Sinister: makes no difference who you are...

[Helen]

I saw Mercury Rev on the tele (Oz TV... because I live with the wizard) the 
other night and they did (quite a fine) cover of 'when you wish upon a 
star'. And a Dylan cover as well, He was a friend (of mine?).
Interesting. Does covering a Disney song make you less cool? Because I'm 
sure it has been done many times before. (or even covering Bob Dylan, 
(although almost every band has done that), to those Dylan haters out there, 
although I like the man myself).

(I think I am the winner of how many brackets you can use in a paragraph)

Maybe it makes you more cool, like a 'I don't give a stuff about coolness' 
cool. Soon we'll have B&S covering the theme from Pocahontas and the Beta 
band doing a 6 minute experimental piece of Beauty and the Beast. But is 
there a ''I don't give a stuff about coolness' cool' cool. And if so where 
does it stop? Is there a limit to what is anti-cool and therefore 'hip', as 
opposed to things that are so not hip that there is no way that they can 
become cool.

Don't worry I don't understand that sentence very much either.

Personally I really don't give a stuff, because:
1) coolness, non-coolness it's all relative
2) I quite liked Pinocchio anyway
3) and lastly because I'm taking the piss out of those people and 
establishments who like to draw lines in the fickle world of entertainment, 
(I mean by saying this band is cool, but that band isn't, they make it such 
a thin line when really there isn't one at all. Because as soon as you draw 
a line in the sands of entertainment, then a wave of popular opinion comes 
in and washes it away and you have to start again.... now you see why I 
never did English because my metaphors are crap. Ha.)

but what I can tell you for certain is that I spend way too much time in 
transit every day and have nothing to do except wonder and laugh at stupid 
shit like this.

Helen

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