http://www.mitchbenn.com en admin@notbbc.co.uk Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:01:07 +0000 http://www.mitchbenn.com/blog/847/cyprus_an_apology_of_sorts.html Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:56:12 +0100 I don't know if any of you are either in Cyprus right now, or on your way there, and expecting to see me at the Celebrity Hotel gig on Saturday; if this is the case, I'm sorry, but I won't be there.  Sorry about that.  Long and complicated reasons-why-not which I won't bore you with right now. Meanwhile my involvement with the Latitude festival in a couple of weeks has just gone up a notch or two; I had been intending to go and record The Now Show on the Thursday and then come home, but I'm now staying for the weekend.  I'll be turning up in Marcus's Early Edition thing Friday and Sunday lunchtimes, and also doing some sort of filming for the BBC during Friday daytime.  Think we may need crowd/supporting players for this so if you're about, keep an eye out for me. http://www.mitchbenn.com/blog/837/bugger.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:09:24 +0100 I've been running around all week since we got back from Glasto - good one, by the way and entirely through luck rather than judgement we managed to miss ALL the crappy weather, and I've now seen Bruce Springsteen, Tom Jones and Spinal Tap live, all of whom were on my to-see list - and I've completely forgotten to post my weight.  I think it might be because I'd already written Monday off as a weigh-day since the original plan was to come back from Glasto on Monday afternoon (in the event we snuck off late Sunday night, the better to allow the girls to sleep all the way home); I did actually weigh myself Monday morning but then rushed off to do things and didn't blog it. After all that, it's a bit of an anti-climax to announce that I'm still 21 2.  Didn't exercise much discipline at Glasto but did exercise everything else - LOTS of walking about. http://www.mitchbenn.com/blog/834/michael_jackson.html Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:55:04 +0100 It's a couple of hours now since the news broke - or rather gradually fractured - about the death of Michael Jackson.  While unexpected, it's not exactly a complete shock, and I've found myself wondering why I'm not feeling sadder than I am.  Just a few minutes ago Clara figured it out - she'd been feeling the same way, and it dawned on her that the reason Jackson's actual death hasn't made us feel especially sad is that we were ALREADY pretty gutted about Michael Jackson -and what had become of him - while he was still alive... The sense of loss at seeing the reams of footage currently being broadcast across the news channels of Jackson at his astonishing best back in the early to mid 80s is no more acute than the sense of loss I've been experiencing for years now, whenever that poor frightened skeletal creature that was all that remained of him was hauled out blinking into the glare of the public gaze.  The Michael Jackson who thrilled and amazed the world has, let's face it, been gone for a long time.  I'm not sure I can miss him anymore now than I already did. http://www.mitchbenn.com/blog/833/oops.html Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:36:36 +0100 DID weigh myself yesterday but things are so frantic at the moment forgot to post it. 21 2 again - ok considering it was Father's Day on Sunday. I'm still trying to meet several writing deadlines AND work on the new album; the fact that it's Glastonbury this weekend has also required a bit of preparation. To misquote a phrase, we're gonna need a bigger tent. http://www.mitchbenn.com/blog/832/weight.html Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:35:49 +0100 21 2 so another half pound gone. May be back later but I've got an important meeting now. http://www.mitchbenn.com/blog/831/twitted.html Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:56:27 +0100 If anybody's wondering how the Twitter gig went last Monday, the whole thing has been painstakingly transcribed here. Meanwhile, I'm sorry I've been quiet this week, but I've got a bunch of writing deadlines to meet - as in writing writing-type writing.  Having never had a word published heretofore, I've suddenly got bits of at least two and possibly three books coming out at Christmas. There's the long awaited Now Show book (more details as & when appropriate); I'm contributing to The Atheist's Guide To Christmas as edited by Ariane ("There Is No God" bus adverts) Sherine, and I'm writing HALF of another book about which I hope to be able to tell you more very shortly. http://www.mitchbenn.com/blog/827/there.html Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:31:48 +0100 Ha! It's Monday morning (well, early afternoon) and I'm posting my weight! On time and everything! That shocked you! 21 2 and a half, so that's good I suppose. There was one of those "Ten Things You Need To Know About Losing Weight" type shows on the telly a week or so ago; there wasn't much I didn't already know but the few bits that were new to me were quite intriguing; protein switches off the hunger centres in your brain, and while if you eat solids and drink liquids the liquids pass straight through your stomach leaving just a few lumps of solid, but if you eat thick soup the whole thing stays in your stomach for ages - so the secret to feeling full all day is eggs for breakfast and soup for lunch. Tried it a couple of times and it seems to work. http://www.mitchbenn.com/blog/826/arse.html Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:51:59 +0100 As a few of you have been pointing out in exasperated fashion, I didn't post my weight this week - I'm sorry, but the South Bank gig has required so much preparation I've been running round ever since Monday morning, when I DID in fact weigh myself and then thought nothing more of it, sorry. 21 3 again; I think it's safe to say I'm in a bit of a rut here, but steps are being made to move things up a notch. http://www.mitchbenn.com/blog/823/hiding_and_writing.html Thu, 28 May 2009 14:09:49 +0100 It's quite an odd feeling; I'm staying in a hotel in Edinburgh. I've never done that before. Edinburgh still feels as much like home as anywhere (I get the never-been-away feeling as soon as I'm off the train) so to be essentially a tourist here feels rather unsettling. I'm staying here as a sort of base of operations for this little Scottish mini-tour I'm on, although oddly I'm not doing any gigs in Edinburgh itself. http://www.mitchbenn.com/blog/822/i_suck.html Wed, 27 May 2009 00:18:03 +0100 So, having forgotten to tell everybody I was planning on posting my weight on Tuesday rather than Monday, I then weighed myself on Tuesday and forgot to post it (possibly because it was Tuesday).  I am utterly useless and I apologise. 21 3 again; been good food-wise but have had no time to exercise. I'm off to Edinburgh for a few days now; hazardous in terms of food possibilities (I do like haggis a LOT) but as anybody who's been there will know, simply BEING in Edinburgh is exercise. Honestly.  It's like spending all day on a Stairmaster.