The Time Being | Steve Kilbey

here we go
all the way to the end……..
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pharaoh
i dont have my fender six anymore (sigh)
but marty does…so i guess i can use it
the fender jazz is the rolls royce of basses
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dear darkside
i reckon all creative moods are the same
you gotta disengage the ego a little
gotta tap in to that deep thing that knows good from bad
then….
just different applications
love sk
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anon 216 meddle
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warner how are ya?
its hard to answer these very defining questions
someone will forever hold me to the one i choose here
i think priest /aura is a mastypiece
thats for sure
but sos ultc
and narcosis
and…
“sk come in, this is yr ego calling….sk?”
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abid abid.
i am attracted to melancholia
i guess an artist doesnt NEED it
but it sure helps….
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poor olde fausty
i dunno
ok
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anon 248 i dunno
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banquos ghost…thats the spirit
the weakest song is…….
ah its so weak
i cant bear to hurt its feelings anymore
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a priest, a rabbi , a yogi and a buddhist monk all walk into
bar, the bar tender to them and says….
what ll it be?
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jaime r

would love a living guru
not read vivekananda
not read ramakrishna
dont pray together
would leave to be with the lord anytime
lousiana is about lousiana
some time i was there
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captain beyond
now is right now
i dunno
yes
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malcolm
my fave books are mahabharata
gormenghast
marcel proust in remembrance
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anon 3 04
i think i may have
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anon 304 no
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stealthybue
i couldnt say for sure, ben
but i’d know it when i went in there…….
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baby
we are all brothers and sisters here
thats the truth
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anon 3 53 a combination
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freddy merc (an amalgam of personalities)
aust just seems easier than anywhere else for me
life is relaxed n pleasant here
everywhere else is just so much harder
i cant be bothered resisting my environment anymore
so i just gonna stay put n soak up the easiness
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i think best bass part was all parts on p=a
i lotta snaky bass right there
reptile too….ssssssssssssss
oh that was for dave em
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triantelope because i couldnt resist it!
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fave rock doc cocksucker blues
yes
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the sonic collab just fizzled out…….
buck,moose
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jeff i love nielsens bay
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dear pippy longspliffings
well well well
if i could answer that
marijuana is a god given herb for man to use
if ya cant handle it, leave it alone
if ya like it, dont overdo it (like me)
it is a spiritual preview channel
its also a biochemical brain avalanche
i dunno
i sure like it tho
and it never lets me down
when i need some songwritin’ ooomph!
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cst coach
well ya see coach ole sk likes them easy places
not too hot
not too cold
no mountains( that i have to climb, at any rate)
no hostile savages or bandits
no warlords or suspicious chieftains to deal with
just a bit of greenery and warm weather
so my five places are
somewhere on black sea in summer
somewhere on caspian sea in summer
somewhere on adriatic sea in spring
somewhere on aegean in spring
somewhere on south seas island, anytime
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maxi asks
bwtb on us tour?
i hope so but maybe not
live concert dvd….well theres live at basement coming soon
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lily of the valley asks my fave work of art ever?
wow
thats a biggy to commit to
im unable to answer definitively i m afraid
sorry not weasling out
just dunno
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teddy blunt that venue is in minneapolis but….?
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mcd you tell me….
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sandy id tell em our music was aromatic
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anon 6 42 ok
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dear billy m
rocks willy wanka, eh?
gene wilder or johnny deppressed?
yes i could have fanship with a friend
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anon 651
sks best 10 ipod tunes
sanskrit
providence
limbo
eyes smeared with ointment of love
kuala lumpur from mimesis
my birthday, the moon festival
ramble
neverness hoax
keeper
space
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pagey
i cant remember
heres some bits i can decipher
we walk towards it fairy dust encrusted
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anon im bitter n vain but not cos i’m well read
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anon at 755
my fave paul song is……drumroll……..hello goodbye
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dear kurtez
i guess so, and thats for sure
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nevets deathbed confession
for those five minutes i understood the essential incandescent love
i dug the connexion, i noted the similarities, i applauded the differences
i realised i am he as you are me and we are all together
and then….
and then beyond all that
i remember a night in a room
an emptying pokermachine palace
god what year was that 2005, summer?
i was talking to this woman with wild hair n clothes
after i’d finished this little gig with mwp
i said dijana ….
i said dijana when will i see you again ?
and she said
this woman in my vision
she said
when you die, sweet one
i will appear as the last of your earthly memories
to guide you safely to the quiet realms
where you will be refreshed
before you return again……
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dijana
after all that yr asking me about petfood???????!!!
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i couldnt handle the end
i guess its gonna be a part 3 then
tho technically some of em were outta time
oh well

1st of all im overwhelmed by the sheer number of questions
2nd didnt i say sometime before no anonymouses
or any other rodents
3rd of all
im sorry to let down the people that sent in very kind and explicit instruckshuns
on how to cut n paste n heave n jerk
how to copy to word etc
but unfortunately i did it the hard way
i printed em out…
42 pages worth
and im gonna answer em my way
im rather ambivalent on the anonny mouses however and but
there 4
i will only answer truly pertynant n poygnant a. questions
its a compromise…..
ok

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wow im gonna do it again
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isolde asks have i been to india
no
not as sk
it scares me
the poverty might do me in
or the bombay belly rot
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b bon asks bout my wife n blogg
shes not sure.
she dont read it religously.
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a prince (of where)
says mimesis n gig in melbourne
if its gonna bee anywhere princess
itll be in melby
thats for sure!
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puccifiche asks songs /lyrics/poems
they turn into songs when theres music involved
otherwise i guess theyre poems
not a good answer but as suggested a big topic
but they all come from same place
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chump
was it me??????!!!!
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((‘{ etc asks which past life would i relive
im sorry but i dont really remember enuff to choose
its more like impressions
cant always trust impressions
(and i hope youre feeling a little better, m’dear!)
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mr derby
im gonna find slow crack n have a listen
cos i cant remember
wait there
yeah have a seat
wanna drink?
jagermeister?
its ok its herbal..
now i’ll just go in there and have a look
(noise of hippy going thru record collection)
sighs
exasperated…
hmmmm
theres two legged pete(? a name) and his both ways bet stare
his house down the lane and the life he leads there
you notice hes gone( his gun?) and he jus’ doesnt care
he claps his wine for a handful of juggs
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ap asks for studio set up
studio mus’ contain music, incense, i sit, the door is open, no distractions(ha ha)
i must have all my paints n pastels n pencils in one big mess
so i cant move or find anything
olde pastel dust covering everything
jars with dirty paintwater
mannikin bent outta shape by doodles
books n cds everywhere
ganeshas n buddhas n vishnus etc
got the picture?
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rigid type asks what home studio
none, sadly
none
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imber
been a vegan for 4 years
i was very cruel to insects as a child
i have a lot to atone for!
(sadly)
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anonymous at 956
i met nk in lemuria in about 5,678 bc
we bumped into each other again in philly, 1998
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eldivik in genoa
i would love to stay with you in genoa
italia is an sk kind of place!
but……
i dunno……
hopefully…….
one day andreas
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g and r
which dockers?
(sounds of genuine puzzlement…?!)
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dear megan
megan the vegan?????????
i dont look at chickens and think i want their eggies in my tummy
and although if i had my own cow
which i loved and respected
and hadda relationship with
i would drink her milk…
i reckon the dairy industry is ruthless cruel inhumane
love sk
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imber again
im proud of you my friend
people dont eat MEAT!!!!!!!!!!!!
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veleska from 1970 who would i be
thats so fuckin’ hard to answer…
but todays answer is
bobby dylan
cos i’d have had it all
and still be alive now!!!
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the queen de knees
asks what will i miss when im dead?
reading your comments baby…..
ok
seriously folks
this is another tuff one
jesus…
(sound of ruminating hippy head)
really?
i’ll miss all the knowledge i worked for and suffered to obtain
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richard
coral kingdom was delayed indefinitely cos of my drug usage
which interrupted our project
frank n i will finish it in the not too distant future
franks got some lovely tunes on there
i just gotta do my bits……
(sigh)
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curious y
when i listen to own stuff always disappointed!
so i try to avoid
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mission my fave writer changes day to day
but i wanna tell ya all about an Amazing book called winterlong
by elizabeth hand. money back guarantee youll f%^&ing love it!!!
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anon 10 27
dont wanna be remembered
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anon 10 32
relatively happy
most unhappy on the gear
happiest when im being good
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please wonder woman
cant i have the money AND the happiness
ive never tried that
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pinkgirl asks a very pertinent one
what was my lesson in this life?
my lesson was to learn how to be nice
and im still learning
doesnt come easy to me
i thought being clever meant you could be rude n nasty
it doesnt
be a human being first n foremost
love yr naybor as ya love yrself, baybee
pinkgirl, youre a beautiful creature!!!
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adrak asks ..
dont care for barnesy one little bit
ditto fartnham…
meatloaf…..what the fuck???!!!
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timmy billabong, anon at 1102
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mutant the power of ivisibility
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ra no dont feel badde, olde sonne
why dont you come back with merriques question later???
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derfnam up and moore
you know the answer
the church jam the music n i write the words
OR
i jam the music n i write the words
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anon 11 10
i miss his wicked laughter
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tommy irvin
they sound like the church w/out me as well
sometimes we cant tell or remember who played on what
or if they was playing at all
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jeannie zee
hob was excruciatingly awful for me….my drugg hell
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brien b
i like moorcock, cs lewis, tolkien, mervyn peake
but do check out winterlong
and w. gibson, neal stephenson
dick, ballard etc
you name em
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nowhere man
i reckon for a few years….i guess
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jeannie cee
5 oz bands
gersey
underground lovers
all india radio
augie march
decoder ring
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landru
music is /will always be central to my life
cant live without
love it at cellular level
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larry
2.70………..cash flow crisis
now rectified
(thank you moneygod)
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trout
id say probably never
(sadly)
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noely c
hadda black guild acc stolen in nyc
wouldnt mind just spendin’ an hour alone with it again…
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dr
strangely, ive never timed myself…..!?
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krissy
it was heroes…..!?
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russell paul
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simon binet
my iq is off the graph dude
they couldnae have the instruments to correctly measure it
actually it wassa bout 129 i believe
whatever that means
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joey in chicago
i like the mushies n acid
but they dont always like me…
have to be sparing…
i reckon acid harsher than mushies…
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gavgams
i reckon we nailed block…it rocks
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dreamweaver
i cant tell
can you?
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johnny garrotte
no
they all depress me
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abtom0104
youd be lookin at about 15 to 20 k mister
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renee
i had some regressions/hypnosis
i seemed to have lived all over the place
like…a goat girl in the caucasian mountains…..!!!???
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jax
ive read perdido
a mate of mine had it and i read it as his place
read something by john crowley
anything
theyre all brilliant!
and winterlong!
sk
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padders
todays choice
and todays choice only
hmmm.
what comes to mind……..
christ………..!!!!!/
in distorted haze the zebras graze
is that al right?
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anon at 12 14
im a pitta
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dear einstein
i think donnie darko is a bloody great film
i loved it
and the twillies were real proud when utmw came on
it was even better than the o.c.
i was hip for five minutes…….
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anon at 12 20
i go to bed early dude
10 oclock
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wiley …neither…EVER!!
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couldbe anyone
encouraging daughters creative n individdy?
well
i always critize bullshit when i see it
when they got bratz
well,
there these dolls with no noses whatsoever
i keep asking doodles
wheres their blooming noses , doodles?
till they start to see
absurdity
just a little
give emm loadsa paints n paper n scissors n stuff
emphasise pleasure at artistic acheivements
talk to them about how important art n music are for us as humans
be patient
turn em on to good stuff n
tell em why ya reckon its so good
tell them what complete bullshit make up is
a conspiracy against yerselves…cos most men dinnae like it
ridicule britney et al
just so they get both sides of the story
eg
aurora screaming “this is ‘opeless” in sk accent
at silly girlie vid on sat morning
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drumwill wise
more isidore eventually
1 third way there maybe…
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ceciliagin
i want something nice that i’ll like
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chela chela
the biggest misconception
ooooooh thats a curly one
i guess it is
that
im any one thing
im all over the place you know
im always different
everytime!
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anon 12 39
i try and give em some idea of how i see it
then i say
i hope you never do any of the badde ones…….
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anon at 12 40
i’ll come n produce for 15 – 20
plus expenses
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finn
oh dear
is this a pertinent question or what?
yes
gold afternoon fix woulda been a whole other thing if jpj
had done it
oh boy
it makes me cry jus’ thinkin’ about it….
does that answer ya
(but the songs were still a little under par)
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kris
1 veganism =clearer sysem = better lyricsnmusic
2martynorth
petersouth
kilbeyeast
timwest
couldnt fit seattle in…(sadly)
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trickster
pitch me yer script
ive gotta suggestion for the end of it
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alister
ive always been disappointed that mae chose to
talk out of class like that but lemme say shes no angel herself…
gavin mixed the record yes
but i produced it..
you can hear that….cant you…
some nice stuff
but mae…
wait till i write MY memoirs….
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Anon 102 maybe
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eeeeek! ….a mouse
anon 116
a dolphin
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anon at 121
i didnt much
tho i like rehoboth beach where i lived during a winter
a bit of a sad atmosphere everywhere else
not sks cuppa tea at all!!
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all i know will be played on us tour
thats for surelucky farmy boy
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anon 131 yes
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microgiant
ive read famished road given to me by my dearest friend
j cain
but not one you say
will read if i see
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shuffler
who are you?
telecaster paisley long gone
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pjc
sorry
we couldnt fit it in(sadly)
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sue darling c
1travel by thought
2yes
3oh theres no three…
huh!
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fantastic candy
unless your cd is the best thing EVER
i dont wanna hear it nor have time
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anon 1 54 never
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nice n concise both
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anon i56
i love dub!
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john said
what druid?
i want one of whatever youre on, mate…
1 the lord
2no….but i think i wouldnt mind….
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anon 2.00 any regrets
ive hadda few
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alienc
sadomasochistic sex
wasnt that mick karns third solo album?
as long as no one gets hurt….
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anon 201
got sick of myself
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fan door inn
havent listened to much classical i must admit
would love a riddle orch situation to ocurr
can you hook us up…….??
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fiends thats it for now
more troof 2 moorroh
sk
(phew!)

must download immigration form
tells me need adobe reader
install adobe reader
something goes wrong
error! error!
which version of adobe?
how the hellwould i know
install it pages fly up
error
install
enter login
blah blah blah
3 hours later
your humble juggernaut
has torn thru the online process
slower than a wet week
i hate redtape argy bargy malarkey
what was my mothers maiden name?
and the name of yr 1st pet?
timmy bennet actually, what do yer reckon?
whatta loada tricky questions
sks head done in
ring tp at least 10 times for help
ruined my good day fiendss
swalowed up mah yoga n nearly mah blogg
oh well
it was inevitable
computer illiterate impatient olde hippie
fills in work permit blah blah blah
on ye olde computer
sparks bound to fly thats for sure
hear olde hippie scream curses as the error finder
ruins another attempt to “continue”
DONT press continue twice
warns a disclaimer
nk presses it twice
accidentally
eventually after an hours struggle i triumphantly complete
and
print formy wormy
all nice n official lookin’
i feel a true cog in ye olde mekkanizm
i ring tp tell tell him
thats great he says
but that wasnt the right form
i fill in another form
a supplementary form
but after a struggle
the machine freezes up
great
i go one step back
and yeah yeah
i lose the whole bloody thing
i ring tp
thats sad he says
but that still wasnt the right form
finally i get the right form
im gettin’ hot under the collar now
with officialdom and computers and filling in my address
i somehow make it thru to the end
hurrah
its 6 30
where did aftynoon go
damn officialdom
damn computers
damn filling in my address
im angry with myself fer being angry
and that gets me….well,
angry
its a blue loop fiendss
anger aint an energy
its a drainer of energy
damn anger then
i stride off into the winter night
to walk off excess anger
i plow down the avenues like a mangy panther
my souls curl into the pavement and force me along
down to the boardwalk in the black night ocean air
neon features in the lower reaches etc
the dark sea recedes from the sure
my ipod blasts rock music into my damaged ears
and into my angry confused mind
im overcome by doubts
im down by the ocean dressed in black cord shorts
black velvet shirt
black hemp cord jacket
explorer socks
black bonds undies
blunnie boots
two gold earrings hopelessly fused permanently
a few disgusting amalgam fillings
(mmmmm a mouthfulla mercury fiendsss!!!)
i had some receipts in my pockets
a taxi receipt with a bit torn off at the end
for a filter
a button fallen off from the jacket
a few coins
my keys
my bankcard now worth two humdred and seventy
cents
and rising
had dal for dinner with naan n rice
wrote an email to a stranger whose work i think is just excellent
i had a swim
tried to suck in some chi power
i think yoga n chi gong have a multiplication effect
just like cigarettes n booze
oh and i found some zwack unicum here too
the hungarian liquer
dont worry its herbal
i just happen to live near one of the only bottle shops that hazzit
and a real live hungarian lady gave me the tip off
yess she said
you can get that up in kemenys on bondi road
next day me n russell buy a bottle
his credit card bought it
which was very nice
but then i didnt get to keep it either
he said too bitter
it is bitter fiendss
but whatta neffect
never thought i’d be proseltysing ye olde booze
on my ye olde blogg
but yonder thou goest

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now here goes
my own rules n regulations
the only time you may ask a question is NOW
thats right
right now as a comment on THIS BLOGGE
no questions asked before or after this will be deemed admissable
nomatter how pertynent or poygnant either
one question per commentor
i will answer all
i promise
love
sk

sits at a chair
afternoon sun
smokin’ the secret stash
drinkin’ orange juice
have done chi gong
have done yoga
have been to park to play games with family
what does he wanna tell ya
what are the forces strugglin’ inside him
crying to be heard
a’clamouring and a’calling
“dont tell em anything more about songwriting….!”
“tell em your listnin’ to all saints by david bowie
on yer big sony headphones
v2 schneider
dont start me off on my germanic stage
my leather houses stage
my struggling in an attic flat there
getting off coke and making a record
like an ordinary geezer phase
no nevets that wasnt your life
“tell em about the time by the side of the pool
hot gold coast 1981 magic mushroom night”
“i tell ya man, these fiendss be sick of that drug talk”
hey hey nevets
what about the time….ah forget it…oh alright
the time you had your 13th birthday party…
“i dont think the statute of limitations has elapsed on that one”
“”tell em youre listening to weeping wall now
it s visions bring a shudder to my spine”
my daughter arorua asks can she watch the tv
“no tv, play for a while longer” says nevets from a great distance
a million miles across a great gulf in my kitchen
stands a blonde haired female half-version of yourself, nevets
“oh she’s a lovely kid”
glance at yon clocke pon wall
“”maybe at 4, come and see me then”
says the spokesperson embedded in nevets brane
strange to see her brown eyes staring into my hart
“go on now, im writing my blogge” nevets says
he/you/i watch her saunter off
“is she happy with your decision” someone asks
“kids shouldnt watch the bloody tv all daylong” someone else retorts
quick as that
“ah, tell em yer listnin’ to crystal japan
which is the music that both you and nk swear is the anthem
to yer olde island which went down oh so long a go
one more time they played the anthem as we sank
on strange music machines that imitated voices
and we saluted…”
wracked with coughs
eyes well outta focus
glasses give headache
youre kinda doing yer own really good one finger thing
druid, it s all happning like you was playing your bass
nevets you gotta rapport going w/ yer i book
you olde modern deville
master of qwerty quick foxes humping lazy jogs
“oh sk, youre just a raving bloody hippy”
that reminds me
lassa night me n ekim n llessur
working onna something for this album
for kev carmody
you know, people doing his songs
and nevets pulls a corker outta the fire
(he very modestly reckons)
everything almost first take
inspired stuff
nevets turn song on head
make it yours
“yes he did”
nevets very immodestly boasts to his brother
“ya gotta admit, im a fucking pop jenius”
“i thought it was all god n luck “says brother(improbably?!)
“wasnt fucking god n luck playing the bloody piano n bass”
you scoff, nevets
you olde braggart
ha ha ha
its allright now
we call it “oh that nevets, whatta character”
“i dont actually really understand any of this” someone out there thinks
“no no go on nevets im enjoying this flyte of phantasmry” another transmits to me
” ive got a good comment for this little baby”
meanwhile the afternoon wears on
time absconds like a thief taking my time
running out on me when i needed ya the most
nevets says” now im tired of this blogg!”
its conceit is an albatross round its neck
“no more puns or bad spelling” nevets demands
“no more swearing son” thinks ecyoj
the kids ask nevets if the time is 4 yet
there forcing time forward
nevets trying to hold it back
neukoln comes on
“tell em neukoln has come on”
i just did
you fool
“nevets is thinking of having a soy ice cream”
chorus of voices
“oh yes please!”
nevets you love yer sugar fixx baybee
“the amount of exercise that poor man does…
leave him alone!”
what about songwriting nevets?
werent ya gonna pontificate on songwriting, ya big expert?
i dunno
suddenly nevets you feel weary
the sun has begun its retreat
looking out yer back window
you see the silohuette of the hubba bridge
against a golden sundrenched cloud
the music pulses n ebbs in the cans
small worries pull at the corners of yer mind
voices niggle n quibble in nevets head
“you never know who yer gonna get with this guy” says one of the other nevets
“i resemble that remark”
go on nevetses have a good laugh
youve all deserved it
bacchus is back underway
the end is. at the very least, in sight
youve made a good start on the kev carmody thing
thats a result, innit
bloody virgos
hard on emselves
hard on everybody else too
fussy eaters n all
difficult bastard, that nevets
“i mett him once in 1987
he was so rude”
“i met him and he gave me the shirt off his back”
i met him n i thought he was boring, honestly
i couldda court him at a bad time, tho
he was writing hiss blogg
love ya
ny

my mother, joycie is reading my blogg again
shes reconciled to one or 2 f$#*&s
but not too many
or she’ll pull the plug
mother
this blogg is swearing free for you
because buddha says
if you had to carry both your parents on your back
for the rest of your life
you could never repay them everything you owe

buddhas brother ray said
thats ok for buddha
he left home and became a prophet
and i was left at home
with mum n dad
to look after on my own

anyway
lotta nice comments pouring in from all over the globe
its as hard to take a compliment as an insult
sometimes
dont think ive gone soft fiendss
dont think ive gone all sentimental on ya
not mee, boy..
thats for sure
lotta people write in n say
deer sk
tell us about songwriting
yes my friends
a very interesting subject
mmm
what is a song?
how do ya write em?
why do ya write em?
where n when do ya write em?
for whom are they written?
etc
ok fiendss
this is a big topic
songs are spells
songs make you feel happy n sad at once
songs are magic, arent they
some of em are
they should be
if they arent yer wasting everybodies time
you dont often write a magic song straight up
ist time round
(but you might…thats the magic)
some people just got the gift
you cant compete with that
you can try n cultivate the gift
thats what i did
i didnt exactly have it
i approached it intellectually
i figured out how it was being done
and i learnt how to do it
years later a bit of the “gift”
was uncovered
my ego had been keeping it under wraps
cos it knew that i wouldnt need it
if i could get at the “gift”
anyway now i run on a mixture of the gift n ego/intellect
a lil bit of soul i guess
i dont really have the “rhythm”
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SHORT SK SCHEMA
europe = melody, harmony
india = drone, improvisation
africa=rhythm, blues
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wow
i like doing that thing with the asterisks
you just hold down the * for as long as you like

anyway
either you got it or you dont
you know in yer heart of hearts if you do
no one else can tell ya that you do or dont
songwriting is quite easy when you know how
but seemingly impenetratable from the outside
i used to sit there when i was sixteen
with my guitar or bass
trying to summon up a song that refused to appear
theres 3 hundred songs of mine youve never heard
theyre all pretty rotten by my standards
but some of you may like em
i dont ever wanna hear em again thats for sure
its an unteachable thing really, in a way
songwriting, i mean…
i mean
i cant really explain the processes
words fly into yer head
music comes out of the fingers
i gotta computer in my head
running scans on the song thats being written
checking for a number of criteria…..
ulp!

interruption
the blogger system is unstable baybee
im gonna post this little nugget incomplete as it is
oh and if youre a completist
try to get’ going down swinging’ book n cd
wherein on cd i perform the glazier
a poem
you might like to hear
just came out i guess
lotsa love
sk

well….
i mean
ok
thats more like it….
64 comments last time i checked
and growing
exponentially
(not really but its a good word to use in a blogg)
but wow
gee
shucks
thanks for all your comments
ok
i gott it thru my thick skull n thin skin
some of you read
and dont comment
and vice versa
and anyway
thanks again
aww im blushing
thanks for caring
thanks for your kind encouragements
what would i do etc
anyhow
enuff of all that

the doodles have a new game
i ask
would you rather have a thousand dollars each to spend
in a toy store
OR
stand in a damp hole in the ground for an hour
and they say the toy store!!
and i say
oh really?
well that really surprises me…

thats it
thats the game
of course the questions have to change every time
would you rather have a holiday on a tropical island with swimming pools
and palm trees
OR
a kick in the bum quite hard

see
although the doodles dont really understand it
this is a kinda philosophical exercise in
da-da or something
they can dig it at a sub-conscious level
the bizarre futility of the human n rat race
we all want good things naturally
but ya look around and it aint all good
why?
i dunno
im just a singer in a rocknroll band
what would you rather have
a peaceful little planet
OR
another fucking war??

who aint gonna say
peaceful little planet?
but theres always a hundred wars going on
at any given time
a. commentor says he thinks im naive
yes i am
thats what you gotta like about me
(i guess)

im just not smart enuff to understand “war”

in other breaking news
i watched (most of) the brothers grim movie lassanite
and let me despatch it with one word
fuckingawful
load of olde codswallop too
man
you cant get a good movie outta the bros grimm?????
whats the matter with hollywood?
cant they see the puerile tripe theyre putting out
is pathetic
in its ambition
and realisation
we also watched the emperor penguin movie..
which one was leath hedger…
the one that gets eaten by the seal?
no its all mixed up now….
but have to call it
penguins 1
matty daemon nil

took a lovely walk with the doodles
round the dover heights area just now
jesus some people are living it large
amazing huge houses poised at the edge of the land
glass n chrome n skylights n balconies n swimming pooles
man
i wanna go “straight”
if i can live in some of these joints
people say
oh dont go “straight” sk
ha!
you think theyd even have me?
to do what?
im good for nothing
i cant concentrate
no people skills
my drivers licence says the wrong address
whos gonna employ me?
whos gonna get me a palatial mansion
in some leafy avenue with a billiard room n sundeck?
i mean im pretty good at stapling bits of paper together
and going round n round in office swivel chairs
and i know my way round a bulldog clip too
and im handy for nipping down the shops
and buying everybody a coffee
(if you dont mind waiting a little longer….)
id get a hair cut
shave off my beerd
i’d go jogging at lunchtime with the boys
sigh
oh sk your “straightdom” is only a dream
back to yer hippy pad and all its accoutrements

and the questions
ive lost most of them
ive really bungled the whole thing
but i have an idea
if on say july 7 you all ask yer questions on that day
i being of sound mind (unlikely)
will answer them on the following day
which should be the 8th
i will print em out
and answer em one by one
in the order they come in
hows that
please feel free to re ask
or ask a new one
if the answers are abstract
they will have abstract answers
etc
you gett the idea now dont ya?
verdelay
johhnnie garrotte
bon bum
weleska
pubic serve -ant
davem
merique
ra ra
the queen
benny
glenny
the mudman
the nz boys
(send me a fucking painting then…..)
the guys who are no longer here cos i dont like guns n wars
(or guns n roses)
the middle aged groopies
the underage roadies
the problematic toddlers
the eschaton embracing tiny tots
the microbes who enjoyed under the milky way in 1988
the genetic mutations that made me probable
the dark shadows at my kitchen door
the empty spaces where the people used to be
all of you
the olde gang at bullyneham high
some of yer are in jails
some of yer are in institutions
some of yer are in rocknroll bands
whatever happened to
quagmire?
or
beggars hash?
ha!
you told me i’d never play the bass
and you were right!
i love you all so much
and so much much more
adieu!
sk

i aint gonna apologise
for missing yessaday, i mean
im sure you got along just fine w/out me
jus’ like you used to….
spending too much time in general
tieing up loose ends
went to a garden party
relaxed
took some time off from ye olde bumpe n grind
the rats are running a little faster this year
in the race i mean
the great race
to be ascendant on the great machine
till ya barkin ‘ orders to your p.a.
whilst flying 1st class to zurich
to look at some capital investments
and your wifes from olde money
and your children to go DR ramsays
very private school for extremely rich kids
who dont need to learn that much
cos theyll be a xillionaire the day they turn 18 institute
in the eastern eastern suburbs
you drive a porsche six wheel drive sports camper guzzler
with surround sound latest release tv/karaoke/internet/mobile/network
which comes in 2 attractive colours
rose taupe
or puce
and optional extras maxxed out hi tech latest stuff
with all the bilt-ins n plug-ins

gee
i do wish that was me actually
what happens when you wanna trade in yer hippy outfit
for a suit?
maybe i DO wanna come in from the cold
im olde n im broke
like a drinkn a smoke
i wanna come in from the cold
come on olde fruit
you look great in a suit
the vip bathroom is a beckoning
just up a few more floors
in the tower of song
i coulda beena contender
in academia or somethin’
look
dont i know more about the romans than most old rockers you know
ha
archaeology woulda been a breeze fer me
i can see me onsite in lower turkish coast somewhere
discovering a new civilisation and deciphering their hierogliffix
i woulda had that stuff for breakfast
i coulda been a professor surrounded by admiring students
who doted on my every utterance
i coulda smoked a pipe and had a golden retriever
i coulda hadda smoking jacket n a cravatt
and driven some sleek car blurring thru the massachussetts snow
i coulda knocked off a thesis or 2 by now fiendss
the kilbey effect
by dr s kilbey ph fucking d
on cosine retrogrades n petulant triglyciserides
but who am i to talk…?
i just had about only 15 comments last time i looked
at the other days bloody blogg
15 comments
which is at least one more than the pathetic 14 i got
for my brilliant little sci fi thing from last week
and ya wonder why im switching off in nov
i cant stand these upps n downes
reversals of fortune doing my fragile ego in
here i am in hippy squalor n poverty
cant afford a haircut or a square meal
am so obviously down n out that the tramps n alkies
take the money out of their caps n cups
and pelt me with 50 cent pieces
stumbling round like a beached comber
i think at least i get lotsa comments on my blogg
and lo and fuckin’ behold
lassa nite
tune in to the pirate networks
get on my blogg
and i scroll rapidement down
until i see 15 comments
thats it i fume
im ending this blogg in novembre now for sure
and thats fore sure
unless…..
unlesss….
unlesss……….
ooohh i feel so abandoned by the commenters
i just need to mention eyewrack
and i’ll getta nother 50 comments
or slag off the “straights”
thatll get me at least another 20 angry answers
but you know
i been trying to do it honestly
by jus’ being my lovable self
and not flagrant controversy
strange days
strange times
unsettled
feathers ruffled
could lash out unpredictably
could recieve correspondence concerning money
could hear from someone you havent heard from for a whyle
could have minory injury or knock
could sleep in or get up early
could suffer from a headache
and or dizziness
could finish bacchus in pyrmont
could do that song im sposed to be doing
might
carpet mite
or mat
not expectin’ knots will unravel immediately
gordian slash
told ya i got the ancient history in me
yeah yeah
we can see that y’all groan
we dont want rants
we dont want nostalgia
we dont want sci fi
we dont want anti warbush
we dont want tales of family idyll
we dont want yer ego tripping self aggrandizing bullshit, kilbey!
just gimme some troof!!
just tell it like it is you father christmas look alike
ex sikedellic paisley totin’ nitwit
ok
ok
ok
it was like this
i justa smoked this big fat numbah
i picked up my 7 thousand dollar bass
and i plucked a detuned f#
when……..ooooops
outta time

today i did a songwriting workshop
quite a talented bunch of intakes i must say
3 english girls who could really sing
one took over the class , struttin’ about
and waving her fingers in the air as she hit the notes
i guess that move is public domain by now
eventually the group i m assigned to
writes a little song
the same title as todays blogg
(which yer humble reporter suggested)
people out there with talent, people
good people
success is good luck
right place right time
theres no givens
theres no formulae
mediocre things sometimes thrive
while good things wither from neglect
amanda brown and lindy morrison from go betweens
among the tutors
and facilitators
but frustration at trying to teach the unteachable
some really young guys there about 13, 14
one talks in this new strange accent australo-american
ive heard a bit round bondi
guys about 15, 16 surfers, skaters, musicians
got a weird new accent
ya sure there americans then, sure enuff
then comes that word in an aussie drawl
and ya realise theyre local lads who jus’ speak
like they were on venice beach rather than bondi..
and its an odd mixture
this guy sounds like hes making this accent up as he goes along
like every now n then he forgets and breaks down into australian
i knew this silly woman once…
five minutes in any place and she was talkin like the locals
expressions, idiom, pronunciation
the lot
she was more liverpudlian than ian mac after a week there
she was more aussie than the blokes in rose tatoo
after a week here chasing a member of the hudu gooroos
michael hutchence was like that
in one sentence he was american, english and australian
he grew up in 3 different places so its no wonder
someone else is our nicole
or mrs keithy urbane
who can no longer smile or talk proper aussie
she has negated age and origin
she looks nervous n desperate in
photos
the ratbag press snaps
like shes losing her nerve
shes gonna be forty soon
hollywoods magic number
“im sorry nicole, we were lookin’ for someone a little younger…”
baybee if i had mrs urbanes money
you wouldnt hear hide nor hair of me…
i might stick out a record or somethin
now an’ then
but i wouldnae be corting the fucking limelight
with fairytail weddings
to the the toppest country singer of the day
but of course
i bet they DO really love each other so ok
i wish i’d been invited thats for sure
keith, im available for a collaboration anytime
thats for sure

back to songwriting lessons
its an impossible task
there is no way
there is everyway
if youre you and nobody else
you got that x factor
you got tha music inna yer blood
you gotta shake and slither
like a quaking snake
you gotta copy n loop like you aint been duped
whatever
listen
theres no secret you can really transmit
you gotta practice
you gottta persevere
you gotta believe n be obssessed
24 hours a day
be searching for material
recreate feelings
take those people somewhere for their money
dont take the easy way out
its all so vague
what good can that kinda advice give ya?
you gotta go with it
let it flow thru ya
stand right back and let it shoot thru ya
keep writing
keep trying
rome not built inna day
etc
anyway
i think the people hadda good time
in the end
wrote some songs
some of em were getting together again
good on em
many are called but few are chosen
fiendss
i bid thee fond adieu
sk