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lyrics
So Dave called, asking where I was. Dave was my boss, and I should’ve been here at work. Sitting at my desk. Typing emails. Answering the phone. Doing spreadsheets. Occasionally popping to the photocopier, mainly to stretch my legs. Occasionally getting up to go to the toilet, or filling and re-filling my plastic cup from the water-cooler, waiting for a “water-cooler moment”, only to return to my desk with stories about the level of performance of the actual water-cooler.
Dave asked me where I was, and I told him I was at home. “I’ve got some catching up to do”, I said. Dave told me that was an invalid excuse. He’d started using words like ‘invalid’ to make himself feel more like my boss. He was new at this. And I made a joke that if I was old and frail, it would be an ‘invalid’ excuse. There was a pause. Dave didn’t laugh. Instead he said “Catching up on what? You need to get your ducks in a row. What have you got to catch up on, eh? Going forward. ” And so I told him.
“I feel pressure. The pressure to see and hear everything, Dave. For years now I have entertained aspirations of completeness. The world keeps making things, building things, creating works of art, paintings, film, TV and music that I fear I will never get to see, hear or experience. I am fatigued by the overwhelming absurdity of choice.
DVD’s, iPods, museums, galleries, radio, digital TV, digital radio, blogs, vlogs, magazines, fanzines, newspapers, books, apps, pamphlets, podcasts, all of it, all of it terrifies me.
And the lists of ‘must-sees, must-haves-simply-unmissables, if you only see one show this year make it this’. The music of Stravinsky, the albums of Jacques Brel, a round-the-world-trip starting in Venezuela, the intracacies of jazz, the bonus features on season three of The Wire, surfing, hang-gliding, the works of Dorothy Parker, Hillaire Belloc, or Engelbert Humperdinck. What if I never get round to any of these? My brain seizes up at the number of options laid before it, Dave, it really does. I have fallen behind, and I’m sure that if I just watch everything there is to watch, read everything there is to read and listen to everything there is to listen to – in my own language of course, I’m not insane- I will be a step closer to understanding the state of the universe and solving the question of why are we here? What’s the point of all this?
You know, I recently discovered that if I listened to my iPod in order, without shuffling, it would take me 3 weeks, 4 days, 6 hours and nineteen minutes. So I need at least a month off. Because people keep on making more and more stuff. In fact, I was wondering, if you in your new position of power could get in touch with whoever is in charge of cultural output, and tell them to please stop. Just for a while. Just until I’ve caught up. Just for a bit.
You know, Stephen Hawking never completed the Ultimate Theory of Everything and I’m convinced the mysteries of the observable universe can be unraveled by studying what we’ve accomplished so far. So please, Dave, please make a few calls. Do what you can. I’ve got some catching up to do.”
There was a pause, then Dave said “That’s an ‘invalid’ excuse. Huh. Very good. Just got that. Now, get into work or you’re fired”.
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This might be my favorite thing Daniel has ever recorded. I shared the story part with my children, who also absolutely loved it. The songs are great too. alex79uk
