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Ken Campbell and Robert Anton Wilson: Theatre Perilous
Cosmic Coincidence Control Center: Ken Campbell's 70s stage adaptation of Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's Illuminatus!
The Dirty Bristow ELO-ke
On Saturday night I'll be going to this: It's an ELO-themed Karaoke fundraiser for Dirty Bristow, the magazine with no ads, no rules and no objection to publishing stuff by me (God love 'em). A ticket for the ELO-ke comes with a free copy of Issue 1, which features something I wrote about my dad and my daughter and my not-too-shabby first attempt at drawing something for over six years. The next issue will be out soon, and I've written & illustrated stuff for that one, too. I'll tell you more about that some other time. Possibly. Anyhow, do come [...]
Still Boldly Going Strong
William Alan Shatner turned 80 earlier this week. Shatner is - and most likely always will be - one of my favourite screen icons, and I say that without so much as a trace element of irony. Seriously: he's up there with Clint Eastwood, Woody Allen and Orson Welles in my personal pantheon and all-time Honour Roll. Don't look at me like that: for once I'm not taking the piss. Anyway, to celebrate the great man's recently acquired state of octogenarianism, here he is performing a cover of Cee Lo Green's poignant and heartfelt ballad, Fuck You: And [...]
The Canyon Star
I recently heard from my old pal Jamie, one of those old pals of mine I haven't heard from for too long. Jamie's an accomplished singer/songwriter - by my reckoning a damn fine one, too - and a veteran of the London music scene. It's good to hear, then, that he's recording again - under the wonderfully evocative, Country-tinged sobriquet The Canyon Star. According to his MySpace page (he's a musician, that's what they do), his "influences range from Tim Buckley and Terry Callier to Little Feat and The Band." Pretty good influences, then. There's a hint of early Ryan [...]
