COMICS AND COMIC ART PLAYED A BIG PART IN MY LIFE. AT ONE TIME, I WOULD TRY
AND SLIP IN WORDS AND PHRASES THAT WOULD PAINT A KIND OF SURREAL BUT
DYNAMIC WORLD THAT REFLECTED THE REAL ONE, NUT IN STRONGER SIMPLER WAYS.
FREUD WOULD HAVE A GREAT TIME WITH ME BECAUSE AS A YOUNGSTER I ACTUALLY
HAD A FEAR OF STARS (ASTROPHOBIA?) AND WOULD RUN HOME FROM CUB SCOUTS
SWEATING AND SHAKING IN CASE I ACTUALLY LOOKED UP.

ANDY PARTRIDGE.
ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON MY GIRLFRIEND WAS DOING SOME IRONING AND KEPT ON
LIFTING HER IRON INTO THE AIR TO GET THE LEAD UNTANGLED, SHE REMINDED ME OF
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY. RAINY DAYS MAKE YOUR MIND WANDER AND... I EVEN
SAW THE STATUE HERSELF IN 1978, IT WAS BRIGHT GREEN WITH OXIDIZATION. A CERTAIN
RADIO STATION BANNED IT FOR IT'S "RISQUE" LINE: "I SAILED BENEATH YOUR
SKIRT", WHILST THEY PLAYED "WALK ON THE WILD SIDE" IN WHICH LOU REED'S
CHARACTERS ARE BUSY SHAVING THEIR LEGS, CHANGING THEIR SEX AND GIVING EACH
OTHER HEAD.

ANDY PARTRIDGE.
IN 1976 I READ A TINY REVIEW OF A GROUP CALLED THE SEX PISTOLS AND THE
JOURNALIST WAS LOOKING FOR WORDS TO DESCRIBE THEM AND THEIR MUSIC. I THOUGHT
HOW STUPID A LOT OF WRITERS ARE, TRYING TO FIND CATEGORIES AND NAMES FOR
THINGS WHEN SURELY IF YOU'RE IN A GROUP TO BE POPULAR AND YOUR MUSIC
BECOMES POPULAR THAN YOU ARE A POP GROUP, MAKING POP MUSIC. DESPITE WHAT
HAUGHTY, CLEVER OR ELITIST TAGS YOU ARE GIVEN OR CLAIM FOR YOURSELF. IF YOU
DON'T WANT TO GET WET, STAY OUT OF THE POOL.

ANDY PARTRIDGE.
I QUITE LIKE THEMES OF COMMUNICATION OR BREAKDOWNS OF IT (AS IN NO LANGUAGE
IN OUR LUNGS). I GOT JILTED QUITE A BIT AS A TEENAGER AND I THOUGHT IT WAS
BECAUSE I COULDN'T SPEAK TO GIRLS. I LATER DISCOVERED IT WASN'T SPEAK THEY
WERE AFTER. BY THE WAY, SON OF SAM, WHO POKES HIS HEAD UP SOMEWHERE IN THE
MIDDLE OF THIS SONG, CLAIMS HIS DOG TALKED HIM INTO BEING A MURDERER.

ANDY PARTRIDGE.
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