Yesterday’s Music Today
Another overcast, cool, rainy morning. It poured again by late this afternoon. I am thinking of the people from the cancelled concert of a week ago who are again trying to see Rod Stewart perform tonight.
It cost me a dollar and fifteen cents for a bottle of the new non-alcoholic ‘Grapella’ at a drive-in liquor shop in Epping.
This evening we watched a documentary on the Mount Kenya National Park, and then an episode of “The Two Ronnies”: British comedians, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett.
Australia is 7-281, at stumps on the second day of the Second Test, in reply to New Zealand’s first innings total of 229. Greg Chappell controversially used his bat to hit a streaker on the backside.
This evening, between half past six and half past seven, we watched a repetition of the documentary, “The Devil’s Triangle”, narrated by the actor, Vincent Price.
At McDonald’s in George Street a Quarter Pounder cost eighty cents, French fries forty-five cents, a Cheeseburger forty-five cents, and a Fillet-‘o-fish burger seventy-five cents. We walked up the street to the run-down and hot Roma Cinema where we paid four dollars each to see the screening, from 1.30 p.m., of “Public Vices And Virtues”, which came with subtitles.
It was preceded by a short film, “The Spy’s Wife”, about two spies who, unknowingly, end up in bed with each other’s wife; another on French stunt drivers in their Peugeot cars; and, finally, yet another short film — that won an award at last year’s Cannes Film Festival — about a man who practices doing more and more each day, in the lift between floors, until he dies from overdoing it. The main film is just an orgy of naked men and women and nothing like “the film of ’76” Bill Collins had labelled it to be.
New Zealand was dismissed for 175 in its second innings after Australia’s first innings had ended on 377 (Rick McCosker, 84). Australia needs to score just twenty-eight runs to win the match.
It is a miserably cold last day of summer, accompanied by much heavy rain that is torrential at times. We paid our monthly contribution of forty dollars and fifty-six cents to the Medical Benefits’ Fund.
“Happy Days” is on Channel Nine, from half past seven, this evening. This week’s episode of “Rich Man, Poor Man: Book 2” on Channel Seven, from half past eight, has ended as Falconetti (played by William Smith) shoots at Rudy (Peter Strauss) and Wesley (Gregg Henry) from a bridge. Wesley had just been released from hospital after having been bashed by unionists.
I came upstairs at 9.15 a.m. and turned on Channel Nine. “Here’s Humphrey” was screening with the young presenter dressed as the Wicked Queen, and “Humphrey”, a ‘bear’, as Snow White. There was no footage of the carnage at Granville but forty-two people have already been confirmed dead.
Two programmes from the “Untamed World” series, narrated by the actor, William “Cannon” Conrad, screened from 10.00 a.m. on Channel Nine. The first was on kangaroos and the second looked into the lives of the birds of the mangrove swamps.
The death toll at 11.00 a.m. stands at fifty-seven.
At 7.00 p.m., “Willesee” featured a prostitute, of just nineteen years of age, who has been addicted to heroin — she takes it three times a day– since she was fifteen. She has been handing it out to her customers at forty dollars per capsule.
The death toll from yesterday’s disaster at Granville, already the worst in the history of the Australian railways, now stands at eighty.
A can of “Tarino” orange soft drink cost thirty-five cents. The admission charge of $3.50 per adult to the Lion Safari at Warragamba Dam, covered the “Parrot Show”, at 3.00 p.m., and the “Seal and Dolphin Show”, at half past the hour, as well as other activities.
After the news and “Willesee”, on ATN Channel Seven, we watched “Here It Is”, introduced by John Bailey and featuring Australia’s ‘King’ of rock and roll, Johnny O’Keefe.
When I found Tiki sneakily eating chocolates behind my back, I stated, “That’s all right. I have a long memory.” To which she cheekily retorted, “I’m glad something’s long!”
Jimmy Carter has been sworn in as the thirty-ninth President of the United States. He was formerly a farmer who grew peanuts, a naval officer and Governor of the state of Georgia.
The eighty-second victim of the rail disaster at Granville, died today. He was Brian Gordon, twenty-eight years of age, from Penrith, and the last person to be freed alive, ten hours after the accident occurred on Tuesday.
At 4.30 p.m., we were greeted by a heavy thunderstorm, which contained a trace of hail. We later heard that it caused much damage across Sydney.
Englishman Rex Williams (186) defeated Pierre (Perry) Mans (82) on “World Masters’ Snooker”. The latter player was born in South Africa.
In the final of the Gillette Cup, on ABC TV, Channel Two, from the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Victoria scored 164. In reply, Western Australia had collapsed to be 7-73, at 5.10 p.m., due to some excellent bowling from Alan Hurst and Max “Tangles” Walker, yet fought back to win a ‘cliff-hanger’ by taking its score to 9-165 (Craig Serjeant 38 and Mick Malone 47 n.o.) at 6.55 p.m.
At half past seven, Ian Chappell, a former captain of Australia at cricket and now retired from the game, is this evening’s guest on “This Is Your Life”, on Channel Seven.
We shopped at the Half Case store on Parraweena Road at Taren Point. At 8.00 p.m., on Channel Two, the “Big Country” series is looking at ‘The Taipan Man’: Ram Chandra. This was followed at half past eight, on Channel Seven, by the introductory two-hour episode of “Rich Man, Poor Man: Book 2”.
The British comedy series, “Love Thy Neighbour”, is on Channel Seven from 8.00 p.m. It was formerly screened on Channel Two. It stars Jack Smethurst as the bigoted Eddie Booth, and Rudolph Walker as his coloured neighbour, Bill Reynolds.