AND NOW...it's T I M E for ... Pterodactylman's NEWS IN BRIEFS
Tap Gallery Pterodactylman! - Pterodactylman is also appearing, after the below mentioned gig, at the tap Gallery with Benito DiFonzo...details are visible on this here electric-flyer , and being a Joey Cirillo Experience, it is sure to be SUMPIN' WAY SPECIAL!.. PTERODACTYLMAN TO SHOW UP AT NEWTOWN FESTIVAL! - Pterodactylman HAS THREATENED TO APPEAR ONSTAGE with Benito DiFonzo SOMEWHERE AT tHE nEWTOWN fESTIVAL( we reckon on the "Essential Stage" from what Pterodactylman has said..)- LEt uS HoPe thAt tHEy INGEST FAR TOO MANY red lollies...tHE nEWCASTLE fESTIVAL WAS ENJOYED A LOT BY pTERODACTYLMAN AND A 4,000 ODD (VERY ODD) WORD tHESIS(nOT aRT) EXPOSE OF TRANSPIRed EVENT BITS ARE TO BE FOUND ON pTERODACTYLMAN'S blogspot called "wHAT??..iS pTERODACTYLMAN thinking??"!! on the main page of the site you are NOW surfin' ((( NEWTOWN FESTIVAL- HAPPENS ON 10/10/03 bELMORE pARK IN nEWTOWN mAINLY ))) PTERODACTYLMAN BLAST FROM PAST! Kath Ellis,of TOP Sydney band HUBRIS who are just back from touring 'up north',snapped this picky of the Red Reader Of Ridiculous Rhyme way back in 1998~ and has just emailed it to us here at the Performance Page in August 2003!...This photo was taken when Pterodactylman was part of the zany-madcap-entourage (that included perennial percussion pagan Louis Burdett in a sexy black WIG playing his pocket trumpet!!) for Newtown's 'Walking The Streets Festival' and shows Pterodactylman having broken away from the mad thonged throng fervently worshipping the BIG BUM of another amazing sculpture by Kath Ellis! (we welcome any photos of psightings of Pterodactylman-please email them all right now! to pterodactylman@yahoo.com !! PTERODACTYLMAN EXHIBITION! 25th of July -PTERODACTYLMAN will be performing between 3pm and 5pm at The Don Adan Cafe , in Clifford St , Mosman , opposite the cinema.. the Cosmic Haiku book will be about, as well as some of Dr Terry Dacht-Ullman's Lowbrow Comic Art...PTERODACTYLMAN will be reciting his haiku and playing his two string acoustic ghee-tar, augmented with gratuitous 'Stylophone' scribblings...we see The Man In Red here at a swelteringly hot TAP gallery exhibition-with his youngest son "Pterodactylboy" (Kai) - it was much too hot for him to be wearing such RED-HOT garb! PTERODACTYLMAN CHARITY GIG! GIGS********GIGS**********GIGS*************
another larger scale appearance is scheduled for PTERODACTYLMAN at The Vic On The Park Hotel opposite Enmore Park - the one with the rocketship - on 23rd of August...Spurs For Jesus and bits of Frenzal Rom are also up for it as this goes to the mainframe...the gig is to raise muchly needed funds for the Caretakers' Cottage , a refuge centre for homeless teens The LIVE C D GIVEAWAY! There are 5 copies of Pterodactylman LIVE winnable at Large Magazine this month, march 2003, and all you need to do is go to www.Large.com.au and find the competition ,"if you could be any biscuit , which one would you be and why?" in 25 words or less-haiku would be better-
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an appearance is scheduled this Tuesday night sometime after 9:30 at The Friend In Hand Hotel in Glebe , Sydney ...as special guest at The Bardflys Poetry Night, hosted by JJJ poet lorryette Tug Dumbly and also Benito di fonzo , who will be running the 3 minute poetry slam , with crap prizes found on the streets of Sydney...oh, and wines and $20 prizes too...
Pterodactylman will be showing off copies of Large magazine as well, as the mag is doing a bit by Pterodactylman with a photo of The Haiku Guru himself..and
remember to have a look at the brief but silly web movie of Pterodactylman dancing about to the sound of his Stylophone on the Large website...they are at www.large.com.au
Pterodactylman to make PTERODACTYLMAN CEASES BROADCASTS TO BIRMINGHAM WRITES SPAMKU PREPARATIONS FOR TELEVISION SHOW!
Pterodactylman has ceased transmission to Radio Birmingham ... PTERODACTYLMAN BROADCASTS TO BIRMINGHAM RADIO BRMB IN ENGLAND THE WEIRD OZ GOSS!
Pterodactylman may have been a little quieter of late, PTERODACTYLMAN @ NEWCASTLE'S YOUNG WRITER FEST Pterodactylman's own graphic account: "COOKIES:WILL YOU ACCEPT?"
Pterodactylman here to relate some of the experiences had by
oh yeah ,some 'lurid' photos of PTERODACTYLMAN with BARDFLYS (stealth poetry) at ADELAIDE FRINGE 2000 Pterodactylman’s Live Haiku Performances
The Adelaide Fringe Tour went pretty fab "..Care For A String Of Killer Punchline..Anyone?"
Pterodactylman was also seen near the World Famous Spiegeltent,nobhobbling with Judith Lucy,Mick Molloy,Elle MacFeast(Lisbeth),Killing Heidi(I had that book when I was... little) The Three Canadians etc,oh yeah...an' he be doing caricatures of unconscious revellers and even a few conscious ones in the wee small hours!(The things I do for PETROL MONEY!)...So They all made it back by Tuesday evening-in time for Bardflys At The Friend In Hand Hotel In Good Ol Glebe,Sydney..yay
PTERODACTYLMAN with geshts RICH MACHINE and ULTRA T @ GLENWORTH VALLEY'99 Pterodactylman’s Live & Streaming WeeWeeWebshow?9
This was a show best experienced with a good quart of red cordial stashed away in your system somewhere-simply to match THE SHEER HYPERACTIVITY of Pterodactylman with Rich Machine and Ultra T.
They were ALL OVER THE STAGE like a SANITY CHALLENGED PERSON’S STOOL SPECIMEN…Trying to follow their JUST WRITTEN SCRIPT (or not)…Conducting a STARING COMPETITION whilst playing and making POPKORN (thanx to The Electric Coconut~and Pterodactylman’s Electric POPKORN Machine)
There were gratuitous references to HELENSBURGH and ICELAND,BAD GAGS,PRIZES,SILLY DANCING?.AND BRAIN ENERGY!
Apparently the actress Toni Collette was there and was heard to say "I didn’t think PTERODACTYLMAN thought he was as GOOD as he WAS !?#034;
There were numerous other sightings of course:
PTERODACTYLMAN AND BENITO DI FONZO on SAME BILL AGAIN. Crikey!
"PTERODACTYLMAN AND BENITO DI FONZO AT BONDI SEA FESTIVAL SOME YEARS BEFORE"
ACTUAL L I V E APPEARANCE
on Tues March 4
@ The Friend In Hand Hotel ,
in Cowper St ,
Glebe... Sydney...Australia...
-This is a direct result of the stinginess of their management.
Graham Mack was most apologetic and told Pterodactylman
that when he commences DJing at a less stingy station
transmissions could resume,but until then thousands of
Birmingham Pterodactylman fans will just have to
listen to the MP3s at brokenrecords.net.au
...Apart from that,Pterodactylman has been
obsessed with Spamku,writing tranquil reflections
and tasteless homage to that ludicrous luncheon loaf.
He has uploaded them to the Spamku site
and you can find them among the
8500 or so other haiku about spam.
There has been some talk in the
Pterodactylman cave ,however,of a
new childrens' television show featuring all
manner of educational absurdities-Stay tuned !
"Inside the machine there are many wonderful secrets!"
-Regatz
(Saxophonist w/Pterodactylman @ Glenworth Valley-see below.) (br>
with nary more than a few unexpected appearances in and around Sydney,
doing caricatures or giving stylophone and theramin demonstrations at Chinatown
or doing the artwork for AJ Rochester's New CD "Sexual Encounters"
-but it is winter now and far to cold to go outside for a
hot blooded absurd dinosaur hero...
That's not to say he has been dormant-
like Mount Fuji,Pterodactylman has been having occassional eruptions
-of MIRTH!The Mack Attack Show on Radio BRMB.FM in Birmingham,England,
with a listenership of about two million folks ,
have been treated to weekly reports of the weirder side
of Australian news with Pterodactylman on Sunday mornings!
You can tune in too via the web and if you go to "THIS LINK RIGHT HERE!"
between 5pm and 9pm e.s.t. or 8am and 12pm g.m.t. on Sunday
then you are sure to hear him sometime
in that four hour period for at least three minutes.
There.Is that obscure enough?
BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE PTERODACTYLMAN MP3'S HEAR HERE!as well!
Pterodactylman hopes you enjoy a webby winter with him!
He is rumoured to be putting together a most CRAP-TACULAR "wEiRd MuZaK ShOw"
for this coming springtime 2001!
Pterodactylman
at ThisIsNotArt last weekend in Newcastle.
It (ThisIsNotArt) all got off to a bit of a late start for
me,Pterodactylman,
as I didn't arrive in Civic until about 7pm on Sunday night,so I headed for The Festival Club
where,I was told,I could groove ma thang 2 tha riddimz o'
Elf Trainspotter(?)Transporter and de gang.
As I approached the venue needing bearings on my deck- I saw Tug Dumbly and Adam
Gibson,
refreshments in hand,and before I knew it ,actually,
just after I knew it really ,we were all on our way to a comix blast that had regretably
already FINISHED that afternoon.
A weird IDEA suddenly entered my mind -
I wanted to start my own festival for installations
-consisting of mucus
arrangements-juxtaposed with mobiles consisting of boogers of various
sizes,colours and textures .
I would call it... "This Is Snot Art!"
-Luckily
the idea left my mind again just as suddenly - before I could type up a
grant proposal!
I headed back to The Festival Club once more only to be greeted by the
gorgeous Lisa Greenaway and was invited to dance with her!
The vibes and moves were just the tonic for the train-lagged Pterodactylman.
It was outside the hall for a spot o'fresh air then,and a bit of
Pterodactylman's on the spot festival reporting whilst skateboarding.
It was a marvellous opportunity to unleash a new haiku to the mob of writers
and 'toonists and m.c s etc -sitting about under the town's mantle of stars
on a warm sultry evening in 'The City That Refused To Die Quietly'.
(I had just written a new haiku based on my journey to Newcastle.)
mobile phones on trains,
getting smaller all the time-
-I shove them up BUMS!
Using a hand-held microphone and a belt-mounted amp to produce oscillating
feedback effects (that 'hypno-power-sound' from 'Dr Who' or 'Los Tin Space')
I pretended to become 'power crazed' and began commanding the passers-by to:
.. "Take off your PANTIES NOW - I COMMAND YOU !"...etc.
It didn't really have any effect,so I resumed the 'on the spot reporter gig'
I was originally amusing myself with.
(occasionally,however,as an answer to hecklers, I would revert to using the
'hypno-power-sound' ; commanding the offenders to
'remove their panties!'
once again ! )
Soon,some impromptu street rap/toasters popped-up (pun) and I was there to
mike them up with my portable p.a.
After quickly flattening the batteries on my amp - this of course meant...
I had to think of a new crowd appeasement method.Fast.
Searching through the big red bag of Pterodactylman Ptricks - I found theanswer!
'The Pterodactylman Utility-Belt Massage Device'.
These groovy humans had been partying their way through several days of all
sorts of mind-expanding cultural influences,cookies and Vulcan-Mind-Melds,
so complimentary 'Pterodactylman Back and Neck Massages' were dutifully
dispensed (to the sound of a healing Pterodactylman 'OM').
A small but appreciative queue quickly formed.
After chillin' my sisters and brothers with 'The Pterodactylman Utility-Belt
Massage Device',
I instinctively knew that it was time to check out
'The
Official Pterodactylman Web Site'
http://www.geocities.com/pterodactylman/
-in the FREE internet booths .extolling the virtues of that 'site for sore
eyes' to anyone trying to websurf.
We(Tug,Van,Benito,Jade,Adam,Chris and I) all danced and drank and
'cookie'-monstered our way uptown past
'The Five Perplexed Eunuchs Looking
For Their Balls' sculptures,
before dining on some pigsnout/linoleum hotdogs
at The 'Saveloid Heaven' Inconvenience Store,
making our way thence to the beach (via a friend of a friend's house who was keeping more refreshments for us)
where we recommenced imbibement of said amber elixirs ,at least until the waves seemed to sing "Stay With Me Till Dawn.."
(cue Judy Tzuke music)
We were all 'relieved' when the local beach cleaners opened up the toilets at about 5am and after some friendly banter and cajoling they made us some coffee using Carnation milk
- something I'd not tasted in EONS
- and I STILL
to this day do not know HOW they MILK those pretty flowers!
A few hours rest was taken by force at The Backpacker's Lodge,before getting
a lift back to Sydney early Monday.
Voila!
A fly-by tour of Newcastle's ThisIsNotArt,as experienced by
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The Last Sounds of Seduction Party
(+ a bit of a yarn i guess to go in this space;so as not to
disturb the space time continuum)
(Pterodactylman w/ rampant go-go-gals)here.soon..
...with CHEESEWORLD at the top of Pterodactylman's
Tourist Trap Top Ten ...
THE SURREALISTIC FERVOUR of Pterodactylman with his trusty STYLOPHONE spewed forth across the politely unsuspecting Adelaidoids!
(and nationwide on The Creatures Of The spotlight Show on Triple J)
He was the "SPECIAL MYSTERY GUEST" in the BARDFLY PERFORMANCES AT 'THE WORLD'S END CABERET' hotel in Hindley St Adelaide in the 2nd week of the Fringefest in Adelaide...a series of shows that included the talented words and music of Tug Dumbly, Adam Gibson with Paul Holden on Keyboards!
!Pterodactylman downloaded seven ODD HAIKU on Triple J glisteners across Australia on the 'Creatures Of The Spotlight Show' on Sunday night.
Patrick McDonald of The Advertiser(Adelaide) wrote some good words about it.
PTERODACTYLMAN seen to be riding the COURTESY TRAIN around the campsite perimeter,
PTERODACTYLMAN chasing the COURTESY TRAIN in slow motion ( ala weird nature documentary ) after the COURTESY TRAIN dumped him out there at the ELECTRO TEE PEE zone,
PTERODACTYLMAN joining META BASS AND BREATH in A SPACED OUT INSTRUMENTAL?
PTERODACTYLMAN in the early hours of the morning FORAGING THROUGH SULO BINS looking for ERRANT BEER DREGS and MORE WIZZ FIZZ,
PTERODACTYLMAN DANCING WITH GAY ABANDON (one of the SOUNDS OF SEDUCTION DANCERS) and the GO-GO GIRLS at about 3am…AND playing the conga drum?#060;/font>
PTERODACTYLMAN DOING AN UNCANNY DUET WITH CLAUDE THE SONIC MANIPULATOR?he was actually A BIT PUT OFF,not knowing which of his MANY SYNTHY DEVICES were producing the STRIDENT tones ACTUALLY produced by PTERODACTYLMAN’S TRUSTY STYLOPHONE!)
Many people were SEEN TO BE LEAVING THE TEA PARTY’S SET to try and catch PTERODACTYLMAN’S LIVE & STREAMING W.EE W.EE W.EB SHOW and who could blame them ?
Jeff Martin of The Tea Party himself was heard during their set TO SAY that as a result of the moon's unusually close proximity to Earth at the moment;OUR 'REAL' WORLD & 'THE ASTRAL WORLD' ARE ALSO IN 'VERY CLOSE RANGE'...(THIS MAY EXPLAIN WHY PTERODACTYLMAN WAS PLAYING CONCURRENTLY...ONLY 100 METRES AWAY!!)
PTERODACTYLMAN'S ~‘The Deck Stood On The Burning Boy? WAS A HIT WITH THE PUNTERS at the BARDFLY’S POETRY TENT performance... where Pterodactylman was joined by the FAB JAZZ GUITAR SOUND of CAL CLUGSTON as well as RICH MACHINE AND ULTRA T?
" The Deck Stood On The Burning Boy,
like a DERANGED DISCOTHEQUEAN TOY;
SEXUALELECTRICLY SUPERCHARGED -
and RANDILY OVERAMPED;
~now the TURNTABLE was TURNING THE TABLES-
-you see…it had been RE-‘VAMP’ED! "
…All joking aside -there was A MOMENT OF EXTREME SERIOUSNESS when ONE YOUNG LAD who had had FAR TOO MUCH RED CORDIAL wanted to be like PTERODACTYLMAN and decided he COULD FLY by JUMPING OFF THE HURRICANE RIDE.
He ended up getting AN AMBULANCE RIDE,a HELICOPTER CARE FLIGHT,and a LENGTHY STAY IN HOSPITAL…and the last news that WE HEARD, he was in quite a CRITICAL CONDITION IN INTENSIVE CARE.
All of this was TO BE EXPECTED of course; as it was ALL PART OF a FRACTAL INTERCONNECTIVITY REVELATION!
THAT WAS LUCKY!
THANK YOU PTERODACTYLMAN?YOU TRULY ARE A MODERN DAY DINOSAUR SUPERHERO TO US ALL !!!
(watch this space for PHOTOS of the above…and?COMING SOON- Pterodactylman’s Live & Streaming W.ee W.ee W.eb Show -AVAILABLE ON REALVIDEOFORMAT ~AT THIS SITE!)
The LIVE C D !
...ALSO ,...THE LIVE RECORDING @ THE E.M.U. CAFE ON MONDAY 2nd OF NOVEMBER @ was a veritable HOOT!-And PterodactylMan(vocals,synth,harmonium,stylophone...) with Ultra T Regatz (sax) and Rich D'adonna (percussion) PERFORMED A SELECTION OF HIS FAVOURITE HAiKU FROM 'THE COsMIC HAIKU' ,THEN WENT ON TO PRODUCE A SOUNDTRACK FOR A FILM THAT IS STILL TO BE SHOT IN JAPAN/AUSTRALIA NEXT YEAR ,'THE ORIGIN OF PTERODACTYLMAN ',THIS WAS A MOODY-SPOOKY-OTHERWORLDLY MELANGE OF SONIC SLIME AND WAS THOROUGHLY ENTERTAINING ACCORDING TO THE E.M.U. CAFE'S NETSURFIN' AUDIENCE ,WHO WASTED VALUABLE MINUTES OF WEB-PTIME BEING UNCANNILY DISTRACTED BY THE ANTICS OF THE PTERODACTYLMAN PTRIO AS THEY PTWISTED AND PSWEATED THROUGH A GRUELLING ONE PTAKE VERSION OF THE PSOUNDTRACK! The C D 'apparently' has a PSECRET Ptrack '3' that includes a special GUEST APPEARANCE from Louis Burdett AND actual samples of Billy Mumy(that's moo-me!) from 'Lost In Space'...Hear a free mp3 download today at BrOKen ReCordS!(see links page...)
Billy Mumy(that's moo-me!) from 'Lost In Space' Yo' Do'Main Man ...&... ON THE 5TH OF NOVEMBER...-WE MET AT THE DOMAIN IN SYDNEY @ ABOUT 2 PM OUTSIDE THE ART GALLERY FOR A FORUM ABOUT ART IN THE NEW SPACE AGE WHICH SOON BECAME A PIE THROWING CONTEST/INFORMATION EXPERIMENT -WITH TUG DUMBLY(2jjj POET ON FRIDAY MORNINGS WITH ADAM SPENCER),A J ROCHESTER and KAI Miles(Stars of a new SBS show that can't be named at this stage)
BENITO DIFONZO (Erskineville's own Dean Martin ...see sax player below)CHRIS FULLER (tHE sTICKY tAPE mAN) JOEY CIRILLO (The WebMeister)AND SIGNIFICANT OTHERS!!!IT WAS FUN AND THOUGHT PROVOKING SIMULTANEOUSLY...THE OCCASION WAS VIDEOTAPED AND SECURITY STAFF AT THE ART GALLERY WERE MOSTLY HOSPITABLE ,ALTHOUGH....
'BOOTS'' the toy Chihuahua hound ' a.k.a. 'Varmint' was NOT allowed admittance to the gallery 
'BOOTS'' the toy Chihuahua hound ' a.k.a. 'Varmint'
THE NEWTOWN FESTIVAL '99
PTERODACTYL MAN WAS SIGHTED ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS AT The Newtown Festival in Camperdown Memorial Park on Sunday 14th of November.
He was sighted by many groovers as he made numerous balloon animals,suprisingly,mostly 'dogs' or 'giraffes ' or 'dickhead hats' ( as he called them).
He was later seen jumping off of the stage where the local pop group Vicious Hairy Mary were seen and heard to be turning the handle of the carnival merry~go~round hurdy gurdy of the unconscious , yelling out things like "AAAAAARRARAUUURRGHH!!! - insects!-insects!-please! somebody get these insects off of me!AAAAAARRARAUUURRGHH!!! ... Later... people reported a freak occurance of flying ants swarming the members of the assembled mosh...even later... Pterodactyl Man admitted himself to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital's Casualty Ward to be examined ...and after waiting for nine hours ............,was told that he had developed a subcutaneous emphasemia , a swelling throat ear eye forehead face condition derived from the effects of over inflation causing his capilliaries to rupture under the epidermic skin layers!But ,as Pterodactyl Man says~ 'fun times were ~ " head ~ bile "'.
Pterodactyl Man felt as sick as 'Vomit Boy'
from blowing up at least ninety of those
tricky little things , incorrectly , causing
his capilliaries to rupture under the epidermic skin layers!
-MORE NEWS & INFORMATION FROM THE WORLD OF PTERODACTYL MAN SOON....
YES...OVER THE LAST 23,000,000,000 (EARTH) YEARS, PTERODACTYL MAN HAS PERFORMED AT LITERALLY GAZILLIONS OF GALLERIES, UNIVERSITIES, PERFORMANCE VENUES, AND ARTS FESTIVALS ALL OVER THE WORLD AND AROUND THE GALAXY!...NOW READ ON...
INCLUDING: POETRY ON TAP,
NATIONAL POETRY
DAY @ THE BASEMENT, SYDNEY '99
SCHLOCK TACTICS, THE PERFORMANCE SPACE,SYDNEY
GLENWORTH VALLEY '98-'99
LUNASPECT '98,Canberra
THE AUSTRALIAN
POETRY FESTIVAL '99 MASCON FESTIVAL
'99 CHANNEL 31 LIVE from OZ on Radio BRMB BIRMINGHAM ! A CHILDRENS' PARTY @ WINDANG! MARTIN PLACE AMPHITHEATRE WITH LOUIS BURDETT THE FRIEND IN HAND HOTEL,GLEBE BONDI PAVILLION / To BOOK Pterodactylman
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