Here’s an autobiographical story about a job I once had. I was not the mime artist in the traditional sense- but I did spend 6 months miming the keyboard for a band. I had been given the keys. I couldn’t play the keys, but I had been given the keys. “How about the bass?” IContinueContinue reading “The Mime Artist”
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Stronger Than Mensa- 25 Years of The Manic Street Preachers’ ‘The Holy Bible’
I was breathless and eighteen, twenty-two years ago, when I first heard the Holy Bible by the Manic Street Preachers. I was three years late to the party that would become the single most significant artistic influence on my life. Hearing the searing chorus of Faster for the first, with the lines “I am, strongerContinueContinue reading “Stronger Than Mensa- 25 Years of The Manic Street Preachers’ ‘The Holy Bible’”
Writing Collaboration #17- Fake Plastic Trees
Square pegs worn down
cardboard cutouts painted up
Flashback Friday #4- The Mime Artist
Sharing an old short story this week which is based on a job that I had about 18 years ago! I once spent an entire summer miming keyboards for a cabaret band that I had previously worked as a roadie for. I was ‘The Mime Artist’ It ranks in the top ten strangest ways thatContinueContinue reading “Flashback Friday #4- The Mime Artist”
The Mime Artist
I had been given the keys. I couldn’t play the keys, but I had been given the keys.