I see your ‘Room on Fire’ era Strokes reference, Paul. And I like it.
Funny how The Strokes themselves have been labelled as ‘Indie Sleaze’ and a recontextualised and (further) commoditised version of this aesthetic is being peddled to the Zoomers.
Now is this a sign of the last gasps, the death spasms of the old world, or is it simply me who is getting old and has now witnessed the Twenty Year Rule of pop culture play out from both ends?
Who can say? But it’s fun to contemplate such things anyway.
And also for better or worse I feel like I turned my Final Exam paper in early and am now looking at my watch waiting for the results to be posted up on the notice board.
Brilliant Paul, loads in this resonated. Have been quite astonished at the lining up of macro happenings and personal goings-on or progression over the last couple of years, your posts are quite enlightening in this regard. Have definitely felt a shift to 'spring' in the past week, possibly down to the weather where I am making the leap, though maybe it's all in the stars
It's always interesting - and energising - when your instinctive self catches up with where your rational mind is trying to will it to go. Frustrating while it's doing the work or patiently waiting for time to 'get there', makes complete sense when it happens.
I see your ‘Room on Fire’ era Strokes reference, Paul. And I like it.
Funny how The Strokes themselves have been labelled as ‘Indie Sleaze’ and a recontextualised and (further) commoditised version of this aesthetic is being peddled to the Zoomers.
Now is this a sign of the last gasps, the death spasms of the old world, or is it simply me who is getting old and has now witnessed the Twenty Year Rule of pop culture play out from both ends?
Who can say? But it’s fun to contemplate such things anyway.
And also for better or worse I feel like I turned my Final Exam paper in early and am now looking at my watch waiting for the results to be posted up on the notice board.
Great work here as always, Paul.
Cheers.
Brilliant Paul, loads in this resonated. Have been quite astonished at the lining up of macro happenings and personal goings-on or progression over the last couple of years, your posts are quite enlightening in this regard. Have definitely felt a shift to 'spring' in the past week, possibly down to the weather where I am making the leap, though maybe it's all in the stars
It's always interesting - and energising - when your instinctive self catches up with where your rational mind is trying to will it to go. Frustrating while it's doing the work or patiently waiting for time to 'get there', makes complete sense when it happens.