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Strange Star

The inner structure of the airship's balloon has been built, upstairs — where music, dance and drama occurs. Old Friends New Friends. Withnail & I's Richard E. Grant, from his garden, blesses the glorious weather in the last day of November: up and vroom-vroom. The lunar Julian Barratt is so shy in the Mighty Boosh interview for 'Friday Night With Jonathan Ross', while the sunny Noel Fielding keeps looking at him, gives him space to come out of his shell. That is nice. That is love. And I sit to update our mighty logbook, which this month has been scarcely touched. Because:


Acts a-being prepared. All the elements have been summoned, last month, and now the creatures are busy organizing themselves. Horses, ghosts, lovers, genetically edited cougars, aphasia-stricken poets, dancers all over. The birdsong of waves. Music for Animals. Music for Friends. Blackout. Then green lights, shimmering. We get together. We fade-in. Aim to see it:


Comrade D'Anjou has been booked to play in every pub of London city, coming December. Sister Sally has performed her Magician at the Rio Cinema. Co-captain Siren has been riding his horse all over East London, operating his sound machinery whilst mounted, at the very same time as he spreads news and nourishment. Denglord, from his own editing room, narrates the image, sprinkles it with words. A blue line diagonally crosses the scene. We blink. Astro Luce builds arms from clay. Sabelle conjures philosophical paradoxes, dissolves them. Charlie & Efi are building a styrofoam fortress, inside of which they'll shine their new music at Break With Me's first birthday party on Friday. And I — I'm skipping around the deck, as I've woken up thinking about swimming pools.

I have once not-seen a performance, in Berlin, where musicians played their instruments standing on shallow pools. There was vapor. There was probably lots of echo. The membership for Clissold Park Leisure Center is quite expensive. But I've built two thermal pools up there, in the balloon. Theatricality and virtual spaces. Perhaps Vampyroteuthis infernalis will want to put on a play, in one of those, or both simultaneously.


Anyway a strange, green star has been seen. So I'm writing a play about it. I'll act, viscerally, the first chapter of our Lady Puma's history — how she came to be. While the book is slowly written. But the Strange, green Star shines way beyond it. It seems to celebrate the whole of our ghostly, bodily communion. I have dreamed it for a long time. Yet this is a different type of belonging: it is simultaneously alien, other-worldly. It is across the walls, across the bodies. It is and isn't. An association of solitudes, as I had wanted my interrupted À Boahora: gazette-gazelle to be.

Under typical viewing conditions, there are no green stars. Few stars, however, can appear greenish to some observers, due to the viewing conditions. See the optical 'illusion' through which a red object can make nearby objects look greenish... — And so we, from the ship's deck, aim infra red lasers at this Green Star: and so our individuals screens, with their pixels and numbers, go nuts, go berserk, go mighty.


A massive star explodes, it either turns into a neutron star or a black hole. Neutron stars are the leftover cores of massive stars after they've ejected all their other material. They're incredibly small, about 20 kilometers in diameter, or 175 times smaller than the moon. But they've about 1.4 times the mass of our sun, making them incredibly dense — one teaspoon of material from a neutron star would weigh a billion tons in Earth gravity.


A neutron star is dense enough, it warps the very fabric of space-time and becomes a black hole. But current physical models of the universe suggest that something else might happen to astronomically dense neutron stars that are not dense enough to collapse into black holes — they might turn into what are called “strange stars”.

And boy, we mighty.



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https://www.instagram.com/p/Clls_rcDcYz — 'Withnail & I' Richard E. Grant's Instagram reels


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HJ9u6bHG_I — The Mighty Boosh @ Friday Night With Jonathan Ross


https://ra.co/events/1609073 — Tickets for Break With Me 1st birthday party


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