tiny town

where are you from? yes you'll probably have more luck somewhere else, although i've tried to accept the fact that i'm probably not going to meet that many people in my life that i'm honestly interested in. N.B. this has more to do with my attitude than the world population, surely... (i just used nb for the first time, i hope i did it right, thanks nabisco!!) hey, at least you're not in a town so small that mullets are considered hip for actual hair-do

so tim, you live in london then?

i don't know its any better in the big cities to be honest, well, not if londons anything to go by. in a way you do get away from all the above, but you tend to find that what you ghet is every towns version of the above all congregeating and coalescing in the bigger cities, so theres just more of it! i don't know what its like in other countries, but in the uk, london is so much bigger than the rest that it everyone i, like moths to a flame

ok, so yes i am on a downer about london at the moment (ha! download 'whats happened to you, my dearest friend?' by another sunny day) but then maybe its the fact that london mimics small towns rather than the fact that its a bigger one.

if Gareth's in London it can't be all bad

Now hang on a dingdongdang minute. I feel the mullet situation needs clarification...
If you had yr hair cut into a mullet in the 80s and you still have it, prob means yr up to no good.
This also holds for the 90s because some kids are born into mullet families and they dont have a choice, all male and female children must be shorn like dad etc
Early 2000s was when people really started mullet bashing,*point and laugh* craig from neighbours! ,*guffaw* Bily Ray Cyrus!, *hurl* Ian Zeiring!. Many people were thinking it hella funny to sport 'party out the back, business up front' style- which it WAS, they werent necessarily wrong .
At the same time some fashion dorks and other creatives were sporting this in an ironic sense and all of a sudden..Wham bam I am the man..it was the cutting edge of fashion. Come on who didnt notice?, I even gave it my own version. Im cool, yeo .
This is now getting old.Which is not a surprise for ADD fashion victims. But also the jokes the irony the verandah the regrowth the whole thing. Shhh about mullets, be very quiet and they will probably go and die quietly, falling off their own verandah, drunk on bourbon. If thats what you prefer.

Excuse me Mr. Bogan. I would like to submit exhibit A: The Beastie Boys' b-side "Mullet Head", released in 1994, and their corresponding "History of the Mullet" published in Grand Royal magazine during the same time period as the introduction of mullet-bashing into mainstream culture. Tim's disgust at the provinicality of his peers is justified.

wow!
sweet lord!

Yes, well, hmm... Heres my take for what its worth
Mullet bashing/spotting/discussing/praising - I think it DID have its time, and yeh, it was kinda funny, I never got much of a kick out of it, but I could see how some kids could, and i really had no major beef with any of that. Hey, I even giggled at Wesley Willis Cut The Mullet song. But the kids who are STILL doing it now and 3 or 4 years ago think that they're being astoundingly insightful, brilliant and remarkable for discovering this brand new and innovative source of humour and even,......... subculture! which is totally like fucked up. Every little group of friends with mullet in-jokes is under the impression that they are the only little group of friends who are making those particular in-jokes. When they're completely NOT I dont understand how this stuff goes un noticed. I know I'm not speaking for everyone everywhere here, But I do know for a fact this is what goes on here where I live, with the kids that live around here.

oh, and I'm in Canada. Ontario Canada, a tiny wee town just outside of Toronto.

yes Tim thats really part of what I was alluding to *sigh* Im so misunderstood,;) heh BUT also this... thinking of the revival- whenever it was- even though the irony was present it was a championing of a working class archetype that was given some Kudos, letting people celebrate bogan roots and forget the over designed bullshit of the moment.
P.S. whoever caled me mister was way off

called

If you really live in a small town, moving to a big city will definately broaden your horizons in terms of people you'll meet, culture, things to do, attitudes, etc. But if you're living somewhere decent and still feel this way (and I do a lot myself) maybe the problem really lies within; in other words while saying something like "people are the same all over" is clearly wrong in many ways, there is a kernel of truth there, and thinking that moving somewhere more "interesting" or whatever is probably just running away from a personal issue. Ok, maybe not probably. Possibly, then.