Playlouder - Music is the Network

my dad works for Lloyds TSB. Hes actually quite nice and used to have long hair and hitchike when he was younger and hates led zeppelin and i think he feels a bit guilty about working for evil bankers. Hes not a banker, hes a team leader or something and just fannies around with computers. I mentioned him getting fat off the suffering of others the other day and he just looked a little embarassed

oh and when the Lloyds advert was soundtracked by the corrs a while ago we got given a free corrs album

I hate Led zeppelin too! I'm sure your dad is one of the many actual people under the enormous Lloyds TSB umbrella who is not an inhuman piece of scum: this is the tragedy and the genius of big business - it can be a complete bastard to the common man (i.e. Jamie J. Janakov) while never implicating the indvidual, because when you spend any ammount of time with an individual they are often liable to be really nice (e.g. the Cornish manageress, if that's not racist/sexist). If they just gave me the odd Corrs album every time their f£$%ing computer issued me with an on-the-spot 30 quid fine which in no way relates to the "administrative costs" incurred, it wouldn't heal the financial damage, but would go some way to representing the goodwill so often lacking in their customer service

I feel guilty for not having a real job, too - but what you gonna do?

Did he enjoy Duran Duran?

i have to say i doubt he was invited to the duran duran thing. Although i dimly remember duran duran being played in the house when i was younger so maybe hes a fan. He (and I) bank with smile; the cooperative bank. you know the ones who have the advert with the starving people. They dont have branches except for in a few rare co-ops, but it does feel wonderful to know that even though im unsure of exactly what good things they do and to whom they do it, i am in some way doing something good. Also theyve won awards for their customer service.

Incidentally i also know someone who works as a cashier at Lloyds who is a bit racist and horrible. it takes all sorts

They have better customer service than the co-operative bank, whose phone lines are manned exclusively by embittered war criminals whose solution to every problem is to transfer you to a rabid jawa in Brighton.

I could go on about the sinister phenomenon of corporatism, but it's Friday afternoon and I'm feeling both mellow and excited at the same time at the prospect of Drummond Street curry, strippers and being on a promise...

...So I'll let Wikipedia do the hard work for me instead:

Drummon Street?

is this a KLF theme park in Finchley?

or a street with curry shops?

Drummond Street runs alongside Euston station and is known for it's inexpensive, usually vegetarian south Indian restaurants. I opted for the newish one in East Finchley instead

Not sure how a KLF theme park would go down in these parts...

...But given that the L B of Barnet (unofficial slogan: "We-like-our-cars-we-like-it-bland") is a stripper-free zone, we had to make the standard pilgrimage to Shoreditch for that part of the evening's festivities.

great music on their latest ad though

pretentious!

I'd rather bank with these guys:

It's all Greek to me!