I was just thinking of ordering the books when I heard there's likely going to be a mail strike in the next few days. Nooooo! (And I've got the Greatest Day and How the Mighty Fall CDs on the way to me right now!)
I've only had time to watch the first bit of the Italian interview, but it's brilliant. I love Jason and Robbie snarking over the soup and cigs.
I ADORE The Insomnia Years! It's one of the stories I wish I had written. Or I wish I was ABLE to have written.
I'm with you there. It's also the story, along with Still Waters, that convinced me I really wanted to write TT, even if I didn't have a hope of being as good as Halo. (BTW, your Our Lives Would Have Meaning is another story I come back to again and again, so bravo!)
If I'd even heard of them back in the day, I would have found them uncool as well. I was also doing the BritPop thing back then: Pulp and Blur and Oasis, not to mention Nick Cave and Nirvana. Plus, I'm older than them all-three years older than Howard!--so they would have been babies to me back then. But I can now appreciate that they have a lot in common with the over-produced pop and new wave I adored as a teenager--Duran Duran and a-ha chief amongst them--and can embrace them fully. And while I never really gave a rat's arse what anyone thought of my musical taste (which even as a teenager was full of odd bands and enthusiasms) now that I'm older I really don't care what anyone else thinks.
That's the nice thing about ageing: I can love whatever band I want to.
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Date: 2011-05-20 03:35 am (UTC)I've only had time to watch the first bit of the Italian interview, but it's brilliant. I love Jason and Robbie snarking over the soup and cigs.
I ADORE The Insomnia Years! It's one of the stories I wish I had written. Or I wish I was ABLE to have written.
I'm with you there. It's also the story, along with Still Waters, that convinced me I really wanted to write TT, even if I didn't have a hope of being as good as Halo. (BTW, your Our Lives Would Have Meaning is another story I come back to again and again, so bravo!)
If I'd even heard of them back in the day, I would have found them uncool as well. I was also doing the BritPop thing back then: Pulp and Blur and Oasis, not to mention Nick Cave and Nirvana. Plus, I'm older than them all-three years older than Howard!--so they would have been babies to me back then. But I can now appreciate that they have a lot in common with the over-produced pop and new wave I adored as a teenager--Duran Duran and a-ha chief amongst them--and can embrace them fully. And while I never really gave a rat's arse what anyone thought of my musical taste (which even as a teenager was full of odd bands and enthusiasms) now that I'm older I really don't care what anyone else thinks.
That's the nice thing about ageing: I can love whatever band I want to.
Yes!