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Wherever I am seeing the wording ‘Coronation Street Party’, my mind has to process if we are talking:
a) Coronation *Street Party*
Or
b) *Coronation Street* Party.
The focus and attire required for each being markedly different.
Be careful folks. Avoid those social faux pas.
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If you are a creator of any type (artist, writer, indie games dev, craftsperson, brewer, whatever’s your skill set) and you wish to publicise your current project or showcase your wares here on Mastodon? Do it. I love to see what people do and what drives them. And while my finances won’t always stretch to a purchase I absolutely welcome seeing your work. As far as I am concerned you are absolutely welcome here. We should all support that. #Create #Creative #Indie #SupportCreatives
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First night of Art, last night. All went very well. Positive write up in the local papers this morning. https://www.warwickshireworld.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/review-art-at-the-loft-in-leamington-is-simply-one-of-the-finest-shows-i-have-seen-anywhere-3992709 Quite happy with that. The audience certainly seemed to respond well to it. #Theatre #Stage #Play #LeamingtonSpa
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Never 100% certain how these kind of posts go down on Mastadon. But here goes…
Starting tonight, at The Loft theatre, in Leamington Spa: Art, by Yasmina Reza. I’m one of the three involved with this three handed. It’s a comedy. 90 mins. Some strong language About friendship, who we view ourselves, and an argument over a very white painting.
Info and tickets at: https://lofttheatrecompany.com/performance/art-by-yasmina-reza/
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When you thinking of crackly VHS film grain and bright neon? That’s really the early 90s. Not so much the 80s at all.
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And yes, there was a fair bit of electronic synth driven music. But pop culture wise? 80s Britain had lot of two tone. A lot of reggae. A lot of Ska. A lot of bluesy pretentious saxophone driven music. And good god, spare us all from all the Stock, Aitken and Waterman…
It was a lot more diverse than people seem to be remembering it.
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Brown. Grey. Green. Red.
Very occasionally? Navy blue.
80s Britain was the colour palette over a painfully overcast day.
Part of what added a lot of the brown into that colour palette? Was wood panelling. Everywhere. Even TVs and radios were covered in the stuff.
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Folks, forget the neon. Forget the pinks and blues.
I don’t think I can adequately convey just how Brown the early 80s was. And Beige. Seriously, looking back at 80s film and TV you would be forgiven for wondering if blue had been removed from the colour palette entirely. Plenty Red. Plenty Green. Very little blue.
And certainly never *bright* blue. Where you *had* neon signs they were mostly red or green.
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I’ve been sliding back down that 80s advertising rabbit hole on YouTube again. It got me thinking.
We have been going through something of an 80s revival in the past few years (kicked off by the likes of Stranger Things). And when we see people embracing this aesthetic it’s generally very bright. Lots of neon. Pinks and blues. A loud colourful electronic synth-wave utopia.
As a guy who grew up through the early 80s, reader? I have some bad news for you…
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Welcome to December, Mastodon. Here is your annual reminder that the late, great, Sir Christopher Lee recorded an album of heavy metal Christmas songs. And if you are just discovering this for the first time today? Enjoy...
#December1 #Christmas #MerryChristopherLee #ChristopherLee #NoSeriouslyThisHappened
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Christmas Week. That period of absentminded confusion where you know objectively that it must be *a* day of the week, and yet no longer really care which it is. Every day is just… ‘Christmas, until New Year’s Eve. #ChristmasWeek
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Ah. Christmas week begins in earnest… Is it Friday? Is it Saturday? Does it matter? Is it Christmas now? Has it been? Am I supposed to be somewhere? Who knows! #ChristmasWeek #ChristmasVibes #WhoAmIAgain
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Good Evening, Mastodon. Congratulations. You made it through another week. And given that none of us could even remember what day of the week it *was* when that week began, I’m classing that as a special achievement! #NewYearVaguery #NewYearVibes #BetterGetOnWith2023
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‘Chockadooby’. #80sAdvertising #NurseryRhymes
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Easier to illustrate in books of children’s nursery rhymes. Because, well, without that? Just read those lyrics. We’re basically just talking about a normal guy who fell off the top of a massive wall, and suffered such brutal injuries that parts of his body were separated from… other parts of their body. Irreparably so. Try illustrating *that* for children’s book! #80sAdvertising #NurseryRhymes
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And from there I guess it just… got traction? Made sense? Humpty Dumpty is now an… egg. Yes. Because eggs break. You can’t put *them* back together again. #80sAdvertising #NurseryRhymes
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It’s not until Humpty was featured in Lewis Carroll’s ‘Through the Looking Glass’ that he was ever referred to as as looking "exactly like an egg”. But that’s Carroll’s addition, here. Not the original nursery rhyme. #80sAdvertising #NurseryRhymes
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Perhaps more disturbing though? Is that if you actually *think* about it? Nowhere (in any commonly recognised rendition of the nursery rhyme) is Humpty Dumpty ever actually described as *being* an egg. He sat on a wall. He had a great fall. Nobody was able to put him back together again. That’s all. You’ll probably find a picture of an egg in your book of nursery rhymes, sure. But it’s not in the words. #80sAdvertising #NurseryRhymes
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And I mean who would not find this oddly human-faced Humpty disturbing? It’s pure nightmare fuel. #80sAdvertising #OldBritishTelly
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That Kinder Surprise advert I just reblogged is apparently from 1983. I vividly recall it. It was profoundly disturbing (especially for something marketed at kids) but somehow I had parsed that in my head as a Cadbury advert. #80sAdvertising #OldBritishTelly
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My wife has referred to the shedding glitter of the wrapping paper I have acquired as ‘Craft Herpes’. There’s an enduring image for you. To be fair the table is drenched in the stuff. This will take a while to clear. #ChristmasWrapping
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Festive conversations from my household, with my stage manager wife.
Me: Do we have any tape?
Wife: There’s plenty next door. Go look.
Me: (Goes. Returns.) Any tape of the non Gaffer or Duct variety? For wrapping presents for our niece and nephew?
Wife: (Thinking) …
Me: (Gets coat. Wanders off in the direction of the ASDA down the road…)
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Christmas Week. That period of absentminded confusion where you know objectively that it must be *a* day of the week, and yet no longer really care which it is. Every day is just… ‘Christmas, until New Year’s Eve. #ChristmasWeek
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Ah. Christmas week begins in earnest… Is it Friday? Is it Saturday? Does it matter? Is it Christmas now? Has it been? Am I supposed to be somewhere? Who knows! #ChristmasWeek #ChristmasVibes #WhoAmIAgain
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Merry Christmas, Mastodon. May it bring you all that you desire. Or if not? Well you can always make use of more socks. #ChristmasGreetings
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And… we’re done. Systems shut down. Colleagues wished well. Out Of Office assistant switched on. No more work for the rest of 2022. May the festivities begin! #ChristmasHolidays #ChristmasToast #Begone2022
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I look at the pile of Christmas snack food we have now accrued in the kitchen cupboards. I find myself questioning a) How many people we actually believe live in this house and b) How many *months* we seem to think Christmas lasts for. #ChristmasEatings #QuestioningMyLifeChoices
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And I mean who would not find this oddly human-faced Humpty disturbing? It’s pure nightmare fuel. #80sAdvertising #OldBritishTelly
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And I mean who would not find this oddly human-faced Humpty disturbing? It’s pure nightmare fuel. #80sAdvertising #OldBritishTelly
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And I mean who would not find this oddly human-faced Humpty disturbing? It’s pure nightmare fuel. #80sAdvertising #OldBritishTelly