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MIRIAM ELIA

'Britian is a toilet.' Sheik Abu Hamza

About Me

Comedy writer and mildly depressing standup. CARDIGAN ATTACK!

My Interests

Well, I am interested in quite a lot of things, people, places, bank accounts etc.

I'd like to meet:

Forest creatures.

Music:

Comedy:Tony Hancock (Hancocks half hour), Spike Milligan, Eric sykes, Bill Kerr, Hattie Jakes, Kenneth Williams, Sid James, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Rowan Atkinson, Round the Horne, Rambing sid rumpol,Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Mark Thomas, Tom Lehrer, Tommy Tiernan, Bill Bailey, Galton and Simpson, Father Ted, Peter Kaye, ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES.....(the list goes on).THE SMITHS, Pussy Galore,Daniel Johnston,Brian Wilson,Carl Perkins, The Specials, The Fall (Dragnet),Television,The cramps, Reverend Horton,Black Flag, The small faces, Ornette Coleman, The slits, Chuck Berry, Link wray, Mohammad Rafi,Eddie Cochran,talk-talk,Stravinsky before 1914, Mendelsohn , Ravel, Debussy, Bonzo-dog-doo-dah-band, Jackie Brenson, Gene Vincent, Pearl McKinnon and the Kodaks, Frankie Lymon and the teenagers, Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins, Billy Bragg, Danny and the Juniors,The Ronnettes, Wu tang clan, The Residents,The transplants, The Jam, Del Shannon, stylistics, Little Richard,Long John Hunter, Fats Dominoe, Laverne Baker, Kurt Weill, Berthold Brecht,Specials, Jonathan fire eater, Brenda Lee, Connie Francis, Television,The Vomit Pigs, Cornelius brothers, NWA, Public enemy, ICE T, Whodini, Ravenous, Can, Q-Tip, De la soul, Slick rick, Talking heads, Two lone swordman, Amon tobin, Syd Barrett, A silver mount zion,Gary Numan, godspeed, Buzzcocks, Undertones, The Stooges, Medeski-Martin & Wood, The blues project, Love, The Loving Spoonfull, Frankie Valley and the four seasons, Jon-spencer-blues-explosion, pussy galore, television, XTC, Suede, Sly and the family stone, surfjan stevens, beach boys, The nuggets, Kinks, The Modettes, The raincoats, Prince, Misfits, Danzig, Tom Vek, smog, The Decemberists, (hold on, I'm having a breather)...Sam cooke,blur,Snoop Doggy dog, Peggy lee, Bowie, Elephant man, Don Ellis, Bill Haley, Test Department, Flying Burrito brothers, The Damned, Sham 69, Gram Parsons, the shaggs, Pavement,Gary Numan,Kool and the gang, Jackie ivory, Tommy Ridgley..........1940s swing favourites: The Kit kat band, The squadronairs, The Skyrockets, The Six swingers, Sid Collins and the royal airforce orchestra, Ronnie Munro and his orchestra, Maurice Winnick, Louis Levy and his orchestra, Harry Leader, Debroy somers and his band, Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy hotel Orpheans,I COULD GO ON, BUT IT WOULD SERVE NO REAL PURPOSE

Movies:

'Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.'Stars Jeff Bridges and Clint Eastwood (1976). Jeff has to dress up as a woman and rob a bank with Clint. Not sure why I like it so much.

Television:

The flatter the TV, the better the programmes.

Books:

Agent Zig Zag' The Life of Eric Chapman.'The collected Dorothy Parker.'
Dorothy Parker,'Whats left?' by Nick Cohen.
www.eustonmanifesto.org/
'The Islamist' by Ed Hussain

Heroes:

Tony Hancock (12 May 1924 – 24 June 1968).

My Blog

Prizedraw

Dear Mr/ Mrs-----------  We are please to inform you that you have won a competition you never intended to enter. That’s Right, Mr/Mrs------ you are now a member of the prize winners clu...
Posted by MIRIAM ELIA on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:49:00 PST

Art school checklist update.

There were a few things I forgot to mention on my Art-school checklist.1. TV monitors suspended from ceiling or placed in obscure position, displaying very boring views (quite often the sea on a bad d...
Posted by MIRIAM ELIA on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 03:29:00 PST

MA/BA Art school checklist.

MA art-school show checklistThis works like bird spotting. I have compiled a check-list of works I expect to see whilst wondering through any art-school BA or MA show in London.1. Photography:(a) Depr...
Posted by MIRIAM ELIA on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:31:00 PST

A typographic analysis of the word 'Anal.' (2003)

Hand printed on Letterpress in Caslon 10pt, 2003....
Posted by MIRIAM ELIA on Thu, 24 May 2007 01:29:00 PST

DOMESTRIX

Here are some pictures of my attempt to turn Scalectrix into Dollshouse furniture last year. Sort of girls-meets-boys toys....
Posted by MIRIAM ELIA on Sat, 12 May 2007 03:10:00 PST

Cockface Being remade by comedyunit ....

Very good news from out here in the mountains of Afghanistan. 'Cockface' is being re-made in glasgow by proffesional people. Watch this cockspace.
Posted by MIRIAM ELIA on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:54:00 PST

Fish

I do not wish,To be a fish,I might end up,Upon a dish,But if of course,I should Linger,I might become,A fried fish-finger.(1963)
Posted by MIRIAM ELIA on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 03:28:00 PST