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Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Bed-blogging
For me, blogging has always been something I do whilst at work. I'm not quite sure why - I've got iBy wirelessly connected to the w-w-web at home, so it's absolutely no bother to blog from home. Perhaps it's the way I started blogging from work, all those years ago, as a way of learning more about this internet thing for my work doing internet things.
Anyway, I haven't been in a particularly bloggy frame of mind recently at my current work, mainly because I've had lots of work to do, and I've been doing that instead. I know, it's cheeky, but I figure they'll never find out that I'm actually working flat out all day long. If they ever suspected I was working hard and not spending my time posting whimsy nonsense on my blog, I think it could be curtains for me.
So I'm in bed at the moment. I've had a nice quiet evening during which I only watched 1/2 hour of TV, made a babyhobo tshirt for a customer and had a bath whilst listening to the radio. A simple, empty evening.
Or so it sounds. In fact, it was quite thought-provoking. Whilst in the bath, I was listening to The Lockup on Radio 1 and I found myself wishing I'd tuned the radio to another station before having lowered myself into the water: the music just sounded really boring, bland and trashy thrashy. Have you ever heard of 'Everytime I Die', 'Throwdown' or 'The Bled'? Neither had I. And I wasn't immediately impressed. However, I quite liked 'Bedouin Soundclash', which kind of spoils my point slightly, so I'm pretending I don't like them as well, for the purposes of this post.
So here is my point: when I was a cool kid, I was very into my music. I knew loads about it, went to gigs, wrote reviews, worked in a music shop, even had a band and wrote my own songs. I was cool, and my music was cool, and I would always be into cool music. As I've grown older, I've moved away from cool so incredibly slowly that I hadn't even realised, and I'm now an old fogey when it comes to music. There are a couple of young girls (20) at work who are into 'Him' and when they asked me if I liked 'Him' I replied, 'Who's he?'
I know it sounds obvious, but when we move through life we take ourselves with us. This means we can only live our own life, experience our own stuff. Some people do remain pretty objective though, by making themselves see things from other's perspectives. Taking a step back from yourself and experiencing someone else's stuff - music, way of life, food, culture, driving style, sense of humour, religion - every now and then is vital to being a 'good person'.
And it's the only way to always be into cool music
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