![]() ![]() ![]() One of the great benefits of digital consumption is that it is democratic: In cyberspace, there’s nobody to judge you. John Cusack Blasts Hollywood Studio System, Ageism … All one can say for sure is that selling scratched copies of Replacements albums didn’t help anyone lay down a conventional career path. And when I asked Facebook friends from all over the world where their record-store guys had disappeared to, it was hard to see a pattern in the information they provided: postman, vintner, pornography writer, psychotherapist, drummer, bookstore assistant, waiter, tropical fish breeder. The owner of the independent store where I used to hang out is now a real estate agent his former partner part-owns the lingerie shop that now occupies the same site. Did they have kids? Were they still together? What was Rob up to now? The answers to the first two questions were up to me (I reckon yes and no), but I could never come up with an answer to the third, or at least, not one that interested me enough to spend a couple of years of my life exploring. Maybe it would be interesting to see how they were getting on as they approached middle age. Rob and his long-suffering girlfriend Laura seemed emblematic of a certain kind of contemporary relationship - Rob confused and drifting, Laura focused and several years further on into adulthood. ![]() I have, from time to time, considered writing a sequel to the book. ![]()
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