from: Jimbaud
to: Tess
date: Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:15 AM

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I was just thinking about that when I went for a crap. All I can think about is the Russell had the right idea.

Also, from the Onion AV club interview with Mike Skinner (worth a read):

“The first two were nominated for the prestigious Mercury Prize, no surprise given Skinner's singular melding of UK dance music with a literate, narrative stop-start flow unlike any other rapper on either side of the Atlantic. He rejected rap's usual posturing in favor of exquisite details about quotidian middle-class struggles like bad ecstasy and dead cell-phone batteries”.

What’s brilliant is that this highlights the different meanings of the term “middle class” between America (=blue collar working class) and UK (=acacia beignet) but whats really funny is that, actually, bad ecstasy and dead cell phone batteries are quotidian middle-class (=acacia beignet) struggles but you would it would sound very weird to describe them as that in the UK.
Anyway…