Unladen Swallow Productions?  Why? Why why why? Because I am a big Monty Python fan you silly bastards.. The first thing I made under that name (with a lot of help from classmates) was our high school's 1992 Video Yearbook. The best part of our senior year... The second thing was for video class in college, a scene from "When Harry Met Sally..." that I had a great time directing live.  Guess which scene...  uh huh, that one.  So yes, I loved video production...which is why I messed up and never got an internship while in schoo then worked fro a horrible bastard that made used car dealership commericials...nah i fucked up didn't i? and I have since had various random jobs one after the other and...anyway, the "current" Unladen Swallow "Production" is my book, Neurotic City....

The first Python film I ever saw was "Meaning of Life".  I was 15 or so...  The film startled me. I was maybe put off by all the vomiting, I think.  I remember my best friends boyfriend* singing "Every Sperm is Sacred" for his choir class.  And my boyfriend continually saying "oh fishy fishy fishy fish" and "marching up and down the square".  A month or two later we rented "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", my best friend, her cousin, and I.  That was when I fell in love.  And the exact moment was, for some reason, the part when Lancelot runs towards the swamp castle repeatedly. Over and over starting from the same point each time.  From then on I was insane.  It is the one of the few pop-cultural things that I am equally passionate about as an adult.     Strange (or geeky) to say, but their shows and films have often gotten me though bad times.  Reminding me of the absurdity of it all.  My absolute favorite Python film is "Life of Brian" *Bizarre and ironic thing happened 7 years after I wrote the above...I married the best friend of the boyfriend after not seeing him for about 17 years!

I am not writing extensively about Monty Python because there is so much info out there already...and also I am lazy as hell...but here are a few suggested sites with loads of Python info.... Official Site-Pythonline Pythonland Monty Python's Completely Useless Website Monty Python's Spamalot- a new musical John Cleese's Official Site--you have to pay to join-d'oh!  Eric Idle's Rutland Isles site-you don't have to pay just to look, whoo-hoo! Michael Palin's Travels Site-about all the lovely places he's been, the lucky, lucky bastard! Graham Chapman Archives Terry Jones fan site- don't call him "Two Sheds" Terry Gilliam's  film Tideland...

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