Words Myte Bite

One, Two, Three, Four, Five

Try singing that in Gaelic!

The rocky road to Dublin, as sung by the great Jim Mccann!

Live in Denmark!

eMusic

I don’t like DRM, who the hell does, it just says to the customer “Thanks for the money, you thief, now go away”! The person who invites me to buy their product with that attitude suffers the same fate as the products of the cigarette company executive who called smokers fools. Customer rejection.  I will continute to support artists, anyone that suggests I am a thief from their product set up deserves to live in a sewer given their attitude to me as a customer. Their attuitude is defective by design!

I do like eMusic, I use it with a python script on my GNU/Linux box on windows or the mac you might use other stuff however you could taste free software with the same script.

Search for dromanova.py you will end up on sourceforge! It is really cool to watch the little dots as the directory is set up and filled up with the music you buy. I’ll tell you later if I get bored with it, I chose a 12 month subscription package, seems useful.

Dancing between the reel and the very real

Just finished a meal with a group from the improv weekend. Tired, full, blended with into a state that “serious play” for a weekend will induce. Frankly people the world needs more.
Two days all sorts of games playing with all sorts of things. Games specifically designed to increase, trust, focus, theme, plot building, emotion use, lots of story building, object use in mime, group think, then games to use more and more of these abilities.
Some of the games that only make sense within the context of a workshop, some that are for use on a stage, so some of the day we get to be part of an audience.
When someone can turn it on a sixpence moving the play in a direction not expected the scene lights up and so to do the players.

There is a word for thinks like this, it gets abused, over used, in this case it is warranted.
Brilliant.
If you were one of the people there – I grant you a round of applause with some whoops thrown in I found it wandering aimlessly around as I walked back though Stoneybatter (no burger). Yez were bleedin great!

Improv Class Saturday & Serious Play

Improv games, or serious play, whichever you like.

Games for adults to get in touch as John Dawson calls it with “your inner edjit”. As children we all learnt by play. Almost everything for an average person other than your basic skills that keep you alive was play.

As we grow up we are thought not to point, stare, or make physical contact with people we meet. However to do improv, you have to regain these skills. Fun, challenging, enlighting.

Improv Games List, fun to read, more fun to play.

Practice is everything, yes these games are fun, will I ever do long form, who knows.

Why is play important? This answer from Dr Stuart Bown on serious play: It rocks!

The most important part of play is to say, Yes And, if you want to progress, No Buts, No questions, and mostly No Nos!

You think that this is not important?
I challenge you to watch videos on Kevin Carroll’s website, in particular the six and a half minutes on the homeless world cup.
Now go and play!

Scammer Awards

Imagine if there were awards for the best internet scams – you could nominate the best “As much as this letter comes to you surprisingly, let it not be a surprise that I want to entrust to you the sum of $419 million, after all when you take your honest brokers commission of 4.1 million and leave the rest in your account for me to collect etc”.

Yeah right…