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R o u g h rid e rs a n d h ig h k ic k e rs ........
THE GRAND OLE OPRY IN THE SKY
The slowest
typewriter
in the east
A colleague, who should have known
better, advised us against sending some­
one to cover the floods. “They always
subside,” he told us. That was ten days
ago and as this is being w ritten the waters
are still rising in northwest NSW and
Queensland. Graeme Dunstan splashed
about in the area and unloads his mind
opposite.
A world beyond the ambit of estab­
lished science is rapidly unfurling. On one
side we have the spectacular displays of
Uri Geller, who recently on TV astound­
ed the British public by bending spoons
and breaking watches with psychic
powers. In the USSR the government is
supplying large grants for the general
study of PSI. But people arent waiting for
the results, as evidenced by the large
queues outside the surgeries of Filipino
faith healers (p.9).
Harry G um boot's three week catatonic
silence was broken this week after he
heard of the minister for immigration’s
recent posturings in Britain. Under the
delusion that his garret is atop Mount
Olympus, Harry then gushes out his acid
fascist worldview.
Living delights is taking the shape of
an unbeatable reader service and should
offer inducem ent to all to get up and see
w hat’s showing around town. February
the column goes to Adelaide and we hope
to cover other cities later.
We were asked by readers in last
week’s letters why we said nothing about
Harry H ooton, Australia’s own post war
anarchist poet. So, Albie Thoms, who has
glowing memories of him, pays tribute
(P. 13).
Talking of readers, Leonard Amos, the
bete noir of our letter pages has
reappeared and is in fine fettle, issuing
dire threats to all anarchists.
Congratulations offered to Mungo
MacCallum, author of Nation review's
release last week of the “Vietnam
Papers” , the story of Whitlam’s foreign
affairs baptism over Nixon’s pre christmas
bombing of North Vietnam in 1972. All
in all it shows Whitlam in not unfavorable
light and dispels criticism by the Left at
the time that he was fiddling while Hanoi
burned.
Our Sydney distributor, normally of
gloomy and unhelpful demean, reported
our first issue of the new year broke all
sales records. “ I told you this would
happen when you p u t words on your
posters and not pictures,” he bragged. As
newsagents refused to display the pretty
posters we have now reverted to the
gaudy haiku of oversell until further
notice. The' Melbourne distributor also
boosted orders. Sydneysiders who feel
this paper is too remote and inaccessible
will now have somewhere to go and bitch.
Stephen Wall, the perpetrator of Access
and a portion of Living delights, has
reluctantly agreed to act as copy host and
apologist for the paper. So if you would
like to drop in words or art work or just
ask embarrassing questions, come to 18
Arthur street, Surry Hills any time be­
tween 9 and 5 tuesdays to thursdays.
It has been suggested we devote an
issue to Awareness — 101 ways to expand
your consciousness and all that. Any
contributions for this issue welcome.
Until next tuesday — EDS.
Richard Beckett
beats up
the week’s news
o in g t h e g r a n d o l d d u k e
OF YORK ACT: Defence minister
Lance Barnard having failed during talks
with the United States to win the right
:j: to stop them pushing the w orld’s end
button on our territory, told breathless
•: reporters in Washington that: “From
•: my point of view it has been an
|: extremely successful visit.” But as a sop
to Australia's timid sensibilities the
:• gracious Americans will allow us to post
a few sailors to their communications
base at North West Cape. These sailors
will apparently be employed building
:• their own morse code bunkhouse within
America’s Australian territory so they
> can send messages to our own non
existent navy. To make him feel better
> about the whole deal, Mr Barnard was
j: allowed to meet America’s newest whizz
:■kid, Dr Henry Kissinger. However, he
:• failed to obtain a signed autograph of
■: president Richard Nixon.
D
USHING THEIR LUCK JUST A
LITTLE TOO F A R : United States
congressman Craig Hosmer, who is a
5 member of the American government’s
joint com m ittee on atomic energy, flew
•: into Sydney and told us that we should
j become the w orld’s dumping ground for
: nuclear waste because we have so much
: spare land. The nuclear waste congress• man Hosmer had in mind was pluton: ium which remains deadly and active for
: around a quarter o f a million years.
P
e a c tin g li k e t r u e A us­
t r a l i a n s : Taking advantage of
: the small am ount of rain th a t fell over
: the east coast of Australia during the
■past week or so, friendly farmers gave a
: helping hand to their stranded city
■cousins by charging them up to $15 a
: car for ferrying them over flooded rivers
: and selling them milk at a mere 30 cents
: per pint. Perhaps this profit will allow
: them to waive the flood relief money
: offered to them by both state and
\ federal governments.
R
E ALREADY KNEW THAT:
Australia’s minister for immigra­
tion, A1 Grassby, announced in London
that Australia did n o t offer intending
migrants “a free ride to paradise” . He
also warned them th at they should not
attem pt to run away from gloomy
conditions in their own country. Warm­
ing to his inane theme, the good A1 then
said migrants would find Australians
somewhat different “because we live in
southeast Asia” . He also said Australia
wanted migrants who had a sense of
W
PICLJE
adventure, a willingness to accept
challenge, and a desire to contribute to
the development of a new country —
confirming that the present 13 million
inhabitants of the place lack all these
remarkable attributes.
HEY’LL JUST LOVE IT WHEN
THEY GET HERE: My Cyril
Charles Hillier, aged 66, of the Mel­
bourne suburb of Moonee Ponds, was
bashed and robbed outside his local
hotel, after refusing to give them two
bottles of beer he was carrying at the
time. Police said the beer was valued at
88 cents.
T
t l e a s t we c a n d o som e­
th in g
RIGHT: The Geneva
based international organisation for
standardisation has made Australia the
headquarters of a com m ittee to deter­
mine clothing inflammability. However,
it is not true to say th at migrants who
are seeking a challenge in the new
country will be asked to act as test
material in the forthcom ing series of
pyjama fires.
A
HEY’RE SAVING HER SALARY
BY SCREWING THE BLACKS:
Mr J. Stanley, a part aboriginal member
o f the federal government national
aboriginal consultative com m ittee, has
objected to the building of lean-tos with
dirt floors on aboriginal reserves and
settlem ents in South Australia. The
structures, know n as wiltjas, also lack
ceilings and walls. He claims, oddly
enough, that it was impossible for
aboriginals to be assimilated into the
Australian community if “their educa­
tion for it includes homes with dirt
floors” . Replying w ith some venom, a
spokesman for the South Australian
Housing Trust said: “The basic housing
means of tribal and semi tribal aborigin­
als are shelter from the sun, rain and
water. Aboriginal people like to live in
the d irt.”
T
» HANKS A LOT BUT IT’S JUST
A LITTLE TOO LATE: The
T h e L iv in g D a y lig h ts is p u b lis h e d e v e r y T u e s d a y b y
I n c o r p o r a t e d N e w s a g e n c ie s C o m p a n y P t y L td a t 1 1 3
R o s s ly n S tr e e t, W e s t M e lb o u r n e , V ic to r ia . Y o u c a n w r ite
t o u s C /- P O B o x 5 3 1 2 B B , G P O M e lb o u r n e , V ic to r ia
3 0 0 1 . T e le p h o n e (0 3 ) 3 2 9 . 0 7 0 0 , T e le x A A 3 2 4 0 3 . E D I T ­
O R I A L : T e r e n c e M a h e r, M ic h a e l M o rris , R ic h a r d N e v ille ,
L a u r e l O ls z e w s k i. P E R F E C T M A S T E R : B a rry W a tts .
B U S IN E S S :
R o b in H o w e lls . A D V E R T I S I N G : M E L ­
B O U R N E : R o b e r t B u rn s ( 0 3 ) 3 2 9 .0 7 0 0 ; S Y D N E Y : S ta n
L o c k e ( 0 2 ) 2 1 2 . 3 1 0 4 . D IS T R I B U T I O N : V IC T O R IA :
M a g d is s P t y L t d , T e le p h o n e 6 0 .0 4 2 1 ; N S W A lla n
R o d n e y W rig h t. T e le p h o n e 3 5 7 . 2 5 8 8 ; A .C .T .: C a n b e r r a
C ity N e w s a g e n c y . T e le p h o n e 4 8 . 6 9 1 4 ; Q 'L A N D : G o r d o n
& G o tc h . T e le p h o n e 3 1 .2 6 8 1 : S T H . A U S T .: B ria n F u lle r .
T e le p h o n e 4 5 . 9 8 1 2 ; T A S M A N IA : S o u t h H o b a r t N e w s a q e n c y . T e le p h o n e 2 3 .6 6 8 4 .
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federal Queensland government has
granted a total of $113,269 for research
into the crown of thorns starfish. The $:•
crown of thorns, which has so far eaten :•$
its way through about 400 miles of the
barrier reef, is believed to welcome the
research as it is beginning to run out of
reef to eat.
HOVE IT UP YOUR BUM, SHE $:j
SAID: Sticking to her role as the
w orld’s m ost gracious woman, Britain’s
princess Anne has declined to accept a
chestnut gelding from the Australian *•:;
Stock Horse Society as a wedding gift.
Instead she has told the society in a Si;
formal reply to give the bloody animal :|S
to the Riding for the Disabled Society. :$j:
Obviously the lovely girl would have”:-:-:
preferred a cheque under plain wrapper.
S
r e a t a c t s o f s t a t e s m a n - ijS
SHIP (PART ONE): The South :W
African team has withdrawn from the
world gliding championships in Australia following a threat by the federal :*:j:
government to withdraw the $20,000
subsidy if they compete.
G
r e a t a c ts o f s ta te s m a n SHIP (PART TWO): Prime minister Gough Whitlam has ordered a
massive witch-hunt following publication in Nation review of a few telegrams
sent to Washington during the early
power flushed days o f his government.
As the telegrams concerned were somewhat critical of the United States,
whom we have now grown to love, one
can understand the poor m an’s embarrassment.
M
h e r e r e a l l y is a d e p r e s SION ON THE WAY: The central
industrial secretariat has accused the
minister for Labor, Mr Cameron, of
generating a fear complex in the
community about unemployment. The
essence of the secretariat’s message
appears to be that if you dont believe
you are out of work you will automatically be in possession of a full pay
cheque and belly, otherwise known as
the Jiminy Cricket syndrome.
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VERY EVENING after the Toy
Town chuckly smiles of the news
readers the national media goes into a
sacred ritual. There appears this
strange sorcerer/priest who, by
invoking a power of symbols and signs,
interprets the world with meaning and
binds us to a common consciousness.
Don Juan freaks will understand
it described this way: it’s the doing
that makes the weather.
For the Arnhemland aboriginal
concentric circles were tne sacred
symbols of great mystic meaning and
they are for us too in the doing of the
weather map. O f late there has been
extra much interpreting of the world.
Floods is the national vibe and the
focus is the weather report.
To me the circles look somehow
simplified and proportioned - pleasing
in a zen sort of way. Squinting my eyes
and shifting my head they seem to move.
Power I thought. And the satellite and
cloud picture had even stranger magic.
It showed a shading that went right
across the right hand edge from top to
bottom of the squiggly outline of the
symbol that represented the continent
reduced to a 15” screen. A lot of
cloud that.
Now technology cloaks me from the
elements pretty well and they dont
impinge much on my reality. But seeing
the weather maps I realise that it
rained a lot in th e past week and our
creek was up. They were powerful images,
the symbols conjured up, of many creeks
joining many rivers and lots and lots of
water all flowing west where it was
raining anyway. My, my, my, was this the
message from K ohoutek that the same
damn clouds had prevented me from
seeing?
So packing some dope and Don Juan
we took a drive down the north western
slopes to see the doing of the doing. It
was a reaffirming experience. Floods, a?
the signs said, had cut roads and we
stood for some time staring at the image
o f the flood. Vast areas of brown water
swirling round scraggly gums across the
highway flaking off the bitumen and
leaving high water marks and grass and
debris half way up the telegraph poles.
Floods generate a lot of excite­
ment but it seems to be w ithout focus.
They are awesome enough b u t not very
threatening. One would have been
alienated from the elements to attem pt
to drive across flooded sections of road
(some people are of course). Sneakingly
I suspect that flood closed roads
actually save lives from the more mun­
dane m otor car slaughter, but people re­
act in many ways and although everyone
can talk about the floods and feel it as
an event, there seems to be no recognised
way of incorporating this dramatic
change in their environment into their
lives as a special event.
When Gunnedah was cut off, 60 travel­
ers so stranded were throw n together in
temporary accom m odation in the picture
theatre. The fatefulness o f it would
suggest a potentially interesting time
for them all. But no, the travellers,
locked in their present doings, bitched
and complained and just wanted to keep
on travelling. Which they did as soon as
the road was clear.
In Wee Waa the TV news portrayed
people going through the cashout of
the supermarket knee deep in water.
All the streets there are inundated.
And I heard from a civil defence guy
who m otor boated down the main drag that
the people had put their TV sets and
lounge suites up on bricks and are sitting
watching their boob tubes as if there
werent two feet of water on the floor.
Life goes on with the minimum
procession to the new reality. For some
people the floods do mean special action.
I talked to some Caribou jockeys who are
air lifting things like disposable
nappies, fresh white sliced bread to the
cut off towns. They also flew out
the itinerant cotton pickers who norm al­
ly camp on the river bank at Wee Waa.
For the pilots it was marking up flying
hours and whooping it up at night at the
Narrabri aero club where “it all
happened” .................................... .....................
BILL MORI
E
LOW EBBS
FROM THE
High Tides
GRAEME DUNSTAN finds the people out
West locked in their m undane doings
striving to belittle a reality that gives them
so m uch joy and m eaning
and meaning. They complain about tired­
ness, they act as if they are im patient
for it to be over and they plan for ways
of minimising the next time. Perhaps
civil defence, like DDT, is too efficient
and killing more than it knows.
The HQ in Gunnedah was in the local
cinema and I watched bored, sultry teenyboppers trooping past the information
desk to a boring Carry on movie all
about idiotic innuendo sex. They showed
no interest or respect for the selfless
guys who so efficiently saved the town.
Neither the reality of the flood nor the
saving had impinged in their world. One
wonders what aspect of the community
did.
So the floods have power b u t they
lack wonder. Maybe. But there is some­
thing cosmic in the retribution the
yankee cotton growers in the Wee Waa got
for their shitheaded a ttitu d e to their
workers. All their'cotton has all but
been washed away.
And there is something cosmic in
the mushrooms which are springing up now
that the summer sun is warming the water
logged soil. My, oh my!
OLIVER STREWE
A local shire employee had been on
duty 62 hours hauling out stranded cars
and then there is civil defence. Kurt
Vonnegut raved about fire brigades being
the last approachable and altruistic in­
stitution in Western society. If he
comes to New South Wales he will love
civil defence. It is a voluntary group
o f bank johnnies, clerks, graziers, mechan­
ics, anyone, who come together and
work selflessly in times of emergency.
They have a precisely defined or­
ganisational structure and an elaborate
information and reporting system. The
fact that floods are n o t far greater
dangers to life and property in New South
Wales is due to their efforts. They work
long hours with a happy kind o f dis­
gruntled camaraderie. The ladies make tea
and fold blankets, the men earnestly con­
sider the situation, patrolling in boats
and in trucks and packing Wheat Bix and
Campbell soups for air drops.
It is plain they enjoy working to­
gether, for in a sense it enables them
to be noble, to be m uch bigger than their
everyday lot. But they too, locked in
their mundane doings, strive to belittle
a reality that gives them so much joy
A n t e d ilu v ia n W ee Waa c g t t g n fie ld s
T H E L I V I N G D A Y L I G H T S , january 15-21, 1974 — Page 3
O
IKE a • poofter on the Piccadilly
L
m'eat rack, the minister for immi­
gration, A1 Grassby, has been whoring in
London for the usual breed of ex cops,
disenchanted tory doctors and racist
shopkeepers to come to Australia and
piously prosper. Meanwhile, concentra­
tion camps are going up all over Chile.
Some 2500 of the best radical minds of
their generation are pleading with the
United Nations Refugee Commissioner
for passage to other countries. Any
countries.
Referred to as a “mixed bag of leftists
from many lands who flocked to Santiago
to make Allende’s marxist dreams come
true” , these people are now dead,
maimed, incarcerated or hiding out in a
handful of hospitable foreign embassies
(ours excluded) and desperately searching
for new places to settle. Most countries
have turned their backs, especially the
socialist ones, and it is typical of
Australia’s shallow straight press that no
one here has taken up their cause. The
Labor government should immediately
make them welcome and pay passages.
What a refreshing change from pommie
dregs and plump papist greengrocers
draped with crucifixes and multiplying so
Not that one necessarily looks for­
ward to a tidal wave of marxism-leninism,
judging by the manic authoritarianism of
their radi-chic counterparts here. Favorite
lefty letter of the week was one from
Clive Bush of South Yarra to the
Melbourne Age, who fulminated over the
spotlighting of Solzhenitsyn’s new book,
Gulag archipelago. “ Stalin may have
overreacted,” he concedes, then presses
on to enumerate the glories of a political
system he admires from such a safe
distance.
It’s true that the western press gloats.
The Sydney morning herald sees Solzhen­
itsyn as the thinking m an’s Petrov and a
definitive karate chop to the prestige of
socialism, but that is no reason for the
left to act as though its tongue was cut
out. Solzhenitsyn estimates that over six
million political prisoners passed through
Russian jails in the first 40 years of
revolution — a continuing atrocity ac­
cording to recent announcements by
Radio Peking who say there are over
1000 labor camps flourishing in the
Soviet Union today.
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But more im portant than the chron­ \ income is no longer a valuable index of different models of Holden when Austra­
national development. The key to the
lia should be, with grants, goading people
icling of inhumanities is Solzhenitsyn’s
bank vault in the sky is no longer
to decentralise; getting people out of
assessment of where it all went wrong.
industrialisation. The dropouts and backtheir ridiculous Paddington and Carlton
According to New sw eek's adm ittedly
td-the-landers are ten years ahead of their
ghettoes . . . to head off into the hills for
risky translation, “ the prime mover
time. (The yippie m oney burners in the
creative thrills. The age of anal specialisa­
behind the ruthless spirit” of the labor
stock exchanges are 15 years ahead of
tion, divorce from the soil and city t
camps was Lenin and the megalomanitheirs.) Spontaneously, unconscious of
hugging decadence is gone forever. T h e '
acal Joseph Stalin only expanded on the
world
politics, people years ago began to
current New statesman advocates a crash
form er’s groundwork . . .
alter the pattern of their lifestyle. Some
grass (not pot) growing program for
Dictatorship of the proletariat was
gave up and returned to a life of work
Britain, on all available land, including
never a pretty phrase. U ntil marxism is
and riches, others plodded on, and still do
that previously earmarked for m otor­
ridden of its more obtuse and authori­
so in the foothills of both consciousness
ways. Primary production may suddenly
tarian elements, such as hierarchism,
and commune . . . never taking seriously
be restored to its former glory.
centralism and belligerent class obsol­
for a m om ent the concept of gross
At the denouem ent of last Saturday
escences, then it continues to bring out
evening’s TV western (The garden o f evil)
national product.
the bully in the best of us. These are the
Gary Cooper turns magnificently to the
Which brings me back to migrants.
stalinists in trotskyist clothing who
horizon with the words: “ Maybe if the
The concept of cramping the coastlines
instinctively rush off telegrams to Grass­
whole world was made out of gold, people
with factory fodder in fibro pens is greed
by calling for the banning of Enoch
would fight each other for a handful of
disguised as philanthropy. Thank God for
Powell or kindle their macho-aggression
dirt.”
these
im
ported
toilers,
for
diversifying
by trashing the Divine Light Mission
and complicating Australian society, but
Yep, I reckon th a t’s what they might I
offices — hardly im portant bastions of
each one is a little bundle of inflation and
be doing pretty soon . . . so dont throw it
capitalism . . . A socialism that is afraid
a carrot to the GNP. All guests of their
all away to Willmore and R andell. . .
of the free reign of ideas isnt worth the
own accord welcome, b u t why subsidise
bloody trade-in.
overdevelopment ?
Far from the state withering away —
H o r w v i G r o w v lfe o t
Why rush in migrants to build 50
as once supposed of marxist regimes — it
has now become a farting, obese pig.
Except in North Vietnam and China,
where rigorous decentralisation is prac­
tised, often to the astonishment of foreign
visitors. Even Tibet, often considered
China’s abominable snowman in the
cupboard, turns out to be a thriving,
autonom ous hum drum of fed bellies,
with relics of spiritual ancestry preserved
and not venerated (See T. D. Allman,
this week’s Nation review); if so cosy,
why so impenetrable? There is no free
thought in China, the interminable debate
drones on.
Labor camps and thought control: too
high a price to abolish poverty?
It always seems so to the rich who at
last are going out of fashion. Thanks to
the arabs, grossness has already become a
liability. Cadillacs clog up the car yards
THIS IS the horrible hacienda o f Frank Theeman, the man who wrecks
and queues clamor outside the bicycle
shops. Hooray! Diamonds arent forever
hom es to build car parks. Theeman is m ajor shareholder in Victoria Point
Have you notices that the grand guns
of big shot journalism have stumbled
across a New Idea, inspired, they claim,
by the oil crisis. Actually, it is an old
idea, been kicking around since the youth
movement of the 60s. Viz th at national
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P ty Ltd, which ow ns the properties under dispute in Victoria street, S yd ­
ney. (See last week's TLD.J Fake Spanish and nouveau riche, this vulgar
developer's fortress — R ose Bay avenue, Rose B ay — is p rotected b y a pair
o f armed guards, tow ering fences and barbed wire. Plans for a m oat and
autom atic gun placem ents have n ot been denied.
Bosses short-circuit Sparky
GRANT EVANS
NIONS are the basic organi­
sations of working class
struggle . . . or at least th a t’s what
they are supposed to be.
The joke about the waddling,
beer-bloated union bureaucrat is
so widespread that it’s not worth
telling. But even this understates
the case of some unions and union
officials.
A case in point is the Electrical
Trades Union (NSW). As a rank
and file member com m ented: “If
they were active they would be a
rightwing union, but as they dont
do anything they can’t even be
accused of th a t” . The ETU has a
consistent record of opposing
strikes and sabotaging rank and
file activity.
But if it ’s the only union you
have then I guess you have to
keep asking it for help. It must
come good at some time . . .
Arthur Duncan, an electrician,
has been looking for a job for
about tw o m onths now. Previous­
ly he worked on the Opera House,
where he was a union delegate.
Workers at the Opera House were
notorious for their militancy
which won them good wages and
conditions. A rthur was naturally
involved.
Since work on the Opera
House finished A rthur's found it
difficult to get a job. When he
rings up about vacancies they are
“filled” as soon as he m entions his
name, as happened when he
applied for a job at the Malabar
Water Treatm ent Plant.
“ I phoned for the job first
thing on the day they advertised
it. Sometimes they tell me the
manager’s out or that all the
vacancies are filled. In this case
they said the manager was out and
to phone back later. “How much
later?” They say one, two, or
three o ’clock. When I phone back
the conversation goes like this:
‘I’m enquiring about the advertise­
ment for electrical mechanics, are
you still looking for people?’ The
bloke on the other end goes er um
is your name A rthur Duncan
(They’ve obviously got on to my
Lancashire accent). ‘Yes’. ‘Sorry
we’re full u p ’.”
“ I put the phone down and
after two or three m inutes a
friend of mine rings them and
puts the same story, and he gets
told yes, there are plenty of
vacancies. They told him he
should come down for an inter­
view as quickly as possible and
that the sooner he could start the
better. Then he said, ‘I’ve also got
a friend who is an electrician and
looking for a jo b ’. And they said,
‘if he is an electrician bring him
down we need as many as we can
get’. ‘His name is A rthur Duncan’.
They say, ‘No agreement has been
reached about Mr Duncan, but if
you want a job you had better
come by yourself’.”
Where could A rthur turn to
after treatm ent like th at but the
union. He rang them and got put
on to Rob Anderson, an official.
Arthur had had previous dealings
with Anderson when he had been
instantly sacked on a job for
getting a shop floor organisation
going. Talking about the employer
in question Anderson said: “ You
must have said something to upset
him. Why I’ve met him at a
mutual acquaintance’s party and I
got on very well with him .”
Arthur told Anderson about
his latest brush with the employ­
ers, but Anderson said that it
wasnt enough and to go on . . .
“Apply another half dozen times
and if it still happens we might be
able to do som ething.” Arthur
U
Raiding
the rubbers
HE alternative sexuality of entitled to “ special services” .
M elbourne’s suburbs has
The bust started at 11 pm
been flourishinq in Elsternwick. when two cops entered the foyer;
One enterprising investor asked the man on the desk was removed
for a survey to be done before he from his chair and “placed” in a
launched into the massage busi­ comer away from the buzzer. The
ness: the survey revealed there are electrically closed door which
some 90 Melbourne massage par­ could only be opened from the
lors
supplying approximately inside (the entry to the inner
9000 clients weekly.
sanctums of the parlor) was
The survey went on to show “holed” with a well aimed blow
clients can spend anything from by a policeman who had studied
$10 for an oily rub to $200 for Kung Fu, whereat another ten
sunken pools and whips on velvet herded upstairs gently perspiring
cushions at one well appointed and inquiring as to what was the
bordello. The massage industry general situation.
has come within the perview of
This raid followed a strange
the police departm ent. There have occurrence at the parlor, wherein
been a num ber of takeover a policeman obtained a blue
threats, busts, attem pted extor­ card, entitling him to a screw with
tions, bashings and shootings with his hostess. As the lady took the
the suggestion of it all emanating money for the “special” she was
from Sydney (see TLD, 1/4).
charged with prostitution. It is
The owners sought to counter hard to convict the management
the industry’s reputation by set­ of a prostitution offence unless
ting up a “club” atmosphere with they “adm it” to knowing this is
membership
fees,
swimming happening.
pools, billiards; giving the business
The police did, however, m an­
a Venetian blind respectability. age to find a quantity of grass in
Unfortunately for them the police the manager's office and he was
launched a raid last friday on the duly charged. During the course
largest and most successful of of interview three of the ten girls
these clubs, Le Chateau (with the confessed to being aware of the
unlikely address of 10 Home system and were charged with
street, Elsternwick). The only prostitution offences. It is alleged
charges which have so far been that the manager has certain
laid are one for possession and “international problem s” which
smoking of grass and three charges the police are determined to press
of living off prostitution.
home.
It’s no wonder it took the
Whatever, if the management
police two m onths to plan the of the place have the business
raid. In Le Chateau’s foyer was a acumen of their peers who have
camera such as they have in banks been previously busted, they will
which was m onitored in a back appeal against the probable con­
room by a gentleman with a series viction. This enables the “house”
of buzzers at his control. With to go on working during the 4-6
these buzzers he was able to warn months before the appeal is heard
the lady if something suspicious and with the publicity through
was happening. Members were the bust they will be able to make
given a card and a minor credit enough money in one day to pay
check was carried out.
the eventual fine. And so it goes.
The cards were either blue or The tenuous trium ph o f being
yellow; yellow for those clients over nothingness.
who were still being checked and
blue once the customer was
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They hang goat
rustlers hereabouts
R. DAVY
replied, “Well I reckon that seeing
that they’re advertising a position
that I’m qualified for and that I’m
a union member I can’t see why
I’m being discriminated against.”
Anderson: “ A rthur what you fail
to realise is that we do allow the
employer the right to hire and fire
whom he pleases.” “ If y o u ’re
going to do that any union
delegate or militant can be victim­
ised and kept out of w ork,”
responds Arthur. A t this Ander­
son fluffs his unionist rooster
feathers: “ I would not allow that
sort of thing to happen in this
union!”
A rthur asked how he could
reconcile this with the bosses
“right” to hire and fire.
Anderson: “ If you think about
it, i t ’s only fair th at they should
have that right.”
A rthur: “ How do you m ean?”
Anderson: “Well, you see, it’s a
double edged sword, it cuts both
ways.”
A rthur: “ I m ust be stupid, I
dont see what you m ean.”
Anderson; “ It has got to do
with freedom. You w ouldnt like
to be forced to work for someone
would you? Well then, it’s not
reasonable to make the employers
employ y o u .”
To resolve this Anderson said
A rthur should come in and see
him. Meanwhile he heaved himself
into action and went down to the
job and explained the situation.
The men responded immediately
passing a resolution th at A rthur
should be the next person on the
job.
Anderson then went on and
did a bit of wheeling and dealing
with the Electrical Contractors
Association. They told Anderson
th at they wanted A rthur to give
an undertaking that he would be
involved in no m ilitant activity if
he was employed.
Anderson tried to sell this to
A rthur when he went to see him.
A rthur refused on the basis that it
deprived him of his basic rights as
a unionist. Anderson then asked if
he would give an undertaking to
him not to become involved as a
union delegate. Amazed that a
union official was trying to talk
him out of his basic rights, A rthur
refused again.
In
desperation
Anderson
proposed that A rthur give an
undertaking to go on the job just
for the money. “Y ou’re on. I
always go on to the job to get as
much o u t of the bastards as
possible,” said A rthur. Anderson:
“Maybe that w on’t work either
)f
T ’S HARDLY likely that
I
the NSW minister of justice,
Mr Maddison, will ever receive the
Man of the Year award from the
Howard Penal Reform Society or
any other similar body. This sad
fact was made clear last week
when the honorable gentleman
addressed the Liberal p a rty ’s rural
committee.
These old cockies heard with
satisfaction and delight the m in­
ister promise to implement, in the
very first session of parliament in
1974, sir R obert A skin’s pledges
of punishments for low down
sheep, cattle and goat thieves.
First cab off the rank will be
the increase in the maximum
sentence for stock stealing, or for
killing animals with intent to steal
their carcasses or skins. This goes
up from 10 years to 14. A good,
workmanlike, first time rapist gets
off with seven years b u t if yo u ’re
caught sending off an old ewe
belonging to a member of the
Country party y o u ’re liable to
spend the next 14 years in Long
Bay. If the presiding judge at your
trial takes a lenient view of the
crime he can levy a fine instead of
jail b u t the fines have gone up
also.
Previously the maximum fine
was $500 for stock stealing, it’s
now $2000. The existing sentence
for maliciously wounding cows
and sheep is 10 years and it has
now been extended to cr -er pigs
and goats. Maddison has not yet
got around to announcing the
penalty for kicking a neighbor’s
dog, b u t what he has done is give
the police power to search for
anybody who they think may
have a purloined chop in his
possession. “Police will get em ­
powered, w ithout warrants, to
search vehicles and premises.”
Despite these draconic meas­
ures the NSW police are not
impressed. The boss of the stock
stealing squad says that of all
thefts reported to them in the
past eight years only one third
were actually thefts. The re­
mainder had either died, got lost
or were never there in the first
place. Police say that until farm­
ers learn to count their stock ac­
curately and frequently the pol­
iceman’s job is going to be diffi­
cult.
But no m atter. The Pitt street
cockies are happy. Swagman and
sundowners have been warned. If
anyone of them is caught shoving
a jumbuck in his tuckerbag h e’ll
be far better off jumping in the
waterhole and keeping his head
under. Much better to starve or
drown than spend 14 years in
Bathurst jail.
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FLASH:
m m ®
p o u n cs
Pat Nixon indicted
RICK WALL
I
N A PRESS conference at
the White House today
president Richard Nixon announc­
ed that Patricia Nixon snr had
been indicted for her involvement
in the Watergate bugging scandal.
Nixon claimed that Pat was the
chief plumber, and furtherm ore it
was the First Lady who master­
minded the whole Watergate af­
fair. Although he slept with Mrs
Nixon the president argued that
he seldom talked to her, and thus
he had no knowledge o f the plot
or the impending cover up.
At this stage the conference
erupted in turmoil. Three Wash­
ington journalists vociferously
challenged the president’s claims.
Nixon, obviously upset by the
outbursts, proceeded to abuse the
journalists by calling them con­
niving and treacherous sons of
satan. He said he had been inform­
ed that these conspiring reporters
would not be content until their
own president had fully exposed
himself. Spontaneous laughter
erupted throughout the press
room.
Nixon continued, amid isolated
snickering, to inform the gallery
that his actions were part of a
further campaign to restore credi­
bility to his administration. He
said th at he was prepared to give
evidence against his wife. It was to
be hoped that the indictment
would relieve the people of their
doubts as to his integrity or his
PERFECT CRIME:
Light up
a mission
PIOTR OLSZEWSKI
N ANONYMOUS group of
Melbourne “anarchists” are
reported to be waging terror
tactics against the Melbourne
chapter of the Divine Light
Mission.
The first violent assault occur­
red on december 23 in DLM’s
ashram at Brunswick street, Fitzroy, Melbourne. On that day the
ashram was em pty with all devo­
tees at Tullamarine airport wel­
coming visiting DLM dignitary,
Mahatma Padarthanand. On their
return they discovered that some­
one had entered the building
through a window, gone to an
upstairs room , heaped together
correspondence, chairs, electrical
equipm ent and altar material in
the centre of the room and set fire
to the pile. Considerable damage
was caused.
A nother room was entered and
paperwork and furniture burnt.
Several days later a phone call
threatening Mahatma’s life was
received. Then, later, a stranger
entered DLM’s “Soul Food Shop”
and informed premmies that the
fire was phase one of action taken
by “Melbourne anarchists” and
that phases two and three had
been planned and would soon be
implemented.
A
willingness to invoke limitless
bounds in his search for the truth.
It proved impossible for N ix­
on to contain his prejudices
throughout the conference. Whilst
nervously fingering a tape record­
er, which is perpetually by his side
these days, he implied that he was
sick o f the American people wan­
tonly kicking him around. The
president said that he hoped these
same people would now show
more trust and understanding.
Mr Nixon claimed to have
enough evidence to ensure that
Pat would be put away for m any
years. Supposedly his willingness
to offer this evidence to the
courts exemplified his sincerity in
his wish to clear the m urky Water­
gate waters.
The president avoided many
questions about his wife, but re­
peatedly claimed that his actions
would be seen as justifiable
through the eyes of history. He
maintained that history was of
greater importance than any
present popularity poll. Nixon
then told the gallery th at his
footnote days were gone forever.
President Nixon closed the
press conference by forcefully de­
manding that the whole Watergate
issue now be forgotten. With Pat
Nixon gone his adm inistration
now stood free of corruption and
capable of completing all the fine
work which it had begun.
film m akers cinem a
ST. PETERS LANE, DARUNGHURST
313237
announces a new program p o licy fo r 1 9 7 4 , w ith up to eight d iffe re n t programs
per w e e k , including prem ieres o f new w o rk , revivals o f o ld favorites and rarely
screened w o rks, children's-program s, and m embers o n ly retrospectives.
P R O G R A M F O R C O M IN G W E E K :
Tues Jan
15 6 p m B R E A T H L E S S (G o d a rd )*; 8 pm Prem iere — T H E
J O U R N E Y (Paul C o x ); 10p m B R E A T H L E S S (G o d a rd )*;
16: 8p m T H E J O U R N E Y (Paul C o x ); 1 0p m H O M E S D A L E plus
T H E F L IT E & T IM E S O F R E V . B U C K S C H O T T E (Peter
W eir);
T h u rs Jan 17: 8 PM T H E J O U R N E Y (Paul C o x); 1 0 pm A B O R IG IN A L L A N D
R IG H T S - N IN G L A A -N A (A C avadini);
F ri Jan 1 8 : 8 p m T H E J O U R N E Y (Paul C o x ); 10p m H O M E S D A L E plus T H E
F L IT E & T IM E S O F R E V . B U C K S C H O T T E (Peter W eir);
Sat Jan 19: 2 p m C hildren's show T H E K ID (C haplin) plus F A N T A & Others;
4p m H O M E S D A L E plus F L IT E & T IM E S O F R E V . B U C K
S C H O T T E (W eir); 6 p m T H E J O U R N E Y (Paul C o x ); 8p m T H E
J O U R N E Y (Paul C o x); 10p m A B O R IG IN A L L A N D R IG H T S *
N IN G L A A -N A (A . C avadini); m id n ite T H R O N E O F
B L O O D (A kira K u ro saw a)*;
Sun Jan 2 0 : 2p m C hildren's show T H E K ID (C h ap lin ) plus F A N T A & Others;
4 p m J U D E X (F ra n ju )*; 6p m J U D E X (F r a n ju )* ; 8p m N ew
F ilm s in th e C o-op, inc. film s fro m H o w ard Lester (U S A ); 9 pm
Wed Jan
SHOCK R EVELA TIO N :
O P E N S C R E E N IN G — bring y our film s , w o rk in progress.
CIA is in Australia
THE CIA is in Australia but dont
be paranoid. Every move we make
is being videotaped and recorded.
All the telephones are tapped and
continuously recorded, with a
hook-up to a giant computer
complex which commits it to the
memory bank and makes indices
with its other information.
There are bugging wires under
the earth right across the nation why even the damn Simpson
Desert — thousands of them.
Every letter which goes through
the mail is scanned, all our
conversations in coffee shops are
monitored. The CIA rotates satel­
lites at Pine Gap, and has treated
all the marijuana with a chemical
which develops extreme right
wing tendencies in users.
The CIA has infiltrated unions,
the public service and cake shops.
The CIA brought kung fu and
karate to Australia. The CIA
term inated Bruce Lee with preju­
dice because . . . well . . . we cant
discover why. John F. Kennedy is
alive on Onassis’ island in the
Mediterranean. He didnt die. The
CIA is responsible for the film
Executive action. The CIA is
keeping the social service pay­
m ents down so “underprivileged”
peoples will die off. They are
making Australia young and
strong and saving money.
* N o te : these film s are fo r m em bers o n ly . Become an associate m em ber and
yo u w ill receive advance program in fo rm a tio n , newsletters, etc . Send $ 3 to
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(8) Jackie K ennedy’s marriage is
no t recognised by the catholic
church. She spends a lot of
tim e on the island with CIA
guards;
(9) The CIA has cornered the
Cambodian heroin market;
(10) Other facts.
The CIA is watching and
filming persons who see Executive
action which is about the CIA
The CIA shot at A rthur killing Kennedy. The CIA is
Calwell and m arketed “G orton for making a lot of Australians
Cheviot” badges. The CIA is paranoid. The CIA is making a lot
putting heroin on the m arket and of Australian paranoids schizo­
putting up the prices of m ari­ phrenic. The CIA gives paranoid
juana. The CIA is attem pting to schizos shock treatm ent.
The CIA is responsible for the
deviate politics courses at all
major universities and creates Top 40 and all hit-run road
accidents. The CIA does not
junkies.
consist of normal persons but
Consider the facts:
homicidal
maniacs.
(1) Kennedy was shot by more paranoid
These maniacs killed president
than one person;
(2) Lee Harvey Oswald was shot Allende and know where Hitler is.
We all know where Hitler is, but
by one person;
they think they know where
(3) Jack Ruby is dead;
(4) according to Paul Krassner Hitler is.
The CIA created Watergate as
and Terry Southern (of The
a
red
herring. The CIA could kill
realist) Lyndon B. Johnson
com mitted “ neck-rophilia” on Nixon but they wont. They are
not due to kill an American presi­
Kennedy in the presidental jet;
(5)
Johnson did not believe dent until 1981 when they expect
Ted Kennedy to hold the position.
Oswald shot K ennedy;
(6) Oswald did not believe Os­ The CIA did not kill Harold Holt.
He just couldnt swim good enough
wald shot Kennedy;
(7) Johnson is dead. Kennedy is to get to the sub.
alive;
Qpeauy
fb r m tff)
COLIN TALBOT
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PAR A DEMON A IR DEFENCE!
The m ost am bitious project in
the long and proud history of the
American comic has foundered
after only three years. With issue
No.' 18 of Mister Miracle the last
of publisher Jack Kirby’s New
Gods tetralogy ceased publica­
tion. Of the others, Forever
people and N ew Gods were both
dropped at issue 11; Jim m y Olsen,
who was conscripted into the
lineup for a while, has since
returned to his usual insignifi­
cance.
Four comics running in har­
ness, not simply exchanging guest
villains as in the Marvel super-hero
titles, b u t each a part of a larger
whole. It was a graphic equivalent
to the Lord o f the Rings, an epic
in speech balloons.
Each comic gave a separate
viewpoint on one all-encompass­
ing struggle. New Gods fought
other New Gods - Apokolips
versus New Genesis, Darkseid
versus Highfather. (Tolkien has an
unassailable lead over Kirby in the
selection of names. This must be
adm itted at the outset, with a
caution against allowing it to
influence the reader unduly.)
Kirby had been given his head,
and each issue would have a
drifts endlessly - larger than a volume two of the Ring trilogy
star cluster, fused, living, taking a and it’s then possible to get an
billion years to feel one heart­ idea of where this leaves the true
beat.” Such a line needs a Jack enthusiast. For a while it may be
Kirby visual breathtaker to save it possible to staunch the sense of
being laughable.
loss by trying to fill gaps at the
The characterisation was vari­ beginning of the series.
able. As usual the villains got most
Kirby is now producing The
of the good lines. Darkseid, who demon and Kamandi, Last boy on
was the Sauron-figure, and his Earth, both of which have their
aides Dr Bedlam, De Saad, Granny moments b u t lack the depth of
Goodness, and Virman Vunderbar field of the tetralogy.
had far more pizazz than the
THE WAR GROWS EVER
rather weedy New Genesis good­ LA R G E R !
IT
STRETCHES
ies, Mister Miracle only excepted.
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE, AND
Mister Miracle was something
MAMMOTH SUNS A R E T R A N S­
pretty miraculous. He was the
FORM ED
INTO
COSMIC
only really non violent super-hero
LASERS, DESIGNED TO CUT
in comics. He was an escape artist,
NEW GENESIS INTO BLAZING ,
and got his kicks more from not
LIFELESS SHARDS!
being dead than in handing out
High points drift back into the
KAPOWIES back. Oh, he hit
memory. The struggle with Bil­
people (and Things) every now
lion-Dollar Bates and his anti life
and again, but his heart wasnt in
apply to the occupation and it. "Believe me! I —I understand!
equation in the catacombs of the
cult . . . the battle scenes of the
subsequent events. First, the fact Perhaps if we both remain cool we
of the militant, direct action can reach an honorable solution!”
time before the pact . . . the dark
confirms the radical development He was Highfather’s son, exchang­
racer, an angel of death on skis
of the small Bathurst campus.
. . . “HAH AH AH! That controlled
ed for Darkseid’s son Orion as
Increasingly last year, students hostages for a truce; he was
atomic blast should finish him moved in the radical direction brought up as a child in Granny
if the hammers havent!” “Th-that
over a num ber of domestic issues, Goodness’s orphanage on A poko­
PINGING sound! - Y ou’ve got a
backed by the emergence of a lips, b u t escaped to Earth to
MOTHER BOX! B-but I thought
more radical newspaper, In ter- become a travelling showman.
. . . I-it’s weaving an electro web
pellator, and a section of the SRC
That was what sunk the series. of MICRO-COSMIC atom s all
that developed an awareness of The plotline was not simple,
about me! I CAN’T BREAK IT!”
the conflict situation that always dividing it into four magazines
If America had any sense of
existed at least in potential, complicated it even more and
priorities, a grant would >u 7e been
between students and the adminis­ stories would sprawl through
forthcoming from the government
tration.
three or four issues over half a
or the Ford Foundation or the
Second, the occupation forced year.
CIA. As it is, the publishers
a polarisation amongst students
To understand what was going
explain the end of the series as “a
and academics. Student response on in Issue 11 you had to have
m atter of the way in which
was, comparatively, very good; read most of the preceding ten.
comics are sold, plus a variety of
about 300 o f 1100 students took New readers felt discouraged, and
intangibles that are peculiar to
active parts.
comic books” . Very helpful.
the end came. The end of
Academics signed a petition of publication, that is; the story was
Some faint hopes are held out for
support - in fact, some went dropped in mid-sweep, the cosmic
the return of some part of the
searching for it when they heard it conflict unresolved. Imagine Tol­
story, but I put little faith in
was circulating — and went to the kien dying after completing
them. The glory, fans, is departed.
adm inistration on students behalf.
Third, in broader terms, this
EVER Y O N E LETS THEIR H A IR DOWN A T
was the most direct action ever
taken on a CAE campus. And, like
New England, Mitchell is a small
country campus, largely regional
in nature.
The occupation and emergence
of the radical Mitchell campus
may point the way for the student
movement, away from the city
campuses. Certainly, some AUS
STARRING JOHN WOOD,
personnel and Mitchell students
are interested in this aspect.
KATE FITZPATRICK
The housing issue at Mitchell
d ir e c te d b y T om C ow an
remains largely unresolved, but
“ B ea utifully delineated" Canberra I imes
it’s unlikely to develop into open
conflict again. What has happened
"U n fo rg e tta b le " Bob Ellis, Nation Review.
is that the issue and action have
Starts Mon. 14th
shown students their potential
8 pm UNION TH EA TRE Sydney Uni.
tactical supremacy.
Mitchell students will certainly
Picnics everyday plus 5.30 Fri., Sat. & Sun.
use it again.
dazzling double-page splash —
cities more elaborate than Buck
Rogers, hordes locked in battle
more animated than Delacroix,
photocollages of transdimensional
space. Much of the drawing was
only grandiose, b u t much more
was epic. The difficulty with
getting into the magic of it all is
because K irby’s dialogue fluctu­
ates from the lofty to the banal.
A line like: “The Promethean
Galaxy! the place of the Giants
. . . alive, chained to the fragments
of the devices they used in their
attem pts to smash the final
barrier! This one tried to engulf
the barrier by enlarging his own
atom ic structure. What happened
is n o t known; b u t he failed, he
The Bathurst Occupation
GREG FRIEDEWALD
HILE the New England
university protest against
tertiary exam inations was prob­
ably a more im portant issue
(TLD, 1/7), a second student
rising late last year - at the
conservative Mitchell College of
Advanced Education in Bathurst
- was also significant for the
student movement.
In the week before final exams,
a “routine” dem onstration bal­
looned into a spontaneous 24
hour occupation of the college
administration building, and an
eventual compromise between stu­
dents and heavies.
The Mitchell protest was over a
purely domestic issue — the
college adm inistration’s insistence
on increasing 1974 enrolment
rates despite inadequate housing
facilities on the campus and in the
town.
In effect, the administration
was trusting that, in some unex­
plained way, about 150 students
would be able to find accom­
modation that the only available
figures showed didnt exist. They
relied (as principal E. A. B.
“Sam” Phillips told students) on
the fact that maximum downtown
accommodation levels hadnt been
tested by pressure of numbers.
Students, however — particu­
larly those who faced the prospect
of being turfed off-campus by
ballot - felt the adm inistration’s
proposals were rather highhanded,
and demanded instead that either
the proposed intake be cut by
150, or that immediate new
on-campus housing be built.
Students concern was boosted
by the increasing pressures on
existing housing in the town by
natural process, and the state
W
government’s decision to make
the area a growth centre.
Which all led, in turn, to a
growing arrogance by real estate
agents. Rents went up, conditions
deteriorated and, surprisingly, the
number of houses and flats
available to students fell.
Anyway, after the usual hoo-ha
of the occupation (there were
some high points: students took
control o f the college switch­
board, got through to W hitlam’s
office and in the end disrupted all
incoming and outgoing communi­
cations with the college for a day)
student leaders signed the com­
promise.
In the ensuing few days they
realised their naivete had lost the
upper hand.
Now, in terms of the com ­
promise, five students have return­
ed to Bathurst early, with vague
promises of free board at college,
to do the leg work around the
town, knocking on doors asking
householders to put up students
in 1974. If they find enough
accommodation, re-enrolling stu­
dents will be sent a list of
available flats, houses and board.
If they can’t find the necessary
housing, a joint student-adminis­
tration committee will look at
alternatives; including reduction
of the intake, and remodelling of
academic staff offices into new
dormitories.
On paper, that situation looks
promising. But student leaders,
after the control they exercised
during the occupation, and with
no guaranteed place in the de­
cision making, are disappointed at
losing the initiative.
They say they are, in effect,
doing the adm inistration’s work
w ithout being paid for it. How­
ever, certain significant features
THE
OFFICE
PICNIC
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FAITHWHIRS 0F1HE PHIUPPINES
From CLAUDIO LEONES in M anila
S AQUINO cheerfully greet­
ed people as she motioned
them to a small guest room to her
right. “ Good morning,” she chim­
ed as the last guest walked in.
That done, she plunged back to
her work, pecking at a portable
typewriter. Meanwhile, in the
guest room, a motley crowd o f
men and women were seated
around a coffee table.
The atm osphere was like the
scene of a peak hour train - peo­
ple bunched up b u t keeping pretty
much to themselves. Another
door at the far side of the recep­
tion room opened; Rom y Bugarin
peered o u t and called “ N ext!” as
two elderly women walked past
him to join the others outside. Ms
Aquino smiled at another pair
nearest her, “ You may go in
now.”
And so it went until everyone
had had his turn, each lasting
from five to 15 minutes. When it
was all over, spiritual healers
Romy Bugarin, Marcelo Jainar
and their tw o assistants came out
of the room. Another healing ses­
sion by tw o o f the Philippines’
better known spiritual healers was
over in less than tw o hours.
The place was one of Manila’s
firstclass hotels. The patients:
nine Australians, an Indian, and
one from F iji Behind it all was
the Christian Travel Centre, a
travel agency handling touristpatients wanting to visit one or
more healers associated with the
Union Espiritista Cristiana de Filipinas. Another agency, Diplomat
Travel & Tours, arranges appoint­
ments with healer Tony Agpaoa in
Baguio City, 200 miles north of
Manila.
Don Jones, a businessman from
Wollongong, injured a leg in an
accident tw o years ago and the
Australian doctors told him
“you’ll never be able to run
again". But Jones, spritely at 50,
may yet pull a surprise back
hom e “ I just ran for miles along
Roxas boulevard this morning and
I dont feel pain anym ore ever
since I started getting treatm ent
from Bugarin,” he said.
W. J. Scott, a painter in his
50s, was given magnetic healing
and psychic surgery for Parkin­
son’s disease. “ I feel great,” he
said after one o f several meetings
with Jainar.
Others in th e group, from New
South Wales: Mona Callaway, 52,
housekeeper, arthritis; a Ms Missay, in her 70s, arthritis; Dianne
Scott, 22, clerk, spinal trouble
“ since I was eight” ; Laglatys Pollart, 78, shaky hands and deaf­
ness; Nina Loutas, 35, varicose
veins.
There are no official figures on
tourist-patients coming to the
Philippines for treatm ent but
there is no doubt this has been
growing. “ Each m onth” , wrote
Domini
Torrevillas-Suarez
of
Manila’s Panorama
magazine,
"some 400 foreigners come for
treatment, after having undergone
expensive but unsuccessful care in
medical institutions abroad. Most
of these patients go back cured, to
the surprise of their doctors.”
Healer Josefina “ Pining” Sison
of Villasis, Pangasinan (three
hours north of Manila) disposes of
cases - diagnosis and treatm ent,
plus a couple o f home-spun jokes
thrown in — at a snappy twominutes-per-patient clip. Treat­
ments, mostly psychic surgery,
average 100 a day, which include
M
J o a q u in U u n a n a n , p r e s id e n t - g e n e r a
o f th e l u n io n E s p ir i tis ta C r is tia n a d e
F il
S a n tia g o
m an
na S is o n a n d h u s b a
S is o n , a n e x - to w n p o lic e ­
magnetic massage and spiritual in­
jections by assistant Nenita
Rabara.
A man in his 20s first saw
Pining four months ago for treat­
ment of persistent headaches
which he has been suffering for 10
H e a le r J o s e M e r c a d o
H e a le r J u a n B la n c e
years. Elaborate tests in two m ed­
ical institutions could not pin­
point the trouble. Continued use
of drugs prescribed by the doctors
began to tell on the patient’s
hearing. With no relief in sight he
decided it was time to get help
elsewhere. "All she did was press a
ball o f cotton into m y nape, right
below the skull, and pull this out
from the top o f m y head. M y
m other saw it all. She then gave
m e some herbs to boil for drink­
ing. M y headaches have since dis­
appeared," he said.
Businessman Ramon Javellana
of Forbes Park, a fashionable vil­
lage in the suburbs o f Manila, was
struck down by a severe stroke six
m onths ago. He spent five weeks
in one hospital, moved to a sec­
ond for another four weeks of
physical therapy. “ When healer
Juan Blanche took over from
there” , explained Lirio Quevencu,
family nurse, “ Mr Javellana could
move around only with great dif­
ficulty and with tw o people at his
side. Blanche and assistant Felipe
Biton administered magnetic mas­
sage thrice a week. In one m onth’s
time, the patient could walk
around the house unassisted.”
Word about the healer’s mirac­
ulous cures got around so fast that
today friends, relatives, and neigh­
bors o f the Javellanas flock to
their Forbes Park home every
tuesday, thursday, and Saturday
afternoon for treatm ent of various
ills. Blanche is famous for making
incisions by making a slashing
m otion with his forefinger five to
ten inches away from the patient’s
skin. Sometimes, he uses the fore­
finger of a bystander and gets the
same result.
Nida Alcaria, Alex O rbito’s
next door neighbor, doesnt mind
the noise and litter brought on by
the sick (up to 700 on some days).
Orbito, according to Alcaria, is
very handy whenever any member
o f Alcaria’s family gets sick. "A f­
ter th a t operation in th e hospital
on an injured leg o f my husband
some m onths ago, he began to
limp and, later, we noticed the leg
getting shorter. We sought the
help o f O rbito and he obliged by
operating. He peeled off the skin
over the knee cap, like you would
an orange, extracted pus from the
exposed knee, restored the skin to
its form er place and after wiping
the area w ith co tton the leg was as
good as new. No pain. No scar. No
more limp.”
Jose Mercado o f Rosales, Pan-
H e a le r J u a n B la n c h e h o l d s w o m a n ’* f o r e f in g e r
over
u n id e n tifie d
m
m a n ’* h e a d
gasinan, starts his healing sessions
by lining up everyone, including
the healthy if they so desire, for
spiritual injections. M ercado's in­
jections have transformed a rou­
tine chore in conventional medi­
cine into a strange and baffling
rituaL He would pick up an
invisible hypodermic needle and
syringe from an open Bible and go
th ro u g h
th e
m o tio n s
of
administering a shot five to ten
inches from the patient’s arm
Many swear you could actually
feel »the needle. In several
instances, blood was seen to
trickle down the arm from the
supposed point o f penetration.
Jose Bugarin, younger brother
of Romy, receives patients at
Quezon City and does home calls
to patients to o weak to be moved.
One, Agripina Leynes, confined at
a private hospital in Quezon City
for a "clogged aorta o f the heart” ,
w as
a llo w e d
by
hospital
authorities to receive spiritual
healing. On his first day, Jose
performed psychic surgery on the
p a tie n t
with
the attending
physician and
three
nurses
assisting.
HAT IS spiritual healing?
psychic surgery? magnetic
healing?
A printed guide to spiritual and
magnetic healing and psychic
surgery in the Philippines explains
faith or spiritual healing as “ a
process by which the healer,
through his faith in a divine
source o f power, is able to tap
healing energies within his own
body and from the cosmos, and
then to channel these energies to
the patient and more particularly
to those organs o r portions o f the
patient’s body which are not
functioning as nature originally
intended.”
Psychic surgery, goes th e same
booklet, is a means by which
“ certain individuals possess the
ability to ‘operate’ on the human
body using only their bare hands,
and remove diseased tissue, blood
clots, and pus” . Magnetic healing,
on the other hand, is the
recharging of weak cells or organs
with “ electromagnetic” energy
which the healer takes from his
own body and from tha earth’s
magnetic field. The so-called
‘laying on of hands” in ancient
times is a type o f magnetic
healing.
Harold Sherman, author of
Wonder healers o f the Philippines,
w rote in the foreword of Tom
Valentine’s book, Psychic surgery,
he finds it difficult to understand
“the tendency of many scientists,
doctors, and surgeons to con­
demn, w ithout investigation, any­
thing new or unorthodox in the
way of healings. I used to look, a
b it enviously, upon all scientists as
“men with open minds”. It was
thrilling to contemplate their ac­
cess, on the frontiers of science,
to new inventions, new tech­
niques, and new knowledge,
which would be of increasing ben­
efit to mankind. How disillusion­
ing it was for me to discover that
the scientists are often the most
close minded people of all.”
To be sure, studies and investi­
gations have been made b u t these
are, for the most part, informal,
preliminary, and limited in scope.
Dr Hiroshi M otoyama’s experi­
ments on Tony Agpaoa in Jappan
in the middle 60s may be con-
T
H e a le r R o m y B u g a rin o p e r a tin g o n
D on Jones
T H E L I V I N G D A Y L I G H T S , j a n u a r y 15-21, 1 9 7 4 - P a g e 9
HUTH
From JIM GERRAND
Port Moresby.
HEALERSOF
1HE
PHILIPPINES
sidered as most nearly meeting the
exacting requirements of a truly
scientific approach. But even then
and as Dr Motoyama himself stat­
ed, the purpose o f his investiga­
tion had nothing to do with
psychic surgery but merely “ to
examine w hether T ony’s power is
able to have influence on the
mind and body of the subject
w ithout any physical means or
any sensory clue.” In any case,
scientific
measurements were
made to indicate “that Tony was
able to dem onstrate non physical
powers” .
Early this year, nine men from West Germany, Switzerland,
the United States, England, Japan
and the Philippines - m et to carry
out the first of a three-stage study
of psychic surgery and spiritual
healing in the Philippines. Their
credentials should inspire con­
fidence in their objectivity: Dr
Friedert Karger, plasma physicist;
professor B. Kirchgassner, en­
gineer; Dr H. Naegeli, president,
Swiss Parapsychological Society;
Dr W. Schiebeler, physicist; Dr A.
Stelter, physicist and nuclear
chemist; Donald G. Westerbeke,
biochemist; Dr Sigrun Seutemann,
hom eopathic physician; Tony
Agpaoa, spiritual healer; Joaquin
Cunanan, president-general, Union
Espiritista Cristiana de Filipinas:
Their initial findings confirmed
those made by earlier investigat­
ors. Psychoknetic phenomena ob-.
served during the healing activities
of Juanito Flores, Eleuterio Terte,
Jose Mercado, Marcelo Jainar,
Juan Blanche, Alex Orbito, Josefina Sison, and Virgilio Gutierrez
“did not involve fraud, utilised no
anaesthesia, did not use scalps
razor blades or other instruments
to open the body, required usual­
ly from one to ten minutes to
perform, perm itted in most cases
the healer and the patient to
remain in street clothes with no
special precautions to maintain
sterile conditions, appeared to
cause little if any discomfort to
the patient, and left the patient
w ithout operative shock” .
The report is restrained and
carefully worded to avoid any
trace of speculation. “At this
tim e” , it said, “there is no one
theory or com bination of scienti­
fic eheories which can adequately
explain the phenomena. It is like­
ly that before a full understanding
of these phenomena is achieved,
man will need to develop totally
new concepts of spirit, thought,
and ‘physical’ m atter and o f m an’s
relation to the cosmos.”
Also it expressed the hope that
the world took time out “to study
these few healers in d ep th ” . The
results, it continued, “may well
exceed in value the results from
the expenditures of millions of
dollars on the development of
drugs to be used in the allopathic
practice o f treating symptoms in­
stead of causes” .
Such a study in depth may well
be in the offing if a recent move
initiated by the Manila Medical
Society gets underway. On the
grounds that faith healers could
“aggravate the ailments of sick
people” , the society, in its annual
convention which ended last
m onth, adopted a resolution ask­
ing president Marcos “to create a
board to evaluate and assess the
scientific value of faith healing” .
in
HE CHIEF minister calls:
“ You’re on our side.
"T ry to squat on one leg: we’re
cassowary birds true.”
The drums beat two-two, onetwo-two and, rustling our leafy
tails, we bob in a ring.
“ Run, run, run: Now we’re
fishies true.”
It is no Mad H atter’s Tea Party
but a new year’s eve sing-sing with
Michael Somare at Karau, his
hom e village near the m outh of
the Sepik.
In a break before the pigtrot,
some chew betel nut and the old
man who has been thum ping with
a pole on the big garamut drum
lights a cigarette. The match flare
licks the shadows from a hideous
weeping wound where some dis­
ease has eaten the flesh from his
m outh and the whole of one
cheek. Yet even this man’s disfig­
urem ent does nothing to evoke an
aura o f sorcery or the grotesque.
Like the Australian visitor, he is
included as a matter-of-fact partic­
ipant in the proceedings.
Whatever the sing-sing lacks in
voodoo and eroticism, is made up
for in old fashioned fun fun of the
village Glee Club variety.
Karau is a village of some 15
family houses built on stilts along
a strip o f sand between the
Bismarck sea and Murik lakes.
While girls play hopscotch, boys
lie on their bellies in the sand, get
into duels with sandballs, or ride
the surf on rough hewn boards.
The fishing is easy. A t low tide,
women catch shellfish and large
mud crabs in the mangroves that
border the lakes. From time to
time they cross by canoe to the
more distant reaches of the lakes
to pummel sago palm. Sago is the
staple food. It’s blended with
coconut in a porridge or toasted
as a stretchy bread. In the four or
five generations since the Saet
clan was driven down the Sepik to
settle on the coast, villages have
been forced to travel and barter
their surplus fish for vegetables,
fruit, betel, pots and building
materials and even at times for
drinking water.
Perhaps these patterns, o f trade
and interdependence between
T
H e a le r R o m y B u g a r in , w i t h a s s is ta n t,
o p e r a tin g o n W . J . S c o t t .
Somare
Sana
puts the
chief
back
into
Chief
Minister
villages have marked the Murik
settlers as more outward looking
than
the
self-sufficient
and
insulated villages higher up the
Sepik.
MONGST those who have
returned to Karau for the
su m m e r
holidays are four
teachers, a medical student from
the university and a num ber o f
boys studying at regional high
schools. The new generation o f
M u rik s
impress with
their
in te llig e n c e
and
q u ie t
self-assurance. They are neither
self conscious nor cocky; in the
presence of whitey they are sim­
ply equal and trade respect for
respect. Frank and articulate, the
teachers especially are willing
enough to explain village life and
customs. They 'reflect the sort of
directness and lack o f guile that
A
More news from
Papua New Guinea
H e a le r A le x O r b ito , w ith g irl a s s is ta n t, r e m o v e s b o d y t is s u e f r o m n e c k o f
b u s in e s s m a n E n r iq u e G a r c ia f o r c a n c e r o f t h e v o c a l c o rd .
N e n ita R a b a r a , h e a l e r J o s e f i n a Si*
s o n 's a s s is ta n t, a d m in is te r s m a g n e tic
m a ssa g e o n e ld e r ly w o m a n
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A s s is ta n t F e lip e B ito n a p p lie s m a g ­
n e tic m a ss a g e o n R a m o n J a v e lla n a
w h o w a s e a r lie r p a r a ly s e d b y a
s tr o k e .
OW TO successfully punish
a poor native? T h at’s the
problem causing Papua New Guin­
ean officialdom a few headaches,
because recently they determined
th at prison sentences present little
“real hardships” in most of the
country.
An editorial column of the looal Post courier states that: “ A per­
son whose daily task is always the
desperate hunt for sufficient food
for one, or two meals for himself
and his family sees little hardship
in being locked up in a compound
where he gets not only a sound
roof over his head but three meals
a day throw n in .”
Added to this, officialdom is
also grieved because it has to
support prisoners for periods of
time at a work value far below the
cost of their keep.
Current feeling is that cash
fines should be imposed. However
there are problems here too in
that:
• How do you convince a vil­
lager that he’s actually qot to
cough up the bread?
• Where’s the native going to
get the bread from anyway?
(Minimum wage for villagers is
$5.90 per week but the average
H
adult villager can only produce
goods worth approxim ately $4.00
per week. Minimum urban wage is
between $12.80 and $13.80 per
week but, due to influx of poor
villagers into urban areas, urban
unemployment is high.)
MEANWHILE
Chief minister Somare has laid
it on the tribal villagers th at they
should not complain if police
were forced to shoot people or
use other tough measures . . . He
said that if the people of New
Guinea wanted enforcement o f
the law they would have no ex­
cuse to complain later.
Somare added that police often
had to accept abuse and attack
from people because of the “ so ft”
Australian ideas of dealing with
trouble.
ON THE DRUG FRONT
Heavier penalties have been im­
posed for Papua New Guinea drug
convictions. Maximum penalties
have now been raised from the
former $200 to . . .
• Pushers —$4000 or 10 years
or both,
• Users — $2000 or 2 years or
both.
and I was adopted by uncle Saub
for a while.”
Their mutual respect is ob­
vious: it was not always the case,
however. Uncle and father had
been
opposed politically to
Michael’s impetuous calls for selfgovernment. But the rift was heal­
ed before his father died in 1972.
M issio n a rie s, t h e b a s ta rd s o r d e r e d o u r fa th e r s . . .
Somare carries with him into
national politics.
“ Missionaries, the bastards,
ordered our fathers to burn their
carvings and sacred spears,” says
Somare. He was brought up as a
C atholic. . .
Later, after the women and the
u n in itia te d
m en,
including
Somare, had been shooed to the
other end of the village, I am ush­
ered into the men’s house. There
I am made to stand on a piece
of cardboard on which has been
crayoned an em pty face and the
words “Cowboy Sm ith” . With due
solemnity the elders unravel the
palm bark casket and from it draw
a collection of ornately decorated
sp e a rs .
W hatever
“ Cowboy
Sm ith” had to do with them, they
are said to be the sacred spears
that had been hidden from the
missionaries.
It seems that Papua New
Guinea’s chief minister accepted
the title of Sana from a genuine
pride in his clan’s traditions. In
broader national terms, it will set
a precedent against the sense o f
cultural shame that has attended
European dom ination.
“ The title is not necessarily
hereditary,” explains Somare. “ I
have earned it by proving to my
uncle Saub that I am more w orthy
than his own tw o sons . . . "
As if on cue, Arcum - one of
the sons who has been passed over
- smiles, reaches across for a
cigarette and keeps the packet.
Somare continues: “ I remem­
ber my first initiation as a boy.
I was about eight years old. We
were beaten up and throw n in a
hut to be bitten by ants and stung
by bees. Around that time, my
father, who was a police
sergeant, was posted
Somare is called away to a
VHF radio call from his foreign
minister, Albert Maori Kiki, who ik
about to visit Australia. “ Tell
them there are eight murders
every week in cities like Sydney
and Melbourne and eight every
night in New York. There is more
violence at Australian football
matches than in tribal fighting in
the Highlands.
“ Who are the rock apes?” he
muses aloud and storms off to
deliver a rousing pep talk to the
assembled village. No more play
until the village has been cleaned
up and prepared for the cere­
mony. The villagers shuffle and
look unimpressed. Some of the
elders wisecrack that he is barking
like a politician. But Somare per­
sonally supervises the rooting out
of the basketball goals and even
th at night, teams are carrying fresh
sand to cover the paths.
Ms Veronica Somare and the
children arrive in an outrigger
canoe from her hom e village and
parties from eight other villages in
the region arrive for the ceremon­
ies. Polite tabs are kept on all the
pigs, fruit, betel and other contri­
butions and borrowings. (Beasts
have served to reinforce peace and
trade pacts in the past and a quid
pro quo between host and guest
continues today.)
t o b u r n th e ir c a rv in g s a n d s a c re d spears.
speak with certainty on matters of
form.
traditions.
On this occasion torches are
waved instead, being used to
brand the skin; pigs blood is
smeared on bodies in lieu of cere­
monial piercing; and even the
scheduled three day fast has gone
by the board.
e t u r n i n g to Wewak, the
region’s administrative cen­
tre 60 miles west o f Murik lakes, a
reporter asks w hat’s the popula­
tion o f the town. “ Round 350,”
he is told. Even for a government
liaison officer the 10,000 odd
locals still dont count.
“ You see,” observes another
expatriate soaking in the Wewak
hotel, “ even with Somare there is
only a thin veneer covering the
primitive savagery o f his ancestory.” Around the walls o f the
dining room hang a motley collec­
tion of photographs of the Japan­
ese surrender in 1945 - calcula­
ted, presumably, to offend any
Japanese guests.
I With kulture vultures like
J " f a these, who worries about
missionaries?
Indeed the interpretations and
rationalisations are so liberal as to
allow for an Australian press ob­
server to be shanghaied as the
ch iefs deputy. He is plumed and
adorned. With the chief, he steps
Old initiations could stretch down a ramp from the men’s
over eight or nine m onths - time house strewn with prostrated bod­
enough for tattoos, scars and ies and follows on a ceremonial
pierced ears and noses to heal. But procession around the village and
for the national leader, the rites back to the “ throne” where Som­
must be compressed into a couple are Sana is seated. It is not the
of days. Besides, the last full stuff of anthropology (hopefully)
initiation was in 1938 or 39 and but justice has been seen to have
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I
’M SWAYING down Roslyn street from the Cross
on a sunny afternoon this week.
N ot a care in the world. Feeling
light o f mind and body, legs and
breasts flowing free in these
long, loose clothes.
Coming towards me is a saun­
tering youth in a soiled and
clinging Bazza McKenzie t-shirt.
I’d like to get one of those
t-shirts. The guy’s drawing level
w ith me; something of the hos­
tile King’s Cross hood about him.
I dont look In his face.
Swift as a kung fu jab, his
hand lunges out and firmly grabs
my right tit with eye defying
speed. It’s a potent minimal mo­
tion, chi sao’s “ flowing stream” ,
the instinctive hand placement
of the wing chun style. He's
taken advantage of me in an
anarcho flash and passed on his
way: groped and gone.
A tim e lapse before it sinks
in. Moments later my surprise
gives way to indignation; the
dawning realisation that I’ve
been used and exploited. What
an insult! Bloody hide! I reel
around to see his back coolly
walking on as if nothing had
disturbed the flow of this smil­
ing afternoon.
I want to hurl obscenities at
him with all my seething anger.
Clobber him with all my might
across the head. But he’s more
than some arm ’s lengths away
now and I walk on. Will I run
after him? What would I do?
I flash on as Angela Mao
throwing a neat kung fu back­
wards kick or a powerful open
handed chop to the jaw, with a
blood curdling shriek. But th a t’s
unrealistic of course. I could
scream, hit, destroy, take retrib­
ution for what he's done. Rage
wells up inside me as I keep
walking on, doing nothing.
If I resort to aggression it
might provoke him to violence
and I’m afraid I’d get hurt or
he’d cause me more humiliation
- an embarrassing scene. At a
safe distance, I turn around
again and see him perched on
the wall o f one of those ratty
King’s Cross guest houses I’d
noticed in passing.
Does he live there? Why dont
I go back up the hill after him,
pull him off the wall, hurl invec­
tive at him about his male chauv­
inist piggery. Tell him he’s a
sexist shit. No, he’d only laugh
and gloat
Better still, I’ll give him a fast
knee in the balls or take him off
guard and squeeze his cock so
hard he’ll think he’s finished.
Let him know what it feels like
to be mauled. But then, maybe
he’d like it, maybe it’d incite
him, maybe he’d get turned on
and try to drag me inside. Or
he’d see me coming and run
away.
I could hop in a cab and leap
out unexpectedly; but what
would the cab driver think? Or
scream up there with a police car
and scare the daylights out of
him; no, we dont want to bring
the cops into this.
What can I do to this louse
for degrading me as a sex object?
Trouble is I’m too genteel, too
inhibited by my social condi­
tioning to do anything unlady­
like th a t’d draw attention. God,
I’m helpless. But then, why meet
aggression with aggression? At
least I’m holding on to my dig-
The body
defiled
JUDITH RICH
nity by ignoring it, staying cool
as if nothing happened.
Bullshit! I’m repressed. Nice
girls dont get into street skirm­
ishes. Bullshit! Som eone’s got to
give him his due, teach him that
we fight back. But why do I feel
put down. Is my response condi­
tioned by women’s lib paranoia?
I adm it I like men to stare at
me in the street and think what
they think. A female is proud
and strong. I'd really like to get
about bare breasted. Look at
that girl over there with breasts
bouncing around in her white
Camel T-shirt. We’re all doing it
now. We’re asking for it, arent
we?
A flashback to once getting
lost in the Paris Metro with my
mother, on our way to the opera
and we asked a nice, well dressed
young man for directions. Mo­
ments later as we walked up a
flight of steps I felt a hand right
up my legs inside my micro
m ini
The nice young man was hur­
rying away down the stairs. You
fucking bastard! I yelled. Get
fucked! And my mother, un­
aware o f w hat had transpired
behind her back, looked at me in
frozen shock.
I got so fed up with swinging
arms hitting their target like
lightning in the street, and being
goosed by creeping hands in
crowded Italian buses, that one
day I gave a young groper his
own treatm ent back. He moved
off down the other end o f the
bus as if stung.
A few times in similarly pub­
lic situations, I had the courage
to hurl loud accusations at the
culprit, drawing red rising shame
and dozens of outraged stares.
Keep your hands to yourself,
you filthy beast! I t’s a good
game really, if you can get it
together.
But I’d like to pay them all
back for the traum a of my first
early adolescent assault, on the
steps of Palings building, when a
dry cleaner’s delivery man used
his free hand to feel up my
school uniform. I was panting so
heavily with fear that I couldnt
join in m y acting class after that.
Today I’d strangle him with his
wire hangers. Now it’s different.
It’s become political.
William Chester got paid off
for making light of rape, when
some American feminists held
him down and tried to give him
a taste o f what it was like in
reverse. (TLD 10). He ran
squealing to the cops and drag­
ged it through the courts. One
day there could be packs of
heavy housewives, rampaging
through the streets, attacking
and raping men.
T hat’s a buzz. But in all
sanity, let’s hope not. We dont
want to take on the dehumanis­
ing aggro th a t’s the fascist legacy
of a man’s hostile world. I walk
on and catch the bus away from
Bazza the sexist sneak. Watch
out for him ladies and give him
one for m e
exploits legends are told, only
they are not legends. This com­
rade Balasova ordered that no
employees be adm itted to work
who wear blue jeans, especially
women. So in the morning the
door guard checks on everyone
and those who wear blue jeans are
sent hom e to change, the time
they spend thus is of course
regarded as absence w ithout ex­
cuse, a very unpleasant thing in a
socialist country. However, com­
rade Balasova is not satisfied with
this mild arrangement. She further
issued orders that no female em­
ployees or performers can come
to work bra-less.
“ So the door guard started to
check on this piece of female
apparel by going over the backs o f
the entering comrades with his
palm. Several o f the women hit
him on the nose, so a female
guard was assigned this duty.
Then comrade Balasova had a
photo made o f the model male
haircut, short, no sideburns. There
are four photos, full face, left and
right profiles, and from the back.
Every perform er who is to be seen
on the TV screen is compared
with these model photos and his
hair is "adjusted”. If he refuses,
he is n o t allowed to appear on the
TV screen.
"R ecently, a pop singer from
Estonia came to Prague, on con­
tract, to tape a few TV songs. His
hair was found lacking in short­
ness, he refused to have it adjust­
ed, and was sent back to Estonia
w ithout having taped his songs.
Two Polish saxophonists consent­
ed to wear short-haired wigs, a
Hungarian tenor saxophonist re­
fused, and since they had to allow
him to appear on the screen - he
was a member o f a big band - the
cameramen received orders never
to focus their lenses on him .”
A postscript to this story:
“ Comrade Balasova has been final­
ly defeated. After she had success­
fully banned all long-hairs from
the Czechoslovak screen, the TV
brought the annual marathon
race, sponsored by the party daily
Rude pravo, to the screen. This is
one of the best known marathon
runs in eastern Europe, and run­
ners from all over the world come
to take part in it. The whole race
was broadcast by the TV, with
cameras placed on special cars, so
that they could follow the leading
runner. After about one third of
the run had been over, an Argen­
tinian athlete got into the lead
and remained in the lead to the
end, and won.
“ His name escapes me, it
sounded somewhat English, like
Moore. Anyway, this progressive
marathonian had his hair so long
th at in order not to have his vision
impaired he had to bind it with a
female ribbon. And he remained
on the screen for over an hour,
and was even shown in many
closeups, including the one when
he was receiving the cup from the
hands o f some CP functionary. So
the long-hairs had their revenge,
eventually.
“ It’s the same thing as with
literature. What is allowed to a
foreign writer o f renown is forbid­
den to the poor local subject of
the party. The Hungarian tenorman was avoided by the cameras
on orders from Balasova. But you
cannot shun the m arathon winner,
especially if he comes from the
capitalist camp.”
The body politic
This letter
from GRAHAM
GREENE
appeared in
the dec 28
issue o f
New statesman.
IN THE tragic situation which
arose in Czechoslovakia with the
intervention of the Russians one is
always glad to find certain ele­
ments o f comedy and perhaps the
following story, just come to me
from a reliable female source who
has left the country, may be of
interest to your readers.
“ The absolute ruler of Prague
television is a fearful lady by the
name o f Balasova, about whose
The body beautiful
N OUR january issue we had an article about well
formed feet, or the lack of them , among m odem
people - the result o f the shoe-wearing habit, partic­
ularly o f heeled shoes.
Had nature desired a high heel on the human animal
she would undoubtedly have created one. Not doing so,
the high heeled shoe is certainly not “natural” to say the
least. That it is positively harmful may as easily be
proven to anyone n o t prejudiced by Dame Fashion.
The elevation of the heel from one to three inches
requires an entire readjustm ent of the muscles of the
body with results too numerous to discuss in this article.
The question under discussion here is has Alice
Borden, one of the Universal Picture Corporation stars, a
good foot? Alice and Ouida Wildman, her companion in
the picture, and also a Universal star, evidently think her
foot and ankle are all right. What say the art critics?
(From Art & Life, 1925)
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J / . U i J 2.U7
GRAHAM GREENE,
Paris, France
anything that is peculiarly Hootonesque, my favorite poem of his
is
THE C A R T
We buried him at last:
A hundred m onks in file,
With heads and eyes downcast,
Had followed w ithout guile,
With neither smirk nor smile
Until, the crossroads passed,
They found o u t their m istake
ALBIE THOMS
ORRESPONDENTS David
& Sylvia in the last issue of
TLD asked why there was nothing
on Harry Hooton. Which is
reasonable. Except I suspect that
now 12 years after his death, few
people have heard of Hooton,
whose collected poems were pub­
lished posthumously under the
title It is great to be alive.
About three years ago his
memory was revived by A & C
Cantrill in their film Hooton
which expressed in dynamic visual
terms his “anarcho-technocracy” .
They then claimed him as some
sort of dow nunder Buckminster
Fuller (surely as much a hype as
David Elfick’s claim that George
Greenough is the “Buckminster
Fuller of the ocean” ).
I’m not sure how long the
Hooton m yth can be sustained,
but it’s interesting that TLD
readers can be surprised that he is
ignored today. H ooton was just as
ignored in his lifetime when he
was as much a m yth as he is now.
He did much to sustain the myth.
I remember as a budding poet,
teaches
being taken to visit him. He was
dying, but continued to hold a others,
bedside audience and was full of he can’t
humor - a constant barrage of educate them
puns and verbal paradoxes, aphor­ he governs them.
And when he can’t
isms and rhetoric. He was a grand
man of the old school. A few govern them
weeks later I saw him again. He he kills them ". He was
threw a party; the Sydney Push arrogant,
crowded round his bedside in a
grandiose, even megalomaniacal.
farewell tribute. Then a week later
He saw the artist as the one
he was dead.
capable of changing the world.
Hooton was an anarchist of
And the esthetic correlative of
sorts Gust as Bucky can be rightly
manarchy was manesthetics:
described as an anarchist) in so far
There's a world o f living men
he was opposed to m an’s power
you can't rule
over man. As a technocrat he was
A nd a world o f dead machines
interested in m an’s power over you can rule
machines. Hence his notion of
A n d a new world awaiting its
“ anarcho-technocracy", or “ manbuilder, the poet
archy” . He rejected governments,
Who is the exception to all
psychology, philosophy, univer­ rules sities, and artists preoccupied with
Who is the rule.
human problems. For him the
But H ooton the poet wasnt
proper artist is the technician, the
much appreciated in his day. The
proper engineer the one who
literary establishment tried early
manipulates m atter rather than
to come to terms with him and
men. He proposed a utopian new
gave up. He was too radical in
world of anarcho-technocracy
both ideas and technique for the
where man is perfect in his postwar literarti. “Prophets have
subjugation of the things of no honor in their own country
nature (“Power over Things” ).
because they havent got a country
H ooton’s ideas were expressed
(I never had m y fare to another
in poems and prose, and in country” ). His radicalism was
wild-like euphorisms and puns:
dismissed as eccentricity. Today
“All handling of man is m anhand­ its visionary utopianism accords
ling”, “the only man who can with the widespread optimism (at
measure a man with accuracy is an least that which prevailed in the
undertaker” , “when a man can’t decade after his death) of young
live he makes a study of life. people.
When he can’t understand it he
C
B ut we buried him at last.
It was his wife's idea
To have a hundred m onks
March along behind
The hearse.
To p u t it terse:
There werent any m onks But we got a hundred drunks
(With promises o f beer)
Who said they wouldnt m ind
Dressing for the part
A n d bringing up the rear It was his w ife’s idea.
It nearly broke her h e a r t. . .
With downcast eyes and head,
They lost the hearse
And, which was worse,
They followed instead
With slow and measured tread
The nightcart.
They should have looked
ahead
For it nearly broke her
heart.
away from
Samuel
Butler with
MC Mr Eliot
and the Duke
of York passing
the halfmile
post yes, it’s Big
Barrett leading by five
lengths from MC. and
looks like Butler
closely followed by Lady
Above all else he was a
Sweet with Agenbite, Discoboword-spinner. No one else I have
los, Bull Standing Orders a few
m et could play with words with
lengths back at the five furlong
the same ease, create poetry out
Coming is leaving the field and
of such a myriad of ideas. He was
Going is left leading Blockbust­
pop before the concept was
er and Homburg are now right
invented, paradoxical in his use of
out o f the picture - but
hum or to express serious ideas,
moving up smartly on the
and so full of himself that
outside is A tom , Leon & Lady
everything was devastated by his
Light with Butler Eliot Mr
onslaught. Take his w ork The
Cheers and Big Barrett last.
inhuman race. This favorite sec­
Cornin’ to the straight! And
tion deserves H ooton’s voice to do
y o u ’re ALL in it - where one
it justice, but read it with
man addresses, redresses, dres­
racecallers Joe Brown or Ken
ses, undresses another i t ’s cir­
Howard in m ind:
cles, wheels, balls, spheres,
“On to the Fifth International!
closed systems with first sickle
- T hey’re - OFF! Starters and
move third amend fourth interriders acceptances Mr Cheers
hum anational fifth atom it’s
got off to a good start closely
six seventh heavens i t ’s Joyce
followed by Young Man on the
no Thomas Aquinas Dylan
rails then coming Lady Sweet
Ogden Miller Richards Yutang
Ecclesiastes, TS Eliot and Sam­
bar C onfuseus. . . ”
uel Butler com in’up fast on the
And tho it has nothing to do
outside at the first furlong Mr
Cheers was leaving a length in with his anarcho-technocracy,
Lady Light a length further with his radicalism, or with
back James Joyce was pulling
Still, we buried him at last.
(It was n o t his w ife’s idea Her instructions were quite
clear They were not to raise their
heads.)
The hearse w ent on ahead.
A t the crossroads we instead
Followed the cart.
We should have looked
ahead
For it nearly broke her
heart,
But . . . we buried him at
last.
Hooton was a great man (“ I
say that every man alive is great,
no m atter who he is/For it is great
to be alive!” ), great because he
became a legend in his own
lifetime, and because the legend
persists. He was also a good poet.
His work reads today as well as it
ever did, and his deep-breathed
Whitmanesque verses seem to be
in contemporary language even
tho some were w ritten 30 years
ago.
As for his anarchist philosophy
- it could be better understood
today than ever before. The role
of machines in mens lives is no
longer looked on with awe (in the
style of Wells and the Capek Bros)
but seen as a means of liberation
of men. H ooton's anarcho-techno­
cracy has potential of becoming a
reality.
__
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ELLIOTT ERWITT
T H E L I V I N G D A Y L I G H T S , january 15-21, 1 9 7 4 - P a g e 15
f
an A * ? ? your ^ I c o m e
X ? ? ear oki lette<- dated may
8th from France. I was v e *
quick I am to feel an insult, so
fo J lS .
9tU them a lesson
over «.get
I had
no idea
^upsetwould
to the
fro^ that
a t
soon - n gave me a dreadful
thaJ w/ s not any too happy
ou are only a
yet
Dalton was 1 9 * when he left
ri9hts you ^ o u ld
of L ^
}Sthlg now ins*ead
hL l
u" Pray 00(1 y ° u are
xg enough to endure the trial,
xuy darling son.
le ttl f
T
38 1 ^
your
u j 0n? France in m y bag
M d had also got the news o f
Bede Kenny’s VC. You and he
t . „ beady he has started at
i60^
1 coUe9e and he
," d, Jack K®nny always m eet.
Jack showed Clive how to go
about the whole thing. Clive is
very studious and am bitious
V S ?,n enormous big fellow
with people.
hoL efXPe.Ct Clive home “ ibis
boat for lunch. If I m eet your
m a te s people, they could
6 t° T n and spend a very
pleasant day with me. Paddy is
still with Dad. We could not
l ™ T , b0ys’ s° I ™*><going £ h f leK Ve VOU aU behind
height - but as big as he is, if
k“ V ° t Stick to study for
t h i n ^ u “ y o f th a t sort o f
he gives me cheek he has to
thm g when I happened to be
•n ^
11 ls such a pity he
look
out.
about. Some soldiers came
?
^
t0 90 in to a commer­
cial house. Well love, look out
after me and said my word
1 tell him he is not too high
lv
hard and valiant- “ adam, th at was a risky thing
for a nice parcel from me. Kit
me to reach his ears. He
y to be brave. I pray and hope
laughs, but really Tom, Clive is
for you to do, those men may
T ry houur for your safety and
. o iD S o n y O U a t o “ ,y ’ aJ“ ° ” '»
a very good boy and we will all
gionous homecoming, o for have h u rt you. I said and lads
You should have got two
would you have let them ? So
r y P !iO U d o fh i“ - W ithhis Pairs o f sox from me, love I
to u ^ L 1 ^
j a9a“gallant
- b ° th they told me th at the only ?S ?j f few
days pay, he will have
you
and yourV° dear,
?®n t, them in separate parcels
onhearted brother Dalton He thmg for them was to have to buy his new suit and he will
thmking they would arrive
surrounded me, as they are not E n f t? u A unt Adelaide and
^ a m a r v e U o u s b o y .A tp te ^
Ern
till
he
passes
his
exam
K fm
WaS 3 Sed t0 Pack
ml,rf ad“ 9 a series o f the ^ . ° w?d t0 make quarrels or Marion, Martin and Clive corthem separately. Bernice is a
g a n g o f Bullicourt by Capt ^
rbances of any descripdear little girl, and a thorough
B ear.and I can hardly believe fton, b u t they would have de­ "® ?°nd ,G]ady sends messages
b>dy. I am so fond of her. She
fended me by surrounding me b S h d
Dalton has gone all through
c u r is
■ 6sending
date o fyou
your
has sweet ways and manners.
birthday. She
a
,they fully intended to
Clive was out there last night
2 ra tc h
fUl thin9S w ithout a do as they
also had noticed the
nJ r e r TCel for that d ate- I am
to dinner. Bernice has a ticket
afraid you will miss some of
rotters behavior.
H® ,ls. Indeed protected by
on Ken, she says he is like you.
0
“ letters. Last week a boat
It really is about time Fritz
the Almighty - I think I told
Ken is a bonny youngster
you how the censor o f his Batt
was tired of his job and ready with all Australian mail was
everyone loves him. He idolises
However, conscrip­ lost, so do n o t think we have
w rote to D orothy about him! tion9 i ?
not written to you dear.
tion is to come in in Australia
v o n anu ls a ,lways taIking about
said that Dalton was the
you. He always says in his
I write every week and
s up to it if you are to get
coolest and bravest man he
Prayers
at night, God bless and
never
fad,
both
to
you
and
re
in
fo
rcem
en
ts;
there
are
ever m et. This censor was a
From the old B ox
crowds
o
f
shirkers
hanging
him
u dear Tom and bring
s l*t«f, and he went on
m t h n ' u you know that
him safe home to Kenny He
m
others
who
have
sons
at
the
IbaC* Wh° w on't fight. Traitors!
join the treasure hunt for
S n s r * o,h“ •" " * abo"> I call them , and plenty of war get a silver brooch from makes us all feel chokey' we
family memorabilia Search vn,,r
see
him
quietly
wiping
his
eyes
the
defence
dept?
They
are
to
^ rried “ en w ithout families
Now dear take all the care
ancestral p h oto albums for
hiding behmd the missus
be issued next week at the
you can o f yourself I tell
ch an ^n d SUCh 9 darlin9 little
Z meJ hJ nS ahoul the p J t
chap and since you went away
barracks,
and
then
a
bar
added
^instance
there
is
A
untie
d n t know . . . rifle
everyone that you are the light
h e ‘s very quiet. He says he will
Emmie s big fat husband who
to the brooch for each son. So
o f m y ejres, and so you are I
ffor
o r faded
^ d J He
atti°and
teafantastic
chest
snaps
your little m other is going up
u ° nzerL boy when you
am glad you saw the king. He is o T t o ^ a S h ° tf ir e d ’ h e - n t
cfrjespondence. D ont w o rX
come hom e but while you are
o ut to Egypt as a cook and
to the barracks next thursday
lfy o u can t find a letter or
a splendid man. No wonder he
away he m ust be very good and
came back with nerves. He eats to get that brooch and, what is
p o st card to match the sepia
hi? S, ^ ed> he is suffering for nhe a pig and is as strong as a more, I am going to get general
“ he is. He is like an o ld m an
daguerro type
like
his soldiers. I rem ember he was
n e x tw e e k 'sp a g e .
it can
Mid
everyone
loves
Ken.
His
bull
(coward).
The
bobbies
Lee,
an
old
friend
of
our
fami­
a nice gentlehearted boy, and
be all pics. We launch the
eacher goes wild over him He
ought to let Jack go but she
ly, to pm it on. General Lee is
series with a letter from a
worried mum to one o f herm command here now in place
L
Ven
.
|
retty
and
smart
look­
and nerVT l and he has to stop o f G. Ramachetti.
ing. _ Old titty bottle Tim is
many sons at the Flanders
We saw the account of the
fehn
and lots ° f other
field m 1917
getting a fine youngster
fellows
stop
here
on
any
old
Eileen
and
Mabel
made
me
a
great review that you attended
He is very fit, and as strong
lovely
grey
silk
frock,
and
my
“ .th e papers. What a proud
as a young llon. He is the war
sight it must have been and O
nf V n 3 ^
ducky Uttle Piece baby . We laughed when you
tulle;
Dad
had
a
good
win
at
I wish I were the prime
when you all cheered I am sure
told us about Sally. I gUeSSed
the races and gave me the
minister, and then there would
the king m ust have felt greatly
as much, old frump.
m
oney
to
buy
a
good
frock,
so
stirred, and well he might he 3®,S° “ eth“ 9 doing. Kit, Cora
Well, Tom dear, no more
Ma went up to David Jones and
knew that all o f those dear lads and the other one hang on to
news
this week. Gwen will send
bought
the
silk.
Only
8/11
a
their husbands. More petticoat
were there for a great purpose
n i a Postcard with this letter
yard It is a beautiful silk and
government,
and
yet
the
kidt * f “ 3°“ g back to Single­
bless and protect you, my
O, the pretty little boots I
ton this m onth but only to dig ™m 3re ?3ll“ 9 for men to
bought.
come
and
help
from
the
dad out - he is hard to shift
us all
deSt l0V6’ kisses frorr
G r e y t°Ps if you please, so
een, Bernice and Mabel were
Yours
lovingly,
S et
CUve
3 Splendid
Mum wdl look quite smart and
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them , and I hope you all get
pound a week and as soon as
me three men had their hats on
back to Australia safe and
he sits for the public service in
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pound, and he bought nice
three hats flying.
it is a most glorious day and
useful things that he w anted sh o L 9aVe/ Very° ne 311 awful wished you all sorts of good
the sea is quite calm. You
1 shock, and no one was more
luck and good fortune. He says would think it was a spring day
I surPrised than myself after the
he hopes to shout you a spree
mstead of depth of winter and
incident was over - I just
when you come home but he is Manly is packed with people at
m ^H m ber f8elin9 decidedly quite determined to study for
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JUDITH RICH
VER THE sound system
and back through the timescope of 50s radio culture gallop­
ed a theme to jolt the memory.
The familiar announcer’s voice in­
troduced Kellogg’s famous radio
serial:
. Australia’s own Smokey Dawson!” And on ran
the cornflakes cowboy himself, a
spry 60 in a curly-brimmed ten
gallon hat. The kids in the audi­
ence loved him, as they have for
generations.
But something was missing.
“They dont let horses into the
O p e ra
H o u s e ,”
apologised
Smokey, sadly holding up Flash’s
em pty bridle. And he sang the
affectionate tribute to his absent I
pardner, left back home a t the]
Smokey Dawson ranch: “ My won­
derful four-legged friend”. It
wasnt quite the same last Saturday
fortnight at the Concert hall w ith­
o u t his 46 year old trusty steed
Flash snorting to all the people as
he’s done at 18 Waratah festivals,
on television’s Super flying fun
show, at Rose lands and even once
on the stage of the Hordern pavil­
ion.
But here was a timeless Peoples
E ntertainm ent
that
everyone
could relate to. It was Country
Music Night at the Sydney Opera
House — or “Grand Ole O pry” as
Smokey called it. Prom oter Cliff
A tkinson had assembled a lineup
o f Australian country music stars,
whose styles ranged from that old
time buckskin and high heeled
boots tradition to m odem pop,
w ith a sprinkling o f Leagues club
cabaret for good measure.
There was all the hum or and
hum anity of the Khris Karistof-
O
MUSIC
flflsh hrjdle<*a
uollSe
Ashcroft, who doesnt consider
himself purely a country singer,
threw in some old "standbys like
Dixieland jazz and club jokes, and
sang some medlies of yesterday
with vocalist Gay Kahler in lip­
stick pink and lame gown. I didnt
know whether to laugh or cry
when she recited that super sacharine musical poem, The white
magnolia tree, as the lighting man
went delirious with dramatic color
effects and eyes went m oist with
sentiment all over the hall. But
| she was a knockout with La inter' national airport.
0 Pr* H
ferson, Roger Miller, Johnny
Cash, Conway Tw itty hit songs
and many others that reminded us
once again of the wealth o f Aus­
tra lia n in the country music
field.
It was a great night out for all
the family, as they say, with
occasional Rights of yodelling and
everyone warming up to singalongs (You are m y sunshine),
clap-alongs and foot-tap-alongs in
a show th at rolled on to midnight
in a really laid back, if strung out,
style.
John Williamson, whose Travel­
ling o u t west television show is
well known outside Sydney and
Melbourne, kicked off with a
yodelling version o f Midnight
cow boy and won the audience
with his fair dinkum aussie songs.
He had a musical dig at the Pitt
street farmers, and brought the
Mike McClellan is good
M
cuse to hide yourself?
— keep it hung off the edge where
it might become maudlin melo­
drama. Duncan McGuire lays
down some strong bass lines with
Warren Daly drumming and Red
McKelvie filling on electric guitar.
From the city to the hills and
back recurrs thematically through­
out the record. McClellan seems
to share H. Lawson’s distrust o f
the urban sprawl and in There is a
place he sings to a lady o f NSW s
New England Hills where he once
lived a couple o f years. In this
song are some o f the most effec­
tive lines any Australian poet has
composed fo r this land.
For this land is old, it's tim e
well spent — its granite face is
scarred b y the careless hand o f
a shifting land, before the crust
set hard.
Billy Weston’s string accom­
paniment captures the roll o f New
England and Mike’s open tuned
guitar is haunting and beautiful.
He freely associates the open
country with the female psyche
and is an unabashed romantic but
being a more than com petent poet
and wordsmith.
Love is a lady is a gentle paean
that might make a real Fern Lib­
ber twitch a graceful paven, she’s
a season of the year, the wind­
swept guitar picks the starlit rain­
drops of the ocean waves, fulfil­
ment, joy, reverence, Mike’s been
a folk musician long enough to
know enough o f m ankind’s story
from the ground’s basic roots. The
Celtic white goddess becomes a
rainbow shearer’s lass.
house down w ith his twist on the
country bar room standard,
There’s a red-back on the toilet
seat — his version swinging sym­
pathy to the spider: There's a big
bum on the toilet seat.
He introduced us to a Jaw harp
- one o f your original weird
instrum ents, which produces a
sound like a didgeridoo - for his
own hit composition, Old man
Emu, in the R olf Harris bag of
period
RAYNER BALFOUR
IKE McCLELLAN has the
good fortune to record his
first album under conditions more
relaxed than those facing most
Australian musicians entering the
recording- situation. OK, you’ve
got 2lA hours, make a top selling
record, artistic creation by the
stopwatch.
God rest ye business gentle­
men, at Armstrong’s you must
pay . . . Anyway Ata studios and
Col Joye gave Mike the chance to
make and produce his record as he
wanted and the result was good.
Story has it that the album was
sent to Wally Heider’s Nashville
studio or some equivalent for re­
mixing a while back and it was
returned with the comment that
they couldnt improve it b u t if Mr
McClellan would like to head over
to Nashville to cut his next two
opi th ey 'd dig to have him. Pos­
sible.
Anyway, th e production of
Mike McClellan is very good, not
"good for an Australian record” ,
b u t good . . . period. Which is no
less than he deserves. One of
Australia’s m ost capable acoustic
guitarists, songwriters, singers, the
songs are all good, some are excel­
le n t The instrum entation is taste­
ful and restrained, Mike’s guitar
being the main accompaniment
throughout,
rhythm
sections,
strings and others being brought
in where complementary which k
sensible because he’s a good
enough picker to keep his own.
Side one kicks o ff with Blues
fo r Ginny, a licky, blueish coun­
try piece th a t tells o f “ Ginny with
her babe in arms” , unmarried or
abandoned m other on the other
side o f the rails, gets proposition­
ed by the landlord and malicious­
ly slandered by the neighbors.
She’s a hard luck case but the
concluding lines :But what about your child, can
you give him all h e ’ll need,
Is yo u r independence an ex­
aussie zaniness.
Johnny Ashcroft, with 22
years in the business and five gold
records behind him, warmed every
mum and dad’s heart with his old
hit, Little boy lost; and fanfared a
bit of "aussie opera”, which tu rn ­
ed o u t to be th at tragic aria for
parched throats, The pub with no
beer. He prolonged the national
agony by singing yet another in
that long line of musical corrup­
tions o f Waltzing Matilda, this
time in jive tempo.
And runs down into Country
morning, country roads, gotta
travel on b u t this one stands with
Denver’s and Taylor’s, running
clean and sweet as the sun up thru
the G oulbum mists and fields. His
melodies are real delights, there
are good songwriters and good
tunesm iths and Mike is both.
The open road runs on into
Will she come, another Clearwater,
sprightly I gotta be free but I’d dig
to keep you round sort o f song,
which completes the pastorale cir­
cuit — dow n along the river to the
sea I follow where my thoughts
lead me - to return to the city of
doubting fears and identity/com ­
munication crises again, rounding
off the side with Lonely man on
which John Capek plays his usual
effective piano.
Side tw o is more of the same
stuff and can be listened to with
greater reward and enjoyment
than the mere review can conjure,
hint No. 3. Lest this screed seem
one sidedly adulatorous or w hat­
ever, I feel some comment on
Mike’s The fiddler could be here
made. It seems melodically a little
bit too close to Jerry Jeff Walker’s
My old man and thematically be­
tween that song and Bojangles.
Suzie is the perfect song to
close the album with, back to
Ginny's older sister and the con­
clusion o f one of Australia’s most
successful records and her finest
sons to sing it for the 20th cen­
tury.
It's a double record in that you
also get a large part o f Graham
j
Lownde’s recorded and released
m outh music, release is a strange
word, maybe E.M.I. is Port Mac­
quarie and we’re still convicts.
Anyway Graham’s dual vocal lead
on the close is one o f my ten
favorite vocal performances on
record sort of things, nice to have
a singer round who can get thru
the wax in my ears down to the
base o f my spine. G ood to hear
tw o singers who are.
There was a record released in
the latter part o f last year on
Festival’s Budget Calendar label
called Duelling banjos. Photo
from film on front, same photo in
black and white on the back and
Sydney recording data. No musi­
cian credits. Included were a
cover of the Weissberg film instru­
mental, and other trad blnegnst
like Foggy m ountain breakdown
and Wildwood flower, and Catfish
tango by Mike McClellan. He also
sings Early morning rain and
Good tim e Charlie’s got the blues
on the record but the only Mc­
Clellan compositions are instru­
mentals.
The production’s looser and
more “ live” than the other and a
bloody nice record, but One man
band and Me and Petunia arent on
it, nor any other more recent
compositions th at Mike’s perform ­
ing so well these days so there
may be something in that Nash­
ville story perhaps. I hope so, I
imagine a lot o f Gringo Musicians
would love to play with the kid,
and other yankees would like to
purchase and hear his music. And
Jackson Browne would dig to hear
his playing and singing o f Song for
Adam as m any Strines would like
to hear One man band.
Probably Henry Lawson would
like Mike as well. Old Henry Blue
had a good ear for the sun in gum
leaves and the sky beyond the
traffic lights and ’scrapers. And
th a t’s about the sum. Mike Mc­
Clellan’s songs are immensely like­
able.
Until then i t ’d been a clean,
homely show for the folks, with
Johnny Ashcroft actually apolo­
gising for letting a “rude w ord”
(bloody) slip into his act. Then
former truckie Lee Conway hit
the stage like an ounce of smack
in a Betty Sidney cake mix. He
ripped into numbers about grass
and gutsy sex, long distance hauli­
ers and hitchhikers, with a gruff,
aggressive style that turned on the
teenagers and jogged the grannies
out of home on the range folk­
siness into earthy 70s soul.
“This first song” , he said intro­
ducing a bracket of his own com ­
positions, “is dedicated to all the
ladies of the wind - may I make
them all!” Conway, who incident­
ally supplies the Johnny Cash
voice on the Craven Special Milk
singing commercial, injected a
shot of blatant sexuality and send
up into familiar country hits. He
was the hippiest young stud in a
stable of formidable old pros.
Reg Lindsay and his wife
Heather took us back to pure
country and western with twangy
numbers like Your cheatin' heart
and his biggest gold record, July,
y o u ’re a woman. T hey’ve been an
enduring showbiz team for 20
years now, with bouncy Heather
happily playing second string to
Big Reg on their own TV show,
country tours, the club circuit and
as Australia's ambassadors a t the
Nashville Country Music come to ­
gether.
Last year they made Reg an
honorary citizen of Tennessee and
gave him the key to the city. Reg
- he hails from the heart of
NSW’s golden West - is an institu­
tion, who heads big package
shows, Western goods stores,
music stores, a music publishing
business and saddle manufacturing
company.
Like most of the veteran coun­
try performers, h e ’s not surprised
at the resurgent spread of popular­
ity in recent years. “Country
music is basically a feel, i t ’s basi­
cally a folk music because it’s
about people. It’ll sing about any­
thing from love to divorce to
murder. It covers every human
em otion. It covers life com plete­
ly.”
The show packed up and it was
home for Johnny Ashcroft in his
big, black Cadillac, Lee Conway in
his sleek new sports car with’ a
glossy blonde . . . and home for
Smokey Dawson to the holiday
riding camp he runs with his wife.
“Got to be getting back to the
bunk houses,” he said. “There’s
breakfast to be got in the morning
for the horses and all the kids.”
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D e e p t h r o a t th e h a r d - f a c e d r o a d
MUSIC
WINDMILL IN A JET FILLED
SKY: John Hambrick (Brown Bag
Records [thru Festival] BBL
34757)
OHN Hambrick has a deep
country and western voice and
sounds as believable as Johnny
fCash used to before he became a
member of the Billy Graham sales
team.
He w rote the whole album
except for two of the tracks and
throughout is well helped by
Charlie McCoy and Pig Robbins.
They are strong musicians and
they all combine to give Hambrick’s rugged voice the Nashville
counterpoint it needs.
The lyrics are as wise as
Kristofferson’s, b u t w ithout any
of his world weary pseudo
Hemingway. Hambrick’s been
around, but he’s liked a lot of
what he’s seen. And when it
comes to the things he doesnt
like, well, the man still hasnt lost
sight o f the fact that things could
improve if we let them.
The toughest thing going
against a singer like Hambrick is
that he’s never had a hit single.
Certainly not in this country. So
he hasnt been prom oted and feted
and nobody knows the trouble
he’s seen. And I’ll be you have a
hell of a tim e even finding some­
one in a record shop w ho’s actual­
ly heard o f th e guy.
While y o u ’re waiting for your
own copy to arrive, here’s a funny coming from an American.
treck^by track look at the album.
Silence O f M y Heart: It re­
Hardfaced Road: A typical minds me o f Johnny Cash’s South
“ Trying to find where I’m at” Wing and even Frankie Laine’s
song. Undistinguished lyrics, but Wild Goose song . . . not in tune
Charlie McCoy’s harmonica and a so much, but in its general at­
brittle, cleanly picked dobro keep titude.
this track my favorite. And any­
D espite
the
deep-throated
way, thank God for the optimism. pseudo-Kristofferson spoken in­
Me A nd M y Friend: Happy troduction, this track quickly
beerdrinking country music. I settles down to some fine Ham­
thought I heard Jerry Kennedy’s brick vocals; the dobro and bass
guitar in there somewhere, and if lines will appeal to Tom. T. Hall
it isnt i t ’s certainly every bit as fans.
good. The song is so appropriate
Share Until Tomorrow: T he
to the Australian mateship myth, happiest Hambrick on the album.
J
t* $ * i s i w
m m
al
i
’
A settled-down song, b u t n o t a and legendary goodwill to one’s
soppy one. I t’s very clear that fellow man . . . but the idea is
whoever the lady is, die and Ham­ explained w ith such thoroughness
brick have sorted themselves out and persistence, th at you tend tq
to each o ther’s mutual advantage. get bored by the whole thing.
The lyrics are almost to o good, as
Feel
What I Understood:
their cleverness puts over a feeling Memoirs and images of Hambrick
of slickness which tends to make as Easy Rider (without blood­
the whole thing a little distant and shed) and “ Where he used to be
not as warm as it could have been. before” . From the tinkly “ Arm­
I A in ’t Never Seen A White strong” guitar intro to the simple
Man: Peace and goodwill overstat­ base beat this song never pretends
ed to the point where it all tends to be more than an evocation of
to stick in the throat somewhat. memories.
The only dud on the album. A
While Hambrick’s images didnt
w orthy song, of great tolerance make me do handstands (and get
tangled in my earphones) his
thoughts did make me think up
corresponding memories of my
own. They will for you too.
The Land: A song to his land —
as distinct from a song to his
country. It reminds me in outlook
of Johnny Cash’s beautiful Me
And Tennessee. It’s pretty much a
tribute to the guy’s heritage (be­
fore Hamlyn changed its mean­
ing). The pride never becomes
heavy, and patriotism never in­
trudes. A song to sit back and
dream along with.
Purple Haze Under The Moon:
A “ Pity-the-Indians” so n g . . .
something very fashionable these
days. A sad look at the past,
together with personal sadnesses.
An unusual com bination of the
American Indian bad dream with
his own regrets. The parallels
work, and the end result is both
involving and memorable.
Courage Dignity A nd Grace:
An absolute turkey of a title for a
very beautiful song. A mother
song, but w ithout the violins, the
hearts-and-flowers or the Slim
Whitman smarminess. You’d have
to hear the song to appreciate
how well it works. The clean
simplicity of the instrum entals
helps too.
A fter The Song: Powerful
sensory-appeal lyrics that could
only have been bettered by Ray
Bradbury’s adjectival fantasies.
Take the opening line:
Smell o f h o t black land
Cooled by a rain
S o ft country Sunday
It's morning again.
None of your “ I love a sun­
burnt country” bathos here. Ham­
brick gives you his feelings
straight from th e shoulder. The
song is nicely filled out with a
Leon Russell type chorus and
some of the cleanest dobro I’ve
ever heard (could it be an
anonymous Mike Auldridge?).
Great stuff.
Go pester your record shop.
AND REW OTES
One-hit-wonder makes comeback
D RIFT A W A Y : Dobie Gray (Astor).
EMEMBER way back in the
mid 60s: The in crowd by
Dobie Gray? " I ’m in with the in
crowd, I go where the in crowd
go” - the ultim ate smug disco
song. Well, Dobie Gray is back
and with his album Drift away he
lays dead any one-hit-wonder
image he may have collected on
the way.
With only tw o exceptions the
songs are w ritten by Mentor Wil­
liams, Troy Seals, Don Goodman,
Will Jennings and Donnie Fritts —
musicians backing Gray on this
Nashville produced album — and
the total involvement of vocalist/
songwriter/producer/musicians re­
sults in a cohesion often lacking in
solo albums - no detached session
musicians here.
Producer Mentor Williams pro­
vides the title song Drift away, a
gentle classic which Gray controls
with strength and sincerity. With
lines like:
Day after day I ’m more confused
Y et I lo o k for the light through
the pourin’ rain
R
You kn o w that's a game that I rock songs, with some excellent beat and its “ Bright lights big
and varied backings from the city ” lyrics, is the only song on the
hate to lose
A nd I'm feelin' the strain, aint it a band, utilising banjo, steel guitar, album w ritten by Dobie Gray.
shame
orchestral backing: whatever best With so much excellent material
. . . Give me the beat boys and sets the m ood for the song. Yet w ritten for him, it’s good to see
the overall feeling is one of har­ Gray is able to resist the tem pta­
free m y soul
I want to get lost in yo u r rock and m ony; although no “ concept al­ tion to stack the album with his
b um ” , each song seems to lead to own compositions. Instead we
roll
A nd drift away.
the next in an easy flowing way. seem to get the pick o f the bunch,
It casually sums up the im por­
The affairs m entioned are dealt a fast moving song which slots
tance of rock and roll. A very with mainly in the ballads. We had straight into the mood of the
successful single for Gray in the it all is a sad, sweet song marking album.
The title o f the song Lay back
US, it’s the sort of song that the passing o f love and holding
soothes, sympathises and demands dear the memories it left. Gray’s says as much about the album as
to be played again and again. If voice wrings the best from the about that one track. The fusion
need be, Drift away alone would ballads, and in Sw eet lovin’ wo­ of Nashville and pop/rock (Gray
justify this album.
man he uses pauses to marked was only the third black man to
Happily however, it does not effect, emphasising some delicate appear at the Grand Ole Opry
have to. The contents o f the songs sensitive phrasing.
Show in Nashville, where, accord­
on the album deal mainly with
Rocking chair, w ritten by Don­ ing to Rolling stone he was con­
times past — a nostalgic b u t rarely ald Lewis Dunn, has a similar gratulated by a fan with: “ You
were pure nigger honey, and I love
sentimental look at old loves and message to Drift away.
a rock and roll past which could I ’d lay back swaying in the middle you.” ) that permeates the album
well be Gray’s own; he sings as if
o f the day
is always laid back, forceful
from personal experince. The spir­ So hard for me to get up and play. enough to make itself felt, but
it of the album, however, is that of It rocks along, sifting through never overstated.
Drift away - a testimonial to the memories, but holding firmly to
Eddie's song, the final track, is
cure-all rock and roll. If it hurts, the escapist ideal.
one o f the most striking songs on
sing it, and when Dobie Gray R o ck on, rocking chair
the album and adds more to the
does, everybody benefits.
Rocking chair, rock m e away to a testimonial on rock and roll. It
dream or two.
The songs are actually a varied
tells of a meeting between two
lot, from soft ballads to raunchy
City stars, with its chicka chicka musicians who “used to have a
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road band back in ’59”.
We all rode together in that old
Ford sedan
When me and you and Beau and
Bill, had that little band.
Now, didnt we play some rock
and some roll
Sometimes I still feel it down in
m y soul
You know I’d do about anything
to do it all again,
Do you think w e’ll ever . . . ever
find those times again.
The backing m ounts with the
desperation of the lyrics and a
piano plays wildly in the back­
ground above Gray’s soaring final
line.
There is not a bad or mediocre
track on the whole album. It’s so
nice to pick up an album on
which ten out of 11 tracks are
unfamiliar, and not have to spend
weeks “ getting into it” . Drift
away demands no intense involve­
ment or commitment. I t’s simply
one of the most pleasant and
enjoyable records we are likely to
hear for some time. All you have
to do is listen to it, and drift
away.
MUSIC
COLIN JAMES
AST WEEK the Federation
of Australian Broadcasting
Stations warned radio stations not
to play three tracks o f lariel's
latest album.
According to the federation
this was prom pted by a warning
issued by the Broadcast Control
Board because o f “lyrical con­
te n t” . Two days later this was
denied by the president of the
federation, Les Hyde (also a
director of radio 3KZ), who said
that the ban had been initiated
not by the board, b u t by a
L
m ember station of the federation.
This was not the first trouble
the group has had with the radio
stations over the record. Several
weeks ago, while performing the
album live on radio 3XY, they
were snapped off the airwaves
when they started to play one of
the banned numbers, Chicken
shit.
Apparently there was a misun­
derstanding because the band was
under the impression th at they
could perform the num ber on the
live air show, and the station was
under the impression th at the
band knew they couldnt.
Following the ban Bob Beck,
3XY’s manager, said th at none of
the three tracks had ever been
included on XY’s playlist. He
went on saying that
the station
had received the recommendation
(from the board) when the album
was released early this m onth and
that, frankly, he supported the
ban.
There is some feeling in the
music business, th at frankly, it
was his station that initiated the
ban.
According to Mike Rudd of
Ariel, the album had been played
on XY’s album show that goes to
air on Sunday nights. Two of the
banned tracks, Confession o f a
psychopathic cowpoke and Mir­
acle man were played, b u t the DJ,
John O ’Donnell, shied clear of
Chicken shit.
Those two tracks have also
been played w ith some regularity
on Adelaide’s progressive 5KA
and neither station has
yet received a complaint.
According to Mr Cross
(director of
Member Services
o f the
Australian Broadcasting Federa­
tion), the federation has not
completely banned the songs. He
is quoted in the Melbourne Age as
saying:
“ We have suggested to radio
stations throughout Australia that
they restrict the playing of these
tracks. If they broadcast them, we
will write and remind them of our
suggestions. If air play continues
the control board is entitled to
apply sanctions against the sta­
tions.”
As there has been no directive
from the control board this means
the radio stations are censoring
themselves under the smokescreen
of a “higher directive” .
For Ariel the ban isnt too bad.
The album wasnt getting much
airplay anyway, and the ban will
guarantee it at least another 2000
sales.
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Africa rife with greed,
racism and sexism
in this song for those w ith eyes to
see. Find him if you can and listen;
I can assure you it's worth it.
I should apologise to those who
have written but have not been
answered. Have patience. I have
been even more disorganised than
usual lately. I think about you
often.
S T E V E E L L IS is one of the best of
the singer-songwriters working in
Australia at present. He has a lovely
touch on the guitar, and his songs
are strongest when he sings them
himself.
If any of you can tear yourself
away from your stereo systems, he
can be found either in Melbourne
or Perth, a state of affairs explained
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STU HAWK
FRICAAAAAA. Sort of
hangs round that Colgate
ring o f confidence, dont it. Steve
J. Spears, relatively unknown gen­
ius, who has been paying his dues
in 23 year instalments, has written
and is ab o u t to present Africa,
with grateful thanks, encourage­
ment and foresight from the Aus­
tralian Performing Group. This his
latest attem pt at theatrical leg­
erdemain.
Magic. An uncanniness about
Spears’ materials - though basi­
cally basic and simple — it gets off
with th e wave o f a magic
penwand. Enough of fairy tales.
So far Steve J. has w ritten three
complete stage works, apart from
innumerable scripts, sketches and
the like for fragmentary revues
and other playthings. His first,
Mister horse, a dope panto is to be
presented by Rex Cramphorne at
the Jane Street theatre in about
june. He achieved a degree of
p r a i se/recognition/notoriety/infamy with his ill fated Stud.
Africa is an anti racist, anti
sexist num ber - to describe it in
its u tter skeleton superficiality.
It’s an acoustic musical event of a
surrealistic nature. Its them e is
handled via a dozen songs and
numerous wry revue type scenes
involving intellectual destruction,
racial propaganda and the like. It’s
a step up the theatrical formula
ladder in th e extent of its fluidity.
The form, for lack of a better
description, is unstructured, mov­
ing from song to racial supremacy
spiels to a bigoted fairy tale.
A cast of eight plays 24 roles,
and provides the music with the
help o f a couple of instrumental
specialists. Lines are drawn be­
tween “th e situation” in Australia
and South Africa. For instance,
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the people in the play are white
actors/performers playing blacks
pretending to be whites, so that
even where a "w hite” folk singer
enumerates the attributes of
black girls in a highly sexist way
it’s really a black man adopting
the mores of a white culture.
Read that again! Africa is a black
comedy in many senses. By pres­
enting white greed, racism, educa­
tion, sexism and political police in
their m ost brutally blatant cliched
form the ludicrous expose is pain­
fully obvious.
It opened last Friday at the
Pram Factory, Carlton as a late
night show, starting about ten 4nd
a half bells.
If it is as successful as it de­
serves/anticipates, a Sydney sea­
son should not be far after. Lind­
say Smith, directs the all star cast.
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here
A nd / always blow the same way.
Your love is like the feather cast upon
m y back to play
Always dancing, dancing, dance away.
But like the ice in m y glass,
You are cold, but you can't last
Melted heart, melted soul,
Melted love fills m y bowl.
Hello gentle lady I've seen you from afar
A nd I can't decide for certain you are
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really what you are.
For I've only seen your shadow backing
up against the sun
A nd / nearly missed the colors, the greens
to blue and the reds that run.
You can walk behind, babe, / w ill walk
before
You can leave by the window, / w ill leave
by the door.
Thrown together, torn apart, it a ll ends,
it only starts,
Crystal dear and undefined are all the
same
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DEVELOPED AUSTRALIA [T I R
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sahasrara
(you've made
it)
Sound power from
word chanting
pineal
aland
(slightly lower
down)
[Roadm aps to the Soul
jwhere the serpents
meet..
ROSS HILL
N THE beginning was the
word, so they say, anyway
they're powerful things even if
they didnt come first. The Hare
Krishna crew p u t m ost people off
the idea o f chanting, they all look
so pasty and shaven heads clash
with Western eyebrows.
But the Indians have been
chanting it for tim e immemorial.
It has been said that there are
holy places in India where the
Hare Krishna m antra (or prayer or
chant or magical spell, depending
on your suburb) has been chanted
non stop for many thousands of
years and th a t’s a groove, power­
ful waves.
From my own experience the
choir o f the mind starts up faith­
fully if you chant this m antra to
yourself. It’s no different from
rehearsing a song or a m elody in
your head except that the repeti­
tion builds up the strength of the
pattern inside and outside and this
gives a m antra trem endous power
when you consider how long i t ’s
been on the Far East and Middle
Eastern Top Forties.
I t’s a question o f identification
and projection, assuming you be­
lieve in perfect masters or gurus or
divine reincarnations or just be­
ings that are higher than you. I
mean you can be cynical if you
want to, b u t once y o u ’ve made
contact with a man or woman o f
knowledge you can’t give thought
and logic the prime position any
more. “I think therefore I a m "
isnt true and the Western counter­
culture has inherited this distrust
of the rational mind, or more
precisely has come to see its lim­
itations. Dylan and Ginsberg and
Kerouac have preached it; hal­
lucinogens, music, dancing, med­
itation and chanting, all try to
transcend the vicious circles that
thinking too much has worn down
into our heads.
Chanting, w ith its connection
to poetry and music, is one of the
quickest safest and most access­
ible ways of doing it. You can do
it anywhere, because it goes on in
the m ind’s ear, unlike the Krishna
crew it doesnt antagonise, and
unlike the Cabbala and Western
magic it isnt confusing and over­
burdened with unending theosophical scholarship which to my
mind falls into the same trap it
proposes to save one from.
Everyone knows the power of
words, the power their meaning
has is one aspect, the power the
sound has is another. (If you
doubt what I’m saying try scream­
ing fuck in Mitchell library.) And
so sounds connect with musical
notes and these connect with col­
ors and these connect with
symbols and these connect with
particular centres or areas of the
body. The knowledge of these
correspondences is one path, I’m
n o t saying it’s the best or the only
one, the Tao te Ching does w ith­
o u t it and so does Don Juan in his
teachings, b u t you can get very
high on it.
The centres in the body are the
base o f the spine, the' genital
region, the navel region, the heart,
her usual dawn mouthwash under the throat, the third eye and the
a coconut tree in the compound very to p of the head. The corres­
of her house when, w ithout warn­ ponding seed syllables are lam,
ing, the Swami-to-be popped out vam, ram, yam, ham and ora, the
and, with agility that is rare on last centre at the very top o f the
such occasions, managed to fall head is beyond mantra or if it hip
a mantra it’s still a secret for me.
into a water basin. (This surely has
I t’s all a question o f vibrations,
great promise for future nativity
of sending good vibes into your
re-enactment scenes).
Swami’s first 15 years of life body. Some people worry too
were relatively normal. Then he much, some talk too much, some
left home and, in the traditional fuck to o much, some shit too
manner wandered on foot through much, some control too much. Or
the opposite: everyone’s out of
India seeking holy places etc.
He found “ inner peace and balance, th a t’s the curse of life,
tranquility” when he met Bhag- the karma. Once you start m ed­
avan N ityananda at Ganeshpuri, itating, searching within, you soon
near Bombay, in 1947. He settled discover the physical hangups at Ganeshpuri and has established Wilhelm Reich was very into this.
The tension areas, the tight
there his now famous Shree Gurarse and the tense stomach, the
dev Ashram.
bowed shoulders and the turkey
DATES AND VENUES
m outh and throat. I t’s that mix
Perth, march 1 - march 7
up in natural functions that is the
Melbourne, march 8 - march tragedy of madness. We use talk
28
to control not to communicate;
Hobart, march 28 — april 1 we eat instead of making love;
Melbourne, april 1 — april 7 some make love with their minds
not their hearts; some think with
Sydney, april 7 - april 20
their cocks and cunts instead of
April 20 — Departs for H ono-i their head.
lulu.
So, if you know your stomach
Public lectures will be given at
is too tense Ram to yourself (the
assembly halls, union theatres,
“A ” is soft in all of them and the
etc, but arrangements for these
“M” is hummed and drawn out.
have yet to be finalised.
The main thinq is to release the
tension by dissolving the anxiety,
creating thought patterns. This
process goes hand in hand with
doing yoga postures, good eating,
dope smoking, music and dancing.
I t’s all a m atter of getting the flow
along the spine, o f releasing en-
I
energy twists
up tne spinal
column.
the various
centres.
opening’
| Corresponding mandala symbols.
root
genitals navel
heart
throat brow I top o f head
yellow square - earth
blue circle - water
inverted equilateral triangle, red - fire
star o f david - air
crescent moon - ether (beyond the atmosphere)
white circle, OM in centre
- white triangle with centre spot
Swami M uktananda is
coming
to town
F YOU’RE disenchanted
with your present guru,
interested in pursuing spiritual de­
velopment, or just curious to dis­
cover what a guru’s all about, it
could be worth your while to visit
Swami M uktananda Paramahansa.
Swami M uktananda will be vis­
iting Australia from march 1 to
april 20. This will be his second
visit to Australia. The first, three
years ago, was with Richard Alpert who introduced the Swami to
audiences.
Briefly, the Swami, an adept
master o f Siddha Yoga, stresses
the practical aspect of spiritual
endeavour rather than the theoret­
ical. By awakening divine con­
sciousness through means of Shaktipat initiation the Swami main­
tains th a t he can show you how to
reach the ultim ate spiritual dev­
elopm ent of your inner self, even
though your outer self is contain­
ed in non-harmonious surround­
ings, and busy pursuing the mun­
dane chores of everyday life. Con­
sequently th e Swami attracts as
devotees not only the counter
culture riff-raff but also the more
ordinary folk, laborers, etc.
The Swami was born near Man­
galore on may 16, 1908, to rich
parents under “ unusual circum­
stances” . His m other was having
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ergy that is blocked in the centres.
People often freak out because
they release powers within them ­
selves w ithout knowing w hat’s go­
ing on, and it’s scarey (acid is the
most heavy in this respect) be­
cause, as with m ost endeavors it
can backfire, you can go so far as
to become unbalanced in another
way (hence schizophrenia and *
asylums).
So if you try to use mantras to
gain powers to feed the ego you
slip into black magic and mind
games, or take part in sex trips
and power trips. But, fortunately i
for the soul, black magic soon
boomerangs and knowledge finds
truth aqain.
The seed syllables also corre­
spond to the elements, starting
with earth, water, fire, air and
ether. They also have correspond­
ing gods and goddesses (you may
have seen Indian posters of them )
and special mandalas are used as
well; these geometric drawings or
paintings — some simple, some
truly masterpieces - are used to
“fix ” the eyes while the initiate is
chanting whatever m antra h e’s in­
to.
Mantras also connect up with
breathing. The m antra I was given
for this is called so-ham - so (or
sa, the “ A” slides) breathing in,
ham breathing out. This has a very
calming and deepening effect on
the breathing because you can set
both the sound and breathing
rhythms together. I t’s also a very
high mantra because it works on
the throat centre (a very repressed
area in the Australian psyche).
This area is responsible both for
our outer and inner voice and
audioclairvoyance, the voice of
God.
Getting back to black magic
for a second, if you are doubtful
about working on the centres be­
low the belt then leave them alone
and concentrate on the heart,
throat and brow. The root centre
is concerned with sheer survival life and death - and it can be very
dangerous to awaken this centre
prematurely. (I'm sure m any sui­
cides - particularly where drugs
are Involved — are the result of
forces being awakened in these
lower areas w ithout the necessary
training and experience to accept
them into the conscious mind —
madness and schizophrenia again.)
If these centres are awakened the
person involved can be obsessed
with images and thoughts about
death, murder, sex or power to
such an extent that he is quite
literally possessed by demonic
forces or spirits or hallucinations
or schizophrenia depending on
what way you see it.
The crux of the m atter is to try
it for yourself. I’m into it because
I know I’m neurotic and “sounds”
seem to help. It grew on me:
many times I’d try something like
chanting ram w ithout knowing all
its correspondences or which part
of the body it affected. I was just
so tired of my mind th at to have
something going on inside me
which wasnt an argument or bitch
or a justification. It was sweet
relief. I hope it works that way
for you.
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tw o guys. O w n room s. $ 1 2 .5 0 . 74
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EXPERIMENTAL
“ N IA G G R A ” :
8 .3 0 .
Chris & Eva 51.9563 or
51.8214, write Flat 8, No 7
Irving Ave., Windsor, 3181.
La
M am a ,
RADIO
“ T H E P R IS O N ” — a p la y
b y N o r m a n S m y th e : 3 A R
7 .3 0 .
KIDS
5 51
N ic h o ls o n
N o r th C a rlto n .
ROCK
P A N T H E R : P r o s p e c t H ill
h o te l, K ew .
S K Y L IG H T : C r o x to n P a rk
h o te l, P r e s to n .
JAZZ
f r a n k
t r a y n o r
,
B e a u m a ris h o te l.
FOLK
FILMS
PETER
P A R K H IL L :
F ran k
T r a y n o r ’s,
L ittle
L o n s d a le s tr e e t. C ity .
C O M M U N E : 5 8 0 V ic to ria
s tr e e t , N o r th M e lb o u rn e .
P E T U L I A ” (D ic k L e s te r),
‘LAST
YEAR
IN
M A R IE N B A D ” (R e s n a is ):
G u ild th e a tr e , M e lb o u rn e .
U n i. U n io n , $ 1 .2 0 , 8 0 c s t u ­
d e n ts , a t th e d o o r , 7 .4 0 .
FILMS
“ TA RG ETS”
(B o g d a n o ­
v ic h )
& “ TW O
LANE
B L A C K T O P ” (M o n te H eil­
m a n ): N F T A , G u ild t h e ­
a tre ,
M e lb o u r n e
U n i.
U n io n , t i c k e ts o b ta in a b le
( $ 1 . 20 , 8 0 c s tu d e n ts ) a t
th e a t r e , 7 .4 0 .
OUTDOORS
“ M OZART
C L A R IN E T
Q U IN T E T ” ,
C ham ber
M u sic E n s e m b le : F la g s ta ff
g a rd e n s, 1 2 . 1 0 , 1 . 10 .
“ OLD
T IM E
M U S IC
H A L L ”,
B a rb e r
Shop
Q u a r te ts , B u x o m W en c h e s,
R e d n o s e d c o m e d ia n s , e tc :
T r e a s u ry g a rd e n s, 1 2 .1 0 ,
1 . 10 .
TV
“ IS R A E L
MY
SO N ” :
A T V -O , 7 .3 0 .
“ W IL D L IF E S A F A R I TO
A R G E N T IN E ” : A B V -2 , 8
p m . ( S tu d y o f P a n ta g o n ia n
h a re s a n d sea e le p h a n ts .)
RADIO
“ C H IN A ” ,
3A R ,
1 0 .1 5
ROCK
OUTDOOR
“ MOZART
C L A R IN E T
Q U IN T E T ” : T r e a s u ry g a r
d e n s, 1 2 . 1 0 , 1 . 10 .
OLD
TIME
M U S IC
H A L L ” : F la g s ta ff G a rd e n s ,
12 . 10 , 1. 10 .
Stephen Wall 698.2652
PO Box 23, Surry Hills.
T im c d a u
FILMS
“ D O U B L E JE A N
HARL O W ” — “ R e d D u s t” w ith
C la rk G a b le , “ D in n e r a t
E i g h t” w ith J o h n B a rry ­
more:
C o m m o n w e a lth
C e n tre , 7 .1 5 p m , $ 1 .2 0 , 80
UNCLE
M ANUELLO
TH E M EN FR O M O U TE R
SPACE” :
M an ly
Silver
S c re e n , 9 7 7 .5 5 0 3 , 1 1 .0 0 ,
2.00 p m ,
“ B E D S IT T IN G R O O M ” :
M an ly
S ilv er
S c re e n ,
9 7 7 .5 5 0 3 , 5 .3 0 , $ .1 5 0 .
JAZZ
“ ECLIPSE
ALLEY
F I V E ” : V a n ity F a ir h o te l,
G o u lb u rn s t, 7 .3 0 , 1 0 .0 0
pm .
“ D O N D E S IL V A S J A Z Z
B A N D ” : O ld P u sh .
“ D IC K H U G H E S P I A N O ” :
F r e n c h ’s T a v e rn , O x fo rd
st, 6 -9 p m .
“ M ER V A C H E SO N JA Z Z
T R I O ” : B is tro , A v o c a st,
R a n d w ick .
“ ABBY
JA Z Z
BAND” :
L o rd D u d le y h o te l, P a d ­
d in g to n , 8-10 p m .
TV
“TH E HALLS OF MON­
TEZUM A”
—
WW
II
d ra m a : A T N 7 , 9 .0 0 p m .
“ GEOFF
S T O NES
W O R L D IN C A M E R A ” :
A B N 2 , 9 .5 5 .
“ CYCLES SO U TH ” — A
m o to r c y c le t o u r a d v e n tu re
fro m D e n v e r to th e P an ­
a m a c a n a l. S o u n d s ju s t
g ro o v y : C h a n n e l 1 0 , 7 .3 0
pm .
GENERAL
“ M EN O F C O U N T R Y ” —
JAZZ
FOLK
“ OW EN
YEATM AN”:
P r o s p e c t H ill h o te l.
“ FR A N K
TRAYNOR”:
E x c h a n g e h o te l, C h e lte n ­
ham .
“ F O R R E S T
HILL
F O L K ” : P o la ris In n h o te l,
N ic h o ls o n
s tr e e t .
N o rth
C a r lto n .
“ D A N N Y SP O O N E R ” and
o th e r s : O u tp o s t In n , 5 2
C o llin s s tr e e t . C ity .
“ PHIL
DAY,
PETER
P A R K H IL L ” a n d g u e s t:
U n io n h o t e l , c n r F e n w ic k
a n d A m e ss s tr e e ts . N o rth
C a r lto n .
VARIOUS
A R T IS T S :
F ra n k T ray n o rs.
MEETINGS
“ Is E x is te n tia lis m A n a rc h ­
is tic , N ih ilis tic , In d iv id u a l­
BARBRA
S T R E IS A N D is tic ? ” E x is te n tia lis t S o c .,
a n d o th e r m u s ic a l in s tr u ­ G r a d u a te s
L o u n g e , M el­
m e n ts : H S V -7 , 7 .3 0 .
b o u r n e U n i U n io n , 8 p m ,
“ FARENHEIT
4 5 1 ’ ’: in q u ir ie s
D a v id
M iller;
G TV 9, 9 pm .
7 5 8 .5 7 9 4 .
TV
RADIO
“ P IC K O F T H E G O O N S ” :
3LO , 8 pm .
“ C H IN A ” : 3 A R , 1 0 .1 5 .
“ M E D IE V A L
S P A N IS H
M U S IC ” : 3 A R , 1 1 .1 0 p m
ItuiKday
ROCK
“ B IL L Y T H O R P E A N D
T H E A Z T E C S ” , F a t C ats:
W h ite h o rs e h o te l, N u n a ­
w a d in g .
“ RED
H O U SE
ROLL
BAND” :
C r o x to n
P a rk
h o te l, P re s to n .
“ M IS S IS S IP P I,
TANK” :
W altzin g M a tild a , S p rin g
vale.
“ K U S H ’’:
Sundow ner
h o te l, G e e lo n g .
“ CLOUD
9 ” : G ro v e d a le
h o te l, G e elo n g .
“ C H A IN ” : M a tth e w F lin d ­
e rs h o te l, C h a d s to n e .
“ C L O U D 9 ” : W h ite h o rs e
h o te l,
W h ite h o rs e
ro a d ,
N u n a w a d in g .
“ K U S H ” : C ro x to n
P a rk
h o te l, P r e s to n .
“ RED
HO U SE
ROLL
B A N D ” S u n d o w n e r, G ee­
FOLK
lo n g .
JO H N C R & W L E” : F ran k
“ S K Y L IG H T ” :
P ro s p e c t T ra y n o r§ .
H ill h o te l, K ew .
VARIOUS
ARTISTS:
T a n k e rv iU e
A rm s ,
cnr
FOLK
N ic h o ls o n
and
Jo h n so n
“ DUTCH
T I L D E R S ” : s tr e e ts , C a rlto n .
F r a n k T r a y n o r ’s
G E O F F a n d D IA N E H O L “ F O R R E S T
HILL L I N S ,
G R A H A M
F O L K ” : P o la ris In n h o te l. L O W N D E S a n d o n e o th e r :
SYDNEY
D a n O ’C o n n e ll, c n r P rin ­
c ess a n d C a n n in g s tr e e ts ,
C a r lto n .
TV
“ S H E R B E T ” : G T K ’7 4 ,
A B V -2 , 7 .3 0 .
“ E L V IR A
M A D IG A N ” :
A T V -0 , 8 .3 0 p m .
“ M ONTY
P Y T H O N ’S
FLYING
C IR C U S ” :
A B V -2 , 1 0 .1 5 .
RADIO
‘C H IN A ” : 3 A R , 1 0 .1 5 .
friday
ROCK
“ B IG P U S H ” : W h ite h o rs e
h o te l, N u n a w a d in g .
“ JO H N
RU PERT
AND TH E H ENCHM EN” :
C r o x to n P a rk h o te l, P re s ­
to n .
“ C H A IN ’’:
Sundow ner
h o te l, G e e lo n g .
“TANK,
RED
HO U SE
DOLL
BAND” :
I n te r ­
n a tio n a l
h o te l.
A ir p o r t
W est.
“ M IS S IS S IP P I” : M a tth e w
F lin d e r s h o te l, C h a d s to n e .
“ F O X , C H A IN ” : T e a se r,
3 55
E x h i b itio n
s tr e e t .
C ity .
“ K U S H ” : L in c o ln r o o m ,
T r a k C e n tre , 4 4 5 T o o r a k
ro a d , T o o rak .
C o u n try a n d w e s te rn m u ­ T R I O ” p lu s g u e s ts : B ellvue
s ic :
Opera
H o u s e , h o te l, P a d d in g to n , 7 .0 0 —
2 1 1 .2 6 4 6 , 8 .0 0 p m $ 4 .0 0 .
ROCK
(S e e “ M u sic ” th is issu e.) 10 00
“ H O M E ” : D e n n is o n h o te l, “ H O M E ” : D e n n is o n h o te l,
B o n d i jn c t.
B o n d i J u n c ti o n .
“ T H E M A G IC F L U T E ” — “ M A G IC ” : M ille rs B rig h t­
M o z a rt: O p e ra H o u se , 8 .0 0 o n h o t e l , a ll w e e k e x c e p t
p m , $ 7 .5 0 , $ 2 .5 0 .
s u n d a y , m o n d a y , tu e s d a y .
TV, RADIO
“ B O RN TO BE SM A R T ”
— D o co o n d w a rfs an d
m id g e ts : A T N -7 , 1 0 .0 0 .
“ S IT Y O U R S E L F D O W N ,
TAKE
A
LOOK
FILMS
A R O U N D ” — F o lk / r o c k
“ A C O N C E R T F O R B A N ­ w ith
M aria n H e n d e r s o n ,
G L A D E S H ” : O p e ra H o u se , M ike M cC le lla n e t a l: A B N $ 2 .5 0 .
2, 8 .4 5 .
“ T H E C O SM IC T U B E ” — “ B R IA N C A D D & F A M ­
S u rfin g w ith N a t Y o u n g , IL Y ” : A B N -2 , 8 .0 0 p m .
G re e n o u g h , S p e n c e r : O p e ra “ E N C O R E : T H E P A R A ­
H o u se , 5 .0 0 p m , $ 2 .0 0 , all D O X — A p la y a b o u t O sc a r
w e e k e x c e p t S u n d a y , m o n - W ilde a n d h is s e x u a lity :
day.
A B C R a d io , 1 1 ,0 0 a m .
“ S U N S H IN E S E A ” m o re
su rfin g : O p e ra H o u se , 7 .0 0
EVENTS
p m , $ 2 .5 0 , a ll w e e k e x c e p t
R E A D IN G S ” :
th u r s d a y , s u n d a y , m o n d a y . “ P O E T R Y
‘‘T H E
QUEEN
O F O ld C h u rc h , 1 8 4 P a lm e r
s
tr
e
e
t
,
E
a
st
Sydney,
S P A D E S ” — F ilm b y B o l­
s h o i th e a tr e : O p e ra H o u se , 3 1 .6 2 7 0 , 8 .0 0 p m , fre e .
“ P R E S ID E N T
A C T IO N 8 .1 5 . $ 3 .0 0 .
“ SW A N L A K E ” — L e n in ­ G R O U P S — A ld e rm a n D ra ­
p
e
r,
A
L
P
le
a
d
e
r
in
Sydney
g ra d K iro v B a lle t: O p e ra
H o u se , 5 p m , $ 2 .0 0 , $ 1 .0 0 c ity c o u n c il la y s i t o n y a :
H u m a n is t H o u s e , 1 0 S h e p ­
c h ild re n .
“ B E D S IT T IN G R O O M ” — h e rd s tr e e t , C h ip p e n d a le ,
M anly
S ilver
S c re e n , 7 .4 5 , 2 1 .2 0 3 8 , free .
9 7 7 .5 5 0 3 , 5 .3 0 , $ 1 .5 0 .
FOLK
“ FO LK
EXTRA V A G A N ­
Z A ” — D a rts K e z im o c u m ,
D. & A . R y d e r , T . S u tta r ,
e tc : E liz a b e th h o te l, E liza ­
b e th s tre e t, 8 p m , a m e re
p itta n c e .
“ T R A D IT IO N A L F O L K ” :
E liz a b e th h o te l, 2 6 .3 1 3 2 .
JAZZ
“ D IC K H U G H E S Q U A R ­
T E T ” : S ta g e D o o r T a v e rn ,
C astle re a g h
& C a m p b e ll
s tre e ts , C itv , 7 .0 0 — 1 0 .0 0 .
“ C H R IS T A P P E R A C A N D
P A U L F U R N IS S ” : F o r e s t
L o d g e h o te l, 7 .3 0 — 1 0 .0 0 .
“ 6 9 E R S ” : O c e a n ic h o te l
“ MERV
ACHESON
ftUUMbg
FOLK
V A R IO U S A R T IS T S : T h e
O u tp o s t In n , F r a n k T r a y ­
n o rs a n d th e D a n O ’C o n ­
n e lls, a rv o . T h e y a re s till o n
h o lid a y in m in d b u t th e re
in b o d y .
JAZZ
JAZZ
“ B R IA N
B RO W N
QUARTET” :
C om m une,
V ic to ria s tr e e t. N o r th M el­
b o u rn e .
“ Y A R R A Y A R R A JA Z Z
BAND” :
P ro sp ect
H ill
h o te l, K ew .
“ D A V E R A N K IN J A Z Z
BAND”:
L em on
T re e
h o te l, c n r G r a tta n a n d
R a t h d o w n e s tr e e ts , C a rl­
to n , a rv o .
“THE
P L A N T ” : P o la ris
In n , N ic h o ls o n s tr e e t, C a rl­
to n .
TV
IN C O N C E R T — “ U R IA H
HEEP, CANNED HEAT,
MOTT
th e
H O O PLE,
SHAUN
PHILLIPS:
H S V -7 , 1 0 p m .
“ CAFE
S O C IE T Y ” :
G T V -9 , 1 2 .0 5 a m .
Saturday
ROCK
“ C L O U D 9 ” : W h ite h o rs e
h o te l.
“ B IG
PU SH ” :
C ro x to n
P a rk , P re s to n .
“ F A T C A T S ” : S u n d o w n e r,
G e e lo n g .
“ C H A IN ” : S o u th s id e
6,
M o o ra b b in (a ft) .
“ B U S T E R B R O W N ” : S ta ­
tio n h o te l, P ra h ra n .
“ C H A I N ” : S o u th s id e
6,
C h e lse a C ity H all.
“ BAYENA,
M ADDER
L A K E ” : T e a z e r , 3 5 5 E x h i­
b itio n s tr e e t , C ity .
“ HOT
CITY
BUMP
CHINESE FILMS
“ T H E P E K IN G a n d S H E N YUNG
ACROBATIC
TRO O PS” , “ 2100
OLD
TOMB
EXCAVATED”,
“ BU M PER
H A RV EST” ,
“ C H IN A T O D A Y ” , 1 9 7 3 ”
p a r t s 4 , 5 , 6 : P r e s e n te d b y
th e S tu d e n ts C h in e se C u l­
tu r a l C lu b , G u ild th e a tr e ,
M e lb o u r n e U n i, U n io n , $ 1 .
(B o o k in g s :
3 2 9 .6 7 2 6
or
2 1 1 .8 7 2 0 ) , 2 p m a n d 8
pm .
RADIO
“JA V A N E S E
S IC ” : 3 A R ,
G e n tle m u sic .
FOLK
1 1 .1 0
MU­
pm .
Sunday
ROCK
“ AZTECS,
COLORED
BALLS, M ADDER LAK E,
RED
HOUSE
ROLL
BAND, M ATT T A Y L O R ” :
M o o ra b b in D riv e -in , a rv o .
T I O N ” — N o . 3 , R o m a n c e lip s t. C ity . 8 .1 5 p m , $ 1 .5 0 .
and
R e a lity ,
N SW A rt
G a lle ry T h e a tr e tte , 1 2 .1 0 ,
JAZZ
1 .1 0 , 2 .1 0 , 3 .1 0 , 6 .1 0 ,
C H R IS W IL L IA M S : U n i t y ’
7 .1 0 , 8 .1 5 . F re e .
H all H o te l, 8 2 1 3 3 1 , 7 .3 0 .
J A Z Z B O A T — R a y P ric e
JAZZ
Q u in te t:
N o . 6 W h arf,
PORT
JA C K S O N
JA Z Z C i r c u l a r
Q u a y ,
B A N D : S ta g e D o o r T a v e rn , 8 .1 5 —1 1 .3 0 p m . $ 2 .7 5 .
7 .0 0 —1 0 .0 0 .
D O C W IL L IS A N D T H E
U N IT Y B A N D : O ld P u sh , D U K E ’S M E N : A lb u r y H o ­
8—1 2p m .
te l,
O x fo rd
s t.
C ity .'
8—1 0 . 00 p m .
FOLK
U N IT Y B A N D : O ld P u sh ,
R E D L IO N : A u s t, S c o t, 8 .3 0 —1 2 .3 0 .
Ir is h , C o u n tr y m u s ic . C n r. J A Z Z W IT H E R IC C H IL D :
R a d i o
1,
P itt
&
L iv e rp o o l
s ts ., A B C
7 .1 5 —lO .p m .
8— 1 0 p m .
ROCK
FOLK
G T K ’7 4 — R o c k C o n c e rt
w ith
S h e r b e r t:
A BN 2,
7 .3 0 p m .
6 9 E R S : O c e a n ic H o te l.
T R A D IT IO N A L
F O L K :E liz a b e th h o te l, 2 6 .3 1 3 2 .
D O N M O R R IS O N : F r e u d ­
ia n
Slip,
R ed fern ,
6 9 .9 1 7 3 6 , 7 .0 0 p m .
R E D L IO N : see th u r s d a y .
N O E L G R A N T — F o lk
g u ita r : S w e e t F a n n ie s W ine
B ar, 4 4 1 E liz a b e th s t, S u r­
r y H ills.
JO A N B A EZ: R A S Show g ro u n d , 8p m . $ 3 .2 0 .
C E L L A R F O L K : YW CA,
189
L iv e r p o o l s t. C ity .
8. 00 p m .
EVENTS
F O O D C O -O P : NSW U n i,
R o u n d h o u s e L a w n ( F r u it,
veg, d r y g o o d s ), 5—8p m .
O PEN TH E A TR E W ORK­
SH O P:
O ld
C h u rc h ,
3 1 .6 2 7 0 . 7 .3 0 p m , F re e .
Friday
FILM
D O U B L E F R IT Z L A N G —
“ S I E G F R I E D ” a n d “ K R IE M A IL D E ’S R E V E N G E ” :
FILM
N FT,
AMP
T h e a tr e ,
“ B IL L
OF
D IV O R C E ­ 7 .1 5 p m , $ 1 .2 0 , $ 8 0 c . stu .
M EN T” and “ W OMAN O F “ M ARA T DE SA D E ” and
T H E Y E A R ” — B o th w ith “ S A T Y R IC O N ” :
N ew
K a th a r in e H e p b u r n , N F T ,
A rts ,
G le b e ,
6606207,
C o m m o n w e a lth
C e n tre , 1 1 .1 5 p m , $ 2 .0 0 .
7 .1 5 , $ 1 .2 0 , $ 8 0 c . s tu .
“ I C A N JU M P P U D D L E S ”
THEATRE
— M an ly S ilv er S c re e n ■
9 7 .7 5 5 0 3 , 2 .0 0 , all w e e k “ L O V E F O R L O V E ” —
W illiam C o n g re v e : O p e ra
e x c e p t tu e , w ed .
“ B A T M A N ” — M an ly S il­ H o u s e , 6 6 .3 6 1 2 2 , 8 .0 0 p m ,
v e r S c re e n 9 7 7 .5 5 0 3 , 11 $ 5 .5 0 , p e n s io n e rs a n d stu .
a m , 6 0 c . A ll w e e k e x c e p t $ 2 7 5
“ C H A R L E Y ’S A U N T ” —
tu e , w ed .
H a rle q u in
P la y e rs :
S t.
“ SIR
K E N N E T H
J
a m e s P la y h o u s e , 1 6 9 P h il­
CLARK”,
“ C IV IL IS A -
Page 24 — T H E L I V I N G D, Y L IG H T S , january 15-2 , 1974
BAND”
( a f t) ;
“ K U SH ”
(n ig h t) : M a tth e w F lin d e r s
h o te l, C h a d s to n e .
“ S K Y L IG H T ” :
P ro sp ect
H ill h o te l, K ew .
“ SKYLIGHT”:
P o w e r­
h o u s e , L a k e sid e D riv e , A l­
b e r t P a rk re s e rv e .
ROCK
SH ERBET
& P IR A N A :
C u rl C u rl Y o u th
C lu b ,
8 .0 0 p m , $ 1 .4 0 .
“ BAND
OF
L IG H T ” :
C h e q u e rs .
T R A N S IT IO N :
O c e a n ic
H o te l, C o o g e e .
PU M A — C a m p d a n c e :
B a lm a in T o w n H a ll, $ 1 .5 0
m e m b e r s , $ 2.00 n o n -m e m ­
b e rs .
H U S H : C a b r a m a tta H all.
Saturday
FILM
“ C O NC ERT FO R BANG­
L A D E S H ” — O p e ra H o u se ,
9 .0 0 p m , $ 2 .5 0 .
“ C U L D E S A C ” , “ J U L IE T
O F T H E S P I R I T S ” — N ew
“ PUSS
IN
BO OTS” :
A c to rs th e a tr e , m o n -s a t,
2 .3 0 . 7 5 c , $ 1 .5 0 a d u lts ,
1 9 6 C h u rc h s tr e e t, R ic h ­
m ond.
“ RUMPELSTILSKIN” :
A le x a n d e r th e a tr e , M o n a s h
U n i., m u s ic a l, 1 0 a m a n d 2
p m . P h o n e : 5 4 4 .0 8 1 1 .
“ P R O F E S S O R Z I G G L E ’S
TRA V ELS”:
C la re m o n t
‘ ‘ M A C K E N Z I E
t h e a tr e , s a t o n ly , 2 p m ,
T H E O R Y ” : T e a z e r.
C la re m o n t s tre e t, S.Y .
“ M IS S IS S IP P I” : S t A lb a n s. “ A L I B A B A ” : C a m b e rw e ll
“ C H A IN ” : Ic e la n d s
C ivic C e n tre , R e se rv e ro a d ,
C a m b e rw e ll,
1 0 .1 5
a m ,.
FOLK
2 .1 5 p m , s a t: 2 .1 5 o n ly .
“ ESCA PE
FRO M
THE
“ DANNY
SPOONER
J U N G L E ’’
(10
a m) ,
GORDON
M cIN T Y R E ”
“ B L IN K E R S SPY S P O T ­
F r a n k T ra y n o r s .
TERS”
and
“ W IL D E R ­
“ MARGARET
ROAD
N ESS
JO U R N E Y ”
(1 2
K N IG H T ” a n d g u e sts : O u t­ jp o o n ),
“ W H A T ’S
U P,
p o s t In n
D O C ? ” (2 p m ): till fri.
G a la, F o r r e s t H ills.
EXPERIMENTAL “ W H A T ’S U P, D O C ? ”
“ B L IN K E R S
SPY
“ MELBOURNE
N E W (1 0 ) ,
MUSIC
E N S E M B L E ” : S P O T T E R S ” & “ W IL D E R ­
C om m une.
N E S S J O U R N E Y ” (1 2 ) ,
ESCAPE
FRO M
THE
J U N G L E ” (2 ) , G a la , D anOUTDOORS
d
e
n
o
n
g
.
“ GERM AN
F E S T IV A L ”
FRO M
THE
all s ta r c a s t, fe a tu rin g th e “ E S C A P E
L im b u rg e r K a n g a ro o s, th e J U N G L E ” (1 0 ) , “ W H A T ’S
U
P,
D
O
C
?
”
(
1
2
)
,
“
T
HE
E d e lw e is s D a n c e rs , G e rm a n
WHO
TURNED
b a n d s a n d c h o ir, T w ilig h t B O Y
th e a tr e . B rin g y o u o w n Y E L L O W ” & “ W IL D E R ­
N ESS JO U R N E Y ”
(2 ):
f r a n k f u r te r s a n d s a u e rk r a u t
D e n d y , B rig h to n , C h u rc h
F it z r o y g a rd e n s , 3 p m .
s tre e t.
“ ESCAPE
FRO M
THE
FILMS
JU N G L E ”
(1 1 ),
“ THE
“ SIEGFRIED”
( F r i t z B O Y W HO T U R N E D Y E L ­
L a n g ): S ta te F ilm C e n tre , L O W ” & “ W IL D E R N E S S
1 M a c a rth u r s tr e e t , E . M el­ J O U R N E Y ”
(1 .3 0 ):
b o u r n e , 8 .1 5 , s e a s o n tic ­ D e n d y , M alvern, G le n fe rrie
k e ts o n ly , 20-22 s c re e n in g s r o a d , M alvern.
th is y e a r, $ 7 , G u ild o f D e n
ta l S c re e n in g s, o r N F T A ,
27 C an n in g s tr e e t , N . M el­
b o u rn e . 3 0 5 1 .
Hunday
FOLK
“ P H IL D A Y ” : F r a n k T r a y ­
n o rs .
JAZZ
“TED
V IN IN G T R I O ” :
P ro s p e c t H ill, K ew .
POETRY
“ P O O R T O M ’S P O E T R Y
B A N D ” : C o m m u n e also
F o n d a Z e n o p h o n , a s u r­
p ris e a p p e a ra n c e .
A rts ,
G le b e ,
6 6 .0 6 2 0 7 ,
1 1 .1 5 p m , $ 2 . 00 .
“ T H E H O S T A G E ” — B re n ­
d a n B e h a n . C ro n u lla A rts
T h e a tr e , S u rf rd , C ro n u lla .
5 2 .3 6 3 5 8 .
“ C H A R L E Y ’S A U N T ” —
see frid a y .
“ W H A T IF Y O U D IE D
T O M O R R O W ” — D avid
W illia m so n , a n d th e O ld
T o te g e t it o n : O p e ra
H ouse,
2 .0 0 p m
and
8 .0 0 p m , $ 4 .0 0 , $ 5 .0 0 .
FOLK
E D IN B U R G H
CA STLE
H O T E L — G o e a rly fo r
s e a ts , P it t s t, C ity . 8 .0 0 p m .
C E L L A R F O L K — Y W CA ,
1 8 9 L iv e rp o o l st, S y d n e y .
8 . 00 p m .
S H A C K F O L K — S o ft
O p e ra , D o u g R ic h a r d s o n
a n d o th e r N o n C o m m e r­
cials:
n e a r e n tr a n c e to
W a rrin g a h M all, P ittw a te r
r d , B ro o k v a le . 9 3 .9 2 8 6 9 ,
8 .3 0 p m , $ 1 .0 0 .
D O N M O R R IS O N : F r e u d ­
ia n
Slip,
R ed fern ,
6 9 .9 1 7 3 6 , 7 .0 0 p m .
T R A D IT IO N A L ,
CON­
TEM PORARY
FOLK —
E liz a b e th h o te l, E liz a b e th
s t. C ity . 2 6 .3 1 3 2 .
ROCK
H O M E — D e n n is o n h o te l,
B o n d i J u n c tio n .
SH E R B E T , STU M BLE —
T a re n P o in t, Y o u th C e n tre ,
8 .0 0 p m , $ 1 .4 0 .
T R A N S IT IO N — O c e a n ic
H o te l.
JAZZ
E C L IP S E A L L E Y F I V E —
(a rv o ) V a n ity F a ir h o te l,
4 —7 .0 0 p m .
M E R V A C H E S O N T R IO :
(a rv o ) B ellv u e h o te l, P add o . 3 —6 . 00p m ,
D O C W IL L IS : B e re s fo rd
h o te l, B u rk e st, S u rry H ills.
8—1 0 .00 p m .
U N IT Y B A N D : O ld P u sh ,
8 .3 0 —1 2 .3 0 p m .
D O C W IL L IS a n d T H E
D U K E ’S M E N (a rv o ): A l­
“ W A L T Z IN G M A T IL D A ”
— “ a n a tio n a l p a n to m im e
w ith to m a to s a u c e ” : P ra m
F a c to r y ,
w e d -su n ,
8 .3 0 ,
still t r u c k in ’ o n , $ 2 .5 0 ,
$ 1 .5 0 , m a tin e e s w e d a n d
sa t, 2 p m . 3 2 5 D r u m m o n d
s tr e e t, C a rlto n .
“ A F R IC A ” : B a c k th e a tr e .
P ra m
F a c to r y , th u r s - s a t,
1 0 .3 0 , r o c k m u s ic a l b y
S te v e S p e a rs, $ 2 , w h e re ?
see a b o v e .
THE
BALD
P R IM A D O N N A ” : C la re m o n t t h e ­
a tr e , th u rs -s u n , 8 .3 0 , $ 2 ,
$1 ( s tu d e n ts ) , 1 4 C la re ­
m o n t s tr e e t, S.Y .
b u ry
h o te l, O x f o r d s t.
C ity . 3 —6 .0 0 p m .
HARBOR
C IT Y
JA Z Z
B A N D : SH O W B O A T —
N o.
6 W h arf, C irc u la r
Q uay,
8 .1 5 —1 1 .3 0 p m ,
$ 3 .0 0 .
DON
BU RRO W S, RA Y
P R IC E ,
COL
NOLAN,
G R A E M E B E L L : (M ay b e
so ld o u t) O p e ra H o u se ,
9 2 .9 9 8 8 0 , 8 .0 0 p m , $ 3 .5 0 ,
$ 5 .0 0 , $ 6 .5 0 .
C H R IS W IL L IA M S : U n ity
H a ll h o te l, 8 2 .1 3 3 1 , 7 .3 0 .
KIDS
“ T H E P IE D P I P E R ” —
D avid B a te s o n : I n d e p e n d ­
ent
th e a tr e ,
9 2 9 .7 3 7 7 ,
2 . 00p m .
TV, RADIO
JA V A N E SE FO LK M U­
S IC :
ABC
R a d io
2,
1 1 .10 pm .
CREATURE FEA TU RE —
“ HO U SE O F W AX” —
A T N 7 , 9 .3 0 p m .
NATIONAL
RADIO
THEATRE:
“ FRAM ED
FO R
H A N G IN G ” — A
m u rd e r m y s te ry . A B C R a d ­
io 2, 8 .3 0 p m .
EVENTS
V IL L A G E B A Z A A R : A ll
s o rts o f g o o d ie s fo r sale:
C nr. N e w c o m b e s t, & O x ­
fo rd st. C ity . 9 a m —4 p m .
Sunday
FILM
IM A G E S O F T H E M IN D
S E R IE S b y N F T — “ L IF E
U P S ID E D O W N ” b y A la in
J e s so a , “ T H E M A N W H O
HAD
H IS
H A IR
CUT
S H O R T ” b y A n d ra D el­
v a u x : O p e ra H o u se , 7 .1 5 ,
$ 1 .6 0 , $ 1 .2 0 s tu . M e m b e rs
o n ly :
jo in
at
d o o r,
$ 3 .0 0 p .a .
FOLK
K IR K
G A L L E R Y — Live
c o n te m p o r a r y m u s ic b e s t
i n t o w n , J E A N N E L E W IS ,
RICHARD
CLA PTO N,
JO H N
SU M M ERS:
422
C le v e la n d s t, S u r ry H ills.
8 .0 0 , $ 1 .0 0 .
ROCK
“ EM ER SO N , LA K E AND
P A L M E R IN C O N C E R T ”
— A film d is g u is e d a s a
c o n c e rt:
S ta te
th e a tr e ,
2 6 .2 4 3 1 ,
6 p m , 8 .3 0 p m ,
$ 2 .5 0 .
P IR A N A ,
BAND
OF
L IG H T , A R IE L , S H E R B E R T : H o r d e r n P a v ilio n ,
7 .0 0 , $ 1 .6 0 .
A R I E L : M a n ly V a le h o te l,
1 2 - 3 .0 0 p m .
TV AND
RADIO
“ H A L F A S IX P E N C E ” :
T C N 9 , 8 .3 0 p m .
“W HAT
HAVE
YOU
D O N E W IT H M Y C O U N ­
T R Y ” — D o c o o n A u s t.
a b o rig in e s ( r e p e a t) : A T N
7 , 1 0 .5 0 .
“ S E V E N D A Y S IN M A Y ”
— T h e s to r y o f a c o n s p ir ­
a c y b y t h e P e n ta g o n c h ie fs
o f s ta f f t o o v e r th r o w th e
U S g o v e r n m e n t. S o w h a t ’s
n e w ? A T N 7 , 8 .3 0 .
“ ROBERT
BU RN S”
—
O n e h o u r o f s o n g a n d v e rse
O n E d i n b u r g h ’s o ld fo lk ie ;
A B C R a d io 2 , 9 . 0 0 p m .
“ M A N IN Q U E S T IO N ” —
1
In te rv ie w w ith P r o f. G u s
N o ss a l: A B N 2 , 9 .4 0 .
PL A Y S BY A U S T R A L IA N
W R IT E R S : “ T H E M A T ­
IN G O F U L R IC H D O O L ­
E Y ” B y R a lp h P e te r s o n :
A B C R a d io 2, 4 p m .
S U N D A Y P L A Y B IL L —
“ H IG H T W IG O N A L O W
B R A N C H ” — A B U R a d io
1 , 8. 00p m .
KIDS
OPERA TH RO U G H TH E
T IM E
M A C H IN E — A
c h ild ’s g u id e t o
o p e ra :
O p e ra
H o u se,
1 1 .3 0 a m ,
$ 2 .0 0 , $ .6 0 c . s tu . (L o w e r
t h e p ric e — e litis t s h itfa c e s ! )
“ L O S T IN T H E B U S H ”
and “ A N O O P A N D TH E
ELEPHANT” :
O p e ra
H o u se,
2 .0 0 p m ,
$ 1 .0 0 ,
$ .6 0 c c h ild .
EVENTS
B A N D A SSO C . O F N SW ,
MUSICIANS
UNION
BAND,
S A L V A T IO N
A R M Y : H y d e P a rk , Y c to ria P a rk , M a r tin P la c e re s ­
p e c tiv e ly .
3 .p m —4 .3 0 p m ,
F r e e a n d g o o d v a lu e f o r
th e p ric e .
ARTS
D IS C U S S IO N :
C a m p C e n tre , 3 3 A G le b e
P t. r d . G le b e , 3 .3 0 , F r e e .
CHEAP CLASSICS
M U S IC
ON
THE HO U R:
A fY T S S
\ v
j
y
j
j
d
J L J
ABC
Run,
In fo o n
3 3 9 .2 0 4 5 ,
11am
to
4 .0 0 p m . $ 1 .0 0 a d u lts , 2 0 c
Monday
“ T H E P R IS O N ” — A BBC
p la y :
ABC
R a d io
2,
7 .3 0 p m .
“ MONTY
P Y T H O N ’S
F L Y IN G C IR C U S ” : A B N 2
1 0 .5 5 .
LOOKING AHEAD
FILM
“THE A D V ERSA RY ” —
S a tjiti t R a y , O p e r a H o u s e
7 .3 0 p m , $ 1 .7 0 .
“ M AD DOGS AND EN G ­
L I S H M A N ” — M a n ly S ilv e r
S c re e n , 9 7 7 . 5 5 0 3 , 5 .3 0 p m
$ 1 .5 0 .
JAZZ
U N IT Y
BAND
— 729
Club,
St
L e o n a rd s,
8 .3 0 —1 . 0 0 p m .
D O N D E S I L V A ’S B A N D
— O ld P u s h , 7 .3 0 —1 1 .3 0 .
TV & RADIO
“ D R U G S IN S P O R T ” D o p e a n d s p o r tin g p e r f o r ­
m ance
doco:
A B N 2,
1 0 .3 0 p m .
“ R O L L I N G W IT H K E N ­
N Y R O G E R S ” w ith IK E
and
T IN A
TURNER:
A B N 2 , 6 .3 0 p m .
“ ROLLING
STO NES
S T O R Y ” — BBC R o c k
d o c o 1 9 6 2 -1 9 7 3 , firs t o f
six ,
p lu s
liv e ,
o v e rs e a s
R o c k c o n c e rts: A B C R a d ­
io 1 , 8 . 00 p m .
“ SU N B U R Y F E S T IV A L ”
— T i c k e ts o n s ale n o w a t
u s u a l b o o k in g a g e n ts .
“ A D E L A ID E
F E S T IV A L
O F A R T S ” — R in g S y d n e y
2 5 .2 6 4 1 f o r b o o k in g b r o ­
c h u re .
“ F A IR P O R T
CONVEN­
T IO N ” — J a n 26 O p e ra
H o u se,
$ 3 .5 0 ,
$ 5 .0 0 ,
$ 6 .5 0 , B o o k n o w .
“ FA CES
W IT H
ROD
STEW A RT”
— Feb
1,
R a n d w ic k ,
$ 5 .2 0 , B o o k
now .
“ 21ST
SYDNEY
F IL M
F E S T IV A L ” — Ju n e 1 9 7 4 ,
R in g 6 6 0 . 3 9 0 9 f o r m a ilin g
lis t.
8 0 c e n t s , tu e s . to fri.
“TH E OWL AND THE
PU SSY CA T
W ENT
TO
S E E ” — a c h ild r e n s m u s ic a l
f a n ta s y : B a n k s to w n to w n
h a ll, 7 0 8 . 2 0 4 1 , m o n .-frL
1 1 a m , 2 p m , s a t. 2 p m .
SCHOOL
HOLIDAY
C R U I S E S — M id d le H a r­
b o r , c o k e , s m i t h ’s c h ip s
a n d f a n ta s ie s : N o . 4 j e t t y .
C irc u la r
Q uay,
in fo .
2 7 .5 2 7 6 , 2 .3 0 - 4 .3 0 , $ 1 .0 0
a d u lts , 5 0 c e n t s .
DALE
W O O D W A R D ’S
P U P P E T R Y : N e w th e a t r e ,
tu e s .- f r i.
2 .1 5
pm ,
50
c e n ts .
H O L ID A Y A C T I V I T I E S —
D ra m a ,
dance,
f a n ta s y ,
p u p p e try ,
k a r a te :
N ew
th e a t r e , 5 4 2 K in g s t, N e w ­
to w n , 5 1 9 . 3 4 0 3 , 1 0 a m -5
pm .
TA RO N G A
Z O O : F e rry
f r o m N o . 5 w h a r f , C irc u la r
Q u a y . 9 .3 0 a m - 5 ,3 0 p m .
“THE ADVENTURES OF
UNCLE M ANUELLO AND
T H E M EN FR O M O U TE R
S P A C E ” : M o s m a n c la ssic ,
9 6 9 .5 1 8 6 . 1 1 .0 0 a m , e x ­
c e p t tu e s . w e d . s u n .
THEATRE
KIDS
“THE
A M A Z IN G
MR
B LU N D EN ” — “ O ne of
t h e b e s t f ilm s f o r k id s e v e r
m a d e ” : O p e ra H o u se, 11
a m , 2 .3 0 p m , a d u lts $ 1 .5 0 ,
“THE
BALLAD
OF
A N G E L ’S A L L E Y ” : N e w
th e a t r e , 5 1 9 .3 4 0 3 . F r i. s a t.
s u n . o n l y , 8 .1 5 p m , $ 2 .0 0 .
“ S P O IL E D ”
by
S im o n
Gray:
Independ^it,
9 2 9 . 7 3 7 7 , 8 .1 5 , w e d . t o
s a t. o n ly .
“ T O O T H O F C R IM E ” — A
sen d u p o f th e ro c k scene
b y Sam , S h e p p a r d : N im ro d
S t th e a t r e , 3 3 .3 9 3 3 . T u e s .
t o th u r s . 8 .3 0 p m , fr i. a n d
s a t. 5 .1 0 , 8 .4 5 .
“ JA C K
SH EPPA RD OR
A N Y T H IN G
YOU
SA Y
W IL L B E T W IS T E D ” b y
K e n C a m p b e ll: E n s e m b le
th e a t r e , 9 2 9 .8 8 7 7 , m o n .fr i. 8 p m , s a t. 5 p m , 8 p m .
FILMS
“CRYSTAL V O Y A GER” :
M a n ly
S ilv e r
S c re e n ,
9 7 7 .5 5 0 3 . 7 .3 0 a n d 9 .3 0 ,
$ 2 .0 0 .
“ B L IN D T E R R O R ” : M a n ­
ly S ilv e r S c re e n , 9 7 7 .5 5 0 3 ,
5 .3 0 . $ 1 .5 0 , e x c e p t tu e s .
w ed.
“ HEAT” ,
p lu s
“ LONE­
S O M E C O W B O Y S” : N ew
A rt
c in e m a ,
6 6 0 .6 2 0 7 .
m o n .- f r i. 7 .3 0 ; s a t. a n d
s u n . 3 .0 0 , 7 .3 0 ; w e d . 1 .3 0 ,
7 .3 0 . $ 2 .5 0 , $ 2 .0 0 .
“ CONCERT FO R BANG­
L A D E S H ” : O p e ra H o u s e ,
9 .0 0 p m , $ 2 .5 0 , w e d . fri.
s a t. o n ly .
“ THE
CANTERBURY
T A L E S ” :
Embassy,
2 8 .1 8 6 3 ,
1 1 .0 0 ,
2 .0 0 ,
5 .0 0 , 8 .0 5 ; s u n . 1 .3 0 , 4 .3 0 ,
7 .3 0 .
“THE
LANGUAGE
OF
L O V E ” : M o s m a n c la ssic ,
9 6 9 .5 1 8 6 . 2 .3 0 , 8 .0 0 p m
m o n .- f r i ; 2 .3 0 , 5 .3 0 , 8 .0 0
P m , s a t ; 5 .3 0 , 8 .0 0 p m ,
su n .
“ N IG H T S
OF
BOCCAC IO ” :
A cadem y,
3 .0 0 ,
5 .4 5 , 8 .3 5 p m , $ 2 .0 0 .
“TRAVELS
W IT H
MY
A U N T” and “ EN G LAN D
MADE
M E” :
D endy,
4 3 .4 6 2 0 , 4 .0 0 p m , 8 .0 0
p m . E x c e p t tu e s . w e d .
“ C E SA R A N D R O S A L IE ”
— A lo v e s to r y w ith R o m y
S c h n e id e r , Y v e s M o n ta n d :
R o se
B a y W in te rg a rd e n ,
3 2 .3 1 1 0 , m o n .-frL
7 .4 5 ;
s a t. 4 .0 0 , 8 .0 0 p m .
GALLERIES
JO H N C O N S T A B L E — th e
n a tu r e p a i n t e r : A r t G a lle ry
o f N S W , tu e s .- s a t. 1 0 a m -5
p m ; th u rs . 10 a m -10 p m ;
s u n . 1 2 n o o n - 5 p m . F in i s h ­
es su n d ay .
BRETT
W H IT E L E Y
—
drawings
1 9 6 0 -1 9 7 3 :
B o n y th o n g a lle ry , 5 2 V ic ­
to r i a s t, P a d d in g to n , 1 1
a m -6 p m , tu e s .-s a t.
DO BELL, H A R T , GLEES O N , F R I E N D , M A K IN ,
F R A N C I S a n d o th e r s : Divo la g a lle rie s , 1 6 5 R o w n tr e e
s t,
B a lm a in ,
8 2 7 .3 0 1 8 ,
th u r s .- f r i.
1 1 a m -6 p m
s a t.-s u n . 1 2 .3 0 - 7 .3 0 p m .
“ IN D O N E S IA T O D A Y ” t h e la rg e s t e v e r I n d o n e s ia n
e x h ib itio n in A u s t: A u a
tr a lia n m u s e u m , m o n . tc
s a t. 1 0 a m -5 p m ; s u n . 1 2 -f
p m . 20 c e n t s , 10 c e n ts .
WOULD YOU BUY A NEWSPAPER
FROM THESE PEOPLE ?
STEPHEN WALL
n e w s p a p e r E x p r e s s i t ’s o n e o f A u s t r a ­
E L L B L U E , n o w t h a t y o u ’re
lia ’s m o s t a c tiv e f r e e w a y lo b b y s . O n e o f
b a c k o n t h e la n d , h o w ’s i t fe e l?
Y o u r q u ic k fe s tiv e t r i p t o t h e thbeig m o s t in te r e s tin g th in g s a b o u t th e
A R F is t h e e x t e n t o f o v e rs e a s in t e r e s t
s m o k e c o n v in c e d y o u e v e n m o r e t h a t
in i t, a n d t h u s in t h e c o n s t r u c t i o n o f
th e c itie s a re d e c a y in g , t h a t t h e o ld
r o a d s in o u r u n d e r d e v e l o p e d c o u n t r y
f r i e n d s a r e to o s p e e d y f o r a m a n o f th e
(F re e w a y
and
r o a d w is e
s p e a k in g ,
d ir t , t h a t ’7 4 is t h e y e a r t o d o u b le th e
b a b y ) . T h e la te s t in f o t h e E x p r e s s
s iz e o f y o u r s u rv iv a l f r u i t a n d v eg c ro p ?
c o u ld g e t h o ld o f w a s f o r 1 9 6 9 : in t h a t
W e ll B lu e , i f y o u n e e d so m e h e lp in
y e a r th e A R F c o u n c il w a s m a d e u p o f
th e “ h o w t o g ro w y o u r o w n o n a la rg e r
G e n e r a l M o to r s , F o r d ,
B P , S h e ll,
sc a le t h a n w a s p re v io u s ly th o u g h t
M o b il, G o o d y e a r T y r e , C a te r p illa r p lu s
n e c e s s a r y ” a re a , t h e n s o m e o f th e b o y s
a c o u p le o f c e m e n t a n d e q u ip m e n t
in s o m e o f th e b ig g e r c itie s o f th e
a s s o c ia tio n s , th e F e d e r a l C h a m b e r o f
w o r ld h a v e g o t i t to g e th e r a n d c h u r n e d
A u to m o tiv e I n d u s tr ie s a n d a c o u p le o f
o u t a b o o k lis t o f i n f o s o u r c e s o n
A u s tr a lia n c o m p a n ie s . T h e e x p r e s s a lso
a g r ic u ltu r e . C o m e s t o y o u f r o m th e
s ta t e s t h a t th e A R F is a b r a n c h o f T h e
F o o d a n d A g ric u ltu r e o r g a n is a tio n ,
I n te r n a tio n a l R o a d s F e d e r a t i o n , b a s e d
p a r t o f t h e U n ite d N a tio n s . T h e
in W a s h in g to n D C .
b o o k lis t lo o k s lik e a u s e f u l t o o l to
S o , n e x t tim e t h e A u s t r a lia n R o a d s
b e t t e r fa rm in g . S e n d f o r it, i t 's fr e e
F e d e r a tio n o p e n s its m o u t h , r e m e m b e r
F A O b o o k s in p r in t 1 9 7 3 , A G P S P .O .
t h a t i t is n o t n e c e s s a rily y o u r in t e r e s t s
B o x 8 4 , C a n b e rr a , A C T .
b u t th e ir fo r e ig n h ip p o c k e t s th e y h a v e
in m in d . If y o u w o u ld lik e t o s u b s c rib e
* * *
to E x p r e s s , s e n d $ 1 .0 0 t o P O B o x 9 3 ,
A lb e r t P a r k , V ic to r ia 3 2 0 6 .
T H E R E ’S
a g ro u p
o f p e o p le in
W
M e lb o u r n e a b o u t t o s t a r t a n in d e x in g
s e rv ic e o n e d u c a tio n . F o r th e p a s t y e a r
th e y h a v e b e e n c o lle c tin g a n d d i s t r i b u t ­
in g in f o r m a t i o n o n a f a irly w id e ra n g e
o f t o p ic s r e l a t e d t o e d u c a tio n — f r o m
i m p o r t a n t b u t n o t w id e ly r e a d g o v e rn ­
m e n t p u b lic a tio n s , o v e rs e a s a r tic le s n o t
g e n e r a lly a v a ila b le h e r e e tc .
T h e b a s ic id e a is t h a t s u b s c rib e rs to
t h e s e rv ic e w o u ld re c e iv e o n a m o n th ly
b a s is a n in d e x o f m a te r ia l a v a ila b le ;
f r o m th i s o n e c o u ld p u r c h a s e th o s e
a r tic le s o f p a r tic u la r in t e r e s t fo r a sm all
fe e . T h e r e is a n e e d f o r m o r e e n e r g y to
g e t t h i s p r o j e c t o f f t h e g r o u n d . C o n ta c t
J a c k G ild in g , 8 0 4 B ru n s w ic k st, N o r th
F i t z r o y , V ic . P h o n e 4 8 9 .2 5 8 6 .
* * *
T H E R E is a w e ir d l i t t l e n e w s le tte r in
S y d n e y c a lle d M e rg e. S ta n d s fo r M e d ia
E n e rg y R e so u rc e s G ro u p E x ch an g e.
O n e o f t h e m o s t in te r e s tin g n o te d
ite m s t h e r e i n is a c a s s e tte c o -o p lib r a r y ;
i t ’s n o o r d i n a r y b e b o p s w a p c lu b . T h e
fe lla w h o r u n s t h e c o -o p , R ic h a r d
C o a d y , is b u ild in g a b a n k o f re c o r d in g s
w h ic h so f a r in c lu d e s th e I llic h /N a d e r
F o u r C o r n e r s le c tu r e s , M a r g a r e t M ea d
a t t h e W a y s id e C h a p e l a n d a n u m b e r o f
o t h e r g o o d ie s .
T h e lis t w ill g r o w a s m o r e c a s s e tte s
a r e m a d e u p . L ib r a r y m e m b e r s h ip fe e
is $ 3 w h ic h e n title s y o u t o f o u r
c o n s e c u tiv e lo a n s a n d a r e f u n d o f $2
a f te r t h e la s t c a s s e tte is r e t u r n e d — o r
y o u c a n b u y e a c h c a s s e tte f o r $ 2 . F o r
d e ta ils s e n d a f e w s ta m p s to M e rg e, 3 2
C o v e n t r y r d , S tr a t h f ie ld 2 1 3 5 .
***
I F Y O U a re in v o lv e d in c o m m u n ity
w o r k h e r e ’s s o m e th in g t h a t m ig h t b e
u s e f u l. K e n n a r d s H ire S e rv ic e le n d o u t
o n e t i p t r u c k a n d o n e b o x tr a ile r f r o m
e a c h o f th e ir f o u r S y d n e y d e p o t s e a c h
w e e k . M o re in f o f r o m t h e ir h e a d o ff ic e
o n 4 3 9 .3 4 7 7 .
***
EVER
HEARD
o f t h e A u s tra lia n
R o a d s F e d e r a tio n ? A c c o r d in g t o th e
M e lb o u r n e b a s e d p r o - p u b lic t r a n s p o r t
* * *
S O M E F e e d b a c k : “ A c o u p le o f p e o p le
in M e lb o u r n e h a v e s t a r t e d w o r k o n a
d ir e c to r y f o r t h e a lte r n a tiv e s c e n e s in
V ic to r ia a n d T a s m a n ia , s im ila r in s ty le
to t h e S y d n e y A lte r n a tiv e P in k P a g e s.
T h e y w o u ld lik e t o h e a r f r o m a n d / o r
about
any
g r o u p s , in d iv id u a ls o r
p r o je c ts i n te r e s te d in b e in g in c lu d e d in
t h e d i r e c t o r y . T h e y a re a ls o i n te r e s te d
in h e a r in g f r o m o t h e r d i r e c t o r y c o m p il­
e r s in A u s tr a lia w i t h t h e a im o f
p u b lis h in g j o i n t l y w i t h t h e M e lb o u r n e
d ire c to ry .” If y o u w a n t to see a
d ir e c to r y o f A lte r n a tiv e s in M e lb o u r n e ,
w r ite t o K e v in a n d M a ry 2 / 3 3 T h o m a s
s t, P r a h r a n 3 1 8 1 o r p h o n e 5 1 .7 1 5 0 .
***
F a c t o r y e q u ip m e n t n e w s is a m a g y o u
s h o u ld h a v e a l o o k a t if y o u h a v e a n
in te r e s t in n e w , a v a ila b le , te c h n o lo g ie s .
I t is a l ittl e lik e a v e r y u n h ip W h o le
e a rth
c a ta lo g u e . E s s e n tia lly , i t ’s a
b i-w e e k ly lis tin g o f n e w p r o d u c t s o f
u s e to th e w h e e le r- d e a le rs o f in d u s tr ia l
te c h n o lo g y . F E N lis ts in te r e s tin g l ittl e
n u m b e r s s u c h a s a t t a c h e c a se c o m p u te r
te r m in a ls , p o c k e t s o u n d le v e l in d ic a ­
to r s , a n d n i f t y l ittl e s h r in k g u n s f o r
p la s tic s h r in k w r a p p in g . R e s e a r c h o f ­
fic e s , p u r c h a s in g a g e n ts , a n d i n d u s tr y
h e a v ie s m a k e i t o n t o th e f r e e b ie lis t as
“ r e g is te r e d r e a d e r s ” . O th e r w is e i t ’s
w o rth $ 2 4 a y e a r. F E N B o x 6 5 PO ,
C h ip p e n d a le . S e n d $ 1 .5 0 f o r a s a m p le
c o p y if y o u w is h .
***
I re c e iv e d a R e a d e r 's d ig e s t “ $ 4 0 ,0 0 0
G iv e a w a y O f f ic ia l B o o k ” . I t ’s o n e o f
th o s e d u ll “ y o u d o n t h a v e t o d o
a n y t h i n g ” c o m p e titio n s /c o m e - o n s . T h e
o n ly p o i n t o f i n t e r e s t is t h a t th e “ p riz e
w in n in g n u m b e r s h a v e b e e n d r a w n b y
an in d e p e n d e n t c o m p u te r” . S o m e h o w
I w a s u n d e r t h e im p r e s s io n t h a t
c o m p u te r s w e re d e p e n d e n t . S o , u n t i l
n e x t w e e k , k e e p s e n d in g th o s e g o ld e n
i n f o r m a tio n n u g g e ts t o P O B o x 8 /
S u r ry H ills. ( I ’d s e tt le f o r a fe w s m a ll
lu m p s o f f o o ls g o ld !)
i
1
D e a r N e w s a g e n t,
P le a se
re s e r v e f o r m e
d e liv e r t o m e
F o r th o s e a ilin g , in f ir m ,
tr a p p e d in th e w ild e rn e s s , a b r o a d ,
in h id in g o r ju s t t o o la z y t o
g o o u t d o o r s , fill in th e
c o u p o n , p u t i t in a n e n v e lo p e
w ith s o m e m o n e y a n d s it b a c k
w a itin g f o r t h e p o s t i e ’s w h is tle .
O r y o u c a n e x p l o i t c h ild
la b o r b y a rr a n g in g f o r y o u r
lo c a l n e w s a g e n t t o h a v e
D a y lig h ts h o m e d e liv e re d
e a c h tu e s d a y , h o t a rid s m o k in g .
a c o p y o f T h e L iv in g D a y lig h ts e v e ry T u e s d a y , T h a n k
you:
;
N am e .
A d d re ss.
, P o s tc o d e .
S U R F A C E M A IL : W ith in A ustra lia
$ A 1 5 .6 0 ; N e w Z e a la n d
S A 1 9 .2 4 ; a n y o v e rse a s a d d re s s $ A 2 1 .8 4
A IR M A IL :
A u s tra lia $ A 2 0 .2 8 ;
T P N G $ A 2 0 .2 8 ; N e w Z e a la n d
U S E BLOCK L E T T E R S PL E A SE
J A 2 3 .9 2 ; S o u th P a c ific , M ala y sia
$ A 4 1 .6 0 ; o th e r A sian c o u n trie s
$ A 4 6 .8 0 ; C a n a d a . U n ite d S ta te s
$ A 5 7 .2 0 : E u ro p e ,
S o u th ^ ^ , , 3 $A & 2.4 0
P ro ra ta r a te s f o r s ix m o n th s
NAME
I A D D RESS
PO STCOD E-
i
T o : In c s u b s , T h e L iv in g D a y lig h ts,
B o x 5 3 1 2 BB, G P O
M e lb o u rn e , 5 0 0 1 . P le a se c o m m e n c e
m y s u b s c rip tio n as fo llo w s:
( ) S ix m o n t h s
$ 7 .8 0 e n c lo s e d
(
) O ne year
$ 1 5 .6 0 e n c l o s e d
f
;
th e w e e h lu r ip o f f
T H E L I V I N G D A Y L I G H T S , january 15-21, 1 9 7 4 - P a g e 25
A drinkers
guide to
Victoria st
AN INTERESTING phenom enon was
observed in V ictoria street last friday
evening (january 4, 1974), o f vital
im p o rt to im bibers o f the dem on
drink. Did y o u know th a t if one
crosses the street, moving away from
th e protesters in th e general direction
of th e cuties dressed in blue and guns,
(you know the side I m ean — th e one
w here you get arrested for breathing)
one can a tta in instant sobriety? Yes,
folks, a m agic stre e t!
H ere’s how it happened. A gentle­
m an of ocker breeding, sporting a
balding head and a m ustard shirt (yes,
Virginia, r he was wearing trousers)
appeared o n the sitters side exhibiting
the classical sym ptom s o f ethanol
intoxication, ie. slurred speech, stagger­
ing gait and aggressive behavior. But,
w hen h e returned from w hence he
cam e, u p o n careful observation these
sym ptom s w ere noted to have disap­
peared. He discussed the cricket test
w ith nary a slur, his conduct of himself
im proved, and his gait becam e most
agile. So, this m ere observer came to
the blinding conclusion th at: WALK­
ING ACROSS VICTORIA ST SOBERS
YOU UP!!
T he alternative prospect, dear read­
e r, is n o t nice. Could this gentlem an’s
in te n tio n s w hilst taunting, jeering and
generally m aking a bloody nuisance of
him self o n th e sitters side o f th e street
have had m ore sinister connotations?
Could h e have been (gasp) attem pting
to cause one o r m ore o f these people
to b e at him ro u n d ly ab o u t the head
and shoulders, thus ensuring instant
arrest fo r themselves? People who
h a d n t slept for three days and were
ju st a teen y b it edgy? No, no, the m ind
boggles a t such chicanery. Why, every­
one know s T he Policem en Are Our
Friends. Still, bloody weird, ain t it?
JE N N Y BEATSON,
Glebe, NSW.
Jesus Christ
DOES th e fa ct th a t Phil O ’Carroll
called his son Jesus entitle him to have
any rubbish published? I am referring
to his letter/article on the subject of
hitching w hich w as long, waffling and
w ith little poin t.
T he com m ents he m ade m ay have
been valid enough, b u t there is only
one w hich we m ay need to be told. “ It
is good for th e econo m y/ecology
because it m eans m ore people per car.”
The engaging photograph of “P hil’s
child, Jesus” is com pletely irrelevant
and for th a t reason very disappointing.
There’s gold in them thar
hills still!
W alhalla, Thursday,
January 10,1974
A ctin g 'm m f o r m t m
received ’ polite fought
{heir way through eight
foot high blackberry
bushes to sen e end, cks*
Strcy one thousand
m arijuana -plant*, on
the Thompson tciver/
near WathdA ^ uippsg la m , today
A nek
bteruun
oh
area St the end'j f last
cen tu ryf Wslhsue may ha*
lost its chance of hecomtnj
a w ell'knovm and tmpcHarU.'CjGLp' p r o d u c e r if*.
'V r n
'
— h u l t h e n , th e n u s M e s
Season is coming up Soon.
a flume duck tnlerpmts
^ b u l l e t i n ____________
seeking one the o th er is fu rth ered . In
causing one the o th er is prevented.
G overnm ent exists w here the people
cannot rule them selves. Because there
is governm ent the people can n o t rule
themselves. Because th e people cannot
rule them selves there is governm ent.
People m ust be taught to rule th em ­
selves. When the people can rule them ­
selves there will be no governm ent. The
people m ust be lead to rule themselves.
The people m ust be directed to rule
themselves. The people m u st be gov­
erned tow ards self-rulership. A govern­
m ent th a t does n o t lead the people
tow ards self-rulership to a bad govern­
m ent. People w ho do n o t lead people
tow ards self-rulership are as equally
lacking in virtue as the governm ent.
T he question then is w h at is the
m eans of achieving self-rulership w ithin
the people. There are tw o usual paths.
Either overall social change based large­
ly on an econom ic ground or, gradual
J. O ’K E E F F E ,
E lw ood, Vic.
Defining
anarchy
THE CONCISE O xford dictionary de­
fines anarchy as: absence of govern­
m ent; disorder; confusion. T hus it fur­
thers m isunderstanding. Jo h n Christmass w rites ab o u t his great a u n t Vio­
letta. T hus he furthers m isunderstand­
ing. Jo h n Christmass condem ns b u d ­
dhism and Christianity. T hus he fur­
thers m isunderstanding
T L D (1/10) confines itself to purely
socio-political interp retatio n s o f an­
archy. T hus TLD furthers m isunder­
standing.
The ever clear H arry G um boot says
“anarchy m eans controlling your own
life. But a tear dro p in a drought is
insignificant” . Since there is no under­
standing, ho w can there be anarchy?
T he dictionary says anarchy is disorder
and confusion. T herefore there is an­
archy.
Two definitions of anarchy oppose
each o th er. There is contradiction. In
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individual change on a personal spirit­
ual basis. B oth ways claim to achieve
individual and collective change and
b o th claim the ultim ate social and
personal happiness as their eventual
goal.
The m ethods, however, differ radi­
cally on finer poin ts o f ideologies.
Both claim superiority over the o th er
based o n , supposedly, superior ideolog­
ical rationalisations.
It is, therefore, natu ral to assume
one of three things:
1. B oth are right and the differences
in h eren t and irreconcilable.
2. One is right and the o th er w rong.
3. B oth are w rong, and thus the right
w ay is as y et u n know n to m any, or
all.
F u rth e r, it can be concluded that:
1. If b o th are wrong — b o th have
either n o understanding or incom ­
plete understanding.
2. If one is right th en the o th er should
be questioned b y the supporters and
changes should occur.
3. If b o th are right differences are
irreconcilable.
I ’ll leave it to you to ponder the
consequences.
ANON,
Tasmania
Off with
their heads
IT AM AZES m e th a t supposedly
educated radicals can consider th a t
anarchism (presum ably m eaning the
absence o f coercive auth o rity ) is a
serious p olitical project.
I w ould consider th a t the ideal
every genuine radical should strive to
achieve w ould be a m eritocracy, which
w ould necessarily entail the existence
o f coercive a u th o rity . O f course any
m eritocracy has to have a class basis
and for the sake of social progress it
w ould be necessary to have a socialist
m eritocracy.
If it was the case th a t all individuals
w ere really equal in ability (a state of
affairs only likely to be found in a
ro b o t society) th en an anarchist
society w ould be socially progressive.
Some m ig h t say th a t the potential for
hum an equality exists b u t th a t the
present social environm ent prevents its
realisation; b u t the fact is th a t hum an
ability and behavior is n o t only
determ ined by social environm ent b u t
also b y biological h eredity and it is a
scientific fa c t th a t we are all biological­
ly different.
So w ith o u t a progressive m erit­
ocracy able to effectively exercise
coercive a u th o rity hum an society will
com e to a prem ature end because the
m any problem s th a t threaten society
can only be effectively tackled by the
application o f m an k in d ’s intellectual
assets. I understand th at the historical
epoch o f prim itive com m unism could
be said to be an anarchist society b u t it
is only on such a low technical and
cultural base th a t anarchism is viable.
Due to the consequences o f the
Ecology Problem (if the bom b doesnt
do it first) m ankind, prior to its
eventual extinction, will probably
re tu rn to a state of prim itive com m un­
ism or anarchism , b u t th a t is hardly a
reason for us to be seriously concerned
w ith the establishm ent of an anarchist
society now .
W hat w e have to be concerned
a b o u t (in theory, a t least, if n o t in
practice) are the social problem s th at
directly affect our generation and, in
m y opinion, after taking in to account
all relevant considerations th e m ost
progressive society able to be realised
in practice are the socialist societies
like Russia and China — disregarding
charges of revisionism for the m om ent
— w hich, for all the m etaphysical
claptrap a b o u t P eople’s Democracies,
are effectively m eritocracies.
When thinking ab o u t political sys­
tem s th e only scientific o u tlo o k is
obtained b y applying the theory of
evolution to society. In this w ay we
can see th a t the value o f any political
system can be determ ined by w hether
or n o t it c ontributes tow ards the
survival of the hum an species (ie,
w hether or n o t it is a progressive
society), w hich m eans th a t it is a
society able to effectively tackle the
present social problem s threatening
social retrogression or extin ctio n ; of
course the theory of evolution entails
the natural selection o f species and
races which m eans th a t — anti-Stalinists take note — the continued survival
of particular social groups (anarchists,
for instance) will n o t enhance the
prospects for social survival, as far as
th e present situation is concerned.
LE O N A R D AM OS,
W ynnum, Qld.
Ettu
Daylights!
AU STRALIA is so m uch b e tte r than
A ustralians give it credit for. H undreds
o f them jum p on ships and planes like
ra ts doing the proverbial desertion b it.
Will we ever learn to appreciate w hat
we have and try to im prove and
preserve it?
Instead of being destructive becom e
constructive and creative. T h ere ’s a lo t
m ore lasting satisfaction in it, th an in
just
destroying
things.
C ertainly
Australia does need some changes BUT
have a reasonable and constructive
alternative to the problem before
starting to destroy the existing
situation. W hat we need is a definite
aim. More honesty in governm ent (and
the average person is the one to help
achieve that) — and cut the crap ab o u t
anarchy. As Leunig said, “ I t ’s only
irresponsibility” .
If we fell for anarchy we w ould lose
our identity altogether. (Which is also
w hat happens in a Socialist state —
personal identity, any identity is
destroyed). Consider this: In a society
o f socialism or com m unism , this paper
would
be
completely
NON-EXISTENT!
A N N E T T E ER B S,
Willow Grove, V ic.
Where are
you Ben?
YOU SHOULD do a few stories on the
unsung heroes like Ben Hall, Pidgeon
(aboriginal tracker), Eric Cook, Julian
Ripley and R upert G eritsen, Batem an
and Flow er, and the num erous juvenile
delinquents and vandals of Australia.
The D em on Parachol,
Inglew ood, WA
Ah! Help
SCARED the shit o u t of m e. I’m
watching M od squad, “Who are the
keepers,” “ Who are the inm ates” . A
real life look in TV dim ension at the
situation w ith m ental hospitals (re­
m em ber D e Sade ?)
And to the point, i t so rem inded
me of our ow n psychiatric institutions;
especially the p art w here the govern­
m ent has given itself the right to
electrocute people.
A nyw ay can som eone get on the
ball, how about this electrocardiogram
trea tm e n t or w hatever the doctors of
euphemism care to call it?
It ju st blow s m y m ind. Maybe if
som eone on the team can start a b it of
hassling ab o u t it, it m ay take steps
tow ards rectifying this barbaric inquisi­
tional a ttitu d e of the state and the
m edical profession to m ental im bal­
ance. Dope ’em up th en jab ’em w ith
electric artificial stim ulus of adrenal
glands. Fear, shock, zap in th e “ norm al
behavior” , w ind dow n treatm ent, m ore
dope. Feelinq b e tte r? !” today Mrs
frustrated housew ife. AH! HELP.
I ’m an alchem ical student, an
apprentice magician, a politician, a
lover, a man, a child of G od and I've
got m y ow n w ork to do, b u t this is
im p o rta n t. P rint the letter and do
som ething.
JI,
Camberwell, Vic.
Up Kung Fu
BRUCE LEE was a fantastic person of
his tim e, unfo rtu n ately he died a t the
age of 32. He died so young, because
o f all the p unishm ent his body took.
He w as a Kung F u superstar. I saw one
of his m ovies n o t long ago and I th in k
it was one of the b e st movies I had ever
seen.
All his movies are o f karate
violence, he was b o rn to jum p, tw ist,
turn, he had fabulous reflexes and he
was always cautious.
LE W IS M URDO CH (9),
Armadale, Vic
Down Kung Fu
WILL IT ever end? You have been
flogging the Kung F u b it now for the
past five issues So far a to ta l o f 15
pages, com plete w ith 158 m iniature
photographs th a t resem ble flag tim e on
m ay d a y W hat a bore! Fred Astaire
provided the only attractive m ovem ent
in an otherw ise hapless effort. I can
hardly w ait fo r n e x t w eek ’s thriller:
th e Straight Punch and Finger Jab!
G R A EM E SU L L IV A N ,
P otts Point, NSW.
Hey there,
you weakgutted
hypocrites
I ’M JU ST another pot-sm oking casual
orchard hand getting depressed because
the back ty re of m y pushbike is
wearing ou t.
Six m iles I push to w o rk for the
“grand” wage o f $52.70 a w eek. I
havent w orked a full w eek for a t least
three m onths, I fear losing m y job.
Here I am today w riting to you w hen I
should be o u t thinning the trees. I
w ould like to call m yself an anarchist
b u t I have to w o rk to feed m y
stom ach.
I t ’s n o t easy playing the role o f a
pot-sm oking casual orchard hand w ho
pays $20 a w eek re n t for a house in
w hich h e lives alone. I havent got m y
m other-sister-lover to w ake m e u p in
the m orning to m ake me a cup of
decaffeinated coffee w ith a slurp of
carton m ilk and a teaspoonful of
honey.
Life goes on — I m end m y own
clothes w ith needle and thread —
sweep the d irt o u t of the house — pay
m y own electricity bill (I d id n t w ant
electricity b u t it w as a proviso).
All m y pot sm oking “friends” w ho
have record players and bank accounts
and live w ith their parents, I feel sorry
fo r. T hey're all constipated from
overeating and all have high cholesterol
levels.
Then th ere ’s the pot-sm oking aciddropping “m unchie” eating university
“friends” w ho are playing the game of
student-anarchist, yeah, from the tax I
pay to the fucked up governm ent. Of
course if you are like m e you w ouldnt
send in y our tax re tu rn s and get the
$500 the governm ent ow es you,
because you d o n t like pow er to know
where y o u ’re a t. W hat th ey d o n t know
w o n ’t h u rt them .
Who am I to judge all those in the
public service w ho w an t dope legal­
ised!? I t m ust be fun finding jobs for
people while playing the role of
pseudo-hippie-head-freak-sw inger. Who
am I to say y o u are a bunch o f
w eak-gutted hypocrites, after all I did
the first year o f a “C ertificate of
Business Studies” , and w as u nem ploy­
ed for seven m onths.
C ould anyb o d y offer me a “jo b ”
th a t is truly anarchistic or give m e
$200 to escape to Nim bin?
If th is reads like som ebody speak­
ing w ith phlegm in his m o u th then it
can ’t be helped. I feel the urge to spit
on some people.
PHIL,
Hastings, Vic.
P. S. T he unim portance
im portance is im m easurable.
of
my
Vegetarians
need loving
WHEN I first started to w rite this
letter, I found it difficult to keep it
polite and straight. I read Peter A n­
drew s letter e n titled W ishy w ashy vege­
tarians in TLD , 1/10, and w as distu rb ­
ed by the tone of attack.
Firstly, in talking ab o u t vegetarian­
ism it is necessary to accept, even if
you d o n t believe, a few principles and
w ords like love, peace, non aggression
as being real and im p o rtan t ideas to
some people. Secondly, it is im p o rtan t
to understand th a t n o t everybody is a
confident e x p ert in his field of adher­
ence and th a t some things are a m atter
o f h eart — ie. a m a tte r o f feeling rather
th an intellectual understanding.
V egetarians believe that m eat is not
essential to th e hum an bod y . They
believe th a t plants provide all necessary
fo o d s for the bod y . T his is a m atter of
d ebate am ong m edical people b u t n o t
all vegetarians are do cto rs or experts in
n u tritio n . People form a belief from
either a large am o u n t of evidence or a
little . O th ers take a lead from scriptur­
al (religious) statem ents or because it is
an aspect of their faith (and th u s on
the a u th o rity of their teachers or spirit­
ual leaders). W ith conflicting m edical
opinion o p p o n e n ts can b u t recognise
the validity of the belief of the adher­
ents.
Because m eat is unnecessary it fol­
lows th a t th ere is no need to eat it.
Som e au th o ritie s say th a t the hum an
digestive system is herbivorous in de­
sign. O thers say m eat takes too long to
digest and clogs u p the system , and is
th u s an inefficient food. Y et other
a uthorities believe th a t m eat carries on
th e lower anim al vibrations to the eater
and th is is n o t a spiritually sound thing
to do. T he transfer of vibrations is n o t
generally respected by W estern science
and n o evidence to either support or
deny the belief appears to be available.
N ow because m eat is n o t necessary
No Albie, Jazz makes the world go round
W RITING as an instant reaction to
Albie T h o m s’ article, Fiddler on the
floor (T L D 1/9), I was filled w ith the
usual loathing and disgust as for the
five-m illionth tim e I read about where
the real avant-garde, the real under­
ground w as in to d a y ’s m usic.
Sure, A hern etc. are today; they're
avant-garde. Sure, rock ’n roll is old, 20
years old alm ost. I d o n t see th a t this is
a reason to be patronising tow ards a
m usic th a t is still growing, despite the
m ulti-corporation scene going on be­
hind a lo t o f it. But if w e’re going to be
elitist a b o u t w ho does w hat, w ho is
good a n d contem porary a t it, I d ont
see w hy the real, living, growing music
of today should be, as usual, ignored.
Yes, folks, th at old nigger-music,
jazz, is still hittin g it o u t. In the w hole
of Albie T h o m s’ article I d id n t see one
m ention of the real creators on the jazz
scene o f to d ay , or even of the late 60s
for th a t m atter.
O h yes, we have a token gesture
tow ards th e “jazz” o f the S oft Machine
and Miles Davis, Miles being cast m ore
or less in the ro le of a peripheral rock
a rtist. B ut anyone in his right m ind
w ould only grant Soft Machine a real
position in the jazz scene o f today
som ew here near the “also-rans”, let
alone as contem porary leaders. A nd as
for Miles, brilliant as he is, h e ’s been
around since 1945, on one of Charlie
P arker’s first real Be-Bop recording
sessions.
Even David A hern w ould concede
th a t B artok w as o nly a year dead a t
th a t p o in t in tim e, and Ravel o nly a
few m ore. Stockhausen, th e guru of
to d a y ’s young classical set, was years
from being heard of, or from creating
im p o rtan t music. Please, A lbie, if w e ’re
going to p u t shit on jazz, give it a break
and a t least m ention som eone th a t has
appeared in the 60s a t least, if n o t in
the past 10 years.
And as for David A hern him self:
yes, h e ’s being experim ental, super­
ficially daring, and so on. His group
revolts some o f their audiences, and
m ost of the conservative press, pred ict­
ably enough. O f course, the Conservatorium , th a t bastion o f All Things
Good, freaked a t them . A t the same
tim e, how ever, I have y e t to see even
Jo h n C oltrane's nam e in p rin t in the
Sydney press m ore th an once in the
past five years. H ow ’s th a t for being
avant-garde, a rebel, and R eally Suf­
fering?
I was present at th e so called great
event a t the Cell B lock w here the
audience was called on to participate.
N ot only was it finally n e x t to useless
at dragging any creativity o u t of the
audience, m ost o f w hom w ere too
paranoid to do anything b u t sit or w alk
around and smile and th in k ho w love­
ly, it was also one o f th e hugest
ego-trips I’ve ever seen a perform er on.
N ot only was A hern to ta lly oblivi­
ous to the failure o f the piece after
ab o u t 10 m inutes of audience “ partic­
ipatio n ” , and the disintegration of the
u n ity of the piece in to tin y pockets of
people doing som ething either alone,
or in small groups, o r just sitting
staring at th e floor. He actually sto p ­
ped a couple o f free m usic players th at
I was vaguely acquainted w ith a t the
tim e from playing — and w hat A hern
was trying to achieve is exactly w hat
players like them are doing all the
tim e! A pparently com petent m usician­
ship was n o t in A h ern ’s m ind w hen he
said th a t the audience w as free to
create any sound th a t w ould add to the
m usic as a whole.
B ut to get on a bit. As I said above,
I’m so sick and tired of seeing avantgarde jazz ignored entirely or only
spoken ab o u t in th e m ost ignorant
a nd/or condescending w ay th a t I am
w riting th is article b o th as a p ro test
and as a tem porary lifting o f the
critical blackout.
I d o n t m ind if A-Z keep creating,
existing, doing w hat they will, and
have num erous articles published a bout
them . I ’m n o t a m usical fascist. B ut at
th e same tim e, let there be articles
ab o u t the high-level energy, creativity,
brilliance o f such contem porary play­
ers as T he A rt E nsem ble of Chicago,
the I.C.P. group from H olland, Cecil
T aylor, K eith Ja rre tt, Pharoah Sanders,
John Tchicai, The Jazz C om poser’s
O rchestra A ssociation, Paul Bley, A n­
n e tte Peacock, O rn e tte C olem an, Jo h n
Surm an, Barre Philips, A rchie Shepp,
Chick Corea, The A.A.C.M. group from
Chicago . . . the list could go on . . .
A nd if w e drop back only a couple
o f years to w hen the Beatles were still
together, w e could include artists such
as Jo h n Coltrane, Eric D olphy, A lbert
Ayler, N ooker L ittle . . .
All these people are artists th a t
deserve the u tm o st a tte n tio n from the
contem porary listener. The com plexity
of th e m usic, the diversity o f its
expression, th e starkness of its presen­
tatio n is u nm atched in any o th er con­
tem porary m usic.
In a w ay it is inevitable that the
ro ttin g , stagnant critical press of m od­
ern m usic, w ith its stagnant critiques of
new classical m usic, its largely selfcongratulatory ignorant and musically
illiterate rock press, its nearly to ta l
M oldy Fig jazz press, should largely
ignore th is music in Australia, and also
its A ustralian practitioners; the music
is som ething th a t reaches past the
sterility th a t is a t the essence o f their
being, and of so m uch o f to d a y ’s
culture.
Perhaps the m usical, as well as the
social, alternative, has to be an in­
dividual one. I ’m ju st asking for people
to have a real choice and a chance of
knowing a bout m usic th a t has been
ignored u p to now . Living in ignorance
surely isnt bliss, w hen you finally see
w hat y o u ’ve missed. B rother.
K E ITH SH A D WICK,
Glebe, NSW
□
to and bad for the b o d y it th en follow s
th at anim als should n o t be slaughtered
for food.
Religions — like politics — differ o n
fine ideological p oints and th u s we
have a collection of differen t spiritual
interpretations on the need for vegetar­
ianism. It is n o t fair to ex p ect every
vegetarian to have p u t in a couple of
years o f serious study o f varying relig­
ious and m etaphysical tex ts to cope
w ith the prying and relevant questions
of an o p p o n e n t. F u rth e r, some vegetar­
ian beliefs are of a purely n utritional
origin "and have no religious signifi­
cance at all.
Many religions forbid th e taking of
life. B ut as hum an beings m u st eat to
survive and as eating m eans consum ing
living or once living things, th is is
clearly im practical ex cep t to the ab­
solute purists w ho drin k w ater and
absorb sunlight (this has specific m eta­
physical fo u ndations b u t I ’ll n o t go
into them here).
To facilitate th is overall im practicality — and also in spite of it — there
exists a scale of values. S trictly speak­
ing it ranges fro m th e least conscious
and anim ated life form to the m ost
conscious and anim ated life form (the
latter supposedly we hum ans). This
scale is fairly universal even in flesh
eaters and o ften relates to practical
associations — ie. some people w ouldnt
eat a dog or cat or horse, y et there is
apparent little difference betw een
them and cows, sheep etc.
V egetarians recognise this scale of
values in relation to necessity. It is
necessary to eat. Plants provide w h at is
needed. T herefore plan ts are n o t gener­
ally regarded as the living creature one
should n o t kill. I should po in t o u t th at
some people talk to plants before
killing them and display honest sorrow
in taking their lives.
There are answers aplenty for those
w ho seek them and no short statem ent
can ever hope to give light to every
question. One statem ent m ay lead to
ten questions and their answers each to
another ten. This is norm ally w hat the
diligent tru th seeker finds and so years
m ay pass before it is possible to fully
understand just w hy people eat veget­
ables and then perhaps years m ore to
know just w hy they cannot explain
their own reasons.
If you truly w ant to know , first o f
all respect the belief and respect its
adherents. Even the m ost lax and m ost
ignorant. T hey seek and study.
Peace to you all,
R. K E N D A L L ,
Hobart, Tas
Wedding
in white?
WOULD you go to see a film entitled:
Wedding in w h ite? I w ouldnt, th a t’s for
sure, b u t by accident, a t the Cannes
Film Festival, I did see it, and it is still
w ith m e some six m o n th s later. This
film m ade a big im p act upon m e, and
therefore I feel an obligation to sing its
praises. The film was m ade in Canada,
w hich seems to be a n o th er strike
against it . . . I m ean, w ho w ould go to
see a Canadian film entitled Wedding in
w hite? T here you see w hat an uphill
fight I have on m y hands.
The film stars (ugh w h at a verb)
Donald Pleasance, b u t for m e the film
takes o n a special som ething every tim e
an actress called Carole Kane is on the
screen. I d o n ’t wish to spoil the film by
telling its plot, b u t for all o f you
interested in th e fight for sexual
freedom and w om ens liberation (in
m any w ays the same fight) I urge you
to see this film and to help get it
screened in your p art o f the w orld. The
film was conceived by and directed by
Bill F ruet, and was produced b y
D erm et productions (579 Church
street, T oronto 285, Canada; Tele­
phone:
4 1 6 .9 2 4 -1 1 3 1 ).
O K ?____
O K ___
JIM H A Y N E S ,
Paris, France.
T H E L I V I N G D A Y L I G H T S , jahuary 15-21, 1 9 7 4 - P a g e 27
YOUR GUIDE TO BRITISH
F r o m P r iv a te E y e m a g a zin e .
THE FO OD H O A R D IN G BORE
'Well, of course, Nigel saw it all coming
back in September, so we've been prepared
for months. Nigel says that by next
summer, all food will have gone up by
500 per cent. A tin of. baked beans will
cost £ 1 —and you simply w o n 't be able
to get some things at all, like sugar and
bread and lasagne. We've had the garage
piled high with tins of rice pudding
and potato salad since October. We've
turned the coal cellar into a deep-freeze
worked by a generator in the sitting-room
And Nigel says that when the oil runs
out, probably by the end of the year, he
can rig up a sort of windm ill on the roof
which will make enough electricity to
light three 40-w att bulbs and work the
washing machine. So we're alright—I don't
know about you? It's probably a bit late
to start stocking up now—up our way in
Hampstead, the shops have been com­
pletely out of most things, like tagliatelli
and tarragon and croissants, for weeks.
Anyhow, when everything runs out,
you can always pop up and have dinner
with us one night, can’t you?'
T H E 'I T H IN K IT 'S
A LL A B S O LU TELY
M ARVELLOUS'
BORE
TOE NASTY EXPERIENCE BORE
‘Did I tell you about the frightful
time I had last Thursday? Well, I couldn’t
get any petrol to get up to town, so I had
to go up by train. Going up was alright,
in fact the train was dead on time. But
coming back, I knew I had to be home by
7.15, because Marjorie was having a few
people in for drinics-so I left the office
at 5.30 sharp to catch the 6.12, or 1812
or whatever it is they call it these days.
Anyway, the train was only a few minutes
late leaving, but you couldn’t get a seat
for love nor m oney—and we were hardly
out o f the station, when the damn thing
stopped in the middle o f nowhere. Do
you know how long they kept us waiting
there? Fourteen minutes! Then we got
going again, we stopped at Surbiton, and
then we found ourselves going on some
wild goose chase all the way round by
Kingston-on-Thames. Anyway, by 7.00
we’d got into Pangboume—miles out o f
the way. Still not a word o f explanation.
I thought o f Maijorie waiting there with
the Atkinsons and old Fred W illett-do
you know Fred? A fearful bore, who’s
always telling you what happened to him
on the train on the way hom e—but
any wa y. . . ’
'I think it's all absolutely marvellous,
what's happening. I mean, there won't
be any more of these ghastly motorways
and office blocks. And there won't be
any more of those beastly plastic cups.
And there won't be any more cars or
television or electricity or all that un­
speakable pop music blaring away every­
where. And there won't be any more of
that horrible claustrophobic central
heating that everyone has nowadays.
There won't be any food or any water
and you won't have to wait in a queue
to buy a perfectly ordinary handbag in
the Harrods sales like I had to do this
morning. In fact I think we're all going
to be much much nicer people as a
result— don't you agree, you squalid
little man?'
^
‘I f yo u take m y advice, y o u ’ll get all
you r m oney ou t o f shares because th e y ’re
going to be worth nothing in a few months
time. A nd the whole property thing’s
going to collapse at any m oment, so I
should sell yo u r house now, i f you can
find a buyer. I t ’s certainly n o t worth
keeping anything in the bank these days,
with inflation at the rate it is. In fact
there’s only one sensible thing to do
with m oney and th a t’s to spend i t on
something th a t’s bound to appreciate
whatever happens, like English water­
colours. A nd the other thing is, d o n ’t
just buy one o f whatever y o u need.
You’ve got to think o f the future, and
the m oney y o u ’re going to save in the
long run. For instance, I ’ve ju st bought
200 pairs o f socks. ’
©
©
THE GOOD A D VICE BORE
‘Of course this crisis is nothing to do
with the miners or the railways or the
oil crisis or anything like that. I mean the
way it’s been presented by Ted Heath
and the newspapers is just a whole series
of red herrings. The real crisis is not just
something that affects Britain, but the
whole world, and die frightening thing
is that we’re all being kept completely in
the dark about i t All the governments
know perfectly well what s really behind
it alL In fact they’ve been having a series
of secret meetings at Geneva and else­
where to talk about it. And they all
know that the whole thing could be
solved in a few weeks, if cmly everyone
vas prepared to play ball. The people
who are holding out are the Japanese,
because they’ve got most to lose. Of
course, it’s a highly technical matter—
to do with floating reserves and all that
kind of thing-I don’t know whether you
know about economics—but apparently
there’s a thing called a . . . ’
THE BORE WHO KNOWS
EXACTLY WHAT’S HAPPENING
P rinted b y Richard N eville a t 174 Peel S treet. N o rth M elbourne fo r Incorporated N e w s a g e n ts com pany Pty L td , th e publisher and distrib­
utor, 113 Rosslyn Street, M elbourne. K ohoutek fizzed . . . and w ith it the prayers of the pessimists, ha ha.
‘One thing you must say for this
crisis, it’s taught us all a long overdue
lesson. We’ve all had it too easy for too
long, living o ff the fat o f the land. Alison
and I were talking about it last night-and
this year we’re going to try to be com­
pletely self-sufficient. I’ve already started
digging up the rose-beds for cabbages, and
we’re putting the lower lawn down to
soya beans. Alison read in the paper the
other day that they’re quite attractive
plants, so they’re not going to spoil the
look o f the place. Anyway, we reckon
that on our five acres, we can grow enough protein and vitamins to feed the
whole family for a year. Now if everyone
in the country did that, our import bill
would vanish overnight. 50 million
people would only need two acres each
. . . or, hang on a mo, was it two people
would only need 50 acres . . . anyway, it
was all in the Daily Telegraph the other
day. I’ve got a copy o f the article at
hom e—why don’t I send it to you?’
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