The Life and Times of Peter Green
updated 3 April 2025
 "HESSIE-A Tribute To Paul Hester” . On Youtube now.HESSIE-A Tribute To Paul Hester." On Youtube now. |
March 17thI decide to work in the office today so no early morning coffee for me. How weird is that, my one a day coffee is now zero. Well for today.A nice surprise to head into the kitchen and check the stats for the first HESSIE (drum) teaser and it's gone past 1000 views already, not even 24 hours yet. We are both delighted. We keep reminding ourselves this is meant to be a little project. It's a perfect day outside, after bucketing down last night and stopping that huge bushfire from climbing up the mountain, it's a "just right" day, nice sunshine but not crazy hot, no dangerous winds. Midnights walking around outside, trying to decide what she should climb on next. Marks in the studio editing, he works so hard on the HESSIE documentary. I guess a big part of my commitment to this is spreading the good word. Just from the teaser we have had some really amazing comments. I'm really proud of my talented adorable better half. Love that Mark cooked me dinner tonight, I am a lady of leisure. OK I am no lady baby. I hear from Nick Seymour which was nice. We politely asked him if they (him and Neil) wanted to send a video etc , if they say no it's no judgement, no pressure. March 18thA bit of a restless night, the documentary floats in my head…plus strange animals prowling around outside around our 2 acres. So I was a bit average when Midnight forced me out of bed at sunrise.I call into my petrol station & they have ran out of the fuel my car uses. So I go to another and almost confused by the different names, grab a coffee and an early supermarket run. Chicken hamburger fillets for dinner and fresh rolls. Tick-done. I arrive at the charity and so much "deposit" junk left. Plus a dodgy chair that I sit in for a photo. Not the best way to start the day. I check our Youtube numbers and the HESSIE teaser is at 1300 views already. Lots of nice comments yet again. The day is long but I clear masses of stock. The Soho Punk TV is blinking away, another person asks if it is forsale. That is three now. Nice to say "NO”. Nicole has put aside some cardboard boxes for our food bank, bless her She's such a great gal. No show from Tamsin so a bit frustrating as I spend an hour laying out all of this work. Just a phone call, how hard can it be. I don't make big deal of it but it adds to my work load instead of helping me. I've lost Mark Harts email address, well it's in the dead Apple computer so I try a few other areas, very frustrating. In my head I can remember half of it. Dinner was nice but I head to the office for some advance promo and attempt to contact Mr Hart. March 19thI tick the boring things off my "to do" list in the morning, clean the cats litter tray, pay the gas bill, have a wank. OK maybe not the last, is it boring, hope not. Hessie is living in my head lately which is no surprise. "It's just skin Peetey” I can hear him say.Pay Marky back some cash that I owe him, he never cares, what's mine is his and vice versa. Money is just this thing that we care little about. I see the Liberals Party dropped in 2 Polls today. Also Dutton falls further behind as Preferred PM in the Essential Polls. Same for the Morgan Poll. I don't like Dutton, he's not to be trusted. He kind of shits me. Better Liberals to be Party leader. I think Dutton is exceptionally FAKE and not t be trusted. Mark hands me the second teaser for HESSIE. This awesome version of "Walking Into Rooms” , only a few people have this song and it's a joy as far as songwriting goes. Plus it has this sad overtone, certainly a tissue moment. Marks added some photos as well and it clicks over 1000 views in the afternoon. You can enjoy it here, a must see/hear. March 20thOn the way to the charity I call in and buy some fuel for the car, I must of clicked a triple points button as I end up with 180 Qantas flight points. It all adds up.I catch up on all of my stock for the Book Cave. Another person wants to buy the Soho Punk TV art piece. So funny people just love it. I'm happy about that. I'm thinking of changing the internal scene in a few weeks time. Maybe around Aussie PM Harold Holt who disappeared in 1967. So many theories, a shark, a UFO and a Chinese mini submarine. So I'll add all of those into the TV set…Deb smiles and walks up with a rubber shark with a foot hanging out of its mouth. Perfect. My boss hands me some fake seaweed so everyone's helping. I ask Deb who looks after the toys to keep an eye out for AquaMan doll as I want him in the back of the set. Did the Man from Atlantis kidnap Harold Holt? Am I having fun yet? YES. March 21stI hear from Jeff Jenkins at The Music (website, etc) and he is preparing an article around our HESSIE doco for their page which is great. Thanks to Nick S I recover Mark Harts email address but found out it's one he hardly ever looks at. By a total fluke today Mark did look and got back to me around the Hessie tribute so is trying to get something to us by this weekend. Fingers crossed, we hate not filming stuff ourselves but this is the awesome Mark Hart so if we get something we will be stoked.We spend the entire day in the office and most of the night. The project is at that stage where we are both wearing ourselves out. We certainly took on a lot. Mark is second guessing himself and fearful no one will like it. Such bullshit everyone will love it. I make a veggie curry for dinner with a cashew sauce. Not bad. March 22ndWe work all night on the edit for HESSIE. The sky looks amazing when the sun starts to rise and our IN box "pings” It's a link from Mark Hart former Crowded House & Supertramp band member. He sent us his video piece for the HESSIE Tribute. It's so heartfelt. Yes more tears. But it shows just how close Mark and Paul were. Anyway a wonderful addition to HESSIE-thank you Mark H.I need my one coffee a day so off to the bakery and sit with Ian for awhile. Pauline the 70+ year old hiker lady turns up and I remembered to get some lemons off our tree for her. I try to be a "man of my word” as much as I can. She is delighted, a bit shell shocked because as he was in a car accident, so Ian and myself talk her down. Home and I get my washing done..now there is a lyric line. Ok, taken! We get an email from Kev and some more rare Hessie-Largest Living Things material has turned up, so that is very cool. I find time to clean the cats second litter tray. I force Mark and myself to have break and we eat lunch on the decking. Miss Midnight climbs up on me for a photo and she looks like a baby lioness. In the office all afternoon. Giving the "Walking Into Rooms” teaser a little nudge. Lots of wonderful comments. 4 days to go till HESSIE is out. FKKKKKKK! Happy Birthday Captain Kirk-Shatner- 94 and not out. March 23rdNot much sleep and Midnight lets herself out of my bedroom for Marky to feed her while I snooze in.The 67th Kalorama Car Rally is on today and what a stunner of a day it is,. The cars are amazing, you can tell the owners just love them. I head on down and take a few photos. I run into one of our neighbours Carol-we are both lining up to buy some raffle tickets to support the Kalorama CFA. I see so many locals everyone comes up and chats including Johnny from Showstar media. He has a new project coming up and wants me to keep in contact, hands me his new business card. I catch up with Virginia who does amazing work around the CFA. I climb up on top of our #1 fire truck for a photo with her. I check out the cars with some local friends, love the 100 year old Wolseley-especially the ancient engine which is a work of art. Afternoon is spent in the office with Marky. I email Tim Finn and head out to give the Red Beast a car wash. I just wanted something tediously boring away from the documentary. As I go out the door I turn to Mark sand say "we should add LOVE TO SUNDAY & OLIVE” at the end, so we are all sending a message to Pauls (now grown up) kids. I always want them to remember they are loved . Also despite what happened, their father truly adored them. March 24thThe sun is rising and so are we. Marks not sleeping, his head ticking over around the documentary. Midnight wakes me, "Dad's Up” she cat talks. Oh well I'd better join him, so I have some weetbix and reside with Mark in the office and we continue working on the tribute.I am in need of coffee so do the short drive to Olinda, the roads are very quiet this time of morning. Ian sits with me and we have a "chin-wag”. He's a nice older bloke and I love his stories and his exceptional knowledge on plants. AL turns up too. So it's fun. Mark #3 walks up and leaves Charlie the dog with me so some photos are taken. Charlie's human Mum Ingrid has birthday today so I text her a birthday message. Driving around Ridge road and I swing into the little car park for Bourkes Lookout. I decide some exercise should be encouraged, so a quick hike and with the recycle bag. I climb a bit more to retrieve trash but I must say it's looking good. Some lady hikers comment what a great thing I am doing, so that was nice. I sit for a few minutes, breathe in that aussie gumtree air and sigh at the majestic view. The afternoon in the office, replying to fan emails around HESSIE. I also pen the Press Release for Wednesday and pick a few photos of Paul for the Media. I leave Mark to continue the first draft edit & I head to the house & become Mr Domestic and do the washing up and make homemade apple pie with various stone fruits (I originally wrote "stoner fruits') added. The gloves are off in the kitchen…. Eh Paulo. So Mark approaches me and he does something so unexpected, he asks if he can add something from him around HESSIE. At first I thought he meant in front of the camera. "Fuck No” he says.”Never”. But he does write this beautiful piece from the heart. So enjoy this, I'm really proud of him for doing this. "Hello everyone, "Hessie” is finally finished and arriving on time, after a long, sometimes emotional journey since the planning began late last year. As much as I enjoy doing these things, I wish it was one I didn't have to make. It's not a slick Hollywood production with hundreds of people involved and a $10 million budget, it was made by two people with no budget. So it's a bit rough around the edges and with a certain home-made quality about it. It won't always be an easy ride, there will be tears, but hopefully it will leave you with a warm fuzzy feeling. Of course no documentary will ever truely do justice to Paul, but hopefully this one has captured some of his spirit and soul. So after several months of adding, subtracting and rearranging, "Hessie” has left my hands and is yours now. I hope you like it.” (Mark Goulding. March 2025). March 25thI wake up early and said yes to working at the charity today. I am way ahead of schedule so grab a coffee, do my supermarket shopping , drop some cans into the recycle and pick a charity to get the few dollars from them. I try to find a different charity from the cash for cans every week. Good on the Victorian Government for getting this off the ground-it's very positive. Love watching kids recycle their tins, adding some values to their life.My boss Bec arrives at 8.00, early as it's stocktake day so I am inside the building nice and early, I can really focus on my stock and the book cave. By 2.00 though I am running out of steam. By 3.00 I have everything done including stock in case the election is called and I will be awol working for the election people. I'm out the door by 3.30. The 50 Years Of Colour TV in Australia stamp is out today. I make a note to swing by a post office in a few days and grab one. After all it does have Wollongongs Aunty Jack on the stamp. Viva La ‘Gong! Kievs for dinner tonight and the second half of the apple pie. We head to the office close to midnight and start the HESSIE documentary upload onto Youtube. It's huge file and will take many hours while we sleep. Predate it in the system to go out tomorrow at midday. A few nice Paul dreams tonight, just surfing on the boogie boards. I have an odd dream at the end, he makes me push the three TVs tattoo on his arm and they change the channels on our real tv. Mark says "Paul thats the only tattoo I want”. So strange. "You guys are so silly” I say as I wake up. March 26thSo gone for 20 years. It doesn't seem that long. Maybe because Mark and myself think of Paul so very often. I could say a lot, I think I will let our HESSIE documentary speak for us.Special thanks to Carolyn, Kev, Noel, Eddie, Craig, Mark H, Andrew for being so brilliant and honest in your interviews. To Neil for some of the footage and Nick for photos. Sue for her brilliant Mullanes photos , Peter Grace for his video, Angie V for her snaps . I've probably stuffed it and forgotten so many people, sorry-we are all still fried from this. There is only one REAL producer and he will deny it and that is Mark Goulding. I am the sidekick this time, the secondary Producer. So if you love the HESSIE documentary- you can massively thank Mark Goulding. Please do on your Youtube comments. So I have coffee, zoom home with time to spare and Mark and myself stare at our computer, minutes to go before 12.00. "It could be a flop" says Mark, he is serious. I refuse to believe that our massive efforts will be in vain. Midday arrives and nothing. HESSIE doesn't show up on YouTube. "You bastard” I say "late as always”. Ten seconds later it is up… I am convinced he somehow did that for a laugh to scare the crap out of us. He succeeded. Suddenly the counter ticks into life, it's slow at first, the documentary is after all an hour long. It picks up speed, it blurs and starts counting in fives, in tens. It climbs and climbs and continues to do so all week. Please feel free to watch HESSIE- A Tribute To Paul Hester here. Can you leave a cool message on our Youtube page if you enjoyed it. Thank you heaps. We read them all. I send the link to Paul C at Noise 11 and Jeff Jenkins at The Music. Those guys run with it quickly. Always supportive. The Music ("Hessie" Jeff Jenkins article). The Noise 11 article I am happy to say Marky was wrong, we have 6000 views within 24 hrs. March 27thI can't sleep so I sneak out and watch the counter continue to roll on HESSIE. I read all the messages, I stare in awe at the number of messages. Holy shit people LOVE our documentary. I dig how people are sharing the link everywhere. So kind of them, I think the fans want HESSIE to be a success.I make some Butter Chicken for dinner, rather nice Indian. March 28thI photograph a few more of Pauls stage jackets. Nearly all of our archival bits and pieces are in the super lock up now, just the one box to go. Nice and safe and worth the crazy drive to do this. Only for short time. The weather is crazy today and it's super hot, fires are still on our mind up here.I send Neil the HESSIE documentary in case he wants to put it up on his page. Who knows? Probably not. Mark creates the MP3 of the "Walking Into Rooms” song so Jeff Jenkins can play it on his radio show on RRR this coming week. By midnight we have our 20,000th view. It's slowed down a bit. But the Remembering Paul Hester- Forever In Our Hearts article climbs back to #2 as far as trending. March 29thAustralians are eating less chocolate. It fell by 5.7% . In the past five years it grew by 1.9 grams. I better buy some and improve the national average. We can't have chocolate fading away to nothing, apart from Mark, chocolate is my best friend. What would I do without chocolate.Ian gives me gigantic bag of bulbs for Ailsa Craig. So over the next few days I am going to prepare the soil a bit and put them in, nice to have flowers everywhere around our property. Very kind of him. Australian Story get in contact again about doing an episode on Paul. It's still too raw for me, but I will pass the request on (again). I think it's the third time they have been in contact. They said they liked our documentary which is nice. March 30thHow strange another month is nearly over. Summer lingers a tiny bit on the mountain but today is exceptionally windy. I have heard some trees come down in the distance. I am hoping none at our place. Midnights fluffy fur blowing in the wind, she cat chats a lot more when the wind is blowing.We are in the office for most of today. HESSIE stuff is still the main reason. Mostly lovely messages. Our Producer "fame” is kicking in, we are given free bottles of AMP Iced latte today. Finally I've become an "influencer” , I can die happily. You do know I am joking. But the Latte is rather nice, I could get use to this. The Aussie Election is called for May 3rd. Sorry but Duttons a dud and we should never have a lying potato as Prime Minister. Time to put the Liberals last. Mark is sorting out slides in the office, band slides, family slides and he is scanning away, lots of slides of prawns and cows!. It's a big job but we have a new storage box for them. It's probably a nice relaxing thing after hundreds of hours editing "HESSIE”. So another diary comes to an end, a big shout out and thanks to Deb as well. She is amazing putting this up every fortnight. Some applause please dear readers. [editor's note: thanks and you're welcome!] Can I say -thank you for supporting "HESSIE” everyone. So many times people have shared or sent the nicest messages and when you put your heart and soul into a project it's really wonderful to get such a response. We just wanted you to know it is appreciated. Wow 27,000 views so far-we thank you. Love PG xxx |
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