Stand and Deliver!

Just posting my latest 2GB Good Life segment online, for two reasons:

1. because I rarely post anything these days;
   
2. so that anyone still ‘subscribed’ to this site will actually receive a ‘podcast’ (really, I’d prefer everyone to subscribe to Radio Ha Ha instead — see the info in the left margin for details);
   
3. and a third reason — having discovered the html for lists, I can’t help but construct them at every opportunity!
   

I’ve finally relaxed into the Good Life segment; I know this because on Saturday I was totally relaxed about it — but utterly nervous about providing a ‘comedy in clubs’ guide for Peter Graham’s Club Show after Murray Wilton’s Good Life shift had ended.

I suppose I’d better list what I played:

• An acoustic version of ‘Imagine’, by John Lennon and a bunch of long-hairs, from the forthcoming Imagine: John Lennon double disc set coming out in March. You can read my review of it in the forthcoming issue of FilmInk.
  
• A live version of ‘Loves Me Like A Rock’ by Paul Simon and the Jessy Dixon singers, from
  the Dick Cavett Show Rock Icons triple DVD set, available through Shock from early March. Again, I review it in the next issue of FilmInk. I also lifted a bit of an excellent Mick Jagger interview from this package; Dick Cavett is my new hero; I’d love to host a hip, intelligent chat show like that some day.
  
• ‘I Walk the Line’, by Johnny Cash from the At Folsom Prison/At San Quentin - 2 Classic
  Prison Concerts box set. I would have picked ‘Folsom Prison Blues’ to play, so I could talk about comedian Rich Hall’s excellent Otis Lee Crenshaw character, whose take on that song’s opening lyrics — “I shot a man in Reno/Just to watch him die” — is, “man, you’d have to be pretty bored, even in Reno, Nevada, to shoot a man just to watch him die…”. Or words to that effect, ladies and gentlemen, as Sir Leslie Colin Patterson would say. Murray chose ‘I Walk The Line’, I think, because it is the title of the current Cash biopic.
  
• Finally, Murray ended with John Farnham’s ‘Don't You Know It's Magic’ from the excellent For Pete's Sake compilation, that gathers together a heap of legendary Aussie songs with which Peter Dawkins had some hand in recording and releasing. Dawkins was a legendary artiste and repertoire man in the Australian music industry, and of late has suffered from Parkinson’s disease; the album is a fundraiser for Parkinson’s research.
  
• Somewhere along the line, I plugged the new Arctic Monkeys album, which I love a lot.
  

All of this stuff either is, will be or should be available from Mall Music, the shop that sponsors my segment on Murray Wilton’s Good Life shift, and in an ideal world I’d have fixed it so that you could click on each item and be transported to the Mall Music website, ready to enter your credit card details and purchase each item (with a percentage going to me, of course). But that technology is still a bit beyond me, unfortunately.