I LOVE: enquiry, JAMES WATERMAN, curiosity, ART FOR ARTS SAKE, art for the sake of principles, DISCOVERY, when it all falls into place, even if it disappears a day later, the power of the SPOKEN WORD, my parents divorce, POLESON, laura, MY FAMILY, when the reality is better than the dreaming, RED WINE, almost getting away with it, GETTING AWAY WITH IT COMPLETELY, days off, DAYS ON, running THE BIG WORD, peanut butter on toast, WAKING UP AND NOT HAVING TO GET UP, reading in the bath, PRACTICING POEMS IN THE SHOWER, finishing poems and liking them, THE RANDOM SQUIRREL THAT TEASES THE CAT IN MY BACK GARDEN, edinburgh, JAMES' CD COLLECTION (mine is shite), FINALLY LETTING GO OF THE IMP THAT BUGS YOU, reading, WELL TIMED ESCAPISM, train journeys, GIGS OUTSIDE OF SCOTLAND WHERE I CAN CHURN OUT THE SAME OLD SHITE, jamming with LAURA, comfiness, FEELING SAFE, not being scared of death and the future (BOTH ARE INEVITABLE AND PERFECTLY NATURAL), being judgemental, CRITICS, bravery, HOSTING POETRY SHOWS, drinking while hosting poetry shows, LOVING WHAT PEOPLE THINK OF ME, NO MATTER WHAT IT IS ( this is a work in progress :), crows feet, GETTING OLDER, learning, MY UN-KILLABLE CACTUS, james cooking (yes, there is a theme here...), letting myself dream, STAYING INSIDE IF I WANT TO...
I HATE: accepting things/being forced to accept things at face value, WHEN TORIES CLAIM TO BE LIBERALS, the state of political journalism, UNSPEAK, the power of corporations, THE MISUSE OF THE WORD 'LIBERAL', people who argue that we shouldn't 'judge' each other, simply because we are from different backgrounds, WOMEN WHO'LL STILL CALL THEMSELVES 'GIRL' AT FORTY, men who cheat and say its in their nature to 'spread their seed' then leave their partner if they succeed in planting said seed, SCREWBALL LOGIC, circular arguments, THE RISE OF RELATIVISM, deepak chopra, THROWING UP SPAGHETTI, the bottom of the bottle, DYING ON STAGE, being ripped off, BAD ARGUMENTS, size zero, MISSING PEOPLE WHO'RE NOT COMING BACK, pretty much all advertising, PEOPLE WHO THINK BORIS JOHNSON IS 'HARMLESS', the style of election coverage, PEOPLE WHO SHOUT 'JUMP' AT SUICIDAL PEOPLE ON BRIDGES, lack of empathy, SELFISHNESS, liars, COWARDS, purposeful idiots, SENTENCES BEGINNING WITH "I'M NOT A FEMINIST, BUT/ i'M NOT A RACIST, BUT/ I'M NOT A TORY, BUT....", people who can't distinguish between porn and sex, THE TOTAL ACCEPTANCE OF PLASTIC SURGERY, bridget jones being an idol for women, PLANTING THE TERM 'FEMINIST' ON ANYONE WHO EXPRESSES A SENTIMENT THAT DIFFERENTIATES THEM FROM A DOORMAT OR A PROSTITUTE, accidentally eating soap (don't ask), ARROGANT STAFF IN CLOTHES SHOPS, £8 for a pint of rubbish. Amongst other things.
Music
...is good, especially when it has lyrics. That are good. And not lazy. I cant stand the mockney Brit School accent... I've read better poetry on cereal packets than a lot of our supposed 'modern day Shakespeares' are supposed to have churned out from their parents ten bedroom houses in Surrey... And cereal packets aren't even supposed to be poetic. Perhaps their songs aren't either. Anyway: music is fun, to play and to listen to. Except when you have dreams that you are naked and doing the former. On a stage. With people watching. I play the piano and melodica in a band called Laura Lewis & The tea Dance Orchestra, and also have a cheery alter ego called Cheer Up Jenny, which is apt...apparently. I approve of misery in major chords.
Movies
are also good. I like some of them, like The Departed and Memento and lots of other one's, especially ones that make me miserable or happy. Some of them are bloody shite though. Like Bridget Jones' Middle Class Anti-Feminist Nonsense Aren't Women STill So Stupid? Or one's where the geek turns goddess. Or some 'hero' dies for the love of some twat with the personality of a caravan park and enough brains to fill an eggcup. And won't it be funny in the future when our children scorn us for our love of car chases in films? "Mummy? Do you know that the CO2 emissions in that scene helped to fell the last elm?" "Yes dear. Now shut up and help me row."
Television
... does not serve just one master, regardless of what all those bloody poets tell you (he he he): tis good for some things...like information and escapism :) Buffy, Black Books, Curb Your Enthusiasm, CSI, Joss Whedon in general, apocalyptic tv series, South Park (the later years especially), Channel 4 news (for information and ties), BBC News (for their access to places others cant get to - though Breakfast should be taken off the air and replaced with white noise for all the headaches it has put on top of my headaches every morning), Five News, to encourage my bile... You see, we are so lucky to have so much visual stimuli. To the point where notable academics call terrorist attacks 'texts'! Man, we're so cultured. Even reality can be 'read' and 'perused' and 'deconstructed.' Apparently even food can be too now. What you do is, you take all the ingredients, rip them apart, set them out in little seperate bowls and containers and look at them. The difference between deconstructed food and deconstructed 'texts' of 'reality' is that eventually the deconstructor of food will put it all back together again in one way or another, whereas the deconstructor of 'reality/texts' will leave all the parts of the meal lying there on the plate. And say, 'mmmm' a lot. Maybe prod it a bit. Then write a book about it. That has no punctuation or actual words in it. Anyway: tv. Its okay. Lots of model shows though.
Books
My bookshelves are the best thing about me. And they're broken and sagging to the left :) William Morris, GEORGE ORWELL, BERTRAND RUSSELL, J. S Mill, HEINRICH BOLL, Arthur Koestler, KURT VONNEGUT, Philip K Dick, William Golding, NICK COHEN, STEVEN POOLE, Stephen Ingle, FRANCIS WHEEN, H.G WELLS, Jonathan Swift, MARGARET ATWOOD, Tim Lott, Germaine Greer, KATIE ROIPHE ("The Morning After" should be requisite reading for those who think feminism is about making women victims and celebrating it).... )
I like to read and write about politics, philosophy, our Christian legacy, Britain, democracy, the left, feminism, ethical socialism... as you can see, I am attempting to be remembered as the patron saint of completely fucking lost causes :)
People who believe in truth. People who admit they don't know the answer, but at least want to try to know the answer, instead of (as is the fashion) saying that the answer doesnt exist and anyone who says otherwise is a pawn of satan/Bush/Blair/Brown/Women/Men/the PC Brigade/Israel/Palestine/Monkeys/Chimps/Whales/Dolphins....The list could go on. People who don't reduce life, love and politics to black and white fundamentals. I can oppose a war and still believe its important to remove a dictator. I refuse to clap my hands at the death of anyone. I can see both sides points of view and still come down in favour of humanity, liberty, democracy and truth - not because its my 'socially constructed reality' (far from it), but because reason and empathy leads me to them. I give those who disagree with me the courtesy of taking what they say at face value. I dont think everyone is always lying, all the time, for whatever price. My enemies enemies are not my friends. I can abhor my own government and feel disgust at those who murder people as an attack on said government. I can feel sick at bulldozers and suicide bombers; paedophiles and vigilantes; actions and reactions; reactions and counter-actions; counter-actions and recurrences; history and now: And so my heroes are those who know the battles worth fighting, the protests worth protesting, and what love is and what friends are. And, those who believe in truth, and that its something worth championing. If history does keep repeating itself? Tis only because noone is listening...
About me: Performance poet, writer, low wager, normal, mostly poor, occasionally loaded, often amused, usually tired: I'm good at burning bridges. You?
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Who I'd like to meet: CURIOUS PEOPLE. People who dont think "all poetry is shit". HAPPY LONERS. Bands, MUSICIANS, poets, ARTISTS, promoters, ETHICAL SOCIALISTS, folks I can spam about future poetry events :)
El Dog at the Ark in Edinburgh. Saturday the 30th of May. Doors at 8:00. Tickets £2.
why not come along and check us out. We'll be playing with a plethora of great bands.
The Number Nines, Caezuim, Eskimogo and Miasma
All the best,
Bob El Dog
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Summer is approaching and cruel winter is banished for another year. To celebrate, Big Hand would like to invite you to an extra special night of cosmic ska craziness...
Get your skanking shoes on and join us at Cabaret Voltaire this Sunday - 24th May (its a bank holiday, so no excuses)...
The Bluesfather is the featured act this Sunday, 12.04.09, 9.00-10.00pm, at The Listening Room, The Blue Blazer, Spittal Street. Be cool to see you there.
Morris would be a wonderful name for a dog, particularly if it were bright eyed and gregarious and hairy.
I have a book He signed ... and an etching of Him by Leonard Baskin ... who was friends with Ted Hughes ... I have a signed Birthday Letters ... I am straying from the point ...
Yes, he was inspirational in so many ways but most of all for being a great-hearted, generous-spirited human being.
I know what you mean about his poetry, although I think it's partly because it's very much of its time. However, 'October' and parts of 'The Message of the March Wind' are amongst my favourites and can make me weep.
09 November - 2 OF THE BIGGEST PUNK ROCK BANDS IN PARIS ARE PLAYING AT HOBO THIS NIGHT...FRENCH HOBO NIGHT..with DEAD SEXY and TOXIC SONIC Live!
PRAVDA played at HOBO early this year and the night was wild, sexy and oh oh so french, earlier this year the drummer and the lead guitarist/male singer in PRAVDA formed a new band which are the rebel sound of GLAM PUNK // TRASH // they are in high demand touring all over the world yes they are called 'TOXIC SONIC' and are fiercer and sexier than ever before.
DEAD SEXY - SEX AFTER THE AFTERPARTY. THE AFTERPARTY AFTER SEX. DRUGS. ROCK’N’ROLL. CHAOS. GRACE. ART UNLEASHED... TRENDY AND BORN AGAINST.
PLUS DEAD SEXY DJ SET! + 2 BURLESQUE ACTS...IMPRESSIVE JOHNSON. FEMALE ACT TBC.
--------------------------------- THiS SUNDAY> 24 August - THE FNORDS LIVE! - " A mutant mix of Cramps meets Slits" "60’s surf punk - screamabilly action!" BAND ON AT 12.30. DJs playing this night are....TALL PAUL (GO GO), SUPER OLY & TOMSKI>> drinks are £1.50 ..... yes we are doing another raffle of a crate of beer!!!!!!!!! open 11-5am! entry 3 quid THE BONGO CLUB Edinburgh, Scotland EH8 8BA
"Beautiful, their melodies will haunt you all day, like a dream" **** Bang
YOU CAN BUY TICKETS ONLINE NOW!!!: www.urgoing.to/lanterns
WHEN: 23 July @ 9pm WHERE: The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, Edinburgh. COST: £6 / 5 (Tickets available soon from Ripping Records & Avalanche)
You are invited to the acoustic gig of the year....
JL Williams (Neue Liebe) and Weaponizer unite to present an evening of enchanting music and hypnotic poetry - not to be missed!
WHEN: TONIGHT WHERE: The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, Edinburgh. COST: £6 / 5 (Tickets available soon from Ripping
LIPSYNC FOR A LULLABY www.myspace.com/lipsyncforalullaby
Sonic star-travellers, melding ethereal noise and classical textures - Edinburgh's answer to Sigur Ros...
LAURA LEWIS & THE TEA DANCE ORCHESTRA www.myspace.com/lauralewisandtheteadanceorchestra
Experimental heartbreak songwriting and esoteric instrumentation...
AND THE STARLETS! http://www.starlets.co.uk/, http://www.myspace.com/starletsuk./.
Hosted by poets Texture (Chemical Poets) and JL Williams (Neue Liebe)
Friends! Summer's here (not that the sun knows about it!)...
To celebrate not only this but the official release of our album (on i tunes and such like) we cordially invite you to our album launch at Henry's Cellar Bar on Monday 4th August. Get your dancing shoes on, grab your friends by the hand, lead them in the ways of Zorbic rightousness, and come on down for a dazzling night to remember...
Lovely to hear from you Ms Lindsay. Looking forward to the Fishers gig. Life in the country continues to be lovely. Still awaiting the appearance of young Barney (not sure if you remember that drunken converstion). You well?
just read that "socialist" comment........fucking splendid......i love irony......if i didn't think it was meant to be funny i would have suggested that MLMF stood for middle-class liberal mother fuckers. hammer and sickle as well, nice touch, fuck those ukrainians eh!
Comrade Jenny Lindsay, Thanks for adding me, Socialists are the only ones who can build a world without ghettos and end world poverty, every child in this world has a right to live in dignity, economically and emotionally, only socialists can provide that for every child. MLM Feminist ( MLMF ), is a NEW international political party platform that is feminist based with motherhood and womans issues in our base ideology, please check out our platform in my blog under:
Hear ye, hear ye friends. Calling all ye faithful and faithless, the Big Hand debut album is finally here and set to dazzle upon the main stage of life! Yes, its set for release, and its gonna blow your socks off.........
............ 14 tracks of the finest sparkling soulful zorbic ska ever heard for just ten little pounds. Available now from www.thebighand.co.uk - it would be a crime to miss out! Get yourselves the remedy for the winter blues, reach out through the ether and get yourself one today. Go on, you know you want to!
