October

Did I miss a month?

It's a reference, this space. Why can't I remember the film I saw a year ago at The Chauvel? I feel it was Australian. Can I tell you of Australian films I've seen recently? Beautiful Kate. Regional Australia in all its godforsaken-ness. Is it Walcha, really? Blessed. What to say? We damage children. We don't mean to. Somehow we can't help it. Children are resilient. Children are perceptive and that's their problem.

What I do remember from being on holidays a year ago? Having a beer with Ray. Chairman Ian introducing me to Terry Serio. Was he not JO'K in our regional TV folklore? Domminick Dunne was alive but we were watching him in documentary. And I wonder, will everything ever be this good forever? I remember Conor Oberst at the Enmore. Tim and Tara. Brendan Cowell pretending to meet Chris Taylor at the Townie. Was Conor Oberst just a year ago? Is that fat moon on the rise? No coat, no shoes, no idea where they went.

October never seemed so October.