Council and culture people are ruining my city
Council and culture people are ruining my city
Council and culture people are ruining my city
Council and culture people are ruining my city
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Council and culture people are ruining my city
Council and culture people are ruining my city
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Council and culture people are ruining my city
Council and culture people are ruining my city
Council and culture people are ruining my city
Council and culture people are ruining my city
Sunday, October 28, 2012
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Wednesday, October 03, 2012
A Sense of Failure
"All art represents a failure, I speak as a failing
novelist of long standing, all art arises from error, it is inherently an inaccurate
representation of reality and this has long been a philosophical objection to
the whole artistic enterprise. Plato in “The Republic” contends that the ideal
civilization would banish artists because they distort the truth, and he’s
absolutely right, they do. Art is not only insufficient, it is often wrong. There
are many ways that writers and artists have represented and meditated upon or
railed against this simple fact. Indeed for some of us the question of how to
transcend the failings and limitations of our art form has been the motivating
force behind our creative efforts."
The tragedy of Gurney’s life is the real tragedy of art
- that the devotion of a lifetime often yields only a scrap of a hint, an
inkling of what’s possible, of what might have been.
not just a prelude to success
Critique of Pure Reason
"it is only through the permanence [of external objects] that one's existence in time can itself be determined."
what if you are a suicidal hoarder ?
Monday, October 01, 2012
domain of discourse
"It seemed to be you . . . . "
A youg ingenue plays a siren, a sexual mature woman plays a siren, an old lady plays a siren.
An actual person is interviewed as the real [hidden] counterpart to a fictitious character - "Alexis".
St Tropez in the south of France, and an audience with
the legendary Joan Collins. What could possibly go wrong ? She’s a star who
emerged from the golden age of Hollywood,
a gentler era, a style, a grace. But remember Joan made her greatest mark playing
one of the nastiest bitches in television history – the scheming Alexis
Carrington of Dynasty.
78 years of age she can still muster her inner Alexis,
and has even created a stage show dishing the scandalous dirt on her former
co-stars. What I didn’t count on as we sat down for a cosy chat was ending up
in the firing line.
“This car is um magnificent.”
We’re driving Miss Collins through the south of France.
It’s so perfect”
Like an old Hollywood
movie it’s a glimpse of a more glamorous age. But I soon learn old and age are
not words to be taken lightly.
“You still do the splits”
“Yes”
Come on
Yes
Really ?
Yeees
I can’t do the splits now, let alone at 78
Well men can’t do the splits. You don’t need to keep
on mentioning my age. How old are you
Oh sorry
How old are you ?
Fifty
Fifty ?
Yeah
It’s a good age How do you feel about it ?
Er er, mixed.
Mixed ? yeah Well Imagine how I feel about it
In a career spanning six decades it was her role as
superbitch Alexis Carrington in the mega-soap “Dynasty” that made Joan Collins
an icon.
“Dammit you did this to us.”
Do you think a lot of people still see you as Alexis
Yes , of course.
You comfortable with that ?
Absolutely, yes it was a great pinnacle of my life, it
brought me all kinds of success,
It also seemed to be you.
Yeah
The glamour, the big hair,
Well, the glamour, the big hair, is that how you see
me ?
Well
Glamour big hair
Well I see you in blue jeans and a yellow jacket
Joan Collins revels in the life of a Hollywood
legend, and has never been coy about sharing the juicy details.
“there was this young guy who stood outside, who was
in the er mail room, and it was Nikon ?
Really
Yeah, and he asked me for a date one day
She’s onto her fourth memoir, and brings her spicy
stories to life in a one-woman show coming to Australia in November
My life’s been a bit of a rollercoaster, more ups and
downs than Joan Rivers face.
And then at the end, um, I’ll take questions from the
audience
Ah very good,
Yes
Questions without notice
Yes
That’s very brave
Yes, like I am
with you
I’m I’m very friendly
Yes I know
Joan trained as a classical actress in London, but at 22 she left England’s
priggish shores for Hollywood.
It was 1955
Implicit explicit, redirecting the desire shown towards
her in the past towards what she is promoting in the present.]
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