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Post by isaacs on Feb 21, 2006 15:55:25 GMT 10
The vista and lovely cottage
where I am currently staying and working with my wife Jewel
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Post by johnk on Feb 21, 2006 16:12:54 GMT 10
id make a joke about the dog but id offend evry1 xpt scrote
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Post by ironguts on Feb 22, 2006 6:14:50 GMT 10
you wouldn't offend me, i'm inoffendable!
Its actually easy to offend scrote, esp physically.
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Post by johnnymastropaulos on Feb 22, 2006 14:11:25 GMT 10
physically doens't count irons.
the sight of your naked body would offend anyone.
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Post by ironguts on Feb 22, 2006 14:54:53 GMT 10
yeh but I'm always behind you when I'm nakid so you can't see me, and you usually have your eyes closed too.
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Post by johnnymastropaulos on Feb 22, 2006 15:35:25 GMT 10
eww...
brokeback forum
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Post by betty on Feb 22, 2006 16:17:17 GMT 10
;D rotflmao
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Post by isaacs on Feb 22, 2006 18:15:56 GMT 10
Thanks guys for posting in the spirit of my efforts to share the beauty here.
Anyone care to offer a comment about the gorgeous environs and Arthur Boyd's generosity in donating his estate for artists both established and emerging to find a new space in which to grow for a time (many of you would qualify to be here too) or I'll just delete the whole thread then.
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Post by johnnymastropaulos on Feb 22, 2006 18:45:51 GMT 10
Sorry Mark,
The pictures look nice, but I'm sure they're no match for the real thing.
It's good that old boydy did that, and I'm glad that it's operating well. A stained glass artist who used to live across the road from me did a similar thing with his property, but his estate contained no cash to have the place upkept. It WAS a squat, now it's a burnt out, boarded up, filthy shell.
It's a profound gesture of belief in australian artists that he left it in perpetuity to us.
But, personally, it's not for me. I like things dirty, and messy, and frantic, and squeezing practice around gigs and rehearsals and house-work, and constanly having contact with the derros and geniuses that make up the creative scene. I couldn't survive without them, they inspire me every day.
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Post by johnnymastropaulos on Feb 22, 2006 18:47:03 GMT 10
and, btw, wtf is rotflmao?
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Post by isaacs on Feb 22, 2006 18:53:51 GMT 10
ROTFLMAO= Rolling on the floor lauging my ass off
I understand some artists thrive on the funk of the city
I can't wait to permanently leave the city, live in the country, and then pay the city visits
Richard Morecroft (ex ABC news reader) is on the Board here (he has fled the city and lives around here) and he told me about some interesting research that indicates people who live in cities never focus their eyes to the far distance, and that doing that has huge therapeutic effects. Clearly as humans in our natural environment, we would have done that heaps.
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Post by johnnymastropaulos on Feb 22, 2006 19:08:20 GMT 10
and fresh air and more healthy walks and not having to remember the names of 900 million people, and not always being in a rush, and eating fresher produce....
I know. It's an amazing way to live your life. John Sangster famously lived that way for years (country living and then descending on the city for breif spells) and it obviously worked for his artistic temperament.
But I love that thing of going to someones house for a rehearsal and they've got Ni-Hao! playing on the stereo, then going for a beer in the afternoon and ned collette makes you cry cos the songs he's written are so beautiful, then rushing off for a trad gig, then rushing of for a crazy folk-jazz gig, then going to see a dub band in the evening, then going out after that and someone puts the 'dangers on, then someone puts on bob marley, then someone puts on etc.etc. etc. and all the while just talking about music, music, music. then you wake up the next day and do it all again.
It's messy, but you get exposed to ideas, concepts, solutions, sounds - that I simply don't have the genius to whip out of my own imagination, and that I would never listen to if left to my own devices.
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Post by isaacs on Feb 22, 2006 19:21:07 GMT 10
Re your extolling of the joys of city life, I have to say "Been there done that". You have to do it. It was great and I loved it. I'm nearly 50, how old are you? It wouldn't have suited me at 20, 30 or 40 but at 50 - YES!
Another thing.
I play 3, maybe 4, gigs a year in the city in which I live. I have absolutely no career as a sideman. It's over 10 years since anyone asked me to play in their band. If I want to work with a singer or horn player I have to hire THEM. I can't work out what I myself will miss by leaving Sydney. Already I live in a semi-rural outer suburb.
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Post by march on Feb 22, 2006 19:38:20 GMT 10
environment?
it affects music yes no?
i think yes
some people:aaaaargh!
others: aaaahhhh
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Post by johnnymastropaulos on Feb 22, 2006 20:29:40 GMT 10
No, you're right mark. I"m 22 and I agree that city life probably won't suit me forever.
I hope i didn't come across as saying that I thought what you're doing was the wrong thing to do for you, just that, at this stage of my life, I don't think it would be an artistically satisfying experience for me. I know you know what's best for your happiness and your family and your music.
Re: being a sideman, I think you know that to be one frequently, you have to want to be, and invest time in BEING around, and I presume that this is something you don't want to do anymore. Which I can understand. it's a pain in the arse sometimes giving up artistic control, especially if you have a strong personal vision. I'm still learning though, and theres a lot of people to learn a lot of stuff, and for me it's always worth relinquishing artistic control to learn how other people do it.
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