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"Twilight Time", a gift from our very good friend, John Hughes

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  Professor Des Ball: The insurgent intellectual These days have been momentous days, weeks and months and years. In the past couple of days the news has included the McBride case: Jailed whistleblower David McBride loses appeal against  severity of sentence, flags High Court challenge Former military lawyer David McBride has lost his appeal  against the severity of his sentence.  ( Four Corners: Nick Wiggins ) ands also the Richard Boyle case: Whistleblower protections failed 'superhero' Richard Boyle, calls grow for urgent reforms Whistleblower Richard Boyle with wife Louise Beaston outside  the  SA Supreme Court.   ( ABC News: Olivia Mason ) and then yesterday a visit to my home in Kyneton from John Hughes, lots of goodies as in wonderful   pastries from Italian bakery Monelli  near his home, plus a film John has worked on for many years about Des Ball. This film is called Twilight Time and is voluminous in the history it covers from...
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New from Kim Miles

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Recently our friend Kim has sent me two new or reworked pieces. I find them both engaging works with mixed qualities, edgy! First:                                              Wine And Then Valium.                                    A piece of Video Art. On Sale For $5 Million.   and yesterday this one arrived in the mail:                 Surreal Relationship, LOVE AND FIGHT.                                          #shortvideo   #romantic   #love   #hate Thank you Kim, pt
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Some songs which Nigel shared with me over the years

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  As I mentioned in my previous posting, and as I also mentioned when I spoke at Nigel's Memorial last week, Nigel had a lifelong passion for music of many genres.  I could list thousands of numbers he sent me, but in this blog I will present just a sample of the sorts of musical items which he sent to me. TEE-SET  "Ma Belle Amie"  Alela Diane, "The Rifle" The Waifs, "London Still" Gerry Humphrys & The Loved Ones,  "Blueberry Hill" Big Bill Bissonnette & Sammy Rimington, "Porter's Love Song" Mae West,  "My Old Flame" The Red Onions,    " Miss Hannah" Woody Allen,  "In The Evenin' " Harry Dean Stanton,  "Cancion Mixteca" Annette Hanshaw "That's Just My Way Of Forgetting You" Leon Redbone & Robert Gordon  "Melancholy Baby" Lazy Ade Monsbourgh,  "Ragtime Dance" Alela Diana,  "The Pirate's Gospel" Tuba Skinny "What's ...
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Farewell To A Dear Friend

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Our friend Nigel Buesst. A friendship of so many years, 62 years since we first met. Plenty of water under the bridge. Nigel at home with his minder, Jedda  photo by Ivan Gaal I was just starting out in my life as a filmmaker, working at the State Film Centre in the library section. One day I was on counter duties, receiving films returning from borrowers and handing out films to other borrowers. In walked Nigel with a bundle of films under his arm, returning them from a film society he was involved with at the time. I think it was the CSIRO film group and Nigel was collecting another bundle which they would run in an upcoming programme. A short conversation of a few minutes at the counter established that we were both interested in making films and soon enough we became close friends. Nigel was about to shoot “Fun Radio” which was a real buzz for me. He asked me to shoot a few shots from his fancy sports car so I got to operate his new Bolex camera for a tracking shot or two as ...
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