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by Ponch Central St police station is the place to be charged if you’re busted, I’m told. They’re very reasonable about bail there. The gallery at One Central St. is next door, where a group of muso’s, artists, film-makers, freaks and others have formed a collective. Each put up $70 to get space for events that “tend to promote an interaction between artists, art forms and the audience.” It seems you can put on just about anything. Someone’s planning to exhibit himself for a week soon, although Kiss Me Kate, to rustle up a bit of bread, just ain’t on. Tonight’s event is a Political Dinner to get together people from different Sydney scenes. Sitting on my orange Sebel-stack chair in the standard white gallery setting, I notice people aren’t smiling very much. The door looks further away all the time. Peter Collingwood, tall blond and white-suited like Our-Man-In-Havana, plays M.C. Sitting with him at the long table are the people asked to speak to the invited throngs. Sue Hollis, a beautiful blackhaired woman from Gay-Lib, Lester Bostock from Black Power, Lex Watson from Camp. Inc., Albie Thoms, film freak, Liz Fell who’s into liberation of all varieties, and Tim Johnson who’s into disrobing . .. and other friends and figures from the Sydney scene. Peter Collingwood raps on about everyone being involved in liberation movements but never getting to gether to discuss the whole spectrum. Introducing Albie, he puts it on him to start by talking about a whole day in the life of a liberated person. But Albie’s into offing the whole speaker spoken to scene, says electrapassivity suggests docility, let’s get into the electricity and energies in the room. Liz and Albie were going to show more of their old tapes and films, but had decided that exploration of the here-and-now sexuality ought to be more interesting. So Liz asks for someone to talk about a fuck, suck, masturbate, or perhaps their first or last fuck. The video freaks are wandering about, long black mikes in hand and porta-packs on their backs. They’re
getting it all down to use in the on-going journal the collective is making. Two gay women, Mimi and Sue, start to do that in specific terms only to have their set removed by a loud voice “Sounds very Womans’ Weekly to me.” The idea of up-front autobiography ends in questions about discussing sexual liberation isolated from the context of total liberation. It’s obvious that people aren’t into the structure that’s set up. But the M.C. trying to keep something going next introduces Ernie Gallagher as a “young man with something serious to say” . Someone described Ernie to me as an Irish-anarchist-Uriah Heep Character. Decked out in his violet jacket and stethoscope he seems light and earnest. Ernie’s into Stethoscopics, into listening to you in a different way, and he hands out stethoscopes so we can all start listening. But people aren’t into listening to Ernie just yet. Next to have a go were two people from A.C.T. Alternative Community Telephone (Sydney 698-2652). They’ve set up a talking Whole Earth Catalogue to bring information and people who have it and/or need it together. I went off to talk with them because that’s the sort of event I want to get into. I finish that just in time to see Tim Johnson ejaculate a pink plaster prick from his trousers which then gets passed about. Tim and the Brisbane cops have been in a bit of conflict lately about his desire to see what happens when people take off other people’s clothes in public. Much crowd noise and Lex Watson from Camp. Inc., tells every pne to shut up so they can hear him tell them that there isn’t much point in talking because no-one wanted to listen and that the real people to be talking to weren’t in the room anyway. Dialogue nil. When Lester Bostock the black dude, starts laying his trip down the whole place erupts. “All you bastards are a mob of racists” he throws out for openers. “Whites want to screw blacks.” I’m anti-white. A big clap was what he got when he first stood
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up to speak, but now people were jumping and screaming, “Crap, absolute stone-ground crap” . Lester screams back “Sexism and racism are the same thing” . Liz Fell shouts “what have you got to say about white women” , Lester tosses off “they’re all rapable” . Astonishingly he doesn’t get taken up in all the confusion. A woman in front wants him to tell her about “the universal mind” which dissolves me. A pissed off voice “What’s being black mean man?” Lester, “ Being black means me” . He just stands there while people argue across him about who’s more oppressed than who. Lester falls back in his chair. Fat Jack, a techno-video freak in white coveralls whose color matches his white crew-cut head jumps on the table slams his gold-painted boot on the table, “If you want to talk to your mates, go down to the bloody pub” . Nobody moves because the wine is flowing really freely right here. Me, I’m wondering where all the dope is. The anarchic party goers seemed to me to have won but Ernie decided to try again. His specifically designed noise-making menu of green lentil soup and soya bean sandwiches is providing the “ dinner” part of the evening. Ernie’s stethoscopes are being pressed up against walls, bellies, larynx, hearts and breasts and people are listening. Which is a bit of a change. I’m having a great time, playing dedicated reporter notebook in one hand, alcohol in the other. I look up to see some porn flickering away on one wall and a man beating on a tyre, and a lot of people talking to one another. Tim Johnson is getting some people together for an exercise in disclosures. Six people start romping and rolling at each other’s gear and then leap on Tim to get his off too. And what happens to him proves the point about wearing clean underwear that every mother makes ‘What if you were knocked over?’ He has daggy underwear as someone is quick to point out. No-one seems to be tripping on the great-looking bodies in front of them. No-one comes to join the disrobers, who look much more relaxed than the voyeurs. What can I say. The party went on, a lot of people were pissed off that people didn’t get to do what they planned. Me, I had a great time, sat about doing a lot of smiling, talking and touching and so did a lot of other people. and cheered on Carlton’s head ruck rover. Not just because he was one of us . . . but rather we were one with him. Cama M. Hawks Carlthorn, Victoria
Back numbers Bach-hander RE: September 9 Issue Danny Robinson you say you’ve studied at a conservatory (lavatory maybe?) and that “ Johann Sebastian used all those old chords.” I think you have been soaking your brain in that beer drinking music of yours, or maybe it was the Virgil hair dye that gave you such insight. Jeffrey Johnson Lalor Park, NSW
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Carlthorn freak
It’s too big in the bath
Colin Maxwell Talbot’s piece on Brent Crosswell must be the best piece of Australian journalism in years. One small point though. It wasn’t just a group of Carlton freaks that day at Glenferrie Oval who grinned as Brent smiled at passing trains and flew for one stoned mark after another. A group of Hawthorn supporters smoked the same cigarette
I had Border Lord on the stereo and my bath was running hot and I started to flick a few crabs from round my cock and armpits ’fore I coated ’em with Ascabiol and Zimmer’s Essay was so damn good I took it with me and as I reached for the soap and over Lawrence R. Glaister your whole damn paper fell into my water and sank. Now I gotta
Dymocks 1. How Fischer Won, Purdy 2. U-jack Society Moffatt 3. Gehlan; The Story of the Spy of the Century, Cookeridge 4. Chariot of the Gods - a Critical Review, Department of Austral ian Archeology 5. The Banker, Walter
4. Fitzroy Bluestone, Calender $ 2.00 5 jDialectic of Sex, Firestone Collins Book Depot 1. Be Just And Fear Not 2. Liner, James Barlow 3. Secret Woman, U. Holt 4. Falcon for a Queen, Gaskin 5. Miracle at St. Bruno’s, Phillipa Carr
MELBOURNE Paperback 1. Politics of Catholics, Niall Brennan 2. Be Just And Fear Not 3. Secrecy, Spigelman 4. Jokes and Their Relation to The Unconscious 5. The Fairy Books, Ed. Andrew Lang. Source Bookshop 1. Vivi La Mutation, Drawings by Lee Conklin 2. Post Scarcity Anarchism, M. Bookshin 3. Journal of Albion Moonlight, Patchin 4. Flesh of the Gods 5. Stone Shelters, Edward Allen Robertson & Mullens 1. Be Just and Fear Not, A.A. Calwell 2. Kent Hughes’, Biography, F. Howard 3. Singapore, K. McKie 4. Of Many Things, G.E. Sayers 5. A Falcon For A Queen, K. Gaskin Spaceage Bookshop 1. Teaching of Don Juan 2. Tibetan Book of Dead 3. The Death of the Family, David Cooper 4. Monday Night Class. 5. Siddhata. Hesse Readings 1. Mother Earth News No. 16 2. Leaves of Spring, Esterson 3. Siddhata, Hesse
October 21 — November 4
ADELAIDE Mothers Bookfarm 1. Deschooling Society, Illich 2. Fantagor, Corben 3. Last Whole Earth Catalog 4. We Are Everywhere Rubin 5. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Next, Kesey Mary Martin 1. Fischerrvs. Spassky, Svetozar Gligoric 2. Only One Earth, Barbara Ward & Rene Dubos 3. Crash Go The Chariots, Clifford Wilson 4. Toward a New Australia Under a Labor Government, Edited by John McLaren 5. The Wit And Wisdom of William McMahon, Anon.
RECORDS SYDNEY Palings 1. Catch Bull At Four, Cat Stevens 2. Slade Alive, Slade 3. Tea For The Tillerman, Cat Stevens 4. Teaser And The Firecat, Cat Stevens 5. Thick As A Brick, Jethro Tull David Jones 1. Slade Alive, Slade.
Fat Jack lays a number on the Push
buy a new one and next Monday fortnight I ain’t gonna bath. . Kevin M. Crowe Darlinghurst, NSW
N o licence to fly In the Oct. 7—21 edition of The Digger, page 1, article entitled “There’s dope at the bottom of your garden” , a pharmacist with the Health Dept, was quoted thus, “ Under schedule 7 of the Poisons Act (Vic.) 1962 & Amendments, the only hal lucinogens gazetted as illegal are ly sergic acid, mescaline, :psilocybin and psilocin.” The pharmacist was either ignor ant of hallucinogenic drugs and the law or he was incorrectly quoted.
2. Catch Bull At Four, Cat Stevens 3. Never a Dull Moment, Rod Stewart 4. Moods, Neil Diamond 5. Miles Live, Santana Marthas Record Farm 1. Just Another Band from L.A, Mothers 2. Mothers Live At The Fillmore 3. Never A Dull Moment, Rod Stewart 4. Catch Bull At Four, Cat Stevens 5. Space in Time, Ten Years After Edels 1. Catch Bull At Four, Cat Stevens 2. Slade Alive 3. Schools Out, Alice Cooper 4. Thick As A Brick, Jethro Tull 5. Never A Dull Moment, Rod Stewart Nicholsons 1. Catch Bull At Four, Cat Stevens 2. Never A Dull Moment, Rod Stewart 3. T. Rex 4. Double Cocker Power 5. A Song For You, Carpenters MELBOURNE Professor Longhairs Record Bar 1. New Orléans Piano 2. St. Dominic’s Preview, Van Morrison 3. Catch Bull At Four, Cat Stevens 4. Never A Dull Moment, Rod Stewart. 5. Long John Silver, Jefferson Airplane Allens 1. Slade Alive 2. Çatch Bull At Four, Cat Stevens 3. Machine Head 4. Mothers Live At The Fillmore 5. Never A Dull Moment, Rod Stewart Archie & Jugheads
Firstly lysergic acid is not hallucin Amendments are only L.S.D., mes ogenic. “ D. - Lysergic acid diethy caline, psilocybin and psilocin. * lamide” is the correct name of the Jon Martin, hallucinogenic drug commonly re Melbourne ferred to as “ LSD” or “acid” . Secondly, the 1967 Amendment (No. 7588) of the Poisons Act states that: “ Every person who has in his possession any special poison being an hallucinogenic drug without being Every paper has, if ro t a defined authorized by or licensed under this. editorial policy, a collection of Act so to do shall be guilty of an vaguely compatible ideas amongst offenee against this Act and shall be its workers. liable to imprisonment for a term It is this congruity that decides of not more than twelve months or Digger editorial. to a penalty of not more than $500 Advertising is another trip. or to both such imprisonment and Obviously we can’t write, or even penalty.” sub-edit ads. The Digger encourages As I am not a legal expert, I will readers to comment, if motivated, leave it to you and the readers of on advertisements received and The Digger ’• to judge whether the printed. illegal hallucinogenic drugs according to the Poisons Act (Vic.) 1962 and
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4. Moods, Neil Diamond. 5. Ziggie Stardust And The Spiders from Mars, David Bowie Allans 1. Catch Bull At Four, Cat Stevens 2. Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles Live 3. Never A Dull Moment, Rod Stewart 4. Teaser & The Firecat, Cat Stevens 5. Slider, T. Rex. The Record Man 1. Catch Bull At Four, Cat Stevens 2. Never A Dull Moment, Rod Stewart 3. Teaser & The Firecat, Cat Stevens 4. Live At Sunbury, Aztecs 5. Honky Chateau, Elton John
FILM S MELBOURNE What’s up Doc? (Bo gdanovich) and The Adventures o f Barry McKenzie are two big newies. Macbeth (Polanski) is doing very well, as is Vittorio de Sica’s Garden o f The Hnzi-Continis. Pasolinis Decameron is doing as well as Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange and Fiddler On the R o o f is best of the oldies. Cabaret is moving fairly well although word has it that many party bookings are cancelling. Hitchcock’s Frenzy great with the critics but a bummer with audiences. ADELAIDE Straw Dogs The Godfather Up The Chastity Belt The Organisation The New Centurions Dr. Strangelove/And Now For Something Completely Different. Chariots of The Gods The Decameron. Bedroom Mazurka