I’m delivering the last of my favours a day late because I’ve been sick. Anyway, #favour5 was was to write something for you.
Dezza – clearly thinking long and hard about how best to take advantage of this opportunity – asked me to write him a poem about fish. But not just any poem:
“Something darkly humourous perhaps. Like Bukowski of the deep? Sea-bass may lend itself well, otherwise a Perch or Bream will be fine”
Darkly humourous is tough. I read some Bukowski and it’s not something I thought I could replicate well. I decided to listen to some Radiohead to get me into the right state of mind. And it quickly hit me. There was a ‘remix’ just begging to happen.
So, Dezza, I have created a tweaked version of Radiohead’s ‘Nice Dream’. I call it ‘Nice Bream’. It’s a moving, tragic tale of a Bream’s final moments.
And actually it helps if you listen to the original song while you read. So click play and read on…
Nice bream
They love me like I was a salmon
They measure me, photograph me
They made me my very own tank
Bashed my head in, made me dizzyNice bream, nice bream
Nice breamI notice my friend, the yellow perch
But she’s out cold; her eyes are closed
She murmured some nonsense real quiet
“The sea would electrocute us all”Nice bream, nice bream
Nice bream, nice bream
Nice bream, nice bream
Nice breamIf you think you’ll be back in the sea
You don’t know what they’re planning for tea
If you think you’ll be back in the sea
You don’t know what they’re planning for tea[Just as well Just as well Just as well]
Nice bream, nice bream
Nice bream, nice bream
Nilesh then asked me to craft him some ‘about’ copy for his blog. I know Nilesh very well and he told me what he’d like to get across, so it was pretty easy to do it in his voice:
“This blog is mostly made up of cooking, coding, surfing, and photography. Because that’s what I’m mostly made up of.
I’m a 26 year-old back-end developer at Poke in London. I like to wang on about Django, http and Nginx, but I’m also a normal human too. So, apologies to the geeks for having to see photos of my dinner and sorry to everyone else for buzzing about web architecture ;)”
So that’s it.
My week of favours comes to an end. It was a little exhausting at times – and possibly monotonous for readers – but it was fun. And actually I like doing things for people. So if I can ever help you, drop me a line.
