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ere we are using language and the possibility that out of the circle of those who know you things can be very different our context and the way we are interpreted can change in each situation when something as intricate and diverse as complex language evolves then there will be ramifications what this case may well demonstrate is that our legal system is not yet fully prepared for the all immersive culture defining world of the internet which for many is now more real than reality that a joke about a pug s mindless obedience has become a rallying cry for the free speech warriors seems utterly ridiculous some of the far right seem to have picked up this case which makes the matter even murkier some of these free speech warriors are the same ones who seem quite happy to encourage rape and death threats to women who voice opinions they have decided they don t like but hey it s all free speech isn t it sometimes i am not sure if we are evolved enough to deal with the amount of meaning delivered to us out of its original context it makes us very cross and confused tribal and dogmatic i was going to go on about those who offend with delight and i think frequently without empathy but i will save that for another time my starting point may well be that the dismissal of anyone who is offended as that old easily offended brigade fuck them means no one learns anything and it may well be that some have a story to tell which may make us think a stance or two but i would say that bloody bleeding heart liberal free speech used to seem to be something promoted in the hope of advancing civilised existence now it seems to be promoted by some in the hope of dragging us away from it please feel free to leave your comments under this i have not followed the case intensively so you may want to pick me up or lead me into some other area i am on tour across the uk wolverhampton exeter lyme regis birmingham and soho theatre and lots lots more dates here posted in uncategorized 11 comments and she said well i don t think you re a fishmonger i think you ve done a plop in the wrong lavatory happy birthday rik posted on march 7 2018 by robinince rik mayall would have been sixty today he is the main reason that my ungainly employment for the last twenty five years has been shouting at strangers for money a few weeks ago i hosted an event where we showed bad news tour and then i chatted to adrian edmondson and nigel planer the theatre was full of joy and motorhead t shirts as i watched it i thought my god they were so young when they became stars and so brilliant too now i am 49 and they are entering their seventh decade the teenage memories of worship are still powerful the desperation to place every comic strip wogan appearance every dangerous brothers split second on betamax tapes little realising that one day there would be instant access via an information superhighway that would be a library of nearly everything bloody ever and yet it still can t answer the question of whether john noakes s nob was bigger than heathrow airport on the day rik mayall died i wrote this i walked out of a toilet cubicle to see michael legge standing motionlessly in front of me he stared at me as he often does after standing outside toilet cubicles but then started to say something in the manner of mournful bad news rik mayall is dead we walked through the streets of leeds curling our lips and reciting rikkeries rik mayall was my comedy idol my first memory of a 1980s obsession is sitting in the back of a capri with my sisters insisting i do my kevin turvey impersonation i needed little encouragement for my unbroken voice to attempt the swoops of outrage and incredulity and snorts of self congratulation that drove rik mayall through kevin s failed attempts to examine sex work and tarmac this was my first taste of alternative comedy followed by alexei sayle s appearances on ott these were the things that made a nearly teen realise what he wanted to do with the rest of his life this was my punk and many others too we were just too young to have our future shaped by listening to the clash and the sex pistols we had new wave and two tone to be box bedroom rebels to but it was alternative comedy that had the cultural kick to knock us into teenage shape here was comedy your mum and dad didn t understand sweary dirty snotty loud and stupid here were the lines drawn between youth and age to further the delight rik also mocked exactly that rebel pose we were drawn to the people s poet to laugh at him while also knowing we were him just a little bit maybe a little too much how many political badges did you have on your oxfam suit jacket colin pisspoor bassist with bad news who is mainly in the band as he has some money was a similarly deluded middle class kid pretending he was an edgy hedonist who sometimes caused curtains to catch fire as he was snogging women rik mayall was a great at playing deluded virgins which is exactly what we were the utter commitment the feral energy the wide eyed indignation the violence he was a dervish on stage and totally mesmeric all words i use fail dismally to capture the tears and spasms of laughter that he generated in me how many times did i watch every episode of the young ones and the comic strip presents their potency never seemed to dim rik mayall stepping sliding in dog shit then stepping in it again in a socked foot after removing his shitty shoe hobbling cak footed to his front door and shouting mummy mummy mummy i fell from my seat at the prince charles cinema gasping a few months later i saw a cinema double bill of mr jolly lives next door and didn t you kill my brother oddly looking back i adored alexei sayle s film but found mr jolly just too loud and chaotic once it shrank back to tv size for its channel 4 outing i realised it was a vomity masterpiece rik mayall s grotesquerie was maybe too much for the cinema screen but it jolted the small screen to manic life i used to study him and wonder what it was that made him so funny i pondered the eyes the irises of his eyes were small enough that the white of the eye could be seen all around them that wide eyed intensity looked right at you it grasped you and never let you go the lips sneering lasciviously sneering arrogantly snorted up with flared nostrils like kenneth williams with bloodlust his face and body were jittery and anarchic just the right amount of fear of the unexpected in the audience to enrich the laughter further in the new statesman though he moved like a slinky reptile the loungiest and lizardiest of them all his voices were the sort of comic voices everyone thought they could imitate they infected you and then there was that energy that fuck you i think you ll find the next scene you re playing with me will be mine just relax and watch then start acting again when i walk out of frame though give it a few moments for my love and applause to die down the people s poet is dead but how can he be dead when we still have his poems fart gag follows in a burpier fartier stupider way rik mayall inspired my generation as much as joe strummer inspired the ones a few years previously there are writers comics and actors whose possible futures changed when they saw him for the first time i grew up to be a professional idiot thank you rik 1574 gin and tonics please monica large ones footnote by the way i wasn t exaggerating rik mayall s influence on many of us really was huge possibly bigger than john noakes s nob even erect footnote again i saw rik in simon gray s the common pursuit with my friends heather and carolyn we only had shop assistant jobs then but we still spent all our money to make sure we could get front row seats we looked up his nostrils for two hours i am currently on tour across the uk eastleigh corsham newcastle aberdeen and glasgow are all imminent plus a soho theatre run and lots more places details of all here posted in uncategorized 1 comment book shambles is back my january books posted on february 1 2018 by robinince book shambles has returned the first episode is with comedian producer director actor and broadcaster jeff garlin to tie in with its return here is my reading and seeing diary for january much of january has involved working on the third draft of my own book which has hampered but also focused me fortunately i have had enough traveling belfast toronto and oslo to leave me in waiting rooms and in transit where i turned thumb twiddling into library time my reading recall is abysmal so this exercise is partly to remind me of what i have read last look by charles burns gosh comics berwick st a creepy and disconcerting comic book trilogy of one man trying to digest comprehend and repair his big mistake via his own nightmares and reality includes sweary reptiles and slimy eggs the three stigmata of palmer eldritch by philip k dick oxfam books berkhamsted it s boom time for philip k dick again with his paranoid and claustrophobic dystopias being pawed over by people who hope to find solace in their reality not really being a reality at all i found this one to be the most disconcerting of his novels that i have read so far it is also the one where i found his shortcomings on creating female characters was at its most distracting i d summarise it as phwoar she wasn t wearing a bra but would she betray him mercy on me by reinhard kleist gosh comics berwick st i haven t read kleist s comic book on johnny cash but having read this one inspired by the life and lyrics of nick cave i will a fiction and a reality based on cave s life it is brutal tempestuous elegiac and enigmatic so it is perfect for nick cave admirers and anyone who wonders if they should have an interest i am alive and you are dead a journey into the mind of philip k dick by emmanuel carrere a charity bookshop on bath road cheltenham i have been warned that as well written and intriguing this biography by emmanuel carrere is he does use the licence of novelist every now and again then again what biographer can ever produce an objective account of a human or lark or monkey at times dick comes across like patriarchal movie ogre the stepfather but he is never less than fascinating and this gives a good window into what paranoias were being fed off to create each novel what the fuck did i do last night by rowland rivron amazon a very entertaining account of a drunk man persuading tv executives to make chat shows where host and guest would float in the thames also a reminder of why set of six is brilliant and still worth visiting when steve nieve read the scripts he said you can t make this it s too sad a lovely look at a pissed up innovator driven by joy and booze inventing ourselves the secret life of the teenage brain by sarah jane blakemore advance copy do you have a teenager have you been a teenager are you a teenager if you answered yes to any of those this book will prove enormously useful to you understanding yourself or your offspring sarah jane is a highly respected neuroscientist and this book covers her specific area of expertise amazingly it is only in the last couple of decades that the teenage brain has been considered to be in a separate class to child brain and adult brain the book is concise comprehensible and enlightening roadside picnic by boris and arkady strugatsky 3 bookshop in park st bristol my favourite book of january this book became andrei tarkovsky s masterpiece stalker the book is very different but no less intriguing it is an adventure filled with ideas technological scientific and philosophical i read it in one sitting sally heathcote suffragette by mary and bryan talbot gosh comics the story of a fictional suffragette which highlights the bravery of that movement and the brutality and dunder headedness of many who opposed it unlucky wally twenty years on by raymond briggs keats and chapman i love that raymond briggs is adored for the snowman but rather than capitalise in that he creates books about nuclear holocausts and knobbly kneed bachelor outsiders this is the latter everybody lies by seth stephen davidowitz advance copy what can we learn if we analyse google searches quite a lot it seems a book on big data and how it can reveal the truth of human desires needs and beliefs i have learnt about horse heart left ventricles pregnant mother needs where racism festers and many counter instinctual ideas that illuminate our baser natures and all from the pen of a leonard cohen fan which makes seth trustworthy in my eyes though the statistical research on that isn t in yet the nao of brown by glyn dillon a gift from josie long a beautifully realised comic book about a young woman trying to live with obsessive compulsive disorder believing is seeing by mary anne staniszewski oxfam wimbledon a series of lectures on art that help change what you see in a painting and also working out when art becomes art from sheelah na gig to neo dada oh and i am nearly at the end of will eisner s signal from space books begun in january and to be continued watling street by john higgs find out the mystical inspiration behind milton keynes this is memorial device by david keenan discover the truth of the fictional post punk bands of airdrie in this inventive novel particularly delightful for anyone who still has the ink from the fanzines they made under their fingernails house of psychotic women by kier la janisse the author looks at the psychotic woman in film and uses it to explore her own mental health the river of consciousness by oliver sacks the final collection of sacks beautiful and humane writings these particularly focus on darwin freud and william james the opening essay on botany is delightful and will change the way you view marigolds beetles and creepers just lovely the mysterium another of jo keeling and david bramwell s encyclopedias of the peculiar a perfect contemporary take on the extraordinary for people who were brought up on the unexplained magazine if this isn t nice what is the collection of kurt vonnegut s graduation speeches worth choosing one to start each week with and so it goes charles shields biography of kurt vonnegut worth reading to get a sense of a revered writer s long struggle and to understand vonnegut s humanism and its sometime failure face to face a collection of richard cork s interviews with artists only read francis bacon s so far but it has already changed how i look at his paintings book shambles is back this week we start with jeff garlin then stewart lee lucy cooke jenny landreth andy weir ricky gervais and lots more i am off on tour starting in chipping norton then across the uk aberdeen newcastle hove exeter plus 36 more locations and ending at soho theatre details here posted in uncategorized 2 comments were there other doctors on tom baker posted on january 21 2018 by robinince here is a piece i wrote about tom baker for the mark millar edited big issue oh the giddy nausea of excitement when the doctor who theme tune began...