'On the double/ Here comes trouble'

I've just got back from Thirroul, where Mum, Mimi and I were having our usual one-week-before-Christmas lunch with my cousins, aunts and uncles from my dad's side of the family. We were listening to Marshall Crenshaw in the car on the way home. Marshall Crenshaw, in case you didn't know, sings music that sounds very fifties in style.

I remember when I was younger, I was obsessed with his song 'Cynical Girl'. You can tell from the lyrics that it's the sort of song with which I would've identified.

I used to wish that people would see that side of my personality, sometimes.

'On the double/ Here comes trouble'

I've just got back from Thirroul, where Mum, Mimi and I were having our usual one-week-before-Christmas lunch with my cousins, aunts and uncles from my dad's side of the family. We were listening to Marshall Crenshaw in the car on the way home. Marshall Crenshaw, in case you didn't know, sings music that sounds very fifties in style.

I remember when I was younger, I was obsessed with his song 'Cynical Girl'. You can tell from the lyrics that it's the sort of song with which I would've identified.

I used to wish that people would see that side of my personality, sometimes.