Firstly, can I just say that title implies that the working class have to strive to be world class. Like…it just compounds the percieved “working class” stigma to me. But, hey, that’s probably just me.
I digress.
I guess it could have had a worse title like, say, “Working Class Made Good” or something. I dunno. “The Overachievers”? Lol Who knows?
Anyway!
I enjoyed the interview. But as I drifted in and out of my interrupted sleep through the night, filled with all these bloody hang ups playing out in my mildly lucid dreams and parts of the interview replayed over in my mind, I had questions that I’d love to ask Jim. Like, for example – what kinds of things did he write when he was younger? He talked about needing to write out a dialogue that was in his head. So, was it just…ideas? Was it an internal monologue? Did he write lines of poetry? Did he write passages of fiction? Was it observational stuff? Just like things he seemed to do when he became a songwriter? That observational thing, “the things people say, the things you read, the things you see, the things you think about…” (which he says in the interview on the picture disc interview that was released whenever it was…1982?)
Also, I’d love to know if he remembers the first thing he ever borrowed from Govanhill library that day his dad took him there to get his library “ticket” as he calls it (we were issued library cards in Oz – okay, it may have still been paper at the time, but it was deemed a “card”). I wonder if he ever borrowed music. The talk of the library always reminds me of borrowing their music from the library. Having a clear memory of borrowing and listening to New Gold Dream once or twice and …. I dunno what happened. Why it didn’t seem to chime with me then because other things in their catalogue obviously did and I was quite the fair-weather fan then.
Anyway…I am getting SSOOOO distracted from getting this assignment done. YES! I’m talking uni, again! And God knows it SHOULD be my priority. But here I am…again…going on about this man! Bloody hell!!!!!
I’m writing about Delphi and the Sanctuary of Apollo. At the sanctuary are treasuries and dedications that the city-states of Greece constructed as gestures of honour to Apollo and the oracle at Delphi.
I feel like I have my own treasury here, to my “god”. The “Priptonian Treasury”, filled with a scarily large iconography.
On that note….
You can watch the interview HERE – also you can hear the 1982 interview I mentioned in the post HERE