Who Are You?: The Brogues ... the man about whom Petula Clark sang 'Fancy Dancing Man'
Where Are You?: At work in Glasgow ... listening to Airport Girl (saw them play last night with the Aislers Set) and eating a Twirl
What Are You?: A 12 and a half stone Scottish weed working in IT
What do you make?: Nothing. Unfortuately I am but a consumer. Oooh! ... I make a lot of noise when I'm happy ...
What do you love?: Cute cartoon characters ... dancing under a glitterball ... girls with dyed red hair ... Rickenbacker 12 strings ... Jan Milne stools ... gingham shirts
What do you hate?: Grazing my elbows on astro turf ... all those Limp Bizkit/Korn/Slipknot etc hooded tops and t-shirts ... Tony Blair's laugh ... litter ... violence ... chewing gum on the streets ... talentless people who have the audacity to be arrogant ...
What do you listen to?: Things that make me feel alive : 14 Iced Bears, The Clientele, Northern Soul, Kid 606 and glitchypop ... Ladytron ... 'Black Coffee' by All Saints and wheens more!
What do you watch?: The sun going down. Cartoons. Doris Day movies. Coen brothers movies. Sportscene Match of the Day. 4later.
What do you drink?: Yazoo cbocolate milk. Ovaltine. Laphroiaig when I can afford it.
What do you smoke?: Smoke mings.
What do you take?: Liberties. Drugs are bad.
What do you believe in?: Treating people well. Love is a boomerang.

When We Were 16

Where were you?: Kilmarnock in sunny Ayrshire by the sea.
What were you?: An aimless, football playing higher student.
What did you wear?: Umbro tracksuits ... Kilmarnock FC tops ... Farah trousers ... patterned jumpers ...
What did you listen to?: A-ha ... Madness ...
What did you watch?: Sportscene ... Neighbours ... Eastenders ...
What did you love?: Davie Cooper's left foot ... ICI Tactel ...
What did you hate?: The 'magic boys' (lads at my school into The Jesus and Mary Chain and THe House of Love etc. who made me feel like a thickhead) ... Trooping The Colour ... having no money ... casuals ...
What did you drink?: Tea.
What did you smoke?: Smoke mings.
What did you take?: Drugs are bad.
What did you want to be?: Good at football and funny to talk to.
Who did you fight?: I didn't ... I always ran. I did a lot or funning ...
Who/What did you believe in?: God ... my parents ... Davie Cooper ...
Where did you go?: Bellfield Estate to play footie and talk nonsense ... Rugby Park to watch Killie play ... my mate Andrews to play games on his BBC B ...
What did you learn?: That there was a lot to learn and that all of it was important and that if I didn't know it all I would be a failure.

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