Head Space Daily Words...

As I was doing the ironing yesterday afternoon, my eldest son came into the room and when he clocked that I was listening to the Disclosure album Settle, he looked quite impressed. He is almost 12 years old and in his first year at Secondary school, so it is a rare thing for him to give me ‘props,’ as kids of that age aren’t in the habit of complimenting their folks. When I asked him if he liked Disclosure he said ‘not really but everybody knows White Noise.’ Well, my immediate thought was that I bought a one-sided, clear vinyl, limited edition (one of 600) pressing of the Hudson Mohawke remix of White Noise on Record Store Day. When I told him this, he looked at me as if I was insane and any kudos I had earned, evaporated in an instant. Just for that fleeting moment though, I was a cool dad…

Fact of the day - the term props apparently originated from  Aretha Franklin's interpretation of the Otis Redding track Respect. One of Otis’s original lines was “give me proper respect when I get home,” which Aretha adapted to “give me my propers when you come home.” This became abbreviated to props and has been used as a term for respect ever since. Now you know…