
Footnotes, commentary and extras for my Code is Just thread, which is pinned to my @shahidkamal thread. An index to all threads is in the thread pinned here.
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Season 3:
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CODE IS JUST
The story so far:
Season 1
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Replying to @shahidkamal
"This isn't me."
"This. Is. NOT. ME!"
I say it out loud.
I spring to my feet.
I need tea.
I bound downstairs.
My mum is quiet, and senses my mood. Which mum doesn't?
"In which thoughts are you lost?" She asks, in Punjabi.
"This is so difficult... I..."
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All routines indexed below.
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I'm enjoying the feeling of spending money I've earned. It's more money than I've ever spent on anything in my life.
RETURN
Blanks is a music store in Kilburn. Kilburn is a shithole, but it has charm. I get myself a Squier Precision and it feels a million dollars, thought costs me £240 brand new.
"Well I'm not getting a fucking Jazz Bass!"
"This isn't a Jazz Bass. I don't know what this piece of shit is, but it's not a Jazz Bass, and you don't need anything that expensive. Come on, let's go to Blanks and get you something decent"
I'm majorly embarrassed. He tunes it for me. "Right, before you learn a major scale, you need to learn to tune a bass, but you can't tune this piece of shit. Get yourself a decent bass"
He scoffs. "That's not a major scale! The bass is completely out of tune!" I'm embarrassed. I'd followed the fingerings exactly, but of course, the bass is so crap it doesn't hold its tuning for more than it takes to play a major scale.
I tell George of my ambition and he says I should start by learning how to play a major scale. I dutifully practiced every day until the next time he came over.
But now I've finished Jet Set Willy, and at a loose end, I decide it's finally time to learn to play the piece of shit I never got to sell.
Even in 1979, you can't buy any kind of BMX bike for £40. The cheapest is a Huffy Pro Thunder, and that is £140. I can't bear it.
I'd had my heart set on £250, because that's what I read in the Melody Maker or something. The plan was that we were going to buy a BMX bike with the money.




