Amnesty

Again, I have been a slovenly blogger. I have had a lot on my mind of late, but perhaps not much suitable for print. Not with the image I want for this blog, anyway.

I'm not surehow many look at this page, considering my long silences at the moment, but I have a new scheme afoot, and need your support!

More things soon, when I get the rest out of my system...

Music and Books (not creative, but true)

I'm back on the reviews, Hurray!!!! Here is one.
And I'm currently interning at Penguin books, which is very exciting. I'm in publicity again, although I still want to angle towards editing. Because I am shy and anally retentive.
Still, if you happen to see a press release for a book called 'RUSO and the SOMETHING SOMETHING' by R. S. Downie... I may pigeon hole myself somewhat by admitting to not being very in to historical fiction... Someone hire me; I love books so!

Regrets, healed by chocolate

Well it's been almost six months, and I apologise. Someone came along. Surprisingly, he's still around :) otherwise I wouldn't bring it up.
Anyway, holy cow, I want in.

Thomas Truax at the Tamesis Dock

Another gig review. I span this one off quite quickly, so I think it's a bit cheesy, but hey, maybe it's my best writing ever....
Thomas Truax is devastatingly hard to desribe anyway.
I do think boat gigs are probably some of my favourite gigs ever. I can only really think of three times I've attended a show on a boat, this being one of them, but there's always something extra-special about it.

Pie-losophy

Basically, although it seems possible everything this man said was a mixture of highly honed logic and utter irreverence, the pie joke is by far my favourite.

I have always been a huge fan of the one-liner, leading pundits thus far being Mitch Hedberg, for whose improbable musings people have devoted whole sites:
"If you are flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit."
"I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that."

Milton Jones, a now frequent face in panel show/comedic programming:
"People try to put him down - talking 'bout my blind alsation"

Douglas Adams, who never claimed to hold them at the centre of his repertoire but still flung out hundreds in every book he wrote:
"The ship hung in the air in exactly the way that bricks don't."
"What's so bad about being drunk?"

"Ask a glass of water"

Then there is possibly the only one-liner I have never, ever forgotten, by meister of cheesey stand-up, Tim Vine:
"I've got a sponge door - don't knock it."

I don't know why exactly I decided to write about one-liners, except perhaps because the more I hear them the more I'm convinced that the art of saying things in as brief and silly a manner as possible is devastatingly important.

Another lil review.

Big gig review coming up - hopefully. I didn't actually manage to take any decent pictures (bloody Canon and the settings I can't be arsed to learn how to adjust) so my editor may not want it, but in that case it will go straight here anyway :D

Another review, you say?

Yeah, that's all for now.