The Medusa Fora

1) Has he ever been in jail?
2) What's his middle name?

1) in a drunk tank
2) Patrick Lysaght

Thanks from both of us.

(just got a lecture on drinking from my kid)

Eric V wrote:(just got a lecture on drinking from my kid)

This kind of lecture?

"The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks--they spend a lot of time talking in pubs unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does."
(Shane MacGowan in an interview with Melody Maker)

No I got the "Daddy, have you ever been drunk?" and "well, you shouldn't have drinked that much."
She's been catching parts of If I should Fall from Grace: the Shane Macgowan Story as I've been watching it the past few nights. She's obviously intrigued (and who wouldn't be.... a man who can turn anything to gold), but is frightened by his looks. So she's asking lots of questions about him, trying to get more comfortable with the situation. And since I'm home sick with her today (how convenient for me: I scored six tickets to the show on the 9th, today) and spending so much time at this site, I had to pass the questions along. Thanks all!

Zuzana wrote:

Eric V wrote:(just got a lecture on drinking from my kid)

This kind of lecture?

"The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks--they spend a lot of time talking in pubs unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does."
(Shane MacGowan in an interview with Melody Maker)

Remember reading that. Great quote.

this turned into great conversation...theres lots of sense in Shane's statement

try your best and get A Drink With Shane MacGowan (if you haven't got it yet) Great reading in itself plus there is A Chair episode pertinent to your question #1

Will do. Thanks!

I'm 16. I used to be scared by Shanes looks but have recently begun to find him absaloutly gorgeous...
And what a voice. I am going to track down the book and video you mentioned after christmas when I get some money.
xxx

I have watched the movie... probably more than any DVD I own. It isn't tremendously well done, but its wonderful to just amble along with the series of interviews, Nips, Pogues, and Popes footage, and some real unusual... probably staged, to some degree, stuff. Like Shane taking a piss in the countryside... giving money to a begger.... mixing it up with people on a ferry... giving some fairly old women his phone number. Probably the best interview footage was himself holding an unlit fag, with a lighter burning away, with bulging eyes (so he looked like he was on something), speaking from the gut about his writing with the Nips, and the impression teh Sex Pistols made on him, and .... at the end there are a few sentences about wanting to be a musician, and how he felt lucky to be one, as they show footage of Lonesome Highway at a concert. I always walk away with the feeling that I'm lucky that there are still some great music personalities out there that actually live one of my favorite aspects of the punk movement -- elimination of the space between the performer and the audience, both spatially and figuratively. Shane is obviously a regular guy with regular problems, and is tremendously talented at what he does. And he knows it, and isn't full of himself. And I would say the same about the Pogues in general -- as you can probably see in this forum. Cheers!

MacRua...tis a great shame oi still don't have A drink with Shane...as oi've heard thats a book? is there a DVD version?

DVD version if the book?! Nah, i am afraid... But there are cupla extracts online, kinda free trial

K,thanks.
Oi'll get the book by all means!

great book that.