Great day. Ultra-busy, but pretty much every bit was meaningfully, enjoyably, busy. Only having to find a different classroom for a class (because of a break-down) and losing about twenty-five minutes in the process was mildly irritating.
And it was just before said lesson that I was reminded quite by accident of the coolest music video ever made, featuring the coolest performer. Actually the concept of being 'cool' doesn't seem to mean much, if anything at all, to the young people I teach - though I'm so out of touch I may be completely wrong about that. But it did mean a lot to the youngsters I taught four decades ago - as evidenced by the huge popularity in the UK of the American sit-com Happy Days in that period. The key character, The Fonz, epitomised the concept. Oddly enough that wasn't a bad thing in its way because the writers had figured out that the truly cool person was the one who was completely and genuinely themselves and basically didn't care what anyone else thought of that. That message figured in various positive guises in pretty much every episode.
And, of course, the brilliant Christopher Walken epitomises the point as in his sensational dancing (who knew!) in Fatboy Slim's Weapon of Choice. (And having Bootsy Collins himself on bass seals the deal, eh!?)
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