I've got on the i-pod a 2 3/4 hour retrospective/ tribute to Spike Milligan. It's equally astonishing, sad, and insightful, as well as being a bloody hoot to listen to at times.
The connection between his manic-depressive/shell-shocked state and his creative genius is well explored.
Talented man, comedian, author, broadcaster, musician, painter, poet, goon, madman.
Insane genius
Insane genius
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Most refreshing Gob - thanks. Odd that he's so often identified as the nutcase when Peter Sellers (poor bugger) was definitely letting the cheese slip off his bread on a regular basis. Who'd have thought that Seagoon would have been the normal one?
Meade
Meade
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Normal?!?
You never watched Highway?
You never watched Highway?
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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Sorry, meant normal for a Welsh git...
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It's probably too big to e-mail Meade, I could possibility burn it to CD for you?MajGenl.Meade wrote:Most refreshing Gob - thanks.
This is the show; http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01chydc
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Ah thanks Gob but some things are going on and the likelihood is that an oz CD will not work for me any more
Later
Meade
Later
Meade
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Ok, mate no worries. (CDs recognise no international boundaries though!)
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Oh it's not a visual thing - radio? I've had trouble with CDs with pictures (I don't mean DVDs) playing them in PCs here vs there.Gob wrote:Ok, mate no worries. (CDs recognise no international boundaries though!)
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It's a radio four tribute, (sorry I should have made that more clear.) I can burn it as a couple of music type CDs, or send it as MP3, no images.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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you're a mate. But can I take a rain check on those fish? Not sure what addy to give you
ph
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
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No worries, I'll keep it on hold for you...
Manic depression Spike Milligan
The pain is too much
A thousand grim winters
grow in my head
In my ears
the sound of the
coming dead.
All Seasons
All Sane
All Living
All Pain.
No opiate to lock still
my senses
Only left,
the body locked tenses
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”