The Language Fool
References for Ken Parsons
Ken Parsons, The Language Fool, References
Introduction
I have 30 years of language teaching experience. I have lived in Amsterdam more than half my life and am fluent in Dutch and my grasp of the grammar is second to none. I have taught Dutch for about 15 years. I have been working intensively for Learnlight for 3 years and have successfully completed Dutch courses
‘Can I be on the guest list please.’
I run a lot of shows. I appreciate a diverse crowd. Always have done. Some people in the messed up world we live in don’t have the resources to enjoy live performances. ‘Bread and Circuses’, well these days the people who make the bread often don’t even have the ‘bread’ to enjoy the circuses.
So, if people on a low income, underpaid workers, students, single family parents or PROPER anarchists ask for a freebie then fine as long as they act respectfully at a show. I say proper anarchists: well: those who try and live off the grid and outside the constraints of brutal capitalism – this applies to your European ‘leftwing’ squatters and equally to American ‘right wing’ libertarians . Both groups have grasped the essential brutal truths of the rat race.
This is the wisdom the Walden embraced and this was how I lived in Berlin for many years: we worked, we were busy, we were active not lazy bums. We would organize squat kitchens. You cooked one day a week for the collective and meals were then free for the rest of the week. We had to purchase ingredients from the float of money but this way everyone ensured that everyone got a square meal everyday- outside the parameters of modern profit based food industry.
When however I meet someone who sits in my local bar and is forever boasting about their pay rise – a pay rise which would keep a single parent family in housing and food for a year- and they say ‘wow a comedy night, can you put me on the guest list’, well, then I get rather annoyed.
To these people I wonder: do you go to the baker and say ‘I’m a big shot money man, can I have my bread for free?’
Do they go to the carpenter, the mason, the bricklayer, the teacher, the truck driver, the transport workers, the health workers, the shopworkers, the supermarket staff, those in the armed forces and emergency services, the farmer and say ‘Hey I make millions, do I have to pay you!’
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRh
ANYWAY. This Sunday Marcel Lucont at Nutty Anita’s It is 12 Euros. Crime that is sooooo cheap but Alexis- the man behind Marcel is a pretty cool dude and he both helped me get over a terrible gig and is one of the good guys in comedy. Left leaning but an artist not a politician and just an inspiration over the years. Here in Amsterdam. Imagine you had the chance to see a Peter Sellers or Spike Milligan or Ruby Wax in a cosy setting.
A night you will tell your grandkids about. You going to be sitting at home on Sunday watching the TV or trying to chill for Monday morning? Well come and watch a brilliant comedian and chill with us. Kind of act that really embellishes and changes your life for the better
Miss this show at your peril.
Hype? Nope.
Guy from Abba gets married again....wonder what songs the DJ will play at the wedding :)
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