Tuesday 14 June 2016

My Silly Quiz.

My last music quiz is now Ale House folklore for being both a shocking waste of 50p and/or a wee-inducing comedy. As I find music facts, even the few I know, terminally boring my basic aim is mayhem because presiding over chaos is an absolute joy. Chaotic fun may seem trivial but it has great significance. It’s the reason for several thousand years of alcohol consumption and its ubiquitous cure for woes. So for me presiding over chaotic fun is providing possibly the greatest human lesson, how to experience carefree delight whilst still being able to pass a breathalyser test. It’s a much overlooked and underrated therapeutic modality. In my mind it’s like conducting a disorderly orchestra whilst providing silly melodies for them all to improvise on. And with provocation and permission each instrument finds its voice. It’s a skill that would greatly improve any political leader. A couple, long time absent after being banned, looked on bemused as if deeply rearranging their concepts of permissible behaviour. But it’s simply opening up the farcicality of our mutual existence. We’re all Bottoms in our own midsummer night’s dream having donned an ass’s head for a brain that happily takes life too seriously. It’s not that chaotic fun is a denial of important seriousness but rather important seriousness is the denial of life’s true nature. Of course life is of great consequence requiring bravery, focus, honesty and imagination but nowhere in these is it implicit to be serious. So though my quiz may appear buffoonery, it’s not.  

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