I still felt transported by them, even when my powers of judgmental, self-censoring musical rejection remained formidable and Led Zeppelin was considered by many of my influencers to be hopelessly uncool, if not the enemy of rock itself.
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This blog began in 2008 as a series of posts I wrote about my comically frustrated working life as a post-graduate barn-hauling truck driver, which evolved into a book I published in 2016. Those posts no longer exist here. Today, the blog mostly consists of my film reviews, occasionally touching on other aspects of popular culture. You can scroll through it all below, or browse the same content at Medium.