Things that strike me

are different. Might as well face it. So stop being surprised when they do different stuff to you.

This week was illuminating. Someone told me JLS were playing in the O2 in January or February next year. I do not know who JLS are. The response I got was also illuminating. I must have heard one of their songs; it’s on the radio all the time.

This is me. When I am driving I listen to Radio WnB’s iPod which plays songs that I like ad infinitum. For example, currently it is playing Delerium a lot. And Skye. I like Skye. She has nice cheerful songs. I particularly like Love Show at the moment; it makes me think I might actually tell someone I love them. But that aside. I hate being made defensive because I don’t know what the latest and greatest pop song is. Jesus I’ve never known. I found a thread on boards.ie during the week about whether people would go to concerts on their own. I have always gone to concerts on my own, since I was in college on the grounds that very often, no one wanted to go to the odd esoteric gigs I wanted to go to and frankly, “cos I’ll be on my own” has never been an adequate excuse for doing stuff.

And yet, for a lot of people, apparently it is.

Someone told me today my life was very complicated. And that I made it so. With the benefit of some consideration, I don’t believe my life is complicated at all. There are some simple facts about it that are not the stuff of storybooks but I don’t know anyone whose life is bereft of simple facts that lack somewhat in the happy ever after front. No, my life is simple and I know it. Maybe I have a different definition of complicated.

So for the record I listen to RadioIO Chill if I am listening to the radio at all. I particularly like it through the wifi on the iPhone as it means I don’t have to tether the laptop to the stereo speakers. They don’t play JLS. Nor do they play too many ads and their DJs shut up.

I like this, right?