Cleaning the grime of a London Particular from one's spats. Continental umbrella furling. The price of fish. The buttering of parsnips and the consequent lack of fine words. Defeating dastardly foes. The Isness Of Being.
Music
This cove Shostakovich may come up with something interesting in time, but the dance bands playing 'Flat Foot Floojie with a floy floy' and 'Tiger rag' take some beating. Other than that it's jolly old Scarlatti and the lieder of Schubert. Yes, I'm a real little avant gardist when it comes to tunes.
Movies
Can't see the kinema ever catching on meself. A game of rummy and a cup of cocoa before bed is my idea of entertainment before taking on the wily bosch. However, Buster Keaton and Mary Pickford are rather good. This Harold Lloyd seems to get himself out of a sticky situation hanging off a clock face high above 42nd Street. W.C. Fields is a sound cove, too.
Television
I know not of what you speak.
Books
John Buchan (complete works, except for the one about growing geraniums). P.G. Wodehouse (complete works). Dorothy L. Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey stories).
Heroes
Richard Hannay. Bertie Wooster. Bart Dickon (can one be one's own hero? - in the multiple realities of the Quantum, one sometimes finds oneself saying: 'Fancy seeing me here!"). Florence Nightingale.
About me:
I inhabit A New Dark Age, fighting wickedness and indulging in derring-do. When in a tight spot I usually fall back on the old trick of "with one leap he was free". It usually works. I am The Ideologically-Sound Secret Agent whose mission in a number of time-dimensions is to combat the hegemonies of the running dogs of capitalism. I also read P.G. Wodehouse as background research to my exploits and have two sidekicks: Jock and Snowy. I have adventured for so long, I've forgotten to grow old. My shirts are hand-made in Jermyn Street and my double-breasted suits are stitched by my personal tailor, Mauri Bund in The Cut, Southwark. Find out more about me and my chums on http://www.bartdickonline.co.uk
Who I'd like to meet: ...The fiendish harpie who chewed my head off in my Great Adventure 'A Severed Head' and then reduced me to a state of corporeal desuetude, scattering limbs and organs to the four corners of the multiverse. How annoying is that? Also anyone prepared to volunteer to replace Jock and Snowy as Bart Dickon sidekicks, as I'm a bit cheesed off with them (especially the Hibernian one). Also that dear sweet damsel, Angela Brasil, whom I met in the adventure called 'The Thunderer'. Charming young filly.
May I issue a public health warning about the following cinematographic presentation? So alluring is this fiendish confection that it was used to brainwash me when I was on secret detachment in Manchuria. Ended up trying to shoot our own Prime Minister! Luckily stumbled on a discarded cheese and pickle sanwich and grazed my knee - That sobered me up an sent me back to The Drones for a bracing scotch and splash.
Hi Bart! Wishing you an abundant and joyful holiday season. :) Liz PS I'm celebrating a deal with St. Martin's for Death Will Help You Leave Him, the follow-up to Death Will Get You Sober.
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Thanks for accepting my friendship. Great Page You Got Here!!! If you get the chance, cruise on over to my page and have a listen to my tunes. Thanks for checking them out and have a great week my new friend!!!
"He Bought Me a Soda and He Tried to Molest Me in a Parking Lot!"
Volume 2!
Last year the first volume of this "collection of illustrations inspired by lyrics from those songs that get stuck in your head all day" was a great success and people had a lot of fun interpreting their favourite lyrics!
You can download the first volume as a free pdf here:
http://www.soundofdrowning.com/soda1.html
So the time seemed ripe for a Volume 2!
The specs are the same; artwork should be A5 300 dpi. As well as a limited edition artbook of the project there will also be another free pdf of the book, which has been downloaded by a good thousand people so far.
So give vent to those earworms and get sending those submissions to the contact details on this page:
http://www.soundofdrowning.com/Contact.html
Deadline is April 1st and I'm really looking forward to seeing this years entries!
M'selle Lou's cyberspace is looking most interesting! I very much like the illustration (I think by your good self?) on the contact page. I am still on bed rest alas! But I am taking this most opportune moment to write another book for Madame Lulu.com. This time is about the virtuousness of sweet vocalising. Now, Bart, I must away as my char-lady has made me a wonderful cup. Regards, Baroness Burrow.
Yo Bart!! Further to your kind reading of my E-book, I have taken on board the need to pass the pages through the Spelling/ Grammer Tool, and it is now mistake-free! Thinking of publishing another book of my paintings/art...what do you think, kind sir? Regards, Deborah
