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Last couple of stories from Blackmill before I move on.
1. One summer's day I was on duty and walking back from a remote farm.On the way I started to pick and collect 'Cob nuts" to take home. When I arrived back at the station sat in my chair was a Chief Inspector (a bully and a particularly unpleasant man) who had called for a routine inspection. I am now standing in front of him in shirt sleeves with all the nuts I had collected inside my helmet on my head. Quick salute and I paid a very hasty visit to the toilet.
2. During our time we had a little Jack Russell terrier as a pet. One Sunday someone had found a stray greyhound and handed it into the Police Station. We had to keep this dog till Monday before the pound would take it. We didn't give any thought and allowed the dog into the house where it easily was able to reach the kitchen work surface and devoured our sunday roast before we had chance to carve it.
3. One of the major events in my life occurred at Blackmill. One Sunday morning I had been paying football only to return to discover my ex wife to be in the throws of labour. A rush to hospital in what I believe was a car borrowed from one of the friends from the Junction. Then 7 p.m. on 1st February 1976 my first born Gareth arrived.
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Continuing the series of my pictorial autobiography. This is Grove Road in Bridgend. As previously stated when I left Police Training School I was posted to Bridgend, so I needed somewhere to live. I was put in touch with an elderly widow who was looking to take in a lodger for the first time to supplement her income. Mrs Cooper was a wonderful woman and one of life's angels who treated me like the son she never had. I lived there for 12 months. Unfortunately after I left and got married her next lodger (another Policeman) was a bit of an A*se and took advantage of her generosity. He didn't last there for long and alas she never took in another lodger.
One of the great disappointments of my life was she passed away suddenly and was buried whilst I was abroad on a summer holiday and I never knew until I returned.
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Anonymous - Madeleine: An Autobiography
Pyramid Books G627, 1961
Cover Artist: Mort Engel
"What makes them do it?"
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Delay, well, travellers must expect
Delay. For how long? No one seems to know.
With all the luggage weighed, the tickets checked,
It can't be long … We amble too and fro,
Sit in steel chairs, buy cigarettes and sweets
And tea, unfold the papers. Ought we to smile,
Perhaps make friends? No: in the race for seats
You're best alone. Friendship is not worth while.
Six hours pass: if I'd gone by boat last night
I'd be there now. Well, it's too late for that.
The kiosk girl is yawning. I feel staled,
Stupefied, by inaction – and, as light
Begins to ebb outside, by fear; I set
So much on this Assumption. Now it's failed.
Jean-Paul Sartre - Words
Penguin Books 2727, 1971
Cover Design: Omnific
"I loathe my childhood and all that remains of it..."
Old Nick.
This building in the Bridgend Town Centre has recently been a pub and club but in 1971 it was my first Police Station posting. The building holds many fond and humorous memories far too many to mention here. Couple of the most prominent were the fear and respect for the management. Can recall an old Superintendent sending the young probationer to fetch his echo and when I asked him for the money he all but threw me out of the first floor window. Sunday mornings were a treat had to mop out and disinfect all the cells and wash the cars. There were also many fables and fantasies connected to the Nick one that was definitely untrue was there was no underground passage from the station to the Castle pub across the road. That also holds many fond memories
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Next instalment of my autobiography. This is the Police H.Q. Bridgend where 44 years ago last week I first walked through the gates to start my basic training. We stayed in large Nissen Huts (14 to a room). My two lasting memories were most evenings we'd play soccer down at Southerndown beach followed by a couple of pints in the Pelican. Also being in class one day when the Drill Sergeant (John Anderson RIP) came into the room and ask if anyone had experience of Office work ... I put my hand up and he said "follow me" i then had to move 5 filing cabinets, have never volunteered since.
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There was nothing ghoulish about it. They were the bones of a sheep: its skull, jawbones, and the rear end of its vertebral column. My arms were clutched about them jealously, my lips pursed. No one was going to take them from me.
Not that my parents would ever have done so. The bones were perfectly clean, picked bare by crows with boyish voices, and bleached by the relentless Australian sun. Perhaps my parents were collecting wood for the open fire; I was collecting bones.
Australia always struck me as a silly place to keep sheep. It is made for kangaroos. In order to open up the pastures, farmers ringbarked the marvellous gums in the dry sclerophyll forest, leaving them to die for the sake of their sheep. Now, they too are skeletons, gaunt against the endless high Australian skies. The sheep swelter, full-fleeced merinos, choking on their own wool, bleating their longing for colder climes. When they die, the bodies are not cleared away: out there, the farms are so large that the crows and blowfly maggots have eaten all the flesh long before the corpses are found.
Bones for me were wondrous treasures. Skulls were particularly so, because I could look into the hole that once accommodated the spinal cord – into that black, mystical space that once enshrined the brain. One time, I sawed a skull in half just so I could see the inside, but the mystery evaporated with the invading light. So I collected them in sackfuls, only lamenting the fact that I was alone in my hobby, and that there was no one with whom I could trade bones the way other children trade football cards: “I’ll trade your first cervical vertebra for a right femur: I already have three of those…”
My reference book was Edmund Sandars’s A Beast Book for the Pocket. The book described English fauna, but farm animals were also in it, and most importantly of all, it had diagrams of their skeletons, each set against the black silhouette of the form of the living creature. The page which showed the sheep skeleton was ever open in my bedroom. And gradually, month upon month, I assembled the whole thing: a Frankenstein’s monster sheep skeleton. Here was a shoulder blade I found sticking out of a tussock of grass; there were the long bones found scattered on an ants’ nest; a cage of ribs detached and bleached, and at last, the bones of the feet, all lovingly restored. When it was complete, I exulted, and laughed all jigsaws to scorn.
Photograph by Leslie Watson, 1972.
Lauren Bacall By Myself
Ballantine 26040, 1980
Back cover, spine, & front cover
Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1978
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THE THRILLING #1-BESTSELLING MEMOIR BY THE ADVENTURE LEGEND AND STAR OF NBC'S RUNNING WILD WITH BEAR GRYLLS Bear Grylls has always sought the ultimate in adventure. Growing up on a remote island off of Britain's windswept coast, he was taught by his father to sail and climb at an early age. Inevitably, it wasn't long before the young explorer was sneaking out to lead all-night climbing expeditions.As a teenager at Eton College, Bear found his identity and purpose through both mountaineering and martial arts. These passions led him into the foothills of the mighty Himalayas and to a karate grandmaster's remote training camp in Japan, an experience that soon helped him earn a second-degree black belt. Returning home, he embarked upon the notoriously grueling selection course for the British Special Forces to join the elite Special Air Service unit 21 SAS—a journ
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(title page) An Autobiography The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith the Colored Evangelist; Containing an Account of Her Life Work of Faith, and Her Travels in America, England, Ireland, Scotland, India, and Africa, as an Independent Missionary
Smith, Amanda
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Photo: installation by A23H, Ssamzie Space, Seoul 2002
Please see: complete A23H compositions
Alfred Harth - theatre & ballet
1979 "Der Brotladen," by B. Brecht, Schlicksuppteatertrupp, Frankfurt
„Drei Frauen/Mitten im Sumpf/Hunger nach Sinn“ by Alexander Kluge,Regie: Paul Binnert
1984 "Frankfurter Stadtoper," Music theatre,Römerberg Frankfurt
"Die Reise nach Aschenfeld," by F.K. Waechter, Residenztheater, München (with Heiner Goebbels)
"Frühlingserwachen," by F.Wedekind, Nationaltheater, Mannheim
1988 "Der Architekt und der Kaiser von Assyrien," by F.Arrabal, Schillertheater, Berlin
1990 "Antigone," by Sophokles/Hölderlin, Schauspielhaus, Duesseldorf
1992 "Pas de danse, pas de musique," Freies Tanztheater, Frankfurt
1993 "Elysian Park," by M.Streeruwitz, Deutsches Theater, Berlin
1994 „Winterreise," LaMaMa theatre New York City (in collaboration)
1997 "West Side Story" - creative rearrangements and music direction, Schauspiel, Frankfurt
2000 "Time is of the Essence," danceperformance with Tamas Moritz of the ensemble William Forsythe
2002 „That Person Then“,ballet-music for „On&Off“,Byeroreum,National Theater of Korea
„2833 The Blue Spot“,ballet music for „On&Off“,Chongdong Theater + Theatre Zero,Seoul
2003 „Mercury“,ballet music for „On&Off“,Theatre Zero,Seoul
2004 „That Person Then“,ballet music for „On&Off“
2005 ballet music for „On & Off“
tv & cinema
1981 "Schnelles Geld" by Raimund Koplin, Renate Stegmüller,
"Der subjektive Faktor" by Helke Sander(cooperation with Heiner Goebbels),
"Septemberweizen" by Peter Krieg (cooperation with Rolf Riehm)
1982 "Irrgarten" (with Annemarie Roelofs a.o.)
1983 "Luther und die Deutschen," ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, TV)
1984 "Der Beginn aller Schrecken ist Liebe" by Helke Sander (cooperation with Heiner Goebbels)
1985 "Sam Lang" Video-Installation
1986 "Letzte Vernunft," ZDF
1987 "Feuer und Klarheit," ZDF
1988 "Eifel" ,
"Linie 16" ,
"Der irre Spielmann",
"Stimmen der Nacht," ZDF
1989 "Lachen, weinen, lieben" ,
"Roter Mohn",ZDF,
ARD-Solo-Live
1990 "Geheime Welten" ZDF
1992 "Balance Action" tv-portrait of Alfred 23 Harth, TV Moscow,
Oberhausener Kurzfilmtage & Frankfurter Filmschau
1997 "Jazzferien 1996" Frankfurter Filmschau
1998 "Die kritische Masse" by Christian Bau
1999 - live-music to silent movies with Peter Kowald & Xu Feng Xia in Moscow /
- live-music to silent movies with Uwe Oberg to early Avantgardefilms.
- "Winterspruch - Arbeit für Hanns Eisler" with Blixa Bargeld, Hessian Filmprize
2002 "Akupunktur In Gruen“,film music,Seoul
2004 live-music to silent movies with Park Changsoo,Kevin
Norton,Chino Shuichi at Jeonju Fimfestival,Korea
2008 "Ethiopia Project" film by Kim Gyejoong,film music,Jeonju
International Film Festival,Korea
2011 Live music with Park Changsoo, Fabrizio Spera to accompany silent films at Kumho Art Hall Seoul.
2019 portrait film about the German writer Paulus Böhmer,
directed by Gunter Deller
radio plays
1987 "Dass sie im All sind, das ist schon merkwürdig" words Paul
Scheerbart a.o.,
"Boys meet girl" words Gertrude Stein, "Axiom," Hessischer
Rundfunk
1988 "Transport eines nichtexistenten Ortes" - audioperformance
zusammen mit Peter Fey
1989 "Der Raum hinter den Worten" / "Lorita" / "Vol de nuit,"
words Jürgen Ploog,Bayrischer Rundfunk
"if god is dead he surely is in heaven" audioperformance
1992 "WEAST," WDR / "Memoria Eschatologica - Versuch über
den Isenheimer Altar"
1997 "Wäre ich unsterblich, könnte ich leben?" words Paulus
Böhmer
2002 "Seoul Milk," Hessischer Rundfunk
2021 Radio play (SWR) with Sweet Paris texts by Wolf Pehlke together with Peter Fey (Moloko Plus 115, 2CD)
mixed media
1984 "Marry the world by conference call," Frankfurt
1986 "Amphibian Match," underwater concert, Frankfurt
1986 "Telephone World Concert," Frankfurt / "PSI TO LEN" performance
1987 "Red Art" - Solo performance music & art
1990 "1.Kasseler Videosalon," performance with Dmitri Prigov
1993 "alphabeth 25" performance HfbK Hamburg with Dimitrij Prigov and Vladimir Tarasov
1993 "Gedankenhotel"
1994 "Tensides," Filmmuseum Frankfurt
1996 "Instant Composition Clip" videocomposition for orchestra
1997 starting with digital videos & video-photography
1999 "Winterspruch" video (in collaboration) featuring Blixa Bargeld
2001 "brocken biest 0101" live electronic tool remix
2001 "splendor solis" live electronic tool remix
2002 "Terror Milk“,video & audioperformance,Ssamzie-Baram,Seoul (with Kim Hyungtae)
„Conference Tunnel / Provisional Government“,Seoul, (with Kim Hyungtae)
2003 "Kreuzung“,400 digital-pictures,Frankfurt # Seoul
„AA_FESTIVAL“,5 days of mixed-medias,documented on pic-CDR
2004 Mixedmediaperformance,video frame recs & Numark CDX,Seoul
„Kut at Sarubia“,Performance & Video,Seoul
2005 RELAY 1 - 4
"iGnorance“ for string-quartet & electronics
2006 RELAY 5
"For Conrad Schnitzler" video performance at EXiS filmfestival,Seoul (with Kim Gyejoong)
2008 "Taste Tribes",group and CD with Günter Müller,Hans-Joachim Irmler and Eruption
2010 "Hypna Clytemnestra",Free Music Festival Seoul
2011 "MyFashionshow", Dirk Fleischmann, DJing at Arko Theatre Seoul
2012 "Scratching old A23H vinyl" with Dickson Dee in Shenzhen.
"Abstract Walking" for Kim Sora, Artsonje Center
2013 "Shark without Fin", video composition Hong Kong
2014 "invocation orhk", Buddha Machine vol.2/China Collection+Gedankenhotel 90ies video
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I graduated P.S. 200 located in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn (1977) and played bells on stage at the ceremony. Later I graduated Mark Twain IS 239 for the Gifted and Talented in 1980 (Coney Island, New York City), where I volunteered as a yearbook photographer twain239.com/m/
Later, I graduated The College of New Jersey with a Bachelor of Arts degree, where I independently worked as a television studio engineer, cameraman, and lighting technician.
Now, I am an independent media owner with my own NYC recording studio and digital network: I am the best entertainment professional in the World.
I spend my time quietly creating my own original digital media, television and music products (with my own digital recording, computer equipment, products, studio and label) I enjoy producing new ideas and developing my unique concepts into stunning pictures, television scripts and design illustrations. This is where my graphic design education takes light and allows me to bring the World around me into a different and meaningful prospective to visually share color with others.
When I am not busy working I enjoy a fine dinner, concert, watching theatre.
"United States Marine Corps calisthenics. Run in place Sit ups Pull ups Run March Work in a Arsenal cleaning a bunch of M16A2s PFC (e-2) Injuries Pool (diving, swimming in full gear (my uniform) Ran and completed the crusibal first Cleaning the squad bay Private showers Polished Boots and metal at night Constantly guarded weapons and my foot locker and my rack, my gear, my blanket, bag and pillow Attended graduation Guarded weight center met a congressman) Inspection (a Colonel) Honorable discharge in 1987 Ran Marines (I was lead runnner) Moved racks on camouflaged truck Parris Island Flew on a Boeing Ran off bus in the middle of the night… woke by Marines yelling to get off the bus (move out) where it all started for my basic training Linked up at reception center for haircuts, Boots, uniforms, rifle, canteen, bag, etc. Dined at chow hall Guarded chow hall with my rifle in the rain (a terrential storm, with deep water forming a hurricane with another marine buddy) Slept in a squad bay with approximately 30 other men Marines and 3 drill instructors Worked in office sitting at a desk answering the telephone Linked up for inspection fingernails and cleanliness after shower wrapped in a towel Squad bay lineup School circle front hatch left hand left knee right hand right knee, attention on drill instructor (school) Special hearing exam in a steel capsule for silence Special language exam Pugal Rifle range Commissary when I was discharged Bus ride home Walked home in the winter from the train station Ran and exercised in my USMC tee shirt Quarantined for a week in a special squad bay chicken pox concern. I had chicken pox as a child Marched Met girls (wms, woman Marine) at doctors office Wore a Cover and matching (dark green) uniform Woken by rifle range noise, harrier airplanes taking off and landing, drill instructor yelling lights in the early morning Woken in the middle of the night for (fire watch) Promoted to PFC (e-2) upon my discharge...
Brooklyn
Played Basketball alone (jammed my finger)
Racquetball
Stickball
Cleaned disco club
Attended bible study class at church
Boy scouts met a church basement
Boy scouts camped and climbed bear mountain
Camp LANOAH
Camp SHANADOAH
Mark Twain (Coney Island, New York)
Boston ships scrimshaw
Creative writing major
Visual media major
Photography Darkroom (Alison)
Gym uneven parallel bars, horse, ropes (climbing) (Tina McCoy)
Yearbook photographer
North Brunswick
All night skate Kendall park
Bowling caroler lanes
Outdoor movie theater
Playhouse games (Quebert)
Motorcycles
Cars
Raceway park
Shore (boats, swimming, boardwalk, games, rides)
Cruising movie City five with Amy and girlfriends... 73 vega GT, Camaro, Mustang"
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My own original recipe...
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Salchicha (1 Porción), Especias, Mantequilla (Rebanada), Fideos (1 Taza), Salsa Española
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I am writing to introduce myself. My birth name is Jonathan Upshur. My nickname is DiNZeL. I am a native-born New Yorker (A Brooklynite), living alone in my New York City private brand new prestigious luxury residence, I am a single intelligent, and well-educated person.
As a child I was a Cub Scout and Boy Scout, I played Pitcher with the New York Yankee Little League. Later following my high school graduation, I joined The United States Marine Corps and received an Honorable discharge. I have been Honored by the United States Presidents several times for outstanding service during the past and present. I am an American Hero, Yankee and living Legend with a prominent family, name and education.
My unique screenname is "DiNZeL". I am a straight born alone New York native, American citizen mixed (Sicilian, European White, Spanish, German, American Indian...) 6' tall athletic, muscular, handsome, young good-looking man with short black, neat mixed hair. My birthday sign is Leo, my birthday is in August.
I dived and swam in Marine Corps swimming pool. I can sail a boat, swim with a canoe, helped repair NAS JAX NAVY BASE, Coast Cutter Maria Brea I also volunteed to help the Veteran Cemetery...
I also worked lighting at the Superbowl halftime show in Miami.
Other languages:
Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, Hebrew
DiNZeL AUTOBIOGRAPHY,
SCOUT, (HONORABLE) HONORED VETERAN,
PILOT (AIRPLANE), DRIVER, FORKLIFT, DRIVER, STUNT DRIVER, DIVER, SWIMMER, MUSICIAN, SHOWMAN, CAT HANDLER (TRAINER), STAR, HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITY, DANCE, MARCHING BAND, DRUMMER, GUITAR, PERFORMER, BELLS, XYLOPHONE, COW BELL, CHIMES, ORCHESTRA, MISTER PERFECT, BASEBALL PITCHER, PARENT, MOTORCYCLE, BOATING, ATHLETIC, PROGRAMMER, MOUNTAIN CLIMBER, CAMERAMAN, EDITOR, ROLLERBLADE, ROLLER SKATE, SKATEBOARD, HORSEBACK RIDER, COOKING, SINGER...
I graduated P.S. 200 located in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn (1977) and played bells on stage at the ceremony. Later I graduated Mark Twain IS 239 for the Gifted and Talented in 1980 (Coney Island, New York City), where I volunteered as a yearbook photographer twain239.com/m/
Later, I graduated The College of New Jersey with a Bachelor of Arts degree, where I independently worked as a television studio engineer, cameraman, and lighting technician.
Now, I am an independent media owner with my own NYC recording studio and digital network: I am the best entertainment professional in the World.
I spend my time quietly creating my own original digital media, television and music products (with my own digital recording, computer equipment, products, studio and label) I enjoy producing new ideas and developing my unique concepts into stunning pictures, television scripts and design illustrations. This is where my graphic design education takes light and allows me to bring the World around me into a different and meaningful prospective to visually share color with others.
When I am not busy working I enjoy a fine dinner, concert, watching theatre.
"United States Marine Corps calisthenics. Run in place Sit ups Pull ups Run March Work in a Arsenal cleaning a bunch of M16A2s PFC (e-2) Injuries Pool (diving, swimming in full gear (my uniform) Ran and completed the crusibal first Cleaning the squad bay Private showers Polished Boots and metal at night Constantly guarded weapons and my foot locker and my rack, my gear, my blanket, bag and pillow Attended graduation Guarded weight center met a congressman) Inspection (a Colonel) Honorable discharge in 1987 Ran Marines (I was lead runnner) Moved racks on camouflaged truck Parris Island Flew on a Boeing Ran off bus in the middle of the night… woke by Marines yelling to get off the bus (move out) where it all started for my basic training Linked up at reception center for haircuts, Boots, uniforms, rifle, canteen, bag, etc. Dined at chow hall Guarded chow hall with my rifle in the rain (a terrential storm, with deep water forming a hurricane with another marine buddy) Slept in a squad bay with approximately 30 other men Marines and 3 drill instructors Worked in office sitting at a desk answering the telephone Linked up for inspection fingernails and cleanliness after shower wrapped in a towel Squad bay lineup School circle front hatch left hand left knee right hand right knee, attention on drill instructor (school) Special hearing exam in a steel capsule for silence Special language exam Pugal Rifle range Commissary when I was discharged Bus ride home Walked home in the winter from the train station Ran and exercised in my USMC tee shirt Quarantined for a week in a special squad bay chicken pox concern. I had chicken pox as a child Marched Met girls (wms, woman Marine) at doctors office Wore a Cover and matching (dark green) uniform Woken by rifle range noise, harrier airplanes taking off and landing, drill instructor yelling lights in the early morning Woken in the middle of the night for (fire watch) Promoted to PFC (e-2) upon my discharge...
Brooklyn
Played Basketball alone (jammed my finger)
Racquetball
Stickball
Cleaned disco club
Attended bible study class at church
Boy scouts met a church basement
Boy scouts camped and climbed bear mountain
Camp LANOAH
Camp SHANADOAH
Mark Twain (Coney Island, New York)
Boston ships scrimshaw
Creative writing major
Visual media major
Photography Darkroom (Alison)
Gym uneven parallel bars, horse, ropes (climbing) (Tina McCoy)
Yearbook photographer
North Brunswick
All night skate Kendall park
Bowling caroler lanes
Outdoor movie theater
Playhouse games (Quebert)
Motorcycles
Cars
Raceway park
Shore (boats, swimming, boardwalk, games, rides)
Cruising movie City five with Amy and girlfriends... 73 vega GT, Camaro, Mustang"
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Virginia McManus - Not For Love
Dell Books 6480, 1964
Cover design uncredited
"The outspoken, unashamed autobiography of the school teacher who became a call girl."
Adam was well named, for he was a rascal and a sinner. My first memory of him was the sight of him clambering back over the fence after he had been caught trespassing in the garden. He was as wild as the little rabbit kitten he had been raising, which also once escaped into our garden, perhaps to cavort with Benji, my own, rather larger rabbit. I took one look at Adam’s rabbit, which was an identical colour to my own, and rushed inside, shouting, “Mummy, Benji’s shrunk!”, until Benji himself lolloped out of the undergrowth and stood beside Adam’s little runaway.
As Adam grew older, his misdemeanours grew proportionally in magnitude. I was, by comparison, very naive, and I was very surprised and bemused some years later when he tried to sell me a foil sausage full of weed. I asked him how much he wanted for it, and he said, “$20”. Twenty dollars was, at that time, more money than I had ever dreamed of. Not that I would have dared to smoke his grass anyway.
Adam and I did, however, have one thing in common. We both liked to turn over stones. Across the road from our houses in suburban Canberra, there was an area of “waste-land”, a veritable “brown-field” site covered with tussocky grass, and stones – oh, so many stones. Some of the stones were small, and I could manage these myself, but others were massive, and the two of us would labour at them, levering them with sticks of ancient, ringbarked gumtrees. Mostly, the things we found underneath them were cockroaches, or the larvae of Christmas beetles, which we thought were the real witchetty grubs. Sometimes – quite often, in fact – there were lizards: slippery brown and gold skinks which surrendered their tails if you grabbed them in the wrong place (we never grabbed them in the wrong place), and bluetongues which liked to be fed on snails and bananas. Once, there was a snake.
It was, admittedly, a very little snake, but I wasn’t going to risk anything by touching it. I knew that pythons were non-venomous, but this wasn’t a python, and just about every other Australian snake I knew was venomous to some degree. But Adam plunged straight underneath the stone, and grabbed it expertly behind the jaw. To this day, I don’t know how I let him persuade me to take it home and keep it for a pet. Perhaps it was because I knew that the “waste land” was due to be annexed to the local horticultural centre, and turned into lawn: no place for snakes. But whatever the reason, the two of us marched off to my place: Adam ahead of me, the snake with its mouth open, its body coiled around his fingers; me trailing behind, trying to think of more excuses for not taking the snake home. Not that I was a coward. Secretly, half of me did want to take the snake home, because I wanted to identify it.
Believe it or not, my parents were used to this sort of thing, and when we got to my place, my father dug out an old fish-tank which we could use as a terrarium, and the snake was soon installed inside it. For a while it seemed sleepy, and sat basking under the fish-tank light, but gradually it began to wake up.
We first knew for sure that we were in for trouble when my father walked past the tank later the day, and the snake reared up like a cobra and struck at the side of the tank. A thin trickle of venom ran down the glass, and at last we got out the identification guides. Eventually, we found it. Adam had brought a baby brown snake into our house. Only a baby, perhaps, but still one of the deadliest snakes in the world. We knew then that we would have to release it as soon as possible, so we went away to discuss where, and how.
When we returned, the snake was gone, and the cover-glass slipped to one side at the top of the tank. It took us hours to search under every chair and table, behind the curtains, under the fridge. Eventually we found it, curled on top of a plastic bag in my mother’s sewing room. Of course, Adam had gone home by this stage, and it was left to my father to put on some thick leather gloves and pick up the snake, holding it deftly behind the jaw, just like Eric Worrell.
Of course, the next thing a normal family would do would be to get the snake out of the house as soon as possible, but we weren’t a normal family. The next thing we did was to get the camera. My father was still holding the snake, so he couldn’t take the photograph. My mother had suddenly shown considerable enthusiasm for cleaning behind the fridge. So it was me with the camera, doing one of my very first macro shots. Perhaps I was ten years old at the time. Those are my father's hands.
I wonder what happened to Adam.
Page 338 of the Autobiography of Amanda Smith.
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First edition, 1999
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
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(title page) An Autobiography The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith the Colored Evangelist; Containing an Account of Her Life Work of Faith, and Her Travels in America, England, Ireland, Scotland, India, and Africa, as an Independent Missionary
Smith, Amanda
iii-xvi, 17-506
Chicago:
Meyer & Brother, Publishers,
108 Washington Street,
1893
Lowell Blair (editor & translator) - The Memoirs of Casanova
Bantam Books Q3738, 1968
Cover: Engraving by James Gillray 1792
The original engraving included this caption: "Fashionable Contrasts; – or – the Duchess's little shoe yielding to the magnitude of the Duke's foot"
Originally published by Hannah Humphrey on January 24, 1792.
The print shows the feet and ankles of the Duke and Duchess of York (Frederick, Duke of York and Albany 1763-1827, son of George III, and Frederica Charlotte Ulrica 1767-1820, his wife), in an obviously copulatory position, with the Duke's feet enlarged and the Duchess's feet drawn very small.
Alfred Harth - Discography
www.flickr.com/photos/a23h/sets/1738253/
alfred-harth-vinyl.blogspot.com/
laubhuettestudio.blogspot.com/
www.discogs.com/search?type=all&q=alfred+harth&bt...
JUST MUSIC,1969,ECM 1002
4.JANUAR 1970,Alfred Harth Quintet
CANADIAN CUP OF COFFEE,1974,FMP/SAJ 02
VIER FÄUSTE FÜR HANNS EISLER,1976,FMP/SAJ 08 + ReR,2007,London,2CD
VOM SPRENGEN DES GARTENS,1978,FMP/SAJ 20+ ReR,2007,London,2CD
ES HERRSCHT UHU IM LAND,1981,ECM/JAPO 60037
INDIANER FÜR MORGN,1981,Eigelstein/Riskant 4001
ZEIT WIRD KNAPP,1981,Eigelstein/Riskant 4014
FRANKFURT-PEKING,1984,Eigelstein/Riskant 4011
LIVE IN VICTORIAVILLE,1987,Canada,victo 04
GOEBBELS HEART,1992+1995,Tokyo,evva
SOGENANNTES LINKSRADIKALES BLASORCHESTER,1977/1980+1999,Trikont 258
SAXOFONORCHESTER FRANKFURT,1982,FMP/SAJ 40
MAN OR MONKEY,1982+1994,London,ReR
THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST,1984+1997,London ReR
THIS EARTH!,1983,ECM 1264
MACHANDELBOOM,1984,Eigelstein + 2005,SACD
MELCHIOR,1984,Biber Records 6240,Germany
DUCK & COVER,1986,London,ReR,Vol.1 Quaterly
NOUVELLE CUISINE,1985,Moers Music 2038
GESTALT ET JIVE,1986,Switzerland,CWR 1006/7
RED ART,1986,Switzerland,CWR 1004
ANYTHING GOES.1986,Switzerland,CWR 1005
PLAN EDEN,1987,Switzerland,CWR 1008
GO-NO-GO,1987,FMP 1150
DIE ZERSPLITTERUNG,1989,Wolke Verlag Hofheim
OH MOSCOW,1991,Canada,victo 015
THREE QUARKS FOR MUSTER MARK,1989,enja/Tiptoe 888803
SWEET PARIS,1991,free flow music 0291
POPENDING EYE,1992,free flow music 0493
DOMESTIC STORIES,1992,London ReR LSM
REALITY CHECK,1993,Cop International
STATE OF VOLGOGRAD,1994,FMP 57
POLLOCK,1996,FTF/OS 011
A TWO THREE AGE,1997,Vinyl 11“,ttt
SECRETS OF DEVELOPMENT,1999,Blue Noises 56512
WAXWEBWIND@EBROADWAY,2002,Portugal,Trem Azul/Clean Feed 003
ESHIP SUM,2003,1000CD,Corea
NU:CLEAR RE:ACTOR,2004,O BACK CD,Corea - doubleCD
HEART/PO$TER,2004,rasbliutto CDR,Portland
ONJO,doubtmusic,Japan
T_ERROR + kr ./. jp,2005,Slowalk 01,Corea - DVD + CD
SEOUL MILK,2005,Slowalk 02,Corea
OUT TO LUNCH,doubtmusic,Japan
NUN, 2006, O BACK CD, Corea
EXPEDITION, 2006, ESP 4031, USA
ONJO Live Vol.1 "series circuit" ,2007,doubtmusic,Japan - doubleCD
ONJO Live Vol.2 "parallel circuit" ,2007,doubtmusic,Japan - doubleCD
HOMURA,2007,off note,Japan - DVD+CD
SORA,2007, EWE, Japan
7000 OAKS, 2007, die schachtel, Italy
TRIO VIRIDITAS : Live at Vision Festival VI,Clean Feed 115, Portugal, 2008
TASTE TRIBES, 2008, for4ears, Switzerland
ENTELECHY, 2011, die schachtel, Italy
MICRO_SAXO_PHONE III + IV,2011+2013, KSE, USA
GIFT FIG, 2012, KSE,USA
GESTALT ET DEATH, 2012, Al Maslakh, Libanon
THE EXPATS, 2013, KSE, USA
AS YVES DREW A LINE.ESTATE,2013,Re-Records,Hong Kong
CASSIBER BOX,2 013, ReR, UK
CHINA COLLECTION, 2014, KSE, USA
FIVE EYES, 2014, Moloko+, Germany
STELLENBOSCH, 2015, KSE, USA
CAMELLIA, 2015, KSE,
CONFUCIUS TARIF REDUIT, 2015,sporeprint, Germany
KEPLER 452b EDITION, 2016, KSE, USA
MALCHA, 2016, Moloko+, Germany
A23H's BERLIN ENSEMBLES, 2016, KSE, USA
SHANGHAI QUINTET, 2017, KSE, USA
CAMPANULA, 2017, Moloko+, Germany
LAUBHUETTE PRODUCTIONS, SIDE A, 2018, play/rec, China
WHEN THE FUTURE WAS NOW, 2018, KSE, USA
KIRSCHBLUETEN MIT VERSTECKTEM SPRENGSTOFF, 2019, Moloko Plus,Germany
LAUBHUETTE PRODUCTIONS, SIDE 1, 2020, Moloko Plus,Germany
SWEET PARIS/SWEET PARIS RELOADED, 2CD, 2022, Moloko Plus,Germany
NISCHEN, 2023, Moloko Plus,Germany
LIVE IN RHEIN-MAIN.FOR HOLLI, 2025, ADN, Italy
STREAMING (ON BANDCAMP):
MICRO-SAXO-PHONE, 2010, on KSE, USA
INVOCATION ORHK, 2013, Hong Kong
Archive works:
LAUBHUETTE PRODUCTIONS, SIDE A, 2018, on play/rec, Shanghai
NEOWISE, 2020, on Al Maslakh, Beirut, Lebanon
WHO SHOT THE RABBIT?, 2021
Y NOT, 2021
MEMORIA ESCHATOLOGICA, 2021
FILM AND THEATER MUSIC COMPI II, 2021
SAM LANG, 2021
55 QUINTETS, 2021
WENN GOTT TOT IST, DANN IST ER IM HIMMEL, 2022
AXIOM, 2022
SIN:NED + ALFRED 23 HARTH LIVE, 2022
METTE RASMUSSEN + ALFRED 23 HARTH LIVE, 2022
REKLAME DER WIRKLICHKEIT, 2022
SUPERDELUXE 2000 - 2007, 2022
DUO GOEBBELS/HARTH SPECIAL, 2022
SAX PRESIDENT, 2022
MOTHER OF PEARL, 2022
HOERSPIELE 1987, 2022
HALE PEAT - THE SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE OF HALE BOPP, 2023
TRIBOLOGY, 2023
FOXFUR, 2023
HONEYMOON AFTER 1ST WORLD MARRIAGE 1984, 2023
TATTOO, 2023
WORK IS LOVE MADE VISIBLE, 2023
EMT 1973, 2024
NEW THING 1968 - 1972, 2024
Frankfurt - Seoul via New York 1999 - 2004, 2024
Took this photo in Kinokuniya. Yotsuba must be really proud, only 5 and already has her own autobiography.
adorooooooooo hehehe eu gostei da blend, apesar de ter ficado um pouco estranha!! blend velha, meu ps ta uma titikinha :]
Arrian was a Greek who served the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a governor and (perhaps) as a general; after he retired, he specialised in writing military histories. Arrian regarded Alexander as
'a hero totally unlike any other human
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are books that I have read or will read at some point. The books are non fiction, history,biographies and autobiography’s of people and historical events I found to be interesting.
This 2014 Range Rover Autobiography Edition received a complete ONEighty package. We color-coded the lower skirts all around the car, refinished the wheels in gloss black, various gloss black accents along with a full gloss black roof. The nose was wrapped in Clear-Bra, along with the rear bumper.
This bridge is a walkway under the Western Ave Cardif and presently connects Gabalfa Estate with the Tescos Superstore. When I was a young kid this was a dried up canal that was a footpath through to Bute Park and the City Centre. The significance of this is from my distant memory there used to be thick wood where Tesco is and in that wood was an old cottage overgrown by shrubbery. An old lady lived in the cottage and sold penny sweets to the kids but everyone was scared to go into the house because she was "a witch who ate children for tea". I only went in their once and thankfully she wasn't hungry that day.
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Wayne McGregor's 'Autobiography, danced by Company Wayne McGregor at Sadlers Wells, October 2017.
We photographed the first three sections only
Dancers:
Rebecca Bassett-Graham
Jordan James Bridge
Travis Clausen-Knight
Louis McMiller
Daniella Neugebauer
Jacob O'Connell
James Pett
Fukiko Takase
Po-Lin Tung
Jessica Wright
photo - © Dave Morgan
.my personal photo.
"I walked a thousand miles while everyone was asleep
Nobody's really seen my million subtleties
Got stains on my t-shirt and I'm the biggest flirt
Right now I'm solo but that will be changing eventually
Got bruises on my heart and sometimes I get dark
If you want my auto, want my autobiography
Baby, just ask me"
-Autobiography - Ashlee Simpson
1. I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost ... I am hopeless.
It isn't my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.
2. I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don't see it.
I fall in again.
I can't believe I'm in the same place.
But it isn't my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.
3. I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it is there.
I still fall in ... it's a habit.
My eyes are open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.
4. I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.
5. I walk down another street.
- Portia Nelson
"Before the 1940s, it had been located on the west side of Belardo Road, two streets south of Arenas Road"
www.peggyleediscography.com/p/Prerecording.php
XI. Hollywood (Chapter 2) And Peggy Lee's Early Singing Style (Take 1)
Following her recovery from surgery, a jobless Lee took advantage of the fact that a couple of members of the disbanded Osborne orchestra were driving back to California, and left with them. Thus Lee landed back in Hollywood. She quickly resumed work at The Jade Lounge, and this time she found a more convenient apartment nearby, on Whitley Avenue.
While performing at the Jade, Peggy Lee met lyricist Jack Brooks, of "Ole Buttermilk Sky" fame. Brooks told Lee that she would be a suitable addition to a Palm Springs establishment known as the Doll House. Soon thereafter, she was performing at this celebrity-frequented haunt which advertised itself as the oldest restaurant in Palm Springs.
(Images seen above: Two mementoes from the Doll House and a mid-1950s photo of the restaurant at its best-known location, 1032 North Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs. Before the 1940s, it had been located on the west side of Belardo Road, two streets south of Arenas Road. The first of the above-seen images flaunts the house's motto -- "for food, fun, frivolity" -- and includes the "doll face" logo that was featured in most of the restaurant's artifacts. One such artifact is the matchbox captured in the second photo. This is actually the backside of the matchbox; its front side shows the exact same design seen in the first photo.)
Most of the Doll House accounts in print start with the post-war period, when the restaurant was bought by George and Ethel Strebe (later known as Ethel Harutun), and when the likes of Frank Sinatra and Marlene Dietrich assiduously frequented the place. What's more, some of those accounts wrongly claim that the Doll House opened in 1945, thereby erasing its pre-war history.
Given the lack of extensive literature about the place's early days, the following comments from Peggy Lee's autobiography are particularly worthwhile: "The Doll House, not too surprisingly, was originally the home of some folks named Doll. They started serving dinners because Palm Springs didn't have many, if any, restaurants then. Mr. Wrigley, of the Spearmint gum fortune, loved that sunny place and the story goes that he used to say, 'Let's go to the Doll House for dinner. The name stuck and it became a very popular spot for world travelers and movie stars. I recognized Franchot Tone, Peter Lorre, James Cagney, Jack Benny, Dennis Day and many others, but only Franchot Tone and Peter Lorre talked with me." Obviously, this story about the origins of the restaurant's name was the one that Lee heard, presumably while she was employed there. It could be true, but it could just as well be apocryphal.
Another source states that the Doll house first opened in the 1930s, and that its original owners were named Al Thompson and Jane Manchester. I have also come across one indication that, at an unspecified point in time, the establishment housed a doll shop. If true, and if the shop was in place during the house's earliest years, that claim could provide another logical explanation for the establishment's name.
At the Doll House, Peggy Lee was sometimes accompanied by the house's Guadalajara Trio, who were also known as the Guadalajara Boys. Many years later, Lee would actually hire them for one of her more latinesque recording dates.
(Extended commentary about the images shown above: The first photo features character actor Peter Lorre and vaudevillian Lew Fields, playing gin rummy at one of the Doll House tables. This photo was taken in 1941, the same year in which Peggy Lee regularly performed there, and in which Lorre himself would talk to her. Since the Doll House was said to have a backroom where gambling was conducted, it may be that Lorre and Fields were in that room when this shot was taken.
The second photo is a 1943 shot of the Doll House's front, spotlighting a soldier and a lady standing by its door. Engraved above the front door is the Spanish word for canteen -- one of various details which suggest that the restaurant might have offered Hispanic food and a Mexican ambience during its early, pre-war years. Post-war, I've come across allusions to the Doll House as a Polynesian restaurant.
The Guadalajara Trio is seen in the last photo. Peggy Lee writes in her 1989 autobiography that, after more than 40 years, she could still hear them performing, in her head. She also quotes, without further clarification, what must have been either their customary greeting to audiences or, otherwise, a line from an often-performed song of theirs: "Tonight will live forever." Life forever was not granted to the Doll House itself, unfortunately: by 1966, it was no more. Its North Palm Canyon Drive premises were taken over by Sorrentino's Steak & Lobster House, which advertised itself as a favorite of Frank Sinatra, and stayed in business until 2002.
On the specific topic of the Guadalajara Trio, I must clarify that the three individuals in the photograph might not necessarily be the same ones with which Peggy Lee sang. I am inclined to believe that they are, but I have no confirmation, and online data about this group is confusing. The trio probably went through various editions or permutations. The three men who played at the Doll House appear to have been Lamberto Leyva, Jesús Castillón, and Mario Santos. It is likely that additional members joined them at the House; such additions could be the reason why they were also known as the Guadalajara Boys. The trio also appeared in various 1940s B movies, such as Abbott & Costello's 1942 flick Rio Rita and the 1945 Cisco Kid western South Of The Rio Grande. In some of those movies, all three members are seen singing and playing guitar, but at the Doll House they could have played additional instruments. Though typically wearing Mexican (mariachi) costumes for their act, the group does not seem to have come straight from Mexico. According to vague commentaries found online, all members might have actually been of Spaniard rather than Mexican heritage. Founder Leyva was born in Arizona, came to Palm Springs in 1939, and was still living there when he passed away at the age of 94, in 2010. There is also a Trío Guadalajara who recorded numerous albums and which was well known in Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries. During its heyday, all three members of that trio happened to be named José -- Boluda, Ivanco, and Vázquez. I assume that el Trío Guadalajara was either an entirely different group or otherwise a later edition of the Guadalajara Trio that played at the Doll House.)
Peggy Lee claimed to have developed her fondness for soft singing at the Doll House. On a Saturday night, the nightclub was packed and rowdier than usual, partially due to the weekend revelers who were intent on having a jolly old time, and partially on account of Jack Benny, who had come in with the staff of his radio show. "The audience was unusually boisterous," Lee told an interviewer in 1948. "To cope with the noise, I lowered my voice with each successive song. The people soon forgot their bad manners, and I found a kind of delivery I’d been seeking for a long while." Faced with her personalized brand of relaxed, subtly delivered singing, customers felt compelled to quiet down and pay closer attention. "In a moment of intense fear," Lee said to another interviewer, in 1984, "I discovered the power of softness. I was thinking people didn’t want to listen to me, so I’d just sing to myself. They immediately stopped talking."
(Images shown above: Three snapshots of the Doll House while in full operation. Though unfortunately suffering from low quality, the first image and the last one give a fair glimpse of the interior of the Doll House as it looked in the mid-1950s. In the first image, the club's large bar can be seen in the background. The foreground spotlights just a small segment of the crowded table area. In the third photo, notice how the piano seems to be smack in the middle, inside a triangular enclosure that is surrounded by tables on at least two of its three sides. As for the second photo, possibly taken in the 1940s, the festive dancing at hand should provide yet one more impression of how crowded and popular the place could be. Incidentally, two male members of the Guadalajara Boys are visible in that second photo. Also seen is an unidentified woman who, given her attire and positioning, could be a singer with the Boys.)