Comments on: Ken Campbell is Dead http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2008/09/01/ken-campbell-is-dead/ Casual Dismissals from Danny O'Brien Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:17:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: FootnoteHooligan http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2008/09/01/ken-campbell-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-391 FootnoteHooligan Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:39:41 +0000 http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/?p=1097#comment-391 When I got back from the burial last night I felt, for the first time in years, really angry and lonely. Had been finally forced to accept Campbell really was dead after all. When I got back from the burial last night I felt, for the first time in years, really angry and lonely.
Had been finally forced to accept Campbell really was dead after all.

]]> By: "Mad" King Ludwig http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2008/09/01/ken-campbell-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-375 "Mad" King Ludwig Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:42:09 +0000 http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/?p=1097#comment-375 L.A.-based producer Sheridan Thayer wrote me today: "I'm the producer/director of the Ken Campbell documentary, 'Antic Visionary'. I screened the docu three times, in London, and made many efforts to distribute but sadly, no one was interested at the time. It would indeed be a great tribute to Ken to get it out there. Maybe that can still happen... [ . . . ] Ken was a dear friend and will be missed. He was one of a kind. [ . . . ] Let's hope... If word gets out there that there is a film on his life, maybe someone will be interested in it. As far as I know, there is no other film or TV show about Ken that tracks his work from the Roadshow days to his one man shows. " Well, here's hoping. And the TV broadcast of "School For Clowns" would make a nice DVD extra. L.A.-based producer Sheridan Thayer wrote me today: “I’m the producer/director of the Ken Campbell documentary, ‘Antic Visionary’. I screened the docu three times, in London, and made many efforts to distribute but sadly, no one was interested at the time. It would indeed be a great tribute to Ken to get it out there. Maybe that can still happen… [ . . . ]
Ken was a dear friend and will be missed. He was one of a kind. [ . . . ] Let’s hope… If word gets out there that there is a film on his life, maybe someone will be interested in it. As far as I know, there is no other film or TV show about Ken that tracks his work from the Roadshow days to his one man shows. ”
Well, here’s hoping. And the TV broadcast of “School For Clowns” would make a nice DVD extra.

]]> By: FootnoteHooligan http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2008/09/01/ken-campbell-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-371 FootnoteHooligan Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:56:18 +0000 http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/?p=1097#comment-371 PPS. Actually, this particular tribute does also convey Ken's paradoxically thuggish beneficence: http://tinyurl.com/6anbcx PPS. Actually, this particular tribute does also convey Ken’s paradoxically thuggish beneficence:
http://tinyurl.com/6anbcx

]]> By: Dave Phelan http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2008/09/01/ken-campbell-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-366 Dave Phelan Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:18:38 +0000 http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/?p=1097#comment-366 I forget which of his one-man shows shows taught me one of life's' most important lessons. Maybe it was the one about the ventriloquial arts, maybe it was the one about the death of his dog. I'm afraid I'll have to attempt a paraphrase: "When the Queen of Mars asks you to go and visit the pygmies, don't worry about what will happen to your damn ferrets." As with most of Ken's material, you really had to be there. And now I never shall again. Yumi wantem no ded. I forget which of his one-man shows shows taught me one of life’s’ most important lessons. Maybe it was the one about the ventriloquial arts, maybe it was the one about the death of his dog. I’m afraid I’ll have to attempt a paraphrase:

“When the Queen of Mars asks you to go and visit the pygmies, don’t worry about what will happen to your damn ferrets.”

As with most of Ken’s material, you really had to be there. And now I never shall again.

Yumi wantem no ded.

]]> By: FootnoteHooligan http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2008/09/01/ken-campbell-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-365 FootnoteHooligan Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:33:44 +0000 http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/?p=1097#comment-365 A leafy farewell has been announced: Tuesday 9 September 2008 10:00 Tea and Coffee. 11:00 Curtain up! Epping Forest Burial Park Kiln Road North Weald, Epping CM16 6AD. Directions: http://tinyurl.com/5ca8wr Directions if coming by tube: http://tinyurl.com/64hy5t Bring picnic to share. Conjuring tricks welcome As well as anomalous pnenomena. P.S. Your fine penultimate paragraph isolates the priceless pearly pebble in the shoe that all the other tributes I've read somehow failed to spot. A leafy farewell has been announced:

Tuesday 9 September 2008
10:00 Tea and Coffee.
11:00 Curtain up!

Epping Forest Burial Park
Kiln Road
North Weald, Epping
CM16 6AD.

Directions:
http://tinyurl.com/5ca8wr

Directions if coming by tube:
http://tinyurl.com/64hy5t

Bring picnic to share.
Conjuring tricks welcome
As well as anomalous pnenomena.

P.S. Your fine penultimate paragraph isolates the priceless pearly pebble in the shoe that all the other tributes I’ve read somehow failed to spot.

]]> By: Larry http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2008/09/01/ken-campbell-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-349 Larry Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:34:57 +0000 http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/?p=1097#comment-349 Ken’s finally learnt the art of invisibility, though this time it’s not by simply ‘hiding in front of things’. I’ll miss him greatly, as will we all…his endless inventive wit, his love of characters and the stories they told, his rasping articulate voice, his deep knowledge of cosmic and synchronistic events, his arcane curiosity, his ability to make you see the world in a completely different light and make you laugh 'til you cried. But most of all, I’ll miss his love of life and everything in it. Together with his many, many friends here in Liverpool whose lives were made infinitely richer by knowing him, we say that his inspiration lives on in the Creative Centre of the Universe. Ken’s finally learnt the art of invisibility, though this time it’s not by simply ‘hiding in front of things’. I’ll miss him greatly, as will we all…his endless inventive wit, his love of characters and the stories they told, his rasping articulate voice, his deep knowledge of cosmic and synchronistic events, his arcane curiosity, his ability to make you see the world in a completely different light and make you laugh ’til you cried. But most of all, I’ll miss his love of life and everything in it. Together with his many, many friends here in Liverpool whose lives were made infinitely richer by knowing him, we say that his inspiration lives on in the Creative Centre of the Universe.

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