This started it all. 2 days to go.

This is the song of the day, and it is a song that actually started me on music snobbery. So maybe I don't have a degree in music and can't tell E from C. I am also possibly tone deaf [hence my disastrous grades in mandarin oral tests] But its a kick ass song from the wide genre of cool Britannica. This song also influenced me in style, skulduggery and my taste in men. Its weathering for the soul. I can even say its what got me used to the idea that there is more out there in the world.

Growing up pudgy means you get to grow some personality, its an evolutionary means of not getting lynched on. I mean, come on, you can't run, hunt and neither do you look good. Fat kids who turn into good looking adults are commonly really cool, even if they are too beautiful. That's what it meant to me anyway. I never take lyrics literally, but the thoughts and evocations can sometimes put me in a musical coma. EG Jimi Hendrix's Along the Watchtower. It is my opiate. I think that's how people in drug-free countries get along. Its a transcendental sense of being. Its philosophy without the help of a high. And so I've never needed drugs, and never will.

Suede : Beautiful Ones


Come to think of it, this is pretty advanced listening for a 11 year old.Cheers 1996.
Suede : Saturday Night