Sinister: 25...Feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive

[Paul Arathoon]

Idleberry's post was a near carbon copy of the one I had been composing in 
my head as I was herded onto the 7.54am Home Counties Daily Mail Hell train 
which gets me into Moorgate and the City.

Well..nearish carbon copy- I love the new album, Idles doesn't. Not that it 
matters.

ON BEING 25
I turned 25 not two weeks ago. So far the only material difference is that I 
seem to have been promoted to the 25-29 age group for all marketing purposes 
so I get to tick a different box when filling in useless surveys. But Idles 
is right about the cut off line...There were many jobs I went for last year 
where the fact I wasn't 21, fresh-faced  with no experience of life, just 
out of university counted against me. Maybe I couldn't be manipulated into a 
perfect corporate employee like they could. Oh well, it worked out ok in the 
end.

There are some things I have not achieved by now which I wanted to do. I 
wanted to write a book, I still think I can but I've only got 12 months to 
do it before The Career kicks in and I have no time whatsoever for myself. 
So...simple really, by my 26th birthday I need to have written a book. I 
would like to be The Great American Novel but as a non-American I don;t 
think I count. Though if Arnie can, I surely can.

I still continue to hang onto the vestiges of being a mild mannered 
indie-kid. I walk to work from the station listening to B&S, the Smiths, 
blah blah etc and daydreaming all the time. Yet I am dressed so 
conservatively and I occasionally wear a pin-striped suit and blend in with 
all of the others.."The Shame Of It" screams my indie kid inner-self. "It's 
The Inevitability of Growing UP" my adult self smoothly reassures me before 
steering me into the nearest over-priced coffee shop.

Apologies to those over 25 who are currently thinking *TSK wait 'til you get 
to 30/40/50*. And to those under 25 who have no idea what I'm on about.

ON THE DVD
It is, without doubt, fantastic. The credits with Get Me Away From Here.. 
made me feel incredibly nostalgic and it felt like some chapter somewhere in 
a book I didn't realise I had been reading had closed. Then I got sensible 
and watched Ian Duncan Smith take a battering from various colleagues. his 
theme tune should be Get Me Away From Here.

It's been well worth the wait to see all the footage. I spent hours trying 
to find that version of Rhinestone Cowboy on Napster/Audiogalaxy/kazaa and 
now I have it with moving pictures and sounds and in colour marvellous.

And I didn't quite appreciate how classically Scottish good looking Isobel 
is either.

The End.

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