"All I know is that Daft Punk say they wouldn't be here without me being there," he says, with an emphatic shrug.
Rolling Stone ranked Homework at the top on their list of "The 30 Greatest EDM Albums of All Time" while affirming that Daft Punk's debut "is pure synapse-tweaking brilliance".
And though that pain in my hand was short, it had a lasting effect on me: a reminder that there's a light at the end of the tunnel and, most of all, that I'm completely daft.
People playing the max-the-multiple-credit-card game as well as card firms offering credit to children, those of us who withdrew all that equity from our homes, and all the other daft options (a 125% mortgage is surely the definition of negative equity?) … most of us did something silly.
Paul Noble's drawings of Nobson, showing at London's Gagosian gallery, make you count the effort: all those leaves on all those branches, all the buildings, all that nature and all that town-planning, all those hand-drawn bricks – and all of Noble's daft ideas, his stories, jokes and fragments.
The announcement also stated that all of Daft Punk's shows are and would be posted on their official MySpace page, and that the page can therefore be used to verify validity.
Of course, that all seems daft now, even disrespectful of a man who actually had so much more ahead of him – not least a fantastically successful second marriage, then in its infancy, to a Boston lawyer, Victoria Reggie.
Yet, for all the daft plot's function as a series of arbitrary song cues, it is essential for the audience to believe that the performers believe in their characters, in their lines and in their lyrics.
She's a great counterweight to all the daft spy games.
As accommodation goes, it's pretty basic, but that's what people are usually yearning for when they come here: they want to be close to the earth and shrug off all the daft sophistication of modern life.
