30/10/07
Time flies when you're doing not a lot -
Categories: Firstly I have to apologise as I have been asked to write a blog for trendy local magazines Angel and North, and they are trendy. What this means is that I am not creatively intelligent enough to do two completely different blogs a week and so the first paragraph of this week's blog will be stolen from that one. And don't bother complaining as this is a free blog and to be honest, I don't care. So have that. Although at the same time I do care a bit as I noticed my blog reading hit rate has dropped as of late, and by double blogging I may be merely cutting this figure in half. Or perhaps, doubling it? Only time will tell.
Speaking of time (seamless link into copied bit) how is it November already? It used to take ages to get to this time of year, and now it feels like I’ve sat down for two minutes after the Edinburgh Festival and the year is nearly over. Apparently it’s an age thing. My Nan says that time flies by for her and it just goes quicker the older you get. I find this incredibly unfair. Surely it should fly by for kids when all they’re doing is using play-doh to make incorrectly coloured animals (I don’t care how old a child is, a lion is not purple) and then slow down when you could actually be doing useful things with your time.
I say useful, but the scrabble still reigns in the flat. I did attempt some new gags last night though at the ever lovely Outside the Box in Kingston. What was disturbing was that all the comics there were trying new stuff too. Lloyd Langford did a whole 15 minutes of solid new gags, with some truly top lines in there, and Greg McHugh had some great new stuff too. My attempt was some stuff I'd written on the journey to the gig and hadn't really worked out how to say any of it, resulting in a large amount falling on its face. I did a new gag about the California forest fires though which went down well. Sadly, it wont be topical after a week or two. We can only hope for more US arson based destruction for the sake of my set.
Dara O'Brien was also at the gig last night trying new stuff (along with Omid Dijili, Dave Fulton and Paul Tonkinson. Quite a line-up!) and it was amazing how even though all his stuff was very new, it had a 100% hit rate. Part of me was in awe and part of me hates his guts for being so funny so quickly. It must come with experience I suppose. Maybe time going so quickly isn't that bad.
Long run of gigs ahead for the month of November, no doubt much of these in the next few days will be quiet due to idiots ooohing and aaahing at the same fireworks we see every year. Yawn. I'm not just being a misery guts, but let me know when they can make fireworks that look like the ones Gandalf uses in Lord of the Rings, then I'll put my gloves and hat on, and ooh and aah with a baked tatty like everyone else.
Lastly, I have finally got an adjective before my name in Time Out. Apparently I am cheeky. Is this finally fame?
Fat Tuesday tonight! Adam Bloom, Andrew O Neill, Joe Wilkinson, Luke Roberts and Dylan Bray! Should be a stonker.
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Don't know if his is true. Just something I read.
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