Member Since: 27/04/2007
Band Website: http://www.goingdownswinging.org.au
Band Members:
Arundhati Roy “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.â€
Influences: Random and changeable recall, of those who woke me up, or help me sleep...
| Henry Miller "Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. "
- Alberto Giacometti "... I seek gropingly to grasp in the void the invisible white thread of the marvellous..."
| David Suzuki “We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit.†| Sir David Attenborough | Senator Bob Brown | Helen Caldicott | Soygal Rinpoche | Christopher Titmuss | St Francis of Assisi - "pace e bene" | Simone de Beauvoir | Arundhati Roy |
Gil Scott Heron | Ani Difranco | Carravagio | Michelangelo | Marino Moretti | Norman Lindsay | pappa | Stan Getz | Chet Baker | John Lurie | Fred Astaire | Fat Freddie's Drop | Doctor Pablo | Humphrey Bogart | Dirk Bogarde | Lauren Bacall | Johnny Rotten | Spalding Gray (but you broke our hearts, you bastard) |Billy Holiday | David Bowie | Tackhead | The Gotan Project | MC900FootJesus | The Fire This Time | Radio Tarifa | Einsturzende Neubaten | Gillian Welch | Elvis Costello "...tough and transparent as armoured glass..." | Salman Rushdie | James Joyce | TE Lawrence | Carlo Collodi - "...the story of Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, in which one sees that bad children do not like to be corrected by those who know more than they do." | Maya Angelou | Italo Calvino | Roberta Sykes | Ruby Hunter | ST Coleridge | Paul Auster | Vita Sackville-West | Cormac McCarthy | J.R.R. Tolkein "Not all who wander are lost."
| TTO - Australia's Homer (and I don't mean Simpson) | Dud & Pete, and Lano & Woodley's sleeping bag dance,
and especially Buster (mi comediante favorito y sin palabras)
and all The Goodies and Pythons and Goons and Mighty Booshes who make us laugh - because when we laugh we're falling in love with the world and people and that's a very, very, good thing.
Australia's poets, I love you, that's it, don't stop.
Schnitzel! (bon vivant rogue puppeteer Ronnie Burkett)