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The prosthetic work, done largely by Vivienne MacGillycuddy, was first class, but for the zombies themselves it was a test of endurance. These are polaroids of a mould of my head being taken.The process resulted in this souvenir - my old http://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.com/2011/07/killer-zombies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sam sejavka)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367839961931530504.post-1327228087162129235Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:17:00 +00002011-07-18T10:45:53.804+10:00ROB OAKESHOTTCLIMATE CHANGEJULIA GILLARDPOLITICSSCIENCEThis morning I heard Rob Oakeshott phrase something rather eloquently on the science of Climate Change. To paraphrase, he asked would you take your child to the doctor if they were sick? Wouldn't you be negligent if you did not? If your car was malfunctioning, wouldn't you take it to a mechanic?This is to say that we rely, sensibly, on experts to inform and advise us on subjects in which we are http://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.com/2011/07/do-you-believe-in-pink-and-plump.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sam sejavka)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367839961931530504.post-5301122149697111193Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:35:00 +00002011-07-16T12:13:59.316+10:00NATUREPLANTSWith the last of the light, we drove to Thompson’s Dam, that vast body of water which supplies most of Melbourne’s water. Particularly during the drought, one was repeatedly shown evidence of its declining volume in newspapers and TV. The slopes of dark broken rock and the installation’s various towers and structures were therefore instantly familiar - none more so than the exposed strata along http://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.com/2011/07/lichen-in-face-of-adversity.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sam sejavka)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367839961931530504.post-6931688059897206540Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:23:00 +00002011-07-16T11:18:13.149+10:00HATREDCRUELTYPOLITICSIGNORANCE. STUPIDITYTONY ABBOTTI was in the country yesterday. East Gippsland. With Polly, her friend Y and Y’s dad. There was a surprising coincidence that day [the meat of which was reported on the evening news and in the following morning’s papers]

On Wednesday, in Frankston [Melbourne] a woman, who was a Greens party member, had been invited to a community meeting on the Carbon Tax to be hosted by Tony Abbott. But it wasnhttp://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.com/2011/07/abhorrent.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sam sejavka)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367839961931530504.post-5497015191498357960Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:30:00 +00002011-07-11T13:39:24.529+10:00HCVDEADLY SPORESLAWHEALTHSPASMO-NEMIGRONSlowly, with certainty, day by day, I’m emerging from the woes of the past 27 months. I still have plenty to agonise over as I flail in my bed at night, but it’s of a far different order than what has gone before.All that remains of the legal fiasco is a three-weekly visit to an unpleasant office in Oakleigh, where doors snap shut with the finality of jail cells. But after the many trials and http://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.com/2011/07/then-fevers-came-seemingly-at-random.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sam sejavka)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367839961931530504.post-7022316558052574737Sat, 09 Jul 2011 02:20:00 +00002011-07-11T13:59:32.742+10:00NATURESPACEPOLLYSTEVE KILBEYLast night, after catching the final train home from a dreamy night at Cherry watching Steve Kilbey and Ricky Maymi's enigmatic tribute to the mysterious David Neal (in addition to a beautiful set from some unnamed Triffid remnants and a session of ab-zen counseling over liqueur coffee) my sleep was profound and my spirit rose through the upper airs into the realms of the firmament. Here, to my http://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.com/2011/07/peripatetic-insile.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sam sejavka)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367839961931530504.post-3738023523047510436Fri, 08 Jul 2011 01:22:00 +00002011-07-08T11:27:39.616+10:00POLLY http://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.com/2011/07/why-coming-generations-may-find.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sam sejavka)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367839961931530504.post-4871237836067141170Fri, 24 Jun 2011 02:24:00 +00002011-06-24T12:46:31.025+10:00NATUREDEADLY SPORESCLIMATE CHANGEMt WaverleyPOLITICSFUNGUSThis morning on the ABC News Breakfast show, Mal Brough presented us an old chestnut which seems to be coming back into its own : why should Australia lead the world in reducing its carbon emissions (and why should we bother, as we're such a small polluter on the global scale). When Barry Jones responded, I was hoping he'd give the right answer. It would be good to hear the right answer clearly http://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.com/2011/06/earth-stars.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sam sejavka)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367839961931530504.post-385630819952098899Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:08:00 +00002011-04-17T00:16:20.485+10:00ANDREW PARKTHE OVALSPROG ROCKINTERFERONTHE EARSMUSICMICK LEWISJOSH LORDGUS TILLLYREBIRD LOUNGEHEP CThe Lyrebird Lounge is a tiny place, a shop front, but its size possibly had a bit to do with how wonderful the atmosphere became. Andrew had to sit on a couch with keyboard resting on his lap. I had to vocalise over an antique Galaga console. It was reminiscent of the old Exford Hotel, or perhaps the 475 Club from days of yore.These latter-day shows by The Ears - without intending to overblow http://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.com/2011/04/ears-lyrebird-april-fifteen.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sam sejavka)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367839961931530504.post-1689146375364845418Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:19:00 +00002011-04-15T08:09:10.920+10:00NATUREHCVINTERFERONTHE EARSINSECTSLAWIt’s taken a few weeks for my black internal weather to disperse - but disperse it appears to be doing. The long long ordeal by law is petering out via an endless series of interviews with agents of Correctional Services Victoria, and no longer do I prepare myself mentally, late at night, for jail.The other trial, the drug trial, continues ... and, at week twelve, I should know soon if it’s had http://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.com/2011/04/cupboard-moth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sam sejavka)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367839961931530504.post-6863167100199144363Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:15:00 +00002011-03-24T22:17:16.879+11:00MY LITTLE PROBLEMA monstrous bellowing of gratitude. To those many many friends, who have supported me over the past two years. Those who put up their hand for the Ears Reunion at The Corner ... Those who vouched for my character, gave of their time ... Those whose sympathetic, compassionate words buttressed my spirit against the fear and uncertainty ...And all those others.Two years and twenty three hours, http://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.com/2011/03/monstrous-bellowing-of-gratitude.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sam sejavka)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367839961931530504.post-6334110096104582333Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:21:00 +00002011-02-04T00:01:11.972+11:00ROBERTHCVRIBAVIRININTERFERONINSECTSHEALTHPOLLYBRUCE BUTLERDRUGSBMS790052For better or for worse, I’ve enrolled myself in the trial of a new drug which may be a potent HCV inhibitor. It’s a triple therapy: as well as the study drug, I’m on the standard-of-care - peg-interferon and ribavirin: a toxic cocktail which tends to cause anaemia, flu-like symptoms and a genocide of the neutrophils, those fundamental elements of the innate immune system which are seen most http://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.com/2011/02/my-intimate-blood-borne-saboteur.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sam sejavka)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367839961931530504.post-7479371201816497935Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:36:00 +00002011-01-20T23:45:41.275+11:00NATUREBOOKSBIRDSPOLLYThis is a sad and compelling something, encountered by Polly on our driveway."I don't know what it is," she said. "But if I look at it again, I'll vomit."In a night or two I will have finished reading her Enid Blyton's Faraway Tree trilogy. Next will be Arabel's Raven.http://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.com/2011/01/dead-chick.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sam sejavka)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367839961931530504.post-864890794340546876Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:31:00 +00002011-01-20T23:36:09.080+11:00NATUREJ G BALLARDINSECTSTHE GREY CREEKDown at the Grey Creek, since the rain, there is a super-abundance of dragonflies and their smaller cousins the damselflies. In my experience, there have never been so many. They are hovering, flashing bolts of iridescence, almost surreal in their variety, like echoes from J G Ballard’s The Crystal World. They are hypnotic, suggestive of fairy tales, and cousins to the butterflies in that they http://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-try-my-hand-at-oding.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sam sejavka)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367839961931530504.post-9068405106141141497Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:30:00 +00002011-01-20T23:48:43.737+11:00http://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.com/2011/01/donalds-christmas-fear-2010.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sam sejavka)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367839961931530504.post-5923928760431658849Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:44:00 +00002010-12-13T11:21:49.822+11:00INSECTSBIRDSMt WaverleyWalking Polly to school today, there were more musk lorikeets than I have ever seen in Mt Waverley. I love these birds - so much sweeter and gentler than the brash, squawking rainbow lorikeets who vastly outnumber them.This is the best I could do by way of photos.About a month ago, the house was burgled while we were taking Polly to school. My camera was taken, and my ipod - two things I find it http://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.com/2010/12/soulless-machinations.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sam sejavka)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367839961931530504.post-6452991588970206720Sun, 05 Dec 2010 06:18:00 +00002010-12-05T17:31:04.051+11:00THE EARSSIMON POLINSKIMUSICKERRI SIMPSONCATHY McQUADEBEARGARDENThough I may have crystallised my brain in the aftermath, Thursday’s show came off pretty well. Perhaps there weren’t quite enough people there to deal entirely with Steve Lucas’s chronic back, but it was fulsome nevertheless. Every time I saw him, Lucas lay entirely prone on in one of the upstairs band rooms, his voice growly with painkillers, barely lifting his head as he pursued quiet http://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.com/2010/12/lucas-aid.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sam sejavka)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367839961931530504.post-7844675162459459692Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:17:00 +00002010-11-25T07:59:56.421+11:00CATSCIGARETTESTHE EARSCOUNTDOWNBEARGARDENLAWHEALTHI realised the other day - perhaps belatedly - why I’m seeing so many old-fashioned cigarette cases, particularly in the hands of women. It’s the images of diseased flesh, of course, which the arbiters of social control place with good intent on the commercial packaging, Evidently, some have begun to weary of carrying about with them, on open display, these increasingly nasty, glutinous, http://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.com/2010/11/pressure-release.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sam sejavka)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367839961931530504.post-8087440319405979782Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:44:00 +00002010-11-01T19:21:16.358+11:00WRITINGAMBERGRISTHE EARSTHE CHURCHMUSICDOGS IN SPACEBIRDSMt WaverleyPOLLYSTEVE KILBEYI’ve had a good week. My grant proposal for Ambergris (the play I’ve been battling with for a few years now) was accepted by the Victorian Arts Ministry. It’s been a long time since I’ve attempted one of these and, towards the end of the tram-ride to Brunswick for the announcements, I’d more or less convinced myself there was no way I was going to get it. As a result, when I found my name on the http://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.com/2010/11/wry.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sam sejavka)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367839961931530504.post-1687136058816779946Sun, 24 Oct 2010 08:52:00 +00002010-10-25T20:01:08.152+11:00ARTMADNESSLAWMy lovely, though sometimes worryingly anaemic psychologist is arranging for me to have a 'neuro-assessment'. It’s a legal thing, but it might be interesting. I do like to count things. For instance, and for your edification, I eat 12 strawberries, 5 dates and 5 prunes daily, together with many other things in precise amounts. When I exercise - which I must do to avoid shrivelling - I presentlyhttp://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.com/2010/10/something-eldritch.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sam sejavka)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367839961931530504.post-3529245606675260741Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:19:00 +00002010-10-20T20:22:53.790+11:00MONEYTHE EARSMUSICLAWI’ve been finding it difficult getting back into a routine with these blog posts. I think, perhaps, it’s because I’ve been so focused on work lately, trying to make every hour of every day count before I have to immerse myself in my legal defence.With regards legal matters, there’s been some good, perhaps very good news. The DPP has thankfully dropped the most severe of the charges: the one that http://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.com/2010/10/pittance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sam sejavka)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367839961931530504.post-7947021720098435868Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:02:00 +00002010-10-13T20:57:14.680+11:00DONALD BALDIETHE EARSMUSICSTEVE KILBEYCARL MANUELLFor the first time in a very long time, I've sat down, picked up a guitar and written a song. I'm not sure what to blame it on. Perhaps a reduction in some of my medications ... More likely the gig I attended Saturday night at Ding Dong. I really enjoyed the simple, straight ahead style of SK and Ricky Maymi from the Brian Jonestown Massacre. And this after spending ninety minutes entirely inert http://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.com/2010/10/exquisite-corpse.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sam sejavka)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367839961931530504.post-8494310864567368752Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:25:00 +00002010-10-12T21:47:02.297+11:00THE EARSAMBERGRIS THE PLAYMUSICCATHY McQUADEBIRDSMt WaverleyBEARGARDENBRUCE BUTLERHere's Cathy and I after the Ding Dong show. If I've ever had more fun on stage, I can't remember it.First off, thanks to Amanda for getting me back to this blog. Obviously, I've fallen out of the habit of updating it, though not of writing generally - of course. Ambergris, the play I've mentioned often over time, needs just a little polishing before it's complete, and I've been working on a http://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.com/2010/10/sacred-kingfisher_12.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sam sejavka)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367839961931530504.post-3726468848479733498Sat, 08 May 2010 04:15:00 +00002010-05-08T14:33:09.058+10:00ANDREW PARKROSS FARNELLTHE EARSDOLORES SAN MIGUEL1980sMUSICMICK LEWISCATHY McQUADEBALLROOM REUNIONCRYSTAL BALLROOMCARL MANUELLWhen the Ears played at The Corner last year, I spent the majority of the time either on my knees or flat on my back. The gig after that I resorted to an on-stage oxygen bottle. Tomorrow evening, which I am looking forward to exceedingly, I hope to vastly increase the time I spend on my feet. I’ve gotten into some sort of routine with my swimming, so my wind is better, my voice is louder and my http://sailsofoblivion.blogspot.com/2010/05/eve-of-ballroom-reunion.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (sam sejavka)7