Hot and Coldplay / July 1 2008
‘Davy!’ Reg was shouting at me from the other side of the street. ‘Are you deaf? Davy!’ I crossed the busy thoroughfare and greeted him. ‘Love the podcasts, mate.’ He told me, smiling one of his big smiles.
Arch joker Reg is about sixty; He is very tall – nearly seven feet – and rather self-conscious in his movements; He stoops slightly with his arms dangling awkwardly in front of him, like a gangly teenager loping around in defiance of gravity. This morning, he was wearing a pair of luminous green shorts and a Hawaiian shirt that clashed with the planet Earth.
As he was speaking to me, the earplugs attached to his cheap mp3-player popped out form either side of his head. He nearly punched me in the testicles as he grabbed at the air in front of him, trying to catch the tiny escaping speakers. ‘I’m sweating so much in this damned heat, they keep falling out,’ he explained in exasperation.
‘What are you listening to?’ I inquired. I thought, to my dismay, I could hear Genesis – or, even worse, Yes - coming out of them.
‘Coldplay.’ He stared at me proudly.
‘Oh, dear.’ I couldn’t help myself. ‘Reg, as far as I’m concerned, you’d be able to appreciate Chris Martin’s bland and meaningless moaning much more if you shoved your earplugs up your arse.’ (I must admit, I have no idea what I meant by this remark.) I said see you to him and pulled Audrey down the hill towards the park.
‘Not if I see you first!’ he called after us.
Then, for some inexplicable reason, I turned around and extended to him an invitation: ‘Pop round to the studio later and I’ll find an old pair of headphones for you.’ I immediately regretted it and spent the rest of the morning feeling rather depressed and irritated with myself.
Filed under Coldplay / Genesis / Podcast / Reg / Music / Napoleon Fantastic's Big Mouth
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2 comments on “Hot and Coldplay”
Nelson Galaxy / July 1st, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Only the other day I was talking to someone who loved Coldplay. Eh, guess what? He also loved Genesis and said he’d lend me some CDs. You can imagine my invective refusal.
Napoleon Fantastic / July 1st, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Thank you for letting me imagine your invective refusal. What is an invective refusal?
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