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Hey ET,
Remember sending me a 'lucky dip'? I know I actually quite liked some of yr discarded music, but I can't remember which of it I liked. Oh - Ray Rumours and Ennio Morricone. And, um...
Anyway, I thought I'd drop you a line, an email even, because you're leaving the UK. Are you getting a 'proper job'? Will you still write for Plan B?
Yeah. I thought of writing to you and saying "best wishes", and all. But I forgot, until today's English writing exam. For GCSE. The best two options I had were 'Describe a dream world', but I doubted I could do it as well as Debord could so I left it since I couldn't fill 4 pages with "permanent revolution". So I chose "Write about a famous person. Explain why you admire them." I wrote about you for 4... 3 pages.
Don't look so shocked! (Or indifferent). It was either you or Graeme Obree. I didn't even know the year of Obree's 24 hour record triumph, so I did you. 7 paragraphs. I lied a lot, and said that Alan McGee and The Guardian praised Plan B. Said that you called Pearl Jam "awful". Said that NME sacked you in '86. Said that kids only bothered you to comment on how cool yr myspace photo with Kim Deal of rock group The Breeders was. I lied a lot. Sorry.
The crux of the essay was that, with pissing off to the UK when Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Alice In Chains and The Smoshing Pampkins became popular and running CTCL for 12 issues and pissing off to Australia, you 'stuck to yr guns' or something. I basically murdered a Wikipedia article. But included lots of lovely wordplay to get that article an A* in my name. Please don't complain to the exam board, because I fell over myself in Latin and Chemistry and now German and soon Physics so that I could get Bs or something. I want to do well in English, likewise in History, and one dayh write some stuff. A little bit like the 'famous' Everett True, or Kurt Vonnegut, who I like reading. I wanted to do work experience with Plan B magazine but didn't get a reply. Oh well.
I hope you don't take offence at me contacting you, or writing about you. Don't worry, I didn't call you my "hero". I'm just really bad at keeping myself together in emails. Whatever, dude. I'm going to do a 'zine' with my friend Abby because we both want to and we have a summer and the ideals and iPods and internet connections to do it, and I don't want to link you to another useless blog. Maybe I can send a copy to Australia (I said Melbourne in the exam). For the good times - those I think you've given me. Hope you and yr family are well.
Phil
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