Word: maglis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love song, but "Blueboy" is--I think--a song about someone listening to a love song, except that "he wasn't listening to the words being sung," just to the tune, and the mental images it conjured up. (I've been told that "Blueboy" is a British gay porn mag. I don't care.) These songs don't "rock" or "roll," they bounce--up and down and around and around like the social jitters and wobbly boyish hearts they generally describe. Collins is continually advising himself to perk up, or to take action, or (occasionally) to give up, then qualifying...
Generally, FM looks up to The Crimson. A few years ago, when the mag was called The What is to be Done, we actually imitated the newspaper; it was the sincerest form of flattery to be as newsy as Crimson's page one, as gray as page one, as humorless as page one. Now that we are slightly older--now that we're Fifteen Minutes--we choose to do our own thing...
Think of your own little brothers and sisters. Do they walk around wearing funkier clothes than you did, hang out with more dangerous people than you did, have a badder attitude than you did? The same phenomenon applies to the mag. We have flashier design than the Crimson--we have color on our cover, for crying out loud...
...that's okay. The Crimson is the smart one, the goal-oriented one, the one that's going places. Crimson picks up its mess, eventually. The mag is the fun-loving troublemaker whose grades aren't as good. The mag office never gets picked up. FM is the one mom and dad look at and shake their heads. It's a good thing they have the Crimson to do them proud...
...newspaper thinks so, too. Crimson gives us piggy back rides all the time, calls us "sport," and when people ask hey, isn't the mag kind of a pain? Crimson winks and says, "the mag ain't heavy, it's my brother...