I know it’s unfashionable to say it nowadays, what with the price of oil rising by the day, but I really love driving. Having only passed my test just over a year ago and not really having driven much inbetween, it is an experience that I still find completely absorbing. Today I drove from Glasgow to Cumbernauld to Paisley and back again. I didn’t stop to have a look at any of the places — what would be the point? they’d probably only have the same high street shops you see everywhere — I just concentrated on enjoying the sensations of speed and smoothness.
What is fashionable, apparently, are the people on the Observer’s 50 Coolest People list. My own sang-froid prevents me from chasing after such notions as coolness, but I am quite interested in the zeitgeist. So I made an effort (bloody Observer can’t be bothered to link up to most people’s websites) to have a look at who they are and what they’ve done. What I discovered was that none of them appear to be doing anything particularly radical. It’s all the same old street styles we’ve been seeing for the last couple of years.
The only really interesting thing about the list is that to be cool, you apparently have to have a krazy name: Santogold, Ladyhawke, LoveFoxx, Yvan Face Hunter, Charlie Le Mindu, Zaldy Goco, Noki, Blaine Harrison . . . there aren’t many Neils on there. Anyhow, my favourite of the lot is one with the unglamorous name of Rob Ryan whose illustrations are excellent:
heya thanks for saying that .. it is true
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