Trend Setting

Big shout out to

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I can't actually remember who it was, but I remember that they were cool, and that we talked about how boys with girls names is cool (that was one of his), and I'll remember when I see him tommorow.  Crazy how names are so very hard to remember.

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Anyways, big shout out to that guy, because he highlighted the subject, or at least starting, content for this post, and I thought it was a very good idea.  The eponymous subject matter, as the more astute of you may have guessed, is in fact trend setting and how I feel about it. 

See it came about that this would be the topic becuase it would appear (without overly flattering myself) that I am in the midst of setting my own trend, especially at this very minute as the trend in question is that of blogging.  It's been about 4 or five months since this blog started, and since then there have been at least 3 attempts to set up blogs from my peers, the least succesful being Josh Cohen's, with one post and two views after 2 months.  I mean, it's not a massive trend, but it has potential, which get's me thinking.  I've probably laid out in some early posts why blogging has so much appeal to me, and in all honesty it's because there's none of the irrelevant group liking and sleepy half drunk statuses that are so often associated with everyone's favourite social networking site.  In short, I like blogging becuase there aren't other people shuffling around in it and abusing the English language.  Admittedly I don't check these things vigourously for typos, but I like to think that things like correct apostrophe use should be in order. 

So all these little 'gets me to thinking'  things surmount into getting me to thinking, as a whole, that it's in our nature to find something cool, then not want it to become too popular, becuase then other people have it and we have to share the awesome.  It's like this song, which is nang, but I feel better about liking when I think about how it isn't hugely popular despite being cool.  I think it makes us feel like we aren't some kind of ignorant philistine, and that we have tastes of our own which seperate us from the masses, but it's a bit like that cliche phrase that everyone is trying to be different, which makes us all the same.  That doesn't really make any sense though, it just sounds like a really cool aphorism. 

Another thing I like is climbing.  I hit the wall again after a whole holiday of not being on it, and it feels awesome.  As usual I arrived about 20 minutes early, got bored after about 2 warm up laps of the Peggy Day wall and burnt myself out on a V3 before the lesson had started, but it was ace.  Notice how I used some jargon the average person wouldn't understand there?  I didn't realise I was doing it, but in hindsight it was to make climbing seem exclusive, and glorify myself for being in on it, which is something that forms a part of my identity, that I would lose if climbing became popular.  Climbing's cool becuase people don't see it as a sport, rather just a summer camp activity, and people say I'm good at it, but as soon as you enter a climbing place and look around, you're a noob, climbing's a sport and liking it suddenly doesn't seem so synonymous with being good at it.  It is crazy how I can be perceived as a good climber outside of a wall, and a just about intermediate climber inside one.

All in all I think that wasn't a terrible post, but I feel there's been less of the crazy antics lately.  How's this?  I was at a party the other day when a drunk guy flicked a lit cigarette into my hair, freaked out, hugged me when I didn't die and then went away.  Good times. 

Other suggestions for the topic of this post included 'Entirely Frank Grimmer', a concept put forward by the cool guy that is Frank Grimmer. 

I've been David Lovell, and this has been a little on the mediocre side.  (I'm also thinking I shouldn't get too into the whole self judgement 'I know it's not that great', because that's like when stonkingly pretty girls are like 'I'm not even a little bit pretty' except that I'm not pretty and this really hasn't been my most favourite post. Yes, I just said stonkingly.  And yes, it's a cool word.