It was setup by Herman who had an architecture business up stairs and the cafe below. All things must pass, as Mr Harrison said. It was great while it lasted…
Invitation to the opening of the DADO art exhibition held at L’otel
Kite Oil painting exhibited at DADO
L’otel used to be a small French provincial style hotel, bar and dining room in Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia. Years ago it was run by Yvonne and Eli’ and a friend and I held the first art exhibition they had there.
It was a good space back then and I had a few other exhibitions there over the years.
The place changed hands and style a few times after Yvonne and Eli’ left and now and the wall space doesn’t work for exhibitions.
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The Bagel House was a great Sydney cafe, near Taylor square, I played some jazz there in the ’80s with some friends. I wonder what became of the Portelli family? Lovely people, think we played at their house for a birthday some time too.
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Baby Enzo - Cafe - Bar - Dining Room - it was in Oxford Street, Paddington, Sydney.
Years earlier it was just called Enzo, it had strong art exhibitions in the ’80s and was one of the early gay bars in Sydney.
It lapsed for some while before Kiran Moraryie set up Baby Enzo. We held he first art exhibition Baby Enzo had and called it Naked.
After the exhibition I took a room upstairs as an art studio for a while. It was a great space with French doors looking out over the back of Paddington.
Baby Enzo shut down after a while and Kiran headed off overseas on a mission. The building is now back to being a hair salon.
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They had lovingly pumped her full of so much food, she spent the next twenty-four hours pissing and shitting everywhere. She was the shape of a small hippo’ at first but looked more like a staffy-shaped puppy on the last day.
Tears of course upon having to return the beast to the shop.
She stayed elsewhere on another occasion and caught ring-worm. It knocked her about a bit. Eventually she went to live with someone who sounded like they would take good care of her.
Note the puppy spit in the image, she did a bit of that.
Salivary Glands… okay, so I know you need to know, a dog (or cat) has four salivary glands, Mandibular, Parotid, Sublingual and Zygomatic. Got that?
An undated - clipping from a New Zealand newspaper, some time in the early ’80s reads…
Brussells [sic]
A concert on October 28 by the Irish new wave band U2 in Brussels rocked not only their fans but also seismic equipment at the Belgian Meteorological Institute, scientists said today. Martine Debecker of the Royal Meteorological Institute said its equipment measured unknown vibrations on October 28. The culptit has since been found: U2 which gave an ear-shattering concert in a music hall 5km away that critics have termed frightening and possessed.
New Wave?
]]>Mrs Iris Strickland - one of the few voices supporting the MP for Hastings, Mr David Butcher. Mrs Strickland said the National Government had hit superannuitants harder and she was now "living better than I ever have."
Clippping - The Hawkes Bay Herald Tribune - 1984
It has - there's not a bloody original thought left in the world. Just try and come up with a catchy name for a web-site. Someone has always been there first. Pricks!
When I was a kid I used to look out the car window on long, boring, family holiday trips and watch the lolly-pop men at each end of the inevitable New Zealand roadworks - back then the concept of roadworks was to rip up the road, dump a whole heap of rocks all over the place and let the traffic pack it all down for a few weeks.
Anyway, on one of these trips, I thought up this idea (this is in the '70s) of portable traffic lights on a trailer at each end of the roadworks to control the traffic. Wireless technology didn't occur to me but I thought it would need long cables on poles so the wires didn't get crushed. I didn't realise what I was on to.
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Without the readability gap, the words are:
Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliet, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Osca, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Siera, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whisky, X-ray, Yanky, Zulu.
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The Bob Dylan Revue are playing again this week in Sydney.
Being a Dylan fan from his late teens, Douglass is a great choice to play the roll of Bob Dylan.
There is an uncanny resemblance to the man himself. Douglass has a natural feel for the Guitar, Blues harp and that distinctive vocal style… even Dylan himself would be a little puzzled at first… but he’ll come around.
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I was flicking through Mr Grubber’s fine RSS feed this morning (as you do) and found my way to the new song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
I agree with the DF, it’s a great tune. It’s slick, pop-rock and I like it. It could be a shocker in less competent hands but Tom has such cred’ in his delivery that it works for me. There are some contrived edits of the band interacting with each other but that’s just a bit of fun.
Art aside, something in the background of one shot caught my eye. There’s a poster on the wall that has been obscured about two thirds of the way through the video. Something legal didn’t like I guess. Perhaps someone wanted payment.
I wonder what it is?
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George has had a good life but when he gets older and a bit wiser he begins to question things he would have taken for granted previously.
Where is my beautiful lance? What is my beautiful lance? Why is that dragon looking at me that way?
The lance, a symbol of sexual and spiritual virility is broken, it’s more of a snapped blind-persons cane. It’s a symbol of beliefs, of a faith that’s broken.
These Lance paintings are about my father, poor bugger, he wasted a large part of his life fooling around with a seriously fucked-up religion, only to find later in life that he didn’t have the resources to get past what he saw as a loss of faith.
I said “What does it matter? So there’s no God, move on to something else, open a bookshop or something”.
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