My weekend was filled with John Cale, who gave the keynote speech and played a gig as part of the Sydney Festival.

Imagine giving a slideshow presentation of your life that runs from La Monte Young to the Velvets to Patti to The Stooges to the Happy Mondays to Eno… pretty radical.

One thing he said really stuck with me…

“Art has a way of making life irrelevant. It has all the seductive powers of a heavy drug.”