Blog: Ideas Afoot

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This lunchtime i set off in search of an IDEA - when i met with Messrs Kell and Hewitt last week it was suggested that I come up with a DIFFERENT idea for part of the first scene of Moon Horse. The BIT in question involved Geoffrey Livingstone and Moon Horse fighting a fiendish plan by The Mars Men Of Jupiter to unleash a herd of hideously angry carnivorous Giraffe from another dimension onto the planet Earth and ... what? Anyway, it was thought that this could do with being different because a) it was a bit complicated, plot wise, for a 30 second BIT b) we'd need to get a GIRAFFE MASK for it c) we could use something BETTER in that section to advance the PLOT.

But what, eh? WHAT? It'd needed to be a BIT that would set the TONE for the show (serious, grimly realistic, inherently political hem hem), introduce some characters, and yet stay within the THEME (or "running joke") of the song it's part of... eh? Why yes, the carnivorous giraffe WERE part of a song, along with SATAN HIMSELF in the second verse, is that a problem?

The BEST place for IDEAS, i find, is the far end of the Westbound platform of Leytonstone Station, but as that's a bit of a way off i settled for the SECOND best, which has the added advantage of being a bit more generic - a STIFF WALK. Thus I strode off around London's Covent Garden Area Of London for a refreshing 40 minute STOMP during which I thought of an idea that would not only WORK, but would be HUMOROUS. Anyone around Lincoln's Inn Field today who saw a man chuckling to himself, occasionally singing "Mooon Poo..." - that was ME, having the idea.

While I was out I also managed to do a bit of my NEW WALKING SCHEME. Regular readers may remember The Walking Circle that I completed last year, wherein I walked every street within about a 20 minute walking radius of my work. Rather than repeat it all I've decided THIS year to go for a slightly LOOSER, slightly more OUTWARD BOUND plan, and am going to attempt to visit the site of every BORIS BIKE BAY in the whole of That London. So far it's been lovely and easy as there's LOADS near me and I can just WANDER OFF, not worrying about going up and down MEWS like I had to last time, but I've got a feeling it's going to get more difficult when the remaining BAYS are further away.

Still, if it gives me a chance to come up with some more SOLID GOLD IDEAS like the one I had today it will all be worth it. Moon Poo! HA!

posted 13/1/2011 by MJ Hibbett

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Comments:

Talking of Moon Poo, I think you may have missed out the BEST place for having ideas.
posted 17/1/2011 by Tim Eveleigh

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