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Date: 25 March 2003 11:40:00
Thanks for all your comments chaps and girlies, most encouraging, just don't want your expectations to be too high! So top news today is that the start date for uni. has been put back a few weeks 'cos my supervisor is away and I need to get together with him and chat it all over before I start. Which is a bit frustrating, but such is life huh.
So, CD of the minute has got to be 'Original Pirate Material' by The Streets. The Streets is Mike Skinner from Birmingham, who could be just anyother student doing an engineering degree. Even if you're not usually into garage beats you really should give this a listen, if only to look into an accurate reflection of 'Essex-boy society'. It's hilarious and serious social commentary. Every observation is totally true. It bursts with homemade wit, bristles with references to homemade bongs, lager louts, fights, fags, brandy, etc, etc. You'd be forgiven for thinking that it's totally nihilistic, but it also reflects the life-giving side of clubbing:
'The night slowly fades and goes slow motion
All the commotion becomes flowing emotions
The same piano loops over
Arms wave, eyes roll back and jaws fall open
You see in soft focus
Chatting to this bloke in the toilets
Dizzy new heights, blinded by the lights,
These people are for life
It's all back to his place at the end of the night
They could settle wars with this, if only they will'
It's totally bedroom made too, a laptop, a mic and...well, that's it! And that's half the reason why I like it, because Mike Skinner uses what he's got to describe his life. Now, what's more nihilistic, a genuine heart-felt, wit filled, Jamaican woodbine hazed, skint student, description of life, or strung-out, multi-millionaire rock-stars writing countless bland movie soundtracks? Bon Jovi this isn't.
Quote of the minute: "The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls". Pablo Picasso.
Feel free to discuss, disagree, whatever, but most importantly, feel free.