And so to Luxembourg, the little rich boy on the bourgeois bloc: where the sweet, porcine scent of cloves rises steaming from cups of gluhwein in the gingerbread-hued market square; where the tills of Yves Saint Laurent ping a weary lament to rich multilingual bankers with middle-class spread and lumpen Germanic faces that look like [...]
Archive for December, 2007
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Posted in Architecture, Film, Music, tagged class, Eddy Davis, jazz, Luxembourg, Woody Allen on December 28, 2007 | No Comments »
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Posted in Fashion, Literature, Music, tagged 8 diagrams, paul bailey, The sixteen Christmas on December 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Hail, ruddy-cheeked youth! By those sparkling eyes I’d say you’ve been skating o’er the frozen Thames, sweet Mary shyly clasping one mittened fist, hot chestnuts clenched in t’other, pausing with festive laughter as the earth rolls with visible motion her diurnal round!
I know, dull as shit, isn’t it.
Peace and good will are overrated. Sure, The [...]
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Posted in Art, Fashion, Film, Literature, tagged Anthony McCall, Antony Gormley, Serpentine gallery, squared paper on December 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Normally a right-brain disciple of emotional intelligence and bohemian laissez-faire, there is something about a fresh sheet of 2cm squared paper that turns me into the Rain Man of stationary. Rules! Order! Little boxes to be filled with little numbers, bringing elegant charcoalian order to a universe of blank papery chaos!
Nurse!
I think of it as [...]
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