TV appearance of J. Christ

[squirmelia]

1. I was on TV last night, in a penis documentary, albeit briefly, in the background. (This was filmed during my birthday celebration in February at the Foundry. wintrmute, renegade_badger and antipodienne were also definitely on TV, but I shall watch it again and look out for anyone else who was there!)

2. British Gas believe my name is "J. Christ".

3. Today, my mum and I laughed at Iain Sinclair's description of the church where I was christened and also the village where I grew up:

"The church of St Martin runs with the theme of heads: detached and poking out of walls. As if these gargoyles, shrunken saints, were abandoning Christianity and reverting to paganism. Eynsford, according to Arthur Mee, has claim to 'a straight mile unique on the map of rural England, beginning with the site of a Roman house, passing a Norman castle, and ending at the site of a Saxon settlement'. Fifteen chill faces peek from the plaster, measuring their mile, the lost alignments. Green Men, May Queens. The energy is in the stone, the natives can't compete. They do their best, medieval carvings brought to life (with some reluctance). They move slowly, in case their limbs should crumble into dust. They stare."- Iain Sinclair, London Orbital.

Am I a medieval carving that stares and whose limbs might crumble into dust if I don't move slowly?

Comments

[the-elyan.livejournal.com]

You do sometimes wonder if Iain Sinclair feels he has to come up with a bizarre metaphor for absolutely everywhere he visits. Sometimes it works, sometimes he falls flat on his arse...

[metalshez.livejournal.com]

Why was your birthday featured in a penis documentary?

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

During my birthday celebration, I went to the Foundry pub and then wandered into the basement and found there was a penis exhibition on, and they were filming it for a documentary.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

live, stuffed or photos of penises?

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Photos - Snap Your Chap (http://www.snapyourchap.com).

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I briefly considered entering when I first read about it but I think I either missed the original deadline or chickened out in the end.

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Would it be indelicate of me to point out that your entry might be considered anatomically disadvantaged?

Or parhaps I don't know you nearly as well as I had thought.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Isn't the whole point of the exercise promoting that this kind of thinking doesn't matter at all? That aside, I've been told repeatedly that my "chap" is nice to look at. ;oP

Well, I don't know you aside from a few comments on mutual friends' LJs so I doubt you know me any better. Have we actually met IRL?

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

We have met now!

An important (or unimportant) misconception has been corrected.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

And did you swap photos of penises‽

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Forgot to bring the wide-angle lens. Sorry.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Indeed. :o) Small world.

[laslandes.livejournal.com]

"British Gas believe my name is "J. Christ"."

That's so funny!

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Oh, and in the distant past, I did find a spell-checker that told me the correct spelling for my first name is actually "God". :)

[solitarywalker.livejournal.com]

That's quite a typo.

i have London Orbital... mostly because i liked how the book looked and felt. i would like to read it sometime, though.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I guess they misheard me.

I've only ever flicked through London Orbital, but I saw Iain Sinclair at a reading with Alan Moore and Michael Moorcock a few weeks ago, and figured maybe I should read some of his books, especially since I now live in London.

[fulnic.livejournal.com]

Am I a medieval carving that stares and whose limbs might crumble into dust if I don't move slowly?

Yes ! At least I've never seen you move quickly and you seem delicate like a fragile carving.

Also, since when do you now live in London ? I saw you near your (old) flat at the Dell a few months ago ?

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

At least I can blame it on where I grew up then. :)

I left Southampton in August and moved to London in October, but have visited Southampton a few times since.