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Royksopp - What Else Is There? ft. Karin Dreijer (Thin White Duke Remix) Dancey
Andrew Bird - Oh No Simon and Garfunkely
Little Boots (MGMT Cover) - Time To Pretend Cute
WZRDZ - Smells Like Teen Spirit (WZRDZ remix) Dance mix for Smells like Teen Spirit
Gang Gang Dance - House Jam (Hot Chip Remix) Very interesting mix
Gui Boratto - Haute Couture Chilled out Trance

I'm watching and reading like everybody else and seeing all this talk about hard times and difficulties. I remember the last recession you see and it wasn't because of hard times - it was because it was defined as a recession and people talked about it and people blamed the Tories and I just carried on as I was and just doing my thing. I didn't feel it. I know a lot of people did, they lost jobs and things died down but not everybody felt it.

A lot of things go through my mind during this recession. It's I guess a matter of essentials and having the essentials in life and nothing more but then if you are still working and you're taking home lets say about 2 to 4k (plus) a month in wage then maybe (depending on circumstance) you won't feel it as much. Then other things come into play.

I think we create our distractions in life and for some of us it could be spending and being busy while for others you could be distracted by absolutely nothing - and everything else is an annoyance. Doing nothing is a welcome distraction while everything else is an annoyance. You see I met someone this week - the school bike that he was, now married and two kids but busy it seemed and for me it was a case of stepping into a role of getting busy and getting on with things.

This is on a par with somebody else I met, an ex-teacher who told, you get busy so quickly and then you realise you're almost dead.

Your life is supposed to flash by before you pass away and it made me wonder what really matters and when you have all that money what would you really miss? Have you heard stories of people who lose everything during down times and then re-build it during up times? It's this that makes me see that eventually it's very difficult to see what really matters around us and how subjective our notions of achievement are in the greater scheme of things.

For instance I have to renew my membership for a charity and I for the life in me couldn't find the membership renewal on their website so I clicked on "Vacancies" (at a Charity) for a laugh, and they were giving like 40k, 50k salaries and giving maternity leave vacancies at 40 to 50k as well - along with being according to some "quality" newspaper one of the best work places in the country. It had won awards.

The best? A charity paying so much and lacking volunteers? It was bizarre for me in this climate but I guess this charity gets a lot of money - well a lot of it goes on admin it seems.

Eventually, we all live to that ripe old, well the majority of us do, by hook or by crook we get there whether we are rich, poor or whatever, we all get there and we all have our sense of achievement but for me it's about what somebody does with their money. I realised that as we're all surviving during this period what would somebody do with money during this period. Like me, you could think and think a lot and wonder where your money is going even when Gordon is saying spend spend spend I'm wondering how bizarre that is.

I cut down because I thought it seems to be a bad time and so I do but I don't know many people who have lost their job... - well hardly anyone to be honest but I hear about it and it seems some businesses are there surviving making their way through in tough times and I guess it's all businesses changing what they do to accommodate survival and respect of wealth. You have to get by how you can...

So why is it with all our wealth at Arsenal we can't do this? The fear is very strange but if it's that bad - get in good quality staff and resources to almost guarantee success. Respect the wealth you have because many people don't have that and what would somebody without money do with that wealth. Would you squander it or do something amazing because those are the things that matter? Money must be respected rather than saved but what can any of us do with money?

I had the most strangest question given to me once - like, "do you ever go to restaurants?" It was said as though, "I know I do but I bet you don't". And it showed how ugly and dirty ambition is and greed and arrogance is but this is what some people do with money.

They go to restaurants.

And that's all some people can do, unfortunately.