I'm Seeing This Next Week

The Kransky Sisters

Have a look at them on UTube. They scary

Can't wait!

How to Make Carrot & Coriander Soup

• Get hold of a bloody big pan.  The biggest one you own.
  
• Finely chop a couple of onions & garlic and saute them
  
• Roughly chop a pile of carrots which  you stole from Bugs Bunny
  
• Rummage around in the fridge to locate the half dead celery which you bought last week to make chicken stock with. Roughly chop this up
• Chuck about 2 pints of water and a bouquet garnet into the pan with some salt, pepper and ground coriander from your 'Curry Making Ingredients' box, along with a bit of roughly chopped fresh coriander
• Chuck everything else in there
• Boil like buggery then simmer for as long as your gas bill will allow
• Wait till it cools down
• Pour some cream in there and the rest of the fresh coriander and pulverise it with a blender 

Voila! Sock Monkey Mansions fresh soup.

Bon Appetite! 

Lehman Brothers Go Tits Up

Shame really, all those investment bankers losing their jobs. I feel more sorry for the staff who weren't on sickeningly high salaries.

But to look on the bright side, the Jubilee Line is gonna be a lot quieter and you'll be able to get a seat in a bar in Canary Wharf now that they won't be full of b(w)ankers.

Long Haul Theatre

Well Sock Monkey & Mrs P went to the theatre on Sunday. The show started at 1pm and ended at 10pm!!!! Good Lord you can fly to America in less time.

We went to see Lipsynch by Robert Lepage who is a GENIUS theatre director. I've seen a couple of his productions before: Tectonic Plates, Polygraph, The Seven Streams of the River Ota. It is very difficult to describe what he does but it is very special and very visual.

Anyway Lipsinch follows the story of 9 characters over 70 years. The stories all interweave and culminate in a very sad story. From the young mother who dies with her baby in her arms to the opera singer who adopted him, to her neurosurgeon husband and the woman he operates on, to his patient and her schitzophrenic sister, the elderly speech therapist who helped the opera singer when she was a child, the home help who cooked and cleaned for the elderly woman, the brother who sexually abused the home help when she was a child, the pimp who provided girls for him, the pimp's contact in Nicaragua who sold his niece to him, the journalist who rescued her, and finally to the baby she left behind when she died. P was actually crying at the end. Beautiful opera, dialogue spoken in English, French, Spanish and German coupled with first class acting.

Both the audience and the theatre group went through a huge journey together. 9 hours and it was something very special.

Robert Lepage really is a genius. You can't go see it at the Barbican though. We went on the last night of the UK premier. Bad luck!

Dorian Grey

Greetings from Sock Monkey Mansions! Well I've had a nice evening. Sock Monkey's very good friend S and I went to Saddler's Wells to see Mr Bourne's new production: Dorian Grey.

My goodness I have never seen so many buff young people prancing around in their undergarments! Sam liked the young men whilst, naturally, Sock Monkey preferred the young ladies. Actually there was an older lady who Sock Monkey wouldn't kick out of bed in the morning. Miss Whiplash looking!

Actually it was v v good. I do love Matthew Bourne. Go see it. Very good and I am most impressed by the stage manager and stage hands who worked bloody hard.

Copycats!

Sock Monkey is disgusted.
Sock Monkey is appalled.
Sock Monkey shall be writing a stern letter to The Guardian.

For years Sock Monkey has been compiling a list called 'Stupid Book Titles' (see earlier posts). Gems such as 'Mammals of Luxembourg', 'How to Shit Around the World' , 'Bicarbonate of Soda: A Versatile and Natural Substance' and Uniform Retail Meat Identity Standards' appear on said list.

Then, last Saturday Sock Monkey opened up The Guardian Magazine and there it was in CMYK glory! The Guardian had printed an article about stupid book titles! They had obviously been reading my blogs and stole my idea! Admittedly they included different titles to mine (eg 'Fancy Coffins You Can Make Yourself') but nevertheless how rude of them!

Two New Things I have Learned

These hats are made of Canadian Black Bear.  It takes a whole bear just to make one hat!

And I'd like to know what they do with the leftovers:  its claws, teeth, ears & tail!!

And the Second thing I have learned is that every 2 weeks Battersea Dogs & Cats Home have a 'Death Day' when all the animals who aren't likely to be rehoused are put down.