New Bill Hicks Book

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Anyone read it? There were excepts in the observer over the weekend. It's a collection of letters, notes and skits.

― hmm, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

So no one else was like SHIT I HAVE TO READ THAT COS IT'S A NEW BILL HICKS BOOK? wow.

― hmmm, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

didnt know about it...will surely check it tho'...

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Hooray!

― hmmm, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

here 'tis

― Kingfish Beatbox (Kingfish), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

That's not it I'm afraid. It's a fine book. But nit's not the one I'm referring to. Can't find a link to it I'm afraid. I'll check the article at home tonight and let y'all peep at it tomorrow. oh yes.

― hmm, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The new one is Love All The People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines. By John Lahr.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha, Matt reminded me that I gave him the Cynthia True one for Valentine's a couple of years ago. So romantic...

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

hopefully this will make it even easier to identify and avoid bill hicks fans

― $$, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i can't wait for the t-shirts

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

girls and gays have a right not to like bill hicks as he says some things which could be deemed offensive to gays and girls. i'm a straight boy and i have read the book and like it a lot.

― luke'''', Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

i liked the biography even more.

― ;uke, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I bought it yesterday - it was six quid off in Fopp.
It's mainly transcripts of his routines, mixed in with interviews, journal scraps and some long letters.

― Greig (treefell), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

John Lahr is a biographical god.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

wasn't an edited version of the intro in the G2 the other day?

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a page ripped off from the biography in Metro yesterday, along with some short quotes from 'Love All The People'.

'Love All The People' is rilly rilly good, but - because it's mostly just straight transcripts of his gigs - you do get to read the same jokes over and over again in just a slightly different way. Like, if I read the 'Here's an egg. Here's your brain on drugs' routine once more (it's there about five times in the first 50 pages and another couple of times throughout the rest of it), I will .

And, re: the 'transcripts of gigs' thing - if you've heard 'Arizona Bay', 'Flying Saucer Tour Vol 1' or 'Shock & Awe', or seen his videos, then be aware that repeats of these take at at least five chapters of the book.

The best stuff in it is the proposal for the 'Counts of the Netherworld' TV show. Anyone know if that actually got made? Cuz I remember seeing something dead similar on Channel 4 late one night at some point in the early-mid 1990s.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

counts never happened. shame. it sounded fun.

quoting reams and reams of routines on paper = dud. i know, because i did exactly this for the intro to my piece on Hicks for this week's Kerrang!, and it reads badly. Hicks was as much about delivery as material.

― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

More about delivery even!

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

nah, i'd say it was equal.

my one grouch about Hicks, though (and it doesn't even reflect on Hicks himself) is that all the fanboys proclaim him to be brilliant because he 'spoke the truth'. when in fact, his opinions etc were, for the most part, simple humanism (war = bad, ignorance is hell, bigotry holds us all back) that shouldn't have been obvious and apparent to anyone with a brain. what made Hicks so great was that he was insanely *funny*.

― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

I got this over the weekend. I'm reading it right now. And it is good.

― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

btw "the message in my material is a call for understanding rather than ignorance, peace rather than war, forgiveness rather than condemnation, and love rather than fear." Does exacly what it says on teh tin.

― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

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