Today the long-awaited (but not actually wanted or asked for), From Trash T-shirt has arrived. With it I feel comes an obligation to attend the November gig to which I have vociferously objected in public and on the forum. One is going to have to go along with egg on one's face. Not that I'm complaining - quite a birthday present! Especially when you consider that in the same package lurked a CDR bootleg of the Tiny Colour Movies presentation from Brighton last year, complete with the Q & A session at the end.
This will be my next transcript project, as soon as I have completed the DagensEtc interview podcast from April. Quite a long piece this one, and some very insightful answers from the Foxx despite the broken English of the interviewer and the random order of some of the questions.
Made me realise that I have made quite a good job of the research and the ordering of the questions I presneted to JWB. Unfortunately, he hasn't found the time or inclination to reply fully yet. But I am hoping the logical sequencing of the questions will allow him to elaborate more fully on some answers without his line of thought being broken. Martin Hallin, in poor English, does rather jump from one subject to the next and you can feel John's frustration at times as he pauses to gather his thoughts.
Suggests that the questions were obviously scripted, which you would expect, but they should have been ordered more effectively. This exercise has successfully inspired me to recommence the whole transcription project that I began a year ago and have rather let slip since Easter. The natural course of things has lead inevitably to me getting rather bored with the sam einformation presented in so many different ways, but now I am feeling fresh again I can approach it all more positively.
My 'reward' it seems for the thousands of painstaking hours is to be in receipt of these random packages of 'stuff'. I reluctantly acknowledge that the presence of all the rarities that exist (and many that officially don't!!) in my CD library, as well as copious signed things, photographs and other paraphernalia is totally fantastic, but what would make it all even more worth while is the one thing I cannot seem to get. And that is to have some of my work published online. So that all the research and information I have gathered can be shared with everyone else. Ultimately, that is my goal. The material and anecdotes I cannot share, but the research I really would love to. But I am blessed with patience, and this supporting role is very rewarding and will, in time, be recognised and all my efforts (and all the generous contributions others have made to my work) will become available to a wider audience.