More Stray Observations
I did something that vaguely resembled a full day's work today, at a proper office and everything. So for once I feel justifiably tired as I channel hop. I saw Wigan ease to victory over Huddersfield in the Super League semi finals. They play the winners of Leeds vs St Helens (come on Saints!) in the SL Grand Final at Old Trafford a week on Saturday. To be honest, I was mostly focusing on the fact Huddersfield have a player called Jack Hughes, which sounds like "J'accuse" during commentary. I am very easily pleased.
Having posted my review of Motion City Soundtrack's new record "Panic Stations" last week, I noted that Justin Pierre agrees with me about his band's strongest work, placing "Commit This To Memory" and "This Dinosaur Life" as their best two records. He revealed this in an interesting "Rank Your Records" piece, which can be read here.
Having been to the final two performances of Richard Herring's "12 Shows of Herring"*, I took the plunge on the 10 show audio package offered by Go Faster Stripe. As someone who has vague aspirations in the direction of writing a stand-up show, I try to watch or listen to as much full length stand-up as I possibly can. In particular, I look for pointers in terms of how best to structure a show.
I started with 2004's "12 Tasks of Hercules Terrace", which Herring had previously conceded would probably be the worst performance as all the other shows had been aired more recently. It involves him trying to take on 12 modern day Herculean tasks, an interesting idea but one that overwhelms the narrative with too many strands. 12TOHT nonetheless provides a good insight into where Herring started as a writer of one man shows, and I look forward to charting his evolution over the remaining nine.
*I will get round to actually reviewing those shows, honest.
Having posted my review of Motion City Soundtrack's new record "Panic Stations" last week, I noted that Justin Pierre agrees with me about his band's strongest work, placing "Commit This To Memory" and "This Dinosaur Life" as their best two records. He revealed this in an interesting "Rank Your Records" piece, which can be read here.
Having been to the final two performances of Richard Herring's "12 Shows of Herring"*, I took the plunge on the 10 show audio package offered by Go Faster Stripe. As someone who has vague aspirations in the direction of writing a stand-up show, I try to watch or listen to as much full length stand-up as I possibly can. In particular, I look for pointers in terms of how best to structure a show.
I started with 2004's "12 Tasks of Hercules Terrace", which Herring had previously conceded would probably be the worst performance as all the other shows had been aired more recently. It involves him trying to take on 12 modern day Herculean tasks, an interesting idea but one that overwhelms the narrative with too many strands. 12TOHT nonetheless provides a good insight into where Herring started as a writer of one man shows, and I look forward to charting his evolution over the remaining nine.
*I will get round to actually reviewing those shows, honest.
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