Telling Teenage Fortunes / May 23 2007
No.10 You will swallow a moth.
On the Fantastic hi-fi today:
Scott 4 – Scott Walker
Telling Teenage Fortunes / May 15 2007
No.9 You will look into the abyss.
(The abyss being the entire revision for your A-Levels that you will leave until the night before the exam.)
This will haunt you for the rest of your life: you will always have dreams about your lack of preparation.
On the Fantastic hi-fi today:
Du Jazz Dans Le Ravin – Serge Gainsbourg
Costello [...]
Telling Teenage Fortunes / May 4 2007
No.8 You will buy a pair of blue suede shoes.
This will not help you to become more popular - in fact, because you insist on wearing them everyday to school, it will make the situation worse: you will lose a friend.
You will also be described as arrogant and pompous by the head of sixth-form.
Max will [...]
Telling Teenage Fortunes / April 15 2007
No.7 You will try to start smoking.
On the Fantastic hi-fi today:
Master Série #1, 1991 – Barbara
The Delivery Man – Elvis Costello
Telling Teenage Fortunes / March 8 2007
No.6 You will realize that you took your stabilizers off too early. You will realize this only when it is too late to put them back on.
(Today’s playlist:
Brinsley Schwarz - Despite It All
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I am, That’s What I’m Not
Beach Boys – Pet Sounds)
Telling Teenage Fortunes / February 23 2007
No.5 You will skip double Latin and spend all afternoon smoking grass with Max (again) whilst listening to Roxy Music, the Walker Brothers and David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs. Later, you will throw your sorry guts up over a group of 2nd and 3rd formers waiting at the bus stop. This will happen only once.
Telling Teenage Fortunes / February 12 2007
No.4 You will sneak into Max’s house during cross-country. Once safely ensconced in his bedroom, you will smoke large amounts of grass whilst listening to Arthur Lee and Love’s Forever Changes. On sight of the returning runners approximately one hour later, you will cover your calves and shins in mud from his father’s garden whilst [...]
Telling Teenage Fortunes / February 1 2007
No.3 You will fondle a prefect.
Telling Teenage Fortunes / January 23 2007
No.2 You will be picked last in games.
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