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T o quote Kele Okereke, "Why is it important to know what I had for breakfast? Or who I went to bed with? Or what sneakers I am wearing? If it's relevant to understanding my music, then so be it. But if it's purely to satisfy the media's obsession with celebrity, then no thanks. I don't want to play that game." But still, I shall tell you about me.
L et's cut through all this crap and constant fight against pretension. University application is becoming a slog, hoping to get in at St.Andrews. Things are looking upwards, and generally downwards at a pint. Depression was cool, happy for deep people. But now is the time optimism was cool. Let's stop listening to Lost Souls by Doves, and instead listen to some easy summer tunes- Chutes Too Narrow? I want cricket in the park, easy times with friends, artistic pretension and the perfect combination of beer and a setting sun.
A bout myself and you, my friends. On a superficial level I love all of you, but forming close and binding friendships requires a person with a complete lack of ignorance, an ability to be jibed, and only egoism where deserved. And thankfully some of you are those :)
S o am I defined by the works and words of others? At the moment yes, through a general feeling of complete cultural inferiority and being too retarded to define myself in a world overpopulated by characters. Why is this? This is because this gives me a desperate desire to listen to more music, to read more literature and philosophy next to the River Hiz on the grass, and watch more films borrowed from WHSmith's. And let's face it, we're all cuturally inferior. I only found out who Son House was today (9/06/07), and how he influenced the White Stripes.
H onestly, I want to be genius. Not genius like Einstein, Mozart or Louis Pasteur. I wish to compare to the guitairmanship on Big Love, to Jack Nicholson in Cuckoo's Nest, to Ian Botham at Headingley. I want to be something which will be recognised for being amazing, the kind of genius which comes not with thorough application but by natural flair. The kind of genius which exists through Jim Morrison's drug abuse, the profanities of Noel Gallagher and the incorrect footwork of Trescothick. I want to touch upon something that no-one else has touched upon. I want to be a hero in an age of the anti-hero.
