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Morrison at the ICA

  
  

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adamswish
14:04 / 21.02.03
Can't belief I'm the first to post about this, but check out this
site.

basically Grant's giving a talk, followed by the Beastocracy performing in the bar.

It's the 28th March, so plenty of time, and only £6 for talk and £5 for the night (there are, of course concessions).

So who's up for it and who's going to offer me a sofa to kip on as I would love to come down.
 
 
sleazenation
14:15 / 21.02.03
I am up for this but currently lack a sofa to offer.
 
 
Y SO ALT?
(prev. Tamara Willett Hurt)
14:29 / 21.02.03
I am definitely up for this, although I might have to keep this identity secret...
 
 
adamswish
16:12 / 21.02.03
Come on fly, you can trust me.

Okay, how about I call you Zenith for the whole evening?
 
 
Ganesh
16:31 / 21.02.03
I'd have no option but to keep my identity secret, for fear of counter-glassing.

*plink*

CRUNCH

"Aaaaghfuck!"
 
 
Shortfatdyke
17:02 / 21.02.03
"The night kicks off with Morrison in conversation. The discussion will focus on the form, content and history of comic books."

Does that mean he won't be telling any rape jokes then? Awww.....
 
 
Rollo Kim, on location
18:08 / 21.02.03
I'll be there. Well... I hope.
 
 
rizla mission
18:16 / 21.02.03
Could there be any event more suitable for a Barbelith meet?

Can't say yet whether or not I'll be able to go, but I'll try to..
 
 
arcboi
22:17 / 21.02.03
Sounds like a plan. Count me in
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
02:05 / 22.02.03
I like the way it's billed as an event devised by GM.

He invented conversation now? Hoo!
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
(prev. A Qalyn Signifier ==>)
02:18 / 22.02.03
I think you guys should come up with some mindbogglingly memorable and intelligent stunt to pull, something funnier than the Jamie Kennedy Experience but smarter than Porkie's. Not dressing like X-Men, that would be dorky... not hurling bologna, that might be taken the wrong way... dress as Marines and offer to kill someone for him? I dunno. I'll think on it and get back to you. But wow, what a cool night!
 
 
Old brown-eye is back
05:08 / 22.02.03
That sounds like a fab old way to spend an evening. He invented conversation, that's right.
 
 
Stoatie. Stoatie? STOATIE.
11:04 / 22.02.03
I'm up for it, but as per usual I'll be fucking off for work at 11...
 
 
ghadis
14:16 / 22.02.03
will be there...may even go and get tickets this afternoon (yes i do have a wonderfully full social diary...honest)
 
 
Tryphena Absent
17:31 / 22.02.03
Damn, more money going to GM, why doesn't he just take it all.
 
 
El Directo
14:14 / 23.02.03
How can we smuggle in placards of him and his girlfriend in their undies?
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
00:15 / 24.02.03
I'd quite like to got to this as well.

Dressed as Quentin Quire.

As long as the cukoos are there.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
01:28 / 24.02.03
Aaahhh, the joys of having a parent with ICA membership just made themselves known.
 
 
Quantum
(prev. Quantum - terribly nonplussed)
13:22 / 24.02.03
anybody seen the comicon panel scene from the beginning of Chasing Amy? can we get GM to pull a gun and scream 'Black Rage!' or some such?
 
 
adamswish
16:00 / 24.02.03
Least we forget, after the "conversation" Grant will join those other merry pranksters in the bar for the The Beastocracy.

According to the lovely, if slighty bored, woman I spoke to from the ICA on Friday the charge for this event can be afforded if you're in the bar before the kick off (8.30pm, according to the site).
 
 
rizla mission
18:41 / 24.02.03
"Grant Morrison, the award-winning playwright, legendary comic-book writer (revolutionary writer on DC’s JLA and Marvel’s X-Men) and director of gmWorld.."

What in the hell is 'gmWorld'?

A staggeringly misguided themepark venture, perhaps?

stunt-wise: hey, let's all bring concealed tape recorders loaded with tapes of gunfire, explosions, revolutionary exclamations etc. and .. nah, that probably wouldn't work in a nightclub type enviroment..
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
19:51 / 24.02.03
Are the Beastocracy any good or is it more wankers who can't even not play in an amusing way?

Before anyone complains that I'm bitching again, I should like to remind people that Grant liked Kula Shaker.

(Note to Self: Book ticket)
 
 
rakehell
00:05 / 25.02.03
Can we all please stop slagging off KS? If "gay" and "cunt" are off limits, then Kula Shaker certainly should be.

I don't want to have to start a Head Shop thread.
 
 
Y SO ALT?
(prev. Tamara Willett Hurt)
09:48 / 25.02.03
Yes, dissing Kula Shaker is the sort of thing Hitler would approve of.

Whereas conversely, dissing Hitler isn't the sort of thing Kula Shaker approved of, but that's another story.

Anyway, the temptation to stage an actual riot, seize the corrupt and reactionary ICA etc, is huge, but I think it would be better to submit a critique in the form of an essay...
 
 
Bear
10:01 / 25.02.03
Where is this quote of Kula Shakers then that people keep going on about?

Yeah this sounds like a laugh, although I had a dream last night that there was a completely offensive interview with Grant Morrison in the daily record, not sure if that means anything??
 
 
Rollo Kim, on location
11:48 / 25.02.03
The Beastocracy is just Grant Dj'ing.
 
 
adamswish
16:46 / 25.02.03
I had a dream last night that there was a completely offensive interview with Grant Morrison in the daily record

Maybe it's a future echo bear, and you will be conducting that interview?

Oh and the only Kula Shaker guote I can think of is that King Mob is listening to them at the start of volume 2.
 
 
Old brown-eye is back
18:03 / 25.02.03
I think the Beastocracy thing is a club night. I've booked tickets for both, so people better be dancing is all I'm saying.
 
 
Bots'wana Beast
06:45 / 26.02.03
He apologised on his website for having liked them, and offered some (weak) justification.

I always really vehemently disliked them.

1-0 to me, then.
 
 
rizla mission
17:17 / 26.02.03
Anyway, the temptation to stage an actual riot, seize the corrupt and reactionary ICA etc, is huge, but I think it would be better to submit a critique in the form of an essay...

"I should have known! Never trust a bunch of fucking art students!"

:P
 
 
Life Critic
22:58 / 26.02.03
does anyone actually know whether it is worth travelling down for the beastocracy? what sounds are we likely to be assaulted with?
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
21:38 / 27.02.03
not really.

Beastocracy is randomly regular in Glasgow. It seems to be on whenever Morrison can be arsed and has time to do it.

But the event might be fun.

Ye never know.
 
 
Stoatie. Stoatie? STOATIE.
23:36 / 27.02.03
As far as I remember (which ain't that far, to be honest) KS weren't actually Nazis, but Crispian (sp?) Mills did make some badly-judged comments about how it'd be great to do a gig in front of a huge swastika "as a statement". He never explained what it would be a statement of . I don't really think he'd thought about it. Or he'd have done it, and claimed irony. Which still may not have worked.

Apart from anything else, Kula Shaker were fucking awful! What were you all thinking?
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
10:24 / 28.02.03
but they had an album cover done by the funky Gibbons!
 
 
Ganesh
10:53 / 28.02.03
Kula Shaker weren't "fucking awful"! Okay, they sound pretty 'of their time' now, but in the context of mid-90s Britpop, they genuinely sounded quite fresh. And the glorious 'Tattva', for me, is still the exact moment when Britpop's Indian summer first began to turn chill...

Don't reckon I'll make the ICA. Have fun, people.
 
  

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