14/05/08
I'm a Streetwalking Cheetah with a hide full of napalm... -
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Bethany Black
@ 05:05:59 pm
I've lost my feckin' keys, I had them last night, but I can't find them. Plus one of my rings has disappeared, it was on my thumb last night and now it's gone. Normally you have to be some kind of drunk for things like that to happen.
I've never felt quite as useless in my life, and in front of my mrs, she says she loves me anyway, but I can't be so sure.
anyway we were walking down to uni today to drop off some books and get some more David Lynch movies to watch and walking down the street she put her arm round me and I round her, and within three seconds three mouth breathing bottom feders had leaned out of their cars to either stare or shout "Queers!" at us.
people tell me that homophobia doesn't exist anymore. It does, clearly and it's nice to live in the little protective bubble that Manchester and the Gay village provides, but it's also good to remember that outside the cities people are still as backward as ever.
Down the road from m Stonewall had one of those billboards "SOME PEOPLE ARE GAY, GET OVER IT." and this being Crewe, someone had written underneath it "Yeah, puffs." this is the level we're dealing with, people who don't even know that the correct spelling is "Poofs" As Wil Hodgeson said "Have some pride in your insults."
Anyway, big congratulations go to one of my biggest heroes in comedy, the man who took me under his wing when I started and who has been a constant halp and who persuaded me to do my edinburgh show this year, Jason Cook, who won the award for best international act at the New Zealand comedy festival.
I'm so proud of him and glad to know him, both he and Toby Hadoke have made a big difference to me.
Also congratulations to Toby Hadoke for his Sony nomination. It seems like everything creative is alligning correctly His show was fantastic and it is well deserved.
And now back to me, as this is my blog and perhaps the most self indulgent of all artforms even beyond comedy.
It's good to be surrounded with creative people, and in a few weeks I'm moving back to manchester in with Dug Shelmerdine and Jonathan Mayor and I can't wait. On top of that I'm working with Michael J Dolan on my show for edinburgh. I got a Best Debut show nomination at Leicester and I'm hoping to capitalise on that success and make this show the best I can and remember 2008 is my year.
It's a weird number thing that I have, where I give things certain significance based on coincidental repetitions of numbers.
I was born at 20:08 on 24th December 1978.
20:08, so 2008. 24th December= Nearly Jesus, (Jesus was 30 when he made it big with his stand-up, highly underrated in his day and lots of people missed the point of his Kaufmanesque commitment to his art combined with a Peter Kay level of accessibility and observational stuff "How blessed are the meek?" etc.) on top of that, like Russell Brand I was born dead having strangled myself with the umbilical chord. so I've already done the ressurrection trick. Along with the Lazarus rebirth thing (hence the name Bethany)
I'm 30 this year, in the year of 20:08 which corresponds with the time I was born.
so in the 12 hour clock that's 8:08pm. the Edinburgh festival is in August, the eighth month, the first proper Friday of the festival is 8/08/08 So I'm reckoning I'll sell out on that date, and get my first good reviews.
Fuck you Dan Brown!!! this is better than the DaVinci code!!!
I'm fully aware that the above makes me look mental. But it's some more of that hippy dippy positive thinking and "stepping into the future that you've created" stuff that makes this life a lot easier than being defeatist.
Right I'm off now do watch The Lost highway and eat Ice lollies.
until next time, I love you all.
BB xXx
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