Is there anything more deliciously dangerous than the engulfing, sticky sweetness of musty, milky motherlove? It’s the unctious umbilical ambrosia that makes us all into trapped, tantrumming tarbabies. But it sure does taste like heaven on a rusk.
The west end’s latest fringe fosterling, That Face, is a spunky little warning about the parallel perils of [...]
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Posted in Music, Theatre, tagged Balzac, incest, Lindsay Duncan, Matt Smith, Oedpius, Polly Stenham, Regina Spektor, That Face on May 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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Posted in Fashion, Literature, tagged alan garner, Anna Sui, Bernard Cornwell, Conn Iggluden, fantasy books, J.V.Jones, rosemary sutcliffe, th white, Tolkien, Ursula Le Guin on May 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »
It’s time I came clean. Despite my fastidious facade as an A-List arbiter of aesthetic excellence - nay, the veritable Taste Tsarina of the zeitgeist - I have a sordid secret.
I am reading a fantasy novel.
I’m not talking Tolkien, with his musty, spunk-smelling arcania and fey, gay little songs. I don’t even mean the semi- [...]
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Posted in Art, Fashion, Literature, Music, tagged asparagus, bank holiday, blind boys of alabama, C J Sansom, cans festival, Delilo, junipero, thomas hope on May 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A Bank Holiday alone: a shimmering, cerulean depot of dreams. Plans are afoot.
Tonight I will spray an HB tag on Lambeth Tunnel at the Cans Festival, Banksy’s international street art gathering; on Saturday I will wander round Thomas Hope: Regency Designer at the V&A, drawing lissom little sketches in my Moleskine, before getting folked with [...]
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