I'm also off to get a hair cut. Not sure which one though, buy shoe polish, choose and air a suit and all the stuff I need to do for my sister's wedding on Saturday. I'm hoping for rain - I suspect she isn't.
Thursday, 2 July 2009
Work sucks
That's quite enough for one day. I'm off to buy tickets for The Unthanks (formerly Rachel Unthank and the Winterset, a very creepy folk band) and for Marcus Brigstocke, who makes my feeble attempts at sarcasm seem very amateur indeed. His rants are easily available on the web and are well worthy finding, such as this one:
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What did you end up buying as a wedding gift?
Can't tell you until next week - she sometimes drops in to this 'umble location!
I like Marcus Brigstocke, but not the speech he gave whilst at glastonbury.
In between n.e.r.d and Fleet foxes he came out and gave a lecture on trident and say no etc etc.
Yes it is an important topic I don't dispute that. But to be honest it was not something I wanted to be forced into listening to on a sunny afternoon whilst waiting for the next band to come on. And I don't really think his lecture/rant had the desired effect, as half the people were either to pissed or sunburnt to care.
Anyway all im saying is, if he wanted to make this speech he should have had an allocated time in some field where people could have gone and listened to what he had to say. And im sure then his words would have been taken on board.
Being forced to listen to lectures/ talks / ramblings on things such as getting behind a movement or joining a religion make me angry. If I want to show interest in something or change my religion for example, I can find out out about it for myself.
There's definitely a time and a place for these things, and you have to be feeling receptive - being hijacked certainly isn't conducive to persuasion: Tony Benn always speaks at Glastonbury and goes down well, but that's because people choose to see him.
I'm not sure it's so easy to find out stuff by yourself - how do you know what's out there if nobody tells you? But there's certainly a right way to do it.
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