inappropriate music crushes
After watching RockWiz last night and trying to work out whether Nathan from Faker being a mans man was or was not a loss to females of Australia (still unsure), I decided to go scrolling for a favourite blog piece by Marieke Hardy from her now archived blog Reasons You Will Hate Me.
She has 2 pieces that relate to inappropriate musical crushes. This was what she had to say about Nathan. Quite love the comments, further down, as one reader relates her four year long hospitality crush... (Other literary references to hospitality crushes: Emily Perkins-Not her Real Name; one of the short stories from a 1996 Melbourne Anthology called Heat, if I recall correctly). Ah yes, the burning hospitality/retail crush, the not knowing if he is or if he isn't, the proximity infatuation of someone you meet in the big city that you sort of never see outside of work and wonder about endlessly, until finally you come across his turf and find out you've been metres away for years...
So then I wondered about my inappropriate crushes. Is it inappropriate when he's younger (çan't actually think of anyone who is so young as to be embarrassing. yet) or when he's so worshipped that it's not even a special club to be part of (Bono, Larry Mullen Jr).
Ummm. I thought I'd just toss down a list here and see if it's inappropriate.
1. Brian Mannix
This is a crush from when I used to watch Countdown. As an adult it is now obvious how keen he was for any kind of limelight (acting on Neighbours, performing dinosaur rock at the AFL Grand Final, talking to my school friend when she was in Grade Eight and visiting his mum's neighbour).
2. Bono
Yes, he wears make up and platform shoes and does embarrassing serenades to pretty girls from the audience. But if you look of photos of him teaching in Africa as a newlywed, you'll see why
3. Damon Albarn from Blur. I actually doubt whether this is a crush on Damon at all, or a crush on a similiar looking bloke from the Exeter that wore skinny jeans and op shop tops and hid acne with stubble and smoked like a chimney and maybe spent a university summer in rehab and never talked to me but harboured a desperate unrequited crushes on my friend.
4.. Marty Willson Piper. Bit old, but he's a vegetarian and doesn't drink.
I thought I'd offset this with 5 easy-to-go-public-with-crushes
1. Quan from Regurgitator. Have had this affirmed by Dan. Quan is musical, good with computers and graphics, dresses well, still looks young and slim, multicultural, all that.
2. Larry Mullen Jr. Aged amazingly well, widely agreed to be the better choice from U2, has a surly indifference about him.
3. Dave McCormack. Whilst he does behave like an attention needy 90s musician, he is funny and nice to his fans and replies to his emails.
4. Jed from Mess Hall. Won the Australian Music Award AND once rented the house that belonged to Juanita Nielsen, providing a nice albeit sad, link to 70s and anti development campaigns
5. John Butler. This isn't a particularly huge crush and in fact I found his music quite average until I enjoyed his show at Womad 2008 AND admired his haircut. Plus the way he's run his music career is intriguing and he evokes Western Australia in my mind the same way that reading Dirt Music by Tim Winton does...
She has 2 pieces that relate to inappropriate musical crushes. This was what she had to say about Nathan. Quite love the comments, further down, as one reader relates her four year long hospitality crush... (Other literary references to hospitality crushes: Emily Perkins-Not her Real Name; one of the short stories from a 1996 Melbourne Anthology called Heat, if I recall correctly). Ah yes, the burning hospitality/retail crush, the not knowing if he is or if he isn't, the proximity infatuation of someone you meet in the big city that you sort of never see outside of work and wonder about endlessly, until finally you come across his turf and find out you've been metres away for years...
So then I wondered about my inappropriate crushes. Is it inappropriate when he's younger (çan't actually think of anyone who is so young as to be embarrassing. yet) or when he's so worshipped that it's not even a special club to be part of (Bono, Larry Mullen Jr).
Ummm. I thought I'd just toss down a list here and see if it's inappropriate.
1. Brian Mannix
This is a crush from when I used to watch Countdown. As an adult it is now obvious how keen he was for any kind of limelight (acting on Neighbours, performing dinosaur rock at the AFL Grand Final, talking to my school friend when she was in Grade Eight and visiting his mum's neighbour).
2. Bono
Yes, he wears make up and platform shoes and does embarrassing serenades to pretty girls from the audience. But if you look of photos of him teaching in Africa as a newlywed, you'll see why
3. Damon Albarn from Blur. I actually doubt whether this is a crush on Damon at all, or a crush on a similiar looking bloke from the Exeter that wore skinny jeans and op shop tops and hid acne with stubble and smoked like a chimney and maybe spent a university summer in rehab and never talked to me but harboured a desperate unrequited crushes on my friend.
4.. Marty Willson Piper. Bit old, but he's a vegetarian and doesn't drink.
I thought I'd offset this with 5 easy-to-go-public-with-crushes
1. Quan from Regurgitator. Have had this affirmed by Dan. Quan is musical, good with computers and graphics, dresses well, still looks young and slim, multicultural, all that.
2. Larry Mullen Jr. Aged amazingly well, widely agreed to be the better choice from U2, has a surly indifference about him.
3. Dave McCormack. Whilst he does behave like an attention needy 90s musician, he is funny and nice to his fans and replies to his emails.
4. Jed from Mess Hall. Won the Australian Music Award AND once rented the house that belonged to Juanita Nielsen, providing a nice albeit sad, link to 70s and anti development campaigns
5. John Butler. This isn't a particularly huge crush and in fact I found his music quite average until I enjoyed his show at Womad 2008 AND admired his haircut. Plus the way he's run his music career is intriguing and he evokes Western Australia in my mind the same way that reading Dirt Music by Tim Winton does...
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