The Spirit of the Stairwell » cities http://www.spiritofthestairwell.net Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 All the podcasts featuring excited puppy-like man child, Chris Mead in one place for you to download and enjoy. These include, but aren't limited to the following ... The Spirit of the Stairwell: Musings on love, life and improvisation from a group of improvisers that run the experiencial gamut from mewling newborn to wizerned old timer. The Ood Cast: A podcast dedicated to all things Doctor Who, the most consistently imaginative, courageous, scary, maddening, heartfelt show on television. The Odd Cast: Like the bastard offspring of a pirate radio station and that thing you used to do when you were young where you would just talk into a cassette player for 20 minutes and then make your mum and dad listen to the whole thing. The Odd Cast is anarchic, inconsistent, sporadically hilarious and actually surprisingly well produced. Plug in, download, switch on and then look around confused like you don't quite understand what's happening. Excelsior! Chris Mead no Chris Mead spiritofthestairwell@me.com spiritofthestairwell@me.com (Chris Mead) Copyright 2010 All the podcasts featuring excited puppy-like man child, Chris Mead in one place for you to download and enjoy. The Spirit of the Stairwell » cities http://www.spiritofthestairwell.net/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://www.spiritofthestairwell.net The city is my playground http://www.spiritofthestairwell.net/2010/01/the-city-is-my-playground/ http://www.spiritofthestairwell.net/2010/01/the-city-is-my-playground/#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:58:58 +0000 Chris http://www.spiritofthestairwell.net/?p=821 I was introduced to Damien Walters last night.

By which I mean I watched the video below.

I think he was bitten by a radioactive gymnast.

]]> http://www.spiritofthestairwell.net/2010/01/the-city-is-my-playground/feed/ 1 The Haiku Review w/e 040909 http://www.spiritofthestairwell.net/2009/09/the-haiku-review-we-040909/ http://www.spiritofthestairwell.net/2009/09/the-haiku-review-we-040909/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:37:30 +0000 Chris http://www.spiritofthestairwell.net/?p=431 Reviews don’t really mean anything, do they? We’re all wired so differently that a film or a song or a risotto is going to have a wildly different effect on me than it’s going to have on you. And yet we love to quantify, categorise and clarify. We live to put stuff in boxes and then mark them good or bad with thick black unequivocal lines. The Haiku Review is different. It recognises that reviewing stuff is pretty much meaningless and as such it only spends 17 syllables doing it. It doesn’t differentiate between media and it’s structured from best to worst, enabling you my lucky readers to make direct comparisons between, say, my new shoes and stand-up comedian Jimmy Carr. Be here every Friday for more Ancient Japanese-themed review fun.

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Weddings (traditional ceremony) Today you joined hands/ and ran headlong into your/ future. Never stop  Y: The Last Man (comic) It makes me weep that/ something so funny and smart/ exists in this world  Greenbelt (festival) We shall do well here/ people seem genuinely/ happy together  Chocolate Chai Tea (drink) It tastes like a bar/ of chocolate exploded in/ a spice factory  Hoopla Impro Workshop (workshop) Your entertainment/ for the evening is coming/ out of your own head  Leeds (city) It is cold up here/ fearless girls bare their flesh and/ don’t even goose bump  inFamous (game ps3) Like Grand Theft Auto/ but I can shoot lightning and/ throw cars around. Nice!  Alton Towers (theme park) Sensations that are/ otherwise reserved for those/ ending their own lives Funny People (film) Long, self-indulgent/ movie that is nonetheless/ revelatory  The Host (book) Clumsy, obvious/ broad-brushed and naive and yet/ fitfully brilliant  Pizza Express (restaurant) Tasty, generic/ food served in disturbingly/ identical rooms  The Time Traveler’s Wife (film) Although you have a/ kind of warmth. It is mostly/ reflected glory  G-Force (film) Shit in 3D is/ still shit. It’s just shit with a/ greater depth of field

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