Growing Up, Growing Down

Its my 35th birthday in March and unlike most of my peer group who look towards new birthdays as "one more nearer 40" i must admit i don't care at all. What i've found is at last i can listen to whatever i like with no fear of not being "cool" with my musical tastes. In retrospect i was fooling no-one but myself - wearing t-shirts with this weeks hip young gunslinger (whoever NME recommended that week) and then going home and listening to Rush, Kate Bush and Squeeze. But the epiphany of i-podding has thrown all of my musical tastes into one convenient virgin white box and i'm finding that the stuff i put on there because "i really used to love this" is the music which lifts my day. You can't beat Glen Campell and The Fall back to back :)

On another note i have to heartily recommend a fellow blogger's site http://gbvguide.blogspot.com , where The Rock Robot is working his way through all the brilliant Guided By Voices releases (any who knows anything about the band's output will understand why this guy deserves credit). Its an undertaking i considered but in retrospect it was too big a project for me :)

Got to go now to listen to Rhyl vs Swansea in a Welsh cup football match. We all have our cross to bear ;)