The End of Nothing.
Monday, September 18, 2006
Summer of...
Busy summer. The Fringe Festival. Writing. Performing and that. I decided to start this fancy new blog because I've not been doing it for quite some time. Did my own show on the Fringe which was a complete success. I had 15 people each night in a room for 200. It was cozy.
Brought another show over from the states which was a nightmare. Word to the wise: never work with so-called friends who claim to be so-called stars. But if you do, watch out for the pills they pop. My hunch: hormones, steroids and sleeping pills tend to get in the way of being a 'star'. Go figure.
Was on BBC radio on Monday for 9/11. I was the only person on the show who was actually in New York on the day. Go figure. The show was simulcast with a station in Dallas, Texas. Texas: American mistake extraordinaire. The Dallas commentator attacked everyone, gave speeches about the virtues of King George and got offended when I called him an 'asshole' on the air. There was no badword delay due to the simulcast. Haha. Asshole.
To lighten the mood, I did my recurring bit on Nexuslive on Friday. They'd asked me to speak on something to do with school being back in session - Fresher's Week. Something in line with an homage I'd written to Allan Bloom for the Scottish Book Collector. Decided to probe Edinburgh Uni's website, for official fresher functions. Result: all manner of boozing parties, club nights, game show parodies. So, being in the happy 9/11 frame of mind, I googled in search of other student activities, and put them together in a neat little presentation.
A simple wikipedia search...active students everywhere...Sophie Scholl and the White Rose students - beheaded by Nazi's for writing letters...the Greensboro 4 - black students who decided to have lunch at Woolworth's...Akbar Mohammadi - an Iranian student who died on a hunger strike just this past July...Tianamen Square Students...Kent State Students...who knew? what - no beer?
It went over well. Better than the BBC show. Email me and I'll send you the ppt file. In the meantime, I'm going out to find more ways of empowering freethinking humanity against the fascist end-of-the-world regimes. It ain't over.
Thanks for having me back :)
Martin
Brought another show over from the states which was a nightmare. Word to the wise: never work with so-called friends who claim to be so-called stars. But if you do, watch out for the pills they pop. My hunch: hormones, steroids and sleeping pills tend to get in the way of being a 'star'. Go figure.
Was on BBC radio on Monday for 9/11. I was the only person on the show who was actually in New York on the day. Go figure. The show was simulcast with a station in Dallas, Texas. Texas: American mistake extraordinaire. The Dallas commentator attacked everyone, gave speeches about the virtues of King George and got offended when I called him an 'asshole' on the air. There was no badword delay due to the simulcast. Haha. Asshole.
To lighten the mood, I did my recurring bit on Nexuslive on Friday. They'd asked me to speak on something to do with school being back in session - Fresher's Week. Something in line with an homage I'd written to Allan Bloom for the Scottish Book Collector. Decided to probe Edinburgh Uni's website, for official fresher functions. Result: all manner of boozing parties, club nights, game show parodies. So, being in the happy 9/11 frame of mind, I googled in search of other student activities, and put them together in a neat little presentation.
A simple wikipedia search...active students everywhere...Sophie Scholl and the White Rose students - beheaded by Nazi's for writing letters...the Greensboro 4 - black students who decided to have lunch at Woolworth's...Akbar Mohammadi - an Iranian student who died on a hunger strike just this past July...Tianamen Square Students...Kent State Students...who knew? what - no beer?
It went over well. Better than the BBC show. Email me and I'll send you the ppt file. In the meantime, I'm going out to find more ways of empowering freethinking humanity against the fascist end-of-the-world regimes. It ain't over.
Thanks for having me back :)
Martin
:: posted by Martin B, 9/18/2006 04:17:00 PM
