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Monday but no meme…

Monday, February 19th, 2007


I had a day off the Blogger as my computer told me it wouldn’t let me go anywhere dangerous. Really. But it’s fixed now by the person who broke it, aka My Boffin Husband. I posted on MySpace yesterday instead but that was just this picture:

Nextwave 12
Mmmm… Nextwave. Boo hiss boo, it’s all over now.

I worked Saturday and I worked Sunday. I also worked Monday and this sounds like it’s turning into a Dr Seuss moment. Tomorrow is The Monthly Trek To Fancy London for that meeting what we who manage shops go to. Meeting place is a few minutes walk from a certain mega geek shop. I am genuinely excited.

I am also excited about this:

Daydream Believers
It’s coming… soon. It’s a pilot, it’s for the radio and it stars a certain Mitchell and a certain Webb. It’s Daydream Believers and you can get tickets to go see (and hear) David and Rob do that radio thing what they do. Click to the BBC tickety world of joy!
Or phone the number at the bottom of this trailery picture thing.

I have ordered four as we are taking the Blog Children.


Nerd alert! Joss Whedon directed The Office this week and it had a bat in it. What more do you need? At least it wasn’t Joss Stone.

Circular Time
Nerd alert! Another really very good Big Finish Doctor Who audio is in the shops now. Circular Time is four separate stories with Doctor Five and Nyssa that take place in various times and places, as you would imagine. If you want to see (in your mind, it’s an audio drama) Doctor Five spazz out when the whole thing with the Spectrox goes wrong and he has them weirdo hallucinations before he turns into Doctor Six then this is for you. If you want to hear Nyssa writing a book and having a bit of a tantrum before getting her first snog then ditto. It’s co-written by my favourite of all those Dok-Torr authors, the fantastic Paul Cornell, so there really is no excuse.

I am off for some peace and quiet now.
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Meh.

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Here is the Mitchell & Webb news…

Sunday, February 11th, 2007


(Yes I know I have That Other Blog for this but I wanted to share)
News? What news? Well, Peep Show is just over halfway through its filming and the next big thing will be a certain long-awaited comedy radio piloty thing. Stay tuned for sprecifics when I know them… As I may have mentioned already, the return of That Mitchell And Webb Sound is coming up too. I don’t know how they fit it all in. It looks like that show is going to begin (and end maybe, depending on how quick they rattle through it?) at the end of April. I shall be lurking outside The Drill Hall any day now just in case…

and now a word from a certain Mr Jez Osbourne, in reply to the hoo-haa about a certain advert for computers in The Guardian. You know, the article by that Zoe Williams I posted the other week. Anyway:

‘Zoe, my God you nailed it sister. Your article touched me greatly (Worse than not-funny, January 31st) in the way that it devastatingly pointed out that comedians sometimes get offered money to do acting in adverts (by The Man) rather than acting in TV shows (also by The Man, but better). As a musician, I’ve always been mindful of the pitfalls awaiting the artist who actually earns money from making or performing music. If anyone offered me an advert I would probably laugh blood in their face and then pelt them with tomatoes (I’ve borrowed your wicked Vorderman joke – tomatoes!) It’s the same for you as a writer: yeah OK, so you get paid by the paper that gets money from the advertising that you hate this week, but you brilliantly maintain your artistic integrity by ensuring that everything you write is so difficult to understand. “We’re still chasing a dream, but we want it to be a wonderland whose distance we can count in units”. I’ve spent most of the day trying to figure out what that means, but the point is that it’s highly moving. I love it that your writing is so obscure. “Sixty percent of advertising is more creative and wittier than 90% of mainstream situation comedy”. Completely impenetrable except from within the head of the writer. That’s real art. It takes me back to the heyday of The Modern Review. They too used to chuck in references to Orwell, Kant and Nietze whilst basically chatting about TV or fashion and it always made me feel like I was clever, or they were clever, or either. Here’s to you Zoe! I’ll never be Bowie and you’ll never be Burchill, but at least we’re making a living (well, you are). Love, your new fan, Jez x’

In tribute to people getting a bit too angry about artists doing adverts, here is some angry art:

Oh yeah, Magicians should be out in May. Probably.

Yes it’s that teeny tiny trailer again. It’s all I have!

Thanks to a little bird who supplied me with some big news.

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