Jeeeeeeez, just aint nuttin like the start of summer, eh gayboy? Everyone's in such a good mood, it's unstoppable. I wonder if violent crime goes down around this time. Probably not. Well, almost certainly not. Worth finding out though. Actually that's not true either. Just forget it.
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Anyway, enough nonsense. Wearing my rolex came out on cd on monday, so yesterday i went to HMV to buy a copy. Only apparently they dont sell singles anymore. So i bought one online, a big version that comes with 7 remixes. But then i got worried that this wouldn't boost wiley's chart performances, cos i once heard that singles with more than four tracks dont count. And so i considered getting the two-track version as well. But then i didnt.
Point is, i care about this. It's the first single i've bought since 'Something' by Ash when I was 10. Cos i like wiley, you see, and i like the song, so it really works out that i should buy the single. He just deserves this so much. It was weird going out to buy the single. It felt like voting. Which, actually, i guess you could actually say was what singles were in the olden days when kids had just the amount of pocket money to buy one single a week (as i did).
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The other day in oxfam someone seriously came up and asked me, 'do you have richard hammond's latest?'
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I've just found out mark ronson's supporting jay-z when i see him in july and i'm looking forward to it in a perverse way cos it'll be an opportunity to see what, if anything, mark ronson actually does.
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I saw dead poets society the other day. An alright film, but i think we've all now seen enough about stiff conformist schoolkids learning the beauty of the arts, havent we? What i really want to see is a film about a bunch of art students and young actors having a world-opening epiphany as they learn the beauty of consumer capitalism.
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heh fantastic, I know exactly what you mean about buying singles being like voting. I think it's fantastic that shops dont sell them anymore though, as they do little to further the music business morally, as they are always a money making venture and it means bands wont be forced to create something chart friendly. however i guess some bands (battles, for example) need to be told "come on guys, something for radio 1" or else they get lost in their own world and forget that they need to be accessible to a newcomer to their sound.
yeah we did about summer and violent crime last year in psychology, turns out it goes up cos people drink outside more and end up hitting each other. apparently. sorry to piss on the bonfire x
Love this.
You were years ahead of me in wanting both nonconformism and antinonconformism. Kids defo should be reminded to be themselves, but also that they don't have to try too hard to be themselves. The anti-Dead Poet's is probably some 60s Soviet realism about Stakhanov.
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