Matt Whistler the life and life, day to day

Well, this is the first in a long line of blogs discussing the birth of Radio West Pier. The inspirations, the methodology of blagging on a wing and a prayer to keep your dreams alive and moving forward.

In short, I (Matt Whistler), the creator of Radio West Pier will be spilling out my thoughts to help me deal with my obsessive creative juices that force me to continually blurt out new ideas to anyone within my vicinity.

Ok so I'm hamming it up. I mean really my girlfriend... I cant keep my gob shut... ideas just bubble up at a rate of knots and my whole being needs to deal with the idea. In most cases I just blurt it out wait for instant feedback as a basis for something that meets with approval or outright
"no I said no definitely not it wont work".

To put it frankly I am a pain in the arse and need to slow down when it comes to thinking of ideas feverishly.
Most inventions I thought of years ago and when there is a gust of wind and the Universal Zeitgeist Signpost swings round and bonks me on the head I put pen to paper and extract the idea from my brain to something tangible.

This tangible item may include any corner of any news paper the yellow pages, a rizla (I don't smoke myself but virtually all my friends do) or gaps between previous scribbles gone by. I have even been known to send text messages to a friend near by with my thoughts because there wasn't a pen available at the time. The last text read Grandstand and old lady next door. Thinking constantly about new ideas does have obvious draw backs. There is a part of me that feels stimulated and immersed in the rich tapestry of life in the context of what feels like visionary thinking and their is another part that wants to pack my brain in a box of feathers and let it rest on top of a mountain for a couple of weeks just to chill out and live in the moment.

Living in the moment now there's a thing. I personally live in the moment by visualizing and grasping and shaping a new idea 99.9 % of the time. Even though my personality is outgoing their is a withdrawn artist side to my being. In other words I am something of a Walter Mitty constantly slipping away from my immediate reality into something dream like (and that's without drugs). I have studied aspects of Buddhism though and understand its principals, some of my more interesting days have been when I have left the front door and mentally told myself "Right I am going to have no expectations today" and really by saying that I am saying : no goals. This acknowledgement in my mind has opened up doors for positivity and good things ahead.

Just in case you think I am rambling, I am, and enjoying every minute ... its my first blog man!!!.... a new creative endeavour yippedi dooo daaah knicky knacki noo and a rinky dinky doo to you too ooo booopi dooo skilladiddlie skadali ... Ok Ive gone too far now STICK A SOCK IN IT Or should I say pull a mental curtian across my brain go backstage and reassess what the next flow of thinking is going to be. Yes, here it is, its arrived, MY WRITING (on paper that is).

My writing tends to be in any direction except backwards and accompanies arrows linking thoughts and ideas. (sssss) the sssss that I have now placed in brackets was due to the s key flying out of my keyboard and happened when I slotted it back in place... it's still quite wonky but my guarantee has run out on the laptop so I will have to type think and deal with the sssss oh shit the key came off again. I think I wwwww oh fuck the wwww has come off nowww. My keyboard is falling apart.

3 HOURS LATER

I am now continuing the blog on my friend's PC. The friend is Geatan. He runs a healthy eating for kids Internet show and can be seen on www.theutensils.co.uk
Geatan and I have formulated a travelling show which involves Monshamto castle and an evil drink. Their is a great Bondian moment and some amazing puppetry with large king size Utensils. I have just been to Glastonbury. The set was last minute and the script
under rehearsed. However, the spirit and shared vision behind entertaining kids was high energy. We didn't even let our props/set girl who trashed half the set and ripped eyes off the puppets a day before the debut performance put us off. She was escorted off the site and I have to hand it to Welfare they did a great job. I don't want to reveal her name but there was a lesson learned on my part. You cant always help people with mental health issues and in this situation my heart was ruling my head.

I am writing this blog with pure channeling energy and when I say that I mean sometimes I don't really feel I am thinking and that the thinking is being channeled into me via a higher force. Ok so now at this stage in the blog you are thinking 'this guy is starting to sound like a fruit bat'... Well you might be right I sometimes feel like a fruit bat, especially after years of family and friends telling me " you're mad" you're crazy"
It's all in good humour but I guess if I had to sum myself up I would say I am eccentric and very aware of my eccentricities and boundaries that can be creatively crossed from time to time. It could be argued that I am a dangerous person to make a suggestion to because I will respond " you could be onto something there."

I have to say by the way that I am really enjoying writing this blog because I feel like I'm taking a walk around my brain. Its almost like if there was ever such a thing lucid typing as opposed to lucid dreaming. Anyways, I digress. This is one of the lines from a chap who I came across on myspace site... the Tristram Shandy Drinker whose real identity I cannot reveal.
'I digress' was used by him on an audio review he kindly put together for Radio West Pier. You can see the link on the top right hand side of the myspace page ... he's a very funny guy.
I initially asked if he would kindly write a review and he came back with an audio master piece ..... what a nice guy. This was the first time that I realised the power of myspace and that through all the spam and odd random wannabe friends desperate to get noticed, there are genuine opportunities for collaborations.
I digress

"What the hell is he waffling on about?"

Well allow me to explain.

An idea comes into my head I write it down and act on it within 24 hours then keep the wheels in motion until the end result is there. I suppose the job description in the nine-to-five world would be an events coordinator. I tend to work on top down theory which is a positive thinking theory that originally came from Harvard university which means you think of an idea and then in your organisation you go straight to the conclusion.

Example :

I am the person responsible for setting up the worlds first naked speed dating event.
Without a venue, without a naked person and without sponsorship etc I ran the press and told them that an event was going to happen with x amount of people with a theme.

The theme was 'The Garden of Eden' and the night called 'Would you Adam and Eve it'.
The press were informed that there would be Adam and Eve present' there would be angels in costumes, Puck from Midsummer Night's Dream' would be there and we would even have an Inspector Clouseau keeping tabs on everyone to avoid lewd behaviour.

After three court appearances, 2 venues, International publicity and a bidding war with the press, the event finally went ahead. There was one minor problem... On the night, my partner in crime, Mike, who was on a mission to promote the World's first water powered engine through his band, formed in 48 hours, called The Galactic Rainbow Orchestra. Mike and I didn't have the cash to pay for the venue hire and after Mike inviting punters in another part of the venue into our gig, messing the sound guy about and leaving me to deal with the media arrivals (which included Channel Four documentary makers and silicone implanted dolly birds from News of the World pulling pints behind the bar topless), I decided the stress was too much and I donned a Jimmy Saville wig, slipped past the manager who was jumping up and down in a fit of rage, shouting at the band
"You pagan whores"

Unfortunately, the instruments were held to ransom by the manager of the Sussex Arts Club until we could claim them back.
For me personally this event made history, certainly in the speed dating world. Later that year, there was naked speed dating in Glastonbury and the media called it The Year Britain Went Naked. There was a naked DJ in Leeds and the World's biggest naked roller coaster ride. A whole host a nudie stuff. Now I am not trying to say I am responsible for half the population throwing their trollies off, but what I am saying is that my brain works in such a way that I conceive an idea and then find out soon after that the idea was at the start of a big wave... a trend... a crest that tied into my idea or should I say the idea that was fed into me by an Alien life force perhaps... 'who knows?'

I don't want to go all whacko on you know but some of the stories I could tell you about my life's experiences. I often sit back and wonder why fate is following me with density. Maybe it was to do with when I was born, star signs and time of birth. Well I've swung enough tangents for one night and haven't as yet discussed Radio West Pier or my World records in years gone by and how I came by the name Matt Whistler.
More importantly I haven't as yet introduced you to my good friend Rick (writer's name Eric Mahogeniegh) and as he will be reading this blog sometime soon, I had better let you know now he will feature heavily in the next blog. Eric is the other half of Radio West Pier as can be seen on our video where we are blatting around the Streets of Brighton in Fisherman's oilskins.

So for now its over and out.