April 2010

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Last minute gig
04.26.10 | Permalink | Comment?

I’ve got a last minute gig tonight at Ha Ha Ha Ha Hackney!. It’s a charity gig for disabled kids with a great line up: Gerry K, Nat Luurtsema, Alex Maple, Giacinto Palmieri, Dmitriy & Dmitryi plus MC Dave Bromage. Book tickets here. Ha Ha Ha Ha Hackney! City & Hackney Carers Centre, 5 Tyssen [...]
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Book Club 9
04.22.10 | Permalink | Comment?

I’m currently reading The Score By Richard Stark. Stark is a pseudonym for the late crime writer Donald Westlake. Westlake adopted the name Stark when he wrote his series of Parker novels and The Score is the fifth in the series from 1964. I’ve read the previous four Parker novels last year but there’s not [...]
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Planet of the Apes Versus The Triffids
04.22.10 | Permalink | 2 Comments

I’m slightly (but only slightly) ashamed to say that I had a dream the other night that there was a TV advert for a new TV series which featured the Planet of the Apes apes fighting the Triffids from Day of the Triffids. The dream ended with the words “Sunday 8pm BBC One”. I was [...]
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Thufir Hawat
04.22.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

My pal Jon Chandler requsted here that I drew him a picture of the character Thufir Hawat from David Lynch‘s Dune as played by top-notch actor Freddie Jones. Jones is probably best known for playing the horrible character of Bytes in The Elephant Man. I’m ashamed to say that I’d assumed he died but found [...]
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Book Club 8
04.16.10 | Permalink | Comment?

I am currently reading It’s Not a Runner Bean by Mark Steel. I can’t remember who recommended this to me but it’s great so far. It’s basically a chronicle of his stand up career told in short funny bursts each lasting just a few pages each. It reads almost like a collection of newspaper columns [...]
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Flashback
04.15.10 | Permalink | Comment?

The infamous* Tombola of Fun tombola will be making a rare special guest appearance at (good folks record store) Flashback this Saturday 17th April as part of International Record Store Day. To add to the party atmosphere there will even be Foxes Iced Party Rings biscuits; officially the world’s best biscuits in the World, challenged [...]
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The NeverEnding Story
04.08.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

I can remember going to see the first NeverEnding Story movie and being fearful that I might never leave the cinema. It’s far from being one of my favourite movies but one that I often find myself thinking about, not least of course because of the appearance of Deep Roy. I’ve never seen any of [...]
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Book Club 7
04.04.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

I took time out from Ha Bloody Ha to read Decadence #7, which is a self-published sci-fi comics anthology. I read it primarily because it featured my pal Jon Chandler in it, but it also features Leon Sadler of Famicon fame, and a bunch of other cartoonists. I recognised Lando and Tsemberlidas‘ work from other [...]
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Spiked Fury 8!
04.03.10 | Permalink | Comment?

Spiked Fury courtesy of regular Spiked Fury contributor Miss Hayley Campbell. She describes it thusly: “Not so much ‘fury’ as ‘disappointment’. Note the handle carefully placed in the bin.” Good work Campbell.