Style is the answer to

Style is the answer to everything,
a fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing.

To do a dull thing wth style is preferable
to doing a dangerous thing without style.

To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.

Ben Gazzara, taken from Tales of Ordinary Madness

I wonder what Madonna is

I wonder what Madonna is getting all worked up about her new song ‘Music’ ending up on Napster before it’s release. It’s not a masterpiece by any means. Sounds like a what’s-their-name-French band – not Air – kind of rip off, sorry ‘influenced’. :-) Hey, I like Madonna. Everything she’s done. Except… Like a Virgin and La Isla Bonita. Favourite singles: Deeper and Deeper and Justify my Love.

By the way, before there was Napster, and mp3 and all that crap, we were swapping bootlegs and demos and studio outtakes on tapes. Perhaps there weren’t quite as many people then, but there was none of this hysteria about it.

I took on this job

I took on this job to make some extra cash so I can buy my s.o.o.d.. The job is to write ‘surf tips’. Easy peasy for a loggerhead, you’d say. Well yes. But 500? In 22 userfriendly categories? By Tuesday? I just spent about 5 hours doing it and I haven’t got past the 100 mark. Bloody hell.