Reposted by Ian Whiteside
Brian Eno & John Cale: Spinning Away - from their 1990 album, Wrong Way Up www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f71...
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Spinning Away
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Ian Whiteside
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"I've got a job, a mother, a secretary, two ex-wives, and several bartenders dependant on me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself 'slightly' killed."
![[Scene is a parody of a 1970s Public Information Film. A young girl is going home from school.]
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[She leaves the school gates].
VOICEOVER:
The world today
is full of people.
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You meet lots of them every day.
[The girl crosses the road with the help of a LOLLIPOP MAN]
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LOLLIPOP MAN says ’to camera’ [girl’s POV]:
Mind ‘ow you go, love.
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But every time you meet one,
[She gets on a bus]
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BUS DRIVER [also talking to camera]:
That’ll be 40p, please
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[She enters a sweet shop]
You must always think to yourself:
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[The kindly looking woman behind the counter hands her a bag of pick n mix]
KINDLY WOMAN:
There y’are, sweet’art...
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[Voiceover again]:
Could *they* be a person who leaves one-star reviews for things when they get sent the wrong item?
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[The woman picks up a smartphone to write something]
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[Cut to a view of her phone screen, it is an Amazon review page for Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro]:
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
[one star]
THIS ISN’T A PRIT STICK
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[Woman looks ‘to camera’ at the girl, sinisterly]
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[Girl’s terrified face behind the ad’s final text line]:
Always have one-star-reviewers-of-things-for-not-being-other-things sense.
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