Normality
I get get creeped out by the commonplace sometimes. It just gives me a chill of nihilism and a kind of sucking inevitability. For example in Blurs "Common People" the line "with wood chip on the walls" really scares me as it is just so inescapably hopeless but summed up with a tiny piece of interior decoration. Any film involving the happy domestic life of the American Midwest. Up In The Air made me petrified of the nice average that so many people aspire to.

It is not that I want or expect more it is simply that I hope there is more to life than that.
(The Liquorice Allstar I need cricket, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 17:04, 15 replies)

Pedantry requires that I point out
that it's Oasis's The Drowners that contains the line "with wood chip on the walls", rather than Blur's Common People
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 17:07, closed)

Not sure if I am being played here...
But "with wood chip on the walls" was Common People, by Pulp.
(The Kwyjibo A big, dumb, balding North American ape., Tue 12 Apr 2011, 17:11, closed)

Pulp.
Sorry guys, it's actually "Disco 2000" by pulp, not "common people"

I'm a pedant *shrug*
(fuzzyjumpers savaged a lion on, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 17:17, closed)

You all make very good points
It is indeed Disco 2000 by Pulp I was thinking of.

You sir may have two points while I go to the library to re do my Britpop homework
(The Liquorice Allstar I need cricket, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 17:19, closed)

Dammit!

(The Kwyjibo A big, dumb, balding North American ape., Tue 12 Apr 2011, 17:19, closed)

Anyway, 'Common People' was Paul Young.
what?
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 17:23, closed)

don't be silly
it was William Shatner
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 18:42, closed)

And it was Suede
who wrote 'The Drowners'

I know many a limp wristed indie fop who would choke on their gladioli and brown rice diets if you mentioned that lumpen meat heads Oasis wrote that song.
(Monchberter Can't go wrong with Doom, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 22:45, closed)

If you look up, right now
i think you'll see a joke flying above your head.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 8:23, closed)

^This^

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 11:05, closed)

Oh yeah.

(Monchberter Can't go wrong with Doom, Wed 13 Apr 2011, 12:50, closed)

isn't that song
by Suede?
(hutchers, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 20:39, closed)

At least all this
chat about Pulp might have distracted you from your existential angst.

Dammit - can't shift Disco 2000 from my internal jukebox now.
(judgetheobscure used to sweep in butchers' shops., Tue 12 Apr 2011, 17:23, closed)

I quite liked Pulp.
But am continously amused by their keyboard player being named after a venereal disease.
Edit: It's to be hoped she never gets it on with the guy recruited for second guitar with Nirvana -- no woman would be happy about that result.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 17:28, closed)

i onow what you mean
Those bleak 80's American mid west movies were soul destroying. You know, the ones were the farmers are going out of business or the harvest didn't come up or something like that. Roger and me had me wondering what the fucking point was.
(OTT, Tue 12 Apr 2011, 21:09, closed)