APP: Head in the skies, feet on the ground

 

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The whole world under our feet…. and following in the footsteps of the inane and insane masters.

I’ve just made an app. It’s selling like hot cakes. The app has many apps, coloured for your convenience. Collectively functions as your Co-Runner to help you Run Your World. Let’s do it together – hand in hand, feet to feet, heart to heart, shoulder to shoulder, side by side, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, cheesecake for cupcake. You can download it from the Apple Store once I finish negotiating the fine print with Apple. Or you can just slip it on, like you do Five Fingers shoes, with the apps caressing the different parts of your sole and soul (if you had any?). It’s up to you. So very flexible and versatile, all my designs always are. So natural too. Just like the five fingers, as if you’re not really ‘wearing it’. Remove it, though, and you will feel naked, vulnerable, sad. Just warning you about the side-effects. All good things in life have a catch. But this one’s worth it. Cos you’re worth it (are you?) (aren’t you?)

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RUNCHAT: interview on-the-run with Live Marianne Noven

 

Live (what a fab [real] name!!!) is a theatre specialist currently doing her BA at the Aberystwyth University (it cannot be easy to be Welsh, or be a dyslexic Welsh, having to swim your way through so many consonants….I’d need more time to fill up forms too.). A keen runner, Live aims to synthesis running with her performative work, and wants to put up a piece for her final year show in May. Exciting!! At the meantime, she is filming/interviewing people who run. I was one of them. This took place at Regents Park, just after a shower (not me/her/us, but by god or rather Mother Nature or just plain fracking good old Nature or rather nature). (Check out my suave moves and running pace of about 1 cm per hour, and boasting about how running demands ‘no technique’ to justify my own wobblycrappy technique or lack thereof). Live travelled 10 hours both ways from Wales, via train, to be in London… A trip I may take to see her work. And to see the work of one of her profs, Dr Andrew Filmer, who researches performativity and running  – and walks the talk or rather runs the talk by making/co-ercing/forcing his students to run. Nice. I must rope him in for my New Interdisciplinary Research School Of Running that I am setting up in Runswick Bay (grand opening: 2084).