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Scott and I went to the Trocadero arcade at lunchtime because it's so insanely boring here, and we needed the kind of excitement only neon in the daytime and lone, adult men playing that dancing game can provide. We had three pounds between us, which bought one go on Mario Kart and one game of air hockey, both of which I lost. Before that, however, as we left the office and turned down Charing Cross Road, this bizarre little brown truck chugged past us up to lights over to Tottenham Court Road. Scott stopped suddenly and pointed at the truck: "That's Paul Young!". I couldn't decide if he was joking or just wrong, and i couldn't get a look without exposing myself to some serious physical abuse from the traffic. He was adamant that it was Paul Young, which left only the second possibility, which I supported with two simple questions. First, how could you expect to recognise Paul Young these days, and second, why would he be driving a horrendous brown truck through the centre of London? So when we returned to the office, three pounds down but a slow hour killed, I looked it up. Here's a long shot, I thought, I'll look at the gallery on his official website. And what do you know, eh? Unfortunately, this doesn't answer any of my questions, it just adds two more: why does Paul Young own a weird brown truck and why the fuck is there a picture of it on his website? "I recorded a tv show in Germany 2 weeks ago, called Elvismania. I recorded an old Elvis song, called I Got A lot Of Living To Do, and performed it on the show.
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