[patrick boo]

Let me clear this one up. *Ahem*

In my mind, being Boo is a matter of angles. It's approaching society, and chiefly popular culture, at shallow angled zig-zags in a bisect-gone-bisect-gone fashion. Examples of this are -

1. As a kid I used to know the bassline of every TV theme by heart and would sing the basslines much to the annoyance of everyone around.

2. Psychedelia is great, but Eastern Bloc psychedelia really is the meaning of life. Case in point - 'Daisies' was banned in the Czech Republic until last year for it's threat to Communist ideology. Ask Betamax for a lend of his DVD. Madness.

3. It's the little box within a box things that you should watch soap operas for - The TV programmes in 'Brookside', 'Magic Rabbits' (A kids puppet show) and 'Medowcroft Park', and this is genius, a soap opera set in a fictional Liverpool suburb. The booze in 'Eastenders', lager called SKOE and a Malt whisky called Brigadoon. The endless Morrissey references in both. The mad jukebox in the Queen Vic.

4. The fact that Betty Boo and her female contemporaries (Cathy Dennis notably, Shelley Poole latterly for instance) have done a football style popworld thing, producing, writing, dealing, wheeling. Like Ellie Greenwich and Carole King in the 60s, having far more impact by puching holes from the inside.

5. Supermarkets. I used to get into trouble for taking tins of tuna and moving them round, one by one, to the pet food aisle whilst my Mum shopped.

11. There are more Swedish Laura Fraser lookalikes in Camden than anywhere in the whirled. And I left.

6. Japan does not exist. It is a mass hallucination brought on by an allergic reaction to the moon.#

7. Audrey Hepburn only ever swore twice - both times at Albert Finney in the film 'Two For The Road'.

8. Duncan Jevons - I must find him before he dies, but he lies low. He stole 40 000 library books over a 30 year period. When the police raided his Suffolk home they found the spare room piled up with books, with only a small space left for the lightbulb.

None of this makes cogent sense - it's like a jelly made of sand. Together though, all these things and 89 more make up 'being Boo'.

Would anyone else like to add other points of Boo? They would be most welcome and judged accordingly.