Yesterday George Carlin dead of heart failure, It’s very rare for someone death to get to me and with recent goings on with family it makes it even weirder.
The first time I knowingly seem him doing standup was at a party at Mark’s house where Mark, Willie, myself and I think Dave as well sat through one of his shows. We were in tears laughing but it wasn’t until I started going through his back catalog that I realised just how long ago I’d been listening to his stuff. I was downloading his routines back when I was 19 and had just worked out how to get usenet groups working. When I was 14 I was given a comedy book for Christmas that had his Football V Baseball sketch in it.
Along with Bill Hicks I feel that George was one of the few people in this world that made me think. His subject matter was never the most appealing at times but his delivery and rhetoric were what made him. Everything had a flow to it and he’d take you along wherever he went, even places you didn’t want to go. And you know what…you always laughed. Bill Hicks sometimes forgot to make you laugh when he started on his political material and Mark Thomas was always sure to take a break from dick jokes to get a dig in against the government but even when Georges material got a bit edgy a laugh was never far away.
Burning Chrome - William Gibson
Cyberpunk - Bruce Bethke
Finding a Fit: Options for Flexible Working
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone - JK Rowling
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Napalm and Silly Putty - George Carlin (Audiobook Version)
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking (Audiobook Version)
Hegemony or Survival : America’s Quest for Global Dominance - Noam Chomsky
Fatherhood: The Truth by Marcus Berkmann
History of Ancient Egypt (48 lectures) - Dr Bob Brier (It’s taped lectures but I’m claiming it as an audiobook)
The Last Templar - Raymond Khoury
With the Jocks - Peter White
Tripods, The White Mountains - John Christopher
Tripods, The city of Gold and Lead - John Christopher
Tripods, The Pool of Fire - John Christopher
Starship Troopers - Robert A.Heinlein
The Crow Road - Ian Banks
The Wasp Factor - Ian Banks
Strip Jack - Ian Rankin
The Black Book - Ian Rankin
Mortal Causes - Ian Rankin
Operation Barras - William Fowler
Magic Inc - Robert A. Heinlein
Walking to work this morning I was listening to a new George Carlin gig on my MP3 player when I burst out laughing int he middle of the street. Now for most folk passing by me it must have came totally out of the blue as they probably wouldnt have seen my headphones.
I’ll paraphrase this but I had to write it down somewhere
He was going on about words he liked but were never used anymore and how he liked cop programs like Law and Order…
“I like CSI because thats one of those forensics shows. I’m just waiting for the chief medical guy to say to the head detective during an examination, “Steve, it looks like quite a straight forward death but if you roll the guy over you can see he’s been cornholed 6 or 7 times”
Considering how many CSI’s I’ve seen in the past few days I can just see the guy actually saying this and being completely serious about it
OK im cheating a little with this one and I will do so with a few others as well. Audiobooks are really easy for me to ‘read’ when its damn cold outside and I dont have decent gloves that I can turn the pages of a book with.
Its George Carlin…in a book…written down..but its actually George Carlin reading his book for you.
ALot of the material is the same as his stand up routines (obviously) but its still a good read/listen
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