Well, the review from Steve was less than glowing, although I did get one decent quote out of it "inspired and offbeat". The annoying thing is that I agreed with a lot of it but there were parts that I didn't agree with. Now I have to put that review out of my mind and concentrate on where I want to go from here. Recently I've been really enjoying telling jokes that I'm very proud of and I plan to write a lot more jokes and gradually faze out the songs (at least for a while). The other plan is to start doing music at music gigs so I can write more long and whimsical songs and do duets with Jem and stuff.

I'm going to try and get up earlier so I can spend an hour each morning writing jokes. I was planning to do that for the first time this morning, but then Wowr kept us awake all night! So that put paid to that idea. I also still want to write a book (a long, ongoing aim) but that's on the backburner slightly while I create the jokes.

I found this recently, which is one of the best comedy songs I've heard in a long time (and I didn't even know Nick Doody played piano!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsg4hbKvM-A it's sublime and dark and wrong in all the right places.

So I've been trying my best to get some 10 spots around the South Wales area so I can work on a solid 20 of just jokes (and hopefully as I put more effort into it I should get a nice portfolio of decent funny things). I've resolved to take the comedy a little more seriously, spending the time to write and practice as well as just putting in the stage time.

Well, I was going to do a show about realising my oddity and then accidentally got distracted by Dadaism. Now the show has become a coolection of things I find funny, drawn from a hat to make a dadaist poem. I've yet to do the poem bit, but it works in my head. I've resolved to stop doing the material I don't like, but have also decided I should do this gradually - rather than jumping right in and dropping stuff that works but I'm not 100% proud of. Yesterday's show went ok, it needs a hell of a lot of work but it was only the first outing so I was expecting that. Steve Bennett was there, I'm not sure whether he's intending to review it or not - but it'll be interesting to see what he thought of my thoroughly up and down show.