‘Tis The Season
Today was the switching on of the Christmas lights in Kenilworth, and I swear it gets that bit more dull every year. This year all we did was walk up and down the town a couple of times, get ripped off with pricey glowsticks and hang around outside Waitrose. Oh, and I stroked an owl… if you know what I mean!
*wink*
…But seriously, that wasn’t a euphamism, I actually did stoke an owl. Two actually! And that was the highlight of my festive misadventures.
It’s the same every year and as you grow older, you just couldn’t care less about it anymore. As a little kid, all the bright lights, loud music and glowy things are brilliant! You buy some crap you don’t need and go on some severely overpriced rides and enjoy the hell out of it. Now, it’s just cold, crowded and miserable. The lights aren’t even very spectacular. Wait, let me reiterate… They aren’t spectacular WHATSOEVER! They’re like bad Christmas Tree lights.
Anyway, I guess it’s starting to feel a bit more Christmassy in some ways. The Coca-Cola advert has sort of made a return! During some adverts they played like a small section of it, and of course cause it’s amazing, I got really worked up! However they’ve only been showing snippets of the advert which sucks… the suspense is killing me! I mean, it’s not even that great an advert, just that it’s on EVERY YEAR, so naturally it rocks!
Christmas itself will be disappointing as usual of course. Coming out of childhood, you have to accept that Christmas will never again be as good as when you were young and got loads of massive plastic presents. Now it’s just another day with extra food and some stuff that you could have bought yourself. Now I may sound like a classic ‘Scrooge’, but after all Christmas really isn’t as good as all the hype suggests it should be.
Now to finish with a fitting pun I should say ‘Bah’… but that’s too clichéd. So…
F*ck It!
Song: ‘Dashboard Confessional – Hands Down’
Hello Mr. President
He did it! Obama won!
I knew he could!
Absolutely brilliant! Hopefully the world will become a better place with him in charge to make better choices and bring change to the world. If he can do something about the economy then that will earn him a great reputation, so I hope he does.
Now, I didn’t see the acceptance speech, but I assume it went something like this:
The crowd eagerly waits for their great new leader, a bodyguard stands below the main stage. Suddenly smoke billows out from the sides and a podium rises up on the stage, a lone silhouetted figure on top. The lights behind him suddenly flash on brightly declaring his name, ‘Obama’. He stands glorious atop the podium, cape billowing, guitar in hand. He breaks into an amazing guitar solo at which the crowd go wild. Cannons fire confetti into the loving fans. When he finishes, he throws the guitar which lands in its case perfectly. He says only two words, ‘Thank You’, before several gunshots ring out. The audience goes silence in horror.
His bodyguard falls to the ground, 4 shots in his chest. Obama flips down to him, holding him as he dies uttering ‘Farewell my friend’. A terrorist comes out from the crowd pointing a rifle at Obama, he laughs and says, ‘Your first day shall also be your last. Any last words, Mr. President?’ Obama turns to face him and says, ‘Tell Allah, fuck you!’ and shoots the terrorist in the face with the guard’s gun. The crowd cheers, but one person screams… the terrorist was strapped with explosives. Obama, quick to react, shoves the terrorist into one of the confetti cannons and dramatically points at the technician who fires the terrorist up into the ceiling space of the large auditorium. He explodes, and the crowd are splattered with bits of terrorist.
Obama then says, ‘Talk about an explosive start!’
Ep1c Win
Hopefully I can catch it on YouTube cause it sounds as if it were awesome!
I think it’s great that Kenya declared today a national holiday because of Obama winning! How great is that!?
Well… the inaugration isn’t until January, so… until then!
Song: ‘Anberlin – Never Take Friendship Personal’
The Mighty Boosh Live
It was brilliant! Absolutely fantastic!
They had said in an interview that it would be difficult to think of material for this second live show, but they really pulled it off! It was a completely different style to the first show, which was stand up and then what was basically a long, live episode that incorporated many characters from the show. To be perfectly honest, I would say the the first show was better because of the style and the general humour.
The humour hasn’t changed much in the Boosh, it’s as good as ever, I just think that the style in which it’s presented has lowered itself to please the modern trends of young people. I don’t want to say they sold out… but I much prefered them when they were little known about. Series 1 + 2 were classics along with the first live show… but it has in someways lost it’s appeal now that everybody loves them.
Things like how they now acknowledge crimping by name, whereas they would always just spontaneously go into one with no explanation whatsoever. The carrying forward of the board of shaman I didn’t like, I think Tony Harrison was only really good for a one-off joke. Though having said that, there was a costume malfunction in the live show for Tony Harrison which was really funny as Noel was improvising loads of great material. I also think the comedy was more abstract and random in the original series’, with references to older celebrities, like Brian Ferry (who, funnily enough, someone came dressed as), and more improvisation, which was obvious as Noel frequently stops himself from laughing.
Anyway, more about the show… They had the official ‘Boosh Band’ with them which was quite good as they did a few songs from the show; Nanageddon, Charlie, Eels and probably a couple more… They had small slots for ‘guests’ to come on which was basically a host of characters from the show, some funny, some not so. Rich Fulcher came on as some random East European comedian which made no sense whatsoever and wasn’t funny whatsoever. The first half ended with the Hitcher doing the eels song with the Boosh Band. Noel came down and walked through the aisles which was awesome, cause we were like 10 feet away from him!
Someone dressed as Old Gregg stood up and hugged him, the he commented something like, ‘I thought you were gonna stab me! Though thinking about that, it would be the perfect crime as there are about 52 people dressed as Old Gregg in here. When the police asked what he looked like, it’d be like “I dunno, he had seaweed for hair”.’ That’s what I love about improvisation, it’s often as good, if not better, than the scripted stuff.
The second half of the show was a ‘play’ done by Howard which gradually goes horribly wrong. They eventually break out into a massive crimp which was pretty good. Then I forget how this comes about, but the Honey Monster walks on stage and they proceed to grab him and eventually blow off his head with a massive Jean Claude Jaquettie hairdryer. I loved how they kept saying hateful remarks about sugar puffs and the honey monster. Then they had Tony Harrison shagging the honey monster’s head saying, ‘Take it! Take it like you take other people’s ideas you plagiaristic wanker!’ That was probably one of the funniest moments of the show.
I don’t know what else I can really say apart from, if you’re going to see it it’s gonna be great (also I’ve probably spoiled it for you), and if you’re not seeing it, make sure to get the DVD when it comes out!
Oh yea… I added Naan Bread as a tag, better mention that real quick. Someone, maybe two people, came dressed as the Naan Bread from the Boosh. It was funny for about 3 seconds… good idea though, obviously worth mentioning.
The Mighty Boosh
Song: ‘Forgve Durden – For A Dreamer, Night’s The Only Time Of Day’
