Rob Ayling writes:
"Thom the World poet, is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Tom's poetry tapes and guest appearences with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth, Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied with in seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not? why not indeed!!" (The wondrous poetpic is by Jack McCabe, who I hope forgives me for scribbling all over it with Photoshop)
Amis and Larkin
Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello -
pairings
of disparate males make comedy fail
shades
of discernible differences must align with audiences
Chaplin
vs Keaton, Mort Sahl to Lenny Bruce to Bill Hicks
It
matters less how and who you hate - just that you are angry (Peter Finch in
NETWORK)
John
Cleese /Rowan Atkinson - their sarcastic body languages text and note
perfect
for
a surreal and essentially dull prosaic world/anger zipstarts the process of
engagement
through
a mock disengagement/derangement of the
senses.. OUTSIDERS/Brazil/1984
Brave
New World/Darkness@Noon/Animal Farm/Good Soldier Schweik/Catch 22
all
satirize our world as a killing field of hope/a despair farm of hobbled
duty.
Nihilists
Beware! Anger bites the hand that applauds
It
is fueled in black and white (SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY
MORNING, IF...
It
does not have to be D H Lawrence working class anger/nor Lindsay Anderson's
middle class biteback
It
does not have to come from Oxford, nor Cambridge,not even Scotland or
Ireland
Yet
it is still hard to see a Kafka in America. Think Orson Welles and his
fate.
Culture
requires vigilance/lest it get fat and flabby with self-congratulatory Academy
Awards
Wolves
howl best ON THE ROAD. Typed, not filmed. The R certificate version...
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