For most of my life, I've dreamed of working professionally in comics... but after reading Tomine's autobiographical account of all the snubs, slights, humiliations and disappointments that have made up his own "successful" career in that industry, I think I probably had a lucky escape.
Do you feel like a normal, competent adult? Or do you still feel like a kid making the best of pretending to be a grown up?
Two recent songs immediately came to mind. First, this...
And then this, from the glorious Pulp comeback album, More... it's like they've never been away.
Finally part of the new generation
Finally part of the pub conversation
And somehow this leads to mature life decisions
Like the one that I heard of from Jeremy Sissons
Who said he, he moved near the motorway
'Cause it was good for commuting
And I laughed in his face
Because I, I thought he was joking
But then I, I looked in his eyes
And I saw, he was not joking
No, he was trying
Trying so, so hard
To act just like a grown up
And it's so, so hard
And we're hoping that we don't get shown up
'Cause everybody's got to grow up
Growing Up
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