What to do this evening

[shermarama]

Any of you uncertain what to do this evening? Well, I have *the only* sensible solution. You'll come and see Toupé at the Bull & Gate. They're made of one drummer of the sort that hits things hard enough to bounce out of his seat, one bassist who uses more effects than I've ever seen a bassist use, though some of them are on his voice, and one massively egotistical six-string bassist who, shockingly, can do all the tedious slap-bass shite but actually make music with it. They are energetic and silly and excellent to dance to and an all round Good Thing. Go on, you will you will you will.

Went to see verlaine do standup last night. If the whole amount of material had been condensed and redistributed between about five or six people, the event as a whole would have been excellent. As it was there was one genuine stage natural, another two or three who were pretty good at least partly because of the disjoint of being on a stage, another two or three who had their moments, and about four real clunkers. Makes for an interesting change, though. verlaine was mainly surreal, I expect, to those who don't know him and aren't perfectly used to having to think about whether they've got a pair of popes down the front of their jumper.

Also, I'm really going to have to dig out some pictures of my sister. vardebedian thought it was amusing to have me stand back to back with absinthecity but the thing is, and this has been secretly gently messing with my head for ages, she actually looks like my big sister, or a better-looking version of her, anyway. People genuinely used to say they could see the resemblance, and then I'd tell them I was adopted and they'd look faintly relieved. I imagine conjuring up resemblances was quite an effort.

Comments

[blue-mai.livejournal.com]

oh that dr.sketchy thing might tempt me... more conduiting you see.
and a good friend of mine has a step-brother who he just refers to as his brother since they've been family since little, but it confuses people when they find out they're only 9 months apart..

[shermarama]

Dr. Sketchy?

[absinthecity.livejournal.com]

Heh!

No idea why it's mentioned here, but it's a good thing to mention.
I'm going along - it's a 'burlesque art school' for one day in December. miss_cocoa is organising it. Details here: http://www.drsketchylondon.co.uk/

[blue-mai.livejournal.com]

mentioned here because you were in the post and i was clickety-clicking. i may well attend. i'm just trying to work out weekends away and things...

[absinthecity.livejournal.com]

Aha...cunning linkage. Have we met "irl"?

[shermarama]

I've only met blue_mai twice myself, and the first time was at the party I left Seamus's housewarming party for the other week. So not via me, I can say.

[blue-mai.livejournal.com]

i assume not, although you never know. think of me as your latest not-very-dedicated cyber-stalker.

[absinthecity.livejournal.com]

I see.

Cool!

[vardebedian.livejournal.com]

Hah, I'd forgotten that! Thing is, I find almost everything amusing so you could have achieved much the same reaction by not standing next to Abi or anything else that came to mind.

[absinthecity.livejournal.com]

hehe. I'll be interested to see a pic :)

Your comments on last night's entertainment are very accurate, btw. I'd have picked about six decent ones too and sent the rest packing ;) (in one case, I think we pretty much did that with heckling...)

and that's the last bloody time I sit at the front.

[fluffymark]

*nods* some good, some bad (but they can't all be Eddie Izzard, I mean, that would be a bit scary!), but well worth the £3.

I just knew verlaine was going to start talking about breasts. The pope comparison was a bit surreal, but then again, so is he. Is there a comedy equivalent of being a comment whore, I wonder?

[hazyjayne.livejournal.com]

*waves*

It was lovely meeting you on Sunday after hearing quite alot of good things about you via damerell. Hope you weren't too worse for after the Marcus Aurelius...