THERE ARE FEW THINGS I LIKE more than getting home after a long, hard day at work, kicking off my shoes, cracking open a beer and listening to someone talk about their dreadful life.
“Have you ever wanted to start again?” Alice Levine, of My Dad Wrote A Porno fame, says at the beginning of The Price of Paradise. Of course! But I don’t. Because of “responsibilities” and “emotional attachments”. God, I hate them.
And if I’m listening to a podcast about someone “starting again”, they’d have regretted it. I want to hear about disasters. I want to mainline disillusionment. “There will be moments in this story when you want to pull off your headphones and stamp on them,” claims Alice Levine, “And maybe cry out on the bus or in the car: no!” Are you kidding me? Yes. Tell me about the terrible mistakes they have made.
