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Indoor Smoking Guy
I've been neglecting my blog as of late due to preparations for this week's Rock 'n' Relativity Holiday Conspiracy comedy show. A man should never neglect his blog, so here's a little something to make it feel loved again. It's a homage to the legendary comics artist Jack Kirby I did to accompany an article by Mark Parfitt that appeared in the first issue of Dirty Bristow, the rather exellent new magazine I'm rather proud to be associated with. I hope you like it:
Fair Exchange
This is Fair Exchange, a rather marvellous and eerie short film by Lee O'Connell and Andrew Spencer. Good, isn't it? Lee is a pal and one of my comedy co-conspirators on next month's Rock 'n' Relativity Holiday Conspiracy show. He'll be playing the role of Dom, a misanthropic conspiracy theorist who narrates the show. I like to think of him as a cross between Rod Serling from The Twilight Zone and Barry from Auf Weidersehen, Pet. At least, that's how I like to think of him...
Dirty Bristow
The debut issue of Dirty Bristow magazine is now on sale. It's a beautiful looking thing - as magazine's go, it's definitely a looker - and features an article wot I wrote and an illustration wot I drew and lots of great stuff by very talented people. You can find out more about it from here where you can also buy yourself a copy for the very reasonable asking price of £4 (inc UK P&P).
Rock ‘n’ Relativity Holiday Conspiracy
Part of this year's Birmingham Comedy Festival, Rock 'n' Relativity Holiday Conspiracy from Half-a-Dog Comedy is "an insight into the mind of a man whose life has become ruled by Internet conspiracies." If a typical comedy show can be described as a mixtape, then this - dare I say it - is a concept album, featuring a collection of dubious and demented characters united by a single theme. Its like Dark Side of the Moon, but with more dick jokes. One of these characters is called Sorted, a middle-aged man trapped in the 1990s. He's a BritPop refugee - the [...]
The Exorcism of Ghede
The following is an extract from Carl Jung's final book, Man and His Symbols (1964): "Among primitives, 'possession' implies that a god or demon has taken over a human body. Above [a Haitian] possessed by the god Ghede, who is invariably manifested in this position, legs crossed, cigarette in mouth" It's been exactly one week since my last cigarette...
The Dirty Bristow Summer Fête
Dirty Bristow- the magazine with no ads, no rules and no objections to publishing stuff by me - will be having a launch party at The Edge in Digbeth on Saturday August 28th. There's all sorts of strange, summer fête-themed shenanigans lined up for the night as well as live music and comedy (with yours truly helping out with the latter). Tickets are £5 (which includes a complimentary copy of Dirty Bristow's first issue) and you can book them here.
