One morning this little kid said, 'Hey mate, don't you wan' a house?' I thought, that is exactly what I need, because the boat I was living on wasn't tall enough and I was constantly doubled over.
According to Titz, Charlie approached him at his studio when he was photographing artist Bobby West Tjupurrula and said, "hey mate, can you take my photo?" "He was travelling with a band of people from Kiwirrkurra," Titz says.
"I was wearing my badge and he came up and said: 'Hey mate, you got another one of those?' So here's this white Australian, with two black Americans, who wants to wear an OPHR badge, and I was damned if I was going to be the one who says he can't," Hoffman told the BBC (in the excellent documentary Black Power Salute, which you can currently see here).
I just jot down a few lines, and say, "hey mate, how you going", you know?
VICE: Hey mate, can you tell me why you're doing this?
"I knocked on the door again and said, 'Hey mate, have you got another half T?' He said, 'I haven't got anything near that weight.' He then pulled a samurai sword out, put it against my throat and said, 'You must be fucking DS!'".
"I went, 'Hey mate!' and we just kind of hung out".
"Hey mate, if the All Blacks win by 30 points, you gotta mow my lawns for a year!" a local shearer yells to his friend across the pool table.
"A guy in the crew came up to me recently and said, 'Hey, I read this story that you were in a fight in a bar on Saturday night, but then I remembered that you were with me on Saturday night.' I told him, 'Hey mate, welcome to my life.' " He gave the whole subject a dismissive wave.
