Tag Archives: Spike Milligan

G. Gregory Smith’s Gargoyle, or, Several Scottish Voices Gathered Together in Pittenweem and Grooving with Robert Wyatt

Posted on May 10, 2021 by W N Herbert

Chic Murray – I love this outburst of Greenockian absurdism, particularly the moment where Chic claims he’s gone wrong, so runs through the whole poem again, again emphasising both its almost complete lack of sense and its entirely coherent structure. … Continue reading →

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Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 4

Posted on April 10, 2018 by W N Herbert

I am often nagged by epiphenomena, events sitting at the edge of How Things Should Be, though I don’t usually know what it is they are trying to tell me. Such things are, by definition, peripheral – or at least … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, xenochronicity | Tagged Broughty Ferry, Buster Keaton, Harry Secombe, Leonora Carrington, MacBeth, Michael Parkinson, One Week, Peter Sellars, Pink Floyd, Spike Milligan, Syd Barrett, The Electric House, The Goon Show, Wish You Were Here | Leave a comment

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 3

Posted on April 8, 2018 by W N Herbert

(Warning, Will Robinson : this section seems to veer off at a tangent before returning to (what appears to be) the subject…) I was struck by a recent and very particular version of our impositions on the customary: the decision … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, xenochronicity | Tagged Bothie Nichts, Buster Keaton, Dundee, Hugh MacDiarmid, J.M. Barrie, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jimmy Shane, Leonora Carrington, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Naked Lunch, Oor Wullie, Spike Milligan, Steamboat Bill Jr, The Broons, The Courier, The Goon Show, The Guardian, The Hobbit, The Mighty Boosh, The People's Journal, The Sunday Post, The White Heather Club, VisitScotland, Walter Benjamin, William Burroughs | 2 Comments

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 2

Posted on April 7, 2018 by W N Herbert

Keaton, Carrington, and Milligan all encounter a similar type of crisis in their ability to pursue their art. The effect on them as creative individuals, and their attempts at solutions, however, are very different. For Keaton, it’s the encroachment of … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, xenochronicity | Tagged Buster Keaton, Hector Boece, Historia Gentis Scotorum, Holinshed, John Bellenden, Leonora Carrington, MacBeth, Shakespeare, Spike Milligan, Steamboat Bill Jr, The Goon Show, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 1

Posted on April 6, 2018 by W N Herbert

(I seem to have spent forever over this next set of posts, or, rather, not so much over as hovering – or havering – nearby. Many other duties, including a talk on one of the poets mentioned below, W.S. Graham, … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, xenochronicity | Tagged Arc Publications, Buster Keaton, DCA, Dundee, Ivor Cutler, Leonora Carrington, Little Nemo, Neil Brand, Poet & Critic, Reverend Thomas Dick, Rudi Blesh, Spike Milligan, Steamboat Bill Jr, Teresa Griffiths, The House of Fear, The Testament of the Reverend Thomas Dick, Verity Maidlow, W.S. Graham, Winsor McCoy | Leave a comment

Daft Globe: Syd Barrett and Dark Whimsy

Posted on December 31, 2015 by W N Herbert

(I’ve been vaguely attempting to push on with my next post about Leonora Carrington, which focuses on Mexico City, but in fact have been obsessing about Syd Barrett instead. Somehow, not only are these two subjects related, but Barrett seems … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged A.A. Milne, Billy Mackenzie, Captain Beefheart, Chuang Tzu, David Bowie, David Gilmour, Dickens, Edinburgh, Edward Lear, Eno, G. Gregory Smith, Hogmanay, Humble Pie, Jeff Shirley, Keats, Leonora Carringtom, Lewis Carroll, Malcolm Jones, Mark E. Smith, Mexico City, Pink Floyd, Richard Dadd, Robert Fergusson, Robert Wyatt, Roger Waters, Scrooge, Shakespeare, Spike Milligan, Syd Barrett, The Daft Days | Leave a comment

Carry On, Leonora: 1

Posted on October 3, 2015 by W N Herbert

(This is the first of five sections of a piece I’ve been puzzling over all summer about the great British Surrealist painter and writer, Leonora Carrington. Puzzling because I don’t quite know where I’m going with this, though it clearly … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged Alastair Reid, André Breton, Barry MacSweeney, Basil Bunting, Braque, Crete, Cubism, Da Vinci, Dalí, Dark whimsy, David Jones, De Chirico, Dotor Who, Edward Lear, Edwin Muir, Elena Poniatowska, Eric Mottram, Flann O'Brien, Frank O'Hara, Geoffrey Hill, Harry Tawb, Hugh MacDiarmid, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Iggy Pop, John Ashbery, John Fuller, Jon Pertwee, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Kenneth White, Leonora Carrington, Lewis Carroll, Liverpool, Lyn Hejinian, Lynne Roberts, Max Ernst, Mick Imlah, Miró, Monty Python, Paul McCartney, Peggy Guggenheim, Peter Blake, Prynne, Richard Dadd, Robert Duncan, Roger Delgado, Ron Silliman, Sir Arthur Evans, Spike Milligan, Surrealism, Susannah Clarke, Ted Berrigan, Terry Gilliam, The Autons, The House of Fear, The Labyrinth, The Ruin, The Tate, Tristram Shandy, Victor Brauner, W.S. Graham | 3 Comments

Dark Whimsy

Posted on February 15, 2015 by W N Herbert

(A post that started months ago as I realised my creative attention had moved for the time being toward something between the poem and the prose poem. These pieces arose from my engagement with social media rather than the conventional … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged Bruno Schulz, Charlie Kaufman, Clark Ashton Smith, David Bowie, Edward Lear, Franz Kafka, George Herriman, H.P. Lovecraft, Haruki Murakami, Hayao Miyazaki, Ivor Cutler, James Finlayson, Jan Svankmajer, Jim Woodring, John Ashbery, Krazy Kat, Lewis Carroll, Michal Ajvaz, Michel Gondry, Monty Python and The Goodies, Mood Indigo, Morrissey, Noel Coward, Oscar Wilde, Pete and Dud (and Derek and Clive), Philip Guston, Robert Crumb, Spike Milligan, The Flaming Carrot, The Goons, The Simpsons, The Wipers Times, Tim Burton, Wes Anderson | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Spike Milligan

G. Gregory Smith’s Gargoyle, or, Several Scottish Voices Gathered Together in Pittenweem and Grooving with Robert Wyatt

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 4

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 3

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 2

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 1

Daft Globe: Syd Barrett and Dark Whimsy

Carry On, Leonora: 1

Dark Whimsy

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