farming '77

$5 > 1977 was a big year in music ... with of course Farming '77 undoubtedly being the most important release .

cheep warble & squawk

$1 >   Simtrak Studios label cassette of australian bird songs overdubbed with generic orchestral music  . overly syrupy , but strangely addictive ...

ant men !

20 cents >  1969 u.s.a. reprint of this 1955 apocalyptic paperback set in the central australian desert.  written by Eric North a pseudonym for australian author Bernard Cronin 1884-1968 . i bought this book  at Camberwell market coincidentally the same melbourne suburb that the author lived & died in according to wikipedia ...

hand painted by daisy pitty

$3 >   a small 180mm x 122mm china plate hand painted with a landscape of Haasts Bluff [i think] in the MacDonnell Ranges . done in the style of the great Aboriginal water colour artist Albert Namatjira who was of the Arrernte people & from the Hermannsburg Mission in central Australia . i can't find any information on this artist who's last name has been obviously anglosised . i have never seen another plate like this one , but thats not to say there aren't any ...

feedtime on cassette

50 cents each >  i didn't buy these , they were given to me by someone i worked with who saw me in a feedtime t-shirt once ... a very observant fellow ... he came up to me one day & said "i found some cassettes in an op shop that may interest you"  he then handed me these still shrink wrapped cassettes . he didn't want them & wouldn't take anything for them , so ... if you're out there steve , you sir are a true gentleman .

as familiar as i was/am with this band [i was at the recording sessions for 'shovel'] i had never seen these albums on cassette before . they were released on Rough Trade in the U.S. only . just before the label went bankrupt & folded in the late '80's / early 90's .