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I am currently listening to
the new My Chemical Romance single (on the radio, I've not gone insane and bought it). No sign of a hook turning up yet. Heaven help us if they ever discover structure. Judging by the twiddly guitar, they'll turn into a sort of emo Iron Maiden. It's just noise! They make me feel old.
Going on outside my office right now
The biggest funeral I have ever seen. I can count 7 black cars with huge flower arrangements on top, but there may be more round the corner. Two hearses, because the flowers wouldn't fit in just one. Dozens - possibly hundreds - of people. A speaker set up outside to broadcast to the inevitable overspill. I have no idea who the man they're there for is (I intially wondered if they were re-burying Diana), but he's "Daddy", "Uncle" and "Pal". A woman with a double pushchair went in before everyone else. Details tell a bit of the story...
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no! no I don't want it!
They're like a plague in London right now. Walk 20 yards down any street (this is in the City, not sure about elsewhere, but I imagine it's similar for most of the centre) and you could theoretically end up clutching 13 papers. Not different papers, mind. 7 copies of London Lite and 6 of thelondonpaper. On Friday they were handing out bits of the Telegraph. Enough! At least give me an alternative to all these right-wing publications (London Lite is produced by Associated Newspapers, fount of all things Daily Mail, thelondonpaper is Murdoch's News International. The Torygraph hardly needs an introduction).
And they're so bloody aggressive at the moment. I understand it's something to do with gaining the distribution right within the stations themselves (as Associated's Metro does in the mornings), but fuck! Back off, baseball cap-wearing paper-muggers! If I want it, I'll take it. Don't shove it at me.
Having said all that, if you need something to wrap your kitchen waste in before putting it in the recycling bin it's an ideal situation out there...
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