Showing posts with label Edwyn Collins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edwyn Collins. Show all posts

Friday, April 22, 2011

30 Day Song Challenge - day 22

day 22 - a song that you listen to when you’re sad

Another day, another bullsh- . . . oh, wait, I've used that line already. And, anyway, isn't this question just this question by any other name?

I guess there's a certain melancholy to Edwyn Collins's 'Low Expectations' which fits in with a blue mood:

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

"Don't want to live in an Adidas world with the Adidas boys and the Adidas girls."

Is it the first of April?

"I suffered from a condition known as obsessive branding disorder - a combination of compulsive shopping and a reliance on status symbol brands for the maintenance of one's self esteem."

Nah, just turns out that he's got a book to sell.

Liked this knowing quote from an interview that Boorman did with the Press Gazette from a while back:

"Ultimately it's impossible to abandon brands altogether, says Boorman.
'The final twist in the book, if the book is a success, is it doesn't matter how many brands I get rid of, one new brand is created — and that's Neil Boorman, the anti-brand bloke.'"
[Quote found here.]

Perhaps the quote is too knowing.