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July 31, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 173 Legal Highs and Lows – Part Two
After my bizarre experience with the legal “party pills” in the mid-2000s it’s fair to say I was highly sceptical about the synthetic cannabis that came on sale earlier this decade. I had a few friends who tried and said it was pretty good but I wasn’t convinced it even worked – the first time […]Archive
July 13, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Short Story: My Dinner With Havelock North – Part Two
yeah, well I think you’ll find that Bill English is actually a pretty honest guy. More honest than most politicians, probably. yeah, and the thing is the country is a business – maybe the biggest business of all. So you run it like a business. You have to. yeah, I’m not so sure about that. […]Archive
August 7, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 123 Union Hall – Part Two: Violent Femmes
It was packed, with students, music fans and hoons and there was a great atmosphere. The Spines were Ross, Wendy, Neill and me that night and we were up for it. We were like a huge rhythm engine in those days playing in odd funky time signatures with intense and sometimes insane vocals. We had […]Archive
June 19, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 116 The Paintings – Part Two
I spent a couple of years working on a certain trilogy of films molding and casting props and while I found the work fascinating and challenging it was also all-consuming and creatively frustrating – self-expression didn’t really come into it. My main saving grace in that way was the Spines which I managed to keep […]Archive
August 11, 2015 by Simon Sweetman