My dear and cherished friends, colleagues, and other somewhat more dubious acquaintances: it is with the utmost verisimilitude of heartful sentimentalism that I bid you--welcome.
I am, of course, that genteel and gentle-souled, holey-soled, seldom-sober so-and-so the Ragpickers ladies are calling Poor Andy. I may admit myself, with some little pride, a 'man of the streets' --whether I am so much a man of the people. I have retained, for your ostensible diversion, as fine a lot of tub-thumping ne'er-do-wells as ever grubbed a nickel--which I say with all due respect. I call these ambrosiated tootlers my Dog and Pony Show, a name which is intended neither to generate inference, nor cast aspersions, upon any persons, animals, or for that matter personable animals--who besides which are mostly chums, so what the Hell? God bless and keep you all!
The Dog & Pony Show · Thom, Shawn, Self, & Jill ...photo: Carly Forbister
Ours, dear friends, is a SKIFFLE act, in the eminently disremembered British style, featuring my pained if plaintive renditions of such erstwhile quadrupletime ballads of murder and infamy as I am wont so adamantly to horse-flog. --And as to this tramp business; of course I realize it doesn't qualify as gainful employment, but what tramp is not merely an itinerant self-employed person? Besides which I've a MySpace-page, so figure that on your abacus... And what is an itinerant person, at that? --indeed, perhaps it is you! However this is neither an online dictionary nor an abacus, though I daresay the former may prove helpful in regard to the latter.
"Poor Andy" indeed! Poor people...
About the One-Take Super 8 Event:
Curated by Regina filmmaker Alex Rogalski, the One-Take Super 8 Event is an annual international phenomenon hosted by filmmakers' groups in cities across the continent. Participants receive their single cartrige of super 8 film, directing & shooting their entries in sequence (editing "in the can" as it were) and viewing the completed films only at the Event Screening -- the apotheosis of high-wire filmmaking!
Poor Andy in "The Wedding Ball"
Esteemed gentleman-tramp Poor Andy, whilst perambulating parkwise, is inadvertently conked on the noggin by a wayward duffer. Upon regaining consciousness, our wayworn protagonist is taken rather aback to find himself engaged in the nuptial ceremony. Fleeing precipitately, our hero is given chase by his righteously piqued bride-to-be. A second concussion, however, is soon to set matters right. An erstwhile diversion indeed!
Aforementioned Conking Incident
"Y' mean ME?!?"
An Arboreal Pastime
Regaining Consciousness
Pre-release PROMO EP now available! Please visit joshuastanton.com --your EXCLUSIVE SOURCE for Poor Andy CDs. Songs are also available as Podcasts at iTunes!
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