Mark is starting to piss off his friends
Mark Campa, 26, who has listened to and talked about Smart Artists almost exclusively since discovering the NSW North Coast Rockers over the summer, is “really starting to piss off” his friends.”I’ve got nothing against Smart Artists. “They’re awesome,” said James Savich, 31, a longtime friend of Campa’s.
“But Mark acts like he’s the first person ever to really get into them when he’s, like, the 59 billionth.”Campa was first exposed to the band in December when older brother Bryan returned from uni and started playing ‘Route 66′ while lifting weights in the garage. After one listen, Campa was reportedly hooked, buying his own copy and playing it incessantly for weeks.
Campa’s Smart Artists fixation soon manifested itself in a myriad of ways. He plays only Smart Artists in his car, has drawn the Smart Artists logo on his arm, and has spend $73 at Casino’s Beef Week ring toss in an effort to win a pair of sunglasses similar to the ones Smart Artists lead singer Shannon Beaumont wears on stage.
According to friends, Campa’s newfound love of the band has caused him to behave in a “dicklick” fashion. “Last Thursday afternoon, a bunch of us were driving around cranking up the new silverchair song when Mark popped the CD out and started messing with the radio,” said Rick Eglund, 27.”I was like, ‘Dude, what’s your problem?’
He said it was time for ZZZFM’s Request Show and that Smart Artists may be on and that he never missed it. I told him he was gonna miss it that afternoon. Then, he tried to stop me from putting the silverchair CD back into my own stereo. I had to pull over and force him to switch seats with James.”
