Common Person
Classy with Jonathan Menjivar
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The Story of Jarvis's Life
When Jarvis is seven, his dad leaves Sheffield and goes to Australia. He doesn't talk to him for decades until he gets a job in a fish market at the age of 15. When he's 15, he makes up a band called Pulp after throwaway culture like dime store novels and comic books. In a school notebook, he actually writes a manifest over his new band that doesn't exist yet. The manifesto has all the bravado of a teenager - it's so clear he's still a kid.
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