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Monty Python and Steve Reich
Oct. 8th, 2006 05:54 pmAgh! To my chagrin i seem to have lost a ten pound note whilst at the station boot fair this morning amd consequently not been happy about it. Nothing much around anyway except for a very good condition Time Out Film Guide 2004 for only £1,and a Wire LP for only 50 pence. Met Kulo there as well looking for more blues and jazz stuff.
Completed the Council job down Ewart Street today so that i could get my bonus for achieveing 50% of my fifty house calls as interviews. 26 in total at £3.50 each,plus £1 for every non-call except house numbers not being valid,and the bonus of £15 plus expenses.That is a total of £130 inclusive. Nice little job and each interview a short 2 to 3 mins dependeing on how much they wanted to say,
Exchanged some old stuff for new down at Across the Tracks and picked up Bonnie Prince Billy's latest "The Letting Go" (Domino 2006) and one from last year Four Tet "Everything Ecstatic" (Domino 2005).
Played more of the Steve Reich retrospective and i should go and sse his concerts up in London - since noting Bagrec will be up there this evening. Trouble is, Sunday traveling by train with the main line being unavailabe up to Haywards Heath (and an excursion by bus) due to engineering works puts a damper on such an adventure.
Last night wonderful evening on BBC2 with a retrospective look at Monty Python's Flying Circus and its offshoots and influences. I remember when i bought that first Monty Python LP it surerly pissed off my parents with its strange surreal stream-of-consciousness comedy and occasionally bad (for then) sware words like the oft quoted "because she's a Fucking Princess". Best sketches to me are the Dead parrot routine, the face slapping skit with the wet fish,the gynaecologists playing football,and The Spoanish Inquisition. Wonderful, daft and skitty. Not forgetting the Ministry of Silly Walks and the room to have an argument in.
All the members of the team went on to do further things except for Graham Chapman who sadly passed away at only 48. Eric idle had his wonderful Rutles spoof, John Cleese did the hilarious Fawlty Towers,and their American cartoonist and illustrator,Terry Gilliam did some of the most wierd and wonderful films imaginable such as Time Bandits,Twelev Monkeys,and the bleak satire Brazil.
Here is that funny dead parrot sketch:
http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/python/Scripts/TheDeadParrotSketch
Completed the Council job down Ewart Street today so that i could get my bonus for achieveing 50% of my fifty house calls as interviews. 26 in total at £3.50 each,plus £1 for every non-call except house numbers not being valid,and the bonus of £15 plus expenses.That is a total of £130 inclusive. Nice little job and each interview a short 2 to 3 mins dependeing on how much they wanted to say,
Exchanged some old stuff for new down at Across the Tracks and picked up Bonnie Prince Billy's latest "The Letting Go" (Domino 2006) and one from last year Four Tet "Everything Ecstatic" (Domino 2005).
Played more of the Steve Reich retrospective and i should go and sse his concerts up in London - since noting Bagrec will be up there this evening. Trouble is, Sunday traveling by train with the main line being unavailabe up to Haywards Heath (and an excursion by bus) due to engineering works puts a damper on such an adventure.
Last night wonderful evening on BBC2 with a retrospective look at Monty Python's Flying Circus and its offshoots and influences. I remember when i bought that first Monty Python LP it surerly pissed off my parents with its strange surreal stream-of-consciousness comedy and occasionally bad (for then) sware words like the oft quoted "because she's a Fucking Princess". Best sketches to me are the Dead parrot routine, the face slapping skit with the wet fish,the gynaecologists playing football,and The Spoanish Inquisition. Wonderful, daft and skitty. Not forgetting the Ministry of Silly Walks and the room to have an argument in.
All the members of the team went on to do further things except for Graham Chapman who sadly passed away at only 48. Eric idle had his wonderful Rutles spoof, John Cleese did the hilarious Fawlty Towers,and their American cartoonist and illustrator,Terry Gilliam did some of the most wierd and wonderful films imaginable such as Time Bandits,Twelev Monkeys,and the bleak satire Brazil.
Here is that funny dead parrot sketch:
http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/python/Scripts/TheDeadParrotSketch
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