Current mood: HIGHLY AMUSED...
Category: HIGHLY AMUSED... Music
It's been another very busy day for Paul Pious James Deman Giovanni £rd...
Cricket on the radio: 10.45am - 19.00pm
Tour de France on the LIVE TYPE: 12am -14.30pm
Tour De France on the TV: 14.30pm - 16.30pm
Scottish Open Golf on the TV: I6.30-17.00pm
Then there's been the further analysis of the record collection, and the clearing of the backlog of music magazines and newspapers that are haunting Fort Giovanna like dying plants...
Specifically I've been reading a small publication called Love Box...
Love Box is a preview book/promo item for the Lovebox Music Festival which is to take place in the same park that hosted Radioheads whinge fest a coupla weeks back...
Originally located in Clapham, Lovebox has been going on for a few years now, but I'm yet to attend...
Mrs G and one of her sisters managed it a few years ago, but neither came back that excited...
I may go this year...
Yes boss, I badly need to see both Seun Kuti & The Flaming Lips - but I don't have the cash to buy a ticket....
Anyway, this publication is the kind of EAST LONDON IS THE CENTER OF THE FUCKING WORLD!!!! rag, that makes everyone else in the UK and in fact the rest of the world, draw the conclusion that everyone who lives in East London is a self important fashionista cunt....
Yes boss, it's loaded with the general premise that if you're not in East London wearing some jauntily fashionable coloured clothing and pretending to be talented - you might as well be dead
The hoot for me with this magazine, was several fold along these lines (I live in East London - I kow the place is full of some of the most fake, unoriginal and uninteresting creative people the world has to offer) - but below is the thing that tickled me the most...
About half way through there's a photo piece called 'There Goes the Neighbourhood'
Here's the blurb:
They are movers, they are shakers. Artists, designers, chefs. They run galleries, magazines, the most happening bars anywhere (quite seriously) And they are all connected to east London. please meet arguably the most culturally influential group of people in the world right now. We thank you.
Following this is a 9 PAGE?!?!? line up of these 45 heads from the scene, all standing there looking moody, against a white wall, underneath which sits a brief description of who they are and why they are important...
Of course my first response to this was...
HAHA HHAAAAAA HA AH HAAA HAA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
THE VANITY!!!!
And my second response, was to see who all these people are and to see if anyone making the selection had had the good sense to photoshop me PG£ into shot at number 23...
But no, there was no Giovanni - instead it was the usual dull old suspects:
Tracey Emin, the landlady of the Golden Heart pub, a few artists, designers and restauarnteers who's importance in normal people lives is on a par with that of the 14th man to climb Mount Everest in 2003...
Many of the faces are essentially good creative bussinessmen - the kind who think that because they work in creative or related businesses in EAST LONDON, they're only a little less important than Dostoyevsky...
Anyway, the biggest laugh of all, is that the first guy in this line up is a guy called Dan O'Neil...
WHO THE FUCK IS DAN O'NEIL??? I hear you shout?!?!
Dan O'Neil is the guy who published this book and the guy who organises Lovebox....
HA HA HAAAA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAA!!!!
(Mind you, you've got to admire the front of it - I mean who the fuck else would do a list like that and put themselves at the top of it?????)
(apart from me....)
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