Arts , Personal

Discovering your Influences

I watched Heathers again tonight. As a teenager it was my favourite film, a dark, sharp study of high-school life and the quest for popularity.

I suspect what attracted me most to the film (besides its quirkiness, its sarcasm and its punchy dialogue) was a smug knowledge that I was above this peer approval. All the more surprising then, to discover on tonight's viewing (first time in maybe five years) that my everyday vocabulary reflects that of the lead anti-heros: jealous, much?; later; I'm feeling a little superior tonight; turbo meals; greetings and salutations.

I can however thankfully report that I don't go round describing everything as very.