oh oh oh (etc.,)
The curved corner bar reflected sun off cars oh
Tiled corner bar of all favoured bars oh
Fortune cookie of bars oh
Roast duck corned beef calamari risotto bistro of the bar oh
Carlton and United blackboard of the bar oh
Alcohol floods through all who stop to worry that things could be better oh
oh oh oh (etc.,)
It doesn’t really matter any more because we’re all whores oh
All attention seeking whores in a city of whores of phantasmagorical super capitalist
slave whores oh
I could slit up right now here in the bar slit up right now no one would care oh
In fact they’d insert theirs and not care put their little knives in there and not care oh
If they slit up I’d put mine in theirs I’d put mine in theirs also
oh oh oh (etc.,)
We urbane ourselves like wild things in the boredom of the bar oh
The decay of everything and the beauty of everything by the jar oh
The jar of every diffuse sundown until all is undone and re-discovered in the darkness
of the bar and bistro oh
The jar of all starlight and moonlight through haze of stars the jar of blackest night oh
No moon or stars the jar of no stars and bars but navy blue and moustaches oh
Tables out the back and toilets bare moustaches football stars and palm trees oh
This jar you gaze into crystal ball of jars oh
This jar oh
Facing the jar I’m doing to the jar what I always do to the jar oh
The jar you go looking for and never find until it’s there oh
Facing the jar you’re doing to the jar what you always do to the jar oh
You make the jar feel wanted the strangest jar the usual jar oh
It is the only jar that can call itself a jar oh
It is my jar my lovely jar oh
oh oh oh (etc.,)
- 115: SPACE
with A Sometimes
114: NO THEME 13
with J Toledo & C Tse
113: INVISIBLE WALLS
with A Walker & D Disney
112: TREAT
with T Dearborn
111: BABY
with S Deo & L Ferney
110: POP!
with Z Frost & B Jessen
109: NO THEME 12
with C Maling & N Rhook
108: DEDICATION
with L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik
107: LIMINAL
with B Li
106: OPEN
with C Lowe & J Langdon
105: NO THEME 11
with E Grills & E Stewart
104: KIN
with E Shiosaki
103: AMBLE
with E Gomez and S Gory
102: GAME
with R Green and J Maxwell
101: NO THEME 10
with J Kinsella and J Leanne
100: BROWNFACE
with W S Dunn
99: SINGAPORE
with J Ip and A Pang
97 & 98: PROPAGANDA
with M Breeze and S Groth
96: NO THEME IX
with M Gill and J Thayil
95: EARTH
with M Takolander
94: BAYT
with Z Hashem Beck
93: PEACH
with L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong
92: NO THEME VIII
with C Gaskin
91: MONSTER
with N Curnow
90: AFRICAN DIASPORA
with S Umar
89: DOMESTIC
with N Harkin
88: TRANSQUEER
with S Barnes and Q Eades
87: DIFFICULT
with O Schwartz & H Isemonger
86: NO THEME VII
with L Gorton
85: PHILIPPINES
with Mookie L and S Lua
84: SUBURBIA
with L Brown and N O'Reilly
83: MATHEMATICS
with F Hile
82: LAND
with J Stuart and J Gibian
81: NEW CARIBBEAN
with V Lucien
80: NO THEME VI
with J Beveridge
57.1: EKPHRASTIC
with C Atherton and P Hetherington
57: CONFESSION
with K Glastonbury
56: EXPLODE
with D Disney
55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUS
with M Chakraborty and K MacCarter
55: FUTURE MACHINES
with Bella Li
54: NO THEME V
with F Wright and O Sakr
53.0: THE END
with P Brown
52.0: TOIL
with C Jenkins
51.1: UMAMI
with L Davies and Lifted Brow
51.0: TRANSTASMAN
with B Cassidy
50.0: NO THEME IV
with J Tranter
49.1: A BRITISH / IRISH
with M Hall and S Seita
49.0: OBSOLETE
with T Ryan
48.1: CANADA
with K MacCarter and S Rhodes
48.0: CONSTRAINT
with C Wakeling
47.0: COLLABORATION
with L Armand and H Lambert
46.1: MELBOURNE
with M Farrell
46.0: NO THEME III
with F Plunkett
45.0: SILENCE
with J Owen
44.0: GONDWANALAND
with D Motion
43.1: PUMPKIN
with K MacCarter
43.0: MASQUE
with A Vickery
42.0: NO THEME II
with G Ryan
41.1: RATBAGGERY
with D Hose
41.0: TRANSPACIFIC
with J Rowe and M Nardone
40.1: INDONESIA
with K MacCarter
40.0: INTERLOCUTOR
with L Hart
39.1: GIBBERBIRD
with S Gory
39.0: JACKPOT!
with S Wagan Watson
38.0: SYDNEY
with A Lorange
37.1: NEBRASKA
with S Whalen
37.0: NO THEME!
with A Wearne
36.0: ELECTRONICA
with J Jones