Entertainment For Lively Minds
what men think about really
I caught up on the last two podcasts last night. Laughed out loud at Fraser's corner taking and kayaking & empathise with David's medium pace outswingers. Its so true. My own private perversions include:
1. I walk down busy street pretending that I am Barry John drifting past English defenders in the Wales v England game in Cardiff in 1971 (I am very specific about this). He didnt seem to do anything perceptible when he beat people, no sidesteps etc, but just floated by the oncoming traffic. I aspire to sending pedestrians coming towards me the wrong way with a flick of my eyes.
2. I deal with changing trains at busy tube stations where people come at you from all directions by sidestepping and jinking in my mind like Shane Williams (or occassionally Phil Bennet)
3. Not sporting, but occassionally I get on a tube train or go into a room and pretend to be a spy in my mind and work who are the most threatening fellow travellers and who gets shot in what order. This last one isnt quite as cheery as the last two, obviously.
And of course the other thing that men really think about all the time is....
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I like to listen to Adam and Joe
but I listen to the podcast, not the live show.
The chucklesome duo were talking about something similar on their 6Music show this weekend - namely about the tube. One of them said (I think it was Adam), "when on the tube, I look around, assess everyone there and imagine that if there were some kind of crash and the people of this carriage had to form their own civilisation, would I be the chief? If the answer is yes, I award myself a mate by looking around the rest of the carriage."
I listen to their podcast - very good
Havent got to this one yet. My fantasy of shooting people is a bit more aggressive, I think. And I like to think I would easily be able to take Adam & Joe out if they were in my carriage. They are such southern softies. "Mummy & Daddy" indeed!
I do always look around the carriage and set myself the "mate" poser - "If I had to, which one....?" but that's just plain normal isnt it?
Normal? Yes
Admissable in civilised society? Now, that's a different question entirely...
So it's not just sport?
I never go around imagining myself playing a sport (and if I did it certainly wouldn't be football or cricket as I'm rubbish at the former and don't understand the latter), so I'm quite glad to hear that in general men are supposed to think about other things too.
I think mostly I have music playing in my head, even when I've not got the iPod on. I'm not imagining myself playing the music in front of legions of adoring fans all or anything, just the music.
And now I feel like I've given too much away.
I ran this conept past by my wife
She says she walks down the street and imagines she's in a pop video or in a big song and dance routine from a musical. And guess what - she's the star.
That's just SO weird. Girls, huh!
Far too elaborate
Where do you get all this spare time from? It's all I can do to spend 16 hours musing idly about breasts.
The Candyman
Danny Baker is the king when it comes to these kinds of observations. He,like many of us i suspect,had a whole league season with made up teams going on inside his head.
David is right about kids still commentating on Sport whilst playing it. gang of them doing exactly that this morning.
Let's be honest here too,who is an imaginary Rock band ?
For an Exercise at University i organised a concert made up of bands that would appeal to English language Teachers.
Starring
LOCAL SUPERSTARS- VIC VOCAB AND THE GRAMMATICS
SOUL LEGENDS - AL FABET (HIT SINGLES-26 LETTERS.ABC)
with Special Guests ;HOMER WORK &THE D.I Y.BAND
DUB REGGAE HEROES-- GENERAL RULE and THE EXCEPTIONS , The IRREGULARS
RETURN OF NEW WAVE HEROES
PUNK 2 NATION (ORIGINAL LINE-UP)
MARK QUESTION (VOX)
PHIL STOP (GUITAR)
ANN PERSAND (BASS)
CURLY BRACKETS (DRUMS)
SAM E COLON (VIBES CONTROLLER)
TOP BOY BANDS
- 121(NO1 SINGLE-PRIVATE CLASS)
`N´TENSIVE(NEW ALBUM,5 DAYS A WEEK,ONE MONTH A YEAR)
D.J ELLIE MENTARY (BASIC LEVEL RECORDS) DJ STU DENT
M.C RHETT ORACLE
For Those About to Walk
Whenever I'm striding purposefully to work I plug in to the iPod and imagine myself as the singer/ guitarist of the band I'm listening to. There is no gender bias, I am a very versatile performer.
As a break from my hectic imaginary touring schedule I think about how I would direct a pop video for the song.
You and Me Both
My friend ,you and me both. I'm also dating the incredibly hot female Bass player or some Nicaraguan Supermodel whose looking for a female audience member....... I've said too much.
I've never, ever played sport in my mind.
But then I'm not a big sport fan. It's good to see others are the same!
In my head I'm DJing to a room full of people. I have the song 'playing' whilst wondering what would fit in as the next record and how I would mix it. Naturally, they mix perfectly and the crowd go wild. Repeat until distracted.
I quite often
Find myself giving interviews about my extraordinarily late entry into rock and roll stardom.
That's another of mine
I'm often being interviewed; I always come off extremely well.
If I'm a musician then I'm humble, gracious, build-up a great rapport with the interviewer and am generally a raconteur extraordinaire.
If I'm a professional footballer, I single-handedly dispell the myth that all footballers are uneducated and uncultured by frequently dropping in literary references and fascinating anecdotes.
I give interviews about my sporting prowess all the time...
....in the car usually.
A memory has been triggered
When I was about 10 and Beatles obsessed, I used to get myself to sleep by imagining I was on Mastermind (the grown up version - I was a child prodigy of course) and my specialist subject was ....The Beatles.
I would then proceed to ask myself question after question about The Beatles which, incredibly, I always got right! I never got to the general knowledge round (was always asleep by then) but was always ahead at the half way stage....
A later variation was imagining I had a time machine & would go back to the Cavern club to meet the Beatles in 1961. I would already know all the future Beatles songs of course and I would join the band and effect a "co-write" of all the songs (Dolly-Lennon-McCartney)by giving them the ideas ("how about a song about wanting to hold a girls hand? It could go something like this...."). I'd be John Lennon's best friend and all the girls would love me! (I must have been a year or two older than 10 by these dreams.)
Oi Dolly
that's enough of your fantasies (would rather have been Gareth Edwards and THAT try).....where's the Literary Randomiser? I know you get tetchy about the copyright so...over to you.
I play forward defensives
at traffic lights
and hook at will on the motorway.
I often am a surprise guest at a big do along with my hot band
who proceed to wow the room for hours with out tight set and razor sharp dance routines. We don't want fame, we just enjoy the buzz
My musical fantasy usually
My musical fantasy usually consists of being the rhythm guitarist in an eight-piece indie-rock/baroque-pop band; usually with strings and a couple of girls (for harmonies in particular). I like to imagine I'd write the lyrics, but I'd stay hidden in the background (stage-right? The side Lennon stood anyway!), allowing the lead singer and lead guitarist to grab all the attention that, inevitably, the band will get. Of course, my vocal ability will be good enough to provide the odd harmony, backing vocal and perhaps even a solo spot of my own . Sometimes, we'll swap instruments and I'll occasionally double up on bass guitar, or rookie piano.
In a nutshell, the band is a mix of Arcade Fire and Belle and Sebastian.
Names we've played under so far, include, Walrus Gumboot, The Versificators and Ogrizovic. Our first EP is to be titled "At Last...Some Songs"; and we'll probably be signed to Parlophone.
I used to fantasize
About being a top DJ, being a lead singer in a band and writing live music and film reviews. Then I actually became all these things (not, I should stress, with anything like the success I'd imagined) and the fantasies stopped. Now I think the best I can do is fantasize about winning the Booker Prize. So that's what it's like to get old.
I fantasise
about being a good dad and never, ever shouting at the kids...
Dreams are wonderful things.
Ha ha, me too
Still it will give the kids something to moan about to their shrinks when they are older.
Flaming Dragon
I've left six or seven defenders on thier backsides.I have just pulled back my hair trigger right boot to launch the ball into the top corner.It will win the cup in 33rd minute of extra time at a twinned towered Wembely. When down swoops a dragon and whisks me away... dream ends.
This has been happening from the age of 7 to 38.
I also bowl fast medium at the Oval against Austrailians having been selected from the crowd as a likely looking character. Lots of wickets, no runs... I think you know the rest
The fun I'm going to have...
...as soon as my lawyer gets the restraining orders rescinded