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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