Saturday, 27 March 2010

BEER - 6, COLD


I heard a question posed thus: "When the Polar Bear's wet, your beer is cold - what price cold beer dispense?"

BOZ!


Quietly fascinated as I am by the repeatedly accounted-for early literary life of Charles Dickens, of his Boz period, brief as it were, I am minded to think on a story, a telling of this time; a biopic, film, and a roaring musical stage production - BOZ! - including such numbers as:

She Was Only My Publisher's Daughter

That's A Whale Of A Gaol

For Illustration Purposes / Give It Your Best Shot, Seymour!

You'll Have It By Tomorrow (Magazine Day)

Bad Debt Dad

What I Love Most About My Wife Is Her Sister

Aint London Funny, But Capital Sad?

(The Meaning Of) Neat

Blacking My Character

and

Aint London Funny, But Capital Sad? [Reprise]

Tuesday, 9 March 2010

L O X Y


a quasi-anthropomorphic comedy about an alpha male urban fox whose years at the top and relationships are fucked up in the pursuit of inexpressible ideals... set to great music.

Friday, 19 February 2010

Ta-da!


Today someone referred a few times to that 'ta-da!' moment. Got me thinking - who was the first person to go 'ta-da!'?

Jesus?

Or God before him.

Or perhaps it was more recent than that.

The inventor of the bra.


Tuesday, 16 February 2010

GENERATING ANGST

A fabulous gift and a weirdly frightening task [customizedcoupland].

With eight inputs my go-to was Random, Wikipedia. And the (honest) list (snugly):

  • SM UB-34
  • Japanese Left Army
  • DNF
  • Hopewell, Connecticut
  • Ludeasa River
  • Homotrixa
  • Solar Eclipse of April 30, 1957
  • Nano-Tera

But I wanted to meld a part of me with the book; why, vainly, wouldn't I... this book about how it feels to read a book?

Hard!

And opted for a memory off [sic] Toronto; something so entirely far from the future that it would nuzzle hilariously the storylines. But it kind of slinked and whirred full circle: a squirrel in its pumpkin velodrome; and became, rested, a couplandic image after all. Perhaps.

Thanks MJ - really, a gift.

Monday, 15 February 2010

BEER - 5, JOY


Welcome.

Wherever you like.

Beneath the old photo of Brel. Ashtrays, beer bottles.

Great beer.

BEER - 4, THE PENCIL

On wait staff with ultra short-term memory loss... write it down!