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My name is Dean Parkin and I'm a poet based in Suffolk, England. A cross between Eric Morecambe and Philip Larkin, I used to be older than I looked but I'm now catching up fast. I'm currently developing a one man show - Ducks, Trains & Other Tracks - and this blog is the inspiration, influences and the incidentals behind it all.

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Thursday
20Aug2009

Sounds from a town I love

I'm surprised I haven't put any Woody Allen up here yet but now seems a good time with this little film he made shortly after 9/11 to support New York City. It's about overheard conversations on mobile phones (or cellphones as they say in America). It's not his best work but I like the idea of it. And it seems to fit here because I've just written two Very Stationary Mobile Phone stories for my one man show. I do find mobile phones weird. How quickly we've got used to them, how it's just normal now to talk loudly to yourself and not care if anyone is listening. How we expect everyone to have them. And how odd texting is - who would have thought we'd be typing messages on a phone to each other? Developing another language. I didn't see that coming but I suppose I don't have to. Phew.

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