In answer to the handful of
emails I have had asking, yes of course I had that Ramones t-shirt conversation
yesterday. I have never written an untrue word on this blog, I know some people
have objected to my opinions before, but that is their problem.
Just lately I have been
working a little bit too hard on a few projects and as a result I haven’t been
getting enough sleep. The new podcast series, the one-off podcast I recorded
yesterday, and trying to sort shit out for the Sunday
Alternative film among other things is getting on top of me and
causing me some anxiety. This evening I decided to give myself a break and didn’t
think about work one bit. I keep meaning to devote more time to reading, but it
becomes one of those things that too easily gets pushed away to one side, and
my bedside table groans accusingly under the weight of unread books. At the
moment I am reading Pete Townsend’s autobiography Who I Am,
which is proving to be a fascinating insight into his life. Next up is yet
another book about Charles Dickens, as I haven’t read one for a few weeks.
I’ve written before about how
I used to be extremely up to date with new comedy, but now I don’t seem to
catch things straight away. These days I tend to binge on box-sets in order to
catch up, so tonight I watched the three episodes of The Life Of
Rock With Brian Pern. At first I wasn’t sure if it would be any
good, mainly I suppose because the rock parody has been done so well already
with Bad News and Spinal Tap (in that order, a lot of people think that Bad
News was ripped off). However, Simon Day has put together a fantastic spoof
retrospective of the life of a pretentious musician with a strong cast of both
comedians, DJs and musicians, all bursting to get in on the joke. The only weak
spot is the inclusion of the characters Mulligan and O’Hare, portrayed by Vic
Reeves and Bob Mortimer and a feature of their sketch shows for many years.
This takes away from the believable storyline about the life of the Peter
Gabriel like Brian Pern.
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