Not sure how to put links down the side, but click here and say hello to the rather cool and funky Mr Z...............
http://everton.blogspot.com/
Tell him Tescos sent ya!!
Monday, 24 March 2008
Big Shouts
Pete Monsoon, Gazza, Gary Horner, Joseph, Nish, Racheal, Ian, all of whom were part once upon a time of the big Bradleys family.
Hope you guys are all well and happy.................
Hope you guys are all well and happy.................
Evening!!
tas been decided this evening that I am gonna finally get my ass in gear and finally make a proper stab at writing my play. The one that I made an initial attempt at almost 20 years ago. The one that I lived over 20 years ago. About an English boy and an Asian girl who meet at school, fall in love, enjoy a purity within that love, but then are pulled apart by culture and religion and custom, she ends up married and him brokenhearted. Anyone who knows me, well, you know the script already!! So, arse is in gear, and updates will appear on here soon.
Why the sudden inspiration?? Dunno, but I was talking - via email - to a new friend and fellow Almond disciple, and it kinda somehow inspired me to go back to that huge folder of incomplete ideas and try again. There's all sorts in it, poems, songs, prose, and the script, and so I thought, why not, so away we go. I also found this in there, which isn't complete I don't think, needs a little bit of an extra verse, but I thought I'd share it anyway................
And yes it's true
You left a lasting impression
My headlong descent
Into acute depression
Precipitating
My childlike regression
Service payable
At diner's discretion
Shattering all
Of my life's equilibrium
Padding the walls
Of my mind's sanitorium
Lighter in hand
Head to toe in petroleum
Suicidal or manic
With no happy medium
You are the mirror
Reflecting my lovelessness
You are the mirror
Reflecting my hopelessness
You are the mirror
Reflecting my uselessness
You are the mirror
Reflecting my life's a mess................................................
tas been decided this evening that I am gonna finally get my ass in gear and finally make a proper stab at writing my play. The one that I made an initial attempt at almost 20 years ago. The one that I lived over 20 years ago. About an English boy and an Asian girl who meet at school, fall in love, enjoy a purity within that love, but then are pulled apart by culture and religion and custom, she ends up married and him brokenhearted. Anyone who knows me, well, you know the script already!! So, arse is in gear, and updates will appear on here soon.
Why the sudden inspiration?? Dunno, but I was talking - via email - to a new friend and fellow Almond disciple, and it kinda somehow inspired me to go back to that huge folder of incomplete ideas and try again. There's all sorts in it, poems, songs, prose, and the script, and so I thought, why not, so away we go. I also found this in there, which isn't complete I don't think, needs a little bit of an extra verse, but I thought I'd share it anyway................
And yes it's true
You left a lasting impression
My headlong descent
Into acute depression
Precipitating
My childlike regression
Service payable
At diner's discretion
Shattering all
Of my life's equilibrium
Padding the walls
Of my mind's sanitorium
Lighter in hand
Head to toe in petroleum
Suicidal or manic
With no happy medium
You are the mirror
Reflecting my lovelessness
You are the mirror
Reflecting my hopelessness
You are the mirror
Reflecting my uselessness
You are the mirror
Reflecting my life's a mess................................................
Sunday, 23 March 2008
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
Tuesday, 18 March 2008
Not got chance to see The Cottage yet, boy thats frustrating!!
Was going to go on a political rant tonight after seeing a guy I used to play football with who is emigrating to Canand soon, about the death of the working class, the sad state of the country, and the fact that most people seem to be absolutely fucked off with how the country seems to be going, but I just opened another Carlsberg, so let me knock the head off it and bite my tongue so not to alienate the few people who actually have read this bollocks!!!
Counting the days down now til the smoke.
Here is yet another example of genius, which can only beg the Q as to why he isn't a national treasure, the most lauded poet and performer ever................
Was going to go on a political rant tonight after seeing a guy I used to play football with who is emigrating to Canand soon, about the death of the working class, the sad state of the country, and the fact that most people seem to be absolutely fucked off with how the country seems to be going, but I just opened another Carlsberg, so let me knock the head off it and bite my tongue so not to alienate the few people who actually have read this bollocks!!!
Counting the days down now til the smoke.
Here is yet another example of genius, which can only beg the Q as to why he isn't a national treasure, the most lauded poet and performer ever................
Sunday, 16 March 2008
Just had an email through from the lovely Helen to say that Jake Shillingford, ex My Life Story founder, is out on the road as ExileInside over the next few months, with the gig in Manchester costing just £5.00, which is a bargain in anyone's book. Doing accoustic versions of the classic MLS songs - check out YouTube, it's not all happyslap vids ya know - plus some of his solo stuff, its well worth a night out. Well, what the fuck else ya gonna be doing??
Here's his web page, http://www.jakeshillingford.com/ and his myspace page, http://www.myspace.com/jakeshillingford and here is the fabulous MLS doing Strumpet.........
Here's his web page, http://www.jakeshillingford.com/ and his myspace page, http://www.myspace.com/jakeshillingford and here is the fabulous MLS doing Strumpet.........
Took a week to get the next installment out!!! Anyone who knows me will be impressed I did it so quickly!!
Looking forward to seeing the absolutely drop dead gorgeous Jenifer Ellison in her movie The Cottage tomorrow. Will need to strategically place my coat on my lap though!! Blimey, she is HOT HOT HOT!!
Glad that Shannon Matthews has been found. The media coverage of the case has been nothing short of disgraceful. You've heard all the arguaments about her being from a rough estate in a shit family with a mum who is a national disgrace, but at the end of the day, however true those statements are, she's a little girl who deserved better from the media.
Only a few weeks now til a jaunt to the smoke to watch the only voice live at Wilton's Music Hall. If the shows are owt like last year, its gonna be one helluva show!!
As an aside from that, last year we stayed in the City when we went to see him, and, unbelieveably, all the pubs were closed on a Friday night until Monday!! But we found a bar, and went in. A bit of a strange bar, and then it clicked. A tranny bar!!!! Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy....!!!
What else, erm.........................................
Oh yes, big shout out to my buddy Jonathan, who's just found out he's gonna be a daddy for the third time!!
Time for a video.................................
Can any heterosexual male tell me that she is not perfection??? Best take my overcoat....!!
Oh well, that's me for now.
Remember, they say that home is where the heart is, but home is only where the bills are!!
Looking forward to seeing the absolutely drop dead gorgeous Jenifer Ellison in her movie The Cottage tomorrow. Will need to strategically place my coat on my lap though!! Blimey, she is HOT HOT HOT!!
Glad that Shannon Matthews has been found. The media coverage of the case has been nothing short of disgraceful. You've heard all the arguaments about her being from a rough estate in a shit family with a mum who is a national disgrace, but at the end of the day, however true those statements are, she's a little girl who deserved better from the media.
Only a few weeks now til a jaunt to the smoke to watch the only voice live at Wilton's Music Hall. If the shows are owt like last year, its gonna be one helluva show!!
As an aside from that, last year we stayed in the City when we went to see him, and, unbelieveably, all the pubs were closed on a Friday night until Monday!! But we found a bar, and went in. A bit of a strange bar, and then it clicked. A tranny bar!!!! Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy....!!!
What else, erm.........................................
Oh yes, big shout out to my buddy Jonathan, who's just found out he's gonna be a daddy for the third time!!
Time for a video.................................
Can any heterosexual male tell me that she is not perfection??? Best take my overcoat....!!
Oh well, that's me for now.
Remember, they say that home is where the heart is, but home is only where the bills are!!
Friday, 7 March 2008
Say Hello........
Well, I suppose I oughta tell you all a few bits and bobs about me....................
male, 30 something, straight, in a long term relationship (jail term!!)
work with people who have learning disabilities
am a passionately proud yorkshireman
love all sorts of things, music, food, football, t'internet, books, films, writing, but most of all, I love ME!!!
the name? well it derives back from my youth, when plans were made - over and over again - to launch a kind of fucked up cabaret show thing, featuring boys dressed as girls, girls dressed as boys, performing all sorts of cabarret act things, and I was gonna be the compere, dressed in drag, telling a few jokes, slagging off some of the audience (in best drag queen traditions!!), and singing a few songs between each act. Imagine a drag queen singing such standards as Oh Boy, Trouble, Jolene and the like. Fabulous!! The show was gonna end with me being defrocked and crucified on a diamante encrusted crucifix - Jesus had no style, two pieces of 6x4, I ask ya - and the crowd would witness the fabulous death of me as part of the finale!! Like I said, fucked up, but would have been great fun. Never happened, thankfully!! But the name kinda stuck, and now has its place on the web.
Music - Marc Almond is a God, undeniably the most talented song writing artiste of this, or indeed any, generation. There will be loads of youtube clips and slide shows and the like featuring the only voice throughout this blog - well, when I work out how to do it!! - so that you too can share the genius that is Mr Almond. Like lots of other stuff too, from indie to dance to disco to punk to electro to cabaret to 60s to 70s to country to r+b to pop to 80s to music hall to rock to folk to 90s to bhangra to musicals to post war...................... you kinda get the picture.
Football - well, there's only one team that anyone should support. Marching on together. The champions of Europe.
Politics - well, I'm kind of a fucked up hybrid of left wing and right wing and central and nazi(esque). I hate political correctness with a vengence. I hate racism, homophobia, and other horrible things like that, but you have to remember that those things work 2 ways, and that freedom of speech means that we should all be able to voice our opinions without fear of recrimination unless its libellous. But no opinion is correct unless it's mine!!! But we'll get on to those kind of issues in due course I'm sure.
Food - got to be indian. Curries just are the reason we have taste buds (and also the reson we have heart attacks!!). A nice chicken bhuna and a few ales sounds like gourmet heaven!! But leave all this low fat healthy eating shite out of my diet ( almost became a fat slag then!). Enjoy what you eat, and if it kills ya, it kills ya!!
Reckon thats enough for now. But for the time being, here is the fantastic Marc singing St Judy last year in his first UK concert since a bike accident almost robbed us of a true star. Enjoy..................
male, 30 something, straight, in a long term relationship (jail term!!)
work with people who have learning disabilities
am a passionately proud yorkshireman
love all sorts of things, music, food, football, t'internet, books, films, writing, but most of all, I love ME!!!
the name? well it derives back from my youth, when plans were made - over and over again - to launch a kind of fucked up cabaret show thing, featuring boys dressed as girls, girls dressed as boys, performing all sorts of cabarret act things, and I was gonna be the compere, dressed in drag, telling a few jokes, slagging off some of the audience (in best drag queen traditions!!), and singing a few songs between each act. Imagine a drag queen singing such standards as Oh Boy, Trouble, Jolene and the like. Fabulous!! The show was gonna end with me being defrocked and crucified on a diamante encrusted crucifix - Jesus had no style, two pieces of 6x4, I ask ya - and the crowd would witness the fabulous death of me as part of the finale!! Like I said, fucked up, but would have been great fun. Never happened, thankfully!! But the name kinda stuck, and now has its place on the web.
Music - Marc Almond is a God, undeniably the most talented song writing artiste of this, or indeed any, generation. There will be loads of youtube clips and slide shows and the like featuring the only voice throughout this blog - well, when I work out how to do it!! - so that you too can share the genius that is Mr Almond. Like lots of other stuff too, from indie to dance to disco to punk to electro to cabaret to 60s to 70s to country to r+b to pop to 80s to music hall to rock to folk to 90s to bhangra to musicals to post war...................... you kinda get the picture.
Football - well, there's only one team that anyone should support. Marching on together. The champions of Europe.
Politics - well, I'm kind of a fucked up hybrid of left wing and right wing and central and nazi(esque). I hate political correctness with a vengence. I hate racism, homophobia, and other horrible things like that, but you have to remember that those things work 2 ways, and that freedom of speech means that we should all be able to voice our opinions without fear of recrimination unless its libellous. But no opinion is correct unless it's mine!!! But we'll get on to those kind of issues in due course I'm sure.
Food - got to be indian. Curries just are the reason we have taste buds (and also the reson we have heart attacks!!). A nice chicken bhuna and a few ales sounds like gourmet heaven!! But leave all this low fat healthy eating shite out of my diet ( almost became a fat slag then!). Enjoy what you eat, and if it kills ya, it kills ya!!
Reckon thats enough for now. But for the time being, here is the fantastic Marc singing St Judy last year in his first UK concert since a bike accident almost robbed us of a true star. Enjoy..................
Hello
Welcome to my first ever attempt at this blog thing!!
Will be sharing thoughts on the world, my life, my interests and hobbies, and loads of other inane rubbish that you may find interesting, irritating, or amusing, but as long as you found it, hey I'm happy!! Welcome to my own little corner of the big world wide web thing, here's hoping we avoid the spiders!!
As someone once said, if you're not in the fringes of life, you're taking up too much room. Or maybe someone said something similar and my first mistake in my first post has been born. The fabulous death of someone else's quote no less!!
Enough of this warbling for the moment, gonna go and try to get my head round the possibilities of this whole monster, and try to work out a way of making this thing even remotely interesting to anyone, me included!!
So, pull up a seat, make yourself comfy, and get ready to witness the fabulous death of me...........
Welcome to my first ever attempt at this blog thing!!
Will be sharing thoughts on the world, my life, my interests and hobbies, and loads of other inane rubbish that you may find interesting, irritating, or amusing, but as long as you found it, hey I'm happy!! Welcome to my own little corner of the big world wide web thing, here's hoping we avoid the spiders!!
As someone once said, if you're not in the fringes of life, you're taking up too much room. Or maybe someone said something similar and my first mistake in my first post has been born. The fabulous death of someone else's quote no less!!
Enough of this warbling for the moment, gonna go and try to get my head round the possibilities of this whole monster, and try to work out a way of making this thing even remotely interesting to anyone, me included!!
So, pull up a seat, make yourself comfy, and get ready to witness the fabulous death of me...........
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