I knew this would happen, without the facility to blog from my phone I would leave it too long and be faced with writing a novel to get up to date. I spend a great deal of my time on my phone. buying things from ebay and amazon and playing games while my beloved laughs at the strange noises emitted from both phone and myself. My current addiction is embarrassingly called INFINITY BLADE. it is extremely repetitive and silly and bores me to tears but if I can just get some adamantine armour I should be ok. Last night we watched Pumping Iron (amazon) in which Arnie philosophised about being a sculptor and the importance of pain. I can only agree but what shocked us both was to see the fresh faced Schwarzenegger psyche out an even younger pre-incredible Hulk Ferrigno. In a tiny workout room they were pumping themselves up for the final Mr Olympia pose off. Every time Ferrigno made a noise Arnold would complain until his acolyte looked completely unhinged. I suppose this wasn’t too extreme. In the amateur competition one contestant (the eventual winner) had hidden another’s tshirt. The victim, a gentle man, had just been telling us how he was bullied at school. The basement is beginning to look like a scene from Quatermass as I am preparing a large expanding foam disaster (ebay) for Monika Bobinska’s The Man Who Fell to Earth. In a fit of preparatory excellence I have made a form which matches the banister in the penthouse apartment in which the work is to be displayed, this done the finished blob should fit perfectly. As that sentence suggests, success seems unlikely.
Other things have been achieved, A visit to the very impressive Aid & Abet and to Darwin’s house in Downe, more of this later.
The Count of Monte Cristo II(Conspiracy) opens the day before the royal wedding at Rogue studios Manchester
