Poster Notes

Dirty Three long time now

Been a fan of the Dirty Three for a long time. They always make me think of the city at night, its lights and dreaming. Also other elemental visions … summer heat, outback roads taken at pace, share-houses, smoke, electricity sparking. Funny how instrumentals almost become the memories themselves, visionary transport, amplification. Have had this old poster marking their second self-titled album in 1996. Could never find a frame to fit its weird size. Rediscovered it recently, edges tattered, got this kid at Officeworks to trim a few millimetres off the blu-tacked and damaged sides.15 cents a cut. The kid smiles at me. “Would you like a receipt?” I say nah, may as well live dangerously and leave no trace I was ever here. I go outside, flip open the boot and set to work with the frame I have from the $1 Shop. The poster fits in the frame with a bit of a push. Only took me thirty years to get it on the road. Here it is hanging on my wall at home.

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