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On the site, you will find information regarding my work, together with an essential amount of useless memorabilia and trivia. Click on items on the lined notepad to find your way about the site. There is a guest book forum where you could leave an interesting message or if you so wish send an email to mailjeremythomas@aol.com
PASS THE PARCEL UNTIL THE MUSIC STOPS?
December 16th 2008
In this age of unnoticed financial tsunamis, endless santimonious media interviews about credit balls being crunched, excruciating get-me-out-of-here TV shows, parliamentary committees enquiring into enquiries and Premiership footballers earning more than the population of Zimbabwe, it seems fitting to suggest an ultimate TV reality programme that could put some money back into the community.
A fun one where viewers can press a £5 pay per view button to watch senior executives of banks, credit card companies, Hedge Funds managers, city wide boys, Mugabe and all smug government officials be collected from their homes and transported by helicopter. Thence to be transported and dangled at the end of a rope over a choice of three lakes in South West Bavaria. Viewers could become Nero and Ann Robinson for the day in the comfort of their own armchairs as they choose who should be dropped off into a boiling hot sulphur lake, freezing slimy cold lake or for those inclined to spend that extra five pounds, a lake filed with pike, piranhas and man eating crabs. Copyright: Thomas Madoff TV Gameshows.
THE SANTA MONICA SUICIDE CLUB
The book is in the dark and brooding comic workshop and taking good shape. Difficult to estimate when it will be finished but sooner than later is the phrase that comes to mind.
TAKING LEAVE
Interest from film companies continues to be shown in adapting the book into a screenplay from both the UK and the US. Hold your breath for news of a paperback issue.
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO NED and EATING MYSELF
Remain in the well known clinic of Rewrite, Surgery, and Trim & Polish. More news from the delivery room in 2009.
FRIENDS OF ECCO
Ecco spent the last two months living aboard the QE2. Naturally, she had the option of meals beneath the Captain’s table or al fresco on deck and chose to spend most of her time dozing by the swimming pool. Three weeks into her stay, drama struck when an Arabian ginger cat wandered into Ecco’s new ‘territory’. A chase around the perimeter of the swimming pool ensued that lasted long enough for the young hedge fund manager residents to scream bets to one another on the outcome. Unfortunately, when Ecco caught up with the cat, a bloody furry fight ensued. Fortunately, Mr Toby Moorcroft the head lifeguard bravely separated the warring animals just in time. It then became clear that the ginger cat belonged to none other than the new owner of the ship, the Sultan of Dubai. An international diplomatic Incident seemed inevitable. Mrs Thomas was duly alerted, summoned and given no option but to charter a helicopter from Battersea to where the QE2 was anchored in the Mediterranean. Once there she not only had to compensate Mr Moorcroft, and make Ecco apologise not only to him and Mr Kipper, the Sultan’s cat but also to the Sultan himself.
The next five year’s royalties from Taking Leave have now been ear marked to pay for the costs. It is not difficult to guess the name of the house in which Ecco is now living.
YOU DO HAVE HAVE TO HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER TO HAVE MANIC DEPRESSION.
Bipolar Disorder is exactly the same thing as Manic Depression. Shock horror! Booksellers and libraries please note!
An interestingly live and flu ridden interview was recently recorded with yours truly and Iain McNay of Conscious TV regarding the book ‘You Don’t Have To Be Famous to have Manic Depression. An A-Z of Good Mental Health’ book. You can access this via the conscioustv.com web site under the heading Healing or via You Tube.
FAMILY GUY
Currently my favourite cartoon on television. The characters and writing in this show put most of the other stuff on TV in the bin. My favourite character is Stewie, the British accented baby of the family, a delightful megalomaniac who sounds and looks like a cross between the Right Honourable William Hague , Terry Thomas and George Sanders playing Sheer Khan in the Jungle Book. Clever, funny stuff.
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
A new play into London that draws on the angst of addiction and toxic family relationships set out in Tennessee Williams dramas mixed with echoes of TS Eliot's 'A Family Reunion' to modern films like 'American Beauty.' Tremendous performances and a giant set reminiscent of Priestley’s ‘An Inspector Calls’. The play captures the essence of a disintegrating family and the idea of people who’ve given up on how families used to be, and how their country used to be. People who’ve stopped pretending things are going to return to normal. The play is possibly top heavy in terms of the female parts being the only effective ones and the male ones appearing disempowered or emasculated. Perhaps that was deliberately intended by the writer. Whatever, it was wonderful to see something so well written, so well acted and designed!
‘BEIDER MEINHOF COMPLEX.’
This is a powerful film and a great production by the same people who made ‘Downfall’. It made me think how little people care these days about anything that is not connected to their football team, bank balance or reality TV show. The only disappointments with this film are that it gets too bogged down in the detail of what the gang actually did and does not reveal enough about their prior personal histories. German cinema is on the up without any doubt.
MY FAMOUS GREEK VESPA
Shock, horror, prevailed all over Patmos during October when it was discovered said pictured above scooter had disappeared. Due to its recent appearance on BBC TV (see earlier report) it was assumed that the Vespa had been kidnapped by a gang hell-bent on extortion. Allah was praised when the Vespa turned up in late November in the courtyard of the groovy Hotel Archontariki in Hora. In return for the owner’s kindness and attention, the revered scooter will now live safely for a good part of the year at the hotel. www.archontariki-patmos.gr.
Reviews
"Jeremy Thomas is a complete original. His writing, like his life, is a whirlwind of brilliance, wonder and blunder, by turns, hilarious and terrifying. Highly recomended".
Stephen Fry