Aidan Smith, famous Irish poet and singer-songwriter has just compiled a great list of things that make life great.
I compiled a similar list a while back.
In the immortal (immoral?) lines of Tom Baker's Doctor Who, in the best Doctor Who story ever made, ever (The Ark in Space), "That's good! You're beginning to think. Your mind's beginning to work. It's entirely due to my influence, of course! You can't be allowed to take any of the credit."
It occurred to me, actually, soon after I had done my one hundred list, that among many, many glaring ommissions, perhaps the most glaring of all was that of Peter Harris, director of Wolf and Water Arts Company. If he doesn't mind me speaking in such terms (and he might take violent exception), he is a rare genius, as anyone who knows him will attest.
In case you missed it when I posted it on my blog earlier, here's the Wolf and Water version of Perfect Day:
Please enjoy.
I'd also like to mention that I Won't Share You by The Smiths, is a hugely underrated track.
I want the freedom and I want the guile. I want the freedom and the guile.
No, because, you see, I invented the idea through means of inverse causality. The fact that I did it afterwards meant that the ripples from what I’d done spread backwards as well as forwards in time, creating that book in the first place when it wouldn’t have existed otherwise. But, actually, now that I come to think about it, you wrote your list after me, so the backward time-ripples from your list must have been what made me write mine in the first place, and made the other guy write that book. So, actually, you are right. We are in debt to you.
Yes.. I’m a famous Irish poet and singer-song writer and I’m not being confused with someone completely and utterly different of the same exact name! Any such talk that goes against this statement, is creative blasphemy! Which shall awaken the Swedish drones of the Nobel Prize Winning committee and make them carve your genitals into an oddly shaped origami swan with a machete and a pen knife, before launching it into the Mersey! :sherlock:Oh look at that thing go! :eyes:HMPH!Anyway, I can’t be allowed any credit for my half hour of blogging fun that was based on an IDEA that you COPIED off a book eh? So all credit goes to the author of the book ‘It Is Just You, Everything’s Not Shit’ naturally? :confused:
Have you ever considered that sometimes you may be talking a complete and utter load of bollocks? :confused:I’m just curious that’s all.
Robin Davies writes:A quick question – where does the phrase at the top of this item “Anoint my head, anoint-nointy” come from? I first heard it in the classic Steve Martin film The Man With Two Brains but I read somewhere that it was a Spike Milligan line.
“Have you ever considered that sometimes you may be talking a complete and utter load of bollocks? I’m just curious that’s all.”There’s a bit in Blackadder where someone says to Percy, “And as for you, has anyone ever told you that you’re a complete blithering idiot?”And Percy says, “Oh yes, all the time.”So, my answer to your question is the same as Percy’s.”A quick question – where does the phrase at the top of this item “Anoint my head, anoint-nointy” come from? I first heard it in the classic Steve Martin film The Man With Two Brains but I read somewhere that it was a Spike Milligan line.”I know it from The Man With Two Brains. I’m not sure if it’s a real poem outside that film, though it might be. It sounds almost like e. e. cummings or someone, though I’m sure it’s not him.