There are so many musicians whom I've loved at the beginning of their careers then got sick of when they started taking themselves seriously. Case in point, Lana Del Rey.
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I was up late last night, treating my friend to a long and winding conversation which covered Nietzsche, Richard Nixon, bad taxi drivers, exes, Stonewall, Warhol's Factory, various musicians, and a bunch of other tenuously related rubbish. Bit of a monologue really. Not sure if she's still my friend!
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Kind of been obsessed with the Velvet Underground recently. Fun fact: there's a velvet spider which lives underground, and it's named for Lou Reed. If only they could find another, there could be a Nico spider.
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I spent a lot of time as a kid trying to work out whether my favourite musicians were gay or not. Too much time, really, and I didn't have reliable internet access (15KB/s dial-up!) so I couldn't do any real research nor any fact-checking. I was wrong with almost every one. I guessed right for Freddie Mercury (I didn't find out how he died for a long time after I started listening to Queen) and Lou Reed, but I was completely off for Mick Jagger, which was quite a disappointment for young-me.
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I talk about nothing but music half the time. Whenever my family rings I end up lecturing them on how much better Let It Bleed is to Out of Our Heads or whatever. Got to the point that one of my uncles is completely sick of the subject.
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I'm a twin, but my twin doesn't really like me.
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The main reason my twin doesn't like me is my sexuality. He's extremely religious in a very traditional sense and on the few occasions I still see him, he just gives me an earful about going to hell.
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I was mistaken for a lesbian yesterday. It was quite amusing. Girl with a buzz cut and Doc Martens came up to me in a cafe and started hitting on me. As soon as I spoke, she figured out I was just an extremely effeminate-looking man and lost interest altogether. I had to laugh to myself.
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I keep forgetting to eat lately. I have no appetite due to this throat infection.
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This might come over as misogynistic, but I get really confused when lesbians call themselves "gay". I've run into some really butch-looking lesbians who call themselves "gay" online, and, from their small, fuzzy profile pictures and with no name, I assume they're men. Then I message them, or else I refer to them in a related discussion as "he" this and that, and they take offence. I wouldn't mind were it not so confusing!
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