice is a not­ the audience up and settle them tional song: and only a few exhibitionists will out of old skins. Not a single able instrumental addition to the down. Mr Currie did a fine job. And many’s the thousand do so, because it’s necessary to original member o f the band is band as well as a vocal lead. She Interval, and outside for a cig­ times I’ve wished meself at home, stand up before you can start left in the present lineup, but has power, control and consider­ arette and a drink o f rum and to 'All alone with me Polly on the dancing. But if everybody is al­ there still remains a strong sense able expressiveness. A recent visi­ listen to people complaining shore. ready standing up, the battle (for of continuity. tor to this country (I nearly wrote about one thing and another. Is it She's a tall and a slender girl, hearts and minds) is already won. The influence of Fairport Con­ our shores) was billed as "simply possible that there are people who With a dark and a roving eye; Naturally, everybody stood up, vention has been strong and per­ the best female singer in the are even more dreary and boring And here am I lie a-bleeding on and Fairport started on a medley vasive. A shoot removed soon world” . Well, Sandy Denny is not than me? But this is where the the deck o f dance tunes. And the crowd grows into another tree. They that simple. story really starts . . . And for her sweet sake I must went wild, folks! stand at the centre of a widening The most impressive single die. Hot sweaty steaming bodies network o f English musicians who Fairport Convention did not piece in the concert was the stun­ undulating beneath the tropic are doing things that nobody explode on to the stage, nor did Trevor Lucas’ restrained and ning 20-minute Thompson/Swar- moon. It was marvellous to see would have dreamed possible be­ they ignore the audience. None of sensitive singing in this song was brick composition Sloth. The the young people enjoying them­ fore Fairport’s magnificent Liege that superstar hype about this lot. perfectly complemented by the words o f the song are strong in a selves so much. Everybody seem­ and lief. No power trips, no demonic-pos- onomatopoeic violence of the in­ way not often found in contemp­ ed to be smiling or laughing, To my knowledge, they were session or I’m-just-so-fucking-evil- struments. orary songwriting - a virtue that clapping their hands or jumping the first electric band in the world that-I’m-gonna-hammer-youse- Probably the most immediately seems to be Richard Thompson’s up and down. A few drug-crazed to use straight traditional mater­ into-the-ground-!ike-a-nail fantas­ impressive o f Fairport’s achieve­ particular glory; that is, they are hippies removed articles o f cloth­ ial. Ashley Hutchings, founding ies. They just said hello in the ments is their precision in playing both reticent and dramatically ing, probably transported in the member and bass player up to friendliest possible way and start­ traditional tunes. Difficult dense. There is a tremendous throes o f their fevered visions to Fairport Three, was a founding ed in on The hexhamshire lass. changes o f time are negotiated story in the song that is told only Sunbury or other scenes of aban­ member of both Steeleye Span Perhaps nobody who has not with offensive ease. Their unison in brief flashes of frozen action, don. It could never have happened and the Albion Country Band; Ian been interested in folk music for playing is a remarkable accom ­ like isolated stills from a film in the Dallas Brooks. Matthews, after playing with Fair­ some time can really understand plishment; Dave Pegg is the only Movement occurs through the in­ For an encore they played a port for two years from their what is involved in playing tradi­ bass player I’ve heard who can strumental solos, which are noth­ couple o f old rock songs, eg. in ception, formed Matthews tional songs on electric instru­ play fiddle tunes on his instru­ ing short o f hair-raising. That’ll be the day, which kept the Southern Comfort and later Plain- ments, because they are unlikely ment. His face occasionally con­ This band has the rare ability excitement and the dancing going song; and the later adventures o f to know what these songs sound­ torted into the involuntary grim­ to build up an instrumental tissue nicely. But all too soon it was Richard Thompson and Sandy ed like before they were electri­ aces that some musicians show slowly, layer by layer, playing time to go and we all had to go Denny are not without honor on fied. We’re all used to it by now, when they have to play with with total absorption and relaxa­ home tired, but happy. as many continents as there may but by God it was a shock at first. particular speed and precision, but tion, as if the song had to be Fairport Convention is a rare be. Arguments are still simmering on Jerry Donahue and Dave Swar­ slowly discovered as it was played, group indeed. There’s nobody like It is always possible that the about whether or not it ought to brick just grinned and capered all as if it would only reveal itself if them. early promise of a band might be be allowed, for those who want to the way through it, the heartless one waited patiently for it to betrayed or negated by its later o f John F. Kennedy. digit number and send it to ’em native fauna, prevent nutriment manifestations. But Fairport Con­ I dont think it is for sale in with details o f what it was sold to loss through run o ff and their root vention - as might be expected of Australia as yet. If you have any you as and how much you paid systems stabilise underground a group that plays so much tradi­ doubts about the corruptness of for it. Four days later you ring water tables and salinity levels. tional music — has held faithfully the Nixon administration this them and quote your made-up At the moment there are two to the solid ground of its own books will dispel them. It costs number; they will give you an lobbies associated with our native past. No damned jerrybuildings $1.50. Send $3.50 for an airmail­ accurate analysis. I’m still not sure forests - the environmental lobby here; this group’s music is cut into ed copy to Rising Free, 197 Kings what one does with one’s para­ and the woodchip/forest lobby. the living rock. Cross road, London WC1. noia. Still even if it is funded by This latter lobby is made up o f a The Melbourne venue was the STEPHEN WALL * * * the CIA etc, there is a regular number o f bureaucrats in state infamous Festival Hall. The seat­ HE UK based Peoples News printout o f the state wide results and federal forestry interests and ing is poor, the acoustics have HAVE just finished reading Service is no doubt a good which would be o f use to drug members of local and foreign cor­ ^occasioned unfavorable comment, T a small, 90 page book called “investment” in information/ researchers, social workers and ab­ porations. This lobby regards at and on a humid night like last 1 Watergate written by an Austral­ news/event for gatherers and/or solute dope fiends. I think it’s least 37 million acres o f the 87 ffiday night, the place gets too ian journo called Philip West. It’s publishers. Naturally it covers free. The Pharm Chem Newsletter, million as “ a permanent industrial hot for comfort. For some reason published by the Alternative News items that the international mass 1848 Bay Road, Palo Alto, Cali­ crop” . Worse still, in the past, this turned out to provide a mar­ Service in England. It is the most media often finds “ too sensitive” . fornia 94303, USA. sustained yield felling was the vellous atmosphere. Last year’s devastating piece o f investigative Besides good domestic (UK) news, How about someone starting order o f the day — now the Fairport concerts at the sedate reporting I have seen on contemp­ the international scene is fairly up something here? hungry turds have devised new Dallas Brooks Hall suffered, in orary America. well covered. In the issue I have, it methods called clear felling and spite o f the near-perfect sound NTERNATIONAL Womens The most unnerving thing covers conditions in Czechoslo­ "total tree utilisation”. The old and visibility, from a coldness that Day is going to happen on about this book is that it is quite vakian labor camps, a Democratic I method wasnt too damaging , the was evidently due to the over­ march 9 and 10 this year and the possibly all factual. It details (1) Rights Committee formed in new methods are truly devastating whelming ascetic slick surround­ Sydney Womens Liberation move­ The connections between CREEP Malaya and Dutch protest over Australian forests may well be ings, or maybe it was caused by and the crash o f an airliner which Indonesia plus lots more. ment has decided to initiate activ­ the malevolent vibrations o f the ity around the theme: Women on the verge of being raped by killed the wife of one o f the PNS is issued weekly and costs unthinking, profit hungry corpor­ arcane mystic rites practised in Watergate burglars. (2) Nixon’s against the violent society. On two pounds for ten issues for ate delinquents. According to the the same building. A bit o f dis­ links since 1948 with the mafia firms and institutions and one monday, february 4, at 7.30 pm comfort is always good for an at Womens House, 25 Alberta environment lobby, most of the and corrupt American labor pound to individuals, left groups planning and subsequent govern­ audience. It makes them feel vir­ unions. (3) How Nixon and Ag- Street, Sydney, they have planned and publications. If Enoch Powell ment approvals is being carried tuous and stops them dropping new sabotaged peace in Vietnam a discussion. Open to all women is your idea o f a good moralist, out without sufficient public o ff the sleep. Whatever the reason, before the 1968 elections. (4) and womens organisations wishing dont waste your money. PNS, 119 openness. You can find out more the audience was generous, excit­ Why George Wallace was a victim to assist with this activity. Ring Railton Road, London. SE24. of the facts, and please do, by able and cooperative. of a CREEP conspiracy to elim­ * * * 61.7325 for further details (be­ sending 20 cents (more if poss.) The “ supporting act” was Irish- inate him from the 1972 election. HE ALLEGED content and tween 6 and 9 pm l born Sydney singer John Currie. for a copy of The woodchip in­ (5) How a double agent may have the actual content o f street HERE’S AN estimated 87 It’s a difficult position to be T dustry. Send to the Campaign To been planted in the Nixon cam­ dope are often quite different. million acres o f native forest placed in, with little chance for T Save Native Forests, C/- Ecology paign to uncover Watergate. (6) (Been burnt Bruce?) In the US, in Australia. They form an integ­ glory and the possibility of mak­ Action, Box C159 P.O., Clarence Nixon’s links since 1961 with the the home of information innova­ ral link in the “ web of life” of our ing the more uptight members of Street, Sydney. Cuban Americans who broke into tion, there exists a service which continents — natural forest sys­ * * * the audience actually angry with Watergate. (7) How one o f the will analyise your dope. You sim­ tems influence local climate con­ SEND your info nuggets and ac­ you for wasting their valuable men who planned the raid was ply wrap up a sample o f your ditions, protect watersheds and cess gems to APP, P.O. Box 8, time. Otherwise kind and reason­ connected with the assassination latest chemical, make up a six prevent erosion, are the habitat of Surry Hills 2010. able people start muttering about THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, january 29-february 4, 1974 — Page 23 1HIS/WWISAGIMER4 ALBIE THOMS HE PREMIERE season of ing that film and others by War­ your Times and Pravda today? be the first o f a long series o f It was he who founded the TJonas Mekas’s Reminis­ hol, Anger and Genet, that led to Why do you wonder, then, that political charades for the guru o f New York Filmmakers Distribu­ cences o f a journey to Lithuania at the breakdown of New York’s poets are beginning to get uneasy? ecstasy. tion Cooperative, and helped de­ the Sydney Filmmaker’s Cinema censorship restrictions, and in Yes, the artists are abandoning the Mekas encouraged the acid ex­ vise its democratic constitution this week, offers a rare glimpse of their wake the general liberalis­ beautiful, happy, entertaining, periments o f New York artists in which has been a model for co-ops a New York figure little known in ation of film censorship through­ self-glorifying stories. the early 60s (before the hippy throughout the world. Though the this country. Saint Jonas, as he out the world. “ They are beginning to express craze rendered them banal), show­ Sydney co-op was founded in has been affectionately called, is The brig shows Mekas’s con­ their anxiety in an open and ing their psychedelic and multi- ignorance of Mekas’s efforts, it an almost mythological figure in tempt for repressive authority in direct manner. They are searching media experiments at the Film­ quickly took inspiration from the film world, but his signifi­ another way. It was shot illegally, for a freer form, one which per­ makers Cinematheque (o f which their success when those inter­ cance extends far beyond the film after the FBI had closed the Liv­ mits them a larger scale o f emo­ he was the founder) until that too national activities became known medium: for he is a one-man ing Theatre on some tax loophole. tional statements, explosion of invoked the wrath of the authori­ thru the much-publicised New crusade for the cultivation and Mekas and the actors climbed into truths, outcries o f warnings, ac­ ties and was closed by police. He American Cinema international development o f poetic sensibilities the theatre thru a skylight and cumulations of images — not to was also the “ discoverer” of Andy exhibitions (organised by Mekas) in an increasingly materialist shot the movie in a long night carry out an amusing story but to Warhol as a filmmaker, and show­ which drew world attention to the world. while the FBI stood unwittingly fully express the tremblings of the ed his first films in the cine- radically different cinema that It is not surprising that he emerged in the USA during the chose that most materialist o f 60s. places, New York, as the centre No doubt it was Mekas, who from which to spread his gospel, had served in the Lithuanian for in many ways it is the centre underground, who gave the new of the world, and tho a difficult appellative validity when applied place to survive and succeed in, it to these films and popularised by is a place where local success Time and Newsweek till it came quickly extends to every region of to cover new music, newspapers, the earth and makes its influence and many things other than the felt. While in person Mekas is a movies o f Mekas’s New York quiet Lithuanian poet, thru his band. His magazine Film culture films and writings and activism, he helped define the new esthetics of has become an inspiration to these movies, and his more per­ people in many lands. sonal impressions o f these films As is revealed in Reminiscences and their makers can be found in o f a journey to Lithuania, he was his book Movie journal (Collier, born a peasant farmer, and joined 1972). the underground when his coun­ Mekas is now the director o f try was conquered by the Ger­ the Anthology Film Archives in mans in the second world war. He New York, which provides the was captured and sent to Ger­ only comprehensive screenings o f many as a slave worker in Ham­ the history o f film as an art form. burg, before escaping and even­ Over a period o f two months, in a tually arriving in New York as a hundred programs, one can see displaced person around 1950. A the whole history (as it accords poet, by nature as well as practice, with Mekas’s vision) o f film art. he acquired a war-surplus Bolex And the films are projected in a camera and began evolving his “ perfect” cinema, built like a personal filming style, now crys- space capsule, with everyone able talised in film diaries that suggest to see the screen (and only the the precision o f the Goncourt screen, due to “ blinkers” on the brothers in their ability to reveal seats), and be totally transported intimate sensibilities briefly and into the world o f the film. poignantly. But it is in his own film Diaries, In Reminiscences some o f his notes and sketches also known as early footage from when he was a Walden (1969) that will assure DP in Brooklyn is shown as a Mekas o f some permanent place in prelude to more recent footage the history o f modem civilisation. (1971) shot when he returned to This three hour home movie is o f Lithuania after an absence o f 25 such density and exquisite imag­ years to visit his brothers and ery that one is awed in its pres­ sisters and his amazing 85 year old ence. It covers his life from 1950 mother, who still lives the peasant to 1969, 20 years of impressions life o f the last century while her and glimpses, a recording o f the children and grandchildren work poet’s sensibilities, his nervous on modernised collective farms. system rendered as light and The emotion o f the prodigal’s sound. return flows from the screen in Reminiscences of a journey to waves o f light as Mekas’s camera Lithuania is its sequel, another nervously comes to terms with home movie rendered as art o f a faces and places from his past. high order. Its nervous twitchings This new film contrasts very might seem difficult to watch at much with the only other Mekas first, but they are the poet’s way film that has been seen in Aus­ of conveying his emotions at go­ tralia. The brig (distributed by the ing home after 25 years away. Sydney Filmmakers’ Co Op) is a And if we persevere, we adapt to searing record o f brutality in outside guarding the padlocked consciousness of man, to confront matheque. his way o f seeing things, feel the American military prisons as was doors. The film went on to win a us eye-to-eye with the soul of It was Mekas who was the experiences with him, share his recreated by the Living Theatre grand prix at the Venice film modern man ...” photographer of Empire, that wonder and his joy. Such little (an artists co op) in their produc­ festival o f 1964 in the document­ Nowadays the film hardly most-talked-about of Warhol’s beauties are not to be sneered at. tion o f Kenneth Brown’s play. ary section! seems radical or avant-garde at all, films, lasting eight hours, but Too often we fall for the bullshit The precision noticeable in Me­ but then it caused quite an out­ more talked-about than seen. of glamor and miss the fleeting kas’s diary films is here apparent An early Mekas film was Guns cry. It was also one o f the first Mekas is probably the only person delights that are ever around us. in the ever-moving camera taking of the trees, made at the peak of films to chronicle the anti war to have seen the film thru twice. We need poets to remind us o f us into the heart o f the action, so the Beat period in New York, protests which have since become He rarely talks about, or writes these missed opportunities, and much so that it seems to be filmed with a poetic narration by Allen familiar sights in American mov­ about a film unless he has seen it Mekas is one o f the great poets, inside a real prison with the Ginsberg, fusing Beat notions o f ies. Mekas was a protester then, at least twice. But when he does and luckily, one who has chosen camera being the eyes of one of existentialism, pacificism and zen. before it became fashionable, write about a film, as he has in the film as his medium o f expression. the prisoners. Mekas o f course Anticipating the hostility which when Kennedy was the darling o f Village voice newspaper weekly The result is a different kind o f knows what it is like to be a always greets avant-garde work, the liberal press and was waving for at least ten years, he writes film, epiphany-filled, that is prisoner, for as well as his experi­ Mekas advised his audience: H-bombs threateningly at Russia. with an eloquence and passion worlds removed from the super ences with the nazis, he has also “ There is no story. Telling stories Mekas was also an early associ­ rarely found in film criticism any­ colossi of the cinemascope been imprisoned for screening is for peaceful people and content ate o f Timothy Leary, and was where in the world. It is not an screen. As Mekas himself has stat­ Jack Smith’s transvestite orgy film people. And at this juncture o f with him in the happier times at overstatement to say that the ed: "We are the measure o f all Flaming creatures at a time when my life I am neither content not Millbrook, as is recorded in his American underground cinema things. And the beauty o f our New York’s film censorship laws peaceful. I am deeply and totally film diaries. These are also notable would be virtually unknown were creation, of our art, is proportion­ were far less liberal than now. discontent. Do I have to list the for an interview with the sheriff 'it not for Mekas’s writing and his al to the beauty o f ourselves, o f And it is Mekas’s courage in show­ reasons why? Havent you read who busted Leary in what was to efforts to get films shown. our souls.”

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* The house at the previous elsewhere, especially Victoria Sydney Sehoolkids address can rely on the sturdy has been demolished, much to stationary-ness of Melbourne our surprise, so contributors headmaster Rob King, still hold your fire until we residing at “ Lodge Ralph” , locate a permanent post for David road, Lilydale, roving Sydney Sehoolkids Victoria. What are you doing editor, John Geake. People on your holidays, kids? words. It makes you wonder what the heroes of these people would be: READ in the Just us kids (a) Hitler or, 1 columns about other kids’ (b) Ghandi, and Martin Luther schools faults, but our’s is really King . .. Probably (al bad, Henry Kendall High. Our’s And I’ve heard people tell me represses Love, and puts it on the Anarchy would only spread Hate same plane as violence. same as beating people up, well religious fighting, we’ve got the ing in Henry Kendall High (or and Killing. Well look misguided That is they give the cane, or I’ve got news for you, it isnt - it’s arabs hating the jews and vice- Hate) school. people at what’s been fed into us other punishment they wish to these same people who show versa, we’ve got the bombing o f To quote our vice principal: in school, and the Hate and dis­ choose (thinking they are Gods) if screwing as a “ sinful” thing. Shit! innocent people, we’ve got the “ Anyone who is hugging or kiss­ crimination this conditioning has you are caught kissing or hugging our society (world) has enough rising rate o f crime, w e’ve got the ing a girl will be punished.” brought us!!!! a member of the opposite sex, and hate in it, thanks to governments ever increasing hate o f the work­ And, “ We dont want to see Remember Love is the answer! you get the same punishment if of the world (anarchy is the key) ing class against the capitalists, these hugging sessions!” And Anarchy is the Key! you beat another kid’s head in, in we’ve had the first, second world and in the middle o f all this we’ve So as you see we at school are By the Friendly Anarchist, a fight. wars, Vietnam, Chile etc; we’ve got our school repressing Love in need o f a revolution to get rid and occupant o f Henry If the teachers think that to got racial prejudice, Ku Klux (probably other schools too!). It of teachers like that, who think Kendall High show love and affection is the Klan, anti-semitism, we’ve qot the sounds ridiculous but it’s happen­ Love and Peace are four letter Pt Clare, NSW

F THIS must be called we carried rocks in, someone just kids away from learning because a something it is a personal remarked that it was like the set number of periods were on the letter to myself - something like I convict days. We drove the Moke timetable for me to fill up with might set for 1A English: “ Write a over our engineering feat and teaching. We may have the best personal letter to yourself in 10 about a mile on came to a great intentions, the most individualised year’s time. What do you want to boulder in the middle o f the programs and the best gimmicks remember about Now? What do track. but the inevitable result is still the you want to be Then? (1-2 Once again it was manual labor holding operation. pages)” and someone wanted to shift it And the teacher-training It is the end of the year now like the Egyptians used to. An­ people continue to live on aca­ and I’ve been wanting to write other idea was to break it up, with demic cloudland. It is time for this for months. But school just smaller rocks. Eventually we suc­ teaching apprenticeships right keeps coming at you and there is ceeded with Egyptian log rollers from the start with college lec­ no time to sit and be reflective. (and a modern crowbar). NB. This turers in there teaching real Everything this year has been was not us playing teacher on snotty-nosed kids and for long done in such a hurry. Even relax­ Sunday - it was just passing enough to feel the grind. Students ing is hurried. conversation amongst the group. could realise their own weaknesses This pressure-cooking o f time Eventually we found the end of and be involved in a long-term would be the main feature o f the the track and cooked lunch near professional education instead o f year. Even to be an inadequate an old slab musterer’s hut. an initiation course before getting teacher you must work like hell - For me that day was a very hit with the cynical system. not hard work in any physical significant lesson in history and So I have become a teacher sense, but each day consists o f education. It was not “ History” dropout. Next year I would be maybe thousands o f little personal and it wasnt even “ education” but even more a school-teacher exchanges starting with “ good it showed that that simple experi­ fashioning symbolic information morning” to the boss, and ence contained very meaningful and pouring it by clever new through the various conversations and diverse learnings. It was not a gimmicks into understandably re­ or conflicts of each lesson, to the matter of making a point about luctant heads. No, I need to learn four o ’clock nod to the cleaning the history, the landforms, the more about things myself before I lady as you escape. Each o f these map or the mechanical troubles. can hope to help others learn — encounters costs a little emotional It made the classroom laugh­ more about communicating and able. You might try to introduce a history and society and schools energy until you get home and How could they walk around zombie-like for a lesson on convict labor. You and. kids and everything else. do anything with­ while, or hypertense and snarling, structure was would make stencils, draw pic­ I wanted to change to Social out those basic skills? and you look up tomorrow’s time­ the famous driving tures, write notes, ask questions, Studies activities with 2B but it The answer was simple - they table and seven periods loom lesson. Ian and Brian came out to set exams but there it all was in a had been decreed somewhere in didnt. get grapes one day after school few simple comments during a the upper reaches o f the Wynd- ahead as well as two sets of books The 3B battle began. It was not and of course they wanted to day’s outing. ham Scheme that History would to mark and a lesson register to an unfriendly battle, just that no drive my Mini-Moke around the After that came the “Adven­ be a CORE SUBJECT! And that fill in. lesson ever worked. Well three did Tension is a real thing and a yard. Well, there was no harm in it ture Camp” - named as a big deal was law. So kids who could barely for the first half o f the year. That cumulative thing over a term. so they each had a turn - starting one-day-off-school thing. Eighteen read were studying the Protestant is three in about a hundred. Most­ There is always something to do from basics having never driven boys, tw o teachers. A weekend at Reformation and Elizabethan ly it was a series o f diversions - before. There were those hectic a logging camp in the coastal rain England. We did a power o f note- even if it’s only background read­ not a class conspiracy — just ing in English or History. You moments o f nearly pranging the forest. Junior, boys had to cook copying and I set the exam easy individual guerrilla tactics: front gatepost or Brian’s effort of for themselves - some of them but still nothing was absorbed. become a clockwatcher allocating “Where’s your book, Peter?” heading for the fence, panicking (obviously!) for the first time. After the exam there was a time for preparation or marking “ Home, sir” . and pressing the accelerator. Colli­ The best event o f that camp was general atmosphere o f relaxation. or rest. Ruler fights. sion averted luckily. discovering the old mine. We We had limited freedom to con­ I’ve got to say though, in this “ Sir, ’e’s pinched me port.” So the first driving lesson be­ vaguely knew where it was and duct our holding operation in pressure bit, that I was lucky to “ Sir, ’e’s thrown me pencil case came a regular thing - round the followed our forestry map until different ways. For me this was get into this school. It was sheer out the window.” paddock or up and down the back odd signs o f industry appeared in simply to present a few sets o f accident o f course. I’ve never “ Can I go and get it, Sir?” road. We did it because they were the bush, then a tiny railway track English type games (“ Tutor- known anyone to get where they General conversation prevails — keen to learn and it was the first and old wooden steps down to the Systems” Puzzles and “ Scrabble” ) applied for - except one case by reports o f Number 96 or the time that I had seen kids this keen abandoned crushing plant. as well as work cards and books, pleading to the local MP. Sure, m otor bike races. Desk tapping, to learn anything. Some of the group scrambled and clear away some desks. I this is a conservative school but at chair scraping. The difference it made at down to examine the old diesel brought in some soft chairs and least people will let you do things. At least the chaos was contain­ school was astounding. From boys engine. How did it work? How did put up a few big posters. The kids Being a small school you can get ed in the room. We would have a to know everybody and you can unwilling to co-operate at all in the clutch work? The (pelt and knew they didnt really have to do modified version of the prepared class came the comment that pulleys? Others raced along the anything yet they worked on Eng­ get a feeling of community both lesson amid diversions and pack­ “ they werent gonna muck up no old railway and over a bridge to lish and enjoyed it. We approach­ in the school and in the town - ing up would commence as the that is still a worthwhile thing. I more.” They had a sense o f find the old shafts and abandoned ed a “ kohl-style” open classroom bell-monitor walked out to allow felt that my efforts counted. achieving something and so were tunnel and ore-race. We found a at last - after the Real Work was himself five minutes o f preparing- willing to give me a chance in bat. We saw the shoring timbers done. Imagine being an alienated teacher to-ring-the-bell time. lessons. Not that they suddenly and pushed the old trolley. Some This year I wanted to see from in a staff of 60 or 70 - no wonder I tried grouping the different made great strides, not even that likely looking rocks were claimed the inside if there was any hope there are alienated kids! interests and ability levels. The they cared about the work, they for testing. for schools. I tried to come as an I guess the realities o f a class­ non-readers would complain that were just willing to give me a Meanwhile back at school we apprentice and not hassle too much room hit after the first period o f every job was too hard and they chance and that was a breath o f had reached a sort o f stalemate. with the superficial bureaucratic the year - a honeymoon period. I were the most easily diverted any­ fresh air. And I really learned English became more tolerable jobs. The only alternative is the gave out a little questionnaire to way. The rest o f the class saw something about intrinsic motiva­ when I disposed of some of the “ havoc” approach o f more pure try to find out about the people, group work as a chance to be off tion. obviously hopeless books. 3B revolutionaries which probably in the class. Here is a fairly normal the hook. Sometimes they would I saw the same sort o f thing on worked on the themes of “ Love” has stimulating social effects de­ looking third form group, 25 kids work outside the classroom but the Table Top Mountain trip. and “Personality”. We made a spite its personal effects. and my god!!! about eight can this only spread the diversions. Sometimes Jim Buchanan would successful play for the school con­ A year “ in the service” as they barely write. 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The only NSW. and the classical expose of frogs and to somehow make you feel inferior when I asked around to see if any child real solution is found in Jesus, not the The full words and.musical score the ad-men. because you havent got that certain minding co-ops had been set up with crap which many preach as Christian­ were published on the back page of the If you had kept in this groove you something a “ mother” is supposed to the idea o f combating sexist pressures ity, but in Jesus Himself as a real, NSW public school gazette or magazine would have a bloody good paper, but have. Ah, fuck! As long as there are on kids, the people I spoke to looked living, spiritual being in our world issued by the education department. why the hell did you change? After the “ mothers” then men will be able to askance at me. “ I mean, a creche is a today. Just an idea to stir up some of the anarchy issue the paper degenerated keep within their own physically, creche” , they seemed to say, “ what By surrendering control of our stuffed shirts and arty-farty crew who into a load of politics and crap. emotionally lonely domain and outside d'ya mean, a non sexist creche?” spirits to Him and to His spirit can we are trying to run the musical side of Who gives a shit about the Warmam- of a domain which demands tender­ People are going to leave the creches destroy that selfish ego. He came to this country. bool pub, or Michael X (who is trying ness, understanding, patience (and bags in the hands of the “ professionals” heal that part of us which is “ crippled ROY WOODLAND, to make himself look a martyr any­ of resilience). because — particularly in the case of inside” . His blood from the cross is the Water Wheel Gardens, way)? And fuck student rats in South But your man’s quite right. A lot of men — they feel they want to be as far means provided to spiritually revolu­ BaUina, NSW Korea. If a bugger pays 30 cents each lefties themselves, as well as being semi away from children as possible. And tionise our lives. Because He is alive our week to buy a paper, give him some­ terrified by kids or just plain cold the professionals, by motherhood!, will spirits can live. I know because it has thing to read and understand. If you towards them, know fuck-all about certainly make fine young men and worked for me. Dickhead are going to print crap like “ Cosmic what children need. But, he’s not Women out of all of them. And no ROBERT HOPE-HUME, Beckett Epics in Speech Balloons” and Chopin totally right, fortunately. There have nudity in the Sydney day nurseries, Lower King, WA WITH A beer in one hand and my first and Zappa jammin' together, translate been people who’ve been really good either. edition of Bullshit, no let me see, The the bloody lot first, so that people can to me. But on the whole, male lefties Ah well. If anyone is interested in a living daylights in the other I must 'av read it. do see children as another race. creche co-op that attempts to deal with Five lines a go at Dickhead Beckett on his run­ Not every bugger is as literary All this, of course, is intimately sexism in some may maybe they could FIVE lines which sum up the death of ning away from it all in P.N.G. piece. minded as the editors are, or pretend bound up with gay lib, but in a way write and let me know. Anyway, the any city — this city? — and its murder­ Fkst of all those 10,000 non racist to be. I doubt if even the bloody that most male activists havent grasped idea may catch on. ers: Australians you mentioned, well let me authors know what they are talking yet. Being closely involved with chil­ Keep the men and sexism articles Thick, grey smog enveloping the city tell you at least 7 000 were not prepar­ about. dren, particularly young children, de­ flourishing. I think TLD is a pretty like a shroud; ed to accept living in a country and So wake up to yourself. Dont be mands a level of physical response — of ratshit paper, basically, but I’d crawl Constant traffic humming a cheerless treating their black brothers as equals such fucking hypocrites. Print a few tenderness, in a way — that most of over buckets 5f shitty nappies to read funeral dirge; and the other 3000 were doing jobs good stories in each paper to make it them arent up to. But if you can your men against sexism articles. Mourners bravely hiding their sorrow that the locals should have been train­ worth buying. How about continuing manage to achieve this with kids you’re JOHN WILKINSON, behind a mask o f indifference; ed to do years ago. Tabloid story instead of crap like “ Just going to be a lot better able to do it Erskineville, NSW Bright neon signs etching solemn It is still paradise here compared us kids” , perhaps more interviews such with other adults. It's difficult — I’ve epitaphs with all your strikes, inflation, bloody as with Ian Sykes, or the brilliant still got great difficulties myself, as on giant-size concrete and glass tomb­ politicians lobbying up every few interview in the Anarchy issue. much as anyone else, but the “ Men Jesus saves I GUESS it’s pretty obvious, the sys­ stones. minutes on TV. I can only give you one piece of against Sexism" article is so right: all BARBARA MAHLE, MARGARET STEPHENSON, good advice: dont be snobs. Dont talk the aggression and ego shit at lefties tem stinks. That is the whole world down to people and act superior, just “ conferences” , for example, derives in because you know big words and know so many ways from each man’s physi­ how to rearrange others to sound as if cal and emotional distance from the you are clever. Because people won’t other. think you are. They'll say what kind of Which leads me indirectly on to the a dick writes this crap, and throw the communal childminding venture at lot away, there are other ways to get Victoria street. One of the more posi­ your point across. tive things that emerged was a weaken­ ANONYMO US, ing of the sexism that usually crops up Balgownie, NSW in child minding arrangements. All the children played with the buckets and PS. If you believe in freedom of the spades as equally and together as when press (it is guaranteed to you because they played with the dolls. For me, you own one) and dont print this letter one of the more encouraging things (or even consider my suggestions) you was that even up till the time of the can stick your paper up your bum, bust most of the boys still called Cass because it (my letter) makes more “ he", which meant, for me, that be­ Roughing it— up in the gorge sense than some of the (other) bullshit cause Cass had worn boys clothes most you print. of the time and had played with the ADRIAN DICKIE water” ) etc, thus keeping HEAVY contents in terms of “tasty pork CANS down to the minimum pieces, twigy capsicum, tomatoes, boys they had been unable to stratify O it was, comrades, that my her into a feminine role. selected mediterranean spices, a Men and fellow travellers and I pre­ So, suitably sutled and nigh on After the bust it’s back to the S popular international favorite” . pared ourselves for a week’s so­ spaced out by the heavies at Sydney day nurseries, where the sexism journ in the Lerderderg gorge, a Northland or Westland or what­ Inside, however, were two woman informs me, that it’s so crucial place - although popular with the ever they call it, we wound our sachets; one containing no more AT LONG last the whole question of to have the “ mother” around in these ways to the Lerderderg. men and sexism and children is starting early years and implies that Cass sympathisers o f Baden-Powell and rice than would fill a sparrow, the to come up front About time. I’ve should be home all day stifled with the suspicious types of that ilk - of With the battered Peugeot hid­ other a brown powder (“when been looking after a young kid since captive “ mother” . Groan. I can see still relatively untainted beauty. It den from wouldbe strippers and reconstituted; monosodium glu­ sits astride the Lerderderg river other dwellers o f darkness, we tamate, food acid .. .” ). several miles to the north o f Bac­ proceeded up the gorge. We selec­ We ate in silence, exchanged chus Marsh, Victoria. ted a spot about five exhausting glances which even for hardened Here, we intended to soak up miles up river, pitched tent and cynics as ourselves were incredu­ some nature, tipple a mite and settled down to snooze, the lous, then drank long and often. share the communion o f the odd O.E.Ds. Definition of which is log or two for as long as our “ to pass time in lazy indifference” . Two days passed, between us passed an uncommunicated con­ inclinations and pouches allowed. The initial inkling o f why I sensus. We threw organisation to the should put this experience down wind, kisses and adieus to our for my grandchildren came with On the third day it was desper­ loved ones. We departed with a our first meal. We opted for beef ately time to replenish supplies joie de vivre known only to mis­ flavored Rice-a-Riso. from Bacchus Marsh. Ten minutes creant inductables and the pure of before opening time, we waited heart. Now I would suggest I have a considerable working vocabulary, outside their equivalent o f “ Big All seriousness aside though we but any attempt to accord this .. . W” . We waited for the store to decided, or rather through lack o f open, lust in our hearts, pains in preparations, were obliged to pro­ food . .. substance . .. fascist plot . . . spaces me out! our guts. When finally the big glass vender ourselves from some doors swung open we raced inside. With heavy hearts, and other SuperFreakOutMarket on the CANS CANS CANS: we loaded vital parts, we snoozed some way. This almost proved our un­ tihs into the supermarket buggy, more, swimming in the deep rock doing . . . directed it to the pay counter, pool, salving our city-scarred Now everybody knows that it’s paid the bill, put the goodies in bodies and knowing, somehow a fucking drag to hump any the packs and trucked back to the divining, that the worst was yet to weight exceeding say 20 pounds camp. Here we tore the cans come. more than several miles in a ruck­ apart, we dived in with relish . . . sack; so in our infinite regress we Yes, the auguries were not pro­ we ate, yes, BAKED BEANS, agreed to buy PACKET FOOD. pitious . . . GLORIOUS BAKED BEANS, the You know the stuff; Rice-a-Riso, The evening meal o f Vesta Park only staple for the Gorge. Vesta Chicken Maryland (“ empty Italienne left no disappointment contents into pan and just add to chance. The packet extolled its □ THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, january 29-february 4, 1974 — Page 27 This report is from two Australians now living in Britain. They were visiting Sydney over Christmas, hence the surprise on their return to discover that - contrary to press reports - “the crisis is the best thing that’s happened to British capitalism since sliced bread” .

ITTIN G in Sydney reading the aus- ning overtime. The shorter working week Showing the flag it more profitable to keep Centre Point S 9sie press, we envisaged the entire — Heath's answer to this perfectly legal Thanks to this pseudo "crisis", British standing empty for the past four years.) population of England frozen and im­ "illegal" action — is costing Britain 800 capitalists are feeling more confident The Centre Point occupation sparked mobile in flickering candlelight before times what it would cost to concede to about dealing with their own very real off a large spontaneous demonstration in their dead telly screens or roaming the the miners wage demand. problems — increasing balance of pay­ support. Increasingly people are seeing streets with a hungry look in their eyes. Crisis mongering has other advantages ments deficit, a low level of capital breaking the law as necessary to get what We find it not so. Compared with the for the government and the bosses. It's investment in industry, a predicted fall of they want — whether it's work, homes, days of the 1972 miners strike, things are led to a big shakeout of many small one percent in GNP this year. lower rents, or playgroups for their kids. very quiet. The belts have tightened, but businesses and inefficient firms while at In order to remain competitive with The Heath government's reaction is to so far only the usual people (pensioners, the same time workers have been conned European markets, they're going to have rely more and more on overt repression. invalids, unsupported mothers) are having into "pulling together to save Britain" to depress the peoples standard of living Coordination between the police and the to eat cardboard. and accepting previously unthinkable even further than at present. That there's army for the control of predicted "civil Trafalgar Square has been taken over conditions. a class war going on even the Conserva­ disorder" has been planned. Those tanks by the pigeons, its fountains switched off At Albion Motors in Glasgow, men are tives admit. at Heathrow were there more to prepare (to impress the tourists?) You see the the ground for future occasions than to working compulsory overtime with no The ruling class carries on with un­ occasional petrol queue. Shopfronts are stop any arabs taking potshots at jumbos. heating; it may be a mild winter, but this diminished arrogance. Its spokesmen go darkened to save electricity (a field day The law on picketing has been tighten­ is ridiculous. So long as the government on T V urging people to clean their teeth for shoplifters). ed up. The recent jailing of three building can keep people believing in their "crisis" in the dark while the rest of them go off There arent so many cars about Lots workers (one for three years) for their they can get away with murder — literal­ on holidays to Europe and the Carib­ of people seem to be maniacally digging part in alleged violent pickets during a ly. People are working harder in lousier bean. Those who stay behind spend their up their gardens. The pubs are fuller. building strike was meant to warn off all conditions for less pay than any time time trying to whip up patriotic senti­ With people at home an extra two days a militant trade unionists. since the war. ment against the "threat from the left" week, experts are predicting a baby boom In Kirby, Liverpool, a rent striker And the bosses arent going to forget it. which they see as destroying Britain .. . soon. Mothercare shares have soared. found herself in prison. In London, a When the "crisis" is over, they'll be like this imbecile, who wrote into the Otherwise life seems to be proceeding special unit of police (the "Special Patrol demanding the same rate of effort. Daily telegraph the other day about flags: much as usual. Like in the blitz. Unem­ Group"), trained to pick off active mili­ Sir, Why is it apparently impossible to ployment is up, homelessness is up, pov­ tants, is making its presence felt. Only Union bashing - TU C style buy a miniature Union Jack? Is it owing erty is up, rents and prices are up, but the last week, it arrested 30 squatters who to a shortage o f material, or some deep barricades are not The unions and the Trades Union Council were demonstrating outside an electricity psychological reasoning that considers it are saying that the Conservatives are board office; yesterday it bagged 19 more unwholesome for a child to be able to Poor old poms... but a great old crisis stopping people from working; in fact, outside Centre Point. In Bristol the local What about the "crisis" we've all been people are working harder in three days wave its country's flag? Perhaps it is national defeatism. Or yet another sign o f trades council has uncovered evidence of reading about? The truth is that this than in their normal five. (Leftwing leaf­ police use of an agent provocateur in a communism at work. "crisis" is the best thing that's happened lets welcoming the three day week but local left group. to British capitalism since sliced bread. demanding five days pay have been well But the more the government has to We're supposed to be on a three day received down at the dole queues — What about all these communists? rely on force, the less stable becomes its week because the miners dispute is de­ especially by women.) Despite the absence of large scale resist­ rule. Even the Financial times is saying it: pleting energy stocks. In fact these stocks But the TU C leadership is, as usual, ance to the Conservatives policies (con­ British society is in a more fragile state are healthy — the arabs have reduced our more frightened for its jobs than those of trast the situation now with 1970, when than at any time since the war. There's a oil supplies only slightly. The real reason the people it represents. We therefore millions marched to protest against the feeling that if workers and other oppres­ for the three day week is to try to turn have the wretched sight of the body Industrial Relations Bill), the government sed groups start to push against the door, the blame for our economic ills on to the which is supposed to be representing is clearly worried about the growing the whole edifice of British capitalism miners, traindrivers and "reds" generally. workers interests pleading with Heath to sympathy for revolutionary ideas. could come tumbling down . . . Heath has denounced the miners ac­ let it — the TU C — discipline workers Take the occupation by squatters the The power crisis is just that: a crisis tion as "illegal". In fact, they arent even itself. The TU C promised to accept any­ other day of Centre Point — a large office over who runs Britain. on strike (despite what you hear on thing Heath lays on it in future if he gives block in the heart of London. (Its mil­ Australian TV); all they're doing is ban­ in to the miners claim. lionaire owner, Harry Hyams, has found □ HOW THE HOUSEWIFE CAN PUT BRITAIN BACK ON A FOUR-DAY WEEK

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