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Bela Lugosi Lon Chaney Sir Lord Comic

or even care about not caring, or even know they don't care about knowing

Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling Janet Street-Porter Meryl Streep

Donald Pleasence Ernst Stavro Blofeld Max Ernst

Alice The Mad Hatter Thelonious Monk

Master Bates Norman Bates Anthony Perkins

Punch Miller Jabbo Smith Captain Hook

Fred Titmuss Half Man Half Biscuit The Cookie Monster

Unless they live in East London

Plastic Man Buzz Lightyear Biz Markie

Nobby's Nuts Nobby Stiles The Style Council

Arfur Dollar Uncle Arthur Napoleon Solo

Bernard Manning Bernard Matthews The last turkey in the shop

Mrs Hudson River Phoenix Moses Asch

Richard the third Barney Rubble Gregory Peck

Yuja Wang Ivor Biggun Aaron Mycock

That's him: Percy. The one with the moostache

Slaughter and the Dogs Hound Head Henry K9

Ian Fleming Bob Phlegming Spit the Dog

Talking of reggae: The Wailers (JA) The Wailers (USA) The Upsetters (JA) The Upsetters (USA) talking of not-reggae: Guitar Slim Guitar Slim Dr Feelgood (Piano Red) Dr Feelgood (Dr Feelgood)

I know what I said about modernism wasn't entirely accurate.. just reading a biog of Wyndham Lewis, where he writes in an early letter: "Verisimilitude–that's what you want to get with your wheezy efforts... But that isn't what people want. They don't want vicarious experience; they don't want to be educated. They want to be amused... By brilliant fellows like me. Letting off brilliant fireworks. Performing like dogs on tight ropes. Something to give them the idea they're at a performance. You fellows try to efface yourselves; to make people think there isn't any author and they're living in the affairs you... adumbrate.." etc etc so the pedestal is turned into a stage.. or something. The passive artits is gone, so is the passive audience (but the artists still fancy themselves)

J J Johnson - jazz trombonicist J J Johnson - reggae producerizer

Chris Smith - Ragtime patriarch of syncopation Chris Smith - blues historian/writer/thingummy Walter Jacobs - aka Little Walter Walter Jacobs - aka Walter Vinson (Mississippi Sheiks)... also both put out different records called 'That's It'

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