It was a formative experience.
What was your formative shopping experience?
Coffee shops like Blue Bottle have been formative for Square's business.
Problem solved, it would seem, except that Oakfield leaves you feeling that there should be something more to the places where children spend their formative years than a building that, ultimately, is a modified shopping shed.
Two new books present differing explanations of how the economics of the music industry fell apart.Richard King's wistful effort, "Original Rockers", reflects on the three formative years in the mid-1990s when he worked at Revolver, a record shop in Bristol, Portishead's home town.
But all the charts and analyst reports about mall vacancy rates and online retail trends couldn't prepare me for what I felt when I came across pictures of White Flint Mall, a now-moribund shopping center in Montgomery County, Maryland, where I spent a good part of my formative years.
It doesn't take long to realise that the apparent rupture on Green's CV is merely the result of having spent his formative years with one foot in the arthouse and the other in the local video shop.
Dear Uncle Jack, due to an overexposure to the programme Friends in my formative years, I had assumed my twenties would be a non-stop blizzard of casual sex, coffee shops and pet monkeys.
To begin, Murphy talked about Springsteen with the Manchester singer-songwriter Badly Drawn Boy (aka Damon Gough), who chose a song from each album, and rhapsodised about his formative experience of listening to knock-down vinyl editions of Springsteen labelled as "Nice Price", bought from a shop in his native Bolton.
Yet another formative fiction.
