What’s A Sweetheart Like You Doing In A Dump Like This?

On writing your own anthems and psychic conversations between Bob Dylan and a rock'n'roll waitress...

At the end of 1983, when I was thirteen years old, Bob Dylan released the song ‘Sweetheart Like You’, and eventually it worked its way onto lounge room stereos and radio waves across Australia and soon worked its way deep into my consciousness. I became obsessed. I’d found after school employment in an array of thankless jobs from a young age; pizza bar…