A meaningless update

Just to keep the blog ticking over.

With the Comedy Fest around the corner things are starting to get a bit busy - lots of posters and flyers to design, shows to direct, people to contact, health to maintain and money to save.

Apart from loved ones, Comedy is about the greatest joy in my life at the moment. In particular:

The strangulated squawk that Peter Sellers makes

Noel Fielding as The Spirit of Jazz

The current shoe ad where the guy makes the musical fart noises with his hands (oh how I love the middle break)

The soundtrack to ADBC


Simple pleasures people....simple pleasures

...a small time crim

Underbelly

The 3 min trailer is brilliant

So very amazing

Happy New Year Everyone

I hope it was a cracker.

This Eve I would have none of the "city-sea-of-human-refuse" that I encountered last year, instead I spent it in the company of a delightful young lady, a bottle of French bubbly and season 1 of The Mighty Boosh. Now if that isn't the way to kickstart a year I don't know what is.

As far as any New Year realisations/reflective insights - I've started to be a bit cautious with my approach now. It's far too easy to get swept up in the idealism of a new year - much harder to maintain and spread the diligence over the coming months which is why I have chosen SIMPLE, uncluttered resolutions for '08:

This Year I will.

• HAVE THE BODY OF A 22 YEAR OLD SURF LIFESAVER
• BUY ONLY THE FINEST, FRESHEST PRODUCE AND COOK ALL MY MEALS
• TRANSFORM MY GARDEN INTO PARADISE
• LOVE EVERYONE EQUALLY AND NEVER SPEAK BADLY OF ANYONE, EVER
• TRAVEL THE WORLD FIRST CLASS
• LEARN THE TRUMPET
• GROW A POWERFUL MOUSTACHE THAT INVOKES GASPS OF WONDER AND AWE.

I'll stop there because I want to leave some room for '09

(actually - if you read between the lines and tone down the hyperbole - they're pretty much what I was thinking...)


I hope this year offers up new adventures, laughs and surprises for me and you.

Cheers
L

Season's Greetings

Hello all - May you have a very Merry Christmas and a booty-filled New Year.

Christmas Special #1 - Flashback: All I wanted for Christmas... in 1983...

My Dad made me the Ice Planet Hoth out of Plaster on a huge piece of chipboard
- I freakin' loved it. (images via http://www.wishbookweb.com)

Christmas Special #2 - Flashback: Ok, so for the modern child The ViewMaster doesn't move or talk, they aren't Japanese, nor do they have any sort of Gameboy-style application but by god I loved my sets including: Road Runner, The Land of the Lost, Spiderman and more...Nothing takes me back to that feeling of childhood wonder faster than the click and the turn of the wheel.

Image Via Here

And finally - here's a great article about the discovery and restoration of the original Rankin Bass Puppets from Rudolf The Red Nose Reindeer .

XXX

The one about the Wizard's Finger, Indy 4 and being a Corp Jester

Re-post of the ad I did last year which has now rolled over - yay!

Long time between posts again - apologies.

First up - a recent trip to Sydney for a corporate job and a birthday visit bought me in contact with friends and improvisers from far and wide and I saw the IA Cranston Cup Grand Final which was a hoot. Wizard's Finger won the night in a spectacular show of physical and verbal dexterity (and some natty ties)... but all the teams showed off their prowess onstage - much laughter from the audience reminding me again what a great theatre the Enmore is when it's full of happy punters.

I've had a few auditions recently and I'm still waiting to hear back about an ad shooting next
week (would be nice to get) otherwise I'm plying my wares on the corporate circuit at the moment. From the Regent Ballroom to the MCG, to the Fed square, businessmen and women have enjoyed me after entree and before mains...

The Illustrator in me is feeling very rusty at the moment - I have done a few design projects for friends:

...but I haven't sat down with a pen in hand for what seems like years... time to just sketch methinks.

Ok so here's the fanboy in me sneaking out again. Looks great but boy - he's looking beat now isn't he?


Have been watching:
30 Rock
AD/BC
Green Wing
SCTV
Bedazzled
What's New Pussycat?
Rankin Bass specials

Listening to:
The Octopus Project
Sufjan Stevens
Mod Jazz
Christmas music (the kids insist...well, all right just one more cd)
Rodney Hunter
Pee Wee Herman
Special mixed CDs brewed in collusion...

I predict another entry before Christmas... but just in case... Merry Christmas everyone.

For the Love of Kirk