The Evolution Diaries: by Mike Dunbar: Recent Episodes
Mike Dunbar
Stand-up comic, Mike Dunbar, documents a year trying to "evolve" with the aid of his best friend. Weekly songs, diaries of experiments, and listener's fears conquered.
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19px Georgia, ‘Times New Roman’, ‘Bitstream Charter’, Times, serif; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; padding: 0.6em;”>I’ll get onto the Evolution shortly, but first I simply must tell you all about my exciting CD giveaway! I have 37 (yes, 37) copies of the lastest podsong, Jessie Spencer (C.A.M.B), in
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This has been a jolly stressful week for me. I’ve been experiencing a gig with a new musical theme, the build up to my driving test, I’ve applied for a job I really want (if I get this job… I wouldn’t need my current job and then it’d be my ‘old job’ and I could talk about when I used to work at the pub. And I could move out), found out I’ve gotten a heat for the Hilarity Bites New Acts competition (and now need to sort my set out for it), and I just started doing an improv comedy workshop which was stressful as it meant walking to the dodgy east end of Newcastle.
So… Evolution hasn’t been as big a priority this week. Which is odd then that I scored a WHOPPING 23!! And therefore my best week to date:
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Hi. It’s just been Easter, as those of you who keep an eye on Jesus will no doubt know. Working in pubs means you don’t have an easter, you just have a very busy weekend. We’ve had very little time to parlé, and thus I’ve not evolved much this week! Still, the podcast has come out okay. We aknowledge what’s happened (we’re having a “conceptual” week) and ended up just having a silly conversation about life, weddings, love, stalking, and all that.
The podsong was “Supermarket Fair-trade Girl” - which I wrote with my friend Steve McGrath. I don’t know if he would like to appear on the website, so I’ve just got a pic of some of his hair.
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I’m afraid this week’s podcast is a mere 15 minutes. Mark is nowhere to be heard, but luckily Teamvolution member Deborah Cole (Telulah LeBon) has stepped into the breach and we spent an afternoon writing and recording a short radio play about The Famous Five. It’s a wee homagé to “The Comic Strip Presents” ones, only with the slight change in that Dick is now a persecuted Geordie.
There is a podsong, it’s about the game I’ve just downloaded (as it’s finally its day of release on Windows) called Braid. Remember the cartoon with the little guy and dinosaur? Braid.
This week also saw the Just A Minute game at Long Live Comedy… kudos to Teamvolution member Nicola Millward for filming.
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FOR THE BLOG POST GO TO: http://www.mikedunbarcomedy.wordpress.com (Ed. I just passed my driving theory test! YES! But also the ‘cast had to go down a notch in quality do to it’s length… once again, the podsongs are in the podsong section in higher quality. AND… do to the amount of stuff we’ve been up to there are THREE videos this week) I’m writing this bit of blog (or at least preparing the first draft) on Wednesday night. About four hours ago I had never seen David Byrne in concert. Now, I have. Friends, I love you all. It is a wonderful day. I never thought I’d ever see him in concert even when I was dancing like a loon on Episode 3 imitating his performance of “Life During Wartime”. With this in mind, this week’s Evolution Champion’s list is just simply crammed with wonders… oh, but first of all, a bit of old business:
Firstly I had to say < [...]
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We’ve both been a bit peaky this week. We struggled on though. First of all this week, I went to discover my new talent I’m going to be working on: Ventriloquism.
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That’s DAVE PANDA!! WAyyy! He’s a cockney taxi driver, he supports West Ham, he’ll tell you he’s decked Ray Winstone, and that he got Sue from Sooty pregnant back in the eighties, but hasn’t met his son.
Pod-drawing this week is some dinosaurs:
This week was also a special week in terms of Evolution Champions. We had the returns of Tony Parker (sparking yet more David Byrne debate), Ben from Teatunes, and a late entry of “JACK!” whose surname I think is Coolenbaum. He’s certianly cool, as Mark allowed me to [...]
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NEWS FLASH: I’ve just realised I don’t have unlimited space on podbean without paying for it. I can’t afford to pay for it, so I think I can only keep the latest 3 podcasts active for streaming/download. Therefore there’ll only be 3 at one time on itunes, too. I think. Fear not, however, I’m working on a storage solution here. This will, however, depend on demand. So, should you need it, I’d like an email and I’ll work out an email to you for any episode you can’t get. So far only the first (rather disappointing) episode has been removed.
I think this has been the hardest week so far, in terms of the obvious obligation that not only am I doing this experiment, but that it all has to be entertaining. I’m referring specifically to the podsong, which has left me so uninspired this week, that I’ve had to do two. [...]
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This was a big week for evolution. I’ve learned a lot, though, because I’ve only scored 20 points! Half a point LESS than last week! YET I did LOADS of stuff!! I’m gutted.
I feel that by achieving the harder ones of cycling and running 10 miles (which is the easy early target I set myself) which I did on Monday with half of my climbing, that the week would be successful. This wasn’t the case though, really, because the score was worse! A travesty.
This week my heart was firmly in the cause, despite my work hours, but I realise that once again the problem is efficiency. So even though I made friends with a piece of wall that looked a bit like a fraggle: And got a new mascot who’ll I’ll be taking all over the world:
And I found some inspiration for my dancing task, in the form of a nice pun on a Hairdresser’s shop: The [...]
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Podcast episode seems to go just over what I would have wanted, so the quality had to go down a little to fit within my upload limit. A bit of a bugger, but at least the podsong on the podsong page is nice and high def!
Well it’s been an interesting week. It hasn’t went at all to plan. I scored a mere 17.5 out of 28. I EVEN LOST MY PEDOMETER! I did, however, write a chilling ballad for the delightful Rachel Riley off countdown, and this week’s pod-drawing was all about her:
But that’s not all that happened! Nope! We recieved a package here at Evolution Towers, from the chaps over at Teatunes. In it was a letter, a small baggie of Jasmine Pearls Flowering Tea, and a little package mysteriously, and ominously, only annotated with a single question mark!! Did we open it? No. We were told to wait til next week, and we will…
This week also saw me attempting my first climbing in nearly two years. And e [...]
Episode 1 of the new weekly podcast. Already I’ve hit a number of brick walls! But I’ll strive on. In this episode I describe the problems I’ve had preparing for this experiment (in that I chose to do it a week before I’m due to start), such as the microphone I bought that’s meant to worn by German doormen, and the headband that may or may not be a girl’s hairband. Mark realises that my plan includes the facility for a drunken party if I move out of my parent’s house, without detriment to my evolution, and we take the recording equipment out for a walk.
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