The Importance of Being Idle

Mid-life Crisis Off The Starboard Bow!

Okay, so now the Da Vinci Code is REALLY starting to bug me. I know its made up, but having supposedly smart characters saying such utterly ridiculous things... that really pisses me off. Also, and this is something that is really getting my goat, is the use of the word 'symbology', as in Robert Langon is a professor of..., I mean seriously, if he's a 'professor' of it, then surely he knows the name for his discipline is semiotics. So yeah, everytime I see symbology, or worse symbologist or even the quite amazing symbologically, a little part of me dies inside. And yet I keep reading. My initial judgement seems to have been a bit generous; it really is just a pot-boiler, airport type thriller, and while it's dressed up smart every word that comes out of it's mouth reveals it to be moronically stupid.
Yesterday I finally made the switch away from Q. For a year or so now, Q has been my music magazine of choice, and I have to say it always made me feel a bit uncomfortable cos it's clearly aimed at people my age who want to be a little bit hip, but who secretly still love U2. The ridiculously, glowingly positive review of Coldplay's X&Y (a record which is, to me, the equivalent of some quite nice wallpaper) made me uneasy, but this month sealed the deal with a two page review of a bloody Robbie Williams album, and then the Q Awards really confirmed my suspicions: Q is written for old people who want to live somewhere safe and comfortable. Seriously, Coldplay "Best band in the world today"? James Blunt "Best new act"? FUCK OFF! So, I went and did something I hadn't done since I was a student: I bought a copy of NME. Now, its changed since my day, it used to be a newspaper format, and now its a magazine format, but that's about all that has changed. Still out there, championing the new while celebrating what is ACTUALLY good about the music we already have. And unlike Q, its actually full of bands and music that I know and like. Maybe I'm a bit of an indie poser, but I think there is very little more exciting than finding a new band and sharing them with somebody else. Not too many somebody elses, obviously, cos then everybody'd know about them and that'd spoil it... oh yeah, there it is, indie poser. Now ask me if I'm bothered. No, no I'm not.
Okay, now I really do need to get on with my day a bit. I've been putting off doing laundry for a while for some reason, and although my body aches and protests, I really have got to run and cycle today too. But Batman Begins is sitting on my desk, inviting me to waste the afternoon in its dark embrace...
No! To the laundry cave!

posted by BadMonkey @ 10:35 AM