May 2006
IMAGINATION
Hello;
I have red this in a magazine and I thought it is very important. It is from a small thought of Jean Cocteau about the Excellencies of the imagination and about the people that uses their imagination as a way of life. I fell really intimidated by people that use consciously their imagination for their work. I admired them very much because it is such a huge responsibility. Because there is something about imagination that nobody mention ever and it is that just because you are using your imagination it is good, I mean, the product of your imagination is not always good, some people use their imagination and what it comes from that is not good, it is simply bad. It is very exciting always, when is bad and when is good, and I think that we tend to give that positive aura to imagination because it is very close to the world of dreams. Probably when anyone has a strike of imagination is like a good dream. Also, I imagine that when you have a bad example of imagination is a like a big nightmare. Think about it, the world of dreams and the world of imagination have intercourse every time you put yourself to create something. And that is why work all the time, that is why we say that we take everything with us after rehearsals and that everything counts, You are in the pub, you drink a little bit of your beer and you close your eyes to taste the strong flavour and immediately many images come to your head like when dreaming. Dreaming, imagining and then building and making real all those things that appeared like a sweet ice cream in your mouth and it look like impossible to be recreated in the real world form the world of dreams.
“I detested originality. I avoid it whenever I can. It is necessary to use an original idea with the highest precautions so they do not look like when you are wearing a suit for the first time” Jean Cocteau
“Detesto la originalidad . La evito siempre que puedo. Es preciso emplear una idea original con las maximas precauciones para no ofrecer el aspecto de quien estrena un traje Nuevo” Jean Cocteau.
And there is goes, and it is just a small detail of all the things that goes one every time you have a great original idea. Not because it is original or even because it is great is a good idea, once you put it to practise and grows you can test how original it is or how great it is.
Have fun.
THE DISCIPLINE
Hello;
I have not been able to sleep. I woke up in the middle of the night and watch the time and it was just four twenty. I had been sleeping just for two hours. I turned and turned for some more hours and then I left my bed and red my book for an hour. At five thirty I went back to bed. I could not work out why I could not sleep. I love sleeping; I had never had any troubles staying in bed sleeping for hours and hours. Perhaps some times the light outside did not allowed me to go back to sleep but then I started to keep the eye covers from the intercontinental flies and I will stay sleeping full days and weeks.
Some nights when I had very strong dinners or I ate too much them I will have a very unsettled sleep but I was sleeping anyhow but yesterday I could not sleep.
I tried everything, I change the pillow, I made it flatter, I put it up side down so the one that had been used for the last two hours would go against the mattress and the one up was fresh and nice. I took of the blanket and I got rid of my pyjamas. I thought perhaps it was too hot.
At one point I relax and I let my brain fly and find what was happening to me. I red the things that were worrying me, I had to do lots of exercises so I will keep myself fit, I had to send the receipts to Kathy, I had to call Iberia, I had to call the man from the dinning chairs, I had to call my parents etc and I realise that I could not sleep because I was worrying about the amount of things I was going to have to do for the next time and I was not very sure if I was going to have enough discipline to do them.
Once I found that I was ready and I do not remember anything. I slept not too much and I was tired the next day but I am so excited to be here that I was filed with adrenaline and I had a great day. I made a list and I crossed all the things I done so I could fell well with myself.
Have fun.
LA IGUANA
Hello;
This is an animal. It looks like a lizard and there is a place in the middle of one of the big oceans of the earth where there is a group of islands where the biggest amount of these animals live. It is a very important animal, I believe, because Darwin stopped there while going around the world and saw something there that gave him the idea for the theory of the Species. And I thought about that while eating in that restaurant in Brighton. Flo, our dear friend Flo told me that it probably belongs to chain. I understand now why the food was so bad, for a moment that they based themselves in what the Iguanas eat and thinking backwards about the theory of the species they tried to give us to eat the same thing that the iguanas used to eat or something because the food was really bad.
I have to say that did not stop us to have fun but one thing does not have anything to do with the other.
We drunk Margaritas, we drunk many margaritas mainly taken on account that they were very nice and by pure luck that day, they had extended the hours of the happy hour. So every time I had one Margarita some one else was getting a free Margarita.
We gathered ten people and we used two or three tables and we sat there for two or three hours and we share the felling of levitating after a very nice a week working together. The felling of success? Well that is not what I wanted to say, the felling was like when you share something very special, not necessarily incredible or great in itself but very important for the ones that share the felling. Perhaps it was just for Petra, Toby and me, or perhaps just me, I had that moment of thinking about the first time we did something Spymonkey together and now after a week at the Brighton Theatre Royal and having dinner in a restaurant with the people that we love the felling is better than ever.
I remember two things from the Iguana, one the Nachos and the other the wooden wall between the restaurant and the bar. The Nachos told us welcome as soon as we arrived and they had plenty of cheese and chillies and they tasted very well.
The wall between the bar and the restaurant was made of wood, like wooden boxes with the deep made of mirror and other with nothing. The effect was great and very funny and surprising. You would be looking yourself at the mirror and then there was no mirror, spooky¡¡¡
Have fun.
TOBY'S BIRTHDAY
Hello;
Now, let me tell you, it is Toby's birthday. Well, not any more because now it is the next day but today we have celebrated and I am lying a lot, I am lying tones of lies because Toby's birthday is the 31 st of May. The reason why we have celebrated today is because it is the end of the run at the festival and still for a little while we are all going to be here.
My wife is still here and too and we are having a so and so time. It is not very nice when you are surrounded by people that could talk you language but they decide to speak in their own one, that makes you fell left out which is not nice. I always tell her that she should leave and tell them in a very polite way that “ I am leaving now because I do not understand anything when you speak in your own language. But let leave this now and carry on with it another time.
We had to work in the morning, when ever we are in England we always have to work so for me there is not problem and also the work was quite mild. We stored everything in the new storage space and unloaded the van.
Then Miren and me went off to buy a present for Toby. In the pass we had some problems, no, we did not argue but I think with in the company perhaps we are the most opposite. Anyway I share the room in Australia with him and I have to say I had a great time so I wanted to get him a nice present. Something more that the classic book that he will always get. We looked for a while and we did not find anything satisfactory, I thought of a watch, a clock for the wall… and then I saw this t-shirt with a monkey, an ape with a very cool Burt Reynolds sunglasses and I thought this is it. A dad would never buy an expensive t-shirt for himself so it is material for presents.
I think he was happy with the present. To make it a little bit bigger we gave him another one. Then we all had dinner in a bad restaurant but we had a good time.
They really belong to Brighton, Toby, Petra, Lucy, Flick etc I do not like that place very much. I had great times there but I will rather be in London.
They all went to the Spiegel tent. Miren and me got inn, and then we left really fast, there was far too many people and we have gone through so many people for the last week that it was time to go. I had a great time, we all had a great time and Toby said that he had a fantastic time so that is what it is important and I am happy.
Have fun.
BRIGHTON THEATRE ROYAL
Hello;
We are playing at Brighton Theatre Royal. Yes, we are playing in a Royal Theatre. This theatre was made for the kings that is why is called Royal. It is also a very old theatre all made in wood. When you come in it does look like you are travelling in time because even the back stage door is really old looking. We are playing at Brigthon Theatre Royal, this si fucking amazing. Can you believe it? We are playing in a proper theatre and also it fells great. Everybody that works here loves the place and fells really proud about it. It is great is full of stories and also has a ghost. I do not believe in ghosts not even in the movies. I think is the classic thing that you have to have when you have a very old theatre.
The sits are read and the colour of the walls and the piles are like a clear vanilla. It has four floors. And when you are in the middle of the stage if fells great to have where to look all the time. And it is one of the reasons why I do theatre, I mean it is the closest I have been to the image of the dream that makes you to be an actor. You know what I mean, you are playing on the stage and there are lights in front of you and you can see the shape of the shadows of a big audience. It is really good.
We are playing at the Brighton Theatre Royal. It is really sad that we are not going to be able to play longer and that we are not going to be playing in theatres like that all the time. That is where theatre should happen because everything fells perfect. The hard work suddenly makes sense and everything falls into place. I think this week has been on of the best weeks of my acting experience and I ma being very happy.
I could try to describe the theatre the back stage, the floors, the good completely tilted over the stalls, the iron curtain, the bar, the time when Bette Davis played there, and ate lobster with white wine in the dressing room number one. I am at dressing room number one A, and the people that work here, Julian, etc it had everything so go and see plays there and then many people will come to play here and perhaps we will be back.
Have fun.
BYE BYE KATHY
Hello;
She is leaving to another place. Well, she would be working as an assistant director at Chichester Theatre. She lives in a very nice house very close to the theatre and also she has too kids and things are difficult. At the end of the day is going to be the best for everybody. And I say that because it is the kind of thing that you said when things like that happen. I do not want her leave. I like Kathy, she is very nice and she has done tone of things for us. The first time we met was at Petra's place. Cal had recommended her to us. She used to work with Tamasha Theatre Company and everybody said that she was very good. We had to see somebody else before so we did like a small audition. Well, we needed to see them and talk with them in person.
We had had lunch there at the kitchen and the other person came first. I do not remember how did she looked, the other person. Then Kathy came, and, well she looked really nice and very young, and in very little time she told us many things that we needed that she could provide and the best thing is that she was very appealing. I do not think that this makes much sense. I will try to explain, she was very approachable, and by instinct we thought that she was the right one. Weird, it was obvious for the three of us at the same time. We are not agree all the time, well, most of the time we think different.
So, that same summer she started to work with us in Edinburgh. She was very funny at the Pleasence Courtyard going from one place to the other with the folder against her body and with the other hand opening her way through the people. She was great at the breakfasts of the British Council. We become friends and she is a friend now and we are who we are and how we are and where we are thanks to her so good luck Kathy and thank you very much for everything.
Have fun.
PS- One day I will tell you the day that Kathy played Margaret Woodespoon. But that is another story.
THE MEETING
Hello;
At Carloocios at four o'clock we had a meeting with Glenysh Henderson, GHP. They are our new management. Well, they are the ones that are going to take us after Kathy leave us and she would do that as soon as we have finished the run in Brighton and we are ready to go to Edinburgh. Glenysh came last night to see the show. She was not expected; she was going to come today.
Toby has been doing all the talk until now and today he got sick and he had to do the show tonight so it was up to the both of us to chair the meeting as Petra told me on the phone. There are many people working for her, Michael is one of them and he is the one that saw Stiff many years ago now.
I was nervous, I was very nervous and think Petra was too but this would be for her to tell. The meeting started a little bit funny because there are many things that we have not talked yet and in the beginning of the meeting came up. It seemed for a little while that the two sides in the operation were ready to play hardball and we thought that things were going to go smoothly. Kathy was not there and things were looking really tense and uncomfortable.
You should have seen us, sitting around the table in Carloocios drinking our cafés and looking through the window trying to find a nice subject to talk about before the one that knew the whole thing would arrive.
Kathy arrived and we went to another place down the road. It seemed that to another restaurant made things easier and also clarified everything. We could not stayed because we had to go to get ready for the show and we could not stay any longer.
I felt there are so many things to learn and that the way to go further is a long way and that there are many strange things that are going to happen on the way there.
Have fun.
Q and A
Hello;
That was tough yesterday, it was our second show and then we had a session of questions and answers with the members of the audience.
I had a good show, very much there and having fun all the time with the things I had to have fun. The day before, we got a very nice response from the audience and we were euphoric. Well, I should not talk about anybody else; perhaps it was I, just me. I had said to myself before the show, be up the whole show and keep the pace and have fun and when the show finished I thought I had done everything I said to myself I wanted to do so I was happy. Then Cal came and many more people and told us all the things that have gone wrong. We told them to tell us, we can take them I said. Of course I could take them but not too well, I was wrong, it made me really sad, it was like someone had given you a really good cake and then they take it off you and the give it back to the shop.
I was really sad during the free drinks and Miren and me left very early. I slept well and I was ready to work in all the things that Cal had told me to do.
After the show we had a Q & A and I was ready. I had forgotten my euphoria and I had been working properly so I was going to try to A the Q professionally.
It was a very mild session mainly with people of the audience and no people from the profession. Martin Sutherland was there, our first manager now the manager of Newbury Theatre, Rob Thurtel, and more friends. We were sitting in some chairs on the stage and we were mainly chatting with the audience and answering the typical Q that everybody asks us, how did you meet? Where does the name come from? How does it fell to be naked on the stage? And etc.
We mad a big mistake that day, thou we did not know then. We did not mention Cal and we learned next day about it and we were really devastated. In my case perhaps because I was having a very good time and it is thanks to everybody who has been involve in the work, Cal, Lucy and everybody and I let myself got carried away by the fun and pleasure I was having doing the show.
I hope it will never happen again because we are many people and we have to do things right and that is important, and one way of doing things right is mentioning and giving everybody the credit that they deserve. Thanks to all of you that make Spymonkey possible.
Have fun.
OPENING NIGHT AT THE BTR
Hello;
I have been very excited many times before but this time seems to be one of the most exciting ones. My body fells like if I am going to explode. Miren has arrived not a long time ago and she is in the dressing room. It feels like one of those nights were everything is perfect and you still do not believe that things could go as well as they seem to be going. So in the back of my mind I am trying to keep my brain open with the key of optimism on so everything is going to go very well.
I have been on the stage during the run through and it fells great. It is big but no too big and when you try to look at the fourth floor at the gods it fells as if you are missing the people in the first row. What to do? I know what I am going to do I am going to have an amazing time because that is what we have come to do here.
I am jealous of Toby and Petra and Cal and Lucy because for them this gig is full of meaning and for me it is almost just another gig. For them and specially for Toby is their own country, their own town, it is a Royal Theatre and it is one step forward in Spymonkey's history. This does not mean that I would like to be here, I would not and after this week here in Brighton doing some work in other projects for Spymonkey I know better than ever that If I have to live here then I will live in London.
I told Miren to go and see the show with Kathy and the guests but she has the ticket for Thursday and she will see it that day, not before and no later. She is going to spend the whole time in the dressing room.
I heard there are drinks after the show in one of the posh saloons of the theatre and of course we are invited.
Now I am going to warm up. I think more than to warm up what I am going to do it to try to get rid of my adrenaline, at least of some of it. If I do not do that I may get paralysed in the beginning of the show. I wish all of you a very good show and I thank everybody from the crew of the theatre Royal and the Brighton Festival all their support and grand help so we can do the show tonight in almost perfect conditions.
Have fun.
THE ARGUS
Hello;
Cal was interview the other day by a journalist from the Argus. The Argus for all of you that do not know what is it is a local newspaper. It is a local newspaper from Brighton. It is really a shitty newspaper. But, you know, when you live in a small town the paper of the town is always the source for news for everybody and everybody gets the papers in the morning and go through it with their coffee.
So, Cal was there in the paper and everybody involve with us coming here to play was reading the interview, in between them there was an important person that got upset from what she read. Well, I am really sorry, Spymonkey is really sorry and we do not backed up what those words written there were saying.
I believe there was a very excited journalist writing for a paper trying to make his/her mark and make him a normal interview the most exciting things of that day paper. Scandal, betrayed, lets have a controversy, yellow press, someone has bee hurt, the old history of the big and powerful organisation that does not want to support the little struggling company. And that is not true, they supported us, they did not give us the grand for Bless but that took to many other places. When I heard about the news I thought they were a bunch of cunts. I wanted the grand but now after three years I am happy where we are and I am confident we have prove to be a company worthy to receive money from an arts organisation of the government.
I am sure this things will happened again but we will be very careful with what we say and we will try to be fair as I am sure Cal try to be. Also everybody has the right to have his or her own opinion.
We have been building the set for the whole day. We have realised that the set that they built in Calgary it is not a tour able set. Ian did a very poorly job, you cut too many corners and now our very tour able set is terrible unreliable and we have had to cancel the autumn tour because it is impossible to do one gig without two days get inn. So thank you very much Ian. (Would I have to apologise for this words? I will let you know)
Things were looking good when I left yesterday, everybody stayed working until late and I decided to go back home to rest.
The nervous machine of my friends is at a very high level and they look as if they are going to explode at any second. They will hold. There are many things at stake here, for Toby it is his home town, for Petra is her home country for Stephan and me it is the possibility of being taken out of this shit hole and go touring to very nice places.
The more you grow the more things are on the stake and then you have many more things to loose and to have more things to gain.
Have fun.
MI- III
Hello,
It was raining and the wind was blowing like the end of the world was coming. The rain was not coming down normally, it was being pushed sideways and hitting everything with fury, like if you are angry and decide to through the rest of water in your glass to the person that has just upset you. That is how all the buildings and the cars and the doors and the windows around must felt.
I could see the Marina a little bit further forward but I was not sure I was going to be able to make it, the gale did not seem to stop. With a supreme effort I carry on going forward, I was not impressed by the waves and the wind did not scare me but it was getting harder and harder. Now it was just matter of a hundred metros and I will be there. I gave the last power in me and suddenly there was no more rain and no wind and I was at the cinema complex. I was not sure what movie to watch but the time told, the first one to start was The Da Vince Code and I have not red the book yet so I am not going to see it so I went for the latest Tom Cruise.
He is the worst thing in the movie thou I have to say that the guy from Match Point and him are at very similar level. I was trapped in the movie very early on. I was ready for action and the movie delivers. It does not stop. I had a very good time.
When I arrived back home I red that the guy who does “Lost” and “Alias” has directed it, it makes sense because sometimes it looks like you are watching an episode from the secret service television series. But as far as I am concern, well-done Tom, I had a fantastic two hours.
There is also this short movie about a choir singing the noises of car and it is very good and very funny.
When I came out of the movie it was sunny and it cheer me up. We are opening Cooped in Brighton this week and we need to be happy all the time.
Have fun.
CRISTENING
Hello;
There is nothing like waking up in your own bed. I am telling you, I am an expert in waking up in other beds. No, do not misunderstand me, I do not mess around, I am faith full to my wife, I only sleep with her. What I meant is that I sleep in many different places all the time. As an example last week I have been sleeping at Graeme and Flo's bed, no, I have not slept with them, I slept in one bed they have in their office at their home in Brighton. They are very sweet and generous and I am having a very good time there. They are really nice. I am expecting them to come to visit me in my little town as soon as possible.
But today I am here in my bed and there is a very nice a warm sun coming through the window that I really like. I have to leave my bed but it is not the thing I want to do the most just right now.
Today I am going to Christening. It is the christening of my two nephews and I had flown yesterday night specially to be there in the ceremony. Also for the wine that probably we will be drinking immediately after the ceremony. Last time I was in one of those it was five years ago and this is going to be strange. The ceremony takes place at the church and my relationship with the Catholic Church it is not going through their best of times. My favourite thing is going to be to see the two kids being put on to of the big sink with the holy water of the church and then see how the priest pour water over them. They usually react in very funny ways. Then of course there is going to be a meal and I am really looking forward to that so I am going to leave my bed just right now and get ready for all the things I have to achieve today.
Have fun.
GRAEME & FLO
Hello;
I wander if I should say Flo & Graeme or Graeme & Flo. No, they are not a folk duet from the seventies. They are my lodgers my new lodgers while I am here in Brighton. I had met Flo before in somewhere. Well, she told me we have met in Brighton before when she has come to see COOPED. She is very nice and in very little time I fell we have become good friends.
I am very bad making new good friends because some times when I am outside of my house I get moody so I need to spend time alone. But even like this we have had long conversations.
Graeme and Flo are together for many years now. They look good together. They live in a very nice area of Brighton, Sussex Gardens and the good thing is that you come out of the flat and you see the sea. It is really grim if the weather is bad but when there is just a little bit of sun then is glorious. But be careful do not think there is too much sun in Brighton because it is not true.
The first day I arrived here I thought I was not going to manage to be happy here, now I am old and I like to be in my own place but in very little time I have became happy with my new friends. I am sure Graeme is going to tell me that he is not a new friend and he is right. He has been working with Spymonkey for sometime now, he is our set designer with Lucy and he came all the way to Calgary while we were there and then he is going to be the puppeteer in the new Spymonkey show and we are going to have a very nice time together.
I have left their house tonight to go back to Spain for a very religious party. There are no religious parties in Spain any more there are religious people just like everywhere else in the world. I can wait for the alliance against evil to come and made our country clean of fundamentalists.
Have fun.
THE OAK TREE
Hello;
I have gone to the Dome theatre in Brighton. I had seen a show called the Oak tree. I did not find it amusing at all, in fact a found it quite boring and I was really sorry that it was like that because there are far too many people that I know involve around the whole thing. I would not say that thing is a play but who cares? I think it is a show and I think it is a boring show. And I do not want to see very interesting shows I want to see entertaining shows. I want to see shows that make me to have a great time good or bad but entertaining and sadly this show make that the people who do it have a very good time. So there was a little bit of that the day I saw the show, they look like they were having a very good time and then Toby did it and he said that he had an amazing time.
I was bored. I am sorry for Tim Crouch. He is a nice guy; I met him after the show. I did not talk to him very much I did not know what to say but already looking to his face I liked him more that I did the show.
Hayley was the guess that night. Sorry I did not say what the show was about. Well, it is more of a performance. The main actor/performer plays a hypnotist person that has killed a young person. The actor who plays the hypnotist leave the character from time to time to tell the other actor/performer what they have to do or say by talking to a microphone that is connected to an earpiece that the actor is wearing. Does this make sense? I know is complicated. It was for me and I was there. You see this guy (Tim Crouch) talking to the microphone and then the other actor (Hailey this time but many other actors have done it before. The most important thing is that they have not seen the show before) starts to do what the other actor who plays the hypnotist tells her/him to do.
I know it is not clear yet but that is as far as I am going to go explaining what happens and probably for the shake of the show I have already explained too much and I am sure I will be told off by the good and honest people of this world. Well, they would probably put a micro earpiece in my ear and then I will never be free ever and ever again. I will hear a voice in my brain forever because I discovered to the world the secret of the Oak Tree. But you know, now, you should go to see it, it is original and unique.
Have fun.
ARSENAL vs. BARCELONA
Hello;
Well, I know, I do not like football and I think it is terrible because it is the biggest competition of our theatre. We have followed football everywhere and I do not really like it but I am very sallow and if every body likes it then I do too. I remember the time when we were doing with KKG the show STAU in Basel and the world cup was happening. I think it was 1998, yes that is right; perhaps it was the USA world cup. Anyway, we were doing an outside show and there was in the show this very nice moment when all the characters would be hanging from a mobile flying all over the stage. It was very dangerous and it was very pretty. We used to hang from at least ten to twenty metros from the ground. As I said we were performing in a small park called the Kasserne where apart from our show there were also a Mosque and a couple of bars. So the bars set a TV outside to follow the world cup and they had sometimes more people watching the games than us doing the shows. But the most depressing thing used to be from the mobile we could see everybody there cheering and drinking beer while we were risking our lives.
And then in England, in Liverpool some time ago we had gone to do Stiff at the Unity Theatre and there was a very important match on TV between Liverpool and someone I do not remember and Liverpool was almost empty. We went to a pub to see the game and then as soon as the game finished the whole town become alive. Incredible.
We have been rehearsing the whole day and I wanted to spend some time with Graeme and Flo. They are being very generous with me and also they are very nice. I have spent too much time with the monkeys lately and it is nice but for rehearsals it is much better to spend time with other people that is not they.
Of course I was supporting the Barcelona. I will never do than when I am in my house in Spain but here they are my friends.
The game was very good and Barcelona played very well. Arsenal lost one player, the goalkeeper almost at the beginning of the match and that made things easier for Barcelona. I think they would have won anyway but you the English press would never dear to say that. We drunk really nice wine and we smoked lots of things that we should not smoke and then we have nice talks and nice time together.
I think both teams played very well but as far as I am concern I do not give a shit about the new world cup coming up. I hate football, well that is not true I love to play football but I hate watching football on TV.
Have fun.
REHEARSHALS
Hello;
It is a very cold room. We are rehearsing and like in one of those French intellectual movies the room symbolised the temperature of our work. We have just met after many months working apart, I mean Cal and Spymonkey, and there have been some troubles that I make them sound like very small troubles but thou they are small are the kind to troubles that destroy companies.
We play together and we talk a lot. Like explores in an unknown country we go slow, felling the terrain and seeing where can we go next or where to spend the night. We are surrounded by danger but there is not other way, we have to go forward because what is ahead is probably the most wonderful piece of work that we will ever do. When I say we I mean Cal, Lucy and the four of us.
I know, how can you say it will be the best piece of work when you have not done it yet? Well, very simple my aim is that and we know each other so well that if we put in the basket, the work, all the things we put before plus everything we have learned since last time plus this aspiration then there is not doubt in my heart that we will succeed.
The path is not going to be easy because the dynamics have changed and we have to play different roles and that is not easy.
I can fell the tension between the different players but still everybody is ready to work and to have fun with each other. There are so many things now surrounding the Spymonkey entity that it is not enough to have fun. I have to say I do not see them so well and I imagine that is the reason why everybody else is a little bit tenser.
The weather also is really bad. It fells like we are the company of the ring and we have already gone into the land of Mordor and it is going to be like that until we drop BLESS.
I hope not.
Have fun.
ACT
Hello;
There is this little place in Brighton where many people go to learn how to act. It is a small building in a very small alleyway that end at the sea. In front of the building now there is a school of Rock. The first time we ever were here there was not school of Rock and times where not as good as these. Still it is very cold inside and humid but now we are in the middle of the spring and the first time we were here it was winter, the cold and humid and grey English winter.
Yes, this is the place where we rehear Stiff. We stayed here for six weeks in 98 and we created our first show. It was a good time but it would be impossible to recreate that time now, once you have already done it you do not want to do those things again anymore.
When I arrived to the place everybody was there. I am staying with Graham Guilmor. He lives in Brighton with his lovely girlfriend Flo. From their place to the ACT there is something like ten minutes walking, I do them by the sea.
There was certain tension in the atmosphere, we have not see Cal and each other's for a long time and there were certain business to be finish. We went to them almost immediately like knowing that if that was not resolve there was not place for fun.
Once it got resolve we had a great lunch. No, do not understand great lunch like a incredible good food and fantastic restaurant and so and so, NO the food was not great, we are in England thou the food in England has never been better I can not say that it very good yet. I mean it was great because we just hang out, talking about our things and enjoying each other's company like there is not time.
We went back to work and we worked until five o'clock. We did some funny things. I did not fell very inspired and I forgot to call my wife in the evening. We had dinner at Toby's house with his family. Petra went back to London, and Stephan went to his apartment.
While we were rehearsing Stiff one day we went out to the promenade by the sea to have a run and the Hotel of Brighton, a big Hotel almost in the middle of the city was burning. During the whole to that day the Hotel got completely destroyed. It was big news all over the country. It was a sad image but very spectacular. Now where that Hotel was or even the same building I think someone has build apartments.
I remember that I also won fifty pounds in the Lottery. I have never won anything else since.
Have fun.
ENGLAND
Hello;
Here I am in back in England, back in England and ready to work with Spymonkey. Everything until now has been very exciting and what it is ahead of us it could be even more exciting.
I have left my wife in Bilbao and I am already missing her. I have had a very nice and short honeymoon and now I do not want to leave her here. But I have to go back to work, I have to go back to create more genius work with the award physical theatre stalwarts that revolutionise the theatre world. And the amount of work that we do does not manage to pay our bills. But anyway that is the part of the equation that nobody seems to remember. I miss Miren even if I am working with an award etc etc company and there is nothing I can do for her to come with me here.
I have flown to London, I have taken the train to Victoria, I have seen the people and the city of London in the tube and in the stations of the London Underground and it looks really hard and tuff and very unwelcoming. I think it is that feeling that makes have of the population of the work to want to come here, the fact that I am not wanted so I will go and I will make you want me. Well, and also the fact that even the worst life here is better than the one that most of the people that come here have in their own countries.
So I wander If I should be complaining as I am doing now here at Victoria Station. Everybody is angry and I understand why. It is not nice and it is not easy here. I am meeting with my friend, that is nice and that is easy but the rest. I have a train journey ahead of me and then I will spend a week in Brighton, which many said is a great town and many live there. I have been there before but thou I had a nice time I hated it. I hated it the fact that the sea goes in the wrong direction, I hated the fact that it looks like sunny town but the weather is never good, I hated the fact that it is a trendy town and is full of red necks so… That is were I am going. I am confident I am going to have a very good time but I am not completely sure. But do not worry because I will let you know.
Have fun.
HOME
Hello,
There are many things I like to talk but there is one between all of them which I have just realise I talk more that any other one. I am sure that you have already guess what is it. Yes, home is my most mention subject and it is funny. When I am home I talk about home because I am here and because most of the time I have just arrived and everything that happens seems to amuse me and then when I am away it is all about dreaming about going back to where I belong.
In those moments when I talk about where I belong I tend to create this magical world. One world full of sunny streets with a refreshing breeze full of nice looking people, but normal, not very pretty walking and smiling while they chat to each others. Also the streets are clean and there are not disturbing noises and everything goes according to a dream world. When I look at it I don't think is a dream, for me in my dream world, my dream world does not look like a dream world. I am sure this happens to everybody that has a dream world.
Then when I am here I realised that there are not many dreamy things here. There are things like every where else and some of them are even worst. Perhaps that is the reason why we keep telling to each other how lucky we are that we live here, how lucky we are that we have what we have and nobody dears to say the contrary. I think we force ourselves to dream that we live in a dream world.
Have fun.
MY LUGAGGE
Hello;
As I arrived to check my suitcases in the airport I realised that I am going to have to pay overweight. For a moment I thought, I am not taking back with me many more things than I brought and it is true. They let me bring as much as I wanted but the lady at the desk informed me that Melbourne Airport are famous for setting standards for the rest of airports all over the world and they have to follow the rules very strictly. I said to her, how much would I have to pay? She said with our any emotion 1200 Australian dollars. I acted cool but I could see have of my things swimming in the river of Melbourne because a stupid traveller did not have enough money to pay the over weight. As usual Charlie came to help and said that she would send it next day with the freight company and that would make it cheaper.
The thing is that have of my extra luggage were costumes to do the show so that is going to be part of Spymonkey expenses and the other half are the books and CDs that I buy in Australia because they are going to be cheaper and at the end I paid extra money as if I would have bought them in Piccadilly Circus.
My suitcase as today is still in Melbourne. Charlie tried to send it but there was a form I had to fill and send to the embassy and then a burocrat will sign the form that I would have filled and I will received my suitcase in England instead of Spain. Nothing is going to be fast and easy everything would be complicated so many people would get paid and many people would get wages at the end of the month and could leave with their families. That is the only thing that makes me happy of not having my suitcase in my house now. I think one of these guys also took my skateboard, he never made to Bilbao neither and I fear it will never be.
But at least people in offices in all the continents and all countries would have letters to open, faxes to receive and e-mails to answer so at the end of the month they could by a nice present to their little kid once he gets paid. So now I am happy with no suitcase and no skateboard.
Have fun.
WHAT IS NEXT?
Hello,
My life has adjusted really fast here. The sun is shining and that makes me be really happy. I have been going to the beach and I am having a very good time. My jet lag has gone, really, I cannot work out how has happened but that is the truth. I have been sleeping like a baby since I arrived here…perhaps it is because since I left Las Vegas now I am sleeping in my house? I do not know.
We are doing an R & D week in Brighton next. Well, yes, we all are very exciting about that. There is also a little bit of concern because the baggage of so many years working together and what the future is going to bring for us it looks like is making things a little bit more complicated. I do not want to be more specific. But I will use a metaphor so you will not understand anything, after many years the trust has gone broken, has changed and some of us fell that there is not solution. The way I see it is like with any relation that wants to carry on happening has to evolve and things can never be like they were before.
But, yes that's it. I heard Stephan had problems with excess luggage and had to pay 300 dollars to bring all his shit. I was told I was going to have to pay 1200 and decided that I was going to freight the whole thing. The best is that Charlie did it for me. Now she is in the middle of the hard Australian countryside touring with a bunch of comedians and crazy English man.
Stephan is back in Vienna, Toby in his house in Brighton and Petra in London doing the things so she can get her new house. Everybody is very excited to be back home and do what their lives need to be happy. We will all be together again on Sunday. During next week our brains and groins will work towards creating a new show. It is not going to be easy but we will have fun. Also we are looking for replacements for all of us and we are having people in Brighton to work with us so we can find out how would it be with them and us when we can not do our show.
I fell weird and if you have mad it all the way down here is that you are really brave because I do not remember writing a blog as boring as this one ever before.
Have fun.BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
Hello,
Today is Lucy's birthday, Petra has let me know very early in the morning and I am really thanked full for that. All those new pieces of life are taking the big memory and me out of Melbourne that carry with me for the last three days. I am happy to be here and I have been surfing and I am back in my house and I am really happy and really looking forward to go to Brighton to do the show. I am not really excited about being in England but that is what we are and what we have for now.
I saw “Brokeback Mountain”on the plane but the moment when they make love in the tent it was so dark that for a moment I thought that Qantas had censored the whole thing but not it was just a problem of the right lights on the inside of the plain. I have heard so much about the movie. Many friends said that it was great and many others said that did not understand what was all the fuzz about it. I thought it was really nice and very emotional and very well played. I like very much the Australian actor, for give me but I am not going to be able to reproduce his name here, too difficult. He was so good. I like the other one too and life the bodies of their girlfriends, they had very nice breasts both of them. Sorry, I know the last comment it is a little bit unnecessary but I think it is nutty and it make me laugh. Over all now I am disappointed that it did not get the Oscar, it clearly deserved it. I saw other movies on the plain but they are not really important to mention because they were very bad.
Now I thought I was never going to do it but I managed to go surfing in my town. It is the first time in many years that I have surfed here and It made me really happy. I am planning to go everyday just for the shake of it and to make as much exercise as possible and I will be telling you about my progress in that department.
Now, you be all well and get ready for Brighton because that is what we are doing now, a mixture between everyday life and work.
This may sound like easy but it is not because the more we try to carry on with our normal lives all those wonderful messages of appreciation come from the antipode country that I do not want to mention for a while so my heart keep pumping and that is really difficult. We are thankful and it was our pleasure to have such an amazing time.
Have fun.MY SKATEBOARD
Hello;
Well, it is very unfortunate but very normal that when you travel over the continents and more that one airline is involved things get missed. I remember vividly leaving my skateboard in a big red cage. Trapped like a big animal ready to be ship to a much better habitat where humans will contemplate him and they will fell really proud of themselves because they finally saw one for real. I was not sad, I was concern but I was more concern because I had generated a huge amount of extra luggage that had to be freighted and I was not going to be able to do it. So when I went into to the plain I did not miss my skateboard.
As I write I see the Yarra River and the gardens parallel to St. Kilda Road that had seen our adventures together, early in the morning when the sun was waking up I ridded my board through the streets of Melbourne. I hoped that he could be happy hear in Europe but now if he does not come soon I am going to died of sadness.
My flight was very long. It felt much longer than when I made it there. Some might say that is because I was not excited about going to a new place but I think it is because I had seen all the movies and I had finished my book. I slept quite a lot and I ate a whole bag of jellybeans and I played many games of the entertainment system.
When I arrived to Bilbao something like 27 hours have gone since I left Melbourne. My parents and my lovely wife were they're waiting for me. That made me really happy and helped me to forget that my board had got lost in the middle of the China Sea? The Siberian plains? The Baltic Sea? Or just in Heathrow London? I wander.
Now the festival is like a very long dream, it is transforming in my unhealthy mind in a small-lost paradise where I was once and where I might never come back. This last part of the sentence makes it even more appealing. Even now, I see the image of the corridor of the handicap people at the Capital theatre and the balcony of hour really far away from the city apartments at Punt Hill – Staton, or the Blue Train restaurant at the South Bank that Chicago downtown looking place where we all ate once and all these images make me fell melancholic.
Only my skateboard as the child or the token for remember will allowed me to leave the hard place of sadness and melancholy.
Have fun.I MISS YOU
Hello;
It is just hours, not even that, in the airport with my friends in the plain going to England and me waiting my plain, I miss you. For the last four weeks you have been my love and my life and my air and my bicycle. Now nothing seemed to make sense.
We dance in the party at the Hi-Fi Club, the cool venue of the festival, and we dance until we got drunk of turning and also from the vile wine that the bar serves to the hard working members of the comedy festival. They trued to make us sugar high so the party would have ended by three o' clock once everybody start to feel the down syndrome but everybody was ready for a party. I still miss you thou everybody was here some minutes ago to say good bye, Sue, Edwina, Charlie, Beck, who else is going to be here to say good bye? I f this carries on like this we are not going to be able to leave.
I have been for an hour in airport, waiting fro my plain but even during the whole day, while I was trying to recover form a drunkenness of four weeks a very strong sense of despaired and melancholy was getting hold of my whole me and I felt really sad. I did not want to go back to the Capital Theatre but suddenly I was here with out a purpose and I felt a very strong urge to leave. At the same time if I leave I am not going to be able to have a café at the Mediterranean Café or buy Cds at the Dirty Cheap Cds shop, or get a cheap lunch in one of the Chinese restaurants of Chinatown, or even to go and see one of the shows that I have to see in the festival. Everything has come to and end and I have the felling that I miss most of it. I miss you.
Where is everybody? I am walking around town and from one day to the other it seems that people have stopped whiling to laugh. The day, the weather is not for laughing because is cold and grey but now that is not the most important thing the people of Melbourne had gone serious. That is a joke; Sirius from Syria instead of Australians, I think is quite funny. And still I walk through what is left of you and I miss you.
Have fun.
TWO POLES AND A STICKY TAPE
Hello;
What do we take from here this year?
There are obvious things, I bought and skateboard so I am taking that with me now but I am talking in a more spiritual way if you know what I mean. First of all the realisation that I have to leave the parties earlier that I have ever done because my bones cannot take it for too long.
Second we have had the experience of playing in one of the friendliest festivals that we have ever been in this world and I would not have missed it from the world.
Third that the Capital Theatre is not a theatre and no play should be put up there. The audiences that sit behind the entrance fell completely left out because the sound is very weird. (I wanted to say extrange but I have problems with the spelling of that world)
Fourth: we have met the best people in the world here, well, perhaps not of the whole world but almost the whole world; Charlie, The Do-woops, Adrian, the crew of the Capital with Emilia, Crish, Nathan, Sexy Stuart etc, all the pretty girls of the organisation of the festival and many many more. It is going to be really difficult to learn to live with out all of you from tomorrow.
Fifth, that Melbourne is by far better than Sydney. Yes, it has taken me four weeks to arrive to that conclusion but now I have to face the truth. Sydney is fantastic, it has the beach, the SOH and the sun but Melbourne has everything else and if you drive a little bit the beaches are great. And when it comes to the eating and drinking I am in love with the Beach Club. There it was my best Australian meal.
Sixth; The festival is for everybody and that is a fact that everybody knows and take advantage of it, like Amanda, a fan of our company. She came to see the show eight times in total and she has sent us an e-mail to let us know that she is going to talk to the organisation of the festival so they bring us back. That would be impossible in any other festival.
Seventh; that stand up comedy is not standard comedy. That stand up is going to take the place of the rock and roll stars. Imagine Mick Jaeger being funny on the stage before cracking “Brown Sugar” or Bob Dylan entertaining his audience like Daniel Kitson in between songs, this is a revolution, Tim Minchin is going to be playing the Wembley Arena in a couple of years believe me.
Eighth; that the Punt Hill apartments are too far from town and artist should be house closer to the city.
Ninth; that we drink too much during the festival and that we should check the amount of beverages that we have so we can live longer because alcohol kills.
Tenth; that our next show is going to have as a set two poles and a sticky tape. That is something very important so we can come back and do this festival more times.
So that is all for now and love to you all, keep the good work and have fun, lots of fun.LAST SATURDAY
Hello;
The nominees for this year Barry award are Dimetri Martin, Daniel Kitson, Mark Watson, Sam Simons, Tim Minchin, Charlie Pickerin…I do not think I am missing anybody here, and if I am please forgive my disinformation. They all are great and yesterday I was talking to somebody at the door of one of the shows and he told me that he thinks that is going to be between Mark Watson and Tim Minchin. I thought that it was a really great wild guess.
I have to say they all look great and sound great. I know the work of Daniel Kit son a little bit because I saw his show. I do know a little bit the work of Tim Minchin and I think he is just a genius and then I do not know anything about the others but I am sure they are great. I played football with Mark Watson and he plays well.
As I write this they already know and I don't because I am not a nominee and also I do not care about awards. There was a time when I did and I did not get any but all my friends got some. Then I started not to care about them and I got one so I will rather keep it like that. Yes, You could said that this is a contradiction and I will have to be agree with you but then I will say how many contradiction rule your life? There are so many in mine that sometimes I wander how and why I am still alive.
Petra had chosen an outfit for the party because she thought that she was going to get one of the minor prizes of the night. I had to break it to her that we were not part of the club of winners. It is their miss because if Petra wins they would have had the time of their lives watching Petra celebrating.
It was a two shows day. The one in the morning was good but for very little audience. And then the one in the evening started really bad, completely out of timing and it got worst when I started Judedench with my moustache and I swallowed it. I could not breath and I started to cough terrible all of this in the middle of the stage. I could not care less, I thought I was going to die there and then everybody were going to start to laugh and that would have been it. So I do not want to die like that, I would love to die in my bed I like what I do but I prefer surfing. So If I have to die I will rather die in the sea drawn by a very big wave.
I have seen shows finally. I have seen two more shows, Andrew's tapes and Mike Wilmot and Rich Hall. I am a fan of Rich Hall and I thought Mike was very funny and very good.
I do not want to say anything else because it is not necessary; they are great go and see them.
Andrew was also very good but he is better than his material. Sorry, I like him and he needs to be seen but he looks like a teenager and he is not but I did not see it. I had a great time in the show because he is very charming and it is good with the audience, very good.
I am going to miss this festival on Tuesday and I will want to be here surrounded by autumn and people ready to laugh.
Have fun.
CHARLIE
Hello;
Well, I am trying to recollect al the things that have happened lately and I do not even know what day is today. Everything is going so fast, like in a rollercoaster. The little carriage is at the top of the final loop and it has stopped before it goes for the evil deadly murder grand final loop that will make you never forget that you took this ride.
We have said bye bye to Charlie. She took us all to this great restaurant by the river, in the south bank, Blue train? Yes, that's it. We eat very well and we had a great time being together. We thank you Charlie. We bought her a present and we got a little card with it that we all signed. I think is a boring English thing to do but any way, what did I write there? Nothing, just thank you. In my wildest dreams I have thought that Charlie would want to work with us in the future. She is very good and she knows what she does. We said goodbye that night and it is going to be for now I hope.
My friends went to see shows after dinner but I had to hit the shack. I was tired and I was thinking there were two shows waiting for me next day.
In my post festival reflection I would say that we passed the time for interviews and we arrived to the time a farewell dinners. I like this time a little bit more because I enjoy drinking and eating very much but it is not very good for the good going to the show.
And let me tell you about the show because we had a very good show, Friday. We show Sue in the audience and we thought last time when she came to see it she said that it need it to pick up the pace and so we provided. Also there had been some complains about us going over the time that the festival has given us and we wanted to prove that it was not true. So we run like a pony, really fast, like a pony that discovers that now he can run.
We were not great, nobody really shinned but it was very efficient and good.
I felt on top the Inspector Detective Judedents coat and I hear myself in the leg with the piece of wood I keep inside the bottom of the coat so it always get stacked between the doors when I leave the scene. It hurt a lot.
I wandered through the night and I met Anthony and his girlfriend going back home. He is the MC of the Free Love Supremes hip-hop thing. They have been saying all the time that they are going to come to see the show. His girlfriend came to see it and I am sure that she did not like it.
It happens a lot in the festival, you meet people that you like more that what they do. Well, actually, when I see some people they do not like both but…I am old and wise and fat so it is normal.
Have fun.
THE AMAZING JONATHAN
Hello,
Amazing oysters, amazing dumplings, amazing stakes, amazing red wine and amazing restaurant, amazing people and amazing time we all had at the amazing short lunch that the festival gave to all the performers. Amazing how much that area of Melbourne looks like Sweden. For a moment I thought I was going to see an army of tall blonde men and women walking around with glasses in funny colours like blue, red, green and yellow and they were all wearing big thick wool jumpers and Birkenstocks with shocks but not I was in Melbourne Beach Club and there was nobody Swedish.
We got a little bit cooked in the middle of the afternoon and we had to have an amazing siesta.
Amazing that when the show started we were all ready and full of energy to do it. Amazing how stupidly in the middle of the show the lift bell broke down and we were amazingly stupid to try to reproduce the sound with our mouths being amazingly unsuccessful. I am amazed that nobody notice in the audience and the show went quite well but I will not be amazed if there is another worst review coming out before we leave. I think it is amazing how polarised the reaction towards our show are, either you think it is amazing or you think it is amazingly bad. Amazingly I have not heard anyone saying it is so and so.
I went to see the Amazing Jonathan, the magician from Las Vegas. He was amazing. He is so strong that it is amazing what he does which is really amazingly nothing. His partner is amazingly funny and I think that he should use her more in the show it would make the whole thing more amazing.
I am amazingly tired. I do not check my body no more because I do not want to fell what I should fell so it is better to shut everything and keep going for the amazing end of Sunday.
Thanks for an amazing lunch and lets have another one soon.
Have fun.
THE LAST TUESDAY
Hello;
There is less than a week to go back and yesterday was the last Tuesday we are going to be playing at the Melbourne Comedy Festival 2006. Hopefully there will be many more Tuesdays to play in future festivals to come. We, like the rest of the participants in this great festival are already dreaming with the possibility of being invited back. Those dreams mingle with the fact the bags under our eyes are more present that the famous canvas bags of the super talented Tim Minchin and if you are tired there is just one thing you can dream about and that is to go to sleep.
Our dear friend says that she looks like a dog and she is not right, she still looks lovely but we all have had a very good fun here in spite of all the stress and emotions time .
New great people have gone into the deepest pockets of out hearts and also in our beds, we have found happiness in new places where three weeks ago there was just the unknown and now the time to go has arrived. The easiest thing would be to give up, to say this is the end I do not care my friend but that would not be fair for anybody. Here everybody is going to be working hard until the last minute, fighting with the tsunami of emotions that end of the festival is bringing plus the accumulations of many weeks of hard work and long hours of partying and drinking.
So now let me tell you that I am ready to do my show one more time but not yet the last time in the festival. I will run through the corridors of the Capital Theatre like Jack Nicholson in “the shining” but I will escape because I have my plain ticket already booked. I will do my first show of the last week but first we will do an cameo with the weather man in the news of five o'clock on channel 7.
After that I have planned to see many shows, all the shows that I have not seen during the whole festival. This is what I say now but then when the show is finish and I will be really tired then I will go home. Not tonight.
Tonight I am going to see “In the mood for Love”. I fell like something slow and sweet full of beauty with nice pictures that will show me beauty and love. I will get in my pyjamas and I will dream with the time when I am in love an enjoy in silence.
Have fun.
THE WORST REVIEW
Hello;
I am here in front of my lap top waiting to read it. Yes, we got this weekend the worst review ever. We thought that we have had that one already the first time we ever did the show in Edinburgh but no, Melbourne was going to be even worst. How could we know? Estrange the thing about reviews. I would love to be clever like Daniel Kitson to express my very mixed and confused felling about that subject. Everybody's opinion of the show count but it seems as if the good ones count less because the amount of enjoyment we get from the good ones does not make it up for the despair that the bad ones bring to our soul.
Let me tell you I am quite please with the way I express my thought above, Daniel would be really proud.
But is it really true? I wander. I come from long years of being a bad actor it is just recently that people start to really like m on the stage. So I am scared to go back and I do not like it when people do not like very much, not just a little but very much what we do because it makes me fell insecure. Perhaps because I think I ma going back to that place where no body ever say great but they avoid the subject and talk about something else as soon as you were close by and that going back I would not be able to coop with.
But on the other hand when everybody said I was bad I kept doing it and I discovered that as long as I was not doing it for them but just for myself everything would be fine because I could coped easily with the result either good or bad.
I heard about the worst review at night at a restaurant I went to have dinner with the always-lovely Marie Claire. She told me that she had read the bad review in the papers during the weekend; she said half star from ten stars. We laughed.
As I arrived home they told me again about that review. There is nothing we can do and it does not come as a surprise that either you hate this show or you love it there is not middle ground for it so we will have to learn to live with it.
Thanks for letting me tell you this I really needed it to get it out of my system. I have to do the show this afternoon once again and to think that there is someone out there thinking that is a big mistake it is not very good for my confidence.
“Inn short: I'm bitter at wasting my time, don't waste yours”
“As a reviewer it's difficult to be harsh about the shows seen. After all, there are people putting themselves out there, spending hours upon hours on their pieces and risking poverty and dignity to lead a creative life. So I always try to find something redeeming in their work. Try as I might this time, however, all I could come up with were the remote control ducks making occasional journeys across the stage.
The last time I looked at my watch that often in 90 minutes it was my year 11 maths exam- and it is still a line ball, which was more excruciating.
Somewhere between poor parody, skit show and surrealist pastiche, this was all over the place like a drunk's footsteps.
The few – very few – moments in which flashes of brilliance shone were squandered through a lack of focus, a bad script and no sense of understatement, it was 90 minutes devoid of wit, subtlety, timing, originality or, perhaps most importantly, laughs.”
Kate Ross Sunday Herald Sun April 30 th 2006
I could not wait any longer so I went down to pick the review and there it is. Enjoy and think about it because that is what I am doing.
Have fun.
Hello;
I have the obligation to speak up on this day for all the workers of the world and their rights. So far as long as I am writing this blog the first of may it would be dedicated to the workers of the world.
Also the Barrys have been announced and I have to inform you all that we, Spymonkey, the five starts review have been not nominated. I am sad but not bother. I have thought about the possibility of it and it would have been nice but we can not compete with them they are all so good on what they do and we are just good at working together so not good enough at what we do¿? I do not know what the fuck I am talking about.
In a supreme effort by the lovely people of this festival they took us to this place far away from Melbourne in the most rainy day of our time here. This place is a spa by a lake that has this incredible good water. We were going to do some wine testing but everything end up being going there really fast have lunch and come back. We had a great time because everybody was in a very good mood and the food and wine was excellent.
I will suggest next time to stay in town and go to a spa in town and then to one of the excellent restaurants here in town. My experience here in Melbourne is that I have always eaten better in town that outside of town. I have not left yet so perhaps in this my last week here I am going to discover the most amazing out side of town restaurants ever.
We did a radio interview in the morning at Kiss Radio. The station is in a small house and it was really cool and the girl was really nice. I was really hanged over and I felt really stupid. My eyes really red and if do not speak very good English normally when the left over of wine and so from the night before are surrounding the most part of my head then I am a English-speaking-challenge-person or stupid twat.
At night we went to the movies to see Syriana, the George Clooney movie. I think he is fucking great and the movie is fine but really hard to follow.
I loved it yesterday because I did many different things and it was a really full day. It fell as if I had had a whole weekend for myself and now I was looking forward to do the week coming ahead of me.
It did rain and when I was in the band I thought once again that I am going to miss this place. I am going to miss it a lot. It feels like a small live here, from the beginning when you are newly born to the festival, the second week the teenage years where you have lots of fun exploring the possibilities of fun that this festival has. Then the thirties crisis where you do not see the light because things are changing and you do not know where you stand and now we are entering into the old age, the senior years. New people would be filling up this festival next year and even if they do not know yet the idea is already going trough the minds of the people in this festival so we, the pensioners will have to died. I will be there on the 8 th May, the night of my funeral for the festival, rest in peace.
Have fun.
