Felix Dennis, Bon Vivant

Publishing mogul, recovering crack addict, and poet.

I'd never heard of him until hearing one of his performances a few weeks ago.

Brits?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64-bHvDcgQQ

This is the Maxim guy?

This is the OZ guy more to the point

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoolkids_OZ

Dennis is credited with having been the first person to say the word "cunt" on British television, on a live 1970 edition of David Frost's The Frost Programme. As a result most "live" transmissions are delayed by 15 seconds.

ha i can't believe i still have this, from 04

goole: omg omg omg i saw the worst thing ever this evening
strongo: huh? what?
goole: maxim publisher felix dennis's poetry reading
goole: let that sink in a little bit
strongo: i dont know if i have abrain left for that to sink into
goole: it was multimedia
goole: meaning powerpoint of the verses popping up as he rea them
strongo: good lord
goole: plus the title of the event was "did i mention the free wine?"
strongo: how? why?
goole: so there was tons of free wine
goole: & unreal hors doeverserseres
goole: like king crab & tartar and shit. all free.
strongo: jesus
goole: and there was occasional video of gamine lasses or fields of grain or whatever
goole: and music!! like his poem dedicated to robert johnson had a little slide guitar goin on, you see
goole: some of the worst poetry i have ever ever ever heard.
strongo: jesus christ. is this what i miss by not living in a city?
goole: 'insight' ppl don't even take from standups any more
goole: haha i haven't even looked here yet --> www.felixdennis.com
strongo: haha
goole: there was a politicians were bad one, a chick i banged in the 60s who i don't remember one, a shakespeare is really great and dead one
goole: a 9-11 one, and aids one...
strongo: haha
strongo: this sounds amazing
goole: omg the aids one!! FIRST LINE, WHICH HE SANG, "BAA BAA AIDS SHEEP HAVE YOU ANY PILLS"
strongo: ...
goole: AND PPL WERE EATING IT UP
strongo: PLEASE TELL ME SOMONE MADE A RECORDING
goole: well i'm sure he did
goole: i gotta say the wine was pretty great
strongo: well it was free after all
goole: and there were a bunch of anti pc ones as well
goole: apparently he was a drummer for the yardbirds at one point!
goole: the sixties reveries were my personal low point but ymmv, it was shit throughout
strongo: during the declining years i assume
goole: ah and the 'plz ladies you're all so wonderful don't get plastic surgery' one went down a storm
strongo: haha smooth
goole: seriously if there was a billionaire media magnate who wrote hilarious bastardy poems abt what he's seen, and then read them out in the same shitty tuesday afternoon bookstore lineup as other 'working poets' i'd follow him to hell, but he just wrote the same shit any other fuckface at a weekend learning annex class would, and he can afford to buy an audience in 25 cities...
strongo: haha
goole: AND PPL WERE GOING APESHIT
strongo: where is the shitty billionaire poet of the people
goole: hahahaha
goole: middle aged women and free wine, that's tapdancing with tnt dude
strongo: about my speed these days
goole: he took a second to promote a play written by a local woman that had been at edinburgh fringe, "I SAW HAIR THERE" some woman slurred out
strongo: haha
goole: In October 2003, Dennis appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company, along with several well-known RSC actors, reading from his work at The Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. This event proved so popular that two further such events, (one in New York City, one in Stratford-upon-Avon), are planned for this autumn.
goole: ^^ sean bean gritting his teeth for 2 hrs
strongo: isnt this guy rich enough not to have to prove himself anymore?
strongo: or is that why he's doing it
goole: i honestly have no idea
goole: it's really is a vanity project
goole: in every sense. he has 0 talent
strongo: yeah it sounds like an abomination
goole: he wore 'poet clothes' too, shirt with cuffs undone, brown vest
goole: tho i was comforted on the way out with this thought: for centuries the entirety of world culture was run this way
strongo: haha
strongo: you're a great cog in the cosmic wheel
goole: free wine!
strongo: and on into infinity

I think Dennis is generally a cool guy and don't begrudge him his poetry, I just don't especially want to hear it ever.

i begrudge him every single thing he has and does