Bloody millennials – ‘Ello
After last week’s retirement announcement I have been thinking about what this blog stands for, does, says, etc. One of my things is to leave something for future generations to go on, not least my own…
With that in mind I’m going to be sharing my thoughts/ideas/blabs/etcs the sort of stuff you used to hear and share at a club if you were working, that slog from 3am close to 4 am finish was the worst ones for random thoughts being shared only second form the 10pm to 11pm feeling of emptiness…I think since my retirement from the club scene about what I miss and one of those things is the link between the people working it…that was always displayed by the sort of conversations you had
Always thought of doing an overheard on the dancefloor column (I think mixmag or similar did something like that but it was a bit cliched and you got the feeling they were making it up like that FHM and the dwarf/equity card article)...It also would give me the chance to share one of my most favoutritist overheard putdowns of my life…
Another day perhaps.
So picture the scene you’d be chatting stuff just to fill the air or somebody would ask you the most bizarrest question, this is the def time where the ‘100 ducks or duck a 100 times’ type questions came from. It could go from deep philosophical debates/conversations/observations with a variety of managers, randoms, dj’s, sound techs to the absolute randomness of conversing with partakers, dancers, and dancefloor theorists.
Sometimes they’d be serious and one of the things that I’ve heard lamented many times in those scenarios are about the youth of the today, except this time they have a name, now it’s ‘bloody’ millennials…
Heard it many times over the years and experienced it even more so in about this fair city…Love this diatribe as if it’s their fault, like it’s not their fault or something else attaching fault…I feel sorry for them kids, growing up in an unsafe world, only screens for true unjudged company, not being allowed to make mistakes, the blandness of the world in case you stand out, ordinary thinking being accepted as the norm, it’s all a little too much for anyone never mind those in a growing up stage…
It’s thought like these that I will occasionally highlight here, give an outlet for some of the wider held beliefs/rants that us as individuals sometimes have, this will all need to be done under the guise of an acronym, as we all like those don’t we, thinking like flk…
Now there is a need for a banner for life, a manifesto for the adhd generation, a soundbite, a flag to throw oneself under, a petard to open the door for something, a call for action….been thinking and sbh’s will be this:
Exist life less ordinarily
or
‘Ello for short !!!!
Witty, cheesy and meaningful? Plain rubbish? An interesting idea? How as an individual are you feeling about it????How does it make you feel? What images does it conjure up? You like it? I admit I did have a few others, the ones thrown out were:
Live a more interesting existence (LAMIE)
Live a life less bland (LALLB)
Live a bland existential life instead (LABEL)
Lose a Boring individual Actuality (LABIA)
Any of them better than ‘Ello?????Yeah? No me neither…I’m just publishing them here and now as I may go back to them in future, as is my wont...The longer manifesto will be along in a short while, to promote further the thinking but for now it’s
‘Ello…
Ta x
Ciao Bella…