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Saturday, February 16th, 2008Had a weekend and now it’s over. Fuck. Last night we went to see the new Ken Loach film, It’s A Free World, and found it rather chilling. Good, but chilling. The central character, Angie, was an awful girl; her back against a middle class wall, and therefore feeling a sort of desperation that would […]
Who will rid me of this turbulent wankery?
Saturday, February 16th, 2008I don’t like the Guardian website. Not just because of the commas; because it’s crap, and more opinion than news. Opinions, for that matter, about things that don’t belong in serious newspapers and can be settled in two words, like about Heath Ledger being dead now (he is) and Martin Amis being a dick (he […]
I love you baby, but face it, she’s shit
Saturday, February 16th, 2008Madonna is an atrocious beast. That’s on my mind today because in Ghent on Sunday they were piping her ‘music’ into the abandoned pedestrian precinct/shopping area, I think in the same spirit as the British pipe classical music into yobbo-congregation points. You’ve heard about this? It’s done in other countries too. The theory runs that […]
What a concept
Saturday, February 16th, 2008I have got wound up about Benjamin Biolay many, many, many times, and one of those times took a moment to write about how he’s not like Serge Gainsbourg despite everybody saying he is. It shouldn’t have taken a whole moment - should have only taken half a moment to describe the difference, which is […]
Sexy sedition
Saturday, February 16th, 2008So we did indeed go to the Marriage of Figaro yesterday and Paolo Szot, as predicted, was sex on legs to a degree that’s not fit even for pseudonymous print. I enjoyed it very much, but the Ghent opera house has horrible sightlines from the nosebleed section - really shitty compared to the Star Wars-y […]
The Bedside Book of Bitching
Saturday, February 16th, 2008Read a very pretty book for review this weekend - The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany. Full of lovely Audubon-y type pictures and texts from a great splayed range of sources, from Ovid to Bruce Goddamn Chatwin. Man, do I love Bruce Chatwin. Judging by the sheer quantity of his books filling up […]
Prejudiced
Saturday, February 16th, 2008Hilts is excited about Persuasion. I am too. I reckon it vies with Pride and Prejudice as my favourite Jane Austen novel, which is saying something, because I love Pride and Prejudice. I have a problem trusting people who dislike Jane Austen wholesale, to be honest - I just can’t work out why and immediately […]
Model me this
Saturday, February 16th, 2008When I use my words out loud, I sound like a bigger bitch than I feel myself to be in my head, because I’m not very good at using my words out loud. For example, yesterday I nearly started yelling at a co-worker because she couldn’t understand why she, a bird in her 20’s, was […]
Give me a simile about womanhood, with a shark
Saturday, February 16th, 2008Today I would like to get excited in blog form about how awesome Steven Mithen is, about how he might not have the smoothest prose in the world, but how he can hack his way through a subject with his unwieldly sentences while somehow delicately gather a million far-fetched strands into one elegantly proved proposition, […]
the Long Sleep
Friday, January 18th, 2008http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/01/04/2008-01-04_widow_drugged_money_mogul_aide_says.html
Sex pill/ sedative Ambien is once again in the news. It first came to public attention regarding one of it’s bizarre side effects - women who took Ambien would engage in ’sexual behavior’ while sleeping. Husbands would refer to them as “Ambien dates”. Even Lindsay Lohan was rumoured to have had Ambien smuggled into her […]
