You sit down and look at the breakfast pancakes. They look perfect, like breakfast pancakes might look on the cover of a cookbook which was made up entirely of recipes for breakfasts. You add some blueberry coulis and low-cholesterol spread and begin to eat. It is delicious. You pour yourself a cup of the freshly made coffee, add some low-fat milk and take a sip. You feel yourself relaxing into the day. Everything will be alright, you tell yourself, taking another mouthful of breakfast pancake. You even ask your girlfriend to turn the radio on.
When she does so, however, the small fork - one of a set that you keep for the consumption such things as cakes, fruit salads and breakfast pancakes - freezes in your mouth. The radio is playing jazz music. You, Mel Gibson, harbour a deep dislike and mistrust of jazz, with its strange rhythms and wholly unpredictable melodies. Worse, the song being played is 'Give It Up' by Dr. Michael White, a New Orleans jazz musician who likes to incorporate elements of klezmer music into his compositions. The combination of these two alien musical styles causes an oddly calm fury to settle within you. You feel as though you're in the eye of the storm of your own rage. At the far end of the kitchen the phone has begun to ring.
Do you want to:
Turn the radio off and answer the phone.
Go beserk.
When she does so, however, the small fork - one of a set that you keep for the consumption such things as cakes, fruit salads and breakfast pancakes - freezes in your mouth. The radio is playing jazz music. You, Mel Gibson, harbour a deep dislike and mistrust of jazz, with its strange rhythms and wholly unpredictable melodies. Worse, the song being played is 'Give It Up' by Dr. Michael White, a New Orleans jazz musician who likes to incorporate elements of klezmer music into his compositions. The combination of these two alien musical styles causes an oddly calm fury to settle within you. You feel as though you're in the eye of the storm of your own rage. At the far end of the kitchen the phone has begun to ring.
Do you want to:
Turn the radio off and answer the phone.
Go beserk.