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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...
