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field of days: Expecting to fly

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010. The Hawks have imploded, and how. No way out of this now. They are in freefall and there is NO bottom. With two minutes to go in the game against the Saints two weeks ago they were in complete control. A fantastic passage of play had seen Cyril involved all the way down the ground. He’d received, passed and received again some 40 metres out, straight in front, for him a bread and butter shot. This IS the sealer, 13 points up, and the dream is really alive. The game is gone.

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field of days: October 2010

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Monday, October 25, 2010. Every Picture Tells A Story. My friend Steve Baird recently posted this pic up on Facebook and it brought back all sorts of memories for me. I guess it could be titled “Rock Stars at Play”, although Chain were never really “rock stars” as such. The picture was taken sometime in early 1971, most probably in a park in South Caufield and features the Northcote Road Country Club “cricket” team. Jiva was my mentor and still is. I was working as his “assistant” (for the pr...The girls...

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field of days: September 2009

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Thursday, September 24, 2009. Little wonder it’s been here at Handsome Steve’s House of Refreshment that legions of long-suffering Geelong supporters have gathered for weekly solace for the past 12 months, awaiting the rolling back of the stone in 2009. Last September Geelong lost and so did Gary Ablett Jnr. Combining the great loves of his life, the Geelong Football Club, pop culture and art into what he call his “retirement”, “Handsome” Steve Miller(a guitar player in his own ri...Tucked deep within th...

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field of days: Darling It Hurts

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010. Sunset Warmun East Kimberley. Easter 1978, I remember Good Friday was wet. Bruce, Bill and I were hanging out to see a hot new band called The High Rise Bombers we’d read about in The Age. We had our own band, The Male Models, myself on bass, Bruce Dickenson (not Iron Maiden Bruce) on rhythm guitar and Bill Hay on extraordinary stage presence and vocals. Bill was an artist, a young painter, and he loved his rock n’ roll. A bloke in a leather jacket seemed to be the front man...

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field of days: Mistah' s Birthday

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Monday, March 1, 2010. It's Mistah's Birthday. He's 12. He had a BIG day yesterday at the Street Party for the Brunswick Music Festival. Boy he was admired. And you should have seen the young lady with the hula hoops! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Id like you to paint my portrait. View my complete profile.

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field of days: July 2009

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Wednesday, July 15, 2009. A buzz in the machine. Getting to the heart of the matter, the last time I saw Stelarc was in the World Heritage Listed Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne last July. He had an ear growing on his arm.  That's not in my article, but for real, it was an ear, implanted and about to explode. I'll keep you up to date. Tuesday, July 14, 2009. This Shape of Jazz: "Town Hall, 1962" - Ornette Coleman. In 1962 Don van Vliet was still in Lancaster, CA.  Ornette was in NY.

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field of days: I'd like you to paint my portrait

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Wednesday, March 3, 2010. I'd like you to paint my portrait. Phil Vincent has worked for the Australian Taxation Office in Hobart for more than 25 years, after initially studying to be a Catholic priest in Melbourne, the first person with a disability from Hobart to be accepted for such studies. He is an avid Essendon supporter and it was a friend’s suggestion that he look at a portrait of former Essendon great, James Hird, by Melbourne-based artist, Martin Tighe. Full version of interview available below.

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field of days: On The Air (Again)

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Sunday, April 25, 2010. On The Air (Again). A couple of weeks back I had an offer I couldn’t refuse. Helen Jennings asked me if I would like to fill in as presenter of her weekly radio program, Roots of Rhythm. I jumped at the chance to go back to my roots in radio, and present a Jazz and Blues-based music program. 8217; and ‘Little Red Rooster’. This Burnett guy who wrote ‘Smokestack Lightning’.’. Album in a second-hand shop in St.Kilda and thought I’d better buy that. Ten or so years late...Whose work ...

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field of days: August 2010

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010. The Hawks have imploded, and how. No way out of this now. They are in freefall and there is NO bottom. With two minutes to go in the game against the Saints two weeks ago they were in complete control. A fantastic passage of play had seen Cyril involved all the way down the ground. He’d received, passed and received again some 40 metres out, straight in front, for him a bread and butter shot. This IS the sealer, 13 points up, and the dream is really alive. The game is gone.

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field of days: Safe As Milk

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Monday, December 20, 2010. Of course we didn’t realise this was the best album of 1984". Yet the album was a commercial disaster at the time of its release. There are so many demons. The captain paints a painting. The painting is very good. He is a good painter. The demons are getting clearer. The captain smokes a cigar. By 1965, Van Vliet as Beefheart had recorded the timeless Safe As Milk album. Reference to the Abstract Expressionist Era is neither casual nor. Approaches to picture making.". He uses o...