Wednesday 6 August 2014

A Chronicle of Doom....


Great wee excursion to Ice Station Zebra yesterday - in spite of they day's enjoyment being put in doubt by Agent Rob's early sighting of an old woman simply scraping along the pavement, her back near bent double, giving as soul crushing an awareness of mortality and the lottery of life as could be expected - to see a truly 'on form' Agent Johnny. OO7 was already 'spinning' quietly in the background upon arrival, Our Man in Pester Whailes quite focussed on his letter writing and duly settled in Ze Smoking Room. The usual initial chunterings abounded as Bond was flipped over (living twice in the case of the second side!). Much of the day's bletherings concerned the Evil Hollywood Over Subterrania dummy and conclusion, Agent Rob returning the former - with his 2 newly completed pages inside - to Agent Johnny only to receive copies of the latter's pencils by return. Yep, it finally looks as if this book is on the final stretch, em, the 2 page introduction aside.... The concluding 7 pages have been scripted and all the parties involved have tucked into their pencilling duties. As the View to a Swill wore on the chat turned to the usual topics, the present repeats of the James Bond fillums, Alfred Bester's novels Tiger! Tiger!/The Stars My Destination and The Demolished Man, as well as Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep and Richard (AKA Kingsley Amis) Markham's 007 novel, Colonel Sun. Having finished quite the longest swill in a good while, our Agents then departed for the city centre, swinging our trousers by BackBeat Records, dodgin' the Festival crowds, and finally pitching up at Deadhead Comics where we were pleased to find Agent Austin on similarly grand form, the chat there turning to the quality of the recent Jodorowsky's Dune documentary (highly recommended) and the merits of the recent run of She-Hulk. Then, as if to conclude a near perfect day, Agent Rob made an unusually swift return to Glasgore to settle down in front of A Liar's Autobiography (with a few stiff drinks to hand), revelling in the woozy melancholy of it all....

Sounds: The Best of James Bond: 30th Anniversary Collection, by John Barry et al: Forbidden Planet, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Louis and Bebe Barron: Select by Kim Wilde: 633 Squadron, Original Soundtrack by Ron Goodwin: Volume One by Soft Machine: Party Fears Two 7" by The Associates....

Kim Wilde - View From A Bridge

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