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http://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/warmingup.php?id=2611 I looked at my watch. It couldn't only be 8.30pm. It must be at least midnight by now. But no, the evening was still reasonably young. My theory of relativity (that time moves more slowly when you spend it with your relatives) was once again proven right.
Not that I hadn't been having a good time. I had eaten and drunk until my skin started to burst at the seams and I had bantered with my nearest and dearest, helped with the washing up, played parlour games and even had a little sleep and yet still there was a good four hours until bed time. |
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http://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/warmingup.php?id=2610 Driving home for Christmas and the conditions were not too bad on the whole. Some of the surrounding fields had a covering of snow, but the M4 was ice free and the traffic was not as bad as I had feared. I only saw the aftermath of one accident. It didn't look too serious, though the car that I passed was being lifted on to a truck and had a serious scrunch around its rear passenger side wheel. No one would have got hurt, but it wouldn't have been a great start to the holiday for the driver. |
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http://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/warmingup.php?id=2609 Oooh, but hungover. That's not good.
Along with having to cancel my bank card and oyster card - bad luck thieves/person who found the cards where I dropped them/me when I find the cards somewhere in my house - I also had to record a podcast with Andrew "Oin Stoin" Collings. You can't hear it yet. It's a spare one that we're gonna put out in early January when I am away on holiday. |
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http://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/warmingup.php?id=2608 Another exciting start to the day, when I found the postman had stuffed a packet through my letterbox (this is not a euphemism) containing two copies of "How Not To Grow Up". I was surprised to see this as the book is not out until May and I didn't think there would be advanced copies quite so soon. So it was exciting to have it in my hands. Like it was a proper book. That you could get in a shop. Though you can't. Not until May. |
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http://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/warmingup.php?id=2607 Four years ago, on Christmas Eve I was surfing the net (as we used to say in the olden days) and clicked on a link on Chortle to discover that Dominic Cavendish of the Daily Telegraph had decided that Someone Likes Yoghurt was the worst comedy experience of the year. It had been a surprise to see myself on the page and more of a surprise to realise that someone thought I was the shittest thing in comedy in the whole year. |
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http://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/warmingup.php?id=2606 What would the 7 year old me make of this? Here I was on stage, standing in front of more than 3000 people, reading out the stories he had written: The Man Who Could Fly, The Man Who Was Never Born, The Plant That Never Ghrow and of course The Four Men Have A Fight With The Men of Phise.
Would he be excited, amazed, delighted or just embarrassed that the adult him would still be peddling this crap over three decades later.
He might also be annoyed that I was essentially taking the piss out of him, but only lightly. |
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http://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/warmingup.php?id=2605 I was on early in tonight's Godless show as I had a wedding celebration to get to. I was going on second after the esteemed and revered God-like atheist Richard Dawkins. Only at a Robin Ince gig could something like this happen. Dawkins was my warm up man! It could be the title of my next show.
Robin Ince introduced me from the off stage mic saying "That was Richard Dawkins the writer of "The Selfish Gene" and now the writer of "Talking Cock" Richard Herring." |
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http://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/warmingup.php?id=2604 I am really relaxing down to Christmas and it's cool to now have nothing but the Robin Ince gigs to do now. Things have been a little busy. I am pretty much done with work until 16th January, when the Hitler Moustache machine will jolt back into action. And that's going to be the start of a somewhat busy three to six months, so I should make the most of this down time.
So I slept in until almost midday and then watched a film and the first episode of the Wire season 5. |
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http://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/warmingup.php?id=2603 The Bloomsbury gigs continue to be lots of fun and are the perfect opportunity for me to work up my childhood stories into a tight routine. I am finding new bits and pieces to add to them each night, but also managing to stick exactly to my 7 minute time slot.
It's turning into a bit of a routine though and it's a little weird to be in the same place every night with a similar group of people.
The journey home is becoming a bit like a commute, passing the same landmarks and doing the same route. |
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http://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/warmingup.php?id=2602 After recording two podcasts- Collings and Herrin 95 followed by Perfect Twelve Christmas Special number 2 with Phil Wilding and Phill Jupitus (which will be out on Monday), I headed to the Bloomsbury for the second of Robin Ince's "Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People" shows. |
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http://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/warmingup.php?id=2601 After a possibly deserved long lie-in, I headed down to Chiswick to do the supermarket shop, post some letters and buy a Christmas tree.
I went to my shopping bag drawer to get my "Bags For Life", but when I opened it I was hit in the face by the overwhelming smell of rotting fish. It was pungent and immediate and surprisingly not very pleasant. I remembered that last time we'd been shopping one of our packets of fish had leaked a little bit. But only a little bit. I hadn't thought any more about it.
But now I was thinking about it. |
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http://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/warmingup.php?id=2600 I had woken up at 7.30 so just got up and pretty much got on with the script. As usual the deadline was enough of an incentive to keep going and things started to take shape. But by lunchtime I still hadn't quite worked out what was going to happen in the end, or embarked on the Christmas Carol sketch that I now suspected would take us to the end of the show.
I stopped for some pasta, but then just pushed onwards and wrote the last ten or so pages in the next two hours with very little forethought or afterthought. |
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http://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/warmingup.php?id=2599 The final AIOTM was proving typically difficult to get together. I was tired and a bit spaced out and spent most of my day sitting, staring at my laptop or the newspapers with little to no inspiration. As so often I felt that this would be the week that I would have to work out on stage and apologise for having nothing to say at all. But with nine shows under my belt I had to believe that the fear and pressure would mean I would squeeze something out of my mind that would work. But what if I didn't? |
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http://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/warmingup.php?id=2598 My girlfriend was away for the weekend, so I took full advantage of being a bachelor again. Oh yeah, I spent all day sat on my sofa in my pants, eating chocolate, watching Battlestar Galactica and making my own amusement. Oh how I have missed this life in the last week and a half.
I actually managed to get right to the end of BSG, though I didn't enjoy the last season quite as much and thought the ending was a little bit lame. |
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