How about the first film wave that brought Peter Weir's The Last Wave and Picnic At Hanging Rock to US shores? Along with the first community college courses on Filmic\Visual Mytho-Poetic Vocabulary and Film Lit grouped with poly-lingual course work and Comp Lit in the English Department good for a co-major or minor in what was then called in our parts Communications Arts & Sciences! Solid creative disciplines and foundation for the takeover of TeleComm markets and way too high Finance Foolery!
Early poetics from a local city college grad of Ivy Leagues with a real appetite for global Film Lit, Frederick Buell, also an extraordinary and barely cited NYC street poet with mytho-poetic vision drawn from local street life and vertical vision. Now a photographer of note as online search shows....
I was just a pup having left home for my first year of college (local and largely subsidized at a city school while I worked warehouse food industry, roomed with roaches and like me loony creative roommates in a low-rent hovel, get this in the East Village\Lower East Side way pre-gentrification and way downtown....)
I fortunately drew the far reaches of military draft & the express to the Vietnam worst kept secretly escalating war that both of our Duopoly Parties & Investor Class needed to keep going for their own investments to keep rising. My luck held out for a decade. After first year at CUNY I took my screen & stage-writing dreams of poetics with me to west coast and wound up finishing school at U.C.-Berkeley once I became a resident of NoCal, also with low-income partial subsidies & federal loans (yet also a hefty student debt took me 5-15 more years of crappy no way to survive Bukowski-an gig hamster wheels & hernias to pay off)...
I shoulda gone the grad school route. Am still scraping by on wholesale warehouse labor jobs for even fewer of the cartel such as singular King Kroger that controls food & human necessity supply chain with no competition left to the Corporate Conquistadors & Conquistadoras and my fellow citizens have learned nothing and are not curious to learn why our E-CON-o-my is based on Perma War (at least we mostly get others to fight our profitable for the few wars while pauperizing the working silent classes who mostly line up to vote and defend our Feudal Lords of Finance) "fancy pants Trump-ian financing...."
I'm grateful for there still being a few indie book stores left where low-rent Lit 'Zines from the world over help expand my view of life on this madly spinning planet of wonders and cruelties....
I do not have a lot of time for Labor but it was heartening to see the Liberal defeat given Dutton's shilling for Israeli genocide and because we know the Zionists, Israelis and Jews were pouring millions into his and the general Lib campaign. Australians said, fuck off.
And if history is any guide, Labor and the Greens will betray that trust you speak of. Time will determine whether or not I'm right, and I'd like to be wrong.
Do you know what percentage of Australians did NOT vote?
... and if not, there's always Queen Lizzy's Whitlam Maneuver, that her son King upChuck can now embrace. (Or Pine Gap might feel obliged to nuke Canberra.)
Congratulations to Ausralians! I haven't been this proud of your countrymen and women since the days of Gough Whitlam. ☆
How about the first film wave that brought Peter Weir's The Last Wave and Picnic At Hanging Rock to US shores? Along with the first community college courses on Filmic\Visual Mytho-Poetic Vocabulary and Film Lit grouped with poly-lingual course work and Comp Lit in the English Department good for a co-major or minor in what was then called in our parts Communications Arts & Sciences! Solid creative disciplines and foundation for the takeover of TeleComm markets and way too high Finance Foolery!
Early poetics from a local city college grad of Ivy Leagues with a real appetite for global Film Lit, Frederick Buell, also an extraordinary and barely cited NYC street poet with mytho-poetic vision drawn from local street life and vertical vision. Now a photographer of note as online search shows....
https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/118173
https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/buell-frederick-henderson
I was just a pup having left home for my first year of college (local and largely subsidized at a city school while I worked warehouse food industry, roomed with roaches and like me loony creative roommates in a low-rent hovel, get this in the East Village\Lower East Side way pre-gentrification and way downtown....)
https://cinephiliabeyond.org/picnic-at-hanging-rock/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Wave (Made 1976, reached US theaters 1977)
I fortunately drew the far reaches of military draft & the express to the Vietnam worst kept secretly escalating war that both of our Duopoly Parties & Investor Class needed to keep going for their own investments to keep rising. My luck held out for a decade. After first year at CUNY I took my screen & stage-writing dreams of poetics with me to west coast and wound up finishing school at U.C.-Berkeley once I became a resident of NoCal, also with low-income partial subsidies & federal loans (yet also a hefty student debt took me 5-15 more years of crappy no way to survive Bukowski-an gig hamster wheels & hernias to pay off)...
I shoulda gone the grad school route. Am still scraping by on wholesale warehouse labor jobs for even fewer of the cartel such as singular King Kroger that controls food & human necessity supply chain with no competition left to the Corporate Conquistadors & Conquistadoras and my fellow citizens have learned nothing and are not curious to learn why our E-CON-o-my is based on Perma War (at least we mostly get others to fight our profitable for the few wars while pauperizing the working silent classes who mostly line up to vote and defend our Feudal Lords of Finance) "fancy pants Trump-ian financing...."
I'm grateful for there still being a few indie book stores left where low-rent Lit 'Zines from the world over help expand my view of life on this madly spinning planet of wonders and cruelties....
Tio Mitchito
Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers
Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of A-Tonement Seekers)
Media Discussion List\Looksee
Centre-right: The guy that doesn't pose for pictures with his master.
I do not have a lot of time for Labor but it was heartening to see the Liberal defeat given Dutton's shilling for Israeli genocide and because we know the Zionists, Israelis and Jews were pouring millions into his and the general Lib campaign. Australians said, fuck off.
And if history is any guide, Labor and the Greens will betray that trust you speak of. Time will determine whether or not I'm right, and I'd like to be wrong.
Do you know what percentage of Australians did NOT vote?
... and if not, there's always Queen Lizzy's Whitlam Maneuver, that her son King upChuck can now embrace. (Or Pine Gap might feel obliged to nuke Canberra.)