No,no,no, but that is to say when one is pushed out onto the streets under the bright lights of The West End there are no end of adventures to be had and thus little time to spend on the folly of self contemplation. We do enjoy a round of Gin and Cream Cakes when The Lady Of Good Fortune doth shineth down and maketh our purse heavy with shillings. When opportinity knocks upon our bin we shall rise'th up to the challange of our rival. And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night And he's watchin' us all in the eye ... of the tigress..
Vivian Stanshall, Keith Moon, Samuel Beckett, Laurel & Hardy, Shane MacGowan (Bertrand: "I've met him actually". Garcia: "It doesn't count because I haven't"), Frank Zappa, Harold Pinter (Garcia: "I've met him actually". Bertrand: "I haven't so it ..." Garcia: "Shut thine cream cake hole!"), Tony Hancock, Queen Boudicca, Beyonce Noles, Quintin Crisp or John Hurt (Who we both saw last week, but he didn't acknowledge us), the girl from Pop World (Bertrand says he met her, but not for long enough), Eric Morcambe ( Betrand's uncle met him on the QE2), Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers (Not if he was being unpleasantly rude), Gerard Hoffnung, Jake Thackray, Noel Coward, Charles Dickens, Ian Dury, Shakespeare (Mid Period), Betrand Russell, Jane Russell, Russell Harty, Russ Abbot, Russ Conway.
Most of the back catalogue of The Pogues and Shane Macgowan, The Libertines, Jake Thackray, Ivor Cutler, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Viv Stanshall, The Damned, Punk in general betwixt the years of our Lord 1976 to 1979, Show Tunes but can't think of any, Ian Dury, Captain Sensible, Brian Eno, Dalis Car, Morton Feldman, Edgar Varresse, Frank Zappa, Stockhausen Aitkin and Waterman and many more mostly rare Now That's What I Call Music Volumes, on vinyl.
Forrest Gump, Peeping Tom, Amacord, Napoleon Dynamite, Night Porter, The Rebel, Funeral In Berlin, Black Cat White Cat, Vertigo, The Lavender Hill Mob, Clockwork Orange, Quadraphenia, Johnny Waterman, Walkabout, Picnic On Hanging Rock, Oliver Twist, Hammer House Of Horror Films, Straight To Hell, Battle Of The Bulge, Fist Full Of Dollars, Ghost Dog and the Way Of The Samuri, Fanny and Alexander, The Seventh Seal, Play It Again Sam, Take The Money And Run.
The Sopranos, Captain Pugwash, Mr Benn, Lovejoy, Bergerac, The Chinese Detective In London, Sherlock Holmes (only if Basil is in it), Top Of The Pops (circa till 1982), Steptoe & Son, Dad's Army, Mighty Boosh, Vic Reeves, Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howard, Kenneth Williams, Keny Everett, Quincy, The Apprentice, Hugh Scully, Keith Floyd, Noddy, The Simpsons, Spaced.
Two Can Toucan by David Mckee, Don Quixote by Cervantes, Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett, Tortilla Flats by John Steinbeck, Hunger by Knut Hamsun, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Keinziet by Russell Hoban, Puckoon by Spike Milligan, King Lear by William Shakespeare, A Drink With Shane MacGowan by Victoria Clarke, The Third Policeman by Flan O'Brian, Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan, The Home Coming by Harold Pinter.
The man that doth not make jokes in the company of wolves. Shane MacGowan. Samuel Beckett, Spike Milligan, Harold Pinter, Vivian Stanshall, Ian Dury, Charles Dickens, Charles Haughtry.