Katherine Hot Springs.

photo - Robert Bayer

Come to Brisvegas for Live&LetDIY punk and zine fest ... I'll be there ... someone else'll be there ... it'll be grand-a-rama.

Since I lost the little doobywhatzit from the bottom of this blog that counts people moving in and out of my staked out section of the web I have even less faith that people read this blog ... not that I've been writing much lately ... my life has been fairly busy though I have not much to say.

Consequently ... I shall stop writing.

except to say that - we didn't pay the phone-bill for the landline ... so all you people who never called me ...

the vindication of your reprehensible neglection of me has finally been vindicated you reprehensible neglectors of me.

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Hey folks … great news!

In January I reckon ... I'm getting married!!

to the gorgeous, sexy and wonderful Nadine!

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But enough about that … that’s not what this spot’s for … call me for the goss. Or write me a letter.

Scooting ‘round the tracks of the desert even more these days … with the Mark Sheldon Central Australian Remote Mental Health Service …....... .............. .............. or the MSCARMHS for short.

* boy Brightlulb will be playing at the Live and Let DIY festival in Brisbane West End on the first weekend of December. This is a ... DIY culture fest with Zines and workshops and music and stuff ... came across a DIY artist called Matthew from South Australia who made an album -> called "Matthew Is Gay"

Matthew plays the cello like a demon ... I wonder if he is gay ...

Both his album and my album will be searching their way across the world in small and interesting ways.



jxo

man stabbed with fish

My mail-order album is this a desert ? is now available ...

it's ... a few things I s'pose ...

an ode to the australian continent (lower case proper noun intentional)

... and a diatribe about the way politicians and citizens of the country of Australia using and abusing the concept of 'nothing' or 'desert' or 'noone' in terms of the vast expanses of the 'outback' as a way of lowering the significance of these places.
Language is used politically all the time ... It bugs me that by saying that there is noone out there in the desert or that the land is good for nothing, not even cattle etc etc, you pave the way for things such as nuclear waste dumps which get put in quickly and with very little fuss with little consideration for water-tables and the artesian basins far below that will be affected hundreds of years from now if an accident occurs; immediate surrounding areas; very little press interest ... consequently people believe the rhetoric because they have little interest in places that they have been told are barren and infertile - useless.

It's bizarre that Australia can have a cultural identity that has for a large part been built on this place called the 'outback' ... everyone knows that there's nothing there ... we have a big nothing in our backyard ... but not many Australians have even seen it ... if they did they might realise there's not nothing (double negative) there ... there's places, people, history - recent and distant; concepts of distance are different to the city ... the phrase "down the road" means a lot further than when you were a kid riding your skateboard to the milk-bar for a mars bar.

If you'd like to have a copy ... click is this a desert ?