He took the lemons given to him and made Pulp. When your cool, fantasy alter-ego is named Darren Spooner, you're fu cked up.īut Cocker managed to make something of himself. Or, even worse, survive the unfortunate name of Jarvis Cocker just to have the fortitude to bang Chloe Sevigny. Have your parents die in a train collision on their way home for your birthday and be left to raise your fourteen younger siblings alone and grow up to be a billionaire philanthropist. The wiliest of the bunch can rise above bad fortune and make something of themselves. It can happen at birth, but usually it's those little moments that make you realised you're cursed to a life of awkwardness and ineptitude. Sometimes, you're just dealt a bad hand that you have to play.
